BOOK BLURB FRIDAY

Hi, welcome to Book Blurb Friday hosted by Lisa Ricard Claro from Writing in the Buff. She provides a picture and you write a book jacket blurb that will make readers want to pick up this book and start reading it on the way out of the library or store! If you'd like to join in please go

HERE.

The Red Oak Murders

When another body turns up near the small town of Bernell in the wooded Vermont hills, P.I. Kate Wilhelm is called in by her close friend Jen Baker to help run the investigation into the murders of two local townspeople. Jen has been the sheriff of Bernell for three years and has had little experience with murder let alone anything this puzzling. A calling card or trademark is left beside the body...a red flower leaning up against the nearest tree, an oak. Does the type of tree have meaning along with the flower? How are the victims chosen? Is it random or is there a pattern? All this must be taken into consideration when Kate and Jen start the search. Little do they know that the trail will lead them back to their Alma mater, Woodston University and a professor they both love. (145) Title does not count in the word count.

Come on, jump in and start writing blurbs for Book Blurb Friday - it's really fun!

ONE KA-RAZY WEEK

I'm posting this very calming picture of young ladies reading and painting pictures out in the very lovely summer sunshine because, this has been one crazy week already and it is only Tuesday! Tonight I went to what I thought was my Tuesday night Trustee meeting at our church. I realized after walking into the meeting that I was in the Easter Egg Hunt committee meeting! I did sit in on it to see it I could be of any help there - but they seemed to have it well covered.

Just before I left my house to go the the supposed "Trustee meeting" (which, by the way, is NEXT Tuesday!) my good friend, Beverly called to ask if she could bring over the cupcakes she baked for the Lenten Luncheon at our church tomorrow at noon...DUH, I had completely forgotten about the luncheon which I volunteered to work AND make sandwiches for. I had to run to the market, buy the sandwich makings and rush home to make them. I have also been busy getting ready to visit my daughters this weekend when we are planning a "Celebration of my Mother's Life." Jillian has produced a video (which is why we had all the albums out two weeks ago so she could pull out all the pictures she needed for the video) guaranteed she says to have everyone in tears. My Mom liked Elvis Presley and Jillian used Elvis's song "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" for the video. My daughter K. has promised to sing and play guitar of some of Mom's favorite tunes. We are very much looking forward to this family gathering. I hope you will all bear with me this week as I won't be posting very much until early next week.

BOOK BLURB FRIDAY

Hi and welcome to Book Blurb Friday where Lisa Ricard Claro of Writing in the Buff provides a picture and you write a jacket blurb of a fictitious book using the picture as a prompt. Blurb must be 150 words or less. If you would like to join in the fun go HERE. Here is my first attempt:

Ann Best, photographer, has graduated from Seneca School of Photographic Arts and in the morning she leaves for Ireland for the summer. While there, she will be photographing a series of historic sites for National Geographic. She meets her friend Caitlyn at the Airport Gardens Lounge for a bon voyage glass of wine. Caitlyn asks a favor of Ann...would Ann call a mutual friend and ask him to meet them at The Gardens. Ann wonders why Caitlyn doesn't call him herself. Their friend brings several more friends and things later spiral out of control. Ann wakes up not remembering what happened - - or where she is. Her only clue...a blurry picture of a man walking up to the bar, his back to the camera. Will it be enough to help her figure out where she is and how she got here? (142)

SIMPLE PLEASURES

A few weeks ago my daughter, son in law and granddaughter came to spend some time with me here in NJ. During their visit, we pulled out the memories and started going through all the old albums. It was fun going through the old albums and having a good time laughing at some of the good times we remembered and the trips we had taken and how our "look" changed through the years.

It is hard to believe how many pictures and albums we filled over the years. This box was at the back of one of my closets...I really did need to go through them and find a better place to keep them. They are very precious to my whole family. That is why I've picked old pictures as my Simple Pleasures this week.

Dayle at A Collection of This and That sponsors this fun meme every week and if you'd like to stop by and say hi and/or join in you can go HERE.

SIMPLE PLEASURES

I have discovered green tea, especially, "Good Earth" green tea with lemongrass. A friend offered it to me a few months ago when she invited a few friends for dinner. I really liked it and started buying it instead of the black teas I had been enjoying. But what I especially liked was that I can download a FREE SONG to my iPod every time I buy a new box of tea! There is a "secret code" inside the box that is used to access the free download. According to the verbiage on the box, this offer is good until early May, 2011.

I'm joining Dayle for Simple Pleasures today and if you would like to join the fun go HERE.

MICROFICTION MONDAY

I am posting this to Susan's Stony River Farm meme MicroFiction Monday where she posts a picture and you write a story in 140 characters or less. If you would like to join in the fun go HERE. Here is my story:

As he opened the wooden frame, the first thing he saw was the red pouch facing the old photo. His hand shook as it fell into full view.

SIMPLE PLEASURES

I am joining Dayle at A Collection of This and That for her fun meme, Simple Pleasures. I've chosen to spotlight my collection of Mickey Mouse/Disney figurines and other "stuff." Some of these figurines

were picked up the first time I ever went to Disney World back in the 70's and we were living in Florida. Then, over the years, I found all kinds of Mickey and Minnie and other Disney things at garage sales, flea markets, auctions and some were given to me by people who found out I was a collector.

Here is a Little Golden Book entitled Walt Disney's "Disneyland - On the Air."

I love these two figures of an old fashioned Minnie (circa 1928) and a more modern Mickey

These "photos" are actually some very old Disney fabric that a lady at our church (who is an artist) put into frames and were auctioned off at our Spring Tea and Auction Sale to raise money for our young people to go to summer camp. (Guess who won!)

...and here is the man who started it all, Walt Disney. The postcard is titled, "It started with a mouse." Come join us for more Simple Pleasures over at Dayle's A Collection of This and That.