Closing out our 2012 Christmas Season Your Pet posts is beautiful Aurora!
This photograph was taken by her owner, Sarah McHatton, during Aurora’s first Christmas.
I pray that your Christmas was blessed and that your New Year is filled with awe and joy!
Love, Sue
Wild Word Friday! The word AWARD comes to us via a progression that goes backwards in time from the Middle English, awarden, to the Old Norman French, eswarder, to the Old French, esgarder. Esgarder springs from the Latin, ex-garder, which is the base word for many English words that refer to the concept of guarding…
Wild Word Friday! Linguists agree that the name ALASKA comes to us from a Native word. There’s some disagreement about which word and even which language. Generally, the consensus is that ALASKA means The Great Land, derived from the Aleut word alyeska, which also means “that which the sea breaks against.” I’m not here to…
On this Wild Word Friday, I’m sending you prayers and wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with many blessings! From my house to yours – Love, Sue
Ellen Airgood is one of Michigan’s finest writers, and we are delighted to celebrate her most recent novel TIN CAMP ROAD as our Free Book for November 2024. From the back cover: “Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in winter is remote and beautiful; in the heat of summer, there is no place like it on earth. For…
Wild Word Friday! The word CHINCHILLA refers, of course, to a little rodent, about fifteen inches in length when full grown, which in the past was valued for its lovely pale-gray fur. CHINCHILLA also refers to cloth made for overcoats out of wool and cotton. This type of cloth has a tufted and napped surface…
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I love that about cats, Carol – the curiosity – and also their playfulness! Happy New Year!
Hope your Christmas has been awesome, too, Sue. What a sweet photo of Aurora! Cats are so curious, and she appears quite captivated by the lights. Love the reflection, too.