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Won’t Shut Up!

21MarchSuzanneHome in the Rookery, Writingwriting revising upstart crow agent michael stearns frank turner music

If I were the squeeing type, I’d be squeeing over here.Â Impossible, you think?Â Let meÂ explain. Since I wrote three novels over the last year plus, I’m doing a lot of revising of late.Â When I’m writing a novel the first time through, I want everyone to go away, be quiet, leave me alone, and

Baby Chicks!

19MarchSuzanne1 CommentHome in the Rookerychicks baby animals chickens home turkey mail post office hatchery

No, not our little eggers.Â They have more than two weeks to go.Â These are the little peepers we had shipped from a hatchery.Â We got the brood boxes ready for them Wednesday night and crossed our fingers they’d ship well.Â Then theÂ post office called earlyÂ Thursday morning to say they were in.Â We walked into

Which Green Are You?

17MarchSuzanneHome in the Rookerygreen clover st. patrick's day green meaning color

Being that it’s St. Patty’s day and because I’m researching the meaning of symbols for 13 Demon Days, I decided to see what ‘green’ means to different people.Â I liked this article on about.com, and there’s a great list here.Â What was funny for me was how differently I’ve perceived green throughout my life. As

Eggs and a Square Chicken

12MarchSuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookeryeggs guinea incubator hatching humor joke laugh

These are the lovely little guinea eggs, ready to pop in the incubator. Â Â Â Â Â Â They’re from a mixed flock, so we have high hopes that we’ll get a veritable rainbow of little guineas…just as soon as we can turn these babies into chicks!Â The problem is that our not-so-lovely little square chicken, Â aka incubator,

Birds in the Garden

25FebruarySuzanneHome in the Rookerybackyard bird feeder suet seed garden chickadee pic

One of my favorite things about living on the other side of nowhere is all the wildlife we see and the number of birds that drop by.Â We’ve got one feeder in the garden that we recently loaded down with orange halves, a suet block, my homemade bread wreath, and of course, a traditional feeder

Cool News

18FebruarySuzanneHome in the Rookery, Writingice pirates tiger popcorn 'sounds of the night' story writing published snow pictures image igloo toy fun

The snow is almost gone, and the Ice Pirates are panicking.Â They thought they had a pretty good hideout, complete with a mean billy goat watch dog, but it’s melting fast. Â Now they’re scrambling to move their stolen goods before the warm weather comes. I’ve suggested they try one of our hollow trees, but

Food for the Birds?

11FebruarySuzanne1 CommentHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughsbird food cook flop homemade bread funny laugh ha ha joke

This is what happens when you make breadÂ without paying close attention: Â It may look like some kind of delicious bundt cake with a scrumptious icing (maybe if your prescription glasses need updating?) but it’s actually a loaf of bread that has at least one, perhaps two extra cups of flour.Â When I was halfway

Snakey Snuggly Scarf

2FebruarySuzanneHome in the Rookerypatchwork scarf craft weave homemade, scrape exchange yarn

Finally, it’s finished!Â I’ve been working on my scarf–you remember, the one that was temporarily Mr. Top Hat Man?Â And thanks to my beloved Scrape Exchange I got to weave in all kinds of fun colors.Â I was having so much fun, it got longer…and longer… It doesn’t quite reach the floor, but it’s a

Photos From the Flood

30JanuarySuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughsflood storm wilmington pics books water damage joke funny laugh

I know everyone else is posting pics of the snow, but I’ve been too busy dealing with the after effects of our basement flood from almost a week ago. Here’s the laundry, or most of it: Â And here are the books that now reside on our kitchen table.Â They wave their pages gently in

Lemons and Lemonade

26JanuarySuzanne4 CommentsHome in the Rookeryfirebirds food dinner restaurant lemon flooded basement wilmington beach

Once again a late post–but, at least this time I have a good excuse!Â We spent the weekend down at Wilmington and the beach… We came back to a flooded basement.Â I’m thinking this is our chance to go through our (damp) boxes and see which of the stuff really must be rescued, and which

Suzanne Warr

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