Lorna Barrett's Blog: Dazed & Confused

Former Sheriff's Office detective Ray Davenport now owns the Wood U gift shop on Victoria Square, but it’s his talented younger daughters who steal the show with their displays and packaging designs. The girls believe they can earn money with their window-dressing skills for the other businesses on the Square, but the only merchant who hires them conspires to reap the rewards of their labor without paying a cent. Will they have to swallow their pride and ask Katie Bonner for help to get what’s owed them?

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Katie Bonner’s business in on the line after her friend Jamie is poisoned at her tea shop. First she must locate the mysterious woman he was dining with, and next  she must go undercover at a nearby poker club where Jamie won big a week before. It seems everyone there might have had a motive to rub Jamie out...and if they learn Katie has been lying to them, she might be next!    | Google Play

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Angelica's carrot cake recipe was featured in A FATAL CHAPTER, including her recipe for maple buttercream frosting (which is super yummy). Check it out!  

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 I did some more decorating over the weekend. I'm running out of doorknobs and wall space to hang things, so this Santa pillow is now hanging from the welcome sign just inside my front door.  I did the cross stitch back when my hands could take it, and my mother made it into a pillow with a ribbon. I used to hang it on the handle on the handle from the sliding glass door into our enclosed porch, but then my sister-in-law sent us a felted stocking (which is pretty) and it's lived there every holiday season since and Santa got relegated to storage, but I like it and decided to try to find a way to use it.  Mr. L's sister is an extremely talented knitter and makes the best stuff. (I'll have to take pictures to share.)
How is your holiday decorating going?

 

Happy Saturday.  Mr. L always teases me because for just about every tune I've ever heard, I have a favorite part. Just a few notes.  I grew up in a musical home. My Dad played the trumpet, and my Mother was a HUGE fan of musicals. I knew all the lyrics to Broadway shows such as West Side Story, Carousel, Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, and so many more by the time I hit grammar school. 

When I was a kid, we only had two Christmas albums. One by Andy Williams and one by the Ray Conniff singers.  Is it any wonder that my favorite Christmas song (and 2nd favorite) came from that Ray Conniff album. My absolute FAVORITE Christmas song is Silver Bells. I've heard it from many, many different artists, and no matter who sings it (except for Elvis. *Shudder* I'm NOT an Elvis fa.), I always stop to listen. I should put together a CD of all the various versions I have, I love it so much. (But that would probably drive Mr. L around the bend.)

My second favorite Christmas song was only performed (as far as I've been able to discover)  on that same Ray Conniff album. "Christmas Bride."  (https://www.youtube.com) I got engaged on Christmas Eve, so that song, which I heard when I was just a little girl, had even more importance when it finally happened.

So, what's your favorite Christmas song?
 

 
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Katie’s been dealt the Dead Man’s Hand …

 It’s all fun and games when Katie Bonner and her friends play poker for chocolate-covered peanuts, but the very next day Jamie Seifert collapses and dies after visiting Katie’s tearoom on Victoria Square.
 
Katie’s business in on the line and she needs to prove Jamie wasn’t poisoned at Tealicious. Her first order of business is to locate the mysterious woman he was dining with, and her next step is to go undercover at a nearby poker club where Jamie won big just a week before. It seems everyone there might have had a motive to rub Jamie out...and if they learn Katie has been lying to them, she might be next! 

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Happy Sunday! When you're skipping a meal (every day for months on end. It's called intermittent fasting), you start to become obsessed with food. (Starting?) I start planning lunch the minute I open my eyes in the morning (and sometimes that's at 3:30. I'm really BAD at sleeping). Since my brother gave us some croissants, I've been salivating more than Pavlov's dog. 

Ideally, I'd love it with chicken salad, but...egg salad is almost as good. (With minced celery and chopped olives--and LOTS of mayo. I've found the best olive oil mayo is actually Walmart's Great Value brand. Costs less than the big brands and tastes better. Has almost half the calories of regular mayo, too. Commercial over.) I have just enough lettuce to put on the croissant, too. (Boy, have I been nursing this head of lettuce.)

 We're having fried rice (with ham click the link for the recipe) for supper tonight. (I love it because you can make it ahead.)

What's on your menu today?