Lightning Strikes & Sadistic Wallpaper
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Someone is trying to sabotage a local wedding venue out of business. A goat invasion during their latest event pushes the owner to call on Charlotte and Declan of the Charlock Holmes detective agency for help. Short on funds, she offers to pay them with a free wedding, which pushes them to start planning their nuptials and collecting other businesses willing to trade detecting for wedding favors.
They're not the only ones---Mariska and Darla are determined to get Charlotte the perfect wedding gown, but that turns out to be a little more complicated than they expected. Declan's Uncle Seamus and mysterious father want to help too—but nothing is easy in Pineapple Port!
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Charlotte and Declan enjoy a free honeymoon on the Bahamian island of Duppy Cay in return for investigating who’s been vandalizing the local resort. The trade seems like a deal until someone tries to kill the island’s most colorful character. There’s no shortage of trouble for such a small island—a pirate’s curse, angry ghosts, shipwrecks, hidden pirate caves...
Back in the US, Darla and Frank are kidnapped while visiting friends in Tennessee, leaving Mariska and Bob to solve a murder back home in Florida.
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Easter eggs surround the body. One of them has a note. Charlotte teams up with Sheriff Frank to solve a cryptic murder in a do-or-dye situation...
Too bad she won't have help. Uncle Seamus and Bob accompany Declan to his charity swim in Tampa, Florida, only to find themselves in pursuit of a stolen life-sized Jimmy Buffett cutout. Darla and Mariska travel to the center of Florida to meet Mariska's newly found cousin at an art festival, where a man with a crush on Mariska bobs up in the lake. After she's thrown in jail as a murder suspect, it's up to Darla and some very familiar locals to hatch a plan, solve the crime, and clear her name.
It's all very egg-citing!
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When the eldest sister of the Four Sisters tomato sauce dynasty is plagued by night terrors that she thinks might be related to something sinister that happened in their home, Charlotte and Declan are invited to explore the possibilities. Is the big Florida farmhouse haunted? Has the sister repressed a terrifying memory?
Either way, the detectives aren't sure they're the right people to call, but the pay is good, the food is delicious, and the case gets Mariska and Darla an invite to the sisters' annual Bark at the Moon Pet Costume Contest and Halloween Party. Good enough.
When a giant wolf-dog with glowing eyes prowls the garden, the peculiar nosy neighbor seems up to no good, and the family secrets start spilling at a frightening pace, Charlotte and Declan start to think there's more to the case than bad dreams.
When the body shows up, they're sure of it!
SIGNS YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA
We saw a pretty big lightning strike outside and started filming in time to get the next one. You can barely see this happen in the video, but the screengrab is pretty amazing. Did one of the little forks hit my fence? It sure sounded like it!
Things I May Never Do Again...
So you know that thing where you think, sure, I can wallpaper one little wall...how hard could it be?
We were struck temporarily insane and decided to go for it. Yikes. This is peel-and-stick wallpaper from Amazon, and it does look pretty good---gave a very white bathroom a little punch, but it was NOT easy. I can't even imagine attempting it with old-timey glue & paper!
It would have been a lot easier if I knew these tricks ahead of time:
1. Overlap is relative.
They say to make it easier, do a little overlap from one sheet to the next, but what they don't tell you is if your design is as large and all-encompassing as this one, you have to overlap practically the whole sheet for it to line up, which would double the amount of wallpaper you need. Given the choice again, I might have picked something a little more sparse and forgiving.
2. Length is dependent on pattern...
When you cut your second sheet, remember it must align with the last one at the right point in the pattern. I cut the right length off the roll with a little extra just in case, toddled back to the bathroom, and realized the part I needed to line up at the top of the next column was about two feet down the piece I'd cut... Grr. So, I put that piece aside, figuring I'd use it for the last column so the patchwork I'd have to fill in for that shorty piece landed behind the toilet...
3. Is the pattern the same upside down?
Of course, it isn't, because a twisted sadist designed this particular pattern. Turns out that even if it doesn't look like it, there is a right side up and upside down (that sicko made sure of it), so when you match the pattern and cut your third piece, you'll realize the pattern is slightly different upside down and still doesn't line up right without coming up short. ) *^!(^)@^^!!&#*#^%$_!!!!
4. Don't look behind the toilet.
Things might be a little janky there!
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