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June 2018 Free Books!!
This month our lucky winner will receive two books. They’re new trade paperback editions and the authors are both friends of mine. (That always makes it fun!) THE STEEPLECHASE by Carrie Fancett Pagels is a historical romance set in the early 1800s in Virginia. From the back cover: “Martha Osborne…is terribly concerned for her six-year-old…
About Fruit Cake
When I was a child, we always received a Christmas package from my Grandma Kate and Grandpa Bob, and another from my aunt’s mother, Mrs. Tost. Grandma Kate’s box included a generous chunk of her dark fruit cake. Mrs. Tost, who lived a very elegant and privileged life, sent us a plum pudding and rum sauce in a…
YOUR PET!/Silvia
Sibano’s Singing Silvia (Both of these photographs are of the same cat. The first was taken when Silvia was a kitten, the second now that she is an adult.) Sibano’s Singing Silvia earned her name because she has a very big and loud meow and isn’t at all shy about using it! Silvia’s owner, Courtney,…
SELEDREORIG
Wild Word Friday! Please don’t ask me how to pronounce it, but SELEDREORIG is an Anglo-Saxon word that means “sadness for the lack of a hall.” In Anglo-Saxon days, a hall was a long rectangular community building, usually made of timber and roofed with thatch. Most halls had a centrally located hearth. According to archaeologists, almost every Anglo-Saxon…
GARAGE
Wild Word Friday! I’m up to my eyeballs in getting everything ready for a GARAGE sale, so I decided to visit the ancient roots of the word GARAGE. I absolutely love to find that one of our wild words harkens back to Indo-European times, (That means about six thousand years ago!) and guess what? GARAGE…