Teaser Tuesday - The Trail to Seven Pines

Back from the whirl-wind road trip and now trying to get everything back to "normal." It'll still take me awhile to catch up on blog reading, posting, twitter, etc. (not to mention the laundry and finding homes for the suitcases)! Here's today's TT, though, which is a good start.

Teaser Tuesdays are hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

It asks us to:

(1) Grab our current reads.

(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.

(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).

We're also supposed to share the book title and author so others can find the book themselves.

Here's my teaser for today from The Trail to Seven Pines, by Louis L'Amour:

'That was a surprise,' he said aloud. 'I'd have made the same mistake Windy did. The Kid's got sand, and he's more than half gun-slick."

I'm learning a whole new language to read my husband's westerns. Fortunately for me, he's a good translator!

Nesting Instinct Decoded

In my head, Hoover (our pet prairie dog) is quite chatty. Here's the inner monologue for yesterday's series of pictures:

Need more bedding. Need this. Need!

Seriously. Winter's coming. Gonna get cold. Why won't this all fit in my mouth?

Dude. Don't bogart the cardigan! I need it!

What'd I do?

Don't worry. Mr. Fur Coat will have plenty of warmth for this winter -- just not from my sweater. Check out more Tell Me Thursdays, too!

Nesting Instinct

Check out my quilt-y travel gear over at TexasRed Quilts. The WW headquarters is here: Wordless Wednesday.

Teaser Tuesday - Across the Endless River - Part 2

Teaser Tuesdays are hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

It asks us to:

(1) Grab our current reads.

(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.

(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).

We're also supposed to share the book title and author so others can find the book themselves.

Here's my teaser for today from Across the Endless River, by Thad Carhart:

Baptiste's first few days in Paris were like a waking dream. Anticipation, excitement, doubt, and wonder flooded his mind as he looked around him. He had feld this way only once before, when his parents left him in St. Louis with Captain Clark, but his surroundings there had be understandable, if not entirely familiar, Here, nothing in his life prepared him for what he found in this vast city.

I know it's week 2 of teasers from the same book. Things have been a little crazy here. Getting ready to head back to California -- another driving trip -- tomorrow. This time for a family member's memorial service. I'll be back (and back up to normal) as soon as I can.

The Pioneer Woman Cooks

After reading her blog for the last 3 years or so and meeting her in Chicago, I now have The Pioneer Woman in my own home -- well, her cookbook at least.

This arrived over the weekend and it took everything I had to focus on trick-or-treaters and not immediately start planning meals out of this beauty (or at least admiring the pictures of her kids and enjoying the funny stories). I had pre-ordered this on Amazon & almost forgotten that it was coming out at the end of October.

So excited!