DETECTIVE
Wild Word Friday! When I was growing up, my parents bought my brother and I a board game each year for Christmas. One of my all-time favorites was Clue. You’ve probably played that game and remember hearing (or making) a triumphant announcement that went something like this – “Miss Scarlett with the lead pipe…
YOUR PET!/Otis
Beach time with Otis! Otis the pug is owned by Megan. Those are Megan’s multi-colored toenails you see at the left of the photograph! This photo was taken near Megan’s summer home in Michigan. Otis is a loving companion and definitely a water dog! Welcome, Otis, to our “Your Pet” family! Do we have any…
FARM
Wild Word Friday! When I was a child, one of my very favorite things was visiting my paternal grandparents at their FARM. They had a mean rooster that would chase you if you ventured too close to the chicken coop. Their big black horse would eat an apple right out of your very flat open…
YOUR PET!/Liberty
LIBERTY! Nine-year-old Liberty is a big city dog who loves to dress up. Her owner Angela Harrison Stone is a Lions Football fan, so we see Liberty here dressed up as a Lion. I’m sure the team would appreciate a mascot this cute! But life as a mascot can be tiring…. Sometimes a dog just…
March ’12 Free Book!
Blue Moon Bay by Lisa Wingate Our March 2012 Free Book is a new trade paperback. From the Back Cover: “For Seattle architect Heather Hampton, a trip back to tiny Moses Lake, Texas, is hardly in the plan. Yet because a promotion hinges on the sale of the family farmland, Heather heads to the last…
AWARD
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…
YOUR PET!/Quincy & Nils
Quincy & Nils Meet Quincy and Nils, two beautiful cats who come to us all the way from Switzerland! They are two of the three cats owned by Monia and Björn. Monia says that Quincy (left) is the “cheeky Alpha cat” and Nils (right) is the sensitive big cuddler. Don’t you just love the cardboard…
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