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Sunday Salon – April 12, 2009
April 12, 2009
Good morning to all of you! I hope you had a wonderful week and for those of you who celebrate Easter, I hope you are having a joyous celebration.
(click on photo to enlarge) Raven Update: She is growing by leaps and bounds (I just changed her food to one for large breed [...]
Soup’s On – A Culinary Reading Challenge
April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009
UPDATE April 8, 2009:
I failed badly on completing this challenge – although I have tons of cookbooks and enjoy cooking, I found myself sticking to my old favorites this year due to a busy work schedule and a new puppy. I am still determined to cook from some of [...]
What An Animal Challenge
July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009
UPDATE APRIL 8, 2009 – CHALLENGE COMPLETED!!!
Thanks very much to Kristi for hosting this fun challenge. I found out that I had quite a few books which met the requirements for this one. My favorite read was a tie between: The Mechanics of Falling (a collection of short stories), [...]
Friday Finds – April 3, 2009
April 3, 2009
It has been a few weeks since I have participated in Friday Finds – a weekly event hosted by Jenn at Should Be Reading. This one will be a long post since I’ve been starring blog reviews of books for some time now! To read an Amazon description (or order from Amazon), click [...]
Mailbox Monday – March 30, 2009
It is Monday again and time for Mailbox Mondays – a weekly event hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. To share your book acquisitions this week, visit Marcia’s post for today.
The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris arrived direct from the author. Harris is currently the US Correspondent of the British weekly newspaper [...]
Offshore – Book Review
The barge-dwellers, creatures neither of firm land nor water, would have liked to be more respectable than they were. They aspired towards the Chelsea shore, where, in the early 1960’s, many thousands lived with sensible occupations and adequate amounts of money. But a certain failure, distressing to themselves, to be like other people, caused [...]
Cats + Puppy = Conflict
**All photos are clickable to enjoy a larger view.
Happy cats:
Not so happy cats:
This is BY FAR the most difficult lesson Raven must learn – LEAVE IT! She is about 50% successful with this command. We say “leave it” when she approaches the cats, and half the time she does. The other half the time she [...]
Introducing Raven…
Kip and I had not planned to bring home a new puppy so soon after the loss of Caribou, but fate seemed to intervene and here we are with a new member of the family. No dog can ever replace Caribou, but God gives us room in our hearts to love again.
Raven was born one [...]
Mailbox Monday – March 9, 2009
Visit Marcia at the Printed Page to participate in today’s Mailbox Monday.
Books which arrived free for review from a variety of sources:
Broken Angel by Sigmund Brouwer arrived via a contest through WaterBrook Multnomah’s Library Newsletter. This book deviates from the books I normally read in that it is futuristic with a “post-apocalyptic edge.” [...]
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