2006 December | Chickens in the Road

It’s my blogiversary! I started my blog two years ago this month, and getting to know so many of you has been the best part about it.

I’m going away for Christmas, so to celebrate the holidays and my blogiversary, I’m hosting an end-of-year blowout wishfest for the new year!

Prize: $10 Amazon gift certificate, PAX mug, or an autographed book of your choice from my backlist! There will be three winners (each winner may choose one of the prize options listed above). How to play? Post your wish for the new year! Maybe magic will happen….

I’ll start.

I wish………
–there would be a great big blizzard so that I wouldn’t have to go anywhere for a week (and I would, of course, be stocked up on all necessities at the time).
–there would be no more wars, anywhere.
–my parents’ health was better.
–I could go to England again, and that when I got there, they would be driving on the right side of the road.
–my children grow up healthy and happy.
–I would sell lots of books this year!!
–I had sheep………

Post as many wishes as you want, but only one wish per day. I’ll be back Monday, January 1st, with the winners! So c’mon, wish upon a star with me! :mrgreen:

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I went to Amish Country!!! I saw cute little Amish people in their cute little outfits riding around in their cute little horse-and-buggies! Okay, so first I got the cheese…. Then I took off down a country road, reeling with giddiness at the cuteness of it all. Buggies in the road! Little children running around with their cute little hat- and bonnet-covered heads! I wished I’d nabbed something pink and sparkly out of my daughter’s room to give the girls…. But no, that would be wrong wrong wrong…..

Ohio is home to the world’s largest concentrated population of Amish people. Where else would you find a buggy shop? There were buggies all over the place, and if they weren’t riding in buggies, they were walking or riding bicycles. Farms, fields of fodder shocks, and houses I wished I could go into to see how they live without electricity or telephones. There were cheese shops, candle shops, furniture shops, quilt shops–everywhere! I wished I had more time to shop. Through plate glass windows in the shops, you can watch them making candles and cheeses. The cute little Amish girls running the shops were so sweet. I almost didn’t expect them to speak English, they all seemed so foreign in a way. A world apart, right in the middle of America.

I wonder what it’s like to be a living, breathing tourist attraction? I was afraid to be too bold about taking pictures. I pulled over on the side of the road and just waited for buggies to come by, then I’d pop up my camera to take a quick picture. I almost felt bad about taking their picture at all, but I couldn’t resist.

There is something fascinating about their basic lifestyle. Living side by side with the “Englishers” the Amish maintain their 16th-century ancestors’ simplicity, forsaking modern conveniences for what is handmade and homemade and pure. Wow. I could almost do that. Except for giving up the internet. And TV. And having my hair highlighted. And……

You? What could you not give up?

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Rainbow in Cornwall.

“If you want to see the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

That’s my favorite Dolly Parton quote because it reminds me that there is no storm in life that isn’t followed by a rainbow.
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What is your favorite Dolly Parton quote, and why? I’m going to be crazy busy tomorrow so I’m posting my contest early this week. Have fun picking from the quotes here! If you want to add your own favorite quote from Dolly that I haven’t listed, go ahead and do that, too! Random winner chosen on Monday for a Merry Christmas $10 Amazon gift certificate!

Dolly Parton quotes:

–I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

–I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

–It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

–My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

–People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

–Storms make trees take deeper roots.

–We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

–When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

–Yeah I flirt, I’m not blind and I’m not dead!

–You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

–I patterned myself after this woman that was the town tramp back home. She had blond hair and high heels and red fingernails and lips, and to me she was like what movie stars were to other kids. We’d see her, and I’d say, “Oh, look, she’s got plastic goldfish in her heels!” and my mama would say, “She ain’t nothin’ but trash, nothin’ but trash,” and I thought, “Ooh, that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up — trash!”

Update: Also visit American Title finalist Meretta Pater’s blog this weekend for a chance to win free books by fellow Silhouette author and all-around lovely person Loreth Anne White!

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