Fleece Navidad by Maggie Sefton

I'm trying something a little different tonight, this post is part of one of my reading challenges for this year...



The book title is listed above...this book is actually one of a sub genre of a type called cozy mysteries...I have pretty much just discovered them recently, and I a have covered a lot of ground recently! I love them.

This one is the sixth in a series, that I actually read first, so now I will have to go back and read the rest...The series features a CPA, caffeine addict, and beginning knitter named Kelly Flynne. This one is set during the Christmas season and apparently  Kelly has promised her friends to stay away from sleuthing for a while after narrowly escaping injury in the past...The setting is a lovely town and Kelly and her friends take on the local teenager and the Christmas play while trying to solve the mystery of who might be the hit and run driver that killed the local librarian. Could it really be Claudia? The woman is well liked, but her former stepdaughter is determined to prove that Claudia was responsible for her last husband's death and so the pot thickens...

This was a very enjoyable read as Kelly and her friends celebrate the season and Maggie Sefton manages to keep us guessing as she infuses the story with good humor and friendship, romance and good odl fashioned hometown Christmas.

Enjoy and Stay Pink!

Happy Pink Saturday!!

Pink is a very special color, it represents hope, joy, and love!

Here is my Pink Saturday offering for this week!

Aren't they lovely?

Stay pink!!

PS...If you'd like to join in on this very pink endeavor then just click on the Pretty  Pink Saturday button above and visit Beverly...it is all right there!!

Bailey Helping me with Grants...

                   Still helping...

                         Uh oh, he hears something...

Wait...Bailey likes this one!

Bailey decides to stand guard from in front...

Whew! this review/guarding stuff is exhausting...

Stay Pink!!

Follow Friday 40 and Over!!

Welcome to the 35th edition of the   
Follow Friday 40 and Over!! 
Are you a blogger over 40? Yeah, welcome to the club!
Please join in the fun and get to know your fellow bloggers!!

The RULES to join in are very simple!

1. Grab the button
2. Add your link to the list
3. Visit as many other blogs as you can
4. Follow the ones you like (and comment on their blog to say that you are following)

NOTE:  PLEASE leave your blog address when you leave a comment!!  I have had several people wanting to follow back but the blogger can't always be found through the google info page!!

This list is new each week. The links do not carry over. Please link up  each week for new participants to find your blogs. It will be visible all week to visit  the blogs listed. 


While you are here, make sure you check out the
Over 40 Blogger List!!

Be sure to join if you haven't already!

HAVE FUN! Stay Pink!

Thursday Friends Cafe Blog Hop

Welcome to the "Thursday's Friends Cafe!"  

(hosted by Deb of Menopausal New Mom and Tammy's Two Cents)

• Just a few reminders on how the "Cafe" works.
• Follow the two hosts Deb and Tammy
• (pre-requisite for qualifying for guest host)
• Add your name/blog to the list
• Follow as many participants you want
• (be sure to comment so they can follow you back.)
• Most importantly:  HAVE FUN!

Please leave me a comment so I know you are following...

I ALWAYS follow those who make comments!

Our Guest Host this week is

Michelle

of

Ace & Friends

Please stop over and say "Hi" to Michelle

 and

 don't forget to hit that follow

button while you're there!!

This is the BLOG HOP!!

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?

Meet Bailey!! He has been a big help with that...

We weren't looking to get another dog...we just lost Lily...if you would like to read about that just click here http://trulysimplypink.blogspot.com/2010/12/she-is-beautifulshe-is-love.html"> She is Beautiful...She is Love...  Anyway...about two weeks later out of the blue we got an email from a woman named Sally from the Humane Society in Calvert County...(we had an application in there from back in November when we were thinking about a companion for Lily) Sally had just gotten a call to come get a 9 month old little Eskie boy from a shelter. She wanted to know if we were interested. We weren't sure...we have never had a boy...we were still heartbroken over Lily...we lost her on December 30,2010. But...OK...And it turns out...that was the best decision we have ever made!!! And now...with out further ado...I present...Master Bailey Wright!!!

Baily in his crate for the ride to his new forever home...

Bailey snuggles...

and snuggles...

So there you have it...the cutest little guy in the world...the littlest surprise,  the one that was sent from heaven to mend our broken hearts...he is a bouncing little ball of joy!! He is so much love and has fit so well with us in just a day and a half,  it is amazing to me...

He is Love...

It's Post it Note Tuesday!

Otherwise known as PINT!!

Happy Tuesday!

To make your own stickies,
click HERE.
What a fun way to express yourself!! If you'd like to join in please click on the big yellow one and hop on in!


Stay Pink!

Meet Me on Monday!!

Welcome to the 32nd edition of "Meet Me On Monday!" Blogging  is a funny thing...we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read  and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, "who is  this person!?"  I know them...but yet I don't know them!  I want  to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great  way for all of us to "meet" each other! 

Every Sunday Never Growing Old will post five get to know you  questions that you can copy and paste into your own Monday post and we  can all learn a little more about each and every one of us!!

"Its a great way to to meet new friends and for others to get to know me better....one Monday at a time!!!"....as quoted by the Chacogirl!! I will make this SIMPLE and FUN!!!

Java will add a linky so we can follow who participates and get to know them  better!!  Be sure to link the POST and not just your whole blog!



Questions: 

1.  What is your favorite kind of fudge?
2.  Is there snow outside your window?
3.  What is your favorite meal of the day?
4.  Do you text on your cell phone?
5.  Waffles or pancakes?


My Answers:
1.  What is your favorite kind of fudge?


Butterscotch! yumm

2.  Is there snow outside your window?


You bet!

3.  What is your favorite meal of the day? Why breakfast, of course...

4.  Do you text on your cell phone?
Oh yes, of course!!

5.  Waffles or pancakes?

Waffles!!

So there you have it! Happy Monday! Stay Pink!!

It"s Pink Saturday!!

Can you think of a more perfect day for me and my blog!!! If you are a Pinky like me, please join us!!

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Here is my contribution for this pink Saturday...

Can't you just see yourself there...sigh...

Stay Pink...Oh, and Happy PINK Saturday!!

Hey Look at Me, I won an Award!!

Blooming Lovely has awarded me this honor! she says that she  would like to pass on to me the 'Versatile Blogger' award,That I have a lovely blog &  feel that I am worthy of this award. Isn't that nice? I am so, well, Tickled Pink!


Now, I have to tell you that there are a few rules associated with receiving and accepting the award...so here they are...                                                   

Rules for accepting this award:

Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post

Tell us seven things about yourself

Award 15 recently discovered new bloggers

Contact these bloggers and let them know they've received the award

            1. I LOVE PINK : bet you didn't know that...

            2. We may be getting a puppy this weekend...

            3. I am a breast cancer survivor...

            4. I LOVE using the dots...

            5. I am a member of the Susan G Komen Advocates in Science
                 steering committee

            6. I am an Embryologist by day (that means I make babies, lol...)

            7. My favorite TV show is...NCIS...

The blogs that I have chosen to pass this award to are:

SnarkyvilleThe 

Allegro Mamma

The accidental Blogger

Bodacious Boomer

My Life as a Real Housewife

What's Charlie Talking about?

Wandering Through The Words

The Pink Pony

The Unexpected Mother

The Beverly Buzz

Old Tweener

Life Happens While Books are Waiting

Love this Bloggin

Just another Day on the Bay

Snooty Primadona's Sparkling Outlook on Life...or Not

So There you have it!!

Follow Friday 40 and Over!!

                       Welcome to the 34th edition of the   
                               Follow Friday 40 and Over!! 






The RULES to join in are very simple!

1. Grab the button
2. Add your link to the list
3. Visit as many other blogs as you can
4. Follow the ones you like (and comment on their blog to say that you are following)

NOTE:  PLEASE leave your blog address when you leave a comment!!  I have had several people wanting to follow back but the blogger can't always be found through the google info page!!

This list is new each week. The links do not carry over. Please link up  each week for new participants to find your blogs. It will be visible all week to visit  the blogs listed. 





While you are here, make sure you check out the
Over 40 Blogger List!!

Be sure to join if you haven't already!

HAVE FUN! & Stay Pink!

Welcome to the "Thursday's Friends Cafe!"  

(hosted by Deb of Menopausal New Mom and Tammy's Two Cents)

• Just a few reminders on how the "Cafe" works.
• Follow the two hosts Deb and Tammy
• (pre-requisite for qualifying for guest host)
• Add your name/blog to the list
• Follow as many participants you want
• (be sure to comment so they can follow you back.)
• Most importantly:  HAVE FUN!

Please leave me a comment so I know you are following...

I ALWAYS follow those who make comments!

Our Guest Host this week is:

What Would Jen Do?

Please follow our Guest Host and while you're there leave her some comment love!

It's Thursday and I Might Be Feeling Better!

I have to tell you I haven't been feeling all that well lately...In fact, I am at home right now, instead of at work where I should be...The fact that I am typing instead of sleeping is a good sign...maybe I'll make it in to work tomorrow...I wasn't there yesterday either...

I have had some fun with my blogging recently, I have made new friends, visited some great blogs, done some hops and I think I've learned a lot! I know that I still have a lot to learn, but I think that I've come a long way. I do know that I am having a lot of fun with it. I love to write! I really like knowing that people actually read what I write! What fun! I love it even more that people even comment...so keep those comments coming...please...

You may have noticed that I have decorated it up a little around here:) Isn't it pretty and Pink? Of course, it will always be Pink!

Some of you have helped with that, and some of you  have given me other hints or suggestions, like the one about leaving a link when I comment...Sometimes it can be frustrating for me to figure out just how to do some of these things, but a Google search helps, and then I am finding also, that my fellow bloggers are very generous and helpful with a hint on how to accomplish things...

This is so refreshing...I find that all I have to do is ask and you all are so willing to share your tips on how to do and accomplish things and where you got your little widgets and stuff like that...

What a great little, or actually not so little, community we have here...And I have to say, that I am thrilled to be becoming a part of it!

So Thanks for welcoming me with your open arms! Thanks for all of your help! If, when you read my humble little pink blog, you have any helpful hints please leave them below...

Oh, and if anyone knows how to make that little smiley:) up there real? let me know!

Stay Pink!!

Wordless Wednesday!

Honestly, I do actually blog once in a while...but I am actually not feeling well...and as such, I am at home... instead of at work... so...Wordless Wednesday...

This is myself and my daughter at her christening...18.5 years ago...a lifetime...There are no words...Stay Pink!

Meet Me On Monday!!

It's Time For Another Meet Me On Monday!!!

As Java over at Never Growing Old says:Blogging  is a funny thing...we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read  and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, "who is  this person!?"  I know them...but yet I don't know them!  I want  to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great  way for all of us to "meet" each other! 

Every Sunday I will post five get to know you  questions that you can copy and paste into your own Monday post and we  can all learn a little more about each and every one of us!!

"Its a great way to to meet new friends and for others to get to know me better....one Monday at a time!!!"...Sooo...Let's get STARTED!!!

I  will add a linky so we can follow who participates and get to know them  better!!  Be sure to link the POST and not just your whole blog!

Sooo Here goes!

Questions: 

1.  Do you like your ice cream in a dish, waffle cone, pretzel cone, sugar cone or cake cone?  Any one of those appeal but...I'm thinking a pink waffle cone might be good!!

2.  Do you read the newspaper daily? Nope...but if I do, it's on line...

3.  Marinara or meat sauce? Meat sauce for me!! But I like a creamy white sauce on a pink plate actually...

4.  Last time you cried?

Unfortunately this is an easy one...if you look at my past post 

She is beautiful...She is love...

you will see why. Lily was our beloved family pet. Enough said...

5.  What word/phrase do you find really annoying?  "awesome!" It is so over used...and sounds pretty immature coming from some adults...

Time to link up and meet!!

This is a blog hop so if you want to put the linky on your post just click the "Get the Code" at the bottom of the linky.

Your link MUST include your Meet Me On Monday post or it will be deleted!

Also  PLEASE either put the Meet Me On Monday button in your post or link  your post back to me.  I have found several people just posting the  questions and answers in their post and no one knows that they actually  belong to a meme and linky! 

Yikes!! I'm at it again! Another Book Challenge!

Well, I love to read!! So here I go again! This looked fun! So Look to the side bar...and grab the button or just click on the button here and join from Book City Chick"s site...But I think this one will be fun!!

Sign Up

To sign up you MUST make a post on your blog about participating in the challenge - you then use the URL of the post to sign up to the challenge by adding it to Mr Linky below. DO NOT just add your blog URL - this will be deleted. Also please be aware that unless you show you are joining the challenge with a participation post your ARC will not be sent.

You must add the button to your sidebar - make sure that it links back to this post so others can join the challenge if they wish. Easiest way to do this is to copy and paste the code displayed above!

Other Details

• Timeline: 01 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2011

• Rules: To read TWELVE (12) mystery & suspense novels in 2011 (12 is the minimum but you can read more if you wish!)

• You don't have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go.

• You can join anytime between now and the later part of next year.

• At the beginning of Jan 2011, you will find a link to specific month to add your reviews. There will be a monthly prize too courtesy of the lovely Simon & Schuster - you must be signed up to the challenge and add the link to your review to be entered into the monthly prize draw.

Now, there are many different sub-genres of mystery and suspense - you can choose from the numerous sub-genres, from cosy mysteries such as Agatha Christie to the more hard-boiled kind like V I Warshawski by Sara Paretsky, or romantic suspense written by the likes of Linda Howard, forensic crime such as those written by Kathy Reichs and even paranormal/supernatural suspense such as Kelley Armstrong. I'm sure this challenge will have something for everyone! :)

To help you figure out and decide, Book Chick City has updated a sub-genre list - to view this list go HERE.

Have fun! and Stay Pink!!