I am in search of a children's book titled The Pink Maple House by Christine Noble Govan published in 1950. It was my mother's favorite book, and I have been searching for years now for it in order to gift it to her.

If anyone has a copy and would be willing to part with it even for a brief amount of time, I would be willing to pay.

Thanks!

Took my boys to the children's movie "Up" this afternoon. Cute, Funny, Sentimental. I wept big tears. Seriously. Highly recommended.

A great weekend! Arrived at the ranch in Kent for the Black Lion Emprise at 8:30 on Friday night. Got the horses settled. Set up our fancy living quarters for the evening (the horse trailer makes a cozy RV). Made a crest in the aisleway of the stable whilst waiting for Drifa and Cyriac to show up. Feather boas and pipe cleaners ROCK ( Read more... )

We had a nice time hanging out doing the horsey thing at Acorn War on Sunday. The plan was for Drifa and Allison to go with me taking the three horses in my big trailer ( Read more... )

An amazing team of folks all interested in embellishment made the Pennsic Bags a reality this summer ( Read more... )

1) Turning around from the finals eric to see Augustus/Lukey standing alone in the middle of the other eight erics (with no one else around)clad in his scale armor, Daddy's gauntlets, his yellow fighting helmet with the green "Viking" horns on it- thrusting his sword high in the sky as if challenging anyone to deny his claim to those lands. ( Read more... )

I liked it- except for the rain which managed to not drench us. I don't know how. But, we were NOT miserable ( Read more... )

An amazing team of folks all interested in embellishment made the Pennsic Bags a reality this summer ( Read more... )

Anyone have Vrin's phone number? We lost it. Please, be so kind as to send it to

brothers at pacifier dot com

Thanks!

I'm sitting at the computer trying ever so hard to work on my National Board for Professional Teaching Standards entry and all I can do is think about DARK Chocolate and Creamy Peanut Butter.

Doh!

Urgh. This is going to be a tough 7 months...