So today was crazy! I had my first book signing at Smith’s General Store in the morning, and it was a lot of fun. I only sold three books (five if you count the two I sold on Wednesday), but it was still a lot of fun. And we’re talking about doing another one in November during the town’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, where hopefully I’ll do even better.
Miss Tadpole and Bubbles had a 4-H meeting this afternoon and it was their turn to give the presentations. Naturally, they left them till the last minute, because who needs to prepare?
Since our ISP switch, though, we only have internet access on one computer – Seymour’s. It’s an inconvenience for sure, and when Miss Tadpole wanted to use the internet to look up information about the history of cats, we told her to look at the encyclopedia.
Her response?
“That doesn’t have history in it.”
*facepalm*
So I gave her a whirlwind introduction to the encyclopedia. Again. (Sadly, this is not the first time this conversation has happened in my house.) I showed her the index, explaining that it was “like Google, before Google was a thing.” Then I demonstrated how to use it to check out different keywords in her search (she wanted information on cats in ancient Egypt). Unfortunately, our encyclopedia was a bit lacking when it came to ancient Egyptian cats, but hopefully she learned that she doesn’t have to rely on the internet for everything.
And no, I’m not holding my breath that that particular lesson actually soaked in.
Still, it was a lot of fun looking through that old encyclopedia. Some of my most treasured memories involve summer afternoons at the library reading The World Book Encyclopedia.
Do you have any fun memories involving reference books of yore? Share ’em below – let’s reminisce! 🙂
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Christmas means cookies. Lots and lots of cookies. At least, it has the last couple of years.
Now, I like Christmas cookies as much as the next person, and I can’t remember ever not having Christmas cookies. But between my church’s cookie walk and the kids’ 4-H cookie walk, I’ve made more cookies the last two Decembers than I can ever remember baking. Ever.
Cookies are serious business. 🙂
And baking cookies is pretty much how I spent my day yesterday. It was the only day I had to get the cookies done for this weekend, so I took advantage of it – I found a recipe for some vanilla wafers that sounded promising, and I went to town.
Stop back on Friday and I’ll tell you all about how I accidentally made somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 dozen cookies.
Yes, you read that right. See you Friday!
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It’s been a whirlwind sort of day around here. I stayed up till 2:00 a.m. reading Inquisitor by RJ Blain, which I’m really enjoying, so I wasn’t exactly ready to rise with the boys this morning at 7:00 a.m. I spent half my day running all over three counties to get last-minute things done for the kids’ fair projects, which are being judged as we speak.
At last, I have a little bit of peace and quiet to get done the dozen and one other things I have to do today, and I’m so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open.
So. I think I’m just going to go sit down with my candy-coated licorice bites and listen to the birds sing in the trees while I finish reading my book. It’s nice to relax every now and then.
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 