Daydreams

 My crazy mismatched "Autumn Foliage" socks. : P I can't wait for cooler weather! It hardly seems possible that July is almost over! The summer seems to have flown by so quickly! In a way, it's rather sad that summer is almost half over, but I don't really mind since I love all the seasons in turn, especially fall. I've been thinking a great deal about fall lately, and I really am looking forward to apples and pumpkins and cooler...

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Period Drama Quotes Quiz Answers!

Here are the answers to last weeks' game! Thank you so much to everyone who played! : )                                                            #1  Miss...

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Hidden Places by Lynn Austin

Fragrant blossoms heralded spring, but the orchard was also a place of secrets, or heartaches....  A deep yearning for home had led Eliza to Wyatt Orchards ten years ago. Now widowed with three young children, she faces mounting debts and the realization it is all up to her. But she has no idea how she will run an orchard alone. When a stranger appears at her doorstep, Eliza guesses he is no different than the other out-of-luck characters...

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Period Drama Quotes Quiz

 I've decided to try a game this week! Below are 12 quotes from 12 different period dramas. Leave your guesses in a comment and I will respond with your score. 5 points will be rewarded for each correctly guessed period drama and 5 points for guessing the character who says the line, and if there are two characters in question, 10 points will be rewarded for naming them both. A total of 145 points can be earned. I will post the answers...

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A Beautiful Day for Photography!

Guess what, everyone....I finally bought a camera! : ) Actually, Sadie and I pooled our resources and bought it together, but I really don't mind sharing in the least. Anyway, ever since we got it almost a week ago we've been taking lots of pictures and several silly videos of our animal friends ( someday I ought to introduce them to y'all, they're really quite fun.) : P Yesterday was such a beautiful day and so I took some pictures outside that...

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True Grit (2010): A Review

   People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old-girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces...

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