Teaser Tuesday



Visit Teaser Tuesday to for more book quotes. It's a great way to find some great reads! You can add your teaser, too!Here's my teaser for this week from
The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society by Augusta Trobaugh:

'Something that should remain a secret,' Zion pronounced,

speaking slowly and trying to resist the urge to tell.

In the end, she couldn't keep her mouth shut: 'Well just so you all will know,

he never did appreciate how hard it is to be a preacher's wife....'

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Killer Commute by Marlys Millhiser

 

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This book began as a promising, gentle mystery but suffers because of poor writing and editing. The writing style is distracting and occasionally confusing, however the characters and setting are charming with clever quirkiness. This story could be quite entertaining if handled by more capable hands. I cannot recommend this book and do not plan to read other works by this author.

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Succinctly Yours: Week 10

Five trees in a row near a glistening street

Tower over lovers as they meet.

Join me dear

We will ride

And fly to love's beat.
 

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Flowering

The once empty pots on our deck are now filled with beautiful colors of spring.

 Lantana and Lobelia

 Marigold and a funky little --maybe starlight, snow-something plant

 Coleus, Spring Mix, and Lobelia

 Salvia, Marigolds, and Petunias with my magic fairy wand

Mother's Day Begonia from my DH

We Remember

Yarn Along Wednesday

The Prayer Shawl 2 is coming along nicely in this scrumptious James Brett "Marble" chunky yarn. I've had it on the needles for a while now, but want to get it finished and take it to church. That means I must quit playing with my crazy ghan and stay focused on this! Can I do it?? We shall see!

Killer Commute by Marlys Millhiser is a gentle mystery with quirky humor and an interesting story line. While not a riveting book, it is an OK read. I know, I know...not a ringing endorsement, is it?

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Succinctly Yours - Week 8

If you just get new glasses, Ansel, you won't have to carry that contraption around all the time. The ocean is to your right. So it began.

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Teaser Tuesday + One Day

From The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood:
When I went out to the kitchen to get breakfast Ainsley was there, moping: she said she had been to a bad party the night before. She swore there had been nothing but dentistry students, which depressed her so much she had consoled herself by getting drunk.

What are YOU reading?

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Microfiction: Succinctly Yours

Unheralded work continues at Ground Zero as the world devotes hours of attention to the aquatic burial of the evil master mind. Seek peace.

(Word Of The Week: aquatic)

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Simply Stated Book Review

They Did It with Love by Kate Morgenroth

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The mystery plot was well-developed,though the story line read like an episode from "Desperate Housewives". It is an OK read.

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Chaos!

 When I first saw these knitting dice, I thought that they would be so easy to make with some cubes from the craft store and a Sharpie. As you can see, I eventually did order them via http://www.knitivity.com/diceyKnitting.html.

The kit includes a pattern for a "Chaos Scarf", but I chose to make a square for my crazy afghan. The ivory colored cube is the Master Cube that indicates knit, purl, slip, increase, decrease, or cable/twist. The other cubes are used based on the ivory cube.

Well, you can end up with chaos bordering on disaster, so I occasionally adjusted stitches to avoid extreme ickiness. It is fun to use the dice for a strange, unique variety in knitting! I can imagine doing this with a set of regular dice by assigning specific stitches to the numbers on assorted colors of dice. Fun? Silly? Why, yes it is!
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on disaster

Yarn Along Wednesday

These squares are parts of the crazy ghan that I am knitting. I hope to begin reading Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler tonight. I've enjoyed her work in the past and have read so many positive comments about this one.

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Teaser Tuesday

"He knew that this room—sometimes called the Tank or the Vault—held presidential secrets, national secrets, and pine-box secrets, as in, the kinds of secrets that came with coffins.

But as he stood in the back corner of the small, plain beige room, swaying in place and flicking the tip of his tongue against the back of his front teeth, the archivist with the scratched black reading glasses knew that the most vital thing in the room wasn’t a classified file or a top-secret sheet of paper—it was the polished, rosy-cheeked man who sat alone at the single long table in the center of the room."

from The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer

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Succinctly Yours



"These glasses are perfect for my lop-sided view of life." After treatment for his crab-like walk, Pablo knew that things were looking up.

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Teaser Tuesday ~ Morganroth



"In fact, she didn't love any of the classics. Everyone knew that she preferred the modern serial killer mysteries -- anything that had a string of gruesome deaths and outrageously psychopathic murderers."  page 69

From They Did It With Love by Kate Morganroth

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Succinctly Yours

"She is so brash! Bessie always hogs the camera! What a cow!" said Daisy, not a contented cow. The friendship ended on a sour note.

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Embellishment

Moving along with the crazy knit afghan, I embroidered two neutral colored squares. One has a diagonal pattern while the other is basket weave stitch. With DK weight yarn, I stitched a bit of color along the seam. While I am anxious to see the completed work, I am enjoying the process so much that I may just take my sweet time with this gratifying creation.

Last Leg ~ Santa Fe

During our few days stay in Santa Fe, I made my second visit to the peaceful Georgia O'Keefe museum and gallery. The display consisted of her city scapes and the simple beauty of her surroundings in Abiquiu, New Mexico. The contrast is striking, so much so that I purchased a city scape, a theme that had not previously drawn my interest. The stark beauty caught my eye as well as a print of the above poster displayed at the entrance to the museum. I decided I want to have a portrait of the artist as an elderly woman, though it is made from a photograph. (I just had to evoke "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".)

Because I love the O'K logo, I simply had to buy an earthen ware mug featuring the logo, which is displayed beside a grandly, large O'Keefe poppy in my office. After three wonderful weeks of travel in Arizona and New Mexico, we returned home to Colorado. We are blessed.

Succinctly Yours – Week 4

Our next invention will be a zero gravity folding chair. These canvas & wood ones are shoddy! We'll chat in comfort and appear less grumpy.

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Sumptuous Sedona

 The RV Resort in Sedona was absolutely stunning in its natural beauty with trees and wildlife abounding, clever birdhouses offering shelter

 and fantastic sculpture throughout the park.

Even the strip malls and grocery stores reflect the natural beauty of the surrounding area.

 While enjoying a trolley tour, we saw this multi-million dollar summer home with its own dome and telescope for gazing at the amazing Arizona sky. Note the "cathedral" mountain formation in the distance. Praise God for the beauty of this land.

 These formations are called the "two nuns" on the right and "Madonna and Child" on the left.

A four-hour train trip took us through the inner canyons around Sedona in a 1937 train car

 still sporting the original interior painting. The amazing artistry is something to behold along with the glorious natural beauty outside the windows.

 Here is a section of thousands of years old cave dwellings that have been compressed over time.

 The train is entering a tunnel

with a last glimpse of light before our car entered the darkness within. Along with sight-seeing and shopping, we enjoyed our time among the red rocks of Sedona.