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July 31, 2024
Thursday Doors: Open and Shut
#ThursdayDoors #writingprompt And now, back to our regularly scheduled nonsense. I hope you enjoyed Teagan’s Christmas in July. Whether you did or not, I enjoyed it, and it’s my blog, so…. ANYWAY, I’ve been snapping doors as I could get to them, and here are…
Christmas In July Day 31: Midwinter
#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: What is midwinter like where you live? MA
July 30, 2024
Christmas In July Day 30: Nutty As A What?
#ChristmasInJuly #recipe #fruitcake #writingprompt Originally posted in December 2010. I made fruitcake yesterday. Awright, awright, pipe down, nobody’s going to make you eat any of it. In fact, good luck wrestling any away from us. We all love fruitcake in my family, and I don’t…
July 29, 2024
Christmas In July Day 29: Solstice
#ChristmasInJuly #solstice #wintersolstice Christmas Songsby Gerta Kennedy Bring every childbring each branch and stembent, beautiful, or wild; bring each thirsty faceand every beast and birdbeyond the holy wordthat our ladyof the snows,lady of blue and of the rosemay affirmearth’s whole grace.Her embroidered hemas she passeswill…
July 28, 2024
Christmas In July, Holly Edition, Day 28, Part 4
blog hop to serialize one of the first Holly stories. This was published in an anthology still available on Amazon, and free on Kindle. LET IT SNOW! SEASON’S READINGS FOR A SUPER-COOL YULE! The Pratty Who Saved Christmuss, Part the Fourth Click here for part…
July 27, 2024
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July 25, 2024
Christmas In July Day 25, Thursday Doors Edition: Tybee Island
#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt #TybeeIsland Originally posted in 2016. My friends and I were crazy about The Crab Shack, but we met some folks while we were out walking who sneered at the very idea of The Crab Shack. The best place for seafood on Tybee Island,…
July 24, 2024
Christmas In July Day 24: A Wonderful Santa
#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt Originally posted in December 2018. One of the Lonnie and Tiny stories in my collection, LONNIE, ME, AND…. is about the Christmas decoration Lonnie bought for his wife. It’s huge, and he needs Tiny to help him install it on the roof. Leona’s…
July 23, 2024
Christmas In July Day 23: Happy Hanukkah
#ChristmasInJuly #recipe #food #latkes #writingprompt Originally posted in December 2010. Please don’t tell me I spelled this wrong. There are so many ways to spell Hanukkah, I couldn’t list them all without running out of letters. I’m not Jewish, but who can resist a holiday…
