Thanksgiving Wednesday

We're getting ready for Thanksgiving here. Lots of preparation to be done.

You can see more Wordless Wednesday at the headquarters and my nursery quilt progress at TexasRed and the Twins.

Teaser Tuesday - Life From Scratch

Today is Teaser Tuesday. 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.

Thanks to Bell Bridge Books and Melissa Ford, I received the ARC for Life From Scratch, Melissa's novel about a woman going through a divorce, living a new single life, and starting a cooking blog (coming out December 2010). Here's my teaser for today:

I never learned to cook because my mother told me that "real women don't scramble eggs." They are too busy saving the world. Suggesting that we cook dinner rather than order in from a local restaurant is the first step in returning all the liberties women have obtained in the last fifty years. I might as well declare myself Amish and go sew my own clothing and can green beams from my garden.

This quote is especially funny to me as I am hand-sewing two quilts right now and planning a Thanksgiving dinner with green beans from our garden -- granted, they were frozen, not canned (this year).

Pumpkin Cupcakes

I know cupcakes are too trendy right now, but these were so yummy and fun to make for a party this week! You can see more Wordless Wednesday at the headquarters and hear about my first birthing class at TexasRed and the Twins.

Quiet Wednesday

Sorry - No new prairie dog pics today. He's been sleeping lots more since the weather has started cooling off and the days are getting shorter. I'm starting to remember that last year I had to be the one to wake him up during the fall/winter, instead of the other way around.

Had a nice long cuddle this morning where we were both pretty much napping on the couch. I'm not posting pics of me my bathrobe here, though -- which is best for everyone!

I did get pics of the nursery development up at TexasRed and the Twins, for those interested in how the quilting and room planning are going: TexasRed and the Twins. (This is what I work on while watching Making Room for Multiples and freaking myself out.)

Teaser Tuesday - Unseen Academicals

Today is Teaser Tuesday. 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.

So, here's my teaser for today from Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett.

"In fact my progress is now hindered by a pease pudding and chowder stand. I have been doing my best, Mister Trev, but it has really been slowing me down," said Nutt over his shoulder...