Monthly Archives: February 2010
224/365 Narrow Road
You think the road was narrow? Should have seen the bridge. I’d show you, but the battery on my camera ran out.
Numnumnum
Jill: Honey, reading the daily newspaper? Jack: Um…. Yeahhhh. Jill: Let me see what’s so interesting. *reach* Jack: Um….. Please don’t hit me. Jill: Snacks? You’ve been hiding snacks? Look at the way Gin and Tonic are gobbling them up. Have you been doing this every day this whole time we’ve been dieting? Jack: Well. Yeah. Maybe. Jill: Well, then I guess I don’t need to hide these anymore. Today’s theme is daily Previously in Jack and Jill: Sweet Talker […]
Suzie’s House 153: Good Bye, Drew
“Mom! You’re home! Where’s Drew?” Ben leaned to the left and then to the right, trying to see around the hug fest between Mom and Diane and Miranda. Seemed like one minute the house was empty, the next everyone came home at once. Except Ben couldn’t see Drew. He tried slipping around everybody in the hall to look out the front door, even though Drew wasn’t the type to hang out on the porch, and besides, Vin was inside, so […]
Between the Right and the Left
So many of you asked me to continue where I left off a couple of weeks ago with Lover’s Lane that I felt obliged. The deal would be going down in fifteen minutes. If Drew wasn’t there before the snitch, his cover would be blown. Half way between a car rocking with noisy lovers and a car with a hand on the glass, a quiet moan that could be love or death, he stopped. The Lover’s Lane stalker? Or the […]
13 Pieces to a Puzzle
If you mentally re-arrange these images and put them all together you get a picture that was taken from a post that I posted in the last two weeks. Can you guess which post? Extra points if you can guess the person depicted. In order to get the permalink from this post you must both put your URL in the Mr. Linky thing and leave a comment The hub is here As always, I welcome the link to your Thursday […]
Ah Maria, “But That All Lay in the Future.”
It has been said that the War of the Austrian Succession was, in fact, the first world war. By the time it ended with the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in October of 1748, not only had all of Europe been pulled into it to one extent or another, but fighting had taken place all over the globe. Because of Spanish involvement there was fighting in South America. Fighting between France and England in North America and Asia. Most of this fighting […]
Box of Books Give Away
Leave a comment on this thread between now and Thursday night for a chance to win the entire box of books. Once Upon a Valentine’s by Holly Jacobs Planning the Eirie Elementary Valentine’s dance is as close as Carly Lewis intends to come to romance. In fact, the once-burned single mom has vowed to stay far away from the flame. Until her shed literally goes up in smoke. And once she meets irresistible Lieutenant Charles Jefferson, that isn’t all that’s […]
218/365 Around Butte
This was taken a little West of Butte, home of Olympic skiers. I used a piece of it for my banner a little while back.
Little Green Men
10 Tbs butter (a stick plus a 2 T) 1 c sugar 1 egg 2 c flour 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 Tbs milk 1 tsp vanilla several drops green food coloring Beat butter, shortening, sugar and egg together one at a time. If you want a solid color, add the food coloring here. Combine flour and baking powder then add them to beaten mixture. Add milk and vanilla. If you want a mottled color, add food coloring here […]
