Author Archives: Charles Huss

My Newest Book: Saving Apollo

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My newest book, Saving Apollo, is out now on Amazon. It will be exclusively on Amazon for the next ninety days, although I may release the print version elsewhere. This will allow me to offer the eBook for free. I think Amazon allows a total of five free days per ninety-day commitment.

This is my first family-friendly book and my first book with an animal as one of the main characters. I think many people who read this blog will enjoy it. Even though the story revolves around a dog, I believe cat lovers will enjoy how this book ends.

You can read more about this book on my personal blog here.

The Kindle version of Saving Apollo will be free through this Sunday, October 27. To get your copy, click here. As always, a review would be very much appreciated.

Were Back

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My wife and I returned from our vacation to Massachusetts and Maine on Saturday. We were glad to get home to our cats and Frankie was certainly excited that we were back. He has been ‘talking” a lot more than usual since we returned. The first thing I did was take Frankie for a walk.

Needless to say, he was happy about it.

My wife wanted to drive to the beach to see how the cleanup efforts were going after getting hit by two hurricanes. Things were far worse that I thought. We drove down some of the streets in Madeira Beach, and it was unbelievable. Almost every home had a large pile of trash in front of it.

We continued south until we reached our favorite beach, Pass-a-Grill. During the storm, a lot of sand was carried onto the streets. Most of it was cleared off the streets, but there were still several large piles in front of businesses. And then there was this pile and a similar pile nearby.

We also saw signs like this at the paths that lead to the beach.

Whatever was on the beach, it wasn’t your run-of-the-mill dangerous.

On the way home we saw this pile of garbage.

It was on some kind of park across the street from a condo development. I’m sure the people who live there are happy to see this every day. They must be trucking garbage here with the intent of moving it later. I would be surprised if this is gone before Christmas.

When we got home Frankie was more than willing to help us unpack.

Caught on Camera

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I am writing this post from Kennebunkport Maine. We spent three nights on Plum Island in Massachusetts and we arrived here a few hours ago.

I have three Blink cameras at my house. One is in the living room, one is in the cat’s room, and the third is a doorbell outside. I learned our power went off Wednesday evening because I checked my cameras to see how our house was doing and they were offline.

The power came back on Saturday evening so I was able to check to see how our cats were doing. It seems like they are both doing okay but yesterday my phone kept notifying me that there was movement on my living room camera. Frankie walked by the living room camera 33 times in 59 minutes. He really gets antsy sometimes. Here is a screenshot of one of those times.

He did a lot of pacing today as well but not as bad as yesterday. I feel bad that I am not there to take him for a walk to relieve some of his energy.