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…
The greyhound is a gentle and intelligent breed whose unique build allows it to travel at a rate of 70 km per hour within a few strides. Only one other animal can run faster in short distances – the cheetah. Many historians believe that the breed originated with the ancient Celts who crossed Europe from…
Congratulations to Darlene Michalski Krzycki! Darlene, you’ve won our little cookbook, SCRUMPTIOUS PIES AND TARTS by Linda Collister! I’ll be sure to send the book your way ASAP, Darlene. Happy Cooking! By the way, Darlene says she loves all kinds of pie, but, if she had to choose just one, it would probably be apple!…
Wild Word Friday! I thought it might be fun on the first Friday of each month to highlight the Aleut name – and translation – for that month. The Aleut word for June is IGUUGUM TUGIDAA. The second G in that phrase should have a circumflex accent (ˆ) over it, but I couldn’t get my computer…
In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where I live, farmers have a tough life. The growing season in a good year is a mere three months, often less, with frosts lasting into June and sometimes starting up again in mid-August, but we do grow very high quality hay, and also have dairy farms and some sheep farms….
Our first free book this month is a small hardcover edition of SCRUMPTIOUS PIES & TARTS by Linda Collister. If you love pies or love to bake, this little book is just right for you. To have your name included in our Wednesday, June 19 drawing, just answer this question: What’s your favorite kind of…
Congratulations to Donna Pyle who won our $25 Amazon gift certificate! Donna, please email me at sue@sueharrison.com so I can send you your certificate. Blessings! Sue (Photo by Warren Denning, released for Public Domain use)
Wild Word Friday! This past week has been wonderfully hectic for me. It included the release of my 6 Alaska books in Ebook format by Open Road Media. (Hooray!) We also had a houseful of company over Memorial Day weekend. (Yay!) Now we’re helping our daughter move into her new apartment. (WooHoo!) I’m telling you…
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