Better Rename This Place…
And call it the Lazy L! I was up half the night, listening to "A Wanted Man" on CD, and didn't even get to this blog until this unGodly hour. It isn't as if I didn't know how the book ends, for Pete's sake, but I just kept putting in another CD and pushing the 'play'...
Sunrise
The sun is just about to peek over the eastern hills, beyond the draw. I love this time of the morning, when things are still quiet. We've got snow, with more predicted, and I imagine the horses are starting to stir around out in the barn, looking for breakfast. Sadie...
Push Up Sleeves Time!
As much as I love holidays, I'm always happy when they're over and life returns to normal--as normal as it ever gets around here, anyway!I'm all fired up to work on the new book in earnest--this is Meg's "kissin' cousin", briefly met at the end of "The McKettrick...
Good-bye 07, Hello 08!
My New Year's Eve went pretty much as I predicted, though I was up at midnight, with the family, watching the famous ball drop in Times Square. I didn't expect to be moved by the sight, but I was. All these people, thousands of them, crowded into a few square blocks,...
My Kind of New Year’s Eve
The quiet kind!Tonight, I'll be dressed for a party--in pajamas. Guests include my dogs and cats. Refreshments: one cup of eggnog. For me, New Year's is a reflective time. I like to think about goals for the coming year, and consider all the blessings and challenges...
Sundays
I don't normally blog on Sundays, as most of you know. Today, though, I received an email from a reader named Shirley. She's thirty, and her husband, Jim, is dying of brain cancer. I was struck to the heart by her bravery--she said she likes to read my blog because it...
Still MORE snow
I guess the charm of all this snow could wear off--sometime. :)For now, it seems magical, maybe because I'm one of those lucky people who don't commute by automobile. Just a hike to the barn, that's all I need to worry about at present.I was keying in some changes to...
The Badge, the Goat, and the Coffee Cup
My good friend, Debbie Macomber, gave me a terrific gift this year--a U.S. Marshal's badge. (My dad was a town marshal--very different from the U.S. variety) I thought it was a very good replica, but I should have known better. When I emailed Deb to thank her for this...
Snow, snow…
And more snow!The draw is beautiful, and the flakes are coming down fast and furious. Larry is feeding the horses this morning, but I'll be slogging out to the barn later in the day. Horse care is hard work sometimes, but it's a chance to be with them, and enjoy their...
The Gift
What do you get for the woman who quite literally has everything? That's a dilemma my friends and family face every year, I think, and may I say, they always do a remarkable job anyhow.This year, I really felt that I'd had all the Christmas anybody could ask for, at...
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas….
Well, the day before, anyhow. :)As I write this, the sun has yet to rise, and my mind is turning toward horse-feeding. The tree is decorated, and there are wrapped presents tucked beneath it--and a few UNwrapped ones, as well, from me to me--a tooled leather make-up...
Tough Enough to Wear Pink
It's Saturday, but here I am. I wanted to tell you about 'pink' night at the National Finals Rodeo. Practically every competitor wore a pink shirt--and one man, the head of Wrangler, actually dyed his mustache pink! One cowboy wore pink chaps (this is pronounced...