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Use Wireless Charging Lamps to Illuminate Your Workspace and Maintain Your Connections

In the future, offices will be sleek and functional. Disorganized desks and tangled cords are a thing of the past. Wireless charging desk lamp with wireless charger are the perfect combination of modern style and practicality. These clever multitools will not only illuminate your workspace, but will also charge your electronics with minimal effort. Staying charged and productive doesn't require hunting down an open power socket or tripping over tangled cords. Come with me as I explore the world of wireless charging lamps and the many ways they can improve your working environment.

The Latest Trend in Desk Lighting: Wireless Charging Lamps

In today's fast-paced world, it's important that our offices grow and change as we do. Desk lamps with built-in wireless charging stations are the ideal solution, as they combine practicality and good looks. These contemporary lights not only illuminate your office effectively, but also do away with the annoyance of a jumble of cords and power bricks.

These lights have a wireless charger built right in, so you can charge your phone or tablet without having to hunt down an outlet or tangle with wires. Just set your device down on the charging mat and forget about it while it recharges.

However, these desk lamps provide more than just light. In addition, their modern aesthetics and streamlined forms are a welcome addition to any office. Numerous options exist to accommodate your own taste, whether you lean toward a spare aesthetic or something flashier.

Desk lamps that can wirelessly charge devices are useful and save money in more ways than one. Many current models have LED lighting, which uses significantly less power than incandescent bulbs and hence costs less to operate over time. Additionally, LED lights last longer, so you won't have to continually be replacing bulbs.

The ideal wireless charging lamp for your workstation will include features like adjustable brightness, arms or heads for perfect positioning, color temperature settings (to set the atmosphere), and extras like USB ports or touch controls.

Why settle for a boring desk light when you can have a wireless charging desk lamp that looks great and actually works? Power up your devices and get some work done in style with this handy desk lamp. It's time to embrace designs that incorporate technology invisibly.

Desk lights that double as wireless chargers are the future of efficiency.

Desk lamps with built-in wireless chargers make it simple to illuminate your workspace without interrupting your charging routine. These cutting-edge tools merge two necessities for an efficient workplace into one sleek and handy compact.

Cable clutter and tangled cords are a thing of the past. Having a desk lamp that can also charge your phone wirelessly eliminates the need to fumble about with charging cables or look for an open socket. To charge your compatible device, just set it down on the lamp's charging pad.

These desk lamps are not only functional, but they also give your desk an air of sophistication. Lamps come in a wide variety of styles and materials, allowing you to find one that fits in with your decor while yet delivering adequate light for your needs.

Having a wireless charger already integrated into the case is a great time saver and desktop space saver. Whether you're working from home or in an office, it's important to keep all of your supplies close at hand.

Investing in a desk lamp with a built-in wireless charger is a smart move that will improve efficiency and elevate the look of any office. Put an end to tangled cords and hello to streamlined productivity, all while basking in the ideal lighting for focused, comfortable work.

How to Get Amazing Footage with a Small Budget, Using a Drone with a 4K Camera

Stunning aerial footage might be yours without breaking the budget. Thanks to technological progress, cheap 4K camera drones are now readily available. You can capture great footage and stills with these drones because to the high quality of their images.

There are a few things to think about while looking for a cheap drone with a 4K camera. The standard of the camera itself comes first and foremost. Try to find drones with either an internal 4K camera or the ability to attach an external camera.

The drone's range and battery life are the next considerations. You'll need a drone that you can control from a safe distance away and that can stay in the air for at least some time.

Stability and maneuverability are also crucial qualities to watch out for. A high-quality drone should be simple to pilot and have the ability to capture steady footage in windy circumstances.

Things like GPS, smart flight modes, and built-in obstacle avoidance systems are all great extras to think about. These additions can make flying much more enjoyable without sacrificing safety.

You may get the greatest low-cost drone with a 4K camera that meets your requirements by doing research and comparing different models. These low-priced possibilities let you exercise your imagination without breaking the wallet, whether you're a budding filmmaker or just love taking pictures from above.

Sunglasses with a Variable Tint Allow for Instant Shade

You open the door to the brilliant sunlight and feel the warmth on your face. But all of a sudden, the brightness becomes intolerable, making it hard to focus. If only there was a simple way to regulate the quantity of light hitting your eyes. Here comes a new idea: sunglasses with a tint that can be changed on the fly.

When wearing regular sunglasses, your eyes will be constantly adjusted to the same degree of darkness. However, you can alter the intensity of the tint on your sunglasses to suit your own taste. These sunglasses easily adjust to any lighting condition, allowing you to see well whether it's cloudy or sunny outside.

Think about how convenient it would be if your glasses could automatically adjust from clear indoors to darker tints outside. With the push of a button or the swipe of a sensor, the tint on these cutting-edge sunglasses can be adjusted in an instant.

Sunglasses with an adjustable tint are helpful for people who have trouble with too much or too little light, as is the case with those who have photophobia or cataracts. Sunglasses like these are beneficial to eye health and comfort since they block out harmful rays of light.

Embrace this breakthrough in eyewear technology for the best in on-demand shading comfort and convenience. Sunglasses with a tint that can be adjusted are revolutionizing practicality without sacrificing fashion. In the future, we should expect to see even more groundbreaking improvements in eyewear technology.

Benefits of Sunglasses with Variable Tint and Other Forms of Adaptive Eyewear

Keeping in touch and working efficiently are crucial in the modern world. Whether you're working in a conventional office or from the comfort of your own home, the appropriate equipment can make all the difference. The wireless charging desk lamp is one tool that fulfills both of these requirements.

Get rid of all those connections and tangled cables once and for all by investing in a desk lamp with built-in wireless charging capability. To charge your compatible smartphone while you work, simply set it on the lamp's base or the charging pad provided. You can finally put down the various chargers and the endless hunt for an open plug.

These lights aren't just practical; they also lend a sophisticated air to any office. These lights are both stylish and functional due to their dimmable light bulbs and flexible designs. There is a wireless charging desk lamp available that will work with your aesthetic preferences, whether you like a simple design or something flashier.

Let's change gears for a minute and discuss yet another ground-breaking product: sunglasses whose hue can be adjusted. We've all experienced the frustration of having to juggle two pairs of eyewear, one regular and one pair of sunglasses, according to the brightness of the sun. But what if a single pair of glasses could serve dual purposes?

The next step in sunglass innovation is sunglasses with variable tint. These sunglasses have lenses that can automatically vary their tint levels in response to the light around them. So whether you're indoors or out, in direct sunlight or overcast, your glasses will always shield your eyes properly without reducing your field of view.

These adaptive sunglasses are helpful for your eyes in many ways, and they're also very convenient. They shield your eyes from the sun's glare and UV rays, minimizing the risk of fatigue and permanent damage to your eyes.

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copperbadge · 1 day ago

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[ID: Five pictures; top left is a bowl of macaroni and cheese, with crispy brown bits visible, while top right is a sheet pan covered in roasted cashews dotted with seasoning. The middle photos are before-and-after shots of a very dusty metal light fixture which in the second image has had all the dust removed; the hole where the lighting has been wired through the wall is also visible. Bottom, a motion-activated wireless lamp that looks a little like a baby lightsaber appears to be magnetically stuck to a bracket on the ceiling. It is notably not illuminated.]

Well, the day is hard, but I decided to do what I normally do when the day is hard, which is make sure I'm fed and the chores are done. To that end I got up and put on Well There's Your Problem (68, The Nedelin Catastrophe), took out the trash, and did some cooking.

I made experimental rice cooker mac and cheese for the first time; for my birthday I got a mini Dash rice cooker and the booklet had a recipe for mac in it, which I was skeptical about but actually went really well, although you have to babysit it a bit. I also did some more experimenting with my pickle-seasoned cashews, still on a mission to find the best way to keep the seasoning sticking to the nuts. Not pictured, I made mini-meatballs and packed them in the pizza sauce I made earlier, as well as a couple of hamburger patties.

Lastly, I did some more bathroom work -- the motion sensing lamp I bought hasn't been working so I tried the one I have in the bedroom, which works really well there but also does not work when stuck to the ceiling. IDK what the deal is. Anyway, time to invest in the slightly pricier remote-controlled light so I can just turn it on when I want. I'll install the other lamp somewhere else, maybe as an additional light over the desk where I do video calls.

And I realized I'd never dusted the bathroom lights in my entire time living here, so I got up on the stepladder and cleared probably 15 years of dust off the top. If you, like me, looked at the first photo and thought "Wow, what a fire hazard" you are correct. I might have to bump up the "Let's put some new safer lighting from this century here" to-do line item. Yikes.

#naclyoho #national clean your home month

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littlereyofsunlight · 1 year ago

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Saturday Stork Club, November 2023

Here's the beginning of something from a few years back. I won't be using it for this year's Secret Santa Exchange and I (as usual) ran out of time to cook up something entirely new for this month. Thank you SO MUCH to @bitchymama and @steggyisimmortal for your prompts, I'm absolutely going to work on something incorporating parts of each for the December Stork Club! @steggyfanevents

Steve shook the remnants of the night’s cold, stinging rain out of his overcoat as he entered the SSR base at Brompton Road Station. The cavernous space was as quiet and dim as Steve had ever seen it. All the day’s bustle had died down, though a few clerks shivered at their desks on the overnight shift, barely illuminated by the sallow cast of their individual desk lamps. Two operators kept watch over the wireless, support for an ongoing mission.

Agent Carter’s little office, directly across from Colonel Phillips’s significantly larger one, was off a hallway that led down from the main room, but Steve wasn’t sure if when Peggy’d told him to meet her at headquarters, she expected him to wait out in the hall or to find her. He dawdled, feeling overlarge and awkward in the hushed hall.

While he was still trying to decide if he should sit or seek her out, Peggy marched around the corner with a stack of folders. Her pincurls drooped a bit, her skirt was creased and her red lipstick was fading at the center of her bottom lip. She had a scarf wound around her neck and tucked into the collar of her jacket, fingerless gloves on her hands. Weariness shaded her movements and softened her stance as she delivered some of her files to a colleague’s desk and deposited the rest into a mail cart. It was clear she’d been at work since the early hours of the day. Even cold, tired and disheveled, Steve thought she was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen.

“Captain Rogers,” Peggy caught sight of him. “Thank you for coming in.” Her spine straightened and Steve noted she didn’t let any tiredness affect the command in her voice.

“Agent Carter,” he returned her greeting with a small smile and deferential nod of his head. “I appreciate you making time.”

“Well,” she said, “my office is this way.” Peggy flicked her gaze over to one of the desk agents and looked away just as quick.

The agent had his ear cocked towards them, and he’d stopped writing whatever notes he’d been making on the report in front of him. Steve didn’t want Peggy to endure any office gossip on his account, especially not over this meeting. He knew she’d been a target before just from her prior work with him. “I’ll be brief, I’m sure you’d like to get home.”

She gave him a wry smile as she started back to the alcove where her office was. “I’ve a week’s worth of reports to go through still tonight. I don’t imagine I’ll be going anywhere.”

He nodded again, following. “Always more work to do.”

“Indeed.” She shut the door behind him and moved to sit behind her desk while he took up a stack of papers from the other chair in the room and looked around for a spot to set them down. “So, tell me what sort of intel you’re looking for. Your note was rather vague.” Peggy gestured for the papers and, when he’d handed them over, set them on top of a precarious pile behind her.

Steve scratched at the back of his neck. “Er, it’s not about Hydra.”

Peggy regarded him impassively.

“Well, see, Christmas is coming up.”

Her eyes narrowed.

“The fellas, I guess they have too much time on their hands, have all gotten together and organized this secret gift exchange? We each drew a name and exchange presents, but you can’t let the person you got know they’re from you until Christmas.”

Her brows came together quizzically.

“I got Philips.” He shrugged and looked at her, plaintive.

Peggy blinked. “I beg your pardon?”

“I don’t know what to get him.”

Now she stood up, the better, he supposed, to look down her nose at him. “You want me to tell you what gift to give our commanding officer for the holidays?”

Steve swallowed hard. “I was hoping you might know what he likes. That you could point me in the right direction? All I really know about him is that he doesn’t like me much.”

“He doesn’t like anyone much,” Peggy retorted, placing her hands on the desk. “And he’ll hate this. How does it even work, anyhow, if he hasn’t agreed to participate? Won’t someone else be going without a gift?”

“He is participating. Don’t ask me how, but Dum Dum says it didn’t take much to talk him into it.”

Peggy's answering look spoke volumes.

#saturdaystorkclub #peggy carter #steve rogers #steggy #my fic #(maybe?) resurrecting this semi-abandoned WIP

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cult-of-lilith · 4 months ago

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I love games with generic scrapable loot. Instead of scavenging and finding "metal parts" in someone's bedroom I am just jamming 6 desk lamps 5 printers 13 wireless routers 2 jump ropes and an alarm clock into my scrap blender machine

#i talk

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illustriousseu · 1 year ago

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#amazon #amazon favorites #amazon finds #iphone charger #wireless charger #portable charger #battery charger #iphone #apple products #phone charger

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wumblr · 11 months ago

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patch update: QoL improvements

hand mixer implemented. doughs can now be made in shorter time

closet inventory now has 50% more drawer space

lamp with volumetric lighting and ray tracing has been added to item catalogue

coffee table has been added to studio to further reduce probability of fluid physics incidents

new pourover rig has been overhauled to account for particle physics granule size and no longer requires a paper filter

toilet roll holder has been deprecated due to clipping errors. new replacement item additionally has a shelf

speaking of shelves, we are delighted to introduce a huge update to the user HUD that we were able to hack together out of cheap and easily available readymade code contructs: the desk shelf. explore its major revisions to cable management and storage capacity in the user menu

we have added a new dish rack, towel rack, bench scraper, and bathroom rug. due to the way the object class is formatted these are all also shelves

2014 throwback playlist available using wired/wireless speaker item and ipod item from the pacific northwest barista quest. you can also use it in your car, using the cigarette lighter to usb adapter item, but be aware that battery life on both items is limited and only one can be charged at a time while the engine is running during fast travel. ipod screen is 20% off center. we are looking at ways to fix this

planned updates:

we are researching a major update to open world mmorpg scent profiles through additional partnerships with cologne

unfortunately, wheat items continue to cause buffer overflow error. we are working on a garage DNA biohack quest that will resolve this in a narrative format

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lampscompany · 2 years ago

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Creative Smartphone Wireless

Charging a phone on the go is not always convenient—and it may not be functional when you can't see your screen! Lamps Company offers creative Smartphone Wireless, which you can use for your Business or Personal use. We offer creative Smartphone Wireless that are elegant and beautiful.

#Creative Smartphone Wireless #true wireless charging #Universal Colorful LED Angel Wings #led lights #wireless #designed lamps #desk lamps #smart lamps #Lamp

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strapstylehub · 11 months ago

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Apple Gadgets Topics: The Best iPhone Accessories for Productivity

Enhance your iPhone experience with the best accessories for productivity. From stylish cases to high-tech gadgets, discover how these Apple gadgets can elevate your efficiency.

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javathewildone · 2 years ago

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One Day - Heartland AU (Pt. 32)

Parts: 31, ... 33

Amy’s good mood lasted until she crawled into bed. Her head hit the pillow, crunching down on the envelope she’d hidden beneath it. Reaching back she pulled it out, feeling the DVD slide out and onto the floor with a thunk. Sighing, she twisted to lean over the bed and grab it, careful not to drop the disk when she saw the case came apart from impact. Flicking the lamp on, she sat up and placed everything in her lap to fix. Snapping the case back together, Amy opened it to replace the disk when she hesitated. Her thumb ran along the smooth curved edge. Biting her lip, a curiosity buried deep inside surfaced. One that she had been bound and determined to fend off until she had no choice but to face it. Maybe it was the events of the last few days lowering her guard. Or she was finally in a place to start healing and taking back control of her life. Whatever it was, it sent her out of bed and sneaking through the house to the front door with the DVD in hand.

After sliding into her flip flops on the porch, Amy headed for the barn where she remembered Jack telling her was the only computer with an internet connection. She assumed that meant it was hard-wired with an ethernet cable rather than WiFi because if he didn’t have air conditioning why would he have wireless internet?

Finding the outside office door unlocked, Amy huffed in relief that she didn’t have to risk making a ruckus sliding open the barn door. Settling herself behind the desk, Amy turned on the laptop that, blessedly, wasn’t password protected. A detail she considered bringing up to Jack if he kept anything important or confidential on it. She wasn’t there to snoop, though, contrary to what Ty might have thought the last time she was in there. Feeling around for the disk slot, she popped out the tray and placed the DVD inside. Nervously, she listened to the whirring of the ancient computer as it loaded the data, flexing her fingers off the touchpad when the file popped up.

Her heart thudded hard and fast in her breast. For a moment she considered snapping the computer shut and darting back to the house. But Amy knew if she did that she probably wouldn’t find her way back to this place again. So she double clicked on the video.

A loud and fast whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, blasted from the laptop speakers, making her jump and frantically search for the volume keys to mute it. Her eyes left the screen before she even had a chance to get a real look at the grayscale image to stare into the black doorway, her ears straining to hear over the anxious thumping of her pulse for noise coming from the loft. Satisfied she hadn’t disturbed Ty, Amy let her eyes drop to the screen.

She waited for the past to come thundering back when she fixated on the strange deformed gummy bear shape that was her child. Her heart hadn’t slowed its erratic pace in the slightest and didn’t show any sign of doing so any time soon. Anxiety and fear clenched her gut knowing she was looking at part of him. That he was still there invading her body; growing and thriving. But there was wonder there, too. That something so fragile and precious could come from a nightmare.

For a long while she stared at the image, noting the subtle movements and how she never felt them. Sliding her hand over her belly, Amy closed her eyes to feel for a flutter or anything that she could liken to the motion on the screen. But there was nothing. It was likely too soon for it. She was going to have to pick up the “What to Expect” book again she brought along on the bus. After throwing it at the door not long after her arrival, Amy hadn’t bothered to read it any further.

Her brow furrowed when she realized just how ill-prepared she was for the future of her pregnancy and subsequent birth. For a long time it was denial and an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude until she began to really show. Looking at the defined shape of the baby growing inside her now, reality struck hard. She needed to do better. Even if she did ultimately decide on the adoption route (which she was heavily considering), there was still six months left of motherhood she was accountable for.

Creaking on the stairs snapped Amy from her thoughts to quickly close out of the video. Her fingers froze over the keyboard when a human-shaped shadow appeared in the doorway. Amy stared at it wide-eyed for a moment until Ty’s voice erupted from the dark form.

“Sneaking around again?” Ty leaned against the doorframe, narrowing his gaze at Amy through the glow of the laptop screen. He heard her come into the barn, but rather than investigate the intruder, Ty lay still on the old loft bed and listened to her move about the space. The noise from the computer had him sitting up and quietly easing out of bed to finally investigate.

Amy’s rigid posture deflated. “Just checking the weather for tomorrow,” she lied, glancing at the little weather icon in the corner of the screen.

“Hmm,” Ty grunted, shuffling toward the desk and stopping across from Amy. “And?”

Amy swallowed, shrugging. “Just as Jack said. Looks like it’s going to be a clear weekend.” She reached up to close the computer, dousing the room in darkness. Then immediately regretted it when she became hyper aware of Ty’s presence in front of her. “Sorry I woke you.”

“Trying to get rid of me?” Ty chuckled. She hadn’t woken him. He’d been wide awake with his own thoughts and would have been for another few hours at least.

“Uh, no.” Yes. “I was just about to head back to the house.” Amy made no move to leave. Last time she was alone in the office with Ty it hadn’t ended well at all. She wasn’t about to get up just to be cornered again.

Ty also stood his ground, sensing Amy wasn’t being entirely truthful. He wasn’t sure how he felt about finding her once again with her nose where it didn’t belong. The computer wasn’t exactly full of state secrets, but still possessed quite a bit of personal information. But he knew better than to jump to conclusions when it came to Amy. The tension straining the space between them had Ty shifting over to the lamp on the desk to flick it on.

Amy blinked against the sudden light, but was grateful for it. If she hadn’t been so concerned about this very interaction happening she would have turned it on herself when she came in.

“Something tells me you weren’t just checking the weather,” Ty guessed. “You look guilty as hell,” he teased, folding his arms across his chest.

Despite his jesting tone, Amy didn’t like being called out by Ty. “Am I not allowed to use the computer, either?”

Ty put his hands up in a placating gesture. “Relax, I didn’t say that. It’s just a little late to be surfing the web.” Which is what made it so suspicious.

“I was just checking the weather,” Amy again insisted.

Ty dropped his arms. “Okay.” If that’s the story she wanted to stick to then he wouldn’t press her further.

Amy stared at him warily. Okay? That was it? No third degree or accusation of trying to dig up family secrets?

“Okay.” She finally stood, tapping her fingertips on the closed laptop. Her disk was still inside, but she didn’t want to make a show of ejecting it. Except he made no move to leave.

Ty moved off to the side of the desk to allow Amy a clear route of escape, figuring that’s what she was waiting for. “I’ll close everything back up behind you,” he offered.

Amy hesitated. Arguing would only make Ty more suspicious. Finally, she nodded and stepped out from behind the desk, keeping him in her periphery.

“Night.” She was sure she could find a moment tomorrow to sneak back in and get the disk.

Ty flicked off the lamp and shuffled after her in his bare feet. “Night.” He followed her out of the barn and waited in the doorway until she got to the porch, nodding in acknowledgment when she glanced back halfway there. Closing the door, Ty made his way back to the office and sat at the desk to re-open the laptop.

The desktop was up but a program was still running in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on it, Ty’s eyes widened when he saw it was Amy’s ultrasound video. Turning on the volume, the same whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, he heard upstairs filled the room. It synced perfectly with the tiny flutter of the baby’s heart on the screen. Letting out a long breath, Ty was grateful for his insight and not pressuring Amy to just tell him the truth for once. He still didn’t see why she thought she couldn’t tell him what she was looking at, but understood her need to keep secrets. Frustrating as it was.

Properly closing out of the program, Ty ejected the disk and returned it to the open case. After shutting down the laptop he brought the DVD with him to the loft so it didn’t get lost in the mess of paperwork.

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That night no one at Heartland slept soundly. Each of them tossing and turning from restless thoughts. If they did manage to drift off it was for no more than an hour or so.

The night was no different from any other for Amy, whose nightmares tormented her on a regular basis. But tonight the regular nightmares were replaced with the haunting unknowns of her future and that of her child’s. When she got back to her room, she cracked open the book and read up through her next couple weeks of pregnancy before her eyes became so tired they crossed. But putting the book down and turning off the light didn’t shut off her brain.

Ty went back to laying awake in bed. This time he flipped the DVD between his fingers and let his thoughts drift to Amy as they often did since she arrived. He thought about what he saw on the computer screen and what about it was so uncomfortable to Amy that she had to hide it. It wasn’t hard to figure out what she saw when she looked at it. Occasionally, his thoughts drifted to Kit and what would come of that fiasco. She was invited to the party tomorrow and would surely show up. But he would worry about that then.

Jack went to bed with every intention of getting a full night of solid rest. But it had been over a month since he last saw Lisa and he got butterflies like it was the first time all over again. He knew he hadn’t changed in that month, but always worried she would. That she’d come back to tell him she decided life at Heartland was too small potatoes and wanted to move permanently. It was a foolish fear. One he had no business thinking given the amount of times Lisa assured him she was happy with how they were. Still the combination of excitement and weariness over seeing his wife tomorrow kept him awake.

Amy hoped to be the first to roll out of bed in the morning so she could sneak out to the barn and get her disk from the computer. But as she was about to get up the door to the bathroom swung closed. Jack was awake. She groaned. Well, maybe tonight everyone would be exhausted from the busy day and crash early.

Since she was up, Amy changed out of her sleep shorts for a pair of pants and headed out to tend the chicken coop as she did every morning since Jack assigned her the task. She eyed the coffee pot as she sat to pull on a pair of boots Soraya gave her when she learned Amy didn’t possess any appropriate farm footwear. The automatic brew was just kicking on when Amy darted outside to avoid it, nearly tripping over Lobo who was sprawled out on the porch in nearly the same spot as last night.

The elderly dog scrambled clumsily to his feet. “Oh. Lobo,” Amy laughed softly, reaching down to offer a scratch of apology. “Sorry, buddy. Come on, let’s find breakfast.”

Though she was hesitant around the chickens at first, Amy had since gotten comfortable entering their enclosure and shooing them out of the way. They learned quickly to associate her with food and all came clucking merrily to follow her around while she raked up their droppings and hunted for eggs. Most of them laid in the nesting boxes, but she found a couple that preferred the grass corner of the enclosure. Minding the chickens was a simple, peaceful, task Amy found herself looking forward to each morning. It was something she did alone in the stillness of the morning before the farm came alive with inmates. Thankfully, she was able to avoid them most of the week, but come the next she would be out of reasons to disappear from the farm all day.

She set the basket of colorful eggs near the door where Lobo laid down to wait. He watched the chickens, lazily lifting his head as one flew to sit on a branch that was leaning against the side. Amy finished fluffing the straw in the boxes then caused a fury when she scooped out corn to sprinkle inside the coop. It was a decent distraction for her to slip out of the enclosure with her eggs and not have any followers.

“Morning.”

Amy jumped at the voice behind her. Thankfully she kept a hold of the basket when she spun around to face Ty.

“Stop doing that,” she snapped, her fist tightening around the handle of the basket.

Anyone else and Ty would have found humor in their jumpscare. But with Amy it wasn’t quite so funny. “Saying good morning?”

“Sneaking up on me.” She headed back to the house, irritated that her peaceful start to the day was over so soon.

Ty followed. “It’s not like I do it on purpose.”

“Could’ve fooled me.”

Ty’s clenched his teeth to keep from retorting. It wasn’t his fault she was so jumpy. Instead he focused his attention on her fluffy shadow. “Lobo seems to have latched onto you.”

“Probably because I’m the first person who has given him any attention.” Amy heard the attitude in her voice even as the words were coming from her mouth. Ty had a way of bringing out the worst of her without even trying.

“Coddle him, you mean.”

Amy shot a look of indignance over her shoulder. She’d hardly call it coddling, but trying to argue with Ty was like arguing with a brick wall. When she realized he was still trailing behind her, she came to an abrupt halt. “Do you need something?”

Ty barely managed to keep from plowing into her. “What?”

“Why are you following me?”

Lifting his brow, Ty pointed toward the house. “I’m, um, going in for breakfast. Or have you changed the locks already?”

Amy opened her mouth then snapped it shut again, clenching her jaw. God, he was infuriating! About facing, she stormed away, leaving Ty to watch her in amusement before following at a safe distance.

After breakfast, the guys went out to begin their day when the prison van rolled down the driveway. Amy kept busy inside cleaning the house from head to toe once she located the proper supplies. She opened the kitchen windows and a few at the back of the house to let some fresh air in and let out the stink of chemicals.

“What on earth are you doing?”

Amy jumped at Ty’s voice for the second time that day. She twisted her head around to glare at him over her shoulder from her place on the floor. She’d been so absorbed in her task she hadn’t even heard the door open. “You’re lucky I don’t carry a loaded weapon or you’d be dead twice over by now.”

Ty snorted. “I got the drop on you first. Both of those times.” He held up two fingers.

“Whatever,” Amy retorted, knowing he was right but refused to admit it.

“Why are you on the floor?” Ty skirted around her to get to the fridge for a bottle of water.

“What does it look like? I’m scrubbing it.” Amy gestured with her scrub brush to the bucket of soapy water.

Cracking the lid, Ty took a sip, eying her over the bottle. “We have a mop, you know.”

“Yes, I know that. But it wasn’t doing a proper job. This floor is filthy from all of your shitty boots.” She glared pointedly at Ty’s feet that were caked in mud and manure.

Swallowing a mouthful of water slowly, Ty traced his path from the door to see how he just traipsed right across Amy’s clean floor. “Shit, sorry.” He capped his water bottle. “Should you even be doing that?”

Amy’s gaze narrowed. “I’m pregnant, not incapacitated. Besides, it’s proved to be cathartic.”

Ty looked at the bucket of soapy water skeptically. “Cathartic?”

“Yes. I pretend the floor tile is your face and I rub every dirty scowl and sly smirk right off it. Then wash every hurtful and nasty thing you’ve said to me out with soap.” She continued to gesture wildly with the brush, making Ty start to inch his way back to the door.

“I think you’ve been inhaling too many toxic fumes. You know you’re not supposed to mix chemicals.”

Amy growled under her breath. “Get out.” Her arm swung toward the door. “And next time you come in here take your shoes off in the mud room. That’s what it’s there for.” Honestly, did they live this way when Lisa was around? Somehow she doubted they’d dare dirty up her clean floor.

“Sir, yes, sir.” Ty saluted, leaping out of the way of the flying scrub brush and darting outside. He learned he needed to be quick on his feet when Amy had a projectile in hand.

He was still chuckling to himself when he got back to the barn.

“What are you grinning about?” Ray called from his perch outside the round pen.

Ty just shook his head and schooled his expression. “Nothing.”

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