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Most of the snow we received near the end of Oct has melted except for some shady spots. We're now experiencing a gorgeous Indian summer. Last weekend, the guys cleaned the yard and yesterday they put the Christmas lights up. They found this little fella in the driveway about 15 ft from the house. It's funny because in the 10 yrs we've lived here on the farm, we've only found one other salamander and he looked just like this one. We found him in almost the same spot about 5-6 yrs ago. In fact, that memory was so vivid - I suppose because I'd never seen a live salamander before - that I wrote it into a scene in Emma's Outlaw . Emma awakes in early morning and in her foggy state, she thinks she's looking at 2 black dew drops until she realizes dew isn't black. She flinches at the thought of what's staring her in the face and the salamander skitters away. Somehow it seems symbolic that I'll see one again on the eve of submitting Emma's story. Th...

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I'm blogging about uncleaned ancient coins over at the Inkwell today. Come over for a visit and let us know what you think. :D Anita Mae