What Is "King of Thieves" About???...

Here's the blurb>>> He’s the greatest thief the world has ever known. The media calls him “The Panther.” The rich, famous and bored think he’s one of them, --- so handsome, so charming Duke Alexandre Valentin Rurik Iharovich Volkov, when he goes to where they play in Paris, in Venice, in the casinos of Monaco. Ha, --- he’s there to prey, not play!… In this thrilling and sensuous adult tale it’s revealed that Peter the Great hid a vast treasure in the Catherine Palace, --- necklaces set with emeralds and sapphires as big as hen’s eggs surrounded by diamonds with pearls big as almonds, perhaps behind the gem-studded amber walls or in the shining wooden floors. Nazis were after any treasure, and they missed this one! Directions to the treasure were pasted inside a magical cursed Romany violin belonging Alexandre’s many times great-grandmother. The Shadow Brotherhood, that massive hundreds of years old international crime organization whose symbol is the scorpion, wants Alexandre to go to Turkey to the Topkapi Museum to steal a golden statuette for them. Naïve paralegal from Cleveland, Ohio, Theresa Ruhs meets the intriguing aristocratic thief at an opera. They quickly become involved. He seems to be everything Theresa wants in a man, so elegant, so exciting that feeling of danger surrounding him! He’s even a little delightfully kinky! She’ll eagerly go with him across the ocean to Europe and to the Middle East, never wanting to admit to herself what she suspects he really is!

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Love the Unloved...

Humble Sparrow...

Mourning Doves...

Gardening Tips & Tricks · April 12 at 1:00 PM · Mourning doves are the most equal co-parents in your yard. And they do something almost no other bird can do. THE PARENTING SCHEDULE: → Dad sits on eggs: morning to late afternoon → Mom sits on eggs: late afternoon to morning → They swap at nearly the SAME time every day → Both lose weight during incubation (neither eats while sitting) THE MIRACLE: Crop milk → Both male AND female mourning doves produce "crop milk" → It's a protein-rich, fatty substance made in the lining of the crop (throat pouch) → It's NOT actually milk — it's more like cottage cheese → Only 3 bird families in the world can do this: pigeons/doves, flamingos, and emperor penguins → The crop milk is the ONLY food baby doves eat for the first 3-5 days → It's so nutritious that squabs (baby doves) double in size within 48 hours Mourning dove love: → They're monogamous (at least for the season) → They do a gentle preening ritual before mating → Male calls = the soft "coo-OOO-oo-oo" you hear every morning → It sounds sad. It's actually a love song. → The name "mourning" comes from humans mishearing love as grief 300+ million mourning doves in North America. The most common native bird in many neighborhoods. And nobody watches them. They're right there. On your porch light. Doing everything right. Together. 🕊️ #MourningDove #CropMilk #EqualParenting #BackyardBirds #DidYouKnow #DoveLove

Mister Toad from "Wind in the Willows"...

Please Be kind To Daddy Long Legs Spiders...