Winners are Rebecca Hicks and Darlene Uhlenkutt--send your snail mail addresses to [email protected]. Everybody else--new question tomorrow.  🙂

I'm working today--glory hallelujah!  I celebrated New Year's Day by puttering, practicing my sketching, thinking about my work-in-progress, "Big Sky River", and sticking to my new food plan.  🙂  I'm not much for parties, especially the kinds that include paper hats...

Today is a day for looking back--and looking forward, here in Linda-world, at least. I accomplished two things in 2012 that really please me--1) I listened to the entire Bible, day by day, at DailyAudioBible.com.  And I'm eager to start all over again tomorrow.  🙂 ...

Happy Birthday, Chyanne Lael! 🙂  This cowgirl is plum wore out, as the old-timers would say. We've got snow aplenty out here in the country, and it's beautiful.  Always good writing weather.  And good soup weather, too.  I've been meaning to unpack my Vitamix and...

That's how Christmas was for me.  A bunch of us gathered out at the lake house, and Wendy and Jeremy threw an amazing celebration--including an indoor movie shown on their projector gizmo Christmas Eve--what a kick.  It was like being in a theater--at HOME!  Bernice...

As this sacred holiday approaches, I think more and more about the many blessings in my life--and you, my blogging buddies, are high on the list. I'm headed out to spend Christmas with my daughter, Wendy, and Jeremy.  Bernice is moping around--she doesn't understand...

How I love this holiday, crazy-making though it can sometimes be.  🙂 I've been in low gear all week--tired from the whirlwind trip to Vegas--but I'm sure glad I got to go.  Equally glad to be back home, of course.  I'm something of a homebody, much as I love to...

Lovely, busy, hectic Christmas!  My favorite--and most exhausting--holiday of them all.  🙂  The tree is up and shining brightly, and most of the packages are wrapped.  I can't take credit beyond choosing and buying the gifts, however--I am a lucky woman, because I...

You've each won a $100 Visa gift card, and your prizes will be sent out as soon as you shoot your snail mail addresses to [email protected]. Congratulations!!! Since I have internet again--obviously--I will continue my tales of the rodeo. Wednesday, which happened to be...

My internet service was down all of today--real blog tomorrow.

First, I must mention the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Connecticut.  My heart is broken for all concerned, and my prayers are with the victims and their families and friends.  May God's infinite Love and Grace sustain all of us as we grieve together. ...

Well, it's been crazy busy around here, and that's why the blog has been a big sketchy lately.  This is the day!  In a few hours, I leave for the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, and I'm VERY excited--it's always fun to watch all those cowboys walking away, if you...