by Kit Caelsto | May 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
My Musimagium world began as an alternate history story. The original book, which I have rewritten twice and haven’t published yet, is set a few years before the civil war. When I decided to revisit the world, I decided to start in our modern day. What would...
by Kit Caelsto | May 8, 2024 | Author Life, Homestead Life
Our property is a haven for deer here in the Ozarks. The county in which I live has one of the highest deer harvests during hunting season for all of Missouri. With large wide open grasslands (thanks to cattle farmers), bits of forest, or large tracts of forest in...
by Kit Caelsto | May 6, 2024 | Muse Happens
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by Kit Caelsto | May 1, 2024 | Homestead Life
Happy May Day! It’s the first of spring and spring has really sprung here on the homestead. Previously I posted about my kitty litter container garden, and I wanted to provide an update. Using square foot gardening plans, I planted most of the containers with...
by Kit Caelsto | Apr 3, 2024 | Animal Companions, Author Life, Homestead Life, Horses
Last week I suggested to spouse that we walk down to get the mail. For context, our driveway is a tenth of a mile, and it was about six in the evening. I’d already fed the horses and they’d gone down to the front of the pasture to graze for the night. But...
by Kit Caelsto | Mar 27, 2024 | Author Life, Fantasy
For at least the last decade the marketing rule of thumb has been “if you write different genres, use different pen names”. Certainly, the truism has always been that if your audiences cannot or should not meet (for example erotic romance and young adult...
by Kit Caelsto | Mar 20, 2024 | Muse Happens
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by Kit Caelsto | Mar 6, 2024 | Author Life
I don’t watch as much Food Network as I used to, but I used to be really amazed by the chefs who knew just how much a tablespoon of salt or other seasoning was, or just tossed in ingredients without measuring. Of course, that’s how I cook now, but it took...
by Kit Caelsto | Feb 25, 2024 | Animal Companions, Homestead Life, model horse hobby
Miss Skittes on Caturday wondering why I’m not paying attention to her. The most adorable note left on the box my rescue bearded dragon arrived in. A late afternoon moon above the bare trees. Jupiter (Roman Tufted Goose) periscoping between the chicken roosts...
by Kit Caelsto | Feb 21, 2024 | Author Life, Horses, model horse hobby
I’ve probably been making up stories as long as I’ve been collecting model horses. After all, when you are “horse crazy”, but your family can’t afford a real horse, what do you do? You turn to model horses–also known as the gateway...
