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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 30 JUNE 2025: Just a little about me. I've been married for 33 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. 50 STATE TRAVEL BLOG PROJECT, SUMMER 2025:
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Congratulations on completing the 13 Poetic Days of Halloween.](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Halloween-2026567.gif) Big Thanks to Lyn's a Witchy Woman  for hosting the contest!Find me at: WEBSITE: http://www.stephanieburkhart.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/StephanieBurkhartAuthor GOOD READS: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4031660.Stephanie_Burkhart YOU TUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/user/botrina?feature=mhee  WARNING I intend to be open, honest, and forthright. No topic is off limits from religion to you name it, I'm going there. If you think you might be offended...back up now - this blog isn't for you. For those who "dare"  check out the "Gemini Rising..." 
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We all managed to get to San Juan Islands in Washington State. Lyn's a Witchy Woman drove the Party Bus this time because SandraLynn  ran out of Red Bull and we didn’t get to the 7-11 store and recharge the 64 oz Big Gulp in time. Mind you it was overcast and a tad misty today, so we all wore our raincoats. Washington State is a pretty overcast state and it rains a lot here which probably explains why all the plants are extra green and the coffee beans are the best this side of the Mississippi. We signed up for this awesome whale watching, orcas, dolphins tour. I love watching orcas or as they are more familiarly known as “Killer Whales.” Heck, the last time I went to Sea World in San Diego in 2014. I got to have dinner with Shamoo. My Iphone’s video and camera were ready for some good pics! I was gonna beat Krista  in the Instagram wars today. The boat ride was the best ever. We saw two big humpback whales and one splashed the boat with his tail and got us all wet. Thank goodness we were wearing raincoats! The dolphins came up right alongside the boat and Princess Megan Rose   got to pet a few. I was jelly because every time I tried they swam off, but maybe it was because those pelicans were pestering them. The Orcas showed up and did a couple of tricks for the boat. The best part was watching the Eagles dive into the water and come out with some really big fat salmon. The eagles were feasting tonight. Then we went to the Whale Museum. That was kinda cool and I tried to channel my inner marine biologist for a YouTube video but I sounded like a dork. Jellyfish was very impressed with the big skeletons. AmyJo-Moving day's soon here  stocked up on Washington State stickers for her Nalgene. We saw Mt. Rainer in the distance. Sung'manitu  gave a 15 minute TED talk on how Mt. Rainer was a bad ass volcano back in the day. Afterword, we went to Seattle and saw the Space Needle. It’s kinda neat looking, but that’s about it. WakeUpAndLive wanted to check out the coffee scene in Seattle and after our whisky snort yesterday, Lyn's a Witchy Woman and me were up for some coffee. We ended the day at Pam’s Kitchen and tried the Trinidad food. It was delish! |
We’re off to see the Old Dominion state. Personally speaking, I think “Old Dominion” is just as bas ass a state motto as New Hampshire’s which IS the BEST – “Live Free or Die.”  SandraLynn was told she couldn’t drive the Party Bus right up to George Washington’s mansion, so we had to park in the boonies and walk ½ mile to the house. I love history so I was totally into everything. I dragged my ass everywhere, taking my time. Jellyfish really wasn’t a big George Washington fan being from the UK and SandraLynn wasn’t too impressed either being Canadian, but hey, someone like George had to do the dirty work of leading the Continental Army. I will say both of them seemed impressed with George Washington’s dentures. Sung'manitu , WakeUpAndLive , and Princess Megan Rose loved walking around the farm and seeing the animals. Princess Megan Rose pet all the sheep. She wanted to take one home, but then thought better of it. She didn’t want Peyton to get too sniffy around it. Krista and AmyJo-Moving day's soon here took a couple of minutes to take a time out and smell the fresh cut grass as they watch the Potomac River. There were a couple of eagles trying to catch fish which fascinated them. Me and Lyn's a Witchy Woman were really interested in George Washington’s Distillery and Gristmill. Honesty, the old fashioned way to distilling looks like an art. Lyn's a Witchy Woman charged up her emergency hooch bottle and I snuck a couple of personal sizes out in my Kate Spade purse. We all went to the Mt. Vernon Inn for dinner. Sung'manitu insisted on trying the Hoecake appetizers. Jellyfish wanted the fried green tomatoes to go with her salad. Heck, I was game for the Peanut soup. I can honestly say there were some interesting menu items on the menu! Princess Megan Rose AmyJo-Moving day's soon here WakeUpAndLive SandraLynn Krista kept it safe and got the Turkey Pot Pie. When everyone wasn’t looking, Lyn's a Witchy Woman and me had a sip of the bootleg whiskey we smuggled out of the distillery. After a nostril spitting gag and a some choking noises we managed to convince Sung'manitu that the Heimlich maneuver was not needed. I would definitely go back to Virginia again! |
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