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Historical Blog Hop Winners/Other winners & a few pics of Sammy…

December 17, 2012 by Darlene

Good day everyone.  I hope you’re all enjoying your week so far and had a good weekend.  Is everybody ready for Christmas yet?  I’ve got all my shopping done thankfully and now comes the wrapping and the tree isn’t done yet either.  We are very late with that this year!  Anyhow first I’ll share with you the pictures of Sam in the snow.  He just loves playing in it!  Sorry they’re dark but our backyard doesn’t get the sun much in the winter months and if I try to lighten them they don’t look good at all.

 I do love a good snowbank to dig into!

 

Hmmmm, I think I’ll try and climb my way up this good looking snowbank!

 

Ok, here I go…

 

I guess maybe this snowbank was a bit bigger than I thought Mommy!

 

Now for some winners of my regular giveaways:

The Raven’s Heart goes to Mystica

I Am Lucky Bird goes to Margie

The Emperor’s Conspiracy goes to Patricia

 

Now for the Historical Blog Hop Winners:

Temple of a Thousand Faces goes to Julianne D

Second Empress goes to Carl

The Sister Queens goes to Suko

Illuminations goes to Denise K

 

Congrats to you all!  I hope you’ll enjoy your books and thanks to all who entered for the Historical Blog Hop.  It was quite the success!

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Monday Ramblings…

September 24, 2012 by Darlene

Our sweet peas are holding on in this warm weather although they don’t really smell nice anymore.  They’re still pretty though!

 

Happy Monday everyone.  I hope you’re all enjoying what’s remaining of summer.  We sure are here as we’ve been having some beautiful weather for our end of summer enjoyment.  As anyone who has read for my blog for any length of time knows I do not like winter so I’m just hoping that this warm weather will hold out and the ‘s’ word (sssssh – snow – can’t say it too loud) will not even think about showing up until around December.  While I don’t love the fall I do like that it’s a bit cooler out especially for my walks with Sam except that now that he’s cooler when he’s walking he can keep going forever and I can’t.  He’s having his hair cut today so that it grows in some in case the weather changes quickly to cold.  Guaranteed he’s going to be some upset with me by the time he gets home.  I’ll get my camera out and take some pictures when I get him home.  Since Sammy just turned two and I saw that Jenners got herself another puppy I went back to reminisce and look at some old pics of Sammy when he was a baby and I wanted to share…

 

Wow, I can hardly believe he was ever this tiny!!!  He’s 28 lbs now!  Wasn’t he just the cutest!

And here’s my baby two years later.  Still gorgeous as ever.  Sorry for the bad quality of the pic.  I took it off my iPod and should have used my iPhone instead. 

 

For those following along with my dad’s health I want to say thank you so much for your prayers.  I appreciate them so much.  He’s now waiting for a surgery date for a pacemaker.  As both his upper and lower parts of his heart don’t work properly the pacemaker will be attached by wires to both.  I’m really scared about it but I know it’s his only option and I’m more scared of him having a stroke.  I’ll keep everyone posted – he should be going in within the next month, but in the meantime I’d appreciate it if everyone could keep up the prayers. I’d also like to thank those of you who have stuck by my blog while I haven’t been visiting yours or blogging as much as usual.  I appreciate that as well.  I’ve met so many great people since I’ve started this blog four years ago and I’m honored to call many of you friends.  Love you guys!

Again, I’m late with book winners.  I hope to be able to get the blog back on its feet properly after all this with my dad is properly settled.  Until then it may be up in the air.  As a note I’m just sending in the book winners from the last draw – sorry.  Somehow I totally managed to forget about them.  Here are the newest ones…

 

Magic Gone Wild by Judi Fennell — Viki S

Spider Brains by Susan Wingate — Carol from Carol’s Notebook

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer — Lara

The Things I Do For You by Mary Carter — Steph from Steph the Bookworm

One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper — Lisa G

Giving Up The Ghost by Eric Nuzum  — Patricia N

The Trouble With Magic by Patricia Rice — Anita Y

The Kingmaker’s Daughter by Philippa Gregory — Carl and mamabunny13

The Salt God’s Daughter by Ilie Ruby — Ann H

The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau — Beverly S and Anita Y

Written in Ashes by K. Hollan Van Zandt (eBook) — Nan

The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson — Andrew

 

Wow, that is quite the load of winners isn’t it!  That will teach me not to keep up better than I am.  Well congrats to you all and I hope you’ll enjoy your books.  That’s all for me today.  I’ve got a few things that were booked this week so the blog will be a bit busy again.  I hope you all have a great week ahead!

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Sunday Update on Dad and Book Winners

August 26, 2012 by Darlene

Hi you guys!  Long time no see.  Mommy’s been too busy to take pictures but she got this one when I was begging to go outside.  How can you resist this face?  One thing for sure – mommy can’t!

 

Well it’s been a hectic week for me and for those following along with my posts we finally have my Dad back at home.  He’s pretty tired and likely will be until they can go ahead and put a pacemaker in for him.  Because of his past surgery in July they still have to wait for his heart to heal fully before they can go forward.  Last weekend he was having a very hard time breathing and it turned out that he had well over a liter of fluid and blood around his heart.  They drained that and he spent the week in the hospital.  He’ll be seeing his surgeon the first week of September so we should know more then.  I just want to see my dad feeling good again.  Seeing him in the hospital and this sick is pretty scary.  Again those of you who pray I’d appreciate any and all prayers sent up for him.

Other than that there hasn’t been much going on here.  Summer is coming to a close and things are starting to die off already.  We’re in for some hot days this week though so it’s still summer like out there and if not for those awful mosquitoes would probably still be quite enjoyable.  Poor little Sam was sick this past week too.  I think it was the stress of dad being gone and in the hospital and me in and out of the house to see him.  He’s a pretty sensitive puppy so things bother him really easily.  Hopefully things will settle a bit before Dad has to go back in again.

I’ve been doing some reading and listening to some audiobooks.  I hope to catch up on some reviews of them at some point.  It’s been much easier for me to concentrate on audiobooks than actual reading.  When they are well done they can sure take you away from things for a while.  I did finish The Montclair Sisters by Cathy Holton today though and it was fantastic.  I’ll be posting a review this week both on the blog here and on BookTrib.  I really enjoy her books and once again she didn’t disappoint me.  This week will be a slow week and that’s fine for me.  I’m spending most of my time keeping an eye on my dad anyway.

Now for some book winners – as usual I’m a bit behind.  Just as a note if you won a book last time I announced winners I haven’t had a chance to send those in yet and will do so this week.  My dad hadn’t been feeling well for about a week before he went in the hospital and I just didn’t have the chance.  Here’s the winners for the last few weeks…

 

A Girl Like You by Maria Geraci — Michelle James

The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell — Mary from Bookfan, Lisa G, and Tammy J

The Shadow Queen by Rebecca Dean — Patricia N and Kay G

Dance, Gladys, Dance by Cassie Stocks — Cassandra G and Leslie from Under My Apple Tree

The Sisters Montclair by Cathy Holton (very good book!) — jennygirl from Jenny Loves to Read and Carl

Big Sky Mountain by Linda Lael Miller — Ann H

India’s Summer by Therese — Bethie

House of Shadows by Rachel Neumeier — Suz Reads

 

That’s it for today.  I hope you all had a great weekend.  I’m sorry I haven’t been by anyone’s blogs but I hope to this week.  I feel so completely out of touch lately.  Anyhow, have a great week everybody!

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Sammy announces Some Book Winners!

August 14, 2012 by Darlene

 

Good evening everyone!  I’m very behind on book winners this time around.  Things have been a bit hectic around home so I’m trying to keep up but I may slip behind occasionally.  Here are the book winners for the last couple of weeks:

 

Brand New Human Being by Emily Jeanne Miller — Anita Yancey

Son of a Soldier by Aiken Brown — Pamela James

One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf — Patricia N

Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws by Laura Pedersen — Kathy from Bermudaonion

Pride and Pyramids by Amanda Grange — Staci from Life in the Thumb

Passing Love by Jacqueline E. Luckett — Emily D

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson — Carl

Criminal by Karin Slaughter — Carol M and Marie from Daisy’s Book Journal

 

Congrats to all of you!  I hope you’ll enjoy your books and I hope you’re all having a good week!

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Sunday Night Book Winners

July 22, 2012 by Darlene

Hi everyone.  Hope you’ve all had a great weekend and enjoyed some nice weather.  Tonight’s post is going to be short and sweet.  Sammy isn’t feeling the best and I haven’t had the best weekend so I’m not in the greatest mood either.  I’m going to curl up soon with my book and finish watching The Bachelorette.  I’ve got a whole bunch of reviews up this week and my review for Pride and Pyramids is coming on Wednesday.  Sorry it didn’t make it on the blog yesterday but I have finished it and I will say I really loved it so stay tuned for my thoughts this week.  For now, I’ve got some book winners for you…

 

Her Highness, The Traitor by Susan Higginbotham — KayG

Framed by Robin Nolet — Maureen

Gone Missing by Linda Castillo — Bethie

The Playdate by Louise Millar —- Kathy from Bermudaonion, mamabunny, and Carol M

The Red Chamber by Pauline A. Chen — Ann Council

Wicked Nights by Gena Showalter — Marcy Strahan

 

Congrats to all!  Hope you enjoy the books.  Hope you all have a great week ahead!

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Sunday Night Ramblings and Book Winners

July 8, 2012 by Darlene

Good evening everyone.  I hope you all had a great weekend!  It’s been quiet here as Sammy is sick and it’s so hot outside that nobody wants to move anyhow.  On a good note my dad came through his surgery good and is doing well so far.  We’re praying that this new-fangled surgery works because if it doesn’t back he goes for a pacemaker in both the upper and lower parts of his heart and we don’t want that at all!  Poor little Sammy isn’t too happy though – he has tummy troubles and I doubt this heat is helping.  It worries me sick when he doesn’t feel well though so I hope it passes soon.

This week will be busy with book reviews on the blog.  Thankfully the last couple of days I’ve really felt like reading so that helps.  Of course there isn’t much else to do when you’re sitting down in the basement all day with your puppy.  It’s really the only place he’s comfortable because it stays cooler down there and truthfully I don’t mind it either.  Because we have winter for so much of the year most people out here don’t have air conditioners but really we should because we can get some awfully hot weather in the summer.  The only bad thing is when we get hot weather like this we also get tornadoes so I hope that doesn’t happen.  On a  blogging note I sure hope to get to reading your blogs this week.  The last few weeks between worrying about dad and trying to get caught up so I could have posts ready for the week I didn’t pop by anyone’s blog.

Finally, I have some book winners for you tonight.  As a side note I just finally sent in the book winners from the last few weeks so if you haven’t seen your books arrive yet that’s why.  Sorry but I was sidetracked by everything else and quite simply forgot.

 

The Queen’s Vow by C.W. Gortner — Aimee

The Bird Saviors by William J. Cobb —Colleen Turner

The Concubine Saga by Lloyd Lofthouse — Hattie N.

The Last Romanov by Dora Levy Mossanen — Nise

The Secret Keeper by Sandra Byrd — Amanda

Ocean Beach by Wendy Wax — Mary W

 

Congrats to all the book winners and that’s it for this week.  I hope you all have a great week.  Take care everyone!

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