Color me surprised! We have posted the December “things” for our Patreon patrons!
The cover image for our Patreon feature, A Place at the Table, now on its eighth episode (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
I’m surprised, because when I turned on my phone yesterday morning, I couldn’t get any cell coverage. Nothing. I’m not saying I couldn’t get on line, I mean that I could do nothing with my phone! The local radio reported that many customers of our phone carrier were reporting outages (how did they do that?) so this was a pretty big deal.
Somehow, Michelle managed to get one bar on her phone, enough to allow me to email my siblings to let them know I was incommunicado for the time being. But, Michelle had to go to work, and her phone went with her.
Thankfully, yet inexplicably, I got phone coverage by around 9:00 a.m. I finished editing this month’s A Place at the Table, and spent most of yesterday afternoon uploading it onto our Patreon page.
This month, we’re offering a peek behind the scenes on the homestead, as we brainstormed topics for our yearly newsletter, a (hopefully) one-page summary of the past year. We decided to kill two birds with one stone, recording our brainstorming as this week’s top-tier offering to Patreon patrons.
For the basic supporter, we offer a short story I wrote years ago, called Writers of Lost Stories. It is the full version of the severely edited version I posted here on the blog back in 2016, called Beside the Christmas Fire (see Beside the Christmas Fire).
I can’t imagine why we might have spotty cell coverage right now…. (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
We can’t stress enough, as we file the final Patreon offering of the year, how much we appreciate our Patrons, and others who contribute to the blog! Your patronage helps keep this blog going. It is, as I’ve noted previously, not free for us to provide this information for free to our readers. Those who sign on as Patreon patrons or support the blog in other ways help us provide the information we post without charging everyone to log in and read, or something onerous like that. In fact, if you read the blog but don’t contribute, in certain ways, perhaps you owe thanks to those who contribute as well!