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It’s time to enjoy those great summer days with the kids and with my reading friends. And the Winners Are I usually make you wade though whatever I post here and get to the bottom of the page before I announce the winners, but this time I’m letting you know right off the bat. First place winner is Diana J …
Tomatoes and Butterflies Only a few more days to enter my Celebration Giveaway for my new book, The Innocent. Entries have to be in by midnight EST Saturday night, July 3, 2015. For more details, check it out on my website. I invited those who entered to share a summer story or something they especially love about summer and I’ve …
June 29, 1966. Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County, Kentucky. Oh no!! Look what I spotted in Miss Sally’s garden. If she’s got cabbage about to start making a head, then I’m pretty sure every other member of the Mount Pleasant Church does too. That’s a BIG oh no. I hate cabbage! Who could want to eat that stuff. …
Last week’s Mystery Picture And so we see the rest of the picture. Most of you guessed it right off the bat. Well, you guessed the bee anyway. A few of you didn’t see the daisy but nearly all of you recognized that bee. Sometimes the mystery picture is hard and sometimes not. And the fun part is that different …
Better Late than Never At least that’s what we tell ourselves when we show up late. I’m late with this post and you can maybe see the reason in this picture. The grandkids have been to visit and stay a few days. They can keep this grandmama hopping. They’ve gone home now, but they had lots of fun. Well, this …
June 21, 1966 Jocie Brooke reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Oh gosh, things have been so busy around here. I thought summer was when you could lie back and be lazy. You know, once school was out. But I’ve been spinning like a crazy top trying to do everything. I helped Miss Sally plant some late garden and wash her windows. …
Everybody needs a dad. That somehow is not the same as a father. A father is something we all have. But somehow when you say Dad it changes that father into someone you can run to when you skin your knee or when you need your bike handlebars tightened or to give you a boost up into a tree. Or …
The Winner of the First Book is… And my first blog book giveaway winner is Alla. I’ll be in touch via e-mail, Alla. Flower #2 You all were too good at the first game. You’re either lucky guessers or you paid attention on my Facebook page. If that’s it, you’d play a mean game of Concentration. Wasn’t there a game …
June 15, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Well, actually I’m reporting from the swimming hole out in the county. A lake swimming hole. A beautiful place to swim and now that school is officially out – Yay!! – I can go swimming there with a couple of girls from church. Their grandparents own a house alongside the …
Flower 1 Flower 2 Flower 3 The Innocent is Ready for Readers The Innocent is going out to readers. The internet …