While at one sister-in-law’s house, we cracked open a liqueur she’d bought on a cruise: Sheridan’s Coffee Layered Liqueur. Two bottles are fused together, one containing the coffee liqueur, the other containing cream. You tilt the bottle, pour over ice, and even a person who drinks infrequently like me gets a little taste of liquid heaven. Might be worth going on a cruise just to get this stuff. This photo is blurred not because I can’t hold my liqueur, but because the D40 chose to focus on other people’s wineglasses.
The next night, to usher in the new year, we all had a little champagne in untraditional glasses cups:
Sponge Bob is the new Waterford.
Last night, I inadvertently discovered that my grand-niece Amelia is planning to be a spokesmodel:
Here, she extolls the value of Finding Nemo.
I’ve got material for posts, but it’ll have to wait until I get back to The Compound and back in my groove. One thing I’ve enjoyed on this trip is stopping into bookstores and signing stock of A Coventry Wedding. In one store in Birmingham, they had only one copy, and I bought it to give to someone. The associate who rang me up saw me signing it and wanted it for herself. She offered to pay for it, but I gifted it to her. It seemed a small price to pay for her enthusiasm and the way she turned around and ordered more copies of it and A Coventry Christmas for her store.
I’ve already started getting e-mails from friends as well as new readers and they’re all positive. This has been a fantastic way to start the new year, especially after such a challenging 2008. Thank you to EVERYONE who’s posting about the book and e-mailing me. I tip a virtual coffee liqueur to you–in the drinking vessel of your choice.
If this were the 19th Century, you’d be depicted in a bonnet and shawl, handing that shopgirl (it’s the 19th Century, otherwise I’d call her a woman, and sales associate at that) her copy of the book you’d just bought. What a Currer & Ives engraving that would make. : )
I hope it’s Currer and not Currier, but am too dang lazy to Google it.
I’m going to need to go down the hill! Or order it at the Weaverville bookstore! 🙂
Random II
So, at midnight my time tonight another photo of the day is going to post, and it’s of me reading. So if you want to link to it or what-not for your reading is sexy series, be my guest. I’ll be doing another one when I can get my paws on your book. 🙂
What a gorgeous child! 😉
We STILL haven’t gotten our copies yet!! =( And I have two customers waiting. I was hoping to have it for my road trip this weekend.
I’ve owned the Sheridan’s before when I lived in CA… so you might need to do some liquer store shopping
oohhh that drink stuff looks goooood!
and yes, i’m still reading the bokk. i know, i know, so slow. i get sleepy when i read…which can make a book awfully long. HOWEVER, what i’ve read i like!
it’s easy reading, but compelling and enjoyable! i’ll finish soon, i promise. 😉