Black Friday Do's and Don'ts
Do sleep in your clothes. This enables you to roll out of bed brush your teeth and run out the door. Brushing your hair and putting on clean underwear is optional!Don't Sleep. Why bother what is three hours of sleep anyways!Do set your alarm clock if you decide to sleep for a couple of hours.Don't depend on your rooster to wake you because you will be up before the crack of dawn. This will cause mayhem in the chicken coop when they hear you leave before the first crow, but they need to understand the early bird gets the worm!Do Know your store and it's floor plan. The electronics department and toy department are

Coming up for air
It has been an interesting eighteen days of writing participating in nanowrimo. I am amazed at how anyone can write,manage a family, work,blog and everything in between. What an eye opening experience, but in the end it will be worth it. I am now 27000 words into my story, and the characters have been taking shape and developing right before my eyes. Some days I felt stuck in the mud struggling to get out. Other days I was a crazy, lean, mean typing machine...and I ended up with writers cramp! The productive days is where I can see a scene in my head, and I work hard to get my characters to that point I envision for them. It has been challenging because I'm not to sure where I am going with

Garden chat time with Tina...Kerri's sister that is.
Leaf Me AloneI see leaves dancing across the street, inhale the sweet smell of fall and can instantly time travel to my childhood. You see, my sister Kerri and I lived in a typical New England small town called Lincoln just a sneeze from the Massachusetts border. In a small child’s opinion, we had one of the best yards in the neighborhood with a forest of mature, deciduous trees and a few evergreens sprinkled in for good ecology purposes. Unfortunately for us though our dad Louie, like most dads, did not embrace the crunching of leaves beneath his feet in the fall or enjoy pretending he was an acrobat by running full speed into a freshly constructed pile of leaves. Needless

Busy Busy!
For the month of November my schedule will be as follows.....Get kids ready for school and send them on the busTake care of the farmwriteHave breakfast and drink coffeewrite some mored

November Update
Look at my awkward little silkie chicks! They are at the half fluff/half feathers I like to call teenage years stage. They are about two weeks old, and have doubled in size. We are taking bets on who is a roo and who will be a hen. We like to try to guess to see if we see a link between behavior and