Leap Day

  Happy Leap Day folks!!  Have you seen today's Google Doodle?  It is perfectly adorable!!  Although it is only the last day of February, it is already feeling like spring here!  Most of the snow is gone and the robins are back.  I am waiting for it to dry up a bit before digging out and weeding the Rhubarb beds.  I am hoping for a big crop of Rhubarb this year because you can make so many delicious things with it.
   Since it is Leap Day, I am going to watch Leap Year tonight.  I know that it is rather cheesy and has a few major mess ups, but it is still amusing.
   I am also counting down the hours until I can watch episode 14 of Healer tomorrow night.  I am currently bleeding all over the place because at the end of episode 13 (last night) my second favorite guy was poisoned and I don't think that he lives.  It is sooooo sad!!  Especially how his death is going to hurt the Hero. 
  I know that this has been a really rambling post, but what did/are you all doing for Leap Day?

Favorite Five

This week I am going to post five of my favorite quotes from Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  The book.


  "It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy.  "It's you.  We shan't meet you there.  And how can we live, never meeting you?"


  "Caspian, dear," said Lucy.  "You knew that we'd have to go back to our own world sooner or later."
"Yes," said Caspian with a sob, "but this is sooner."


  Lucy leaned her head on the edge of the fighting top and whispered, "Aslan, Aslan, if ever you loved us at all, send us help now."  The darkness did not grow any less, but she began to feel a little - a very, very little - better.  "After all, nothing has really happened to us yet," she thought.


  But know one except Lucy knew that as it circled the it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.


  "That's alright," said Edmund.  "Between ourselves, you haven't been as bad as I was on my first trip to Narnia.  You were only and ass, but I was a traitor."


  Then someone else, whose face was vaguely familiar, had slipped an arm under her from the other side.  There was a lot of shouting going on from the ship, heads crowding together above the bulworks, ropes being thrown.  Edmund and the stranger were fastening ropes around her.

                         ~                                 

  Last of all came the stranger - a golden-headed boy some years older then herself.
"Ca - Ca - Caspian!" gasped Lucy as soon as she had breath enough.

Books I Turn To: When I Want A Light, Amusing Read

The other day I was reading a story, and I thought that I would share with you all, a list of books that I turn to when I want a light amusing read.  

All books in B.M. Bower's The Flying U Ranch series.
Daddy Long Legs and
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill
A Cathedral Courtship by Kate Douglas Wiggins
Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggins
The Railway Children by E. Nesbitt
The Range Dwellers by B.M. Bower  (Romeo & Juliet on a 1930's Montana cattle ranch)
A Soldier's Daughter by G.A. Henty
Rustler Roundup by Louis L'Amour
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Golden Stallion series by Rutherford Montgomery
Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower
And pretty much any Love Inspired.

Note:  This is not all of the books that I turn too, but it is a good portion of them.  I hope that they may help you all.  So long!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD.............


THIS IS MY 100th POST!!!!!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day: My First Ever OTP's

For Valentine's Day, I thought I would tell you all who my very first OTP's were.  Like my OTP's ages before I knew that label existed.  Like when I was 5-6-7.  You know.

Fritz & Roberta ~ The Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

So that was my first one.  I saw this movie when I was, oh, I think about 4 1/2?  Somewhere around that age.  And I completely adored this couple.

And this is the one that I had when I got a bit older!!

 John Carter & Jessie Alden ~ The Boxcar Children series

I have always imagined Jessie looking sort of like this.

And John Carter kind of like this.

And not exactly like this, but put both of them in 1940's/50's clothes and yeah, that's kind of what I see.

Thank you all once again for reading my blog.  And Happy Valentine's Day!!

The Bookshelf Tag

The rules of the tag are simple:

• Once you are tagged, copy and paste the image above into your new post.
• Show readers your book shelf and explain what books are on there.  Pictures are always fun!
• Tag as many other people as you want and copy-paste these instructions onto your post so they know exactly what to do.
• Make sure to leave a link to your post on the site you were tagged (for instance, the people tagged below by me should leave a link to their post in the comments here)

Thank you, LoverofLembas for tagging me!!

So....my lovely bookshelf.  I like to organize my books by size, rather then most read.

  

First layer. Tolkien.  Grace Livingston Hill. and random.

Second layer.  Love Inspired.  Louis L'Amour.  Random.

My Tolkien books.

Isn't this bookmark lovely?  Thank you, Hope!!

The Grace Livingston Hills.

More GLH

GLH, Ruth Livingston Hill and a few others.

 Top Shelf:
4 Tolkien
25 Grace Livingston Hill
2 Ruth Livingston Hill
Watch For A Tall White Sail ~ Margaret Bell
Papa's Wife ~ Thyra Ferre Bjorn
In My Father's House ~ Ann Rinaldi
Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens
Across Five Aprils ~ Irene Hunt
At Home In North Branch~ Arleta Richardson
The Railway Children ~ Edith Nesbitt
Outlaw Red ~Jim Kjelgaard
Old Yeller ~ Fred Gipson
His Thoughts Said.. His Father Said ~ Amy Carmichael

Beverly Lewis

June Masters Bacher

Janette Oke and Lori Wick

Other Fantasy, TSP, Katherine Paterson, Elizabeth George Speare.

Classics.  Jo's Boys, Caddie Woodlawn, Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children.

The Golden Stallion series.

And my dear, dear movies.

 Middle Shelf:
Abram's Daughters series ~ Beverly Lewis
Love Is A Gentle Stranger series ~ June Masters Bacher
Season's of the Heart series ~ Janette Oke (the last three books of this series)
The Californians series ~ Lori Wick (the first three books of this series)
The Princess Spy ~ Melanie Dickerson
Ella Enchanted ~ Gail Carson Levine
The Scarlet Pimpernel ~ Baroness Orczy
Lyddie ~ Katherine Paterson
The Bronze Bow ~ Elizabeth George Speare
The Sign of the Beaver ~ Elizabeth George Speare
The Witch of Blackbird Pond ~ Elizabeth George Speare
Jo's Boys ~ Louisa May Alcott
Caddie Woodlawn ~ Carol Ryrie Brink
These Happy Golden Years ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Journey Home ~ Isabelle Holland
Heidi Grows Up ~ Charles Tritten
Heidi's Children ~ Charles Tritten
The Golden Stallion series ~ Rutherford Montgomery (the first four books of this series)

Odds and ends

James Herriot

Bottom Shelf:

Amy Carmichael ~ Sam Wellman
My Side of the Mountain ~ Jean Craighead George
Flight to Freedom ~ Ana Veciana-Suarez
Zlata's Diary ~ Zlata Filipović
Naya Nuki ~ Kenneth Thomasma
Black Beauty ~ Anna Sewell (this is the one that doesn't have a spine)
Black Gold ~ Marguerite Henry
Star, of Wild Horse Canyon ~ Clyde Robert Bulla (neither this....)
Old Bones: The Wonder Horse ~ Mildred Mastin Pace (or this, have spines)
Dog At the Door ~ Animal Ark
Sheepdog In the Snow ~ Animal Ark
Kitten In the Cold ~ Animal Ark
Pony In the Pumpkin Patch ~ Animal Ark
Maury Had A Little Lamb ~ Janette Oke
Skip ~ Aileen Fisher
Jim Forest and Lone Wolf Gulch ~ Joseph Maniscalco Rambeau
The Hooded Hawk Mystery (Hardy Boys) ~
All Creatures Great and Small ~ James Herriot
All Things Wise and Wonderful ~ James Herriot

All Things Bright and Beautiful ~James Herriot
Every Living Thing ~ James Herriot
The Lord God Made Them All ~ James Herriot
My Latin Book
And a Charles Dickens that I haven't read.

Well Folks.  That's all my books.  Well ok, that's not true.  Those are all the books that are on my bookshelf downstairs.  And actually not all of them really belong to me.  Like the Grace Livingston Hills?  Most of them are family books, but I am the only one who reads them.

I do have about 150 books on the Family Kindle and around 20 or so on my Kindle.  So yeah, a LOT of books!! Hope you all enjoyed seeing more of what my interests are!!!

And I tag, Jacqueline, and Olivia.

Liebster Award

Thank you, Faith for nominating me!!

Here are the rules:

- Thank the blog who nominated you and link back to them.

- Nominate up to 11 other bloggers to receive the award.  To be eligible, they need to have 200 followers or less.

- Answer 11 questions from the blogger who nominated you.

- Tell your readers 11 random facts about yourself.

- Give your nominees 11 questions to answer on their blog when they post their nomination.

Well let's see.  I nominate:

Rachael Steele
Abigail
Annie Twitchell
Laura Yackel


The Questions:

#1 – If you would live anywhere in the world, where?

   Ireland.

#2 – What did dream occupation did you have as a child?

  I don't know that I really had one!!  I know, shocking!!

#3 – If you could only wear one color for the rest of your life, which color?

  It would be a toss up between Brown and Black.  Probably Black though.

#4 – Favorite new book?

  Arabella by Georgette Heyer

#5 – Do you prefer to watch foreign entertainment with subtitles, dubs, or you don’t like to watch foreign entertainment?

  I have to watch foreign stuff with subs.  Which means that I can't do crocheting or knitting while watching it.

#6 – Favorite fairytale?

  Beauty and the Beast

#7 – If you decided to learn another language, what language would you choose?

  Gaelic

#8 – Books or E-readers?

  Both

#10 – Your favorite real historical lady?

  Sophie Scholl

#11 – If a new planet was discovered and you got to name it, what name would you choose?

  Macatoutou!  (A family joke)


11 Random Facts:

#1 - I am learning Latin.
#2 - I have recently discovered, that I would like to costume for theatre.
#3 - I don't like writing uppercase cursive F's.
#4 - When I had to write the word with this (ān'jəl) phonetic spelling I couldn't resist writing A.N.Jell (after angel of course).  It made my Mom and Mel laugh.  (Note: Only K-Drama fans will get this.)
#5 - Since watching episode 4 of Healer last night, I have become addicted to THIS song.
#6 - I bought foam curlers (those bright pink ones) and used them to curl my hair and....IT WORKED!! 
#7 - Curling Irons don't work very well in my hair.
#8 - I think that going to the theatre to watch Beauty and the Beast when it comes out in March of next year, would be an ideal first date. 
#9 - Milk Chocolate is my favorite kind of chocolate.
#10 - I am gaga over carved candles.
#11 - I love cheese.

And I am just going to pass on Faith's questions because my brain is kinda stalled.

#1 – If you would live anywhere in the world, where?

#2 – What did dream occupation did you have as a child?

#3 – If you could only wear one color for the rest of your life, which color?

#4 – Favorite new book?

#5 – Do you prefer to watch foreign entertainment with subtitles, dubs, or you don’t like to watch foreign entertainment?

#6 – Favorite fairytale?

#7 – If you decided to learn another language, what language would you choose?

#8 – Books or E-readers?

#10 – Your favorite real historical lady?
#11 – If a new planet was discovered and you got to name it, what name would you choose?

Favorite Five

   "If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage."
   As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips.
   "Are you dying for him?" she whispered.
   "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes."
   "O you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?"
   "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last."
                                                                                   A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

  Weary waited what seemed to him a reasonable time, but her lashes drooped lower, if anything. Then he made one of the quick, unlooked for moves which made him a master of horses. Before she quite knew what was occurring, the schoolma'am was upon her feet and snuggled close in Weary's eager arms. More, he had a hand under her chin, her face was tilted back and he was smiling down into her wide, startled eyes.

  "I didn't burn a streak a thousand miles long in the atmosphere, getting back here, to be scared out now by a little woman like you," he remarked, and tucked a stray, brown lock solicitously behind her ear. Then he bent and kissed her deliberately upon the mouth.

                                                                                  The Lonesome Trail by B. M. Bower

  But Bob was on his stomach in the road scuttling the ship that was to have carried away the princess. The chauffeur was fully occupied in the house, for he had been ordered to follow and be ready to assist in carrying away an insane person, and he had no thought for his car at present. It was an ugly job, and one that he didn't like, but he was getting big pay, and such things had to be done.  

                                                                                   Exit Betty by Grace Livingston Hill

"No,"—he calmly replied,—"there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is—"
"—Mrs. Weston, I suppose," interrupted Mrs. Elton, rather mortified.
"No—Mrs. Knightley;—and till she is in being, I will manage such matters myself."
                                                                                   Emma by Jane Austen


  "And you think if I turn to religion, my despondency will vanish" --- he snapped a finger --- "like that?"

  "It's God I'm referring to, Mr. Clay ... not religion.  And I would no more tell you that than a blind man his sight will be restored.  God's ways are not our ways, Mr. Clay.  Sometime He heals, but sometimes He doesn't."
                                                                                   The Widow of Larkspur Inn by Lawana Blackwell