Welcome! So much excitement here in Smallville! If you just came from WILLARD, you are going to need another cup of tea and some more MUSICA! (If you haven’t gotten your Willard yet, don’t worry, it will be going into your mailboxes from 9am eastern time Tuesday Aug 18, through Friday 
the 21st.) But you should know, our Giveaway has grown, now there are three! If you haven’t time to read the Blog just now, scroll to the bottom of this post where you can sign up for the drawing by clicking on the word “comments” and leaving a message. For the rest of you . . . I can only hope you agree that
I love this quote by one of my favorite authors. Wonderful things ARE happening. I used this quote in my new book, and asked Kellee if she would make it into computer wallpaper for you . . . and she did! Click HERE ~ it should be up by now, along with some gorgeous new stationery . . . As you’re about to see, things are getting back to normal!
You really know I have a little more time on my hands when you see this.↑ I’m finally giving my poor Beatrix Potter people a bath . . .
Filthy piglets, hadn’t bathed since Christmas! It was the very first thing I did to gain control over my house again after so many months in book writing mode.
Now they’re back in their places, all sparkling and happy, and the little vases are filled again and I am saying . . .
If I ever missed taking a closeup photo of a rose in the summer, then it just wouldn’t be summer, no matter what else I think I have to do!
There is nothing like roses from the garden, they look and smell like no other roses.
One of the first things Joe and I did when everything was turned into the printer was go to the nursery for these: ↓ Our garden needs help! Better late than never!
We also decided to celebrate our newly-found freedom with a long leisurely lunch at the restaurant at 
the golf course ~ “leisurely” is difficult to find here in August, with the Island so packed with vacationers. But we thought this place was a little bit out of the way so we’d have a chance. Well, it didn’t work out quite as we expected because we accidentally went on the day that Presidents Obama and Clinton were both there playing golf!!! We sure know how to pick ’em! So much for the quiet lunch. There were dogs sniffing the FINE ROMANCE VAN, believe it or not, and we were wanded (that’s what the secret service called it) before we could go inside. But after that, everything was normal until the two presidents became visible on the 
golf course, then the entire restaurant stampeded outside to watch and take pictures. All except us, because we had seen them before. Yeah, we’re so cool ~ it’s old hat to us! But we did put our flag on the front of the house! Afterwards we went to the nursery, also my first visit this summer . . . and no presidents were there! Yay! We’re replanting around the poor neglected bird bath right now . . . Once again, it’s Domesticity City around this place and we are happy as clams.
Out go the fluffy, healthy, quickly reproducing weeds, making room for actual flowers.
We also stopped at the farm stand and got our first corn of the season, hot, buttered, salted and peppered, it just popped off the cob! DELICIOUS! I’m sure you’ve done this ~ now I know it’s really summer!
We went out at 7 am this morning and have been walking our walk through the woods out to the water every day. This is the place where Joe and I hash everything over . . . from the habits of cormorants, to the unknown idiot who figured out how to move the huge rocks protecting tern nests so he could park his car there, to what’s for dinner and future travel plans/dreams. And we stood at the water and said a prayer for the victims of the terrible fires out west, that they be showered with love from their families, friends, and communities. My heart breaks when I see the ruin the flames are leaving behind.
We’re ooohing and ahhhing every night, and counting our blessings.
Coming home after a walk to the harbor to our little greeters . . .Jack’s looking at Girl who is waiting out of reach, on the kitchen table . .
Then back out with the camera because the sky at night has been wonderful, filled with stars. I’m a big believer in ladybug magic and there was one in the bathroom last night. Insert five exclamation marks. Second floor, hot crickety summer night, brushing my teeth, and there she was. A lucky omen. Believe me, I look for them every day!
Jack thinks our starry night sky is wonderful too, because it seems like it’s dropping . . .
. . . yellow cat toys!
Joe’s birthday balloons were tied around a bouquet of giant sunflowers that Kellee and Sheri sent from the Studio and within 10 minutes of arrival, Jack’s scissor-like teeth had severed the ribbons and all balloons were floating free.
Just the way Jack understands life to be. All about him. Which it is.
Yup. He’s our guy. Aren’t they adorable?
Busiest cat I ever knew. Floor water is no good anymore, he wants sink water.
Grass, he loves it. I take him out and sit with him while grazes. He’s really not an outdoor cat at all, I never let him out alone, and he is so good, he never tries to get out the door. He likes me to sit next to him the whole time.
On Cat patrol, sitting on top of the ironing board in the pantry, watching out the screen door for any possible trespassing by anything, bunnies, turkeys, neighborhood cats.
He also watches me working . . .and I watch him watching me. Sometimes I can’t believe he’s real. I don’t get as many photos of Girl Kitty these days, but never doubt that she is still our Queen. She just likes to keep her throne in the back of the closet most of the time, so she’s hard to get in action shots!
But they both were with me the whole time I was wearing these pencils down to the nubbins, and now they watch curiously as I reorganize the studio. I’ve been cooking too, filling the fridge with August-type healthy goodies we love, ice cold Gazpacho and . . .
. . . my favorite Coleslaw Recipe ~ stuff to munch on. Look at that apple core in our compost pile! Isn’t it beautiful? (If you click on the recipe you’ll also see us repainting the kitchen a couple of years ago . . . just scroll down for the Coleslaw recipe, I promise, it’s there).
Nature. Just wow. I realize we are finding wow in the compost pile, but I can’t help it. I had to dig this guy out and take his picture. I almost put him on Ebay.
I can already feel fall coming and we hear it in the woods, we’ve even seen a couple of bright red leaves out there! And what’s back to school without book things? I know there were two Fairy Tale bookmarks in the Willard, but I thought, considering the time of year, some of you might want our wise old owl once more. Just click there, cut around him, and he is yours.♥
And now for the Giveaway(s) to celebrate my new book which I can barely believe is really finished! The first one I mentioned in the new Willard ~ it’s my 2016 Wall Calendar, plus my AUTUMN book, plus my new book, THE FAIRY TALE GIRL, and, for the cherry on the top . . .
a fairy tale banner! I’ll sign the books ~ and it will all go out to the winner the minute THE FAIRY TALE GIRL 
gets here, which should be about three weeks at the latest. (But who’s counting? Me, I am!) All you have to do to enter the drawing is scroll down to the bottom of this post and leave a message ~ just click on the tiny gray word under where I sign off that says, “comments” and leave a comment and that automatically enters you in the drawing. And the good part (or the bad part, depending on how you look at it) is that you have a lot better chance at winning this than you do the lottery!
Also, another surprise! Something else for my Girlfriends, Giveaway #2, because when I think of fall, I think of three things, delicious recipes, books, and old 
movies ~ and this Giveaway covers them all. My Autumn Book, filled with fall recipes, and a wonderful old movie called Hobson’s Choice. I think you will LOVE this movie! I have it, but I have to keep it, so I bought you a brand new one. It has everything going for it: It’s old, it’s English, and it’s pure charm. And it makes you feel good. What more could anyone ask for?
And this strange item, for good measure, will be Giveaway Number Three. I was cleaning up my studio (WHAT a mess!) and came across this. I saved it because I think at one time I was going to cut it 
up and make bookmarks out of it. It’s one of the little bits of paper I use to test watercolors and my ink pen before I paint or write something for a book or a calendar. As you may notice, my pen was giving me all sorts of trouble — I didn’t want it 
to blob onto the “good” paper, so I kept playing with it, making squiggles until it started behaving. Anyway, I thought one of you might like the results of the squiggles . . . the originalist of the originals, stream of consciousness without the consciousness, no rhyme nor reason for it ~ but I did sign and date it … it’s about 6 ½” by 9″ and would make a fun little piece of kitchen art for your fridge or bulletin board. And it does have fairy magic in it. And you can win it.
And that makes it three Giveaways on this blog today. Leave a comment, and Vanna will draw three names in a few days and I HOPE SO MUCH that the name she draws is YOURS!!!!!!!!!
In the meantime, I will be watching for the UPS 
man to bring me my first stack of The Fairy Tale Girl. I wait ever so patiently, but I am as excited as Christmas.
With the new book and the new calendars, Kellee and Sheri have been shaking in their boots about the WILLARD and asking me to make a special request to remind you how tiny their four little hands are. The phone has been ringing off the hook at the Studio about the calendars and they want me to tell you that they 
will try their hardest to get everything out as quickly as they can . . . if it takes a couple of extra days to get your things, you can blame it on the dratted calendars, but have faith, they’ll be there very soon. And so will your books!
And then soon, we might be doing this again, sailing out of New York harbor on the Queen Mary 
2!!! We are dreaming big time. Anything could happen between now and then, but we’re going to try. We took all our travel books with us to our leisurely lunch at the golf course the other day ~ looking for cottages to rent, pouring over maps and plotting our possible course. Figuring out whether we should go in the summer or in the fall . . . we’ve only ever been in the spring, so there will be new things to see. And we’ll bring the Blog along, so get ready Girlfriends!!!
And there she is ~ our beautiful in-house Queen joins me to say fare thee well for now. Thank you for your support and friendship.♥ Joe thanks you, Jack thanks you, Girl Kitty thanks you, and . . .
. . . I thank you . . . ♥ Have a wonderful day Girlfriends! XOXO
Susan, once again you are a treasure. All the hard work, but I am so pleased you are done and have not missed the end of summer. Enjoying corn on the cob, visiting the nursery and dreaming of your next adventure. So happy for you, and for us knowing new books and calendars are coming.
Thank you bunny bunches,
Shirley
Thank you for Willard & for this lovely blog post. I am so looking forward to reading your new book. Thank you for the giveaways.
Oh my… you are a breath of goodness!! ♥
How wonderful to hear from you while we are on our dream trip to England! I have been thinking of you each time we pass the darling sheep and each time we see a lovely garden and each time we enjoy a warm pot of tea thinking “Susan would love this!” I was so thrilled to visit Hilltop Farm that I actually broke into tears afterwards, just so overcome with joy. We are in Scotland now and it is sooo beautiful here too. I know you and Joe would love it here! Maybe you’ll include Scotland and Ireland on your next journey?!!
Just what I needed today…a little bit of Happy from your corner of the world!
Note to self…look for Hobsons Choice. I think I’m safe with anything you recommend. Wishing you a loverly, yes, I meant to spell it that way, day.
So glad you are getting to enjoy a bit of summer. Thanks for all of the giveaways.
Three Cheers For You, Joe, the Kitties, & Vanna – Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hooray! Willard and all the Blog surprises we are enjoying courtesy of you, Susan. We thank you for your generosity and the thrilling news of travel plans on the QM2. Love the photo of Jack and his yellow balloon! So much fun happening all the time!
Hi Susan! Thank you for a chance to win! I get your calendar every year. I love each and every one of them! :o) I also enjoy all your posts and Willard.
Have a great evening! :o)
I hope you have a wonderful trip whenever you take it. We were telling a new friend about your QM2 trip to England. She would love to visit Paris, but is afraid of flying, so we suggested a train across the US, QM2 to England and the Eurostar to Paris. Wouldn’t have even thought about that if it wasn’t for you.
I can’t wait until your new book is out! Thanks for the blog post.
It is good to have you back enjoy your blog so much the kitties adventures cats are so much fun also your
Talks about your daily walks is so nice. Looking forward to your new book.
Thank you for the give-a-ways…we are so very lucky! I hope I win!
Thank you Susan for sharing beautiful treasures from your life. You truly are an inspiration and I look forward to reading your newest book. Because of your last book, my husband and I recently returned from a wonderful trip to England for two weeks. I kept thinking of you and your insightful (and funny) observations and adventures. Things like, reminding my sweet husband to “mind the gap” between the road and wall, closest to his dear bride. On another rainy day, I found myself standing inside Beatrix Potter’s home slowly taking it all in and quietly plucking a little blossom for my sketchbook…and thinking of my literary friend, Susan.
Thank you for using your wonderful talent and creativity to bless so many others.
Kindest Regards,
Malinda (Colorado)
Now you have me laughing with “mind the gap!”
Can’t wait to read Willard! Need to. Read Fairytale Girl too! Soooo exciting!
I love all the pictures of flowers and cats!! My 2 favorite things!
It’s good to have you back! Summer is not the same without you to remind us of the simple pleasures.
You make me happy! Thank you!
Loved every word and your enthusiasm is contagious! Blessings to you, Dawn Jones
It is such a treat to go to your website and find a new blog entry! So, so glad (selfishly) that your routine is getting back to normal.
I enjoyed every pat of your new blog and am eagerly awaiting Willard and the new book.
Thank you for the giveaways, Susan! Love reading your blog!
All those goodies to give away, I’m swooning with anticipation!
What a blessing to my day is your blog – I’m up at 5:15 and to the gym by 6 & that makes me tired so much earlier – I hike into NYC and Queens/Bronx as a Pfizer sales rep daily and it is a tiring commute, and the heat oppressive – it was a clean action Air day and we were encouraged to use mass transportation – no one listened – it still took over 2 hours to get back over the George Washington Bridge – just so you know…. the last thing I see in the way out every day is your wall calendar – I smile – it warms my heart and makes me believe in simpler times and girly things – I love faeries and dragonflies and reading old fashioned books – I just finished the 5 children and it by E. NESBITT /// NEXT IS the enchanted castle – I love her works – I also wanted to thank you susan for turning me onto the Tabor books – I have had such wonderful luck collecting original in Amazon and have built up my little library with 7 volumes – my favorite thus far is: Country Chronicle!!! I am re-reading your book: A fine Romance and get lost in the pages….that’s what you provide – a respite, so thank you…..your watercolors inspire me…your preciousness warms my heart and I’m so happy I found your baby love book 21 + years ago when our daughter Kelsea was born- that began it all~ with gratitude and love and thankfulness – Vicki
Thank you Vicki, for that lovely comment.
I can’t wait for the new book and the calendar! It would be amazing to win but either way I’ll enjoy them!
Ohhh what fun, a giveaway. Hand raised, hat waving . . . . pick me, pick me! Purdy please.
Looking forward to reading your new book, Susan! And thanks for the wonderful reminder that lovely Fall is just around the corner! It’s hard to fathom in this 100 degree weather out here in California!
Hi Susan,
So glad to see you and Joe are having a beautiful summer! And a belated Happy Birthday to you, Joe. Yesterday was my mother’s birthday. She’s been gone now for 19 years, but loved and thought of each day. Anyway…can’t wait to read your next “thriller”!
Oh Susan! As I sit here on the patio in Oklahoma reading your latest post, with the last line I read I let out deep breath of contentment! Such a busy hectic day at work and your post helps me out things in perspective!! Thank you to the moon and back!
Susan, I could spend all day reading your posts and your books. I hope I win one of the giveaways! Thank you for the opportunity.
Just soooo charming–everything about this blog is charming!
What a wonderful treat to mark the changing of the seasons–thanks for thinking of all of us readers!
Congratulations on finishing your book, your creation, your baby! I can’t wait to read it! I don’t know how many times I’ve read A Fine Romance! I’ll be able to give that book a rest and concentrate on the new one!
I would love to take the QM2 to England. It sure beats the 10 hour nonstop flight from San Francisco to London that we took! I look forward to hearing about your exciting travels – and eventually reading about them! 🙂
your flowers are awesome! i always feel that we are friends as we have similar tastes, thoughts and ideas
So good to have you back! I missed you! Thank you for the giveaway–
looking forward to your new book! Best of everything!!!
I can’t wait for your new book. So looking forward to it and also so happy you are posting again. I missed you! Your calendars are in the local Books A Million! So cool!
It is wonderful to have you back!!! You must be exhausted finishing your book. I know we all cannot wait for its publication. Enjoy the rest of your summer. I know over here in Falmouth it is so busy and I’m sure you too are feeling it. Love Jack and Girl Kitty!!! And especially you and Joe.
So good to see your blog and can’t wait to read Williard. Looking forward to your new book too! So many gifts await us! I know you’ll keep us posted on your travel plans, so exciting. Thank you so much for your uplifting words. Such a brightener to my day.
Thank you for everything you share with us. The posts themselves are such a treat. Now the chance for more!!! I have my fingers crossed.
O, it was so good to get your post and a Willard. It is refreshing to slip into your world with the cats, the tea, the walks, a birthday for Joe, watercolors and pencils, and any number of other things. Autumn is sneaking into the air here in the Central US and even though it is still humid and in the 90s I can feel it in the air and hear a different sound to the leaves. Thanks for taking us to happy places, Susan.
Welcome back from the world of the Fairy Tale Girl! So looking forward to reading the book…and more blogs from you.
I am so excited to get Fairy Tale Girl!! Can’t wait, I smile as I read Willard and the blog and after the day I’ve had it did my heart good. Thank you Susan!
Things are looking up when their is a new blog post from you!!! I literally get butterflies at the email if a new post! And a printable book to boot? Truly a red letter day!!! I love you Susan!! Xoxo!!
You make my day in so many ways!
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!
You are very generous and inspiring. I didn’t get my Willard this time. What do I do?
It takes four days for it to go out, today, Tuesday was just day one . . . wait for a while and if you don’t get it, let me know.
Whew! I share your total bliss of having time to count blessings out loud! This is a special week for me, Susan, because my pen pal I was blessed with because of your blog IS HERE IN MAINE WITH ME! She is from Michigan and I am sharing all my favorite spots with her. Thank you, Susan, for that blog that day and all the wonderful blogs since…….it is like a breath of fresh air! Continue to count your blessing and I will count mine……
How fun for you both!
Your blog is a ray of sunshine, Susan. Thank you for your generous giveaways.
Love those kitties!!! Thanks Susan, love, Debby
Lovely post today ~ I always enjoy your photos. Loved your starry starry night!
L. M. Montgomery is a distant ancestor of mine! A cousin twice moved, however that works. I have traveled to Prince Edward Island to see all the places dedicated in her memory. Very special. Looking forward to your new book and travels. Tricia
I love getting getting your blog it brings sunshine to my day. I am glad you wrote another book I really enjoyed reading A Fine Romance.
Susan-
Thank you for the fabulous up-date. Thrilled that the new book is off to the printer and you and Joe and kitties can relax a bit and enjoy the last weeks of summer.
I’m anxiously awaiting my two copies of The Fairy Tale Girl. Can’t decide which girlfriend gets one. Mm I may need to buy a few more.
You are one amazing woman!
Have fun planning your next voyage of adventure.
Best-
Wahoo!! What a special treat to come home to from feathering my nest (classroom) for the beginning of my 32nd year of teaching elementary school! I can assure you that magic is alive and well amongst the younger set. I hope you don’t mind my sharing your wonderful pictures and journey as a writer. Although it is a bit painful to write and rewrite, the power to conjure your own heart’s whisperings makes it all worthwhile. Thank you!
Glad to hear you’re “free” again… for now anyway. Looking forward to the new book. I have already told my husband it would make a great Christmas gift! 🙂
Yahoo! Pictures of summer on MVI, awaiting your new book, and the opportunity to hope and dream and cross all fingers and make a wish that one of the prizes might be mine! Thank you, Susan!
What fun reading – loved every word! And, welcome back to NORMAL. Missed you!
I agree with your pleasure in lovingly cleaning all your treasures after a period of neglect. It is like discovering favorite things all over again.
Hello, Thank You for a lovely Giveaway !
Have a joy-filled day !
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Sooooo excited about your Fairy Tale book. I have been waiting patiently for it’s delivery. I just gave your Fine Romance to a friend who will be traveling to England. She loves it.
Spent many a day on Martha’s Vineyard. Haven’t been in several years but we are planning a trip soon. My husband’s family had a cottage right on the circle before entering the Tabernacle.
I am mostly a lurker on blogs, but wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your blog–both words and illustrations! This is a wonderful giveaway and I have put the DVD on my Amazon wish list…sounds wonderful! Thanks for the chance to win and thanks for the wonderful blog and for sharing with us.
I love reading your blog, can’t wait to get your book and 2016 calendars. Pam
Hi Susan,
I am so happy that you are able to relax a little and enjoy your lovely home and each other! I can’t wait for your new book to come out!!! Yeah! Also, looking forward to getting Willard!!! I sure hope you are able to plan another trip to England! I will have to live vicariously through you and my other friends who make the trip! Thanks so much for helping make so many people, including myself, so happy with your lovely words and illustrations!!! Take care, and have a great summer!!!
Marge
I ant believe I didn’t know you collected Beatrix Potter figurines!!!!! I just put 6 of them (including the bride and groom!) that i used at my wedding 26 years ago in a consignment shop because I had a huge clean out moving to a smaller home. I am sick! I would much have preferred you to have them!
Can’t wait for the new book but I am somehow behind and must seek out all 3 to go with all my Susan ephemera. Give your darling art to everyone I know, I love it so much. My 23 yr. old daughter is painting bowls and plates with the most darling little roses for her apartment. Reminds me of you. Happy to have my own little artist right close by for when I need a little artistic something” to add to my cupboard or wall. Thank you for always being that faraway artistic “friend”…I am sure you don’t remember but I made and sent you a little cross-stitch piece years okay to thank you for just making my life a little better! Yup, that was me! Can’t wait to feast on all your new things…you are the best!
I can hardly wait for The Fairy Tale Girl to come out!!!! I enjoy every blog, post, and Willard. You always make my day so much brighter when I see that something has posted. Thanks for all that you do to bring joy to others!!!
Love the kitties and the wonderful photos and illustrations. Watercolor is one of my favorite mediums. Congratulations on the new arrivals!
Hi Susan,
It is like catching up with a friend! Enjoy the rest of your summer now that you have some extra time. Can’t wait for the new book.
Best,
Maureen
So excited for your new book and the 2016 Calendar!!! Your art work, blog stories, books both fiction and cooking make me smile every time I see them!! Fall – the absolute best time of year in my humble opinion!!
Thank you for such a lovely blog – cozy, peaceful and inspiring. I hope you are able to take another journey to the UK so we can share in your adventures:)
*sigh* love your posts. I’m a love-life-kinda-gal but, I love it even more after I spend a few minutes reading your blog.
What a beautiful white dress on the cover of your Fairy Tale Girl book!
Love the bookmarks too.
So good to see there was a blog from you today. Happy that the book is done and anxious to get my copy. I’m also excited that you and Joe are thinking of going to England again. You certainly deserve it after all your hard work. The best part is that we get go too! Glad to hear there are some signs of fall in your neck of the woods. I miss it since we live in Florida, but I still enjoy decorating for fall and making that first batch of pumpkin bread.
Your blog brightens my day! Always!
Julie, What a surprise to read your name. It is my Mom’s name. She’s passed 17 years now and seeing it brought a smile to my face. Thanks! 🙂
I was so excited to see your name in my inbox! I was first introduced to you through scrapbook supplies and I have been hooked ever since. Your drawings are so beautiful…I just can’t get enough. I bought your Autumn book and have tried a few of the recipes! Corn pudding…yum! But I can actually “feel” fall from reading this, and it makes me happy inside. Thank you for all you do
I’m feeling lucky this time. Please enter me in the drawing and let Vanna know I’m in there!
A blog post and a Willard in my mailbox the same afternoon! The day can’t get any better than that. Thanks!
Glad to see you getting back to normal….cooking, playing with Jack, planting flowers, photos of “out and about,” and giving the Beatrix Potter people a bath. You know, all the good stuff. Our world is in “guid feddle” when you are washing the Beatrix Potter people. I love the quote by L.M. Montgomery. Can’t wait to wake up and find that it is tomorrow, not today, and then things will happen. Yes, the best quote ever. I still have a couple of those exact same pencils as yours from something I worked on when I was 16 years old. (We won’t say how old they could be right now). I get a little walk down memory lane every time I see a photo of yours. A reminder that perhaps there is a writer in there waiting to get out. Awesome giveaways…someone will be very lucky.
I have missed Willard! And you too Susan. 🙂 Can’t wait to read the new book.
I love your blogs and your Willards. I also love your books, and the fact that you actually write your books. You make me feel like I am wherever you are writing from, but I am sure everyone else feels that way as well. Thanks for a great post, Susan!
Joan P.
I’m so excited about your new book!! Can’t wait!! I had missed not seeing many new blogs but I know this new book needed your attention and am sure it will be wonderful and definitely worth the wait. Time for you to enjoy life again. Best Wishes
Oh goody! Prizes. Thank you for these and the book I preordered and the Willard coming. 🙂
Oh my Goodness Susan, The excitement is so wonderful and your living life is so beautiful. You tickle me so much and make life soooo much fun, like me I love everything domestic! It’s what I was meant to do, nesting, dreaming, loving life and being so Thankful. I just love the pictures of Jack, he so reminds me of my Simon kitty growing up in Connecticut, not far from Stillmeadow. Simon looked just like Jack minus the mustache. I keep looking at him thinking oh my gosh that is Simon in disguised. Clever kitty! Really, and he was a great cat!
So glad for all your wonderful news and I am so happy you are back in blog land. I am happy you were gone writing your book though, that is a great thing! Sending Happy Wishes to you and Joe, have lots of FUN ! Love, Wendy-Louise oxoxoxox
You know, Susan, they say that “great minds think alike” and it is uncanny how I like the things that you like!! I smile and say “Ahh” when I read about your cats and the books you love and the shows that you love! I was just searching for a good cole slaw recipe and POOF!! ya posted one! Thank you so much Susan, I appreciate all you do!!
We are sooo glad you have surfaced for wonderful fresh air at last! I’m addicted to your blog, so thank you for the roses and sudsy clean Potter friends and for the live loves of your family again! Joann in Iowa
I am so pleased for you that you have finished your book and are now enjoying the end of summer and looking forward to fall. Thank you for your work. It is so appreciated. Like you I’m excited about a trip to England and Scotland. This fall I’m meeting an Australian friend and we will visit several areas including Kent. There we hope to visit many of the places you wrote about in “A Fine Romance”.
Congratulations Susan! So excited for your new book and so happy for you!! xxx
I’d love to be included for your giveaway! Love your blog and love following your life.
Always looking for your posts. Love the pictures of your home and area around it. I enjoy making your recipes; they are always a hit when I take them to the monthly neighborhood get-together. Enjoy your day. Thank you so much!
Would love to be the winner!! Thank you for such lovely gifts.
Thank you so much for everything! Love reading your blogs(and your books!)
Can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait!
Love your blog! And so excited about the new book…can’t wait!!
Thank you for another lovely post, they always make me smile!
Congratulations on your new book – I look forward to reading it. It is always a joy to read your blog. Best wishes and thank you.
Thank you for continuing to share wonderful, inspiring glimpses into Susan Branch world….oh, what a wonderful place to be.
Soooooo excited for my new book to arrive! It makes me sing inside!!!!!
I was so happy to see your blog post today, feels like all is right again with the world! We have really missed you! I’ve been reading A Fine Romance again to hold me over until I receive my copy of The Fairy Tale Girl, so excited to know it is only weeks away! Love the giveaway prizes, especially your doodle page, that would really be something to treasure. Thanks and so glad you’re back!!
The flowers will smell sweeter, the stars will sparkle brighter, rainbows will
be more colorful, the birds will sing happy tunes…….I am clicking up my heels with glee, for YOU are back in “blogland!”
Cant wait to get my new book! Im sooooooo excited!
Can’t wait for The Fairytale Girl to come out!!! Loved the post. Always look forward to Williard! Roses are beautiful, I can almost smell them. Finally, a trip to England. I’d love to win any of the goodies!
So enjoy your stories, illustrations and thoughtful quotes.