Anna Patterson's Blog, page 162
April 20, 2013
April 17, 2013
Celebrating a Western Summer
Hi Ya'll!
It's Summer, FINALLY here and we are celebrating it.
Lots of neat things going on. We are part of the April in Bloom Author's Hop, and you can find out something about gardening tips and cooking on all of the sites until Saturday.
So follow the links.
Thanks for stopping by.
About this Video: I don't know if you have ever been a part of the Western Square Dancing, but I love it. The Western I wrote shows my love of all things Western, but has a touch of my recent fascination with the genre Steampunk. It is a simple little book, but I hope you enjoy its efforts.
So welcome and have a great time!
Celebrating release of Steampunk Book
This is a Steampunk Western, illustrated, and we are celebrating its recent release!
http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Lily-Stowaway-Engine-ebook/d
This is a Steampunk Western Romance Yarn for General Audience. In color, illustrated.
Excerpts: So they went out to the barn and saddled up their horses and raced like children after they closed the barn door. She put the horse to its paces, kicking it slightly, with a tight and expert hold on the reins. He admired her and her tight fit to a horse and her blowing hair beneath her cow girl hat.
He followed her, but didn't want to outride her. The whole point of this day was to enjoy this time with her, and he planned to. So they rode into the hills, all fleshed out with new growth of sapling pine, and green grass and bushes here and there, but perfect for a ride up into those lovely hills with a backdrop of clouds low hanging and moist and blue with rain.p/B00BO83WHA
April 16, 2013
Bad and wicked weather hasn't helped
Preparing for Spring
Dear friends:
I guess I was rushing summer. At the first hint of Spring, I just wanted to go outdoors and stay there. For a while we had such activity going on. WE had the yard mowed for the first time this year.
I had a lovely rose bush which had been transplanted last year and so with this horribly wicked weather I was covering it up with a bit of plastic, and every morning it seemed the wind would knock part of it off.
I found myself getting more and more the inventor since I tried different methods to keep this from blowing off and exposing this beautiful fragile bush to the freezing temperatures this year.
Over and over I added things, boards, etc, to part of the plastic, and stones of various sizes at the bottom and after a while I am sure neighbors probably wondered if I was trying to build a temporary greenhouse because of all the lumber sprouting out all over it.
Nonetheless, I found myself defeated yet again and went out in quite a huff to see how on earth my weather tent blew off this time only to find a rather large and obvious stray cat (wild as any wild cat I have ever seen in the wilds) and it jumped out of what was left of the tent and made off up the street.
My husband and I have laughed at this contest of wills I had with the cat, and the rose bush survived my efforts and the cat taking up residence for a time beneath its branches.
Spring came, the cat went on down the street or somewhere to live, I haven't seen it back, and I hope it found a better home.
So now this rose bush has buds on it, and I have hopes of warm weather, and an end to this stormy weather we have been having.
Hope you are having a wonderful time during this hint of Spring and Summer!
April 11, 2013
having trouble with this blog site. Trying to fix this.
having trouble with this blog site. Trying to fix this.
Storm a problem here
We had a storm here the last few days and it seems to be giving us trouble on this site.
Repairman can't come until tomorrow. But we are trying to get it back on line.
Repairman can't come until tomorrow. But we are trying to get it back on line.
April 9, 2013
Blog Party Events
We are participating in this!Sweet Pea's Chatterhouse is a participant in the Authors in Bloom Blog Party starting April 10 and running for ten days.
Sweet Pea's will in a random drawing choose the winner of a $10 Gift Certificate for Amazon.com.
Visitors:
Please leave comments. As part of giveaways, comments will be sifted through on each site and a random winner chosen via rafflecopter!
We are pleased to announce we have a new Steampunk Book out at Amazon.com and want to call your attention to this now.
Check out the authors in this blog. We are sharing gardening tips and recipes all during the blog hop.
Thanks for stopping by here!
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