I hope you all had a delightful Fourth of July last weekend and celebrated our country’s 250th birthday of Independence. Ours was quiet. “Fires” are in the air. We saw smoke the other day and heard the helicopters circling. There is a small lake near...
I’m closing down the survey at the end of the weekend so I can send the results to my publisher. If you want a chance to have your say, then please go over to the Google Form to vote. I will be drawing the winning name (randomly) Monday morning, July...
One of Andi’s fans, Julia, created this fun personality quiz for other Circle C fans back in June 2016. I found it when I was going through the old blog posts (on Blogger) and deciding which ones to keep and repost and which ones to delete. This one...
Many of you are no doubt heading out for this very special 250th Anniversary Fourth of July weekend, but Mr. M and I are not. No, sirree! (like Andi would say). We are sitting in the quiet Ponderosa pine forests of the Okanogan Highlands, enjoying th...
🎆Happy Fourth of July!🎇Many of you are no doubt heading out for this very special 250th Anniversary Fourth of July weekend, but Mr. M and I are not. No, sirree! (like Andi would say). We are sitting in the quiet Ponderosa pine forests of the Okanog...
Yeah, sorry but the name contest was cut a little short. If you didn’t get a chance to suggest a name, this is what happens when you wait until the last minute to submit anything around here. LOL Why? Because I received 87 suggestions and Kristel was...
It’s fun when Kristel sends videos. Here is one I put together of the colt’s first day outside with Mama Jewels. She is so proud of her boy! Her tail is flagging and she trots right by last year’s foals (who are now yearlings: Knightley and Trissy)....
Jewels foaled last night (June 26, 2026) and gave us a beautiful . . . COLT. We are laughing with embarrassment because the “nail” trick did not prove true, after all. It was accurate every time, and I admit, even I saw it go ’round and ’round last s...
Jewels is in active labor since this morning. I’m guessing a foal by tomorrow morning! I’ll send pictures and videos and I’ll start the foal naming contest! While I am waiting around, I came up with yet another Trouble in Tacoma book cover. (Well, ac...
Greetings!I'm so glad summer is here. My garden is growing! My corn is up! So are my beans, carrots, cilantro, potatoes, and onions. Yippee! They didn't freeze. And I'm trying an experiment this year. SWEET POTATOES! I love sweet potato fries and wan...
🔎 Do You See My Writing Books in the Corner?👆There they are: my two writing workbooks . . . peeking out of the corner on the left-hand side of this image. Bear with me, friends, because I'm in way "over my head."My digital study guides and lapbooks...
I wanted to start out with our Bible verse for the month of June. I love this verse, and I learned it long ago in a . . . song. Scripture songs are absolutely the very best way to memorize Scripture. Sometimes the words differ a bit from the translat...
FLASH FICTION (and) LOOK-A-LIKE CONTESTNothing's ever easy! If you will believe this, most of the responses to the Contest Survey a couple weeks ago ended up with voting straight down the middle (like 50% vs. 46%) for every question I asked except on...
