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Writerly Wednesday

 What's your go-to word for daydream? Mine's wish.

It's Tuesday

 Greetings Blogger Buds. Did you have a restful weekend? Is your week going well?I've discovered Pumpkin Spice English Muffins. Oh my gosh they are so good. Has anyone else tried them?  AND In the garden.

The mums are  beginning to bloom. 

 Looks like this mum has grown a tail:)

I got a new butterfly bush. It's only supposed to grow to two feet, which is a little bit more dwarfy than I wanted, but I love the color. It's called a blue pugster. 

Anybody know what this guy is?(Besides a spider;) He's hung out there for about a month. Minding his own business.

And last but not least, the Leaf Collector. He collects half the garden in his fur.  This time I found a locust husk, which is much better than the slimy, squishy things he sometimes wears.

Got pumpkin muffins? Colorful spiders? Mums? Butterfly bushes? Leaf Collectors?

Friday's Great Read: WILLOW'S RETREAT

 

WILLOW'S RETREAT is now available.

Three character foodie facts:

1.John will only use honey, preferably locally grown honey in his coffee. 

2.Willow likes spicy foods but didn't learn to cook until she was nearly 40. 

3. Rider has a sweet tooth but because he is health conscious, he doesn't indulge, though there’re two things he can’t resist: homemade chocolate fudge icing and brownies right out of the oven. 

 

 John nodded. “It’ll do. Can I have a cup of coffee? It’ll be nice to drink it without feeling like my heart is going to burst out of my chest.”

Willow fixed them both a cup of coffee, then brought her own meal out on a tray. “How is it?” She asked as he was swirling his bread in the bottom of the bowl, trying to get the last drop.

“If this doctor thing doesn’t work out, you can always get a job as a chef,” he teased.

She laughed. “Since I can cook maybe a dozen things, I think I’d better stick with my day job.”

 Bio:

People have often asked me why I don’t write about my adventures raising six sons. I have to admit that I prefer to write their stories as fiction because no one believes the stuff they put me through if I tell it as fact. In fiction I can clean my boys up a little when I like them and make them the heroes of my stories and if they’ve pissed me off, I can make them the villains. It’s been a running joke around our house that mom will put you in her book and kill you off on page fifty, but some know they’re the smelly corpse discovered in the ditch at the very beginning of the story. Heck, it’s not even a threat anymore. My grandkids are begging to be put in my books and even telling me how I can kill them off. I mean really, where’s the threat in that? We put the fun in dysfunctional, what can I say? I have long conversations with my children and grandchildren about blowing things up and how to get rid of bodies. The holidays are never boring around our house.

Links:

Books2Read: https://books2read.com/u/mgEra7

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099R578N8

 

Website: https://sherrilhollister.com/

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sherri-lupton-hollister

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17367712.Sherri_Lupton_Hollister

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sjlhollisterwriter/

 

 

Did You Know

 Did you know, Ben Franklin bequeathed Philadelphia and Boston $2000 each with the codicil  it was not to be used for a hundred years or distributed for two hundred. The money to be loaned to and invested in  young  tradesmen and apprentices.

*Thanks to EC for today's history trivia.

 

Writerly Wednesday

 I've got two to-go words this week. Instead of synonyms, names popped into my mind. For cantankerous, my character Keeper. For charismatic, Cary Grant. What or who pops for you?
 

It's Tuesday

 How are you, blogger buds? If you're in the states, I trust you enjoyed your Labor Day Weekend.I'm doing a little something different today. Instead of garden flowers, I'm showing garden rocks:) There're a few polished stones mixed in, but mainly these are just river rocks. The blue rocks are glow-in-the-dark aquarium rocks for fish tanks. There were beautiful crystals inside some of the river rock that the camera on my phone just couldn't capture.
 







 

Got rocks?

It's The Weekend

 

Did You Know

 Did you know, Thomas Jefferson had high hopes of bringing political harmony between the Federalists and the Republicans, the two parties of the day. That didn't happen. Politicians seldom even stayed at boarding houses or went to taverns that the other group frequented.

 

Writerly Wednesday

 What's your go-to word for bushed? Mine's whipped.

It's Tuesday

 In The Garden

So, 

I was talking to the granddaughter on the phone. They had recently moved to a different house. I said, "So you've got a greenhouse now."

She paused a moment then I heard her ask her mom, "Do we have a green room?"

😃