My Most Recent Blog Posts

Today I'm blogging over at Seekerville with Show Not Tell tips for writers, if you wanted to stop on by and see the REALLY long post I had. Geez, I'm wordy, LOL.

 Here's an excerpt:

Last night we had a bunch of friends over and had what I think was the perfect summer barbecue. It almost didn't happen--lots of things going wrong; one of those Murphy's Law days. The lawnmower refused to start (and our grass was like knee-high, LOL). DH went and got gas.

That wasn't it.

Went and got new spark plugs.

That wasn't it.

I have a new all-time favorite drink. The other day, I was at Red Robin, I had something similar to the following, and it was SO SO SO GOOD, I wanted to make the same thing at home. At the restaurant, they offer it in both an alcoholic and non-alcoholic version (and I've made it at home both ways). It's great either way:

You're addicted to a show called Farmer Wants a Wife on Wednesday nights, and watching a potential bachelorette being eliminated by sticking her hand up the rear end of a cow to see if it's pregnant or not. The non-pregnant cow is the one who sends the loser home.

Over on the Harlequin Wedding Planners Blog, my friend Diane McDilda, author of the Everything Green Living Book, has an awesome column today about green weddings. How cool is that? Saving the environment while you're getting married!!

Meet the newest member of our family! This is Sophie, a 12-week-old Havense (a type of Bichon, native to Cuba (in fact, the only breed native to that country), who joined our family on Saturday. DH and I went in to look at a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and I was under strict orders to JUST LOOK.

A two-fer blog post today!