False Alarm!!!

Whew!!!

I fixed everything...short story...some setting deflated? Defaulted?

I hate it when the photos are not in the middle!!!

So does Lucy!!!




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Help!!!

I did not do one thing to change my blog. I didn't touch the way the pictures configure. I liked the way they just line up in the middle. It used to be perfect. It looks perfect when I am writing and putting my pictures up and then when my post is up...the photos are all wonky. I checked back in my last post and the pictures are even covering up my words!!!
Is this happening to anyone else?
Does anyone know what to do?
Will it go away?
Forgive me for these random photos...I am trying to see what is happening!!!




Is it because I write in between photos?




Am I putting up too many photos?




Did it just fix itself?




Am I losing it?

It's Tuesday...I Have A Little Surprise For You!!!

If you missed out on reading this book...I have a copy from the publisher to give away to you! To one of my lucky happy lovely readers! Rebecca Lang from Penguin/Viking will send it to you. The paperback version has just been released...perfect to tuck away into summer beach bags!
Just leave your email in the comments!!!
Easy peasy!!!



Loving this book...it's one of those books that you just want to read slowly...on an Adirondack chair or in a hammock...sort of Great Gatsbyish but in a current way...a wedding, dysfunction...oh my word...so much dysfunction...it's awesome. I love the way this book sort of glides and I love that the characters are so easy to remember in spite of their odd preppy ish names. So far there is Winn and Biddy and Dicky, Sr. and Oatsie and Mopsy and a Greyson and a Sterling or two...plus pitchers of secret recipe Bloody Mary's...and of course lobstahs!!! It's quite the yummy book.




And...
Lucy and I slept until ten this morning...I woke up to her little face on my pillow...
Den's bag is unpacked and his laundry is done...I have not even unzippered my bag and begun to attack it. The dining room table...usually uncluttered... is filled with purses, hats, books, and cameras.
The birds are still at my friend's house...and I cannot even see an end to trip laundry...why we pack so much is beyond me...and I did laundry there!
There is nothing much that is edible in our house...and did I mention earlier that my cooktop is broken? Since that entire island is being replaced and the cooktop is glass and flat...we have no clue whether to try to get it repaired or get a new one...
I have to say it is freeing to not have a cooktop except on Sunday when we were craving pasta and I got everything ready and then realized I could not boil water!
Do you unpack right away or are you a slow unpacker?



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All Jumbled Up?

I have no clue as to what is happening to my pictures...the ones that I put on my blog. They used to just be in a straight line and I would happily write above or below them...now without me changing anything they are still ordered but not in a straight line...
I do not get it at all...I think that both Blogger and WordPress have minds of their own and often do things to trip me up.
A few weeks ago I was getting email responses from every WP blog that I commented on and I never checked the box...and then I had to sign in to comment. And Blogger repeatedly changes the way I see my comments!
I have done nothing to cause any of this stuff to happen. I am innocent!
Books...delicious books...I am reading this one...it's all New Englandy...love it...island houses, shot gun wedding, mixed up dad, clubs, clicks, secrets, lots of ice clinking in glasses...very summery.




I now have these to choose from, too.














I am so close yet so far from NYC and BEA...I could hop on a train...the Acela...and be there in an hour. But I don't have a huge desire to do that...crowds, lines, the lure of finding out about new books...are both tempting and not so tempting. I am not a big fan of sharing a hotel room...I would have to have my own or bring Den. I like my own schedule. I like going out to dinner. I do not like crowds at all. I believe that I might go next year...just for a day...to see what it's like...I know I would probably change my mind if I had a first hand glimpse.
Oh...and I do not really get the armchair BEA thing, either. If I have learned one thing about blogging while I have been blogging it's this...I don't like having to do something...I am more of a meandering blogger...finding my own way and if that's blocked...meandering in another direction until it feels right.
Wow...that made tons of sense...




What are your thoughts about BEA?

Treasure? Loot? Stuff I Hauled Home From Maine!!!

Fish on a stick! Do not laugh...I love her!




White duck!




Two sea glass buttons...no idea why but they were so pretty! My sister Paula could knit me a lovely sweater to go around one of these and I would give her the other button!




Lobstah bookmarks!




Lobstah thank you card for my sister Paula! At the ready in case she knits me a sweater...lol.




One gauzy dress!




Second gauzy dress!




Third gauzy dress!




All my new gauzy dresses are summery and long and floaty and yummy and comfy!
Blue old jar...I filled it with my shells!




Whew...not bad, right?
Books...
Finished this and wrote a review in the car on the way home...




Still deciding what to read next...this?




or this?




Or perhaps maybe this?




By the way...Lucy and I are exhausted...Den is exhausted, too, but out mowing. Lucy and I are lounging in the family room. She talked so much on the way home yesterday that her little kitty voice is hoarse today!
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