A New Home (The Adventures of Carlee & Charlie #1)

Matthew Dean

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Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Kingdom 46 by Matthew Dean. When King Herbert Shrub hears of the incident in Furrybottom, he is convinced by his advisors to declare a full-scale war against dragons. Unfortunately, there's just one dragon in the kingdom: When Charlie is captured, Carlee sets out to rescue him from the clutches of the kingdo When King Herbert Shrub hears of the incident in Furrybottom, he is convinced by his advisors to declare a full-scale war against dragons.

When Charlie is captured, Carlee sets out to rescue him from the clutches of the kingdom and the politics of war. Looking for small samples of writing? Check out the writing from my blog! Now on to the books…. The Adventures of Carlee and Charlie are a slightly satirical series for children who are growing up and child-like grown-ups. Carlee is typical eleven-year-old: Unfortunately, the village mob, two murderous trolls, and a psychotic wizard with low self-esteem stand in their way. More about this book….

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When King Herbert Shrub hears of the incident in Furrybottom, he is convinced by his advisors to declare a full-scale war against dragons. When Charlie is captured, Carlee sets out to rescue him from the clutches of the kingdom and the politics of war. A few of these choices include their incredible cheesecakes and volcano cakes featuring a chocolate fudge cake with ice cream piled on the side, as well as sundaes and they feature other seasonal desserts that are as fresh as they can be.

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They are happy to travel and cater around the region. Lake Okeechobee is home to some of the best bass fishing in the world, and it never hurts to have an experienced guide get you to that honey hole to catch the bass of a lifetime.

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Heat tomato mixture over low heat. The idea is to warm the mixture and not cook it. Cook and drain pasta according to package directions. Combine pasta and tomato mixture together in a bowl. Add fresh basil and parmesan to pasta dish. Taste for seasoning and adjust with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper. Serve warm with crusty bread or chill for later. This pasta recipe is a great way to enjoy that fresh tomato taste. May be used as a side dish or add any seafood to make it a main course.

Add your favorite vegetables if desired. Remember to always season the just-cooked pasta with salt and pepper. Preparation In a small bowl, whisk the vinegar and the peanut butter until completely blended. Add in the garlic, ginger and soy sauce until fully combined. Taste sauce and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Pour most of the dressing over the shrimp, reserving some sauce for dipping.

Chill marinated shrimp for 1 hour. To assemble, alternate shrimp, watermelon cubes and torn basil leaves on 8 skewers. Serve skewers with leftover sauce. In fact, dealing with the customers and satisfying their needs is what Rick likes best about his business. Back in , right before the air conditioning season really got started, Rick and his wife Jodi started their business from their home. Rick did the installations and service calls, Jodi handled the phones and books.

Things are a lot different now, at least in terms of personnel. But the philosophy remains the same.

Take care of the customer. That philosophy has led from installation and service. But the service staff are fully trained in all makes and models for residential and commercial air conditioning and refrigeration. They provide same day service every day, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. My clients have enjoyed one of the best seasons with large numbers of bass being caught along with some really nice trophy bass making their way to the boat for a quick picture and then released back into the lake.

This swim bait can be fished slow like slow rolling a spinnerbait, swam fast on the surface like a buzz bait, or fished like a worm in the reed heads, lily pads, and pepper grass patches. I fish this bait on a heavy action Deep South Rod with a U. With this combo I can make long casts and still have plenty of backbone in the rod to set the hook and get the bass out of the heavy vegetation.

Some of the other lures that have been working lately are Spro Aruka Shad lipless crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and Gambler Ace worms. As the bass move out of the spawning areas toward the main lake a hard plastic swimbait should work really well. My name is Capt. I live in Clewiston with my wife Diane and our new chocolate lab Kenzie through the winter months and spend a lot of the summer months at our place in the Florida Keys guiding for tarpon.

I will be writing a monthly fishing report on Lake Okeechobee with helpful fishing tips and techniques and also product reviews on fishing and boating products. I am looking forward to writing and becoming friends with the Heartland In The Field family. Lake Okeechobee is one of the best lakes in the country for catching bass and lots of them. I guide seven days a week during the winter months and get to spend a lot of time fishing from one end of the lake to the other and the Clewiston end seems to offer the best all around bass fishing.

The water level is now at We have had an awesome spawn this year and each month more big female bass move in to the spawning areas from the Monkey Box area. And with April the bluegill will be spawning and be easy to catch. I have been seeing bluegill beds already this season. Tight lines and hope to see you all on the water soon. Mark can be contacted to book a guide trip, seminars, personal appearances, test rides in his Evinrude powered Ranger or to fish a tournament with him at or at www.

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On the way back to the house on Bearpaw Road, I got to thinking about those sayings, and remembering my dad used a lot of sayings in his conversations from time to time. When I got back to the house I jumped on my computer and looked up the old sayings the old timers used. As the winter wore on, they added more straw until, when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside.

After further study I found that most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor, hence the custom of carrying a bouquet of flowers when getting married.

The man of the house had the privilege of the clean water then all other members of the family, ending when the babies had their turn. By the time everybody had bathed the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and dogs slept on the roof.

When it rained the roof became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. It is amazing how many of the sayings we used today came. It was the custom to cook in the kitchen with a big kettle much like an old wash pot that always hung over the fire. Every day they would light the fire and add things to the pot, mostly vegetables with very little meat. What ever they had left over at lunch went into the kettle. Depending how many big eaters they had the food would be there for a number of days.

Remember, peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old? Every once in a while when they were so fortunate to obtain pork, it would make it them feel real special. When visitors came over they would hang up their bacon to show off. The two would sometimes knock the drinker out for a couple of days. At times when someone found a person that had been snookered and passed out beside the road they would take them for dead and deliver him to their family where they prepared them for burial.

The passed out drunk would be placed on the kitchen table for a couple of days and. It has been said that old England started running out places to bury people, so they would dig up coffins and take the bones to the bone house, put in a new corpse, close the lid and cover it up. When reopening some of these coffins, one out of thirty were found to have scratch marks on the inside. They realized they had been burying people alive.

It was then that a system was devised where they would tie a string to the wrist of the dead person, run it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. For a week or so, they would take shifts sitting next to the grave to listen for the bell. Whoever said history was boring? Owned and Operated by: The contestants participated in the following six events on Friday and Saturday nights: Many thanks go out to the above mentioned sponsors as well as the many volunteers who donated their time, trucks, trailers, and blood to help make the rodeo a huge success.

The proceeds of the rodeo will be used to support local youth. The roper was Charles Robert Stevens. Held in conjunction with the Okeechobee County Fair, rodeo goers also had the opportunity to enjoy the fair atmosphere, including the midway, vendors, and competitive exhibits. With events sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, the rodeo consistently draws contestants from throughout the southeastern United States. This weekend, several traveled even greater distances to compete for prize money and a trophy buckle. Jeremy Hester and Troy Weekley, Jr.

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The Steer Wrestling event was won in just 4. Beautiful Florida weather that seemed special-ordered from above helped lead to an incredible weekend! Native American Cultural activities continue to be the backbone of the four-day event. Cooking and sewing demonstrations, alligator wrestling, a snake handler, native arts and crafts displays, and an authentic Indian village were available for amusement and educational purposes. Native dancers and storytellers also intrigued crowds throughout the weekend.

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Midway rides thrilled those young-at-heart, and Seminole 4-H members had many of their small animal projects on display. While this type of accident is not. The fashion show presented an opportunity for clothing contest entries in categories other than years old to be shown off to the public. The races were open to tribal member entries, but anyone in attendance was welcome to watch. Three days of Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association action drew local contestants as well as those from as far away as Oregon.

Johns provides a well-known, high caliber of stock, and several of his animals have competed at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. This means lower food costs for us and more land that can be preserved for the environment. It is our business and our honor to provide farmers across America — and right here in Florida — with the crop nutrients they need to help feed the world.

Only one second split the difference between first and eighth place in that event. Team Roping honors were shared by two teams: His score of on two head edged out Round 2 winner J. Harris, whose two-head total was Two lucky spectators purchased programs that had been signed by Amos Tiger, Director of the Fred Smith Rodeo Arena, thus awarding them each with two round-trip airfare tickets donated by event sponsor.

An event of this magnitude could not be possible without the generous support of its sponsors: The event is tentatively scheduled for February 16 — However, that reference means a lot more than being the top law enforcement officer in the county. I am blessed to have a caring, dedicated and professional group of co-workers keeping our community safe every day.

His father, a World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient, passed in after many years of managing his own service station business. The Avon Park Bombing Range provided a perfect venue for him, his family and friends to hunt, fish, camp and bump around in the pine and palmetto flat woods in a Jeep converted into a swamp buggy. I was impressed that he would take the time to talk to me, not to mention that he was a large man and looked like he was seven feet tall in his uniform and with that big gun.

They were married in and have two daughters, Kimberly and Pam. Pam is finishing veterinary studies at St. Matthews University on Grand Cayman Island and plans to return to Florida to begin a career as a large animal veterinarian.

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Mercer, was a cattle rancher and he deeded acreage to all five of his children, which allowed us to move to DeSoto County, build our home and raise our children on a family operated cattle ranch. That group is growing Department and numerous other and the Sheriff just introduced an law enforcement courses. Sheriff Wise plans Championship Rodeo.

Sheriff Wise oversees career and each taught me valuKay and Will Wise leading the parade. Sheriff Wise is the thing at the right time for the right reason. The sheriff and his wife of 34 years have a family run small The office is organized into three bureaus, Law Enforcement, cow-calf ranch operation and are citrus producers. All operations are both heavily involved in varied activities associated with the anhoused in a single facility located in Arcadia and that was built nual event from security to food preparation and more.

They are in with a addition. The corrections area tion, helping keep our seniors safe on graduation night. They are was constructed to house inmates, but the daily population members of the Pine Level United Methodist Church. With no plans to leave office anytime Perhaps a sign of the time is the insoon and his bid for re-election right crease in copper theft from air conditionaround the corner, Sheriff Wise looks er units and diesel fuel thefts from citrus forward to the future and continuing to grove power-unit tanks.

He reminds evserve the residents and visitors of DeSoto eryone to waste no time in reporting any County. There is also the issue of growing When he does hang up his holster budget constraints. Avon Park Sebring Toll Free www. Trade your to-do list for a day for yourself - a day in the outdoors! Join thousands of women who have attended a Women in the Outdoors event and tried something new.

Have you ever wanted to learn how to shoot a handgun or shotgun? Ever wanted to pull back a bow and arrow How about learn the proper way to paddle a canoe or cast a fly rod? Women in the Outdoors events provide hands-on outdoor classes in a non-threatening environment. Find one in your area at the events section of our Web site. You deserve a day outdoors. Participants will choose four different workshops and two alternates for the Women in the Outdoors event day.

Local chapters throughout the national conduct outdoor learning events featuring hands-on activities. The Women in the Outdoors Program supports both hunting, and non-hunting activities. All Women in the Outdoors members do not necessarily participate in the act of hunting, however, it is our hope that through quality educational programs, all women attendees will form a better understanding of the importance that shooting sports, ethical hunting and scientific wildlife management go hand in hand in our ongoing.

Appetizers at 6pm and Dinner at 7pm. Dinner includes Steak with all the fixings, drinks are included. Lake Placid Feed and Western Wear conservation efforts. For more information and for a registration form, visit www. Gretchen and John met in high school, and after obtaining Marketing degrees from Stetson University, operated a successful beekeeping business together.

Gretchen now assists John with the day-to-day operations of the approximately head of cattle, and in addition manages her own herd of head, with a focus on Brangus bull production. In managing the cattle operation, John and Gretchen found it increasingly difficult to find bulls that could withstand the challenges inherent to South Florida, particularly the heat, summer rains and mosquitoes.

John suggested that Gretchen take on the challenge of raising bulls that would excel under those conditions, so in she bought heifers and a couple of cows from Dallas Wilson in Umatilla, and her Sabal Ridge herd was born.

Gretchen studies International Brangus Breeders Association IBBA information on Expected Progeny Differences EPDs to select desired traits for her herd prior to purchasing semen used for artificial insemination, as well as rigorously selecting natural service bulls. Birth weight, weaning weight, and yearling weight are just some of the genetic predictions important in raising beef cattle. After all, in a commercial operation, behavior and production in the pasture are what impacts the bottom line. An extra step that is taken to establish superior genetics within the herd is the use of ultrasound technology to determine EPD traits such as rib-eye area, fat thickness and intramuscular fat.

During this process, Gretchen and John enjoy hosting 4-Hers who are learning about beef cattle, and even invite them to bring their own cattle be ultrasounded. J-Seven and Sabal Ridge cattle are worked approximately three to four times a year to ensure that proper vaccinations, worming and other health concerns are addressed. The crew on the ranch has worked together for so many years that Gretchen says they are like an extended family.

The cattle have been worked and trained over the years so that what used to take three weeks to accomplish is now typically completed in one week. Each year J-Seven Ranch, Inc. Sabal Ridge has also purchased a sale steer from one of the 4-H members, and then donated the steer back for re-sale, with those proceeds also going into the scholarship fund. While many people market 14 tomonth old bulls, hers are typically 2-year olds which are stronger, better developed, and ready to work.

Ruble had an interest in animals and working with the youth of Highlands County. He worked tirelessly to make the website user friendly and encouraged 4-H leaders around the state of Florida to showcase their members in the Outstanding Member of the Month. He also personally designed the logo for the Heartlanders 4-H Dog Club. Gordon was constantly making dog jumps and down tables out of PVC pipe and love.

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Members from around the state could always depend on Mr. Ruble to post pictures and videos on the website www. Gordon was so committed to this project that he helped chair and coordinate the and Florida State 4-H Dog Conferences at Camp Cloverleaf. I, personally, have enjoyed being in your 4-H Club for the past five years.

You will be missed Mr. You believed in every one of us and our dogs. Thank you for your steady encouragement to the youth of Highlands County. The website contains a map and various other information including the planned pesticide applications, psyllid scouting reports and contact information. Each CHMA will have a local voluntary team leader with in its defined area.

Coordination meeting will be held jointly with all participants who want to attend to help in the planning stages. The team leader will then be the contact person for all growers in their area. It is important to note that this is a voluntary involvement. There is no regulation or mandate to participate. Even if you decide to participate there is no requirement to follow the recommendations. If some growers in your area decide to spray and you do not agree it is the correct decision you are under no obligation or commitment to do so in your operation.

You are not required to use any certain product, vendor or application method. This is simply a way to communicate among a local area of growers and attempt to make the best decisions for our industry. There are several designated CHMAs. To find out if there is one in your area you can contact your local Extension Agent.

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They can put you in contact with your local management person. If there is not a CHMA in your area and you are interested in starting one your Extension Agent can help with that as well. We are at a crucial point in our industry. The decisions and actions we make today will define our future. Being involved in a CHMA can be one step to making sure we have an industry for the next generation. There are so many techniques growers are utilizing which are not traditional. One of the non-traditional methods gaining attention are coordinated spray programs. Coordinated spray programs are proving to be extremely effective in controlling psyllid populations in large areas.

These are groups of citrus growers in an area who have agreed to work together in the coordination and management of psyllid control. Coordinated control is of great importance to the vitality of the citrus industry. The coordination is of timing and mode of action MOA of the pesticide.

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