INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5021,1,'2014-08-13 06:00:51','2014-08-13 11:00:51','<a href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/procrastination\" target=\"_blank\">Procrastination</a> is the act or habit of putting off or delaying something. A clever enemy of everyone, not just writers.\n\nI\'m not sure whether procrastination is a deliberate act or subconscious, but, according to Wayne Dyer, \"<em>Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.</em>\"\n\nAuthor of <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936891026/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hotoenyojo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1936891026\" target=\"_blank\">The War of Art</a>, Steven Pressfield, calls procrastination a form of resistance. He believes creative types face lots of resistance and offers inspiration to overcome that resistance. Words from his little book have gotten me over more than one bumpy writing slowdown.\n\nI believe his idea of overcoming resistance applies to everyone plagued by the habit of procrastination.\n\nEven if you\'re not be a writer, procrastination can hold you back and prevent you from doing something you should be doing.\n\nGoethe said, “<em>Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now.</em>”\n\nWriting is hard  and solitary. Those two truths stall many writers. Procrastination wins.\n\nI refuse to let procrastination to win. I get up every morning, put my butt in the chair, and W-R-I-T-E.\n\nNote, I didn’t say when I feel like writing or whether I think what I write is worthy of a Pulitzer. I sit at the computer and write. EVERY DAY.\n\nDoes procrastination stall your dream?\n\nI suggest following Franklin D. Roosevelt’s advice so beautifully depicted in <a href=\"http://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Edie Melson’s</a> graphic?\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/photo-29.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5024 size-large\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/photo-29.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"photo-29\" width=\"500\" height=\"748\" /></a>','Procrastination - One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','procrastination-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-08-13 06:00:51','2014-08-13 11:00:51','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5021',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5031,1,'2014-08-20 06:00:00','2014-08-20 11:00:00','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/phobiaimages.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5034\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/phobiaimages.jpg\" alt=\"phobiaimages\" width=\"211\" height=\"239\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/phobias/basics/definition/con-20023478\" target=\"_blank\">An overwhelming and unreasonable fear </a>of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance.\n\nUnlike the brief anxiety we all feel when faced with giving a speech or taking a test, true phobias causes intense physical and psychological reactions that affect your ability to function normally.\n\nPhobias are common. We all have a fear of something in varying degrees. Hopefully not too many are debilitating.\n\nMy phobia is claustrophobia. Not too bad, but you’ll not find me under houses or in rooms without windows or doors for very long. =)\n\nMostly, the names of phobias fascinate me. The list is long. You can check it out <a href=\"http://phobialist.com/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\n<em>Ablutophobia</em>- Fear of washing or bathing.\n\n<em>Coimetrophobia</em>- Fear of cemeteries.\n\n<em>Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia</em>- Fear of the number 666. (Try to pronounce that one!)\n\nMy favorite has to be <em>Phobophobia</em>- Fear of phobias.\n\nJust joking. I do recognize that phobias are real.\n\nFor instance, <em>ASTRAPHOBIA</em>- fear of lightning and thunder.\n\nOur little Buster suffers from this. He looks pretty relaxed, but let a storm come through and that changes.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/buster-resting.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5036\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/buster-resting.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"buster resting\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" /></a>\n\nIt is a phobia shared by many dogs according to the <a href=\"http://www.iowavma.org/?180\">Iowa Veterinary Medical Association</a>.\n\n<em>Behaviorists are not yet sure what part of the storm frightens dogs most, whether they’re reacting to lightning flashes, the sound of thunder, wind blowing around the house, or the sound of rain on the roof. Some dogs even start to pace and whine half an hour or more before a storm. They may be reacting to a sudden drop in air pressure or the electrical charge of the air. </em>\n\nA very clever entrepreneur invented a thing called a thundershirt to relieve the animals’ suffering. An ingenious marketing technique to name the cure after the cause, don’t you think?\n\nWe haven’t tried the product with Buster through the shirt has been proven to work for many animals.\n\nI’m Buster’s thundershirt.\n\nWhenever a storm is coming, Buster moves from his place approximately four feet away next to my desk, which puts him within a short jump to my lap.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/buster-by-desk.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5037\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/buster-by-desk.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"Buster by desk\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nThe first clap of thunder he jumps up and cuddles in my lap. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/buster-on-my-knee.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5038\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/buster-on-my-knee.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"Buster on my knee\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIt works for him and, fortunately, since he’s so small I can still keep working.\n\nPlus these mountain thunderstorms drop the temperature at least ten degrees and I get a chill. Buster is like an electric blanket on my lap.\n\nDo you or your pet have a phobia? How do you cope?','PHOBIA - One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','phobia-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-08-20 06:00:00','2014-08-20 11:00:00','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5031',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5042,1,'2014-08-25 06:00:31','2014-08-25 11:00:31','<p>My internal body clock is set for early morning wakeups. Time zones don’t matter. With or without an alarm, I’m up and moving before the sun crests the horizon.</p><p>For me, it’s not a problem. I love getting up at the crack of dawn and walking the dogs in the still of daybreak.</p><p>Living in suburban Houston, I didn’t worry about walking in the dark. Streetlights lit my way.</p><p>Now that I live in the forest in a state that supports a <em>night sky</em> (meaning streetlights are limited and rare), walking in the dark is a different story. Too many critters like the twilight hours for their prowling.</p><p>So before I leave the house, I check on <a href=\"http://www.weather.com/\" target=\"_blank\">weather.com</a> for local sunrise time and start walking about ten minutes before or just as the sky begins to lighten.</p><p>On a recent walk, I spotted sure signs that summer is ending and fall is in the air.</p><p><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fall-shadows.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5046 size-medium\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fall-shadows.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"fall shadows\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>First, shadows are changing. You can see what I mean in this photo.</p><p>Another clue—temperatures are dropping. This morning it was 42 degrees. The scent of wood burning in fireplaces hovered around some cabins.</p><p>For those of you facing triple digit highs, I’m sure that sounds heavenly. Truthfully, it was chilly. I was thankful for my gloves and hooded jacket.</p><p>Another hint is our shrinking population. South Fork is a summer tourist town. Our numbers swell from three hundred year round to 3,000-4,000 during May, June, July and August. RV parks are emptying. Shutters cover windows of summer cabins. The exodus has begun. Summer folk are heading home.</p><p>The absolute confirmation that winter is heading our way is found in the Aspens along our walking route.</p><p><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/aspen-w-gold-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5047 size-medium\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/aspen-w-gold-1.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Aspen w gold.1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/aspen-w-gold-2.jpg\"><br /> </a><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/aspen-w-gold-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5048 size-medium\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/aspen-w-gold-2.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"aspen w gold.2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a></p><p>Yep. That’s yellow among the green. The Aspens are turning.</p><p>Fall is on the way, which means wildlife is on the move scavenging for food.</p><p>Bears have started their annual bulk up for hibernation and need 12,000 calories a day. That means lots of overturned trash and destroyed barbeque grills. Time to seriously heed the signs posted all along our walk.</p><p><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/feeding-signs1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5053 size-full\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/feeding-signs1.jpg\" alt=\"feeding signs\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>','Seasons - They are changing','','publish','open','open','','seasons-they-are-changing','','','2014-08-25 06:00:31','2014-08-25 11:00:31','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5042',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5057,1,'2014-08-27 06:00:00','2014-08-27 11:00:00','I seem to be stuck on words that begin with the letter <em>P</em> this month. Not on purpose. Oops another <em>P </em>word.\n\nThere\'s a reason PERFECTIONISM is today\'s word.\n\nAs I rewrote the beginning sentence of my WIP (work in progress) for the jillionth time, I realized that I was striving for the perfect opening hook and not moving on with the story.\n\nThat led me to thinking about how the need for perfection can stymie all of us.\n\nThe dictionary defines PERFECTION two ways:\n<ol>\n	<li>a quality, trait, or feature of the highest degree of excellence</li>\n	<li>the highest degree of proficiency, skill, or excellence, as in some art</li>\n</ol>\nCreating something that is perfect is not a bad goal -- until that need leads to <strong><em>perfectionism</em></strong> where you regard anything short of perfection as unacceptable.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/istock_000021270771small.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5065\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/istock_000021270771small.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"iStock_000021270771Small\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" /></a>Why is perfectionism bad?</p>\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/perfectionism\" target=\"_blank\">Psychologytoday.com</a>, perfectionists regard life as an endless report card on accomplishments or looks, which is a fast track to unhappiness, depression, and eating disorders.\n\nPerfectionists focus on avoiding failure and miss all the joy of learning from mistakes.\n\nIt’s easy to slip into the perfection trap. I did.\n\nMy fear of a lengthy revision letter from my editor brought out a desire to produce a perfect opening. In reality, all I ended up doing was road blocking myself.\n\nIf you’re worried you might be slipping into the perfection trap, <a href=\"http://psychologytoday.tests.psychtests.com/take_test.php?idRegTest=3262\" target=\"_blank\">here’s</a> an on-line test.\n\nTo overcome a tendency toward perfection, I’ve found a Hemingway quote as a reminder for those times when I start down the slippery slope of perfectionism.\n\nSince we\'re all apprentices in one way or another, maybe the quote will work for you, too.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5059\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"200\"]<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/hemingway.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-5059 size-medium\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/hemingway.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"hemingway\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /></a> SOURCE: http://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/ Thank you, <a href=\"ediemelson.com\" target=\"_blank\">Edie Melson</a>[/caption]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','PERFECTIONISM - One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','perfectionism-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-08-27 06:00:00','2014-08-27 11:00:00','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5057',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5069,1,'2014-09-01 06:00:31','2014-09-01 11:00:31','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/naming.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5075\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/naming.jpg?w=287\" alt=\"Naming\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" /></a>A person’s name has power and all sorts of things should be considered when naming a child, a pet, or a character in a book.\n\nBut choosing the perfect name isn’t easy.\n\nAfter three children, eight dogs, and multiple characters in my novels, I should know.\n\nBack when my husband and I were choosing children’s names, we didn’t have an option to know the sex. You had to come up with a male and a female name. It took us the full nine months during each pregnancy.\n\nIn fact, when our second child came early, we really had no names picked out and it looked like he’d go home from the hospital as <em>Baby Boy</em>.\n\nTotally not acceptable.\n\nWe finally agreed on his daddy’s name and his great-granddaddy’s for a middle name. Ultimately, we used the initials to avoid the confusion of two people with the same name.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/tobypuppy2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5076\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/tobypuppy2.jpg?w=105\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" /></a>Coming up with pet names was relatively easy.\n\nWe chose the common names like Lucky and Buster. Our Old English sheepdogs we gave Biblical names: Obadiah, Micah, Rhinestone, and Tobias.\n\nOkay, Rhinestone isn’t in the Bible, but Tobias comes from the Old Testament. Rhinestone was our rescue OES and came with her name. We didn\'t want to cause her more stress by changing her name to Esther.\n\nNaming characters for the stories I write isn’t much easier than naming children or dogs.\n\nSometimes authors use A &amp; B for their character names and fill-in names later using the search and replace function in their word processor. Others change their character’s names during the editing stage.\n\nI can’t do that. I name  my characters before I write a single word. Their names give them personalities, and they become bona fide people to me.\n\nThere are all sorts of things to consider when naming a child. Here’s <a href=\"http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/132293/25_rules_of_baby_naming\" target=\"_blank\">a list of twenty-five</a> in case you\'re interested.\n\nThere are also guidelines for naming pets. Check <a href=\"http://www.bowwow.com.au/find-a-name-for-your-pet/naming-tips.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nI use many of those rules when naming my book characters. Chiefly, I consider these questions.\n<ul>\n	<li>Is the name easily pronounceable or sounded out without difficulty?</li>\n	<li>Do the first name and surname sound good together?</li>\n	<li>Do the names start with the same letter or sound similar? (It may be clever in a family setting to have all the kids names begin with the same letter, but similar sounding names can lead to confusion for readers.)</li>\n</ul>\nWhen I\'m coming up with names, I also\n<ul>\n	<li>Consider the number of syllables and vary the number in each characters’ names.</li>\n	<li>Choose names appropriate for the story setting, era, and genre.</li>\n	<li>Avoid names of friends and family members.</li>\n	<li>Make the name fit the story and the personality of the character.</li>\n</ul>\nFinding the perfect name is not easy. I have been known to change a character\'s name, but not often. Once in book sequel, I killed off a character because I no longer liked her name. It\'s one of the perks of being a writer. I get to kill off people. :-)\n\nHow\'d you come up with the name you chose for you child, pet or character in your book? Any hints you’d like to offer on choosing names?','Naming Children, Pets, and Characters','','publish','open','open','','naming-children-pets-and-characters','','','2014-09-01 06:00:31','2014-09-01 11:00:31','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5069',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5086,1,'2014-09-03 06:00:54','2014-09-03 11:00:54','In case you don\'t know what perseverance is, it\'s the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, discouragement, obstacles, or opposition.\n\nPerseverance is a tenacious trait unlike <a href=\"https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/perfectionism-one-word-wednesday/\" target=\"_blank\">perfectionism</a>, which we looked at last week. One is an obstacle to progress. The other leads to success.\n\nI believe perseverance can override perfectionism.\n\nSo does <a href=\"http://holleygerth.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Gerth</a>. She says so in this lovely graphic.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/blue-background-by-rosaura-ochoa-and-quote-by-holley-gerth-294x300.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5087 size-full\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/blue-background-by-rosaura-ochoa-and-quote-by-holley-gerth-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue-Background-by-Rosaura-Ochoa-and-Quote-by-Holley-Gerth-294x300\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nIf those words aren\'t motivation enough to be persistent and persevere,   check out these links to see how perseverance can actually work.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.growthink.com/content/7-entrepreneurs-whose-perseverance-will-inspire-you\" target=\"_blank\"> 7 Entrepreneurs Whose Perseverance Will Inspire You</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://myventurepad.com/budbilanich/34399/50-famous-people-who-failed-their-first-attempt-career-success\" target=\"_blank\">50 Famous People Who Failed at Their First Attempt at Career Success</a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Perseverance – One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','perseverance-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-09-03 06:00:54','2014-09-03 11:00:54','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5086',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5098,1,'2014-08-29 06:00:14','2014-08-29 11:00:14','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThis is the season of change.  Kids go back to school, husband goes back to work, and my piano students start back up.\n\nIt can be a very stressful time for those who don’t like change.\n\nOne year when I was teaching preschool, we got a new director. One of the first things she did was have us all read the book <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Moved-Cheese-Spencer-Johnson-M-D/dp/0743582853\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Who Moved My Cheese?</em></a> By Spencer Johnson, M.D. It talks about change.\n\nWhen they rearranged my grocery store, I told Beekeeper Brian they were “moving my cheese.” One morning someone parked in my normal spot at the swimming pool, and my friend said “So they moved your cheese.”\n\nSome people, me included, do not like to have our cheese moved.\n\nI’ve discovered that humans are not the only ones who have trouble handling change.  Our dogs are pretty set in their routine.\n\nI usually put their kennels in the living room where they sleep and then I let them go outside while I go to close up the chickens. When we come in, I take down the gate between the kitchen and the living room and they go straight to their kennels.\n\nOne day last week, I took down the gate before I went to let out the chickens. Sometimes stepping over it in the evening is too daunting a task.\n\nThis was very confusing for Bella.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/bellas-cheese.png\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5099 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/bellas-cheese.png?w=300\" alt=\"bella\'s cheese\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a> She ran straight to where her kennel normally is and walked around in circles. Then she went to look for it.\n\nI had a very hard time getting her to go outside first. Finally we got everyone settled for the night.\n\nThe good thing about Bella is that she has a very short memory so there is no danger of her being permanently traumatized by the temporary change in routine.\n\nI’m not taking any chances, though.  No more moving Bella’s cheese.','Moving Cheese - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','moving-cheese-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-08-29 06:00:14','2014-08-29 11:00:14','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5098',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5102,1,'2014-09-05 06:00:15','2014-09-05 11:00:15','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThe internet is a fascinating phenomenon.  It has made famous things that would have been ordinary at best.  For example, there is a whole website devoted to <a href=\"http://www.grumpycats.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Grumpy Cat</a>.\n\nNow I confess I am not much of a cat person so I fail to see the fascination with this. However, it has made me think.\n\nWe have a hen that is particularly disagreeable.  She sits in the nest box all the time and when I go to collect eggs, she bites me.\n\nWhen Rachel was home this summer, she would push the hen out of the nest box with a board and then get the eggs.\n\nThe hen started jumping out any time Rachel came near. I haven’t instituted that strategy yet.  She looks so peaceful when I walk up I hate to disturb her.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/grumpy1.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5104\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/grumpy1.png?w=300\" alt=\"grumpy1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>Then when I go to reach for the eggs she turns into “Grumpy Hen.”\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/grumpy2.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5105\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/grumpy2.png?w=300\" alt=\"grumpy2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nSo I’m considering launching a “Grumpy Hen” website.\n\nI could make T-shirts and calendars and stuffed hens and mugs and…\n\nOr maybe not.\n\nGrumpy Hen can be a special thing just for Miller Farm Friday blog readers.','Grumpy Hen - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','grumpy-hen-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-09-05 06:00:15','2014-09-05 11:00:15','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5102',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5110,1,'2014-09-12 07:00:00','2014-09-12 12:00:00','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThe chicks that hatched at the end of July are doing great. We started feeding them fermented chicken feed right from the beginning based on Rachel’s research, and we have had no illnesses or deaths. This is great news.\n\nWe have had a different issue.\n\nWhen I was changing the paper under the brooder one day, I noticed the plastic tub we put their food in was upside down and it was moving. I thought perhaps some of the paper was stuck to it, but it moved even when the paper didn’t.\n\nUpon closer examination, I discovered a chick under the tub. He didn’t seem nearly as disturbed by the incident as I did.  Several times after that there were chicks under the tub.  Sometimes there were other chicks standing on top of the tub.\n\nI’m not sure whether it was a variation on hide and seek or king of the feed tub. In any case, no chicken was harmed in the playing of this game.\n\nNow the chickens have gotten big enough that most of them don’t fit under the tub.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/chicken-update.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5109\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/chicken-update.png?w=300\" alt=\"chicken update\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nOf course, we do have a few bantams that are smaller so I still check whenever the tub is upside down.\n\nI hope that some of them will be big enough to move out into the chicken yard soon. I think Rachel is coming home from college next weekend, and she can help with the process. I’ll keep you updated.','Chick Update - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','chick-update-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-09-12 07:00:00','2014-09-12 12:00:00','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5110',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5115,1,'2014-09-08 07:00:00','2014-09-08 12:00:00','[caption id=\"attachment_5113\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"273\"]<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/moon-romance.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-5113 size-full\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/moon-romance.jpg\" alt=\"moon romance\" width=\"273\" height=\"271\" /></a> <strong>SOURCE: :</strong> http://cheddarbay.com/Shanghai%20Breezes/MoonFestival/moonfestival.html[/caption]<p>Recently, I attended a stargazing gathering at the home of our local Night Sky expert, Darlene Danko, who writes a weekly column by that title for our local newspaper. It’s one of the first columns I read.</p><p>Last week, Ms. Danko set up her computerized telescope in her front yard and invited the neighbors to join her.</p><p>It was fascinating to see craters on the moon and rings on Saturn up close. We saw lots of other stars and galaxies, but the moon and Saturn were the best. </p><p>For the next few nights, all of us will have the opportunity to see a full moon without such a fancy telescope.</p><p>The moon will be coming up at dusk or nightfall for several nights in succession, a progression of moonlit nights that characterizes the <strong>harvest moon</strong>.</p><p>The term <em>harvest moon</em> probably came from farmers who used the extra moonlight during fall harvest. Then in 1903, Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth popularized the name in the popular song <em>Shine On Harvest Moon. </em> <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/452px-shine-on-harvest-moon-1908.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5114\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/452px-shine-on-harvest-moon-1908.jpg?w=226\" alt=\"452px-Shine-On-Harvest-Moon-1908\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" /></a>Here are the words:</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Shine on, shine on harvest moon Up in the sky,</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">I ain’t had no lovin’</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Since January, February, June or July</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Snow time ain’t no time to stay Outdoors and spoon,</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">So shine on, shine on harvest moon, For me and my gal.</p><p>The old sheet music cover (and words) warm my romantic heart.</p><p> And, this year the Harvest Moon is a bit bigger than usual … because it’s also a <strong>supermoon</strong>.</p><p>Astrologer <a href=\"http://www.astropro.com/resume.html\">Richard Nolle</a> came up with the popular name supermoon to describe a new or full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit. Technically the phenomenon is a <a href=\"http://earthsky.org/moon-phases/full-moon\">perigee full moon</a>, or a <a href=\"http://earthsky.org/moon-phases/new-moon\">perigee new moon</a>.</p><p>Whatever you call it - harvest moon or supermoon, I’m just going outside tonight and enjoy the bright, orange orb. Maybe do some spooning on the porch with my honey.</p><p>How about you?</p><p> </p>','Harvest Moonlight and Spooning','','publish','open','open','','harvest-moonlight-and-spooning','','','2014-09-08 07:00:00','2014-09-08 12:00:00','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5115',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5125,1,'2014-09-15 06:00:14','2014-09-15 11:00:14','<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">This summer has been a revolving door of visitors at our house and we’ve <strong>loved</strong> it! </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">We’ve seen folks we haven’t seen in thirty years and caught up. Plus we’ve gotten to spend time with family.</span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">There has been, however, a surprise and frequent visitor recently. </span>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-in-flower-bed.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5135\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-in-flower-bed.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">It’s that time of year in the forest. Black bears, who are actually brown or cinnamon colored, are feeding up for the long winter hibernation. </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">A bear’s natural wariness to find food overrides his fear of humans and his <span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">nose is one hundred times more sensitive than ours.</span></span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Bird and hummingbird feeders provide as much as twelve hundred calories so the bears prowl around looking for easy food. </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">We do our part to keep the bears wild by bearproofing our house, which means we take our bird feeders in at night. </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Only, our visitor came mid-morning!</span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-at-feeder-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5129 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-at-feeder-3.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>On his first visit, Buddy Bear, as my sister named him, emptied our homemade feeder, and ignored the hummingbird feeder hanging ten feet above his head according to the bearproofing pamphlet instructions. It was too high for him to reach.</span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-at-feeder4.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5131\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-at-feeder4.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>Finished, Buddy sat a spell before he moseyed off. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-away2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5133\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-away2.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"bear away2\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a></span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Buddy returned for a second sniff and, finding none, wandered off again.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-away.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5132 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-away.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"bear away\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a></span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Next day he came again. This time sniffing no food, he sauntered up to the rock outcropping above our house. We watched him from the large dining room window. </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">He watched us. We wondered if he thought we were in a people zoo. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Eventually he traveled on.</span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">But Buddy returned a third day. </span>\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-in-flower-bed21.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5136\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-in-flower-bed21.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-under-window.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5137\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-under-window.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>Finding the feeder gone. He decided to take a rest up next to the house. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-firecracker.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5134\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bear-firecracker.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"bear firecracker\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" /></a>That was when my husband decided that Buddy was becoming too friendly and used one of our forest ranger provided firecrackers. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">The loud bang sent Buddy scurrying away. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">A fourth time, he ambled by, pausing mid-way up the hill and looking down, but kept going as if remembering the firecracker. (Bears are very smart and have great memories.)</span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">We’re hoping that the firecracker did its job. If you look closely, you\'ll noticed that Buddy has tags on both his ears. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">He’d been a very bad boy. </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">A bear is tagged and relocated from an area where he’s done some damage or been a threat to humans. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Bears only get two chances. Third time the animal is destroyed. </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">We don’t want that to happen. They lived in this place first and we’re willing to share unless the visitor is very, very bad. </span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Btw, we never use firecrackers on our human house guests -- even if they are very, very bad.</span>','An Unexpected (and Uninvited) Summer Visitor','','publish','open','open','','an-unexpected-and-uninvited-summer-visitor','','','2014-09-15 06:00:14','2014-09-15 11:00:14','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5125',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5145,1,'2014-09-10 06:00:46','2014-09-10 11:00:46','Webster defines <strong>word-magic</strong> as magic involving the use of words in a manner determined by a belief that the very act of uttering a word summons or directly affects the person or thing that the word refers to.\n\nAccording to Christopher Vogler (one of my very favorite writing teachers):<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/chris-vogler-and-me.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5147\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/chris-vogler-and-me.jpg?w=294\" alt=\"Chris Vogler and me\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n“Many cultures believed the letters of their alphabets were far more than just symbols for communication, recording transactions, or recalling history. They believed letters were powerful magical symbols that could be used to cast spells and predict the future. The Norse runes and the Hebrew alphabet are simple letters for spelling words, but also deep symbols of cosmic significance.”\n\nChris goes further to say,<a href=\"http://www.docstoc.com/docs/117703935/THE-WRITER%E2%80%99S--JOURNEY\" target=\"_blank\"> “When you \"spell\" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power.”</a>\n\nMy spelling is so bad I\'m not sure I have to worry about any words I write casting spells. Half the time, spell checker can’t even come up with choices for what I’ve typed.\n\nI do believe, however, that once the words form into sentences and sentences into paragraphs another magic occurs - story magic. Vogler calls it <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Journey-Structure-Edition/dp/193290736X\" target=\"_blank\">The Hero’s Journey</a>, a mystical path that readers sense on some level.\n\nDon\'t you have a sense of magic when you read or hear some stories?\n\nIt\'s the incredible ability of certain authors to cast a spell and transport readers into an imaginary world with their word pictures.\n\nBut there’s another aspect of word magic, too.\n\nConsider the adage, “<em>Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me.</em>” As much as we might want, or wish, the saying to be correct, the truth is words have the power to hurt or heal us.\n\nWhenever we speak, we should choose words carefully.\n\nAs writers and storytellers, like the shamans or medicine men and women of ancient cultures, we should recognize the incredible power we have with our words.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/inspirational-pictures-quote_15159-2.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5148\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/inspirational-pictures-quote_15159-2.png?w=300\" alt=\"inspirational-pictures-quote_15159-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" /></a>\n\nPearl Strachan Hurd was a British politician in the 1930\'s whose sole legacy is this quote, emphasizing the destructive power language can have.\n\nAtom bombs conjure images of death, violence, and war. Not a pretty picture at all.\n\nMs. Hurd\'s quote very dramatically reminds us of the need to be cautious with our words and the power of <strong>word-magic</strong>.','Word-Magic – One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','word-magic-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-09-10 06:00:46','2014-09-10 11:00:46','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5145',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5154,1,'2014-09-22 06:00:53','2014-09-22 11:00:53','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/summers-lease-2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5155 size-large\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/summers-lease-2.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Summers Lease 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"419\" /></a>Today is the Fall Equinox and signals the official end of summer.\n\nI know you thought Labor Day ushered out summer or the first day of school ended the carefree days of summer. Not so. Those are the traditional end of summer.\n\nWhat is the fall equinox?\n\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sarah-morgan-bryan-piatt\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt</a>, a 19th century poet who lived in Ireland with her American Counsel husband:\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>It is the summer\'s great last heat,\nIt is the fall\'s first chill: They meet.\n</em></p>\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.weather.com/news/fall-equinox-20120920\" target=\"_blank\">Weather.com</a>, \"Meteorologically speaking, autumn began on Sept. 1, but the autumnal equinox marks the astronomical start to the fall season.\"\n\nBeing a wordsmith, I like the dictionary definition for equinox: <em><span class=\"oneClick-link\">The</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">twice</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">yearly</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">times</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">when</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">the</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">lengths</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">of</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">day</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">and</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">night</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">are</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">equal.</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">At</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">equinox,</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">the</span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">sun</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">is</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">directly</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">over</span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">the</span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">Earth <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">\'s</span> equator</span>.</em>\n\nI\'ve never clocked the hours on the day an equinox occurs, but I do know that after the date marked on my calendar daylight changes. The days start to get shorter than the nights.\n\nTo me the fall equinox means we say farewell to the scent of sunscreen and welcome the smell of wood burning in the fireplace. Temperatures begin to drop and leaves change color.\n\nThe signs of change are all around us. What signs of fall are you seeing?\n\nIn my neck of the woods, leaves started turning early. Some say that means a long, cold winter. That\'s okay with me.\n\nWhile I\'ll miss summer, I can\'t deny I\'m  looking forward to a cup of green tea besides a crackling fire and huddling beneath a quilt to read.\n\nAre you looking forward to the change of season or do you agree with Edie Melson\'s quote that summer is too short?','Bye, bye Summer','','publish','open','open','','bye-bye-summer','','','2014-09-22 06:00:53','2014-09-22 11:00:53','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5154',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5161,1,'2014-09-24 06:00:46','2014-09-24 11:00:46','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/change_altimeter_small_0.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5168\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/change_altimeter_small_0.jpg\" alt=\"change_altimeter_small_0\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>In last Monday’s blog, I talked about the changing seasons. Winter gives way to spring, spring to summer; summer to fall and then we’re back to winter again.\n\nThere’s something comforting in the constancy of seasonal changes. We accept the change is coming, and we welcome each season for what it offers.\n\nWhy then do we perceive the small and major life changes we face with stress and fear and worry?\n\nLife is not static, but a flow of change, never staying the same. It’s messy, chaotic, painful, sad, dirty …, and never perfect.\n\nBad things happen. So do good things. The sad truth is we cannot control every aspect of our lives.\n\nWe accept seasonal changes. We should also accept changes in life.\n\nConsider this quote:\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/confucis.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5162\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/confucis.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"confucis\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" /></a>\n\nUnfortunately, instead of accepting change we react with anger, frustration, and stress. We allow change to steal our peacefulness.\n\nLet me propose three ways to handle change.\n\n<strong>Laugh – </strong> Laugh even when whatever change has thrown your way is not funny. You’ll find a certain amount of detachment which can lead to acceptance.\n\n<strong>Breathe - </strong>When things change and anger or frustration seeps in, take a deep breath. Breathing allows you to calm down and think more rationally.\n\n<strong>Pray or Meditate</strong> - Try the Serenity Prayer, <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/serenity-prayer-origin_n_5331924.html\" target=\"_blank\">attributed to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr</a> and adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous.\n\nThis counted cross-stitch of The Serenity Prayer hangs in my office. Whenever the winds of change blow my way, I find reading those words helps.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/serenity-prayer.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5166\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/serenity-prayer.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"serenity prayer\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" /></a>\n\nNo matter what happens in your world today, <em>smile</em>, <em>breathe</em>, and <em>accept </em> whatever <strong>change</strong> may bring.','Change – One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','change-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-09-24 06:00:46','2014-09-24 11:00:46','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5161',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5175,1,'2014-09-17 06:00:07','2014-09-17 11:00:07','Edie Melson\'s graphic of Thoreau\'s quote about heaven under our feet fits perfectly with today\'s word - <strong>Beauty</strong>.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/heaven-quote.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5178 size-large\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/heaven-quote.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Heaven quote\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" /></a>\n\nRecently my husband and I have been out and about traveling to farmer\'s markets and orchards to buy fruits and vegetables to store for the coming winter. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/farm-beauty.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5187 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/farm-beauty.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\nAs we\'ve wandered the back roads to organic farms, we have seen beauty everywhere -- truly heaven beneath our feet.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/beauty2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5188 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/beauty2.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" /></a> <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/black-dam.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5189 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/black-dam.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" /></a>\n\nWouldn\'t you agree God\'s handiwork testifies to what incredible sights we\'ll find in heaven?\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Beauty - One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','beauty-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-09-17 06:00:07','2014-09-17 11:00:07','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5175',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5180,1,'2014-09-19 06:00:02','2014-09-19 11:00:02','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nWe bought a new mattress last week. After 17 years we thought it was about time.  It was delivered on Saturday.\n\nPerhaps that explains my confusion.\n\nI slept fine on the new mattress until sometime after midnight when I awoke with a start and thought, “I didn’t put my swim bag out.”\n\nMonday-Friday mornings I swim at 5:30 a.m. before my body can wake up and realize what is going on. I normally put my swimsuit and shoes in the bathroom and my swim bag in the living room the night before so I can leave without making any noise. This morning was going to be tricky.\n\nWhen my alarm went off at 5 a.m., I quietly got my swim bag from the closet and then tried to locate my shoes in the dark.\n\nI have two pair of Crocs – one red and one turquoise. I have been known to appear at the breakfast table wearing one of each.  Since I was not going to eat breakfast before I swam, I wanted to make sure my shoes matched each other.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/crocs.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5181\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/crocs.png?w=168\" alt=\"crocs\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" /></a>Remembering my probability and statistics course, I grabbed three crocs knowing that two would match.\n\nI headed into the bathroom where I found a dress hanging in front of my swimsuit.  I moved it and began to put on my suit.\n\nI thought, “What did I fix for Sunday lunch? I don’t remember Sunday lunch?”\n\nThen it dawned on me it was Sunday – not Monday. That was why my swim bag was in the closet and my clothes were hanging in front of my suit.\n\nThe change of having a new mattress had messed up my internal calendar.\n\nSo I jumped into the shower and got dressed for church, leaving my shoes and my suit in the bathroom. When I went back into the bathroom that afternoon, my shoes were still there.\n\nWhat amazed me was that neither my husband nor son said anything about the three shoes. I guess they have grown so accustomed to my idiosyncrasies that they hardly notice.','What Day is It? - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','what-day-is-it-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-09-19 06:00:02','2014-09-19 11:00:02','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5180',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5195,1,'2014-09-26 06:00:50','2014-09-26 11:00:50','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nWe moved the chicks out into the chicken yard several weeks ago. We’ve gotten past the “gathering chicks” stage where they must be retrieved from under the coop each night and put into the coop. Now they are beginning to explore their new world.\n\nOne day I looked out and saw them sitting on the fence between the big and little chicken yards.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home1.png\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5196 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home1.png?w=150\" alt=\"new home1\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" /></a>\n\nThey were eating the leaves off the tree. The problem was that they are slightly uncoordinated and would fall onto the wrong side of the fence – in with the big chickens.  This was very distressing and I have spent an inordinate amount of time returning chickens to the right side of the fence.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home2.png\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5197 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home2.png?w=150\" alt=\"new home2\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" /></a>Today when I was unloading chicken feed I saw them using a piece of bamboo as a ramp.\n\nI’m not exactly sure from whence the bamboo came. I suspect it came over the fence from the neighbor’s yard.  In any case, the chickens were climbing up it to get to the top of that fence.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home3.png\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5198 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home3.png?w=126\" alt=\"new home3\" width=\"126\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nMuch to my relief, the chick arrived safely back in the chicken yard. We have had to retrieve chickens from between the chain link and wood fence and it is no easy task.\n\nThen there was the chicken in the tree:\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home4.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5199\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/new-home4.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"new home4\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" /></a>\n\nIt reminded me of taking my children to the park when they were young. Matt climbed on everything he could find especially if it was taller than him.\n\nAlas, the mother in me came out and just as I had removed Matt from high places before he could jump, I moved the bamboo so the chickens could no longer climb on it.\n\nA little bit of danger is fine, but so far I have managed to keep all 22 chicks alive and I don’t want to ruin my record.','Exploring Their New Home – Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','exploring-their-new-home-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-09-26 06:00:50','2014-09-26 11:00:50','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5195',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5202,1,'2014-10-03 06:00:52','2014-10-03 11:00:52','<p style=\"text-align:center;\">By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</p>\nOur son Matt has a project car. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t exactly what he wanted when he bought it, but he has learned a lot.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/car-repair.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5204\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/car-repair.jpg\" alt=\"car repair\" width=\"200\" height=\"121\" /></a>\n\nThe latest lesson involved the slave cylinder. I don’t know much about this part except that it is necessary to drive the car. Matt bought a new one and put it on the car.  Shortly thereafter, there were pieces of slave cylinder and brake fluid all over the driveway. I\'m not sure exactly what happened, but Matt was frustrated enough that I didn’t ask and let Matt drive my truck to work.\n\nWhen Beekeeper Brian got home, he was equally frustrated with the situation and when I left for Bible Study driving his car, he was sitting in the driveway looking at the collection of slave cylinder parts.\n\nAfter Bible Study ended, a classmate told me she had seen Brian and he told her to let me know he had switched cars but had parked in the same spot.\n\nPart of my brain wanted to ask questions about how he’d come to have my truck. I just ignore them, as I usually do. Sometimes you just don\'t want to know the answers.\n\nWhen I got home, I noticed a lack of car parts in the driveway. Matt explained that Dad had used a magnet and copper wire to retrieve parts from where they were not supposed to be and put them in the correct spot. Then he had driven Matt’s car to the pool where Matt was working, picked up my truck, brought it to the church, and took his car to get gas.\n\nOnce again, Beekeeper Brian’s ability to fix things amazed me and thrilled Matt. Brian had already put in a full day’s work at the school district and overtime as a mechanic. Exhausted, he headed for bed, but the day was not over yet.\n\nAs I was checking my e-mail, I heard a scratching sound coming from behind the wardrobe in the living room. A quick look around confirmed that all dogs were put up for the night so I went over to the wardrobe for a closer listen.\n\nWhen we remodeled our bathroom in Canton years ago, there was a similar scratching coming from under the floor. It gave me nightmares. Twenty years later, I simply walked into the bedroom and told Beekeeper Brian that something was scratching the wall behind the wardrobe.\n\nAfter a brief examination, he said, “Go get my pellet rifle.”\n\nThe questioning part of my brain went into overdrive, but the rational part didn’t really want to know answers just yet.\n\nI calmly handed him the rifle and returned to my computer.\n\nHis next question: “Do we still have those mouse traps?”\n\nAfter some searching, I located one trap. He set it and said, “At least it is just a mouse.”\n\n“As opposed to what?” I asked hesitantly.\n\n“A squirrel or a rat” was his answer.\n\nI was suddenly glad that our reptile days were long gone until I remembered snakes don’t have fingernails. It couldn’t have been a snake.\n\nThis morning Beekeeper Brian checked the mousetrap. Success!\n\nNow he wants to repeat the process to see if the mouse had any friends. Next, he’ll fix the hole the mouse chewed in the wall. A renaissance man/beekeeper’s work is never done.','All in a Day’s Work - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','all-in-a-days-work-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-10-03 06:00:52','2014-10-03 11:00:52','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5202',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5206,1,'2014-10-06 06:00:42','2014-10-06 11:00:42','Social media has become a popular tool for presenting your agenda or product thanks to the trend set by Barrack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 political campaigns where he employed the use of sites like FB and Twitter.\n\nSocial media sites provide “<a href=\"https://virtualphone.com/social-media-exploring-modern-global-networking-tools\" target=\"_blank\">A seamless communications network that has the power to cross cultural barriers and capture the attention </a>… more effectively than ever before.”\n\nEntrepreneurs frequently use SM as an incredible FREE marketing tool. Personally, I use most of the SM platforms to entice readers to buy my books. It\'s a fantastic means for  promotion of products.\n\nAs a means for getting your message or product out there, social media is priceless.\n\n<strong>HOWEVER, </strong>social media also comes with <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">red flags</span></strong>.\n\nStories about stories about social media gaffes by people and businesses are commonplace. The way you and/or your public relations team conducts itself on social media can have a lasting effect.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/online-reputation-management-reputation-e1399499113531.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5207\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/online-reputation-management-reputation-e1399499113531.jpg?w=240\" alt=\"Online-Reputation-Management-Reputation-e1399499113531\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" /></a>If we use SM, we must guard our reputation as this Lakota American Indian proverb reminds us.\n\nOur tracks on social media sites are embedded forever. No ocean waves can ever erase their presence.\n\nSo how do we do we guard our reputations when we don’t have an Emily Post etiquette book to guide us?\n\nYou can find 10 very specific tips to protect your web presence <a href=\"http://www.vocus.com/blog/10-vital-rules-to-manage-your-online-reputation/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>\n\nYou also have to remember that management of your presence varies based on which social media sites you’re using -- Youtube, Google Plus, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Facebook.\n\nDon’t mistake the different social medias platforms as being the same. Each site has its own personality and its own unique platform for various audiences. It’s important to learn the right etiquette for each individual site whether you’re posting for pleasure or business.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.norulesjustwrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SocialMediaEtiquette-2.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5208\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/socialmediaetiquette-2-lrg-version.png?w=40\" alt=\"SocialMediaEtiquette-2 lrg version\" width=\"40\" height=\"300\" /></a>Ivan Serrano, a business journalist and infographic specialist, has created this incredible pictorial guide to the most popular social media sites.\n\nCJ Lyons shared Serrano\'s infographic on her site along with suggestions for guarding your reputation <a href=\"http://www.norulesjustwrite.com/social-media-etiquette-an-infographic/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>\n\nVocus.com blog also posted an in depth guide to social media etiquette along with Serrano\'s infographic <a href=\"http://www.vocus.com/blog/infographic-a-pr-pros-guide-to-social-media-etiquette/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nClick on the graphic to view a full-sized version of Serrano\'s infographic. You may have to click twice to get the enlarged version.\n\n&nbsp;','Social Media Etiquette and Guide','','publish','open','open','','social-media-etiquette-and-guide','','','2014-10-06 06:00:42','2014-10-06 11:00:42','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5206',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5218,1,'2014-09-29 06:00:36','2014-09-29 11:00:36','As fall magnifies its presence in our little neck of the mountains, my husband and I have been exploring the beauty and bounty of the season.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apples.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5220\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apples.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>We recently visited an organic farm apple orchard to pick apples for applesauce and spiced apples.\n\nOf course, we could have simply harvested from the crab apple tree in our front yard, which is loaded with tiny crab apples.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/crab-apple.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5222\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/crab-apple.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"crab apple\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nWe didn’t for lots of reasons.\n<ol>\n	<li>The fruit is quite tart.</li>\n	<li>Coring the tiny apples would have been nearly impossible.</li>\n	<li>The mule deer love to eat the tiny apples.</li>\n</ol>\nAnd, besides, plucking the apples from the plentiful harvest at the organic farm was a great adventure.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/picking-apples.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5225\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/picking-apples.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\nI came away with a bag full of juicy Honey Crisp apples.\n\nWhen we weighed-in to pay, we had half a bushel.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/orchard-me.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5224\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/orchard-me.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" /></a>Confident we had enough for applesauce and spiced apples, we headed home to make our applesauce.\n\nI have to tell you resisting the luscious apples was hard. So hard in fact that when we finally began to peel and prepare fruit for applesauce. The pot was hardly full.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apples-in-pot.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5221\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apples-in-pot.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"apples in pot\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nWe ended up with only four pints.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/applesauce2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5259\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/applesauce2.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"??????????????????????\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nYou won\'t hear me complaining because the stewed apples I made for breakfast and the apple and peanut butter we enjoyed for lunches were soooo good.\n\nAnd, I’m not discouraged about so few jars of applesauce, but I am rationing.\n\nHow about you? Are you enjoying fall’s harvest?','Harvest Time Bounty','','publish','open','open','','harvest-time-bounty','','','2014-09-29 06:00:36','2014-09-29 11:00:36','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5218',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5237,1,'2014-10-01 06:00:22','2014-10-01 11:00:22','Today\'s One Word Wednesday is COLOR.\n\nJulie Andrews sang about the hills of Austria being alive with the <em>Sound of Music</em>.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/fields-of-gold.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5254\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/fields-of-gold.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>This fall the hills and mountains of Western Colorado are alive with color. Streams of yellow flow down the mountain sides like veins of gold. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/drive.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5251\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/drive.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\nMy husband and I loaded up a picnic lunch and our two four-legged boys and headed out for a day trip of leaf viewing.\n\nWe always did the same day trips every fall when we lived in Connecticut to see the canvas of color on those hills.\n\nOn this trip, the rich yellows and reds and oranges and all shades in between were so vibrant that it almost hurt our eyes to look.\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bright.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5250 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bright.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/gold-tips.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5255 size-medium\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/gold-tips.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/red-mtn.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5244\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/red-mtn.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"red mtn\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bethanys-tree.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5243 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/bethanys-tree.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Bethany\'s tree\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAfter our little excursion, I have to agree with Poet Leigh Hunt.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/colors-quote.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5248\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/colors-quote.jpg\" alt=\"colors quote\" width=\"272\" height=\"185\" /></a>','The Hills are Alive with COLOR','','publish','open','open','','the-hills-are-alive-with-color','','','2014-10-01 06:00:22','2014-10-01 11:00:22','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5237',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5268,1,'2014-10-08 06:00:16','2014-10-08 11:00:16','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/courage-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5269\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/courage-2.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"courage-2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Courage -- confronting a difficult, frightening, painful, or disturbing situation when our first instinctive reaction is to flee.\n\nThe word <em>courage</em> comes from <em>root cour or coeur</em>, which is French for heart. The essence of courage lies in our heart.\n\nWe find courage portrayed everywhere – in the Bible, in fairy tales, in books, in movies, in the news.\n\nCourage is depicted as physical bravery, but being courageous also encompasses much more than physical strength and endurance. Courage involves mental stamina and innovation too.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201208/the-six-attributes-courage\">Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D.</a>, identifies six different ways we are courageous.\n<ol>\n	<li>Feeling Fear Yet Choosing to Act</li>\n	<li>Following Your Heart</li>\n	<li>Persevering in the Face of Adversity</li>\n	<li>Standing Up For What Is Right</li>\n	<li>Expanding Your Horizons; Letting Go of the Familiar</li>\n	<li>Facing Suffering With Dignity or Faith</li>\n</ol>\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/cowardly-lion.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5271\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/cowardly-lion.jpg\" alt=\"cowardly lion\" width=\"230\" height=\"165\" /></a>The Cowardly Lion in the classic film The Wizard of Oz learned courage must ultimately come from within.\n\nIf you find yourself confronted with a difficult, frightening, painful, or disturbing situation or you feel threatened, weak, vulnerable, intimidated, or terrified, call forth your inner COURAGE.\n\nAnd remember what Mark Twain says:\n\n<em>“It\'s not the size of the dog in the fight; it\'s the size of the fight in the dog.\"</em>','What is COURAGE?  – One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','courage-or-fortitude-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-10-08 06:00:16','2014-10-08 11:00:16','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5268',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5279,1,'2014-10-10 06:00:44','2014-10-10 11:00:44','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThe private school where I teach celebrates Michaelmas with a pageant each year.\n\nThere are plays tracing the history of Saint Michael from 400 A.D .through medieval times. The students dress in wonderful costumes and perform these plays in Latin, French, and Spanish.\n\nThe pageant ends with the children in grades one and two presenting their rent to the English Landlord played by a high school student.The final payment is made in the form of a live goose.\n\nAnother teacher at Saint Michael’s has supplied the goose for as long as I have taught there. This year, however, she was unable to stay for the grand finale due to teaching responsibilities at a near-by junior college. The school headmaster put out a plea for someone to act as “goose handler.”\n\nEnter Chicken Wrangler Sara. I figured a goose isn’t much different from a chicken, right?\n\nOn the day of the pageant, I introduced myself to the goose, that we named Artimus, and received instruction as to how to wrap the goose in a towel before handing it to the second grader who would carry it down the aisle and present it to the landlord.\n\nArtimus is a young goose and quite handsome. We got along very well.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/goose-handler.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5280\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/goose-handler.png?w=225\" alt=\"goose handler\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nAt the end of the pageant, the audience sang a final hymn, which I accompanied on piano.\n\nWhen we finished singing, I rushed to the foyer to retrieve the goose and put him back in his crate. I was worried that the student holding him would be uncomfortable.\n\nIt was a needless worry. As the picture published in the local paper the next day shows, the high school student and the goose were doing fine.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/student-with-goose.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5281\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/student-with-goose.png?w=300\" alt=\"student with goose\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" /></a>\n\nSince the owner of Artimus had class until late that evening, I agreed to take him to my house where he could be picked up later. Not being sure how he would get along with the chickens, I kept him in his crate in the front yard where he patiently waited for his owner.\n\nI can now add “goose handler” to my resume. I’m not sure if many jobs require such skill, but I’m ready.\n\n&nbsp;','Chicken Wrangler aka Goose Handler - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','chicken-wrangler-aka-goose-handler-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-10-10 06:00:44','2014-10-10 11:00:44','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5279',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5284,1,'2014-10-13 06:00:08','2014-10-13 11:00:08','I\'m interrupting my regular <em>Make Me Think Monday </em>blog for an announcement of my latest book release – CLAIMING ANNIE’S HEART.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/cah_cover_1800x2700.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5278\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/cah_cover_1800x2700.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"CAH_cover_1800x2700\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /></a>No, I\'m not turning View from the Front Porch into a promo blog for my books--it\'s just this Irish love story is special to me.\n\nWhy? Because Annie’s story is set in Ireland.\n\nAnd, as most of you know (if you’ve read my ABOUT ME page, that is), Ireland is my most favorite place on earth, and I’m crazy about all things Irish.\n\nThe idea for <em>Claiming Annie\'s Heart</em> began on one of the many, many trips business trips to the Emerald Isle with my husband.\n\nWe toured an Abbey on the rugged west coast. An English doctor built the lovely place as a home for his wife and child. When they died, the doctor left and sold the home. The castle became an Abbey and girls\' boarding school. That’s the place pictured on the book cover.\n\nAs we walked the castle and fabulous gardens, I talked with the schoolgirls. My writer\'s imagination kicked into overdrive with story possibilities.\n\nOn a different trip, we spent time in Belfast during the Twelfth of July Orange Order marches. If you’re not familiar with the marches, read <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. To learn more of the history of The Troubles in Northern Ireland read <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nEach trip provided a very different experience, which I combined into Annie and Chad\'s love story. Here’s the plot blurb:\n\n<strong>Annie Foster remains in Ireland after boarding school to nanny a widower’s infant daughter. Five years later, she accepts the widower’s proposal.</strong>\n\n<strong>Her first love Chad Jones, whom she believed deserted her, arrives on an undercover assignment weeks before the wedding investigating her fiancé’s connection with terrorists. He’s determined to change her mind and her heart her because he’s never stopped loving her. </strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Annie’s heart is torn between the man she\'ll always love and the young daughter of her fiancé whom she’s promised never to abandon. </strong><strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Which man will win?</strong>\n\nTo find the answer, get your copy of <em>Claiming Annie’s Heart</em> from one of these bookstores:\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O6BOEPQ\" target=\"_blank\">AMAZON US</a></strong></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Claiming-Annies-Heart-judythe-morgan-ebook/dp/B00O6BOEPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1412979491&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=judythe+morgan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AMAZON UK</strong></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/claiming-annies-heart-judythe-morgan/1120481337\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NOOK</strong></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/claiming-annies-heart/id926024696\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iBooks</strong></a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/claiming-annie-s-heart\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KOBO</strong></a></p>','It\'s finally here - Claiming Annie\'s Heart','','publish','open','open','','its-finally-here-claiming-annies-heart','','','2014-10-13 06:00:08','2014-10-13 11:00:08','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5284',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5303,1,'2014-10-15 06:00:37','2014-10-15 11:00:37','October is pink month. You see pink everywhere.\n\nThe designation of October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) began in 1985 as a partnership between the American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical division of Imperial Chemical Industries, maker of several anti-breast cancer drugs.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/pink_ribbon_svg.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3659\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/pink_ribbon_svg.png?w=185\" alt=\"Pink_ribbon_svg\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" /></a>The pink ribbon has been the international symbol of breast cancer awareness since 1992.\n\nDue in large part to NBCAM and the pink ribbon campaign, two things have happened in recent years:\n\n~a gradual reduction in female breast cancer among women aged 50 and older has been recorded.\n\n~a decline in death rates from breast cancer\n\nStill there are myths about breast cancer that persist. Below are seven such myths and facts to debunk those myths\n<ol>\n	<li><strong>MYTH: Finding a lump in your breast = breast cancer.</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\"><strong>FACT:</strong></span> Only a small percentage of breast lumps turn out to be cancer.\n<ol start=\"2\">\n	<li><strong>MYTH: Men cannot get breast cancer.</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\"><strong>FACT:</strong></span> Each year approximately 2,190 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 410 will die.\n<ol start=\"3\">\n	<li><strong>MYTH: A mammogram can cause breast cancer to spread.</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\"><strong>FACT:</strong></span> A mammogram is the current gold standard for the early detection of breast cancer.\n<ol start=\"4\">\n	<li><strong>MYTH: A family history of breast cancer means you are likely to develop breast cancer.</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\"><strong>FACT:</strong></span> A family history of breast cancer places you in a higher risk group, but ten percent of individuals diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history.\n<ol start=\"5\">\n	<li><strong>MYTH: Breast cancer is contagious.</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\">FACT:</span> </strong>Breast cancer is the result of uncontrolled cell growth of mutated cells that begin to spread into other tissues within the breast.\n<ol start=\"6\">\n	<li><strong>MYTH: The gene mutation BRCA1 or BRCA2 detected in your DNA means you will definitely develop breast cancer.</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\"><strong>FACT:</strong></span> According to the National Cancer Institute, “not every woman who has a harmful BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation will develop breast and/or ovarian cancer. But, a woman who has inherited a harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 is about five times more likely to develop breast cancer than a woman who does not have such a mutation.”\n<ol start=\"7\">\n	<li><strong>MYTH: Antiperspirants and deodorants cause breast cancer.</strong></li>\n</ol>\n<span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\"><strong>FACT:</strong></span> Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are not aware of any conclusive evidence linking the use of underarm antiperspirants or deodorants and breast cancer.\n\n<em>Material in this blog from the </em><a href=\"http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast\"><em>National Cancer Institute</em></a><em> and the <a href=\"http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-myths\">National Breast Cancer Organization</a>. </em>\n\nWearing pink or the pink ribbon identifies the wearer with breast cancer awareness and shows moral support for those with breast cancer. I\'ll be wearing <span style=\"color:#ff00ff;\">pink</span> and debunking myths this month.\n\nWill you?','PINK – One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','pink-one-word-wednesday','','','2014-10-15 06:00:37','2014-10-15 11:00:37','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5303',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5307,1,'2014-10-17 06:00:11','2014-10-17 11:00:11','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><strong>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</strong></em></p>\nThe chickens that hatched at the end of July are doing fantastic.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chickens-in-transit.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5308\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chickens-in-transit.png?w=300\" alt=\"chickens in transit\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>In fact, we have sold seven of them including Leo, the late bloomer. They were not too excited about the move, but I trust they have made the adjustment nicely.\n\nEven with seven less chickens, it is still crowded in the coop.They seem to multiply at feeding time.\n\nRachel switched the birds to fermented feed this summer. Basically you mix chicken feed and water and let it sit until it smells like vinegar.  I suppose it functions like yogurt with good bacteria to help the digestive system of the chickens.  Anyway, the birds love it, and we have had no illness since switching.\n\nThe only issue is that I must put out fresh food every morning.\n\nSometimes I think the chickens run around the coop burning calories all night because they seem to be starving in the mornings. I put one scoop in a feed bowl and carry a scoop to put into a second bowl.\n\nOne morning a little chick jumped right up onto the scoop before I could put it in the bowl.\n\nThey have learned to associate my presence with being fed. It is kind of like my children. Even now when they come home from college, they are eager to know what I am fixing for them to eat.  The chickens unlike my children run up to me and get right under my feet.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chicken-feet.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5309\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chicken-feet.png?w=300\" alt=\"chicken feet\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nI find myself doing a new kind of “chicken dance” to avoid falling down. I imagine it like an elegant tango but it is more like a rodeo clown.\n\nSo far, I have managed to remain upright as I feed the chickens. Another accomplishment to put on my resume.','Too Many Chickens Underfoot - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','too-many-chickens-underfoot-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-10-17 06:00:11','2014-10-17 11:00:11','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5307',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5312,1,'2014-10-20 06:00:21','2014-10-20 11:00:21','It’s an interesting question.\n\nFemale writers of the past have used male or ambiguous pennames to disguise their gender. Women like Mary Ann Evans, who used the pen name <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot\" target=\"_blank\">George Elliot</a> and the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bront%C3%AB_family\" target=\"_blank\">Brontë Sisters</a>, who wrote as Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.\n\nThese days, women choose gender-neutral pen names in the hopes of increasing book sales and gaining book reviews. Consider these two NYT best sellers:\n\n~ Joanne \"Jo\" Rowling chose to use <a href=\"www.jkrowling.com\" target=\"_blank\">J.K. Rowling </a>for her Harry Potter series and wrote <em>The Cuckoo\'s Calling</em> as Robert Galbraith.\n\n~<a href=\"www.noraroberts.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nora Roberts</a>, the remarkably prolific author who writes in two genres, selected the gender-neutral pen name J.D. Robb for her mystery novels.\n\nShould women writers bother with pen names? Not according to a recent poll done by <a href=\"http://www.grammarly.com/grammarcheck\" target=\"_blank\">Grammarly</a>.\n\nAs the infographic below shows 59% of the 3,000 respondents believe women are superior writers.\n\nThe poll questions centered on perceived differences in writing technique and quality based on gender. Answers indicate readers believe:\n<ol>\n	<li>Male authors \"get to the point,\" whereas female writers were more likely to focus on \"character development.\"</li>\n	<li>women write about people as opposed to things</li>\n	<li>women use long, wordy sentences while men write short, concise sentences</li>\n</ol>\n<strong><em>Check out the full infographic below:</em></strong>\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/menvswomen_writers_infographic.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5313 size-full\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/menvswomen_writers_infographic.jpg\" alt=\"MenvsWomen_Writers_infographic\" width=\"850\" height=\"4840\" /></a>\n\nI agree with Grammarly\'s poll results. Probably because I\'m a female author who writes <a href=\"http://www.judythemorgan.com\" target=\"_blank\">character-driven love stories</a>.\n\nWhat about you? Do you believe women are better writers than men?','Who writes better – men or women?','','publish','open','open','','who-writes-better-men-or-women','','','2014-10-20 06:00:21','2014-10-20 11:00:21','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5312',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5319,1,'2014-10-22 06:00:27','2014-10-22 11:00:27','Today’s book market is flooded. Don’t believe me check out the statistics…\n\nAccording to <a href=\"http://www.worldometers.info/books/,\" target=\"_blank\">Worldometers</a><strong>,</strong> so far this year 1,975,193 new book titles have been published.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.selfpublishedauthor.com/content/11-book-marketing-predictions-2014\" target=\"_blank\">In 2012</a>, there were 3,500 books published each day in the US.\n\nBtw, neither of these statistical sources include the number of eBooks published daily. Some sources estimate indie/self-publishing adds another 3,000 books per day.\n\nThat\'s a lot of books. An author can get lost in such a vast sea no matter how much marketing they do. So what can be done to help your favorite author?\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">Buy their books.</h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">Read their books.</h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">Tell your friends about their books.</h1>\n<h1>But most important, especially for Amazon books…</h1>\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/leave-a-review.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5320\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/leave-a-review.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"leave a review\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" /></a>\n\nOther ways to help an Amazon author:\n<ol>\n	<li>Add their book to your Amazon wish list, even if you already purchased it.</li>\n	<li>Like other people’s reviews. You’ll see the question - Was this review helpful to you? - at the bottom of each Amazon review. Click yes or no.</li>\n	<li>Like their author’s page.</li>\n</ol>\nAmazon uses algorithms, which I do not understand. I don’t think anyone does.\n\nIt doesn\'t matter. The fact remains that every review and like on the author’s page raises an author’s rank on the Amazon charts.\n\nRank increases the book’s visibility among the vast number of books out there. Visibility can lead to sales.\n\nNone of my suggestions take much time to do, so please support your favorite authors.\n\nAnd, just in case you want to help raise my rankings, you’ll find my Amazon author page <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judythe-Morgan/e/B00802MJPY%20\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.','SUPPORTING YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS','','publish','open','open','','supporting-your-favorite-authors','','','2014-10-22 06:00:27','2014-10-22 11:00:27','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5319',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5323,1,'2014-10-29 06:00:46','2014-10-29 11:00:46','Halloween is two days away. That can only mean Thanksgiving and Christmas are on the horizon.\n\nWhatever calm and order in our world will soon disappear into preparations and participation for holiday festivities.\n\nAll those preparations are taxing. The family gatherings are too often trying. The constant busyness is tiring. Our to-do lists overflow and our schedules leave little room for relaxation.\n\nDon’t get me wrong. The holidays are my favorite time of year.\n\nAt the same time I dread them because these sixty-one days been Halloween and New Year’s Day can be so overwhelming.\n\nProblem is, I can’t stay ahead, and become stressed. I don’t think I’m alone. Most of us experience STRESS during the holidays and need to think of ways to De-STRESS.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_0844.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5326\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_0844.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"IMG_0844\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" /></a>\n\nYou\'ll find lots of ideas on these sites:\n\n~Woman’s Day offers <a href=\"http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/diet-weight-loss/12-ways-to-destress-amidst-holiday-madness-100161\" target=\"_blank\">12 Ways to De-stress Amidst Holiday Madness</a>\n\n~Huffington Post suggests <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-pritchard/holiday-stress_b_2268356.html\" target=\"_blank\">What Are You Doing for You This Holiday Season? </a>\n\n~Focus on the Family recommends <a href=\"http://www.focusonthefamily.ca/marriage/conflict/de-stressing-christmas-11-tips-for-handling-common-holiday-tensions\" target=\"_blank\">De-stressing Christmas</a>\n\n~ Shape.com proposes <a href=\"http://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/3-easy-ways-de-stress-over-holidays\" target=\"_blank\">3 Easy Ways to De-Stress Over the Holidays </a>\n\nChicken Wrangler Sara and I came up with our own idea to de-stress our hectic days during the holidays and restore our calm for the next 61 days.\n\nWe’re starting a new blog category called <em>Sunday Sampler</em>. Sounds like we’re adding, but we’re not. Instead of posting three times a week, we’ll be taking turns posting once a week.\n\nWe’ll let you know how our plan works.','De-stressing the next 61 days','','publish','open','open','','de-stressing-the-next-61-days','','','2014-10-29 06:00:46','2014-10-29 11:00:46','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5323',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5328,1,'2014-10-24 06:00:22','2014-10-24 11:00:22','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nMrs. Tucker, the teacher who owns Artimus the Goose of Michaelmas fame, has instituted Fabulous, Fun Fridays in her 3<sup>rd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> grade science class.\n\nI learned this when she appeared with a lizard in a cage one Friday. She explained that the lizard was a North Carolina Anole and the kids were going to observe it during Fabulous Fun Friday and then they would release it.\n\nWell, my chickens were not going to be upstaged by a silly lizard.\n\nI asked if I could bring a chicken on the following Friday. Mrs. Tucker, the teacher, was thrilled.\n\nThat is how last Friday became Take Your Chicken to Work Day. I tried to convince Beekeeper Brian to take a chicken to work, but he wasn’t sure they would handle the hour-long commute very well.\n\nI thought long and hard about who to bring and decided Samson was the best choice. He is a rooster, but still he fit in the same category as the chickens. I told him all week that he was in for an adventure on Friday.  I’m not sure he quite understood.\n\nWhen it was time for his appearance, I put him in a dog kennel (without a dog in it) and drove him to the school. He was very quiet.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/samson-1.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5331\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/samson-1.png?w=225\" alt=\"Samson 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>The students were told to remain calm and still – very hard instructions for 3<sup>rd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> graders.  However, they did a fantastic job as I held Samson and talked about his rose comb and the feathers on his feet. They were fascinated.\n\nThen Mrs. Tucker told them if they were really still, I would put him on the table and let him walk around. They were perfectly still and Samson stood on the table.\n\nHe wasn’t really sure about walking around.  I imagine the table felt different than the ground in the chicken yard.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/samson-2.png\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5332 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/samson-2.png?w=150\" alt=\"Samson 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nI’m not sure who was more curious, Samson or the students. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/samson-3.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5333\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/samson-3.png?w=300\" alt=\"Samson 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\nEach student then had the opportunity to hold Samson. Mrs. Tucker explained that chickens poop whenever they need to so Samson would sit on a towel just in case.  Samson patiently allowed all 10 students to hold him.  As soon as I returned him to the kennel, he pooped.\n\nHe wins the Best Behaved Rooster Award for sure.  No way a lizard could compete with that.','Take Your Chicken to Work Day - Miller Farm Friday','','publish','open','open','','take-your-chicken-to-work-day-miller-farm-friday','','','2014-10-24 06:00:22','2014-10-24 11:00:22','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5328',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5337,1,'2014-10-27 06:00:35','2014-10-27 11:00:35','Decorating for Halloween has become as popular as Christmas decorating.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/connies.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5338 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/connies.jpg?w=119\" alt=\"Connie\'s\" width=\"119\" height=\"150\" /></a>Ghosts greet us on early morning walks through our neighbor.\n\nJack-o-lanterns light our way in the late afternoon.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/becker.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5339\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/becker.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Becker\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Where we used to live we saw witches crashed into trees and giant spiders in spidery webs crawling in yards. There were spook houses and ghost tours, which could be truly frightening for younger children...and some adults (this one included).<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/witch.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5340\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/witch.jpg?w=213\" alt=\"witch\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nIn the 1900s, Halloween wasn\'t so much about scary, scary things like zombies and gruesome headless monsters, tombstones and skeletons.\n\nBack then, crepe paper pumpkins, plastic candy containers, painted tin noisemakers, and paper lanterns were the items of choice. Not many of these items are around today because people used them and then threw them away.\n\nLast week, I dug out my vintage decorations. A few things from my childhood Halloween days that weren\'t thrown out.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/my-halloween.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5341\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/my-halloween.jpg?w=218\" alt=\"My halloween\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nDoes anyone recognize the gauze mask or the paper-mache jack-o-lantern?\n\nThe black cats are old bulletin board posters like those that I remember from grade school. The pumpkins are constructed from honeycomb tissue.\n\nTo see other vintage Halloween collectibles, check out Kovels’ Pinterest page <a href=\"http://www.pinterest.com/kovels/halloween/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nWonder what might be a future collectible? Kovels suggests these:\n<ol>\n	<li><strong>Special holiday bottles and cans </strong>like Crush soda’s new Halloween flavors, Gruesome Grape, Spooky Strawberry, and Orange Ogre. Look for other limited edition plastic bottles with scary faces.</li>\n	<li><strong>Plastic candy containers</strong> either reproductions of 1950s and \'60s figures and jack-o-lanterns or contemporary plastic decorations with good design.</li>\n	<li><strong>Zombies and vampires</strong>. Look for plastic, rubber, or resin decorations like the zombie-hand candleholder.</li>\n	<li><strong>Jewelry.</strong> Charm bracelets with pumpkins, bats, and black cats; jointed skeleton earrings decorated with rhinestones and spider rings.</li>\n	<li><strong>Motion, or voice, activated figures that light up or emit scary sounds and music.</strong> Look for pumpkin men, witches, vampires, black cats, body parts like crawly hands.</li>\n	<li><strong>Paper or plastic masks, costumes, treat bags, and dolls</strong>.</li>\n</ol>\nStores are packed with spooky décor options. Soon you’ll find Halloween items at reduced prices.\n\nThere are some good buys to had and, if you don’t throw the items away, you might have some vintage collectibles like mine in twenty-five years.','Ghosts, Goblins, and Halloween Decorating','','publish','open','open','','ghosts-goblins-and-halloween-decorating','','','2014-10-27 06:00:35','2014-10-27 11:00:35','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5337',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5346,1,'2014-10-31 06:00:26','2014-10-31 11:00:26','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nWhen I first started teaching almost 30 years ago, there was “new” research said that music playing in classrooms helped students retain information. It had something to do with the tempo (speed) of the piece and the affect on brain waves.\n\nAs a beginning music teacher, I was very excited that my chosen subject was so useful. I soon realized, however, that music teachers do not adhere to this research.\n\nA musician’s brain is not “normal” a fact my musically talented children can confirm and have done so for years.\n\nWhen music is playing anywhere, a music teacher\'s brain, or at least my music teacher brain, does not relax and retain information. It goes into overdrive trying to figure out what the music is, who wrote it and in what time period it was composed.\n\nThis “music teacher brain” phenomenon has manifested itself in many ways throughout the years. For example, when swimming laps, most people count 1 2 3 4 5 6 etc. I count 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 2 and 2 and 3 and 4 and as if I am counting measures of music.\n\nIn any given day, there are multiple times when I find myself saying, “I know a song about that.” This includes songs about scalloped potatoes and coffee.\n\nLast Wednesday I decided to mop the kitchen floor. I put soap in the mop bucket and put it in the sink to fill while I put away the vacuum cleaner. The closet where the vacuum cleaner lives is very disorganized so it took longer than anticipated to complete that task.\n\nI pictured the mop bucket overflowing with water all over the floor. Then my mind went to the Walt Disney version of “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Paul Dukas from Fantasia.\n\n[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8gOh0wEgLg&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]\n\nFor the rest of the day I had the music playing in my head. I couldn’t help wondering how many people associate mopping the floor with classical music.\n\nI imagine only other music teachers.','A Music Teacher\'s Brain','','publish','open','open','','a-music-teachers-brain','','','2014-10-31 06:00:26','2014-10-31 11:00:26','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5346',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5351,1,'2014-11-02 06:00:36','2014-11-02 12:00:36','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nOne of my favorite things about visiting my parents in Colorado is the beautiful sunrises. Since I get up and walk the dogs with my mom, I get to enjoy it every morning that we are there. This was the last morning we were there this summer.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/co.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5352\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/co.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"CO\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nSince I get up to swim and let the chickens out, I get to enjoy the sunrise on Miller farm also.  This past week was particularly beautiful.  In fact, I would say it is as pretty as Colorado.  After all it is the same sun.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/tx.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5353\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/tx.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"TX\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nI was reminded of a journal entry from our time in Mexico City. It is dated 9-10-1997:\n\n<em>“Our bathroom has double doors with obscure glass windows. Catherine had her nose pressed against it the other night and was exclaiming ‘how pretty.’  As I looked at the black and green mosaic tile with bright blue and red paint, I could think of many other words to describe it.  Yet Catherine was right – the light reflecting through the kaleidoscope-type glass was pretty.  O Lord may I never fail to see the beauty in life.”</em>\n\nAs we begin the Thanksgiving season, I plan to look for beauty all around me. I know it is there.','Sunrise on Miller Farm','','publish','open','open','','sunrise-on-miller-farm','','','2014-11-02 06:00:36','2014-11-02 12:00:36','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5351',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5356,1,'2014-11-09 06:00:50','2014-11-09 12:00:50','Our  Old English sheepdog came to us nine years ago at age nine weeks. Our bond was instant. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/toby_2mo_060205.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5357 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/toby_2mo_060205.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Toby_2Mo_060205\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>He’s been my best friend and trusty companion ever since and is constantly by my side.\n\nNow that he\'s grown, picking him up is next to impossible, but that doesn\'t stop him from sitting on my lap.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/toby-on-lap.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5360 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/toby-on-lap.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"toby on lap\" width=\"150\" height=\"125\" /></a>\n\nWhen Toby was five, Buster joined our family. We inherited the little Maltese from my daughter and, since the dogs had spent time together at family gatherings, we didn’t have issues when Buster came to live with us permanently.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/toby-and-buster.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5361\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/toby-and-buster.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" /></a>Watching the two dogs together has taught me some important lessons about life.\n<h2><strong><em>Be Loyal (but not to a fault) </em></strong></h2>\nLoyalty can be a huge asset, but my canine boys have taught me blind loyalty is foolish. Walking is our ritual. Three times a day we hike around the area. I always do the early morning sunrise walk, but sometimes, I’m on deadline or absorbed in writing and those noontime and evening walks aren’t going to happen. They might prefer my company, but necessity often dictates they have to go with my husband. Loyalty is definitely an asset, but not to a fault. Sometimes, we have to do what it takes to get the job done.\n<h2><strong><em>Trust your instincts. </em></strong></h2>\nI see this principle often when I walk the dogs. Both will react if they deem someone or some animal we meet along our way as threatening. I trust their instincts. There might be a bear or coyote lurking that I can’t see. Sure, it’s important to take time to listen to others’ input. But in the end, we should heed our gut instincts.\n<h2><strong><em>Know what you want and be super persistent. </em></strong></h2>\nDogs know persistence pays. Buster and Toby recline by my chair at mealtime like bookends. One on my left, one on my right. They don’t beg unless ice cream or pizza crust is involved. Then Toby sits in that perfect sit he never seemed to manage in dog obedience class and Buster, not to be ignored, jumps up on the edge of my chair.\n\nLooking into those Bambi eyes staring up at me, I cave. The scenario reminds me how very, very important dogged persistence can be. We should never give up on our goals.\n\nPoor Toby and Buster don’t always get to lick the ice cream bowl…especially if company’s here. Seeing a dog lick a bowl humans use tends to freak some people out. But hey, that’s what the sani-wash option on the dishwasher is for. Even if we fail, we can learn what to do better next time or what techniques or approaches work, and what doesn’t.\n\nLast, and probably the most significant, thing Buster and Toby have taught me is ...\n<h2><strong><em>Unplug. Go outside and play.</em></strong></h2>\nWriting is a solitary occupation. I tend to spend hour upon hour at my laptop. For Toby and Buster, it’s boring. With technology penetrating every portion of our lives and jobs, it’s easy to be online and working 24-7. We forget the importance of refreshing our mind and body.\n\nToby will nudge my elbow and Buster will whine – not pretty, but effective – until I give up and push away from the computer, iPad, or iPhone. I never regret spending the time with them.\n\nI return to my laptop renewed and I’m not imagining the effect. Research suggests <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-pozen/exercise-productivity_b_2005463.html\">exercise can actually improve productivity</a>.\n\nWhat about you do you have a trusted canine companion? What lessons have you learned from your dog?','Lessons I\'ve Learned from my canine pals','','publish','open','open','','lessons-ive-learned-from-my-canine-pals','','','2014-11-09 06:00:50','2014-11-09 12:00:50','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5356',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5374,1,'2014-11-23 06:00:41','2014-11-23 12:00:41','We recently attended a family wedding three states away in Wisconsin. We discussed whether to fly or drive.\n\nNot for long though. You see our bucket lists contain a visit to all fifty states. Driving would help tick off two states … if we took a northern route back home to Colorado.\n\nFamily and friends cautioned about the possibility of adverse weather if we traveled by car in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. We listened and then decided to take our chances.\n\nWith our two four-legged children loaded in the car, we headed north.\n\n(Note: Their advice would have been so correct if we had made the trip last week during the deep freeze and snow of the early winter storm in those states. We didn\'t. We were nestled all snug in our cabin in Colorado watching Casper, Wyoming with temperatures of -35 degrees on the evening news.)\n\nAs it worked out, we were so glad we drove.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5369\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/custer.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5369\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/custer.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Little Bighorn National Cemetery\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a> Little Bighorn National Cemetery[/caption]\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5371\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"109\"]<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/scenery.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5371\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/scenery.jpg?w=109\" alt=\"Teddy Roosevelt National Park\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" /></a> Teddy Roosevelt National Park[/caption]\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe beauty of the landscape was breathtaking.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThe people we met  friendly and interesting.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5373\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\"]<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/pub.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5373\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/pub.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Lunch in Portage, WI\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a> Lunch in Portage, WI Pub[/caption]\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The wedding inspiring.</p>\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5370\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"112\"]<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/km.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-5370 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/km.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"k&amp;m\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a> Congratulations, Abram &amp; Becca[/caption]\n\nThis Thursday many of us will be gathering to eat turkey and all the trimmings with family and friends.\n\nIn 1621, the Plymouth the Pilgrims and Indians celebrated survival and the hopes of future good fortune on the first Thanksgiving.\n\nOur trip of over 3,500 miles reminded me of the awesome things we have to celebrate this Thanksgiving Day.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Majestic mountains</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Fields ripe with grain to harvest</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Moonlight on lakes</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Water rushing in streams and cascading down waterfalls</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And, most of all the fellowship of family and friends</p>\n\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#ff9900;\">Happy Thanksgiving!</span></h1>','Thankful for…','','publish','open','open','','thankful-for','','','2014-11-23 06:00:41','2014-11-23 12:00:41','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5374',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5390,1,'2014-11-16 06:00:32','2014-11-16 12:00:32','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nYou would think that having lived in Texas most of my life I would expect the weather to be unpredictable. However, winter’s arrival caught me off guard.\n\nSure, the weatherman predicted a wintery blast, but I don’t always believe the weatherman. He said there was a cold front coming in on Tuesday.\n\nWhen I got up to swim, it was 65 degrees. By lunch it was in the 40s. I realize that doesn’t sound cold to people who live north of here but for us Texans who put up with 95+ degrees all summer, 40 is COLD.\n\nIf you don’t believe me, ask the chickens.\n\nWhen I went to close them up Wednesday night they had their heads tucked under their wings.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/headless-chicken.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5391\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/headless-chicken.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"headless chicken\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" /></a>It was a disconcerting sight at first until I realized what I was seeing.\n\nOf course, I didn\'t have my phone with me the first night, but I remembered to take it Thursday when more artic air arrived.\n\nIt took several tries to get the picture and the poor chicken kept turning its head to see what was happening every time the camera clicked.\n\nWhen I finally set the flash and got this picture, I decided not to press my luck. After all, I’ve had to deal with a grumpy hen in the past.\n\nWhat I have to remember is, this is Texas. It is likely to be back up to 80 by the weekend.','It’s Cold on Miller Farm','','publish','open','open','','its-cold-on-miller-farm','','','2014-11-16 06:00:32','2014-11-16 12:00:32','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5390',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5401,1,'2014-11-30 06:00:42','2014-11-30 12:00:42','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThe best part about holidays is having everyone at home, all three children, and all six dogs.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/jengo14.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5405\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/jengo14.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"jengo14\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" /></a>Included in the six dogs are Miller and Jengo, the occasional houseguests. Miller is a dachshund and fits right in with our pack. Jengo, however, is a beagle mix and still acts like a puppy. This can be a good thing.\n\nFor instance, he likes to chase the ball I throw for Tucker. If he gets to it first, then Tucker chases him and they both run around the back yard for a bit. This buys me a few more minutes as I’m feeding chickens in the morning. Jengo tends to wake up with lots of energy so taking laps around the back yard is a necessary part of his routine.\n\nThen he likes to come in and play with the other dogs that may or may not want to play. Sadie will play for a bit and then she gets grumpy. So Jengo moves on to Bella who is eager to play for a few minutes but not nearly long enough for Jengo. Coco tends to stay completely away from him and Tucker is the supervisor of the pack. He barks at them when it is time to stop. Jengo doesn’t listen very well.\n\nWe watched the movie “How to Train Your Dragon 2” the other night. The story revolves around an alpha dragon that controls all other dragons in his nest except the baby dragons who listen to no one.\n[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QwqESb558U]\n\nI decided that Tucker is our “alpha dragon” and Jengo is a baby dragon. He doesn’t listen to anyone. It is a good thing he is a cute “baby dragon”.','Dog Days at Miller Farm','','publish','open','open','','dog-days-at-miller-farm-2','','','2014-11-30 06:00:42','2014-11-30 12:00:42','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5401',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5407,1,'2014-12-07 06:00:53','2014-12-07 12:00:53','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nPutting up Christmas decorations requires Christmas music. At least at our house.Thus began my search for a CD we bought last year entitled <a href=\"http://www.christianbook.com/casting-crowns/peace-earth-cd/pd/CD22698\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Peace on Earth</em></a>. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/cd22698_w185.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5408\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/cd22698_w185.png\" alt=\"cd22698_w185\" width=\"185\" height=\"185\" /></a>It was not at the house so I figured I must have taken it to school.\n\nToday I was at school getting all my materials together for my classes this week.  I planned to read the book <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Little-Drummer-Board-Book-book/dp/B002VKFLVU/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Little Drummer Boy </em></a>to my Pre-K class, but I couldn’t find it.  <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/512dmfu85gl__aa160_.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5409\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/512dmfu85gl__aa160_.jpg\" alt=\"512DmFU85GL__AA160_\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" /></a>After an unsuccessful search in the L section of my classroom library, I remembered I was going to check to see if our <em>Peace on Earth</em> CD was in my classroom.  It was not.\n\nSo I went back to looking for Little Drummer Boy, which I found wedged in my copy of <em>Little Rabbit Foo Foo.</em>\n\nAll of this goes to prove that you cannot have <em>The Little Drummer Boy</em> and <em>Peace on Earth</em> in the same room.\n\nAs the mother of a percussionist, I should have known this.','Peaceful Drummer Boy?','','publish','open','open','','peaceful-drummer-boy','','','2014-12-07 06:00:53','2014-12-07 12:00:53','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5407',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5411,1,'2014-12-14 06:00:57','2014-12-14 12:00:57','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nSeveral years ago, we downsized our Christmas tree. Space was an issue as well as ease of construction – we bought an artificial pre-lit tree.\n\nThis meant there was no longer room for all the ornaments, which was good news for our children.\n\nTheir handmade ornaments with pictures from elementary school that were always hung and, because I think they are precious ornaments, I placed them to the front. Howeverthe 17, 19, and 21 year olds are not so fond of them. So I put the treasures back in the ornament box to be saved for when they have all moved away.\n\nThis year our oldest Catherine helped me set up the tree. I unpacked the ornaments and she hung them on the tree.\n\nTogether we evaluated which ornaments would go on and which to save for another year. We had fun remembering the origin of the ornaments.\n\nThere was the cinnamon ornament in the shape of Texas that someone made us before we moved to Mexico.\n\nThen there were the ones Beekeeper Brian and I got on our honeymoon and the hot air balloon I picked up in Albuquerque at the museum. Several are made by Beekeeper Brian’s grandmother out of duck eggs.\n\nBy far the most fun is the set we got the Christmas before Catherine was born. At the time we had no animals living at our house and no idea of what the future held.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ornaments.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5412\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/ornaments.jpg?w=293\" alt=\"ornaments\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" /></a>If only we had known how prophetic those chicken ornaments would be!\n\nEveryone has those special decorations in their family.  Take time to pass on the stories that go with them.  It is what makes families unique.','Deck the Halls','','publish','open','open','','deck-the-halls','','','2014-12-14 06:00:57','2014-12-14 12:00:57','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5411',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5415,1,'2014-12-21 06:00:18','2014-12-21 12:00:18','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nTwenty-one years ago, my parents gave me a Christmas sweater. It was something they knew I would never buy for myself but would love.\n\nThey were absolutely right. I wore that sweater for many years starting with our daughters first Christmas.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/christmas-1993.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-1885 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/christmas-1993.jpg?w=133\" alt=\"Christmas 1993\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nThis very same daughter has borrowed this sweater not once but twice to enter in “tacky Christmas sweater” contests. This year she’s loaning it out.\n\nI would be offended except for two years running, my sweater has won.\n\nI think I deserve at least some kind of prize for having held on to that sweater long enough for college kids to think it is tacky.\n\nToday I pulled out my Christmas sweatshirt. It is even older than my tacky sweater.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/saras-sweatshirt1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1905\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/saras-sweatshirt1.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Sara\'s sweatshirt\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" /></a> <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/front-of-sweatshit.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1906 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/front-of-sweatshit.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"front of sweatshit\" width=\"150\" height=\"93\" /></a>After my first Christmas program (which was several years before our first daughter was born), my students presented it to me. It has the name of the Christmas musical – “The Town Hall Christmas Tree” – on the front and all the kids’ handprints in red and green on the back and down the arms.\n\nMy mother purchased a Christmas sweater for herself at the same time as she bought my sweater. Definitely fits the ugly sweater category.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/my-sweater.jpg\"><img class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-1887 aligncenter\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/my-sweater.jpg?w=133\" alt=\"O\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nBut the overall winner of our ugly holiday apparel would be the red sweat suits with appliqued Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. The suits are long gone, but oh what fun Christmas memories!<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/christmassweatshirts.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1890 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/christmassweatshirts.jpg?w=160\" alt=\"christmassweatshirts\" width=\"160\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nYOUR TURN: Do you have an entry for an ugly holiday apparel contest?\n\n&nbsp;','Don We Now our Ugly Holiday Sweaters','','publish','open','open','','don-we-now-our-ugly-holiday-sweaters','','','2014-12-21 06:00:18','2014-12-21 12:00:18','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5415',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5421,1,'2014-12-28 06:00:02','2014-12-28 12:00:02','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nI was in my bedroom getting ready for work when I heard a chicken.  On Miller Farm, this is normal.\n\nThe clucking was coming from right outside my window.  This is not normal.\n\nI put shoes on and went outside to see which one of our silly birds had spent the night outside the coop.  As I rounded the corner of the house, I spied the escapee – except there was one problem.\n\nThis was not my chicken.\n\nMy first thought was from the book <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Are-You-Mother-Beginner-Books-ebook/dp/B00480OHWK/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Are You My Mother?</em></a>\n\nIn the story, the little bird is searching for its mother when it comes upon a steam shovel.  It quickly realized that this was not its mother.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/snort.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5422\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/snort.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"snort\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" /></a>\n\nI named the stray bird “Snort.”\n\nNow you may wonder how I distinguish my chickens from others.  It isn’t always easy but this bird was a barred rock, and we have none of that variety at the moment.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/chicken-snort.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5423\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/chicken-snort.jpg\" alt=\"chicken-snort\" width=\"221\" height=\"259\" /></a>Being a Chicken Wrangler, I could not leave her out in the open so I scooped her up and carried her to our coop.  She was very calm about the whole process, until I let out all our chickens.\n\nYou see, chickens are not particularly kind to strange birds.  They chased the poor stray around the yard until she flew up to the fence.\n\nI tried to catch her again to clip her wings so she wouldn’t meet Bella (the chicken-killing dachshund). Since I was unsuccessful,  I left the dogs inside while I went to work.\n\nWhen I got home, the first thing I did was check the backyard.  Sticking out from a bush against the fence was a chicken head.\n\nThe stray bird had flown the coop again.  She seemed to want to go back inside the fence so I caught her, clipped her wings and put her back with the others.\n\nMeanwhile I have asked my friend with chickens if she is missing a barred rock.  She is checking her chickens.\n\nI may have to post a “Found Chicken” sign at the corner. Someone may be missing their chicken.','You’re Not My Chicken! You\'re A Snort.','','publish','open','open','','youre-not-my-chicken-youre-a-snort','','','2014-12-28 06:00:02','2014-12-28 12:00:02','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5421',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5428,1,'2014-12-31 06:00:30','2014-12-31 12:00:30','As we said goodbye to 2014 and welcome in 2015 tonight, I’m sure many of us will sing the traditional “Auld Lang Syne.”\n\nI aim to watch the ball drop in Times Square and join in to sing. Of course, there’s no guarantee I won’t fall asleep, as I’m prone to do long before midnight. But I can always watch the re-run.\n\nLike everyone else, I’ll fumble and mumble through the verses, singing the chorus much louder. It’s the part I know best.\n\nAnd once again, I’ll wonder what I’m singing like Harry Burns, played so well by Billy Crystal, did in <em>When Harry Met Sally</em>.\n\n“My whole life, I don’t know what this song means. I mean, ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot?’ Does that mean that we should forget old acquaintances? Or does it mean that if we happened to forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot them?”\n\nThis year I decided to figure out the answer to those questions. Since I broke my right wrist the Saturday before Thanksgiving and had surgery on Tuesday before turkey day, I’ve been doing more reading than typing anyway.\n\nWhat I discovered is “Auld Lang Syne” translates to “times gone by.” Robert Burns wrote the 1700’s Scottish poem, which was then set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Round # 6294).\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/300px-john_masey_wright_-_john_rogers_-_robert_burns_-_auld_lang_syne.jpg\"><img class=\" size-full wp-image-5430 aligncenter\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/300px-john_masey_wright_-_john_rogers_-_robert_burns_-_auld_lang_syne.jpg\" alt=\"300px-John_Masey_Wright_-_John_Rogers_-_Robert_Burns_-_Auld_Lang_Syne\" width=\"300\" height=\"478\" /></a>\n\nYou can find the original words <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne\">here</a>.\n\nThese are the words translated from the Scottish dialect in case you want to impress someone tonight.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Should <em>old</em> acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should <em>old</em> acquaintance be forgot and <em>old</em> lang syne?</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my <em>dear</em> for auld lang syne, we\'ll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And surely you’ll <em>buy</em> your pint <em>cup </em>and surely I’ll <em>buy</em> mine! And we\'ll take a cup o’ kindness yet for auld lang syne.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">CHORUS</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We <em>two have</em> run about the <em>slopes</em>, and <em>picked</em> the <em>daisies</em> fine; but we’ve wandered <em>many</em> a weary <em>foot</em> <em>since</em> auld lang syne.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">CHORUS</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We <em>two have paddled</em> in the <em>stream from</em> morning sun till dinner; But seas between us <em>broad have roared since</em> auld lang syne.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">CHORUS</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And there’s a hand my trusty <em>friend a</em>nd <em>give me</em> a hand o’ thine! And we’ll <em>take</em> a right <em>good-will draught for</em> auld lang syne.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">CHORUS</p>\nWhile Burns never intend for the words to be a holiday song, today it is well known for bidding farewell to an old year at the stroke of midnight. It’s also used at funerals, graduations and as a farewell or ending to other occasions.\n\nGuy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians have credit for popularizing the song during a live performance at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York in 1929. CBS broadcast the first half of his performance and, after midnight, NBC broadcast the second half. Between the two performances, his band segued by playing \"Auld Lang Syne.\"\n\nThus a tradition was born.\n\nAnd, if you want to practice before your New Year’s Eve celebration  or, know you’ll be fast asleep at midnight like me, try singing along with this YouTube video featuring Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians from 1947.\n\n[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx3g6hlxWI4&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]','Auld Lang Syne – What are we saying?','','publish','open','open','','auld-lang-syne-what-are-we-saying','','','2014-12-31 06:00:30','2014-12-31 12:00:30','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5428',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5434,1,'2015-01-09 06:00:10','2015-01-09 12:00:10','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nA friend recently invited me to a luncheon where she served the most wonderful sandwiches.  She also served a quinoa salad, dried fruit and a broccoli salad. However, the sandwiches caught everyone’s attention.\n\nThere were three kinds of sandwich fillings including a pineapple salad. Each sandwich was cut in half diagonally and then the cut part was dipped in nuts.  As we enjoyed the meal, she explained that she had been served these sandwiches at another luncheon, but they had been cut into circles so there was no crust.\n\nThis led to a discussion about bread crusts and which families had members who regularly removed the crusts.\n\nThen someone remarked they had recently seen <em>crustless </em>bread at our local store. It was not a particularly intellectually stimulating conversation but lovely nonetheless.\n\nWhen I got home, I went to feed the chickens.  I had some random bread to give them along with their regular food.  As I shut the gate and headed back to the house I noticed something interesting:\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/crust.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5436\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/crust.jpg?w=298\" alt=\"crust\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" /></a>The chickens had left the bread crust.  Perhaps I should buy them <em>crustless</em> bread.','Crustless Bread','','publish','open','open','','crustless-bread','','','2015-01-09 06:00:10','2015-01-09 12:00:10','',0,'http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5434',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5439,1,'2015-01-12 06:00:55','2015-01-12 12:00:55','January is the time for making resolutions for the New Year. Resolutions  never works for me. Too vague.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/new-years-resolutions.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2077\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/new-years-resolutions.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"New Year\'s Resolutions, list of items\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" /></a>\n\nIf you read this blog regularly, you know I’m big on <a href=\"http://wp.me/p1tg5L-12X\" target=\"_blank\">measurable goal setting and AARs</a>.\n\nHowever, if you are one of those who does make resolutions and need some hints and tips, check out <a href=\"http://wp.me/p1tg5L-xn\" target=\"_blank\">this blog</a>.\n\nNo resolutions for me this year, but I have done my yearly ARR– after action review – and posted my 2015 goals to my accountability group.\n\nI was pleasantly surprised during my review to discover 2014 was a good goal year.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/finished.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5442 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/finished.jpg?w=113\" alt=\"finished\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" /></a>All the work on our house was completed. Landscaping changed the mountains of dirt from the remodel and addition to flower gardens and lovely walks. We ended the year with the hammers and saws stopped and the workers are all gone.\n\n<strong>Goal success.</strong>\n\nI managed two releases <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/claiming-annies-heart/id926024696\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Claiming Annie\'s Heart</em></a> and <em><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/when-love-blooms/id892248750\" target=\"_blank\">When Love Blooms</a>.    </em>You can find both at all major on line book retailers for your e-readers or paperback.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2014-books.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5443\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2014-books.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2014 books\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" /></a>\n\nUnfortunately, my writing goal was to release three books.<strong>     Goal failure.</strong>\n\nYep! That\'s the thing about goals. Sometimes we\'re spot on. Sometimes we do all we can and fall short. Trouble is without goals we lack focus and too frequently flounder aimlessly.\n\nWe need to set goals then analyze why we fail AND why we succeed.\n\nNot hard for me to know why my third book didn\'t materialize. Last November I fell while playing Pickleball and broke my right wrist. Typing became, and still is, slow and sometimes painful.\n\nI’m not beating myself up too much over the goal bust since what happened was a circumstance beyond my control. Well, mostly.\n\nThere are those who have aptly pointed out, trying to be athletic at this stage in my life maybe be a foolish goal and suggest I might want to eliminate such activity in the future instead of risking more injuries. I\'ve taken the suggestion under consideration.\n\nWe\'re twelve days into 2015. It\'s cold, rainy, freezing in Texas. Colorado is sunny, bright, and snowless. Not the norm.Seems to me this is going to be a crazy year based on the start of things.\n\nI’ve set my goals for the New Year and I’m going full speed ahead. What about you?\n\nLet\'s check back together this time next year and seem how we\'ve done on our resolutions and goals.','What’s ahead? What was behind?','','publish','open','open','','whats-ahead-what-was-behind','','','2015-01-12 06:00:55','2015-01-12 12:00:55','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5439',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5450,1,'2015-01-14 06:00:46','2015-01-14 12:00:46','<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/every-year-is-like-a-new-journal-by-holley-gerth-300x300.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5451\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/every-year-is-like-a-new-journal-by-holley-gerth-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Every-Year-is-Like-a-New-Journal-by-Holley-Gerth-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a></span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Love this graphic by <a href=\"http://holleygerth.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Holley Gerth</a> and so appreciate her willingness to share.</span>\n\n<span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">I’m already writing as fast as I can to fill the pages of 2015 with good words and great things. </span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Not dwelling on the past </span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">or worrying about the future. </span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Simply taking each day as it comes.</span><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\"> </span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">Moving forward. </span></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:medium;\">How about you?</span></p>\n&nbsp;','Blank Pages','','publish','open','open','','blank-pages','','','2015-01-14 06:00:46','2015-01-14 12:00:46','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5450',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5454,1,'2015-01-16 06:00:16','2015-01-16 12:00:16','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nFor some reason, this Christmas I felt compelled to take a family picture.  Matthew will be graduating from high school in May and so no one will be living at home.\n\nOf course, everyone will come home for holidays – at least I hope they will. In any case, I convinced the family to get together for a picture.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/family.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5456\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/family.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"family\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" /></a>This looks great – right? Well what I\'m not showing you are all the previous attempts.\n\nWe started in the living room with the camera set on a timer. Brian pushed the button then jumped over the coffee table to sit on the couch.  The flash did not go off.  We repeated this process many times with the same results.\n\nI kept flashing back to all the Christmases where my father set the camera up on the bar and ran around to get in the group picture of all the kids and spouses. It made me laugh then and still makes me laugh to think about it.\n\nAnyway, we decided to move the party outside.  This way anyone driving by could witness the insanity that is Miller Farm.\n\nTurned out this was actually a much easier process. Until I suggested we include the four-legged family members.  Each person would hold his or her own dog.\n\nSince I don’t officially have a dog, Matt suggested we get a chicken for me to hold. We all vetoed that very quickly.  Bella and a chicken in the same picture could not turn out well.\n\nInstead, I stood surrounded by the people and dogs I love so well. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/family-with-dogs.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5457\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/family-with-dogs.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"family with dogs\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" /></a>\n\nMaybe next year we’ll figure out a way to include the chickens in the picture.','Miller Farm Family Picture','','publish','open','open','','miller-farm-family-picture','','','2015-01-16 06:00:16','2015-01-16 12:00:16','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5454',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5460,1,'2015-01-26 06:00:15','2015-01-26 12:00:15','I recently shared potluck supper at our community center with the smidgeon of others who ventured out on a snowy eve.\n\nCommunity potluck happens every second Tuesday of the month from September through May here in our little town. We’re primarily a tourist location. Our summer population swells to four thousand then shrinks to three hundred for the winter months.\n\nWe have way too many people to schedule a potluck during the summer in our tiny community center, but it’s a fun event in the winter. You can visit face-to-face with neighbors who otherwise stay huddled inside their homes close to a fire on these cold wintry days.\n\nYou never know what you’ll find on the serving table on potluck Tuesday. The selection varies except for Dwayne’s chicken and dumplings, which is the main reason I go every month. Dwayne makes the best ever homemade dumplings. He and his wife Edna were chuck wagon cooks and they do know how to cook.\n\nMe, I bring different things. Nothing baked, though.\n\nI’ve yet to master high altitude baking. High altitude adjustments don’t seem to work for my scratch recipes no matter what adjustment advice I use. My hubby doesn’t mind the flops, but I’m not about to take the failures out in public.\n\nLast time I took what I call Sunshine Salad. After a dreary day of snow, I thought the bright colors of orange Jell-O with mandarin oranges and pineapple might cheer us up.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/sunshine-salad.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5462\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/sunshine-salad.jpg?w=298\" alt=\"sunshine salad\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nI was right. People smiled and I took home and empty bowl!\n\nThe hiccup came when everyone wanted the recipe and I had to confess what I served wasn’t really, truly Sunshine Salad.\n\nYou see, my Grandmother made her Sunshine Salad using the traditional congealed salad recipe you’ll find if you Google <em>Sunshine Salad</em>.\n\nShe used lemon Jell-O and lemon juice and topped each serving with a dollop of mayonnaise. Lemon is not sweet enough for my family’s discerning palate.\n\nNot only that, she added shredded carrots and pecans.\n\nTwo of my adult kids and half my grandchildren won’t touch nuts with a ten foot pole much less eat nuts and carrots are a VEGETABLE.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/carrot-salad.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5463\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/carrot-salad.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"carrot salad\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" /></a>I loved Oma\'s Sunshine Salad. Still do.\n\nBut I love my kids and grandkids more.\n\nThat\'s why I made up my Sunshine Salad recipe using sweet mandarin oranges and pineapple tidbits jelled in a ring mold.\n\nWhenever the family gathers to share a meal, we serve the standard things with sides for those who eat those things, but I can’t have half the guests starving.\n\nI fix their favorites -- Kraft macaroni and cheese along with my special pineapple/mandarin orange Sunshine Salad.\n\nThey’ve come to expect it. And I see the same smiles on their faces that I saw on the adults at the community potluck last week.\n\nSmiles that were sunshine to the eyes on a snowy day.\n\nI guess Sunshine Salad will become my standby like Dwayne\'s chicken and dumplings.','Sunshine Salad, Smiles, and Community Potlucks','','publish','open','open','','sunshine-salad-smiles-and-community-potlucks','','','2015-01-26 06:00:15','2015-01-26 12:00:15','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5460',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5469,1,'2015-01-19 06:00:40','2015-01-19 12:00:40','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/mlk.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4093\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/mlk.jpg?w=201\" alt=\"MLK\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" /></a>Martin Luther King was the pivotal figure in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. His calm civil disobedience and charismatic leadership inspired men and women, young and old, here and around the world.\n\nPresident Ronald Reagan signed legislation in 1983 designating the day as a federal holiday to honor the man and his accomplishments.\n\nDr. King inspired so many, so much that in 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize – the <a href=\"http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html\">youngest man</a> to receive the prestigious honor.\n\nWhen we think about amount of violence prevalent today and the increasingly violent movies, television shows and video games, I totally agree with Dr. King\'s daughter, Bernice.\n\n<a href=\"http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/18/us-usa-king-idUKBREA0H0H620140118\">“Dr. King\'s philosophy of non-violence is more relevant, I believe, than it was 10 years ago,” she said. “America has an enormous appetite for violence. I don\'t know why we have such an affinity for that, but I do know it has to stop.”</a>\n\nThrough his lectures and dialogues, he stirred, and still stirs, our conscience. Consider these MLK quotes as you honor him today:\n<h4>On Leadership</h4>\n“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”\n<h4>On Love</h4>\n“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”\n<h4>On Getting Along</h4>\n“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”\n<h4>On Faith</h4>\n“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”\n<h4>On Service</h4>\n“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don\'t have to have a college degree to serve. You don\'t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”\n\nAnd as you think about that last quote, I remind you of the legislation passed in in 1994 establishing <a href=\"http://mlkday.gov/index.php\">Martin Luther King Day of Service</a> to encourage citizens to use the federal holiday as an opportunity to give back to their communities.\n\nEven if you don’t have the federal day <em>off</em>, I encourage you to find a work that forwards King\'s vision and participate. Let MLK Day be the start of a year in which you make a  positive <em>and peaceful</em> impact in your community.','Peace and MLK Day','','publish','open','open','','peace-and-mlk-day','','','2015-01-19 06:00:40','2015-01-19 12:00:40','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5469',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5477,1,'2015-01-23 06:00:46','2015-01-23 12:00:46','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThe weather was horrible here on Miller Farm last week. It was cold and rainy from Saturday until Friday.\n\nFor those of you dealing with snow and ice, I expect no sympathy. However, as I was standing in the cold rain, feeding chickens, I had lots of sympathy for myself.\n\nThe chicken yard was a complete disaster. I had to really concentrate to keep from slipping and falling in the mud.  And the chickens weren’t laying many eggs.\n\nThen the sun came out.  It was a glorious sight.\n\nAs the ground was drying, I realized how bare it was. We had put seven bags of leaves out before the holidays, and they had all disintegrated. On Sunday as I walked the dogs, I saw several bags of leaves by the curb in front of various houses. I made a mental note to go back with the truck and pick them up to put out in the chicken yard.\n\nPicking up things on the curb is a family pastime although usually it involves furniture left when people move out. Leaves are not particularly interesting unless you have chickens.\n\nLast time Rachel and I picked up leaves we filled the truck and planned to return for the rest. The owner of the house had moved the bags away from the curb when we returned.  Perhaps he changed his mind about getting rid of them.\n\nAnyway, on my way home from swimming Monday morning I noticed bags of leaves in front of a friend’s house.  I figured it was safe to pick these up – she wouldn’t likely change her mind.  So I loaded them up and took them home.\n\nAfter breakfast, I spread them out in the chicken yard. The birds were so excited.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/chicken-leaves.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5478\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/chicken-leaves.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"chicken leaves\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>As I walked back up to the house, I heard the sound of leaves crunching as the chickens scratched through them. It was the sound of happy chickens.\n\nNow maybe they will resume laying eggs.','Happy Chickens','','publish','open','open','','happy-chickens','','','2015-01-23 06:00:46','2015-01-23 12:00:46','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5477',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5489,1,'2015-01-30 06:00:37','2015-01-30 12:00:37','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nIt all started with this simple question:  Do your chickens eat bread?\n\nA friend was helping at a food distribution event and had a lot of bread left over. She did not want to throw it in the dumpster so she asked if we could feed it to the chickens.  We figured bread is made of grain and chickens eat grain so chickens must eat bread.\n\nMy husband went and picked up what turned out to be several boxes of very nice bread – sour dough, cranberry, whole wheat and many others.  Most of it was in fine condition – much too good to feed to chickens so we pulled out the good loaves and started calling friends to see if they wanted any.\n\nThat was several years ago. Now every Friday I go and help my friend with this food distribution that has turned out to be more than just bread. In fact it is like Christmas when the truck opens the door.  We’re never quite sure what we will find. There have been cases of bananas, avocadoes, beets, turnips, and bags of onions, carrots, grapefruit, and oranges.\n\nWe have started calling whatever is in abundance the “secret ingredient”.  Some people make a game out of seeing how many ways they can fix whatever we get in abundance.\n\nOne week recently there was spaghetti squash.  Most people did not know how to fix it so as I handed it out, I explained what to do with it.  There was still a lot left over which I brought home and gave to any of our friends and neighbors who wanted it.  I even had people I didn’t know who heard we had a truck load of squash and came to get some.  It is an interesting way to meet people to say the least.\n\nLast week’s “secret ingredient” was apples.  They came in a large (the size of cardboard box that stores put watermelons in) wooden crate. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/apples.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5490\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/apples.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"apples\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>We put them in bags which seems simple enough.  Except it was raining and cold.  We bagged apples until our hands were numb. What was leftover after the distribution I loaded as much as I could fit into the back of my truck along with the leftover bread, cabbage, grapefruit, and bananas. When I got home I covered the back of the truck with a tarp and went inside to thaw out.\n\nWhen my son got home from school, he said, “Mom I need to make an apple cobbler.” He was totally unaware of what I had in the truck.\n\nI smiled and said, “I just happen to have some apples.”\n\nMatt made cobbler, Brian made apple butter, and I made apple pie, baked apples and dried apples. This was after giving apples to everyone we know.\n\nNow we are ready for this weeks “secret ingredient.”','Do Chickens Eat Bread?','','publish','open','open','','do-chickens-eat-bread','','','2015-01-30 06:00:37','2015-01-30 12:00:37','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5489',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5492,1,'2015-02-02 06:00:45','2015-02-02 12:00:45','Recently I met a new friend. Her name is Heather Von St. James, and she\'s a mesothelioma cancer survivor. At age 36, just 3 ½ months after giving birth to her first and only daughter, she was given 15 months to live.\n\nHeather\'s contact surprised me. Pleasantly surprised me. When readers take the time to comment or email, it means my writing has done its job—resonated with readers. I do love hearing from readers about  <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judythe-Morgan/e/B00802MJPY\">my books</a> and here on the blog.\n\nBut back to Heather\'s email. She asked me to share her story. It’s a touching and inspiring story.\n\nIf you aren\'t familiar with <a href=\"http://www.mesothelioma.com/mesothelioma/\" target=\"_blank\">mesothelioma cancer</a>, it\'s also known as asbestos cancer.\n\nAsbestos is a mineral with versatile properties that made it useful for everything from fireproof vests to home and commercial construction prior to 1980. Asbestos was even woven into fabric, and mixed with cement. Asbestos was everywhere.\n\nNot anymore. As useful as it was, asbestos proved to be a known cause of lung cancer. Check<a href=\"http://www.mesothelioma.com/asbestos-exposure/jobsites/homes/\" target=\"_blank\"> here</a> to learn more about asbestos and mesothelioma cancer.\n\nHeather stands as testimony that a diagnosis of asbestos cancer does not have to be a death sentence. You can view her incredible story <a href=\"http://youtu.be/f_1-3e7ZdAs\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>\n\nWhen Heather learned of her diagnosis, she made the tough decision to have her lung removed. Now every year she celebrates <a href=\"http://www.mesothelioma.com/blog/authors/heather/throw-your-fears-to-the-fire.htm#ixzz3QQFDjxzS\">Lungleavin Day</a>, the day her lung was removed. She writes her fears on a plate and tosses the plate into a bonfire. The action provides a means to conquer the fear her cancer diagnosis brought. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/lld1-st-james-blog.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5493 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/lld1-st-james-blog.jpg?w=218\" alt=\"LLD1  ST James Blog\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nShe says, <em>“</em><em>There is something about giving voice to your fears, writing them down, then smashing them in a fire, and seeing the shards of that plate, and those shards of fears in the flames that gives you courage to face up to them and not let them rule your life.</em><em>”</em>\n\nRead all about her Lungleavin\' Day  <a href=\"http://bit.ly/1vo1ozq\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> at The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Blog.\n\nToday marks Heather’s ninth Lungleaving Day. She has invited us to celebrate with her via an interactive Leavin’ Day website.\n\nSo whether you have mesothelioma or some other form of cancer, join me at <a href=\"http://www.mesothelioma.com/heather/lungleavinday/#.VM0LQI10ypo\" target=\"_blank\">Lungleaving Day 2015</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/lld-plate-smash.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5494\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/lld-plate-smash.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"lld-plate-smash\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" /></a>We’ll write our fear on a cyber plate and toss it into the fire. As Heather says, <strong><em>“</em></strong><strong><em>We break plates. And it works.</em></strong><strong><em>”</em></strong>','Leavin\' Cancer Fears','','publish','open','open','','leavin-cancer-fears','','','2015-02-02 06:00:45','2015-02-02 12:00:45','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5492',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5480,1,'2015-02-04 06:00:40','2015-02-04 12:00:40','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/snowflake.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5482\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/snowflake.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"snowflake\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>Even before words became my trade, they fascinated me. I was one of those weird kids who actually looked forward to vocabulary lists and looking up all those meanings.\n\nI loved spending the night with my BFF in high school because her father challenged us at breakfast with a new word for the day. One of Mr. C\'s words was <em>ratiocinate.</em>\n\nNow, I have to admit that I didn\'t use <em>ratiocinate</em> much except when my children were younger. During my children\'s heated arguments, I\'d say, \"Let\'s keep the ratiocinating to a dull roar.\" Hearing the <em>big </em>would quiet the raised voices until they caught on. Even now the word comes to mind more than you’d think.\n\nBtw, <em>ratiocinate</em> means to reason or argue rationally. ORIGIN, according to Dictionary.com: 1635-45; &lt; Latin <em>ratiōcinātus</em> past participle of <em>ratiōcinārī</em> to reckon, calculate, conclude, verbal derivative of <em>ratiō</em> reason\n\nAs I write my stories and blogs, I try to not to repeat the same words over and over. My thesaurus paperback is well worn and tea stained. I think I’m on my third or fourth copy. My fingers will automatically go to Shift F7 so Microsoft Word can instantly bring up their embedded thesaurus. Other times I go to Thesaurus.com to come up appropriate synonyms.\n\nLately I’ve been overusing wintery words like cold, frosty, frozen, icy, chilly, winter, hibernate to name a few. Who doesn\'t with the wintery weather plummeting the country? Does your backyard look like this? Mine does.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/winter.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5483\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/winter.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"winter\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>\n\nI headed to my trusted sources and found some alternates for the overused words. How about these?\n\n<em>Hibernaculum</em> instead of <strong>hibernate </strong>ORIGIN: 1690-1700; from Latin: winter residence\n\n<em>Gelid </em>instead of <strong>icy </strong>ORIGIN: c.1600 from Latin <em>gelidus </em>icy cold, from <em>gelu </em>frost\n\n<em>Frore</em> instead of <strong>frozen </strong>ORIGIN: 1200-50; Middle English <em>froren</em> past participle of Old English <em>frēosan</em> to <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">freeze</span>\n\nJust think about it, Disney could have used <em>Frore</em> for the title of their popular movie, FROZEN.\n\n<em>Hiemal</em> instead of <strong>winter </strong>ORIGIN: \"pertaining to winter,\" 1550s, from Latin <em>hiems</em> \"winter\"\n\n<em>Algid</em> instead of <strong>cold </strong>ORIGIN: 1620-30 from Latin <em>algidus,</em> from <em>algēre</em> to be cold\n\nI\'m wondering how my newfound wintry words will work on social media or in my current work in progress. Do you think the new words will work?\n\nIf you shook your head, I think you’re correct.\n\nThere are so many, many wonderful words in dictionaries and thesauruses. Unfortunately, we use them less and less because of texting and tweeting.\n\nMy BFF\'s father Mr. C would be so sad to see how we\'re wasting words.\n\nI know the trend makes me sad.','Wintry words','','publish','open','open','','wintry-words','','','2015-02-04 06:00:40','2015-02-04 12:00:40','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5480',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5501,1,'2015-02-06 06:00:19','2015-02-06 12:00:19','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>by Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nLast Wednesday was one of those days where there were more things on my to-do list than hours in the day.  I knew this as I was swimming at 5:30am and was already stressing about it. Not a good sign.\n\nA trip to Wal-Mart was on my list which, in and of itself, is a stress inducer.  Since I was going anyway, I decided to take our recyclables.  This included plastic, paper and tin cans.  Our Wal-Mart has a drive through recycling center so I don’t even have to get out of the car.\n\nAs I pulled up, I saw a group of small children gathered around the plastic sorting bin.  Standing behind the bin was a bee.  Not just a regular bee but a human sized bee.  I took a picture.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/bee-suit.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5502\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/bee-suit.jpg?w=231\" alt=\"bee suit\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nThe kids were from a local school and were on a fieldtrip learning about recycling.\n\nI had to smile in spite of my stressed out self.  I figured the day was turning out to be ok after all.\n\nNow if I can just get my hands on that bee suit… I’m sure I can think of a place to wear it.','Mutant Bee','','publish','open','open','','mutant-bee','','','2015-02-06 06:00:19','2015-02-06 12:00:19','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5501',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5505,1,'2015-02-11 06:00:39','2015-02-11 12:00:39','According to French writer François Rabelais, “<em>Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective, and valuable than words</em>.”\n\nWith Valentine’s Day this weekend, I expect romantic gestures will abound. Every year at this time sales of red roses and chocolates will soar. Couples share candlelight dinners.  Expensive jewelry is exchanged. All very romantic things to do to express love for one\'s sweetheart.\n\nI\'m wondering how whatever gestures of love are made this weekend can conpete with these:\n\n<strong>Shah Jahan’s Taj Mahal<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/taj-mahal.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5508\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/taj-mahal.png\" alt=\"Taj Mahal\" width=\"250\" height=\"251\" /></a></strong>\n\nAround 1632 Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal—with its elaborate minarets, 250-foot-high domed mausoleum and 42-acre grounds—as a tomb for his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth to the couple’s 14th child. When he died in 1666, he was buried beside her.\n\n<strong>Edward VIII’s Abdication of the Throne <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/edward-and-wallie.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5509\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/edward-and-wallie.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"edward and wallie\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" /></a></strong>\n\nKing Edward the VIII became the most romantic English royal of all when he fell in love with American Wallis Simpson. Forced to choose between love and crown, Edward abdicated the throne in December 1936. Simpson quickly divorced her husband to marry Edward the following year. They spent the rest of their lives in retirement in France.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/brownings.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5510\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/brownings.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"brownings\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" /></a><strong>Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Love Sonnets to Robert Browning</strong>\n\nThe love between poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning is one of literature’s greatest romances. In 1850 Elizabeth Barrett’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” a series of love poems composed when the pair first began their courtship was published. “Sonnets from the Portuguese” includes the immortal line, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”\n\n<strong>Joe DiMaggio’s Flowers for Marilyn Monroe</strong><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/marilyn-monroe.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5511\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/marilyn-monroe.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"marilyn monroe\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" /></a>\n\nMarried to Marilyn Monroe for only 274 days in 1954, Joe DiMaggio remained infatuated with the legendary blonde bombshell for the rest of his life sending red roses to her grave in Los Angeles three times a week for the next twenty years.\n\nOver the years, my very romantic husband has given me some incredible wonderful gifts of love.\n\nHe\'s not built a Taj Mahal, but a lovely home in the forest I dearly love sharing with him.  He  hasn\'t abdicated a throne, but if he were royalty, he tells me he would. He has written love poems, and given me Hallmark cards, that equal or surpass Mrs. Browning\'s sonnets. And, though I won\'t be around, I can see him leaving me flowers. He surprises me frequently with a lovely bouquet,\n\nHow about you have you received some awesome romantic gesture(s) of love you\'d be willing to share?','Four Passionate Romantic Gestures','','publish','open','open','','four-passionate-romantic-gestures','','','2015-02-11 06:00:39','2015-02-11 12:00:39','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5505',0,'post','',3);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5517,1,'2015-02-13 06:00:24','2015-02-13 12:00:24','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nOur school secretary/business administrator is a wonderful lady. I’ve always known that the school secretary is the one who runs the school, and that is never truer than in a small private school. When she was gone for a few days taking care of her husband it took 4 people to do her job.\n\nShe has two grandsons who were in my music classes when they were at the school.  They frequently visit so I keep an eye out at the food pantry for things they might enjoy.  Each week I stop by the school on my way home to deliver whatever prizes I have found.\n\nLast Friday Mary had a prize for me.  She had been working at a garage sale and found a basket of cookie cutters.  Among them was this:<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cookie-cutter.jpg\"><img class=\" size-medium wp-image-5518 alignright\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cookie-cutter.jpg?w=247\" alt=\"cookie cutter\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" /></a>She immediately thought of me.\n\nI was thrilled. I have quite a collection of cookie cutters – thanks to my mother - but a chicken was not among them.\n\nOver the weekend, along with canning 6 pints of tomato sauce, 6 pints of spiced apples, 4 half pints of apple butter, and freezing 10 cups of mashed sweet potatoes, I made chicken cookies.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cookies.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5519\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cookies.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"cookies\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>\n\nI took them to school and left them in the teacher workroom with a note explaining that they were chicken cookies – sugar cookies shaped like chickens, not cookies made from chicken.  At least one teacher was glad for the clarification.','Chicken Cookies','','publish','open','open','','chicken-cookies','','','2015-02-13 06:00:24','2015-02-13 12:00:24','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5517',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5521,1,'2015-02-18 06:00:38','2015-02-18 12:00:38','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/love.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5526 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/love.jpg?w=123\" alt=\"love\" width=\"123\" height=\"150\" /></a>Love is in the air. It is, after all, February.\n\nI must confess I\'ve caught the love bug and I\'m having an affair.\n\nA love affair with words.\n\nLong before I met my husband and shared my heart with him, words held me in their spell.\n\nThe affair goes way back to when I learned the alphabet and started to string letters into words. Then I learned to read words and instantly knew …\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Words are powerful. Potent.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Words enchant. Entice.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Words stir emotions.</p>\nI listened to nursery rhymes, chants, and children\'s poetry read from <em>My Book House</em>, a series of twelve volumes compiled and edited by <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Beaupre_Miller\">Olive Beaupré Miller</a>.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/my-book-house.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5522 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/my-book-house.jpg?w=105\" alt=\"My book house\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" /></a>Stories and poetry from <em>My Book House</em> opened worlds I’d never imagined. As I grew older and worked my way through the volumes, biographies of famous men and women down through history inspired me, folklore from around the world fascinated me, and poetry from Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Song of Solomon inspired me.\n\nCurled up reading through those volumes, my love for words grew stronger and blossomed into a love of books.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/love_book-wide.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5523\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/love_book-wide.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"?????????\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" /></a>I doubt I’ll ever abandon my affair with words, but don’t worry my husband doesn’t mind. He loves books as much as I do. Thank heavens the supply of books is unending.','A Love Affair','','publish','open','open','','a-love-affair','','','2015-02-18 06:00:38','2015-02-18 12:00:38','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5521',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5529,1,'2015-02-25 06:00:34','2015-02-25 12:00:34','February is almost over. We\'re moving at warp speed through 2015. So how are you doing on those plans and resolutions from New Year’s Day?\n\nIf you’re like me, that faucet of enthusiasm has slowed to a trickle or off entirely. Barely a drip.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/water1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5530\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/water1.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"water1\" width=\"150\" height=\"136\" /></a>\n\nIt\'s time to heed the words of a great writerly quote from <a href=\"http://www.louislamour.com/aboutlouis/biography.htm\">Louis L’Amour</a>, an American author of hundreds of authentic western novels:\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>“The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”</em></p>\nThe full quote, <em>“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”</em> provides great advice for writers.\n\nYou see when life spins out of control writers, well at least to this writer, lets the distractions stop my writing. Instead of moving ahead, I tend to think, “I’ll just finish __________ then I’ll get back to writing.”\n\nFill in the blank with whatever distracts you from working toward your goal. You don’t have to be a writer to fall into the distraction trap.\n\nWhat happens is each passing day we don’t work on our goal or resolution, it becomes easier <em>not</em> to do what we planned. Doesn’t take long before self-doubt makes us question if our project is even worth the time at all.\n\nHere are four ways I plan to get myself back on track, and turn my faucet on again.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/water2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5531\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/water2.jpg?w=145\" alt=\"water2\" width=\"145\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n<strong>Establish a Schedule </strong>\n\nA schedule doesn’t have to be set in stone or the same every single day or week. Make it adjustable. Most important, put the time slots on your calendar the way you would any other appointment or commitment.\n\n<strong>Seize Small Chunks of Time</strong>\n\nAn hour may not seem like much, but you’d be surprised at what can be accomplished in a small, <em>consistent,</em> and repeated amount of time. Snatch those minutes wherever you can.\n\nMy goal for 2015 is two books published so I’m training myself to keep my iPad with me and write wherever I go like when I’m waiting at the doctor’s office or a passenger in the car. Since I live in the mountains and the nearest Wal-Mart, doctor, or grocery store is at least thirty minutes away. I’m amazed at how my word count builds.\n\n<strong>Set your goal as your priority every day. </strong>\n\nI work toward my goals BEFORE I do any other tasks for the day. I find if<strong> I </strong>do the laundry, clean the house or any of those other very necessary tasks first<strong>, I </strong>always run out of time. You will too.\n\n<strong>Reward Small Successes</strong>\n\nBe proud of small incremental steps. I remind myself almost on a daily basis that one word a day gives me 365 words of my novel by the end of the year. When I write an entire chapter, I celebrate with chocolate, usually M&amp;Ms!\n\nIf you’re like me and your faucet isn’t flowing as it should, it’s not too late. Do not give up or abandon your goals and resolutions altogether.Rejuvenate that motivation you had six weeks ago. Turn your faucet on.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/water3.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5532\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/water3.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"water3\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Hear that water rushing?  Now turn your faucet on and let it flow steadily.\n\n&nbsp;','4 Ways to Keep Your Productive Faucet Flowing','','publish','open','open','','4-ways-to-keep-your-productive-faucet-flowing','','','2015-02-25 06:00:34','2015-02-25 12:00:34','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5529',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5538,1,'2015-02-20 06:00:55','2015-02-20 12:00:55','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThere are many things I have been told throughout my life that I have come to realize are just not true.  For example, I’ve always thought that a bee can only sting someone once and then it dies.  I learned this weekend that is a myth.\n\nWe had an unusually warm day on Saturday so the bees thought it was Spring and  were out gathering pollen. One of the hives sits on the back porch right next to the path I take to the chicken coop.  During the real Spring, I alter my path so as not to disturb the bees. This being February, I didn’t think about walking around the busy bees.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/varroamiteonahoneybee.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1358\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/varroamiteonahoneybee.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"VarroaMiteOnAHoneybee\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nHalfway to the chicken yard I felt a sting on my back. I instinctively reached back to brush away the bee and quickly felt a sting on my finger.  Then there was buzzing in my hair.  I began to walk quickly around the yard saying “go away, go away.” This was one of the times I was grateful for the privacy fence.   Then the buzzing stopped.\n\nI took care of the chickens then went back inside (via the alternate path) to have Brian check my back for a stinger.  There was none but I had definitely been stung.  Then the buzzing started again.  I headed for the door but Brian called me back so he could find the bee.  It took every bit of self- control I had to stand still while he searched my hair.  He knocked the bee to the ground and then used a napkin to pick it up.  It had lost its stinger but was still alive – until Brian squished it.  That reminds me of a song - I’m bringing home a baby bumblebee…..but I digress.\n\nSo the myth of bees only stinging once is busted.  Next, I’ll tackle the myth that only roosters crow.','Mythbusting on Miller Farm','','publish','open','open','','mythbusting-on-miller-farm','','','2015-02-20 06:00:55','2015-02-20 12:00:55','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5538',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5541,1,'2015-03-04 06:00:35','2015-03-04 12:00:35','The tradition of predicting how long Old Man Winter keeps us in his grip based upon whether the groundhog sees its shadow has ancient roots.\n\nEuropean’s celebrated Feb. 2 (winter’s midpoint) on Candlemas Day, a festival of lights that also included a folk song for predicting the arrival of spring.\n\n<em>If Candlemas be fair and bright, </em><em>Come, winter, have another flight;</em>\n\n<em>If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, </em><em>Go winter, and come not again.</em>\n\nThe German settlers of Pennsylvania brought the tradition along with their folk song:<em> </em>\n\n<em>For as the sun shines on Candlemas Day, So far will the snow swirl until the May.</em>\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/brer_groundhog_at_work1.gif\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5544\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/brer_groundhog_at_work1.gif\" alt=\"brer_groundhog_at_work\" width=\"166\" height=\"259\" /></a>Then the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club added a slight variation with <a href=\"http://www.groundhog.org/about/history/\">Punxsutawney Phil</a>, who has predicted Old Man Winter’s length since the first trek to Gobbler’s Hill in 1887.\n\nThese days we don’t think of the old folk songs. We’ve worry about two possibilities:\n\n<em>If the prognosticating groundhog (also known as a woodchuck, or whistle-pig), sees its shadow, it becomes frightened and scurries back into its burrow. This means six more weeks of winter. </em><em> </em>\n\n<em>If it\'s cloudy and the groundhog does not see its shadow, he stays outside. This indicates a mild spring. </em>\n\nLast month on the 129th official Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter. Long Island’s Malverne Mel and Michigan’s Bill Murray went along with Phil\'s forecast.\n\nHowever, his country cousins – Staten Island’s Chuck, Georgia’s General Beauregard Lee, Ohio’s Buckeye Chuck and Las Vegas’ Mojave Max – all disagreed, predicting an early spring.\n\nStormfax <a href=\"http://www.stormfax.com/ghogday.htm\">says</a> Phil has only been right 39% of the time. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club boasts he has 100% accuracy.\n\nThis year I’m thinking Phil was spot on. If you’ve watched the news for the last four weeks you know most of the country is buried beneath a lifetime quota of snow, ice, and cold.\n\nMy concern is Phil’s six more weeks of winter ends on March 16. That’s two weeks from now. I’m not sure Old Man Winter will surrender.\n\nIn fact, as I write this, snow is coming down outside. The weather forecast is for nineteen inches with more snow next week. How on earth will those crocus and daffodils I planted last fall push through all the white stuff?\n\nPlease Old Man Winter, give it up. My daffodils beg you.\n\nAnd, so do I!','OLD MAN WINTER vs THE GROUNDHOG','','publish','open','open','','old-man-winter-vs-the-groundhog','','','2015-03-04 06:00:35','2015-03-04 12:00:35','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5541',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5550,1,'2015-02-27 06:00:23','2015-02-27 12:00:23','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nThe private school where I teach music does a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta each year and has for the past 37 years.  When I took the job I specified that I could not help with the operetta.  Our children were still in elementary school and I knew the time commitment of a performance would be beyond my ability.  This was fine as I was teaching only the elementary grades.\n\nOur enrollment has declined over the past few years so I am now the only music teacher which means I am helping with the operetta.\n\nThis year the Gala performance was last Friday evening. We had rehearsals all day every day last week. My Tuesday/Thursday teaching job became a Monday through Friday job.  Brian asked me Wednesday evening if I would have time on Thursday to pick up 25 chicks he had ordered.\n\nI took a deep breath and said “Sure, I can go during lunch.”\n\nNow picking up chicks sounds pretty simple but, remember, they have bird brains.  Each chick must have their beak dipped in the water trough so they know where to get water.  Knowing the limited amount of time I had for lunch, I decided to enlist some help. I couldn’t afford to miss any rehearsal time.\n\nOne of the students in the operetta is an experienced chick handler so I took her with me. She knew exactly what to do.\n\nI explained to the directors where I was going and what I was doing.  They had no idea how much was involved with picking up the chicks.  I felt more like an animal science teacher than a music director.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/chicks-in-brooder.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5551\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/chicks-in-brooder.jpg?w=169\" alt=\"chicks in brooder\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" /></a>Now we have chicks in the brooder in the garage once again.\n\nWe can hear them cheeping happily as we eat breakfast every morning.  I check them regularly to make sure they have food and water along with the quail, big chickens, bantam chickens, dogs and humans.\n\nHelping with the operetta doesn’t seem like so much work any more.','Operettas and New Chicks','','publish','open','open','','operettas-and-new-chicks','','','2015-02-27 06:00:23','2015-02-27 12:00:23','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5550',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5555,1,'2015-03-06 06:00:53','2015-03-06 12:00:53','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nI was working at my computer this week when I caught a glimpse of something out the front window.  At first glance it appeared that a chicken was in the road. (Was it trying to cross?  If so, why?)\n\nI got up and started toward the door, wondering if it was one of ours chicks or another stray chicken (see <a href=\"http://bit.ly/1FfCgLf\">You’re not My Chicken! You’re a Snort</a>.)\n\nAbout that time a car drove by and the bird took flight.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/turkey-vulture.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5556 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/turkey-vulture.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"turkey vulture\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nIt looked like a small plane – huge wingspan.  It was a turkey vulture.  It flew to the roof across the street then waited in the yard for a while.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/turkey-vulture2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5557\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/turkey-vulture2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"turkey vulture2\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" /></a>Eventually it flew away.\n\nYesterday the grandmother of a piano student was waiting in the driveway and said she saw some huge birds circling the back yard.  I sure hope it wasn’t the turkey vulture and his friends.  Chickens I will wrangle but I draw the line at turkey vultures.','That’s No Chicken','','publish','open','open','','thats-no-chicken','','','2015-03-06 06:00:53','2015-03-06 12:00:53','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5555',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5559,1,'2015-03-13 06:00:48','2015-03-13 11:00:48','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nEvery year at Christmas, I sing “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” It’s a real song I promise.\n\n[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dec9Jb_Ac4&amp;w=420&amp;h=315]\n\nThis year Rachel got me a hippopotamus – she made me a hippo hat.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/hippo-hat.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5560\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/hippo-hat.jpg?w=158\" alt=\"hippo hat\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" /></a>I love it. Now I can sing “I Got a Hippopotamus for Christmas!” – which I do.\n\nThis week we had another cold spell so I wore my hippo hat to school. The kids (and teachers) all love It was so worth it.d it.\n\nI wore it all day and as I walked into the teacher’s room at lunch, all the teachers were looking at me. I explained that I could not take my hat off because I now had “hippo hair.”<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/hippo-hair.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-5561 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/hippo-hair.jpg?w=112\" alt=\"hippo hair\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a>They thought it was hysterical.\n\nOf course they did, their hair looked wonderful. Mine, however, looked as though a hippopotamus had been sitting on it all day.\n\nWednesday is “hat day” at school. I may wear my hippo hat again - unless I decide to wear my magic hat. Decisions, decisions……','Hippo Hair','','publish','open','open','','hippo-hair','','','2015-03-13 06:00:48','2015-03-13 11:00:48','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5559',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5568,1,'2015-03-16 06:00:50','2015-03-16 11:00:50','It’s Spring Break time and every other car in our little tourist town sports an out-of-state license plate.\n\nNot complaining. It’s great for our local businesses.\n\nAt our house, grandkids from Texas, siblings, nieces, and friends are coming to enjoy skiing, snowmobiling, and hiking beneath the bright, blue Colorado sky.\n\nAgain, not complaining. It’s great to see them.\n\nSpring Break time brings another phenomenon—MUD.\n\nSquishy, slippery, mud puddles line the edges of the road, the yards, the trails. Ruts are carved into every unpaved road. Mud gathers on your shoes, in your car, in your house, on your dogs’ paws. It’s everywhere.\n\nThe Forest Service marks hiking, snowshoe, and snowmobile trails based upon safety issues. Many trails close because the roads are deemed unsafe, but you can still see some wonderful snow-covered mountainsides in the Rio Grande National Forest if you are careful.\n\nWe ventured out in our four-wheel vehicle with our granddaughter, Catherine, and her friend, Caleb, while they were here.\n\nWe did fine until we tried to show Catherine the trail where her father comes to fish every summer. The trail was not blocked nor was it snow covered.\n\nBut we did get stuck…in guess what—MUD.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/stuck-in-mud-snow.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5574\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/stuck-in-mud-snow.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"stuck in mud-snow\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" /></a>Very stuck. The car sat perpendicular to the roadbed on a very squishy, slippery, rutted road after a failed U-turn.\n\nCatherine, Caleb, and I tried to push our Pilot SUV out of the ditch. No luck.\n\nWe slipped rocks under the tires to gain traction. No luck.\n\nWe used the dog’s car water dish as a shovel to try to dig out. No luck.\n\nNight was falling fast. The temperatures were dropping. We called for help, but had to leave a message with a friend who has towing capability.\n\nAs we sat patiently waiting for a return call, Catherine, our very smart, very talented oboe-playing granddaughter, says, “Floor mats. I think I remember reading to use floor mats under the tires when you’re stuck in snow or mud.”<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/catherine-and-caleb.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5570\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/catherine-and-caleb.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Catherine and Caleb\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nBrilliant girl, our Catherine. Brilliant guy, Caleb.\n\nBetween the added traction from the heavy-duty place mats and the strength of the two college kids pushing from the front, the car, once again, headed back to paved road.\n\nMud covered us, our jeans, our boots, and our hands, and face, and caked in our hair. The outside of our car was now polka-dotted in mud, and the inside of the car oozed in mud.\n\nWhile it wasn’t so amazing during the excitement, quite the opposite, I can look back now and say, what an amazing adventure!\n\nAnd two amazing college kids have returned home with a long-to-be-talked-about Spring Break MUD adventure.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','SPRING BREAK, MUD, and AMAZING ADVENTURES','','publish','open','open','','spring-break-mud-and-amazing-adventures','','','2015-03-16 06:00:50','2015-03-16 11:00:50','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5568',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5580,1,'2015-03-20 06:00:19','2015-03-20 11:00:19','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nI recently gathered all my materials to teach the song “Chicken on a Fencepost” to my 3<sup>rd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> graders. (See previous post<a href=\"http://wp.me/p1tg5L-GH\" target=\"_blank\"> Chicken on Fencepost</a> for a look at the music.)\n\nThis included two chicken puppets that make chicken noises when “played” just right. I made them several years ago and the sound was so authentic, the chickens in the backyard came running to meet their new friends.\n\nThe sound is made by running a damp sponge along a string running through the top of a cup which is decorated to look like a chicken. The students love it. (And so do I.)\n\nAs I demonstrated the proper technique, a tragedy occurred. The string broke.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/repairing-chickens.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5582\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/repairing-chickens.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"repairing chickens\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" /></a>Then the comb fell over. It was a sad sight.\n\nFortunately I had another, smaller, chicken puppet that worked for the moment. Of course, everyone wants to use the bigger chicken so I’ll have to fix it eventually.\n\nI am probably the only person on earth who has a “to do” list which includes “repair chicken.”','Repairing Chickens','','publish','open','open','','repairing-chickens','','','2015-03-20 06:00:19','2015-03-20 11:00:19','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5580',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5584,1,'2015-03-26 06:00:25','2015-03-26 11:00:25','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>A Guest Blog by Gail Kittleson</em></p>\nSomeone decided to take an older relative to Europe to celebrate her retiring from work. When they broke the news, the woman said, “Oh . . . I’ve really been wanting to go to Florida.”\n\nAnother friend of a friend was discussing her plans to go to Oktoberfest. My friend asked, “Wonderful—have you been in Germany before?”\n\n“Oh, we’re not going to Germany, we’re going to Oktoberfest at the Epcot Center.”\n\nThe two conversations stuck in my mind, since both reactions were unexpected.\n\nThese narratives fit my purposes right now because today I had an unexpected, pleasant surprise.\n\nA friend of mine has found numerous ancient pottery shards in her Arizona yard. She’s also unearthed a Native American grinding stone, and when I recently met a man who worked on our house, he said the excavators discovered a large metate (most likely the mate of the grinding stone) on the property back in the eighties.\n\nThis was especially intriguing, since one of my historical novels takes place right here. My heroine looks out at the Mogollon Rim every morning, and in her forced isolation on a desolate ranch, that landmark steadies her, gives her hope. She yearns to meet some natives and learn their language.\n\nResearch tells me several tribes wandered this land, but the news about the grinding stone found <em>right under our house . . . </em>Wow!\n\nBack to the shards.\n\nI’ve looked and looked, but nary a shard peeped up at me from the rocky red soil, and I resigned myself to being shard challenged. But on this gorgeous March morning, TA DA  . . . drum roll, please,\n\nI found one!<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/shardsed.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5587 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/shardsed.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"shardsed\" width=\"150\" height=\"111\" /></a>\n\nYes, and it actually matches a larger piece my friend found last year. How cool is that?!\n\nYesterday I attended a contemplative prayer workshop facilitated by a well-known instructor. He shared how spiritual experiences come to us when we least expect them, and how our part is simply to show up.\n\nWe might be “doing everything right,” disciplined in our practice, and nothing seems to happen. Then one day, maybe we feel wretched and unfaithful and so ridiculously unworthy, we can hardly lift our heads. And that might be the time we experience our clearest connection.\n\nEvery other time I went out to search for shards, I hoped to find one. So why, when I’d pretty much given up on success, did I discover one today?\n\n“Ours is not to reason why . . .”\n\nOurs is just to show up with our whole hearts and open ourselves to the moment. Such a positive way to face life – our work, our hobbies, and our spirituality.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</strong></p>\n Meet <a href=\"http://www.gailkittleson.com/\"><strong>Gail Kittleson</strong></a><strong><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gail-jpeg.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5585\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gail-jpeg.jpg?w=109\" alt=\"Gail-Jpeg\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" /></a></strong>\n\nSometimes we learn what we\'ve done only after we do it. I wrote <em>Catching Up With Daylight</em> over a ten-year period, but learned the term \"spirituality writing\" only after the book was published. This is a life theme for me--figuring things out after the fact, but even though it may make things a little harder, I learn a lot in the process. I live with my very patient husband (35 years) in St. Ansgar, Iowa, teach a small creative writing class, and facilitate workshops on creativity/memoir writing/aging with grace. Vintage Rose Press offered me my first fiction contract in December, 2014, so I\'m deep in edits and loving every minute of it.  Well, almost every minute...\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/catching-up-with-daylight-copy-194x300.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5586\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/catching-up-with-daylight-copy-194x300.jpg?w=97\" alt=\"Catching-Up-with-Daylight-copy-194x300\" width=\"122\" height=\"189\" /></a> <em>Catching Up with Daylight: A Journey to Wholeness</em> is available from</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">Amazon <a href=\"http://amzn.to/1FxDkN1\">Paperback</a> or <a href=\"http://amzn.to/1xvO5sb\">Kindle</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">              Barnes &amp; Noble <a href=\"http://bit.ly/1DyyEXR\">Paperback</a> or <a href=\"http://bit.ly/1BRBd4Z\">Nook</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><a href=\"http://bit.ly/1wX1qid\">Christian Books.com</a></p>','Showing Up','','publish','open','open','','showing-up','','','2015-03-26 06:00:25','2015-03-26 11:00:25','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5584',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5591,1,'2015-03-23 06:00:45','2015-03-23 11:00:45','I can see your cringe and your wrinkled brow on the other side of the computer screen when you read today\'s blog title. I hear the muttered protest, “I’ll read, but please don’t ask me to write a book review.” I guessing you have one or more of the concerns I read in a recent post by <a href=\"http://bit.ly/1FKK2PM\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Reeves</a> about why readers don’t write reviews. • Readers may not know exactly what to say or how to say it • Readers are wary of attacks from other readers with different opinions • Readers don’t want to hurt the author’s feelings or invoke the wrath of a popular author’s loyal readers • Readers are concerned that they don\'t have the writing skills necessary to write a review. All are legitimate reasons, but also reasons easily overcome if you truly want to support your favorite authors. You can write a book review. Really. A book review is simply a conversation about a book you’ve read. A good book review talks about the story and tells others why you did or didn’t like the book. There are only two no-no’s when you write and post a review: • Never include “spoilers” (elements of the book that should surprise) • Don’t allow personal prejudices or attitudes about the author or anything not related to the writing to intrude into your review. Now, consider the benefits of writing a book review. • A good book review helps readers decide if a book is for them. • A good book review helps authors improve their writing. Authors recognize not all readers will love their “baby” as much as they do. Even bad reviews are valuable, if they are constructive. Most important, when you write (and post) a book review to sites like Amazon and GoodReads, you help increase an author’s visibility. The more reviews a book has, the more likely the author and their book will be noticed in the great sea of available books. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/reader.gif\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5592\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/reader.gif?w=265\" alt=\"reader\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" /></a>Now, go finish reading your book and then write a review. You can do it. I know you can.','Write a Book Review? Why?','','publish','open','open','','write-a-book-review-why','','','2015-03-23 06:00:45','2015-03-23 11:00:45','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5591',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5598,1,'2015-03-27 06:00:55','2015-03-27 11:00:55','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>by Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nMost people assume we have chickens for the fresh eggs they provide. While this is certainly true, there is also the entertainment factor.\n\nFor example, I looked out my kitchen window last week and saw this:\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/chick1.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5599\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/chick1.jpg?w=268\" alt=\"chick1\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" /></a>They are standing on Beekeeper Brian’s bee hives.</p>\n Even if I wanted to pose them like this, I would not attempt it. I took several pictures through the window figuring that as soon as I opened the back door, they would all jump down.\n\nThen I decided to risk it:<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/chick2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5600\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/chick2.jpg?w=169\" alt=\"chick2\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" /></a>The white chicken saw me first – and jumped down.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/chick3.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5601\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/chick3.jpg?w=202\" alt=\"chick3\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" /></a>The others soon followed.\n\nI’m thinking of installing a chicken-cam to record all day. There’s no telling what I miss when I have to go to work. I’d much rather stay home and watch the chickens.\n\nOf course, the children I teach can be equally entertaining at times.','Why We Have Chickens','','publish','open','open','','why-we-have-chickens','','','2015-03-27 06:00:55','2015-03-27 11:00:55','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5598',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5604,1,'2015-03-30 06:00:13','2015-03-30 11:00:13','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/reach-for-goal.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5605\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/reach-for-goal.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"reach for goal\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" /></a>As a writer, I have goals: x-number of words, pages, chapters per day, a book published by a specific date then…\n\nLife erupts.\n\nCircumstances change.\n\nAccidents happen.\n\nWhat I want to do and what I do become a major disconnect.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.jennycrusie.com/\">Jennifer Crusie</a> says, “<em>Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving …</em> .”\n\nDisconnecting between goals and actions is unavoidable even if you’re not a writer and <em>not caving</em> is too often easier to say than do.\n\nLet me suggest two ways to connect your want and your action to prevent <em>caving</em>:\n<ol>\n	<li><strong>Stick to your goal even if it takes longer than you want to achieve.</strong></li>\n	<li><strong>Never settle for less than what you are capable of.</strong></li>\n</ol>\nDoes your goal sometimes seem out of reach?\n\nKeep focusing, keep aiming!','Disconnect between wants and actions','','publish','open','open','','disconnect-between-wants-and-actions','','','2015-03-30 06:00:13','2015-03-30 11:00:13','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5604',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5608,1,'2015-04-03 06:00:19','2015-04-03 11:00:19','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">As I was driving down our street last week, I spotted a loose dog. This happens periodically and I don’t always take any action.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This dog, however, was dragging a leash. I figured someone would be chasing it so I stopped to help. An older couple driving slowly in a car pulled up beside me. I figured they were the owners, but alas, they were also Good Samaritan dog catchers.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Between us and a man out working in his yard, we were able to grab the leash. There was no collar. The leash was simply draped around the dog’s neck. What’s more, the dog was very skinny and very scared.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/a-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5609\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/a-1.jpg?w=296\" alt=\"a-1\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" /></a>I tried to pick her up to put her in my car and she winced and snapped at me.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I knew her life had not been good.</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I called Beekeeper Brian and then walked the dog to our house. Beekeeper Brian gave her some food while I went to retrieve my car. We coaxed her into the backyard and went to run some errands.</p>\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/a-m2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5610 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/a-m2.jpg?w=136\" alt=\"a-m2\" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" /></a>When we returned, Matt was sitting in the backyard with her. “I named her Anabelle” he said. Within a couple of hours, she was following him around the yard. She even let him pick her up.\n\nOver the next few days I called the local animal shelters and checked the Facebook Lost and Found page for our area. No one was looking for Anabelle. Matt was glad.\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Anabelle gets along great with the dachshunds. She chases Tucker as he chases his ball. He gets slightly annoyed with her at times but then he gets annoyed with anyone who gets between him and his ball.</p>\nWe’re looking for a good home for Anabelle. Matt loves her, but he will be going off to college in August. He’s willing to let her go to the right “forever” home.\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Meanwhile, I have quite a canine trail following me to check the chickens. If Anabelle were a dachshund I probably wouldn’t even notice.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/a-dogs3.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5611\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/a-dogs3.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"a-dogs3\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" /></a></p>','One of These Dogs is not Like the Others','','publish','open','open','','one-of-these-dogs-is-not-like-the-others','','','2015-04-03 06:00:19','2015-04-03 11:00:19','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5608',0,'post','',4);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5617,1,'2015-04-01 06:00:46','2015-04-01 11:00:46','The Easter season always reminds me of my years as Children’s Ministry Director. With all the hype about Easter eggs and bunny rabbits around, children can become confused about the real meaning of the season.\n\nI loved explaining the true significance of this most holy Christian holiday in terms the children understood.\n\nOne lesson involved  <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/resurrectionrollstitlewm.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5622\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/resurrectionrollstitlewm.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"ResurrectionRollstitlewm\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" /></a>As we prepared, baked, and shared the rolls, I\'d remind the kiddos that this is not magic. The dough bakes as it’s supposed to. The marshmallow melts as it’s supposed to do. And the sweet syrupy filling left behind reminds us of God’s grace, free to all.\n\nWhen teaching the lesson, I also pointed out the other symbolism:\n<ul>\n	<li>Marshmallow – the body of Jesus</li>\n	<li>Butter –  oils used in burial</li>\n	<li>Cinnamon and sugar – the spices used to perfume the body</li>\n	<li>Dough – the tomb</li>\n	<li>Baked roll with empty center - representing the empty tomb following the resurrection</li>\n</ul>\nHere’s the recipe if you’d like to try it with youngsters, or the young-at-heart, around your house.\n\nIngredients:\n<ul>\n	<li>1 package refrigerated crescent rolls, preferably Pillsbury</li>\n	<li>8 large marshmallows</li>\n	<li>3 Tablespoons melted butter or margarine</li>\n	<li>¼ cup granulated sugar</li>\n	<li>½ tsp cinnamon</li>\n</ul>\nInstructions\n<ol>\n	<li>Mix cinnamon and sugar together ahead of time.</li>\n	<li>Melt butter in microwave ahead of time.</li>\n	<li>Preheat oven to 375. (Turn oven on just before beginning to assemble rolls.)</li>\n	<li>Separate crescent rolls and lay individual triangle on workspace.</li>\n	<li>Dip marshmallow in butter and roll to thoroughly coat.</li>\n	<li>Roll buttered marshmallow in cinnamon sugar mixture.</li>\n	<li>Place marshmallow on narrow tip of crescent dough and roll toward the large end.</li>\n	<li>Pinch dough together firmly at edges and any thin spots.</li>\n	<li>Place on ungreased baking sheet.</li>\n	<li>Bake 10-15 minutes until golden brown.</li>\n</ol>\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jellybean-prayer.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5619 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jellybean-prayer.jpg?w=116\" alt=\"jellybean-prayer\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" /></a>Another Easter Sunday lesson I’ve used involves jellybeans.\n\nThis is a variation of the Child Evangelism Fellowship’s Wordless Book.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/wb.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5620 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/wb.jpg?w=103\" alt=\"WB\" width=\"103\" height=\"150\" /></a> Without words, <a href=\"http://www.abcjesuslovesme.com/ideas1/bible/bible-themes/1150-wordless-book\">this book</a> tells the story about God and the best gift of all.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI love Easter candy…jellybeans, Hersey candy-coated chocolate eggs, especially those marshmallow Peeps.\n\nI love the cuddly bunnies, but I think it’s very important that we remember the true reason for this season.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/istock_000005381641large-easter.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5621\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/istock_000005381641large-easter.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"God\'s love to people\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" /></a>','Simplifying Easter for Kids','','publish','open','open','','simplifying-easter-for-kids','','','2015-04-01 06:00:46','2015-04-01 11:00:46','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5617',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5628,1,'2015-04-06 06:00:19','2015-04-06 11:00:19','The idea of narcissism comes from Greek mythology.\n\n<em><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/salvador-dali-narkissos-forvandling-1936.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5629\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/salvador-dali-narkissos-forvandling-1936.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Salvador Dali - Narkissos\' forvandling - 1936\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>Narcissus, </em>a beautiful youth, spurned the nymph Echo then fell in love with his own reflection in a spring. His reflection was unapproachable so Narcissus gradually perished and became the flower narcissus or daffodil.\n\nThe myth illustrates that if you are overly egotistic or care more about yourself than others, it can lead to bad things.\n\nThat’s my cliff note version. To read the full story click <a href=\"http://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/narcissus-myth-echo/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nWe’ve all met narcissistic people. People with an inordinate fascination with themselves and who make excessive reference to themselves and their accomplishments in conversation or writing.\n\nLife is all about them and they let you know.\n\nWhat surprises (and doesn’t surprise me) is the fact that <a href=\"http://www.drkellyneff.com/about/\" target=\"_blank\">narcissism is on the rise in the U.S. according to Dr. Kelly Neff</a>.\n\nHas social media contributed to this rise? Think about it, doesn’t the very idea of a <em>“selfie”</em> imply a degree of narcissism. Methinks it does.\n\nDr. Neff talks about the correlation in her article, <a href=\"http://themindunleashed.org/2014/09/7-things-need-know-co-existing-narcissists.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>7 Things You Need to Know About Narcissists, From A Psychologist’s Perspective</em></a>\n\nWe all exhibit narcissistic traits from time-to-time. It’s called positive self-esteem and self-esteem is not a bad thing.\n\nHowever, dealing with a true narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) can drain your energy. They are manipulative and skilled at getting what they want out of people.\n\nIf you’re not sure someone you know is a true narcissist, watch for these other characteristics:\n<ol>\n	<li>Exaggerating their abilities and achievements</li>\n	<li>Constant need for attention, affirmation and praise</li>\n	<li>A strong sense of entitlement</li>\n	<li>An expectation of special treatment</li>\n</ol>\nIf you have a narcissist in your life (like I do), check out these two articles:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.drjudithorloff.com/Free-Articles/How-To-Deal-With-A-Narcissist.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How to Deal With A Narcissist</a> and <a href=\"http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-with-a-Narcissist\" target=\"_blank\">Dealing with a Narcissist</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/daffodil.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4740\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/daffodil.jpg?w=113\" alt=\"daffodil\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" /></a>Personally, I’m going to be positive and picture in my head the flower that <em>Narcissus </em>became  whenever I encounter my narcissist.\n\nOr maybe I\'ll model a character in my next book after the narcissist culprit in my life then kill him off.\n\nThat\'s one of the perks of being a writer.','Narcissist – do you know one?','','publish','open','open','','narcissist-do-you-know-one','','','2015-04-06 06:00:19','2015-04-06 11:00:19','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5628',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5637,1,'2015-04-08 06:00:23','2015-04-08 11:00:23','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/spring-work.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5638 size-large\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/spring-work.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Spring Work\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" /></a>The sun is melting away the lingering snow. Chipmunks and squirrels are scampering in the woods behind our house. Birds are chirping. Grass is turning green.\n\nPoppies are working their way through the soil in the front flower bed. The Aspen trees are budding.\n\nSpring is indeed at work with joyful enthusiasm in our mountains.\n\nThe call to dig in the dirt instead of getting words on the page is great.\n\nAre you feeling the twinges of Spring Fever?','Spring Work','','publish','open','open','','spring-work','','','2015-04-08 06:00:23','2015-04-08 11:00:23','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5637',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5645,1,'2015-04-10 06:00:33','2015-04-10 11:00:33','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>by Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nI looked out the window last week and discovered one of the chickens on top of the shed.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/on.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5646\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/on.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"on\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" /></a>This was a new trick so I snapped a picture from the back patio. Then I cautiously walked to the coop to try to coax the bird down on the correct side of the fence.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/off.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5647\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/off.jpg?w=294\" alt=\"off\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" /></a>Fortunately I was successful.</p>\nLater in the week I discovered the same bird in the yard next door. She was enjoying the lush, green grass.\n\nI thought about retrieving her but that meant walking all the way around the front of the house and through the neighbor’s gate.Or I could jump the fence.\n\nI decided to go inside and pretend I didn’t see anything.\n\nI told Beekeeper Brian we had a wandering chicken. He assured me she would return at nightfall. He also suggested I clip her wings when she did.\n\nSure enough, when I went to close up the chickens, there she was. I clipped her wings, much to her dismay. When I left, she was trying to fly up to the top of the nest boxes to roost. She has remained on the ground in her chicken yard since then.\n\nNow the gray bantam, however…..','Spreading Her Wings','','publish','open','open','','spreading-her-wings','','','2015-04-10 06:00:33','2015-04-10 11:00:33','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5645',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5650,1,'2015-04-13 06:00:14','2015-04-13 11:00:14','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/creative-brain.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-4486 size-full\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/creative-brain.jpg\" alt=\"creative brain\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" /></a><a href=\"https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/creativity-one-word-wednesda/\" target=\"_blank\">Creativity is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world</a>, and we all have slightly different ways we create.\n\nAustin Kleon in his book <em>How to Steal Like an Artist</em> suggests:\n\"Creativity isn’t just the things we chose to put in, it’s also the things we chose to leave out.\"\n\nSounds a lot like math to me.\n\nPut something in = adding; leave something out =subtracting.\n\nSome creative people start with nothing and add piece by piece until a final work is complete.\n\nThe opposite of addition is subtraction. Being creative by subtraction means you begin with a great mass of stuff, then the chip away, removing little by little until the final work is revealed underneath.\n\nExamples of creation by addition\n\n• Musicians and composers begin with a single melody line, beat, or sample and build layers until the piece of music is complete.\n\n• Weavers begin with an idea or design, and then weave thread by thread, color by color, layer by layer until the finished tapestry emerges.\n\n• Poets and writers may write one or two lines at a time, adding slowly, each word carefully chosen and placed in the correct position and sequence and complementing what’s been put there before.\n\nExamples of creation by subtraction\n\n• Archaeologists have a vague idea of what’s buried where they chose to dig, but they delicately, systematically remove the earth and debris to uncover the treasures.\n\n• Sculptors start with a chunk of their chosen medium, stone or wood for example, then chip away gradually until the sculpture emerges.\n\n• Fiction Editors begin with a completed manuscript, and then slowly remove the excess and weak parts to expose a great novel.\n\nMost creative types probably use a combination process of adding and subtracting.\n\nWhen I’m writing, I start with a premise or theme and add from that. Words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters build until I have a completed novel.\n\nOther times I use subtraction, more correctly called editing, not creating. However, I am taking a whole manuscript and chiseling away to create a finished product.\n\nWhat about you? Which do you use most adding or subtracting in your creative process? Do you think experimenting in the opposite way would expand or improve your creativity?','Adding and Subtracting for Creativity','','publish','open','open','','adding-and-subtracting-for-creativity','','','2015-04-13 06:00:14','2015-04-13 11:00:14','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5650',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5656,1,'2015-04-20 06:00:44','2015-04-20 11:00:44','Last week I shared how creativity is like math. We subtract things and we add things when we are being creative.\n\nThis week I’m considering how to apply subtraction to your life in general, not just your creativity.\n\nIt seems like there’s always something we can add to our lives. There\'s so much possibility and potential wrapped up in our choices to add this or that. We spend years accumulating stuff or doing things because we always have.\n\nSometimes it\'s easy to differentiate between what <em>should</em> and what <em>could</em> be subtracted. Other times it takes time and effort to decide what to remove.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/minus-button-hi.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5657\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/minus-button-hi.png?w=300\" alt=\"minus-button-hi\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>Subtraction is about getting to the heart of what’s important and meaningful and eliminating the rest.\n\nWhy is subtraction important?\n<ol>\n	<li>By identifying where we are and what we’re doing we can make decisions about what is robbing our time and our energy.</li>\n	<li>We can eliminate things like thoughts, outdated methods, stuff that we hang on to that doesn’t help move us forward.</li>\n	<li>We can investigate new additions that will improve our creative process.</li>\n</ol>\nI have a red pencil to subtract the things that don\'t really matter in my writing. It’s a remnant from my schoolteacher days and a reminder of the time I spent grading papers. These days I use my red pencil to take away words, sentences, whole chapters without losing what I most want to say.\n\nSometimes our subtracting requires a literal red pencil. Other times the red pencil is metaphoric. Here are a couple of examples of what I mean...\n<ul>\n	<li>The noise of the internet - twitterfacebookblogslivesphotoswords – can be become overwhelming at times. A time and energy suck. Applying the imaginary red pencil in my head, I log-out and redirect my attention to what’s important for my writing and my life.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Then there are projects and invitations. Usually worthy, but there are only so many hours in the day and so much energy to expend. I examine the pros and cons of each project or invitation based on my schedule and current workload. My red pencil draws a line through ones with more cons than pros so I have time for what’s important in my life and my writing.</li>\n</ul>\nIf the idea of subtraction is new to you, consider starting small. Try removing just one thing - one word from a sentence, one DIY project, one item of clothing from your overstuffed closet, one piece of furniture - and see what happens. The results can be monumental in re-framing the way you see and feel and create.\n\nCheck these links for more ways to subtract in your life:\n<ul>\n	<li>Many ideas to apply year round: <a href=\"http://aliedwards.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f12cbd6aabad2fe71f38a8209&amp;id=0b93c96b6b&amp;e=e769391939\">Clearing Your Life For A New Year </a>by Leo Babauta.</li>\n	<li>Specific suggestions on simplifying our lives: <a href=\"http://aliedwards.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f12cbd6aabad2fe71f38a8209&amp;id=46f0602e4a&amp;e=e769391939\">28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life </a>from Marc and Angel Hack.</li>\n</ul>','Creative Subtraction and My Red Pencil','','publish','open','open','','creative-subtraction-and-my-red-pencil','','','2015-04-20 06:00:44','2015-04-20 11:00:44','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5656',0,'post','',1);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5661,1,'2015-04-27 06:00:57','2015-04-27 11:00:57','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/keyboard.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5664\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/keyboard.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"keyboard\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>In these days of touch screens and keyboarding, handwriting seems a lost art. Personally, I think that’s a shame.\n\nI’ve also discovered studies show handwriting has the advantage over typing on creativity, memory, and information retention.\n\nDon’t believe me?\n\nStudies by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer have shown that using your laptop or note app for note taking actually hinders your ability to learn information.\n\nYou can read their <a href=\"http://bit.ly/1DZt41l\" target=\"_blank\">full research paper here</a> or check out this <a href=\"http://wapo.st/1EAadss\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post article on the paper</a>:\n\nInteresting conundrum if you’re a teacher. Do you allow your students to use technology or require handwritten note taking?\n\nEven if we’re not students or teachers, the Mueller and Oppenheimer study suggests handwriting offers four benefits.\n<h3>·Increases Conceptual Understanding</h3>\nStronger conceptual understanding means more success in applying and integrating of material.\n<h3>·Enhances Cognitive Processing</h3>\nYou can only write so fast, so your brain processes more as your hand writes more of the crucial data. Typing may be faster, but cognitively the words of the other person are not sinking into your brain.\n<h3>·Stimulates short-term <em>and </em>long-term memory</h3>\nHandwriting stimulates more effective memory cues because you’re forming the context and content in your own words.\n<h3>·PROVIDES Better focus</h3>\nOne pen, one notebook, one hand means not much that can distract your attention. A laptop, on the other hand, is a smorgasbord of focus distractions.\n\nPersonally, I prefer handwriting because I love wandering the office supply store or aisle for neat writing paper and lovely pens, and I think handwritten notes lend a personal connection that print from a computer can’t give.\n\nSo, food for thought. No definitive answers.\n\nHow would you answer the handwriting vs keyboarding question?\n\n&nbsp;','Should we be handwriting more?','','publish','open','open','','should-we-be-handwriting-more','','','2015-04-27 06:00:57','2015-04-27 11:00:57','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5661',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5669,1,'2015-04-15 06:00:07','2015-04-15 11:00:07','Today federal income taxes are due. Most of us are probably not feeling particularly grateful.\n\nBut today is more. <a href=\"http://www.gratefulness.org/\">Brother David Steindl-Rast</a>, a Benedictine monk, describes today this way:\n\n<em>You think this is just another day in your life. It’s not just another day. It’s the one day that is given to you today…. It’s the only gift that you have right now. And the only appropriate response is gratefulness.</em>\n\nInstead of dwelling on taxes,  we should recognize the precious gift of today and observe and experience what we’ve been given to enjoy.\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">~the natural beauty surrounding us</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">~the interesting people we encounter</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">~the sound of laughter</p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">~the simple beating of our heart</p>\nSo many miracles — if we only pause to appreciate and be grateful.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/lindberg-quote.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5670\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/lindberg-quote.jpg\" alt=\"Lindberg quote\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;','Grateful for Today','','publish','open','open','','grateful-for-today','','','2015-04-15 06:00:07','2015-04-15 11:00:07','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5669',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5676,1,'2015-04-17 06:00:34','2015-04-17 11:00:34','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nAs I was walking back to the chicken yard last week a feather fell from the sky. It was quite small and very white. In fact, if it were colder outside I might have mistaken it for a snowflake.\n\nI stood still for a minute to see if more were forthcoming. Or perhaps an entire bird was soon to follow. That would be one way to increase our flock.\n\nNeither of these things happened. I picked the feather up and put it in my pocket thus confirming that it was not a snowflake.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/feather.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5677 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/feather.jpg?w=269\" alt=\"feather\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nI remember as a child taking walks with my grandfather around the lake near their apartment in Austin. One time I picked up a feather. This one was not white and was much larger. My grandfather put it in his Bible where it remained until his death.\n\nAs life gets more hectic and being a grownup becomes harder, it was nice to reconnect with a childhood pastime of picking up feathers. Perhaps I should keep this little white feather in my Bible for when I feel childish.','Feathers from Heaven','','publish','open','open','','feathers-from-heaven','','','2015-04-17 06:00:34','2015-04-17 11:00:34','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5676',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5679,1,'2015-04-22 06:00:00','2015-04-22 11:00:00','<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/april-showers-may-flowers.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5681\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/april-showers-may-flowers.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"april showers may flowers\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" /></a>We’ve all at one time or another repeated the rhyme, <em>April showers bring May flowers.</em> Most of us are also familiar with the heady smell before a rainfall.\n\nSince April is also poetry month,  it\'s appropriate that the saying first appeared in 1610 in a poem as <em>Sweet April showers/Do spring May flowers</em>.\n\nThe science behind the rhyme and that peculiar smell is also interesting.\n\nAccording to meteorologists, March winds push in low pressure systems to replace the normally dry winter air with much more moist air in the low pressure systems. The more and stronger the low pressure system, the more rain falls.\n\nDays grow warmer and genetically hard-wired plants push through as the soil thaws and frosts end. Rain helps nutrients reach the roots faster. Springtime sees increased activity of animals, birds, and insects which renews the ecosystem.\n\nThe smell of rain comes from the oil released into the air before rain begins to fall. Scientists named the smell <em>petrichor.</em> Read all about the process and the name <a href=\"http://earthsky.org/earth/whats-that-smell-in-the-air-when-its-about-to-rain\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nWhether you sing in the rain or grumble inside on rainy days, think about what\'s to come. Those dark days will bring beautiful flowers.','APRIL SHOWERS, MAY FLOWERS and PETRICHOR','','publish','open','open','','april-showers-may-flowers-and-petrichor','','','2015-04-22 06:00:00','2015-04-22 11:00:00','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5679',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5694,1,'2015-04-29 06:00:39','2015-04-29 11:00:39','As a writer, I am a wordsmith and always curious about words and their meaning. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/grass.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5695\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/grass.jpg?w=131\" alt=\"grass\" width=\"131\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nSeeing sprouts of green finally show up on my lawn here in the mountains made me think about the word <em>GRASS</em>.\n\nThe literal meaning: <a href=\"http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grass?s=t\">any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains</a>.\n\nThe slang meaning: <a href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grass\">Marijuana</a>.\n\nBut the word GRASS can also be a symbol.\n<ul>\n	<li>Once a name for spring or early summer, today the appearance of grass in yards signals the coming of spring.</li>\n	<li>In his poem, “Grass,” Carl Sandburg used the word symbolically to represent the waste and meaninglessness of war:</li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.\nShovel them under and let me work—\nI am the grass; I cover all…</em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:\nWhat place is this?\nWhere are we now?</em></p>\n\n<ul>\n	<li style=\"text-align:left;\">In <a href=\"https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20103&amp;version=ASV%20\" target=\"_blank\">Psalm 103:15-16</a> GRASS illustrates the brevity of human existence:</li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em> As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. </em></p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place where it was shall know it no more.</em></p>\nThe word GRASS can be found in idioms.\n<ul>\n	<li><em>Go</em> <em>to</em> <em>grass</em> is to retire from one\'s occupation or profession</li>\n	<li><em>Let the grass grow under one\'s feet</em> is become slack in one\'s efforts.</li>\n	<li><em>The grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence)</em> implies different circumstances wouldn’t be better.</li>\n	<li><em>A snake in the grass</em> refers to a false friend</li>\n	<li><em>Grassroots </em>refers to the common people or bottom of the political pyramid political pyramid, opposite the “establishment,” which controls the top.</li>\n</ul>\nYOUR TURN: Can you think of other ways the word GRASS is used?','GRASS - One Word Wednesday','','publish','open','open','','grass-one-word-wednesday','','','2015-04-29 06:00:39','2015-04-29 11:00:39','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5694',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5705,1,'2015-05-04 06:00:15','2015-05-04 11:00:15','A long time ago in a place called Han Nam Dong, there wasn’t much to do so I learned to play the game of Bridge.\n\nAs one of many unauthorized military wives,  somewhat isolated from the usual Army post activities, I ended up playing Bridge almost every night and most weekends. Turns out I was doing myself a favor.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bridge.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5706 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bridge.jpg?w=290\" alt=\"Bridge\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" /></a>The Berkley study conducted by University Professor Marian Diamond found significant health benefits from playing the game of bridge:\n<ul>\n	<li>Stimulates your brain.</li>\n	<li>Sharpens your memory.</li>\n	<li>Strengthens your immune system</li>\n	<li>Increases communication and social skills</li>\n</ul>\nHow can playing bridge do these things?\n\nWhen you play bridge, you train yourself to keep track of who holds what card, analyze your own suits, and figure out the best strategy to win the most tricks. You are constantly looking for clues and always calculating your next move. The result is a well-optimized brain that research proves produces a stronger immune system.\n\nAnd because playing bridge requires four people, you build good communication skills for a successful partnership.\n\n<a href=\"http://bit.ly/1Hrd1Zm\" target=\"_blank\">Recent studies </a>link those who play mind games like bridge or chess to lower risk of developing Alzheimer.\n\nOthers believe the intense mental activity when playing bridge can actually help high-octane individuals unwind.\n\nPresident Dwight Eisenhower, who considered playing bridge his only true form of relaxation, said this: <em>“The most relaxing thing he could do was to play a game in which the problems were tough, the solutions difficult, but the consequences of error were just a few hundred harmless points written down on a score pad.”</em>\n\nGus Lubin, deputy editor <em>Business Insider</em> and bridge enthusiast, claims the best bridge players are frequently Wall Street investors.<em>“Bridge is a complex card game that fits the analytic side of finance, as poker appeals to instincts.” </em>Read more about how the game of bridge and Wall Street are similar <a href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/why-wall-street-plays-bridge-2012-12\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nWho knew that what I learned as a way to beat boredom in South Korea would keep my brain active and stimulated.\n\nYou’ll find there are serious bridge players and party bridge players. No matter which type of Bridge player you are (or become), the game of bridge is an entertaining card game filled with teasing camaraderie and fellowship.\n\nWant to learn more about playing Bridge? Check out these websites:\n<ul>\n	<li><a href=\"http://bit.ly/1Fc60LS\" target=\"_blank\">Blueberry Bridge</a>  will help you learn to play bridge on line.</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://bit.ly/1Jqzsgb\" target=\"_blank\">Bridge Doctor</a> This site offers lessons and guides to learn American Standard Bridge</li>\n	<li><a href=\"http://bit.ly/1JqzBQH\" target=\"_blank\">American Contract Bridge League</a> The purpose of ACBL is to promote, grow and sustain the game of bridge and serve the bridge-related interests of our Members.</li>\n</ul>\n<strong> YOUR TURN:</strong> Do you play Bridge? Do you think you might start playing now that you know the benefits?','Boosting your mind with Bridge','','publish','open','open','','boosting-your-mind-with-bridge','','','2015-05-04 06:00:15','2015-05-04 11:00:15','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5705',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5714,1,'2015-04-24 06:00:13','2015-04-24 11:00:13','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Guest Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\nDear Chickens,\n\nPlease stop playing hide and seek. I realize that for you this may be very amusing, however, I am not having fun.\n\nThere are also other reasons to stay in your chicken yard.\n\nWhen you hide under the shed, there is a real possibility that Bella will be the one who finds you. She is a dachshund – bred to crawl into small spaces and retrieve animals. I’m not quite sure how you got under there. Beekeeper Brian had sealed every possible opening he could find. Apparently he missed one.\n\nWhen you hide in the quail cage I can see you but cannot get to you easily.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/chicken-in-quail-cage.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5715\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/chicken-in-quail-cage.png?w=300\" alt=\"chicken in quail cage\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>I have to get a cinder block to stand on and there is a great potential for injury to me and to you. I know you are cramped and may feel invisible, but I see you there and since you have no food or water, you will not be comfortable for long.\n\nI am ready to surrender and declare you “Hide and Seek Champions” if you will just stay in your chicken yard.\n\nThank you,\n\nChicken Wrangler Sara','Letter to Chickens','','publish','open','open','','letter-to-chickens','','','2015-04-24 06:00:13','2015-04-24 11:00:13','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5714',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5728,1,'2015-05-01 06:00:39','2015-05-01 11:00:39','<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara   </em></p>\nAnnabel, our “foster “dog, has adjusted quite nicely to life on Miller Farm. She even adds another aspect of entertainment to life here.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bagel.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5729\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bagel.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"bagel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" /></a>I recently gave her part of a dried out baguette to keep her occupied while I fed the chickens. She carried it around the yard for quite some time looking for a place to bury it.\n\nShe was somewhat successful.\n\nAs soon as I went into the house she went and dug it up. I guess she didn’t want to have to share with me.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/anabelle-w-bagel.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5730 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/anabelle-w-bagel.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Anabelle w bagel\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" /></a>Her other trick is to follow me into the chicken yard and “herd” the chickens. She chases them ‘round and ‘round the chicken coop but they refuse to get in a group.\n\nI have explained to her that chickens are not herding animals. She is determined.\n\nI’ve started closing the gate completely so she does not get into the chicken yard. This week she got her head stuck in between the gate and the fence. Like I said – she is determined. She is also smart. She hasn’t put her head in that spot again.\n\nWe currently have two potential homes for Annabel. Hopefully within a week she can move out. Of course the two homes are the ones on either side of ours so she won’t be moving far.','Annabel Update','','publish','open','open','','annabel-update','','','2015-05-01 06:00:39','2015-05-01 11:00:39','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5728',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5746,1,'2015-05-06 10:55:15','2015-05-06 15:55:15','Coming up with story ideas is not usually a problem for me. Like the writer in this cartoon by <a href=\"http://debbieohi.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Debbie Ridpath Ohi</a>, I find ideas everywhere.\n\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/ohi0026-alphabetsoup-v2-600.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5747\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/ohi0026-alphabetsoup-v2-600.jpg?w=283\" alt=\"OHI0026-AlphabetSoup-v2-600\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" /></a>\"Used with permission from Debbie Ridpath Ohi at Inkygirl.com.\"\n\nTransferring all those ideas into novels is usually my bigger problem, but that’s a topic for a different blog.\n\nWhat about you? Do you have to hunt in the bottom of a soup bowl for story ideas?\n\n&nbsp;','STORY IDEAS','','publish','open','open','','story-ideas','','','2015-05-06 10:55:15','2015-05-06 15:55:15','',0,'https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/?p=5746',0,'post','',2);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (6139,1,'2015-10-22 18:45:04','2015-10-23 00:45:04','<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"> On Monday, we talked about the origins of Halloween and the legend behind why we carve pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns. </span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Today let\'s enjoy some vintage Halloween cards and explore folktales that help young women identify their future husbands.</span><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/choose.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3766 aligncenter\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/choose.jpg\" alt=\"choose\" width=\"174\" height=\"289\" /></a>Romance writers should love these folktales and see potential romance stories.\r\n\r\nAccording to folklore, young women have tossed apple-peels over their shoulders on Halloween, hoping that the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husbands\' initials.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/valentine-couple.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3769\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/valentine-couple.jpg?w=117\" alt=\"valentine couple\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" /></a></span>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"> O</span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">r, peered at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water to learn about their futures. </span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Or, stood in front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles and looking over their shoulders for their husbands\' faces.</span>\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/bobbing-for-apples.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3770\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/bobbing-for-apples.jpg?w=97\" alt=\"Bobbing-for-Apples\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" /></a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">One legend claims the first successful apple-bobber will be the first to marry.</span></span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"> </span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Another suggests that matchmaking Irish cooks bury a ring in her mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to the diner who finds it. </span></span>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"> </span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Scottish fortune-tellers recommend eligible young women name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace on Halloween night. The nut that burns to ashes rather than popping or exploding, represents the girl\'s future husband. </span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">In a confusing version of this same tale, the opposite was true: The nut that burns symbolized a love that would not last.</span>\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">Another option with food suggest e</span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">ating a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts, and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night can bring dreams about a future husband.</span>\r\n</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/hug.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3772\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/hug.jpg?w=94\" alt=\"hug\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" /></a>But what if you\'ve already found your mate, you say. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/hugging-on-jack-o-lantern.png\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3771\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/hugging-on-jack-o-lantern.png\" alt=\"hugging on jack-o-lantern\" width=\"80\" height=\"125\" /></a></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Then try some of these ideas for romancing your Halloween night. </span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Decorate your house for a Halloween evening. Let flickering candlelight set the mood. Place gourds or pumpkins hollowed out and filled with orange and purple flowers.</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Prepare a </span><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">warm and intimate Halloween dinner. How about a delicious pumpkin soup, followed by a herb roasted chicken with mashed potatoes – maybe you’ll find a ring inside –, and, of course, dark chocolate for dessert? Click <a href=\"http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/herb-and-lemon-roasted-chicken\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> for the chicken recipe. </span><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">And <a href=\"http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/11/pumpkin-soup/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> for a wonderful pumpkin soup recipe from the Pioneer Woman. </span></span>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 11.25pt; color: black; line-height: 19.8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Cuddle together on the couch and watch a scary movie. Frightening moments give you the perfect excuse to snuggle. Check out <a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/list/VhHeuKOc60c/\" target=\"_blank\">IMdb’s list of the 60 Scariest Movies </a>if you need ideas. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 11.25pt; color: black; line-height: 19.8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Plan midnight picnic</span><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"> with finger foods. Head into the woods –  near a graveyard if you want to be spooky. If you want to be warm and safe, picnic in front of a roaring fire or in the middle of your bed. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 11.25pt; color: black; line-height: 19.8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Enjoy a hayride if you live in a rural area. Nothing better than burrowing beneath a warm blanket and watching the night sky to stimulate romance.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 11.25pt; color: black; line-height: 19.8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Book a bed and breakfast in</span><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"> a rural, isolated area for a romantic escape. </span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 11.25pt; color: black; line-height: 19.8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Attend a Halloween costume party <b>BUT</b> don’t tell each other about your costume and arrive separately. Pretend you’re truly strangers meeting</span><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"> for the first time.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 11.25pt; color: black; line-height: 19.8pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">~~Head out to a local haunted house for a </span><span style=\"font-family: \'Georgia\', \'serif\'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">scary date night holding each other\'s hands.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 11.25pt; color: black; line-height: 19.8pt;\">Wishing you a fun-filled, romantic Halloween evening.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/kiss.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3774\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/kiss.png\" alt=\"kiss\" width=\"178\" height=\"283\" /></a></p>','Ideas for Romancing Halloween','','inherit','open','open','','3763-revision-v1','','','2015-10-22 18:45:04','2015-10-23 00:45:04','',3763,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/10/22/3763-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5756,1,'2015-05-12 03:02:16','2015-05-12 03:02:16','The writer’s life requires<strong> </strong>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><strong>INSPIRATION and PERSERVERANCE</strong></h1>\nWhen either of those wane for me, I pick up one of these books.\n\n<em><strong>The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life</strong>, </em>by Julia Cameron\nAn inspiring challenge to just keep writing.\n\n<em><strong>Bird by Bird</strong>, </em>by Anne Lamott<em>\n</em>A funny, helpful book about what it is to be a writer. This book tells it like it is in a very entertaining way.<em></em>\n\n<strong><em>The War of Art</em>, </strong>by Steven Pressfield\nAn incredible look at the barriers blocking our creativity. It\'s inspirational and funny.\n\nOr I read one of these quotes.\n<ul>\n	<li> \"Write even when you don\'t want to, don\'t much like what you\'re writing, and aren\'t writing particularly well.\" ~Agatha Christie</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>“Don\'t worry about selling the story you wrote. Worry about writing a story that will sell itself.” ~Lawrence Watt-Evans</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>\"Perseverance is trying 19 times and succeeding on the 20th.\"~Julie Andrews</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” ~Henry Ford</li>\n</ul>\nAnd when things are bleakest, the one quote I read over and over and over:\n\n“<em>Eventually you\'re going to reach the point where just one more attempt, one more effort will bring real success. What a shame it would be to give up just as you reached that point.</em>\n\n<em>You do not know what the next effort will bring because the future is not based on the past. That feeling of wanting to give up is based solely on the past, which really doesn\'t matter anymore. What matters now is where you\'re headed, not where you\'ve been. And when you view it from that perspective, <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;text-decoration:underline;\">giving up is simply not an option</span></span>.</em>” ~R. Marston','ENCOURAGEMENT FOR A WRITER\'S MUSE','','inherit','open','open','','196-revision-v1','','','2015-05-12 03:02:16','2015-05-12 03:02:16','',196,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/12/196-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5759,1,'2015-05-12 03:02:31','2015-05-12 03:02:31','<ol>\n	<li>Where do you get your stories?</li>\n	<li>Why did you write this particular story?</li>\n</ol>\nMy two books definitely have a story behind them.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Morning-Prequel-Pendants-Promise-ebook/dp/B00DQ1AEPQ/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2181\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/morningcalm_6-for-webpgs.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"MorningCalm_6 for webpgs\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Pendants-Promise-ebook/dp/B007ZU71N2\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-591\" src=\"http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/pendantspromise_8.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"PendantsPromise_8\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<em>Love in the Morning Calm</em> (released June 30th) was written after<em> The Pendant\'s Promise </em>(released May 2012).\n\nWhy write a prequel after the original story?\n\nI never intended to.\n\nOnly people kept wanting to know more about how Lily and Alex met. The mini-flashbacks <em>The Pendant\'s Promise </em>didn\'t give enough details.','Beyond the Book','','inherit','open','open','','3128-revision-v1','','','2015-05-12 03:02:31','2015-05-12 03:02:31','',3128,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/12/3128-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5760,1,'2015-05-12 03:02:40','2015-05-12 03:02:40','I am a storyteller, a wordsmith, a romantic.\n\nI read a lot...adore Victoriana...collect tchotchkes...stockpile ephemera...and own up to being a native Texan, most of the time.\n\nIreland is my most favorite place on earth, and I\'m crazy about all things Irish.\n\nI love…\nSitting on the porch.\nTraveling back roads.\nMeeting new people.\nGaining knowledge.\nSharing memories.\nWalking my dogs in the mountains or on the beach or around the block.\nWatching movies, eating popcorn and sipping wine with my husband.\nWeaving emotional stories with satisfying endings.\n\nI’m a former teacher, proprietor of an antiques business, and one time DAC (Department of Army Civilian).\n\nNow I write full time--mostly romance (love those happy endings), some short stories, articles, and a bit of non-fiction stuff.\n\nMy husband and I live in the Rio Grande National Forest of Colorado with our four-legged kids – an Old English Sheepdog named Toby and a mouthy Maltese named Buster.\n\nMy blog is an eclectic blending of all of the above sprinkled with guest bloggers.\n\nThanks for visiting.  Stop by often.','About me','','inherit','open','open','','7-revision-v1','','','2015-05-12 03:02:40','2015-05-12 03:02:40','',7,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/12/7-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5776,1,'2015-05-15 10:41:08','2015-05-15 16:41:08','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/pre-school2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5758\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/pre-school2.jpg?w=272&amp;h=300\" alt=\"pre-school2\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" /></a>I was recently sitting in a meeting with one of my favorite two-year-olds named Phineas.\r\n\r\n(He would be one of my favorites even if he didn’t have such a great name.)\r\n\r\nHis twin sister Ellen is another favorite of mine.\r\n\r\nHe was entertaining himself by pulling things out of my purse. He pulled out a collapsible brush I have and asked “What’s this?”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/brush-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5759 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/brush-2.jpg?w=82&amp;h=150\" alt=\"brush-2\" width=\"82\" height=\"150\" /></a>”It’s a brush” I replied and showed him how it worked.\r\n\r\nI put it back in my purse and he pulled it out again. “What’s this?”\r\n\r\n“It’s a brush.”\r\n\r\nWe did this for a while and on the 439th time he pulled it out and asked what it was I said “It’s a hippopotamus.”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/comb2-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5760\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/comb2-2.jpg?w=150&amp;h=48\" alt=\"comb2-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"48\" /></a>He opened it up and said “It’s a hippopotamus toothbrush.”\r\n\r\nAnd that, my friends, is why I love preschoolers.\r\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\"></div>','Preschoolers','','publish','open','open','','preschoolers','','','2015-05-29 13:14:42','2015-05-29 19:14:42','',0,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/?p=5776',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5778,1,'2015-05-22 10:47:39','2015-05-22 16:47:39','<div class=\"entry-content\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nWe have had an inordinate amount of rain recently. Considering we have been in a serious drought, I should not complain.\r\n\r\nHowever, with lots of rain comes mud – lots of mud. This is especially the case in the chicken yard.\r\n\r\nI am very grateful for my muck shoes, or sloggers as they are called.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/sloggers.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5764\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/sloggers.jpg?w=203&amp;h=300\" alt=\"sloggers\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" /></a>I only wish they were boots. The mud is more like quicksand. I have to work to lift my feet at each step and usually I end up with mud on my calves.\r\n\r\nRecently I was sitting on the front row at my piano recital ready to jump up and turn pages or whisper an encouraging word. I looked down at my leg and saw……mud.\r\n\r\nMy first thought was “At least it matches my brown dress and shoes.”\r\n\r\nYesterday morning I went out to feed the chickens and slipped and fell – in the mud. It was not a good start to the day.I came back in, took another shower, put on clean clothes and bandaged my hand where I scratched it on the metal fence post.\r\n\r\nAfter work I went out to gather eggs and got mud on my pants. I came in and changed – again – before my first piano student arrived.\r\n\r\nAfter dinner I went to close up the coop. I stepped right out of my slogger and into the mud with my bare foot. I came in, cleaned up and went to bed.\r\n\r\nI really hope it doesn’t rain again any time soon.\r\n\r\n</div>','Mud, mud, lots of mud','','publish','open','open','','mud-mud-lots-of-mud','','','2015-05-29 13:14:49','2015-05-29 19:14:49','',0,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/?p=5778',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5779,1,'2015-05-29 10:47:39','2015-05-29 16:47:39','<div class=\"entry-content\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nWe have had an inordinate amount of rain recently. Considering we have been in a serious drought, I should not complain.\r\n\r\nHowever, with lots of rain comes mud – lots of mud. This is especially the case in the chicken yard.\r\n\r\nI am very grateful for my muck shoes, or sloggers as they are called.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/sloggers.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5764\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/sloggers.jpg?w=203&amp;h=300\" alt=\"sloggers\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" /></a>I only wish they were boots. The mud is more like quicksand. I have to work to lift my feet at each step and usually I end up with mud on my calves.\r\n\r\nRecently I was sitting on the front row at my piano recital ready to jump up and turn pages or whisper an encouraging word. I looked down at my leg and saw……mud.\r\n\r\nMy first thought was “At least it matches my brown dress and shoes.”\r\n\r\nYesterday morning I went out to feed the chickens and slipped and fell – in the mud. It was not a good start to the day.I came back in, took another shower, put on clean clothes and bandaged my hand where I scratched it on the metal fence post.\r\n\r\nAfter work I went out to gather eggs and got mud on my pants. I came in and changed – again – before my first piano student arrived.\r\n\r\nAfter dinner I went to close up the coop. I stepped right out of my slogger and into the mud with my bare foot. I came in, cleaned up and went to bed.\r\n\r\nI really hope it doesn’t rain again any time soon.\r\n\r\n</div>','Mud, mud, lots of mud','','inherit','open','open','','5778-revision-v1','','','2015-05-29 10:47:39','2015-05-29 16:47:39','',5778,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/29/5778-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5780,1,'2015-05-29 10:50:24','2015-05-29 16:50:24','&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nI consider myself a fairly intelligent person. In fact, there are several pieces of paper on my wall that would confirm this fact. Every once in a while, however, I come across something that makes no sense to me.\r\n\r\nThis was the case a couple of weeks ago when I went to let the chickens out. There was smoke coming from the compost pile. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/smoke.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5781\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/smoke.jpg?w=300&amp;h=206\" alt=\"smoke\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" /></a>We have had an inordinate amount of rain recently (see <a href=\"https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/mud-mud-lots-of-mud/\" target=\"_blank\">lasts Friday’s post on mud</a>) and the compost was soaking wet so I could not figure out how it could be smoking.\r\n\r\nOn this Friday, I was traveling with grades 7 and 8 to the Austin to play ukuleles in the rotunda of the State Capital. (This is a story in and of itself and might serve to contradict my claim to intelligence.)\r\n\r\nAnyway, since I would not be at home, I could not monitor the situation so I poured more water on the smoke and went on to school.\r\n\r\nThe bus driver happened to be very knowledgeable about gardening so I asked her about the smoking compost. She assured me this was a good thing and simply meant we needed to turn the compost. I was relieved.\r\n\r\nYesterday, Matt came to me somewhat concerned and asked “Is there a reason there is smoke coming from the green wire things with grass in them?”\r\n\r\nI knew he was referring to the smoking compost and explained that it meant the compost was cooking and needed to be turned.\r\n\r\nHe said, “I guess you could say things are really ‘cooking’ at the Miller house this summer.”\r\n\r\n</div>','Where There’s Smoke…','','publish','open','open','','where-theres-smoke','','','2015-05-29 13:15:07','2015-05-29 19:15:07','',0,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/?p=5780',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5781,1,'2015-05-29 10:50:24','2015-05-29 16:50:24','&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nI consider myself a fairly intelligent person. In fact, there are several pieces of paper on my wall that would confirm this fact. Every once in a while, however, I come across something that makes no sense to me.\r\n\r\nThis was the case a couple of weeks ago when I went to let the chickens out. There was smoke coming from the compost pile. <a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/smoke.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5781\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/smoke.jpg?w=300&amp;h=206\" alt=\"smoke\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" /></a>We have had an inordinate amount of rain recently (see <a href=\"https://judythewriter.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/mud-mud-lots-of-mud/\" target=\"_blank\">lasts Friday’s post on mud</a>) and the compost was soaking wet so I could not figure out how it could be smoking.\r\n\r\nOn this Friday, I was traveling with grades 7 and 8 to the Austin to play ukuleles in the rotunda of the State Capital. (This is a story in and of itself and might serve to contradict my claim to intelligence.)\r\n\r\nAnyway, since I would not be at home, I could not monitor the situation so I poured more water on the smoke and went on to school.\r\n\r\nThe bus driver happened to be very knowledgeable about gardening so I asked her about the smoking compost. She assured me this was a good thing and simply meant we needed to turn the compost. I was relieved.\r\n\r\nYesterday, Matt came to me somewhat concerned and asked “Is there a reason there is smoke coming from the green wire things with grass in them?”\r\n\r\nI knew he was referring to the smoking compost and explained that it meant the compost was cooking and needed to be turned.\r\n\r\nHe said, “I guess you could say things are really ‘cooking’ at the Miller house this summer.”\r\n\r\n</div>','Where There’s Smoke…','','inherit','open','open','','5780-revision-v1','','','2015-05-29 10:50:24','2015-05-29 16:50:24','',5780,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/29/5780-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5782,1,'2015-05-25 10:51:13','2015-05-25 16:51:13','Today is Memorial Day.\r\n\r\nI find saying “Happy Memorial Day” hard because I don’t believe Memorial Day is a holiday about going to the beach or having a cookout.\r\n\r\nI’m not saying those things are wrong. Not at all. I enjoy a hot dog or a hamburger with family and friends and celebrating what signals the start of summer same as anyone else.\r\n\r\nI’m just sayin’, we should also remember why Memorial Day was originally established.\r\n\r\nThis day is for those gone, but never forgotten.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/mem13.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4704\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/mem13.jpg?w=261&amp;h=300\" alt=\"mem13\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\nToday we should stop to wave the American flag and salute our fallen heroes.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/memorial-day-graphics-82.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5775\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/memorial-day-graphics-82.jpg?w=300&amp;h=232\" alt=\"Memorial-Day-Graphics-82\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" /></a>\r\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\"></div>','Memorial Day 2015','','publish','open','open','','memorial-day-2015','','','2015-05-29 13:14:58','2015-05-29 19:14:58','',0,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/?p=5782',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5783,1,'2015-05-29 10:51:13','2015-05-29 16:51:13','Today is Memorial Day.\r\n\r\nI find saying “Happy Memorial Day” hard because I don’t believe Memorial Day is a holiday about going to the beach or having a cookout.\r\n\r\nI’m not saying those things are wrong. Not at all. I enjoy a hot dog or a hamburger with family and friends and celebrating what signals the start of summer same as anyone else.\r\n\r\nI’m just sayin’, we should also remember why Memorial Day was originally established.\r\n\r\nThis day is for those gone, but never forgotten.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/mem13.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4704\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/mem13.jpg?w=261&amp;h=300\" alt=\"mem13\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" /></a>\r\n\r\nToday we should stop to wave the American flag and salute our fallen heroes.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/memorial-day-graphics-82.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5775\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/memorial-day-graphics-82.jpg?w=300&amp;h=232\" alt=\"Memorial-Day-Graphics-82\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" /></a>\r\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\"></div>','Memorial Day 2015','','inherit','open','open','','5782-revision-v1','','','2015-05-29 10:51:13','2015-05-29 16:51:13','',5782,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/29/5782-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (6621,1,'2016-03-05 10:48:14','2016-03-05 17:48:14','Email: <a href=\"mailto:judythewriter@icloud.com\">judythewriter@iCloud.com</a>','Contact','','inherit','open','open','','8-autosave-v1','','','2016-03-05 10:48:14','2016-03-05 17:48:14','',8,'http://judythewriter.com/2016/03/05/8-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5786,1,'2015-05-29 16:26:38','2015-05-29 22:26:38','Email: <a href=\"mailto:judythewriter@icloud.com\">judythewriter@icloud.com</a>','Contact','','inherit','open','open','','8-revision-v1','','','2015-05-29 16:26:38','2015-05-29 22:26:38','',8,'http://petoweb.com/judythemorgan/front_porch/2015/05/29/8-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5788,1,'2015-05-31 16:35:50','2015-05-31 22:35:50','Thank you for visiting my blog. Please be sure to bookmark this page as the web address has changed to judythewriter.com','New Look—New Address','','publish','closed','closed','','new-look-new-address','','','2015-07-31 10:47:02','2015-07-31 16:47:02','',0,'http://judythewriter.com/?p=5788',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5789,1,'2015-05-31 16:35:50','2015-05-31 22:35:50','Thank you for visiting my blog. Please be sure to bookmark this page as the web address has changed to judythewriter.com','New Look—New Address','','inherit','open','open','','5788-revision-v1','','','2015-05-31 16:35:50','2015-05-31 22:35:50','',5788,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/05/31/5788-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5874,1,'2015-07-31 06:00:31','2015-07-31 12:00:31','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nOur neighbors have started keeping chickens again. The coop is up against the privacy fence between our yards. It drove the dogs crazy at first. Bella, the chicken hunter, tried to dig under the fence to get to them. This was while Brian and I were in Colorado so Rachel had to be extra vigilant to protect the neighbor’s chickens\r\n\r\nThere is a tree growing right along the fence line. In fact, it is between the privacy fence and our chain link fence. It has, over the years, bent the chain link fence and pushed the bottom out ever so slightly. It is just enough for Sadie to get between the two fences.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Sadie-between-fences.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5875\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Sadie-between-fences-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Sadie between fences\" /></a>This was a problem.\r\n\r\nThe chain link fence has points at the top and is just tall enough that I couldn’t reach over to get Sadie. Not to worry – Rachel came out with dog treats and Sadie found her way back into our yard.\r\n\r\nThe next day Sadie taught Bella her new trick. I guess we’ll be buying lots of dog treats until we can get the fence fixed.','A New Trick','','publish','open','open','','a-new-trick','','','2015-07-25 07:51:37','2015-07-25 13:51:37','',0,'http://judythewriter.com/?p=5874',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5839,1,'2015-07-10 06:00:06','2015-07-10 12:00:06','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nOne afternoon this spring, I got a call from Beekeeper Brian on his way home from work asking if I would make a phone call. I must confess this seemed too easy of a task. He asked me to call a local restaurant and ask if they had a swarm in a tree in their parking lot. Ok, sure.\r\n\r\nI called and talked to the manager and sure enough there was a swarm in a tree in their parking lot. The manager did say he had already talked to one beekeeper that could not come get it immediately but would contact a fellow beekeeper. I told him the fellow beekeeper is my husband Beekeeper Brian. It is a tight knit community – this group of beekeepers.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bee-boxes.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5841\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bee-boxes-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"bee boxes\" /></a>So Brian came home, put on his bee suit, got his bee boxes and went to get some bees. He returned an hour later with a box of bees, including the queen, and a $30 gift card to the restaurant. He put the BOB (box of bees) on the back porch. It was a successful trip for everyone.\r\n\r\nThe next day Rachel noticed a lot of commotion in the back yard.\r\n\r\nApparently the new bees were not happy with their new home. They swarmed to a tree in our back yard.\r\n\r\nBrian put out a bee trap to entice them back into a hive. In case you were wondering, bees are attracted to the scent of lemon grass. They went into the box for a while. Then they left again.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tree-hive.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5842\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tree-hive.jpg\" alt=\"tree hive\" /></a>They were back in the tree in a different spot. We stood in the yard looking at them for a while. Then Brian decided to let them” be”. “Bees are going to do what bees are going to do” he said.\r\n\r\nSo the name “beekeeper” is really a misnomer. You can’t “keep” bees. You can only invite them to come make honey in your bee box. Sometimes they oblige.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Bee “keeping”?','','publish','open','open','','bee-keeping','','','2015-07-04 08:50:56','2015-07-04 14:50:56','',0,'http://judythewriter.com/?p=5839',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5791,1,'2015-06-01 06:00:10','2015-06-01 12:00:10','Springtime - fresh sprouts popping out of the ground. Birds singing and gathering at the feeders. It’s such a happy time.\r\n\r\nUsually.\r\n\r\nLiving in a national forest, we have lots of different birds. Most fun to watch.\r\n\r\nSome not so much.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/waiting.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5736\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/waiting.jpg\" alt=\"waiting\" width=\"144\" height=\"255\" /></a>The robin that came to occupy our backyard has not been fun.\r\n\r\nThump, thump, thump. He flies over and over into the large picture window in my kitchen.\r\n\r\nI turned on the kitchen light hoping to diffuse the reflection from the trees on the mountain behind the house and a technique supposed to discourage him.\r\n\r\nI figured by the time the dogs and I returned from our morning walk he’d be long gone. Wrong!\r\n\r\nAll through our breakfast, the determined little redbreast thumped against the window. Not hard like he’d miscalculated the needed thrust to flyover the house. Soft like he was trying to land on a branch he saw in the glass.\r\n\r\nHe never hit hard enough to fall only to flutter away and try again. Still I worried he’d knock himself senseless.\r\n\r\nWe had researched ways to deter birds from the plate glass after we first moved to the national forest and two birds died when they crashed into it. Short of shuttering the window, which would totally block the view (the reason we installed the large picture windows in the first place) nothing seem to stop this crazy robin.\r\n\r\nWhenever robin perched on the crab apple tree, I’d fling open the kitchen door and frighten him away. This seemed to work so I spent the next four hours working in the backyard flowerbeds.\r\n\r\nThe robin stayed away…\r\n\r\nUntil I went inside to write and the thump, thump, thump began again. In desperation, I nailed a sheet over the kitchen picture window.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/kitchen.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5737\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/kitchen.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"kitchen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAll was quiet again…\r\n\r\nUntil he started flying into the dining room window, which I note has a blind that is supposed to discourage window bashing.\r\n\r\nNot for this robin.\r\n\r\nThump, thump, thump. I stomp out and Mr. Robin watches me hang a sheet over that window.\r\n\r\nUndeterred, as soon as I\'m inside, he starts bashing the small bathroom window. Thump, thump, thump.\r\n\r\nOut I go again and Robin watches me covered the bathroom window.\r\n\r\nBy now it’s getting dark… very dark inside the house with the picture windows draped… and robin goes to wherever his nest is for the night.\r\n\r\nNo thumping the next morning. Thrilled that I’d won, the dogs and I left for our walk. Unleashing them when I returned, I heard the dreaded thump, thump, thump.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/corner.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5738\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/corner.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"corner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The dining room sheet had slipped to expose a tiny triangle of reflection. Mr. Robin was once again determined to come inside.\r\n\r\nI trouped outside, adjusted the sheet, all the while shouting to the infuriating robin that I did not want to have to take drastic measures so he’d best move on.\r\n\r\nI was not happy because with my lovely picture windows blocked I can\'t see the other birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and deer in my backyard.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/post-watching.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5740 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/post-watching.jpg?w=203\" alt=\"post watching\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" /></a>Mr. Robin perched on the stair rail waiting for me to take down the sheets, I guess.\r\n\r\nI saw him every time I passed the kitchen door, which also has a small window. (A window that said robin ignores.)\r\n\r\nI opened the kitchen door and gave the ultimate threat: “I’m not living forever with my windows covered. Don’t make me get the pellet gun!”\r\n\r\nNot sure who’s won -- the robin or me.\r\n\r\nFor five days now, the picture windows have remained covered. So far, Mr. Robin is nowhere to be seen.\r\n\r\nI’ll let you know what happens when we take the window coverings down.','Wrangling A Persistent Robin','','publish','open','open','','wrangling-a-persistent-robin-2','','','2015-05-31 16:39:25','2015-05-31 22:39:25','',0,'http://judythewriter.com/?p=5791',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5792,1,'2015-05-31 16:39:25','2015-05-31 22:39:25','Springtime - fresh sprouts popping out of the ground. Birds singing and gathering at the feeders. It’s such a happy time.\r\n\r\nUsually.\r\n\r\nLiving in a national forest, we have lots of different birds. Most fun to watch.\r\n\r\nSome not so much.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/waiting.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5736\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/waiting.jpg\" alt=\"waiting\" width=\"144\" height=\"255\" /></a>The robin that came to occupy our backyard has not been fun.\r\n\r\nThump, thump, thump. He flies over and over into the large picture window in my kitchen.\r\n\r\nI turned on the kitchen light hoping to diffuse the reflection from the trees on the mountain behind the house and a technique supposed to discourage him.\r\n\r\nI figured by the time the dogs and I returned from our morning walk he’d be long gone. Wrong!\r\n\r\nAll through our breakfast, the determined little redbreast thumped against the window. Not hard like he’d miscalculated the needed thrust to flyover the house. Soft like he was trying to land on a branch he saw in the glass.\r\n\r\nHe never hit hard enough to fall only to flutter away and try again. Still I worried he’d knock himself senseless.\r\n\r\nWe had researched ways to deter birds from the plate glass after we first moved to the national forest and two birds died when they crashed into it. Short of shuttering the window, which would totally block the view (the reason we installed the large picture windows in the first place) nothing seem to stop this crazy robin.\r\n\r\nWhenever robin perched on the crab apple tree, I’d fling open the kitchen door and frighten him away. This seemed to work so I spent the next four hours working in the backyard flowerbeds.\r\n\r\nThe robin stayed away…\r\n\r\nUntil I went inside to write and the thump, thump, thump began again. In desperation, I nailed a sheet over the kitchen picture window.<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/kitchen.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5737\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/kitchen.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"kitchen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAll was quiet again…\r\n\r\nUntil he started flying into the dining room window, which I note has a blind that is supposed to discourage window bashing.\r\n\r\nNot for this robin.\r\n\r\nThump, thump, thump. I stomp out and Mr. Robin watches me hang a sheet over that window.\r\n\r\nUndeterred, as soon as I\'m inside, he starts bashing the small bathroom window. Thump, thump, thump.\r\n\r\nOut I go again and Robin watches me covered the bathroom window.\r\n\r\nBy now it’s getting dark… very dark inside the house with the picture windows draped… and robin goes to wherever his nest is for the night.\r\n\r\nNo thumping the next morning. Thrilled that I’d won, the dogs and I left for our walk. Unleashing them when I returned, I heard the dreaded thump, thump, thump.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/corner.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5738\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/corner.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"corner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The dining room sheet had slipped to expose a tiny triangle of reflection. Mr. Robin was once again determined to come inside.\r\n\r\nI trouped outside, adjusted the sheet, all the while shouting to the infuriating robin that I did not want to have to take drastic measures so he’d best move on.\r\n\r\nI was not happy because with my lovely picture windows blocked I can\'t see the other birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and deer in my backyard.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/post-watching.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-5740 size-medium\" src=\"https://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/post-watching.jpg?w=203\" alt=\"post watching\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" /></a>Mr. Robin perched on the stair rail waiting for me to take down the sheets, I guess.\r\n\r\nI saw him every time I passed the kitchen door, which also has a small window. (A window that said robin ignores.)\r\n\r\nI opened the kitchen door and gave the ultimate threat: “I’m not living forever with my windows covered. Don’t make me get the pellet gun!”\r\n\r\nNot sure who’s won -- the robin or me.\r\n\r\nFor five days now, the picture windows have remained covered. So far, Mr. Robin is nowhere to be seen.\r\n\r\nI’ll let you know what happens when we take the window coverings down.','Wrangling A Persistent Robin','','inherit','open','open','','5791-revision-v1','','','2015-05-31 16:39:25','2015-05-31 22:39:25','',5791,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/05/31/5791-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5793,1,'2015-06-05 06:00:52','2015-06-05 12:00:52','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nAnnabel, our foster dog, has found a forever home ----next door. The neighbors had planned to get a dog and their middle daughter fell in love with Annabel. I would frequently come home and find her at the gate talking to Annabel.\r\n\r\nAfter several visits to see how Annabel would get along with the cat and the two younger children, the adoption was finalized. The children were all excited as was Annabel. Perhaps the children would be more cooperative than the chickens when they were “herded.” Bella was relieved. Annabel liked to lick and Bella was used to being the licker and not the lickee.\r\n\r\nThey renamed the dog Rosie to avoid confusion with their youngest daughter whose middle name is Arabella. The first few days were a little rough – for me. I kept wondering how she was doing. Our dachshunds were also confused. These are the neighbors with the privacy fence so the dogs could hear but not see each other.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bella-fence.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5795\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bella-fence-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"bella fence\" /></a>Our dogs spent time sniffing along the fence.\r\n\r\nRose/Annabel tried to get through.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/annabell.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5796\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/annabell-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"annabell\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnytime she got out, she came straight to our house. I took her straight back, explaining along the way that she had a new home.\r\n\r\nIt’s been about a month now and Rosie has adjusted nicely (and so have I). She goes to the kids’ soccer games and runs with the dad.\r\n\r\nShe came to see me yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks. I walked her home glad to know she is loved. I’m pretty sure I could never foster children. I’ll stick to wrangling chickens and other random animals running down the street.','Annabel’s New Home','','publish','open','open','','annabels-new-home','','','2015-06-04 20:20:02','2015-06-05 02:20:02','',0,'http://judythewriter.com/?p=5793',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5794,1,'2015-06-04 16:25:37','2015-06-04 22:25:37','<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</p>\r\nAnnabel, our foster dog, has found a forever home ----next door. The neighbors had planned to get a dog and their middle daughter fell in love with Annabel. I would frequently come home and find her at the gate talking to Annabel.\r\n\r\nAfter several visits to see how Annabel would get along with the cat and the two younger children, the adoption was finalized. The children were all excited as was Annabel. Perhaps the children would be more cooperative than the chickens when they were “herded.” Bella was relieved. Annabel liked to lick and Bella was used to being the licker and not the lickee.\r\n\r\nThey renamed the dog Rosie to avoid confusion with their youngest daughter whose middle name is Arabella. The first few days were a little rough – for me. I kept wondering how she was doing. Our dachshunds were also confused. These are the neighbors with the privacy fence so the dogs could hear but not see each other.\r\n\r\nOur dogs spent time sniffing along the fence.\r\n\r\nRose/Annabel tried to get through.\r\n\r\nAnytime she got out, she came straight to our house. I took her straight back, explaining along the way that she had a new home.\r\n\r\nIt’s been about a month now and Rosie has adjusted nicely (and so have I). She went to the kids’ soccer games and goes running with the dad. She came to see me yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks. I walked her home glad to know she is loved. I’m pretty sure I could never foster children. I’ll stick to wrangling chickens and other random animals running down the street.','Annabel’s New Home','','inherit','open','open','','5793-revision-v1','','','2015-06-04 16:25:37','2015-06-04 22:25:37','',5793,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/04/5793-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5797,1,'2015-06-04 20:17:51','2015-06-05 02:17:51','<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</p>\r\nAnnabel, our foster dog, has found a forever home ----next door. The neighbors had planned to get a dog and their middle daughter fell in love with Annabel. I would frequently come home and find her at the gate talking to Annabel.\r\n\r\nAfter several visits to see how Annabel would get along with the cat and the two younger children, the adoption was finalized. The children were all excited as was Annabel. Perhaps the children would be more cooperative than the chickens when they were “herded.” Bella was relieved. Annabel liked to lick and Bella was used to being the licker and not the lickee.\r\n\r\nThey renamed the dog Rosie to avoid confusion with their youngest daughter whose middle name is Arabella. The first few days were a little rough – for me. I kept wondering how she was doing. Our dachshunds were also confused. These are the neighbors with the privacy fence so the dogs could hear but not see each other.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bella-fence.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5795\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bella-fence-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"bella fence\" /></a>Our dogs spent time sniffing along the fence.\r\n\r\nRose/Annabel tried to get through.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/annabell.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5796\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/annabell-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"annabell\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnytime she got out, she came straight to our house. I took her straight back, explaining along the way that she had a new home.\r\n\r\nIt’s been about a month now and Rosie has adjusted nicely (and so have I). She goes to the kids’ soccer games and runs with the dad.\r\n\r\nShe came to see me yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks. I walked her home glad to know she is loved. I’m pretty sure I could never foster children. I’ll stick to wrangling chickens and other random animals running down the street.','Annabel’s New Home','','inherit','open','open','','5793-revision-v1','','','2015-06-04 20:17:51','2015-06-05 02:17:51','',5793,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/04/5793-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5798,1,'2015-06-04 20:20:02','2015-06-05 02:20:02','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nAnnabel, our foster dog, has found a forever home ----next door. The neighbors had planned to get a dog and their middle daughter fell in love with Annabel. I would frequently come home and find her at the gate talking to Annabel.\r\n\r\nAfter several visits to see how Annabel would get along with the cat and the two younger children, the adoption was finalized. The children were all excited as was Annabel. Perhaps the children would be more cooperative than the chickens when they were “herded.” Bella was relieved. Annabel liked to lick and Bella was used to being the licker and not the lickee.\r\n\r\nThey renamed the dog Rosie to avoid confusion with their youngest daughter whose middle name is Arabella. The first few days were a little rough – for me. I kept wondering how she was doing. Our dachshunds were also confused. These are the neighbors with the privacy fence so the dogs could hear but not see each other.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bella-fence.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5795\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bella-fence-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"bella fence\" /></a>Our dogs spent time sniffing along the fence.\r\n\r\nRose/Annabel tried to get through.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/annabell.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5796\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/annabell-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"annabell\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAnytime she got out, she came straight to our house. I took her straight back, explaining along the way that she had a new home.\r\n\r\nIt’s been about a month now and Rosie has adjusted nicely (and so have I). She goes to the kids’ soccer games and runs with the dad.\r\n\r\nShe came to see me yesterday for the first time in a couple of weeks. I walked her home glad to know she is loved. I’m pretty sure I could never foster children. I’ll stick to wrangling chickens and other random animals running down the street.','Annabel’s New Home','','inherit','open','open','','5793-revision-v1','','','2015-06-04 20:20:02','2015-06-05 02:20:02','',5793,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/04/5793-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5802,1,'2015-06-23 09:41:09','2015-06-23 15:41:09','<p align=\"center\"><strong>Guest Blog </strong><strong>Participation </strong><strong>Guidelines </strong></p>\r\nHello! Thanks for your interest in guest blogging here at <a href=\"http://judythewriter.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">View from the Front Porch</a>.\r\n\r\nI love hosting others. That’s what the <em>Company’s Here </em>category is all about--others sharing their story.\r\n\r\nGuest blogging is for anyone ... everyone.\r\n\r\nIf you have a word of wisdom to share or insight on anything faith or fiction focused or maybe a moving or amusing anecdote waiting for an outlet, you’re invited.\r\n\r\nOnly three guidelines:\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Articles or essays MUST be new. <em>Please don’t send something that has already been posted on another website without updating.</em></li>\r\n	<li>Length between 500 and 700 words. <em>Shorter is better.</em></li>\r\n	<li>No controversial or political topics.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nPick a date from available dates.\r\n\r\nEverything in 2015\r\n\r\nOnce you’ve decided what to write and a date, here’s what you’ll need to do.\r\n\r\nCopy and paste the form below into your word processor.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Fill out the form completely.</li>\r\n	<li>Save the file by renaming the MS Word or RTF file with your name (example: JOHNDOE.doc). That will help me keep things organized.</li>\r\n	<li>Return the completed form to <a href=\"mailto:judythe@judythemorgan.com\">judythewriter@icloud.com</a> as a MS Word or RTF attachment.</li>\r\n	<li>You can include a jpg file for any images you wish. No large images and Please only <em>legal </em>to copy images. Your photo would be nice to include, but not necessary.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nOnce I receive your email...\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>I’ll confirm receipt, so if you don’t hear from me within 72 hours, please contact me.</li>\r\n	<li>I wish I had time to send a reminder before your date, but I don’t. So please mark your calendar.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<h2>REQUEST FORM to guest blog on</h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\">View from the Front Porch</p>\r\nName/Pen Name:\r\n\r\nContact Email (not to be given out, just for me):\r\n\r\nWebsite (if you have one):\r\n\r\nBlog (if you have one):\r\n\r\nTwitter and Facebook Name (if you wish to share):\r\n\r\nDate you would like to appear (if no date is specified, I will assign one to you).\r\n\r\nYour blog. *Be sure to proofread it. I’m a writer, not an editor!\r\n\r\n<b>Special Instructions if you’re an author:</b>\r\n\r\nBeing a guest blogger can also be an opportunity for you to promote your books. In the bio info at the end of your guest blog, we can include any book information you wish to promote.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IMPORTANT:</span> No erotica or steamy sensuality. Any book genre including non-fiction is acceptable.\r\n\r\nIn your file please include\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Title of Book you would like to promote. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember the exceptions!</span></li>\r\n	<li>Buy Link (either to your author site or to online retailers like Amazon, B&amp;N, etc.)</li>\r\n	<li>URL for your cover: (To find the URL, right click on the pic, then go to properties. It will have a URL, copy and paste that here.)</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Additional thoughts:</span>\r\n\r\nYou are encouraged to show up on your guest blog/interview day to chat with commenters.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I look forward to working with you.\r\n\r\n- Judythe','BE MY GUEST','','inherit','open','open','','4250-revision-v1','','','2015-06-23 09:41:09','2015-06-23 15:41:09','',4250,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/23/4250-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5803,1,'2015-07-03 06:00:52','2015-07-03 12:00:52','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nThere has been a tremendous decline in egg production on Miller Farm.  Perhaps the chickens are just commiserating with those who have Avian Flu.  Perhaps the grumpy game bird hens are intimidating the others by staying in the nest boxes.  Perhaps it is a result of a decline in the chicken population – several have died over the past few weeks.  Whatever the cause, Assistant CW Rachel decided to address the issue by hatching eggs.\r\n\r\nIt actually started when she was asked to incubate peacock eggs.  As long as she was setting up the incubator, she might as well fill it.  As long as she was filling one incubator, she might as well fill another one.  After all if one is good, two is better – right?\r\n\r\nThe peacock eggs were not fertile.  It turns out the birds were too young.  That left us with 48 chicken eggs.  These were not all from our chickens since our chickens seem to be on strike.  Rachel gathered eggs from three different flocks.  She carefully marked each egg in order to determine which flock had the best hatch rate.\r\n\r\nOne of the incubators did not hold its temperature very well.  The other one was in her closet away from drafts or heat from the windows.  Rachel was afraid the variation in temperature would kill the developing chicks.  She bought a special light for “candling” eggs to see which were fertile and still alive.  She carefully marked the air sack on each egg.  That way if one pipped – poked the first hole – outside the air sack, she could help it along.  They were set to hatch on Friday, June 26.\r\n\r\nThursday morning we got up to swim and Rachel discovered a chick had already hatched – an overachiever.  As it called out other chicks began to hatch.  We cleared off the brooder in the garage and began the process of moving chicks outside as they hatched. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/transfer.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5804\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/transfer-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"transfer\" /></a>\r\n\r\nRachel has been helping a family with 7, soon to be 8, children so she was gone Friday.  I sent her updates as chicks hatched. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/egg-hatching.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5805\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/egg-hatching-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"egg hatching\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe ended up with 32 chicks.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHopefully most of them will be hens and we will be able to replace our older birds.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/new-chicks.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5806\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/new-chicks-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"new chicks\" /></a>And the cycle of life continues…..','Chickens – The Next Generation','','publish','open','open','','chickens-the-next-generation','','','2015-06-27 19:35:00','2015-06-28 01:35:00','',0,'http://judythewriter.com/?p=5803',0,'post','',0);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5807,1,'2015-06-27 19:32:08','2015-06-28 01:32:08','&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nThere has been a tremendous decline in egg production on Miller Farm.  Perhaps the chickens are just commiserating with those who have Avian Flu.  Perhaps the grumpy game bird hens are intimidating the others by staying in the nest boxes.  Perhaps it is a result of a decline in the chicken population – several have died over the past few weeks.  Whatever the cause, Assistant CW Rachel decided to address the issue by hatching eggs.\r\n\r\nIt actually started when she was asked to incubate peacock eggs.  As long as she was setting up the incubator, she might as well fill it.  As long as she was filling one incubator, she might as well fill another one.  After all if one is good, two is better – right?\r\n\r\nThe peacock eggs were not fertile.  It turns out the birds were too young.  That left us with 48 chicken eggs.  These were not all from our chickens since our chickens seem to be on strike.  Rachel gathered eggs from three different flocks.  She carefully marked each egg in order to determine which flock had the best hatch rate.\r\n\r\nOne of the incubators did not hold its temperature very well.  The other one was in her closet away from drafts or heat from the windows.  Rachel was afraid the variation in temperature would kill the developing chicks.  She bought a special light for “candling” eggs to see which were fertile and still alive.  She carefully marked the air sack on each egg.  That way if one pipped – poked the first hole – outside the air sack, she could help it along.  They were set to hatch on Friday, June 26.\r\n\r\nThursday morning we got up to swim and Rachel discovered a chick had already hatched – an overachiever.  As it called out other chicks began to hatch.  We cleared off the brooder in the garage and began the process of moving chicks outside as they hatched. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/transfer.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5804\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/transfer-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"transfer\" /></a>\r\n\r\nRachel has been helping a family with 7, soon to be 8, children so she was gone Friday.  I sent her updates as chicks hatched. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/egg-hatching.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5805\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/egg-hatching-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"egg hatching\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe ended up with 32 chicks.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHopefully most of them will be hens and we will be able to replace our older birds.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/new-chicks.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5806\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/new-chicks-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"new chicks\" /></a>And the cycle of life continues…..','Chickens – The Next Generation','','inherit','open','open','','5803-revision-v1','','','2015-06-27 19:32:08','2015-06-28 01:32:08','',5803,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/27/5803-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5808,1,'2015-06-27 19:33:51','2015-06-28 01:33:51','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <em>A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>\r\nThere has been a tremendous decline in egg production on Miller Farm.  Perhaps the chickens are just commiserating with those who have Avian Flu.  Perhaps the grumpy game bird hens are intimidating the others by staying in the nest boxes.  Perhaps it is a result of a decline in the chicken population – several have died over the past few weeks.  Whatever the cause, Assistant CW Rachel decided to address the issue by hatching eggs.\r\n\r\nIt actually started when she was asked to incubate peacock eggs.  As long as she was setting up the incubator, she might as well fill it.  As long as she was filling one incubator, she might as well fill another one.  After all if one is good, two is better – right?\r\n\r\nThe peacock eggs were not fertile.  It turns out the birds were too young.  That left us with 48 chicken eggs.  These were not all from our chickens since our chickens seem to be on strike.  Rachel gathered eggs from three different flocks.  She carefully marked each egg in order to determine which flock had the best hatch rate.\r\n\r\nOne of the incubators did not hold its temperature very well.  The other one was in her closet away from drafts or heat from the windows.  Rachel was afraid the variation in temperature would kill the developing chicks.  She bought a special light for “candling” eggs to see which were fertile and still alive.  She carefully marked the air sack on each egg.  That way if one pipped – poked the first hole – outside the air sack, she could help it along.  They were set to hatch on Friday, June 26.\r\n\r\nThursday morning we got up to swim and Rachel discovered a chick had already hatched – an overachiever.  As it called out other chicks began to hatch.  We cleared off the brooder in the garage and began the process of moving chicks outside as they hatched. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/transfer.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5804\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/transfer-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"transfer\" /></a>\r\n\r\nRachel has been helping a family with 7, soon to be 8, children so she was gone Friday.  I sent her updates as chicks hatched. <a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/egg-hatching.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5805\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/egg-hatching-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"egg hatching\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe ended up with 32 chicks.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHopefully most of them will be hens and we will be able to replace our older birds.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/new-chicks.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5806\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/new-chicks-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"new chicks\" /></a>And the cycle of life continues…..','Chickens – The Next Generation','','inherit','open','open','','5803-revision-v1','','','2015-06-27 19:33:51','2015-06-28 01:33:51','',5803,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/27/5803-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5809,1,'2015-06-29 06:00:08','2015-06-29 12:00:08','<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-wooden-sign_23-2147511248.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5835\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-wooden-sign_23-2147511248-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"summer-wooden-sign_23-2147511248\" /></a>\r\n\r\nCrazy days - I agree. No schedule. Letting the time flow.\r\n\r\nLazy days – not so much. Well, not around our little neck of the woods, anyway.\r\n\r\nSummer here in the Rio Grande National Forest can get busy...chaotic. That’s what’s happened so far this year and the reason the <em>Voice from the Front Porch</em> has been quiet. Lots to do, so little time to write!\r\n\r\nIt’s only the end of June and so far this summer…\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5810\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"summer flowers\" /></a>We spent hours gardening. Installed a fire pit for cooking hot dogs and s\'mores and summer evening sing-a-longs. Our new neighbor plays the harmonica. How cool is that! And, we added a basketball goal for more summer fun.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5812\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"basketball\" /></a><a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5811\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"firepit\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe traveled to Texas for a graduation. Congratulations, Matthew on a job well done. Cum Laude over four years of high school is not an easy accomplishment. You did it!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5816\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"girls2\" /></a>We entertained three very active visitors from Minnesota for a week. We dubbed them the <em>Frolicking Princesses</em> because every evening they climbed the mountain behind our house to watch the sunset. I kept up with them (barely), but once we dropped them at the airport, I came straight home for a long nap. Eagerly awaiting their next visit!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mike.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5818\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mike-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mike\" /></a>We spent a weekend with a very good friend and business associate of my husband’s. Spent hours on the front porch catching up and remembering good times. I think we have another South Fork fan. He’s ready to retire and leave hot, humid Houston for some cool mountain air. He took home our realtor’s card.\r\n\r\nBusy times, crazy times and so much fun. How’s your summer been going?\r\n\r\nIn between all the fun and frolicking, I’ve actually found writing time. I’ll have a new release by end of summer titled <em>When Love Returns</em>, book two in the Fitzpatrick Family Series. Keep watching for the cover reveal!\r\n\r\nI’m looking forward to July and August, how about you?','Lazy, crazy days of summer','','publish','open','open','','lazy-crazy-days-of-summer','','','2015-06-28 20:30:34','2015-06-29 02:30:34','',0,'http://judythewriter.com/?p=5809',0,'post','',0);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5817,1,'2015-06-28 18:15:15','2015-06-29 00:15:15','&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nCrazy days – I’d agree.\r\n\r\nLazy days – not so much. Well, not around our little neck of the woods, anyway.\r\n\r\nLife in the summer can get crazy...busy...chaotic. That’s what’s happened so far this summer and why the Voice from the Front Porch as been quiet. Lots to do, little time to write!\r\n\r\nIt’s only the end of June and so far this summer…\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5810\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"summer flowers\" /></a>We spent hours gardening. Installed a fire pit for summer evening sing-a-longs. Our new neighbor plays the harmonica. How cool is that! And, adding a basketball goal.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5812\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"basketball\" /></a><a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5811\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"firepit\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe traveled to Texas for a graduation. Congratulations, Matthew on a job well done. Cum Laude over four is not an easily accomplished.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5816\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"girls2\" /></a>We entertained three very active visitors from Minnesota. We dubbed them the <em>Frolicking Princesses</em> because every evening they climbed the mountain behind our house to watch the sunset. I kept up with them (barely), but once we dropped them at the airport, I came straight home for a nap. Can’t wait for their next visit!\r\n\r\nWe spent a weekend with a very good friend and business associate of husband’s. Spent hours on the front porch catching up and remembering good times. I think we have another South Fork fan. He’s ready to retire and leave hot, humid Houston for some cool mountain air. He took home our realtor’s card.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBusy times, crazy times and so much fun. How’s your summer been going?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn between all the fun and frolicking, I’ve actually found writing time. I’ll have a new release by end of summer titled <em>When Love Returns</em>, book two in the Fitzpatrick Family Series. Keep watching for the cover reveal!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nEdie Melson posted this summer graphic on her blog. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow truly captures the essence of summer.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI’m looking forward to July and August, how about you?','Lazy, crazy days of summer','','inherit','open','open','','5809-revision-v1','','','2015-06-28 18:15:15','2015-06-29 00:15:15','',5809,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/28/5809-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5819,1,'2015-06-28 18:16:48','2015-06-29 00:16:48','Crazy days – I’d agree.\r\n\r\nLazy days – not so much. Well, not around our little neck of the woods, anyway.\r\n\r\nLife in the summer can get crazy...busy...chaotic. That’s what’s happened so far this summer and why the Voice from the Front Porch as been quiet. Lots to do, little time to write!\r\n\r\nIt’s only the end of June and so far this summer…\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5810\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"summer flowers\" /></a>We spent hours gardening. Installed a fire pit for summer evening sing-a-longs. Our new neighbor plays the harmonica. How cool is that! And, adding a basketball goal.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5812\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"basketball\" /></a><a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5811\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"firepit\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe traveled to Texas for a graduation. Congratulations, Matthew on a job well done. Cum Laude over four is not an easily accomplished.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5816\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"girls2\" /></a>We entertained three very active visitors from Minnesota. We dubbed them the <em>Frolicking Princesses</em> because every evening they climbed the mountain behind our house to watch the sunset. I kept up with them (barely), but once we dropped them at the airport, I came straight home for a nap. Can’t wait for their next visit!\r\n\r\nWe spent a weekend with a very good friend and business associate of husband’s. Spent hours on the front porch catching up and remembering good times. I think we have another South Fork fan. He’s ready to retire and leave hot, humid Houston for some cool mountain air. He took home our realtor’s card.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mike.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5818\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mike-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mike\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBusy times, crazy times and so much fun. How’s your summer been going?\r\n\r\nIn between all the fun and frolicking, I’ve actually found writing time. I’ll have a new release by end of summer titled <em>When Love Returns</em>, book two in the Fitzpatrick Family Series. Keep watching for the cover reveal!\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nI’m looking forward to July and August, how about you?','Lazy, crazy days of summer','','inherit','open','open','','5809-revision-v1','','','2015-06-28 18:16:48','2015-06-29 00:16:48','',5809,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/28/5809-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (5820,1,'2015-06-28 19:55:26','2015-06-29 01:55:26','Crazy days – I’d agree.\r\n\r\nLazy days – not so much. Well, not around our little neck of the woods, anyway.\r\n\r\nLife in the summer can get busy...chaotic. That’s what’s happened so far this summer and the reason the Voice from the Front Porch as been quiet. Lots to do, so little time to write!\r\n\r\nIt’s only the end of June and so far this summer…\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5810\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/summer-flowers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"summer flowers\" /></a>We spent hours gardening. Installed a fire pit for summer evening sing-a-longs. Our new neighbor plays the harmonica. How cool is that! And, adding a basketball goal.<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5812\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/basketball-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"basketball\" /></a><a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5811\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/firepit-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"firepit\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe traveled to Texas for a graduation. Congratulations, Matthew on a job well done. Cum Laude over four is not an easily accomplished.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5816\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/girls2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"girls2\" /></a>We entertained three very active visitors from Minnesota for a week. We dubbed them the <em>Frolicking Princesses</em> because every evening they climbed the mountain behind our house to watch the sunset. I kept up with them (barely), but once we dropped them at the airport, I came straight home for a nap. Eagerly awaiting their next visit!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mike.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5818\" src=\"http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mike-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mike\" /></a>We spent a weekend with a very good friend and business associate of my husband’s. Spent hours on the front porch catching up and remembering good times. I think we have another South Fork fan. He’s ready to retire and leave hot, humid Houston for some cool mountain air. He took home our realtor’s card.\r\n\r\nBusy times, crazy times and so much fun. How’s your summer been going?\r\n\r\nIn between all the fun and frolicking, I’ve actually found writing time. I’ll have a new release by end of summer titled <em>When Love Returns</em>, book two in the Fitzpatrick Family Series. Keep watching for the cover reveal!\r\n\r\nI’m looking forward to July and August, how about you?','Lazy, crazy days of summer','','inherit','open','open','','5809-revision-v1','','','2015-06-28 19:55:26','2015-06-29 01:55:26','',5809,'http://judythewriter.com/2015/06/28/5809-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0);
