tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post7461735057166518996..comments2024-03-19T05:15:25.731-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: See you in SeptemberJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-63317504673134192242012-08-24T22:31:20.045-04:002012-08-24T22:31:20.045-04:00Here in Georgia, I will miss the sweet smell of ho...Here in Georgia, I will miss the sweet smell of honeysuckle and the tree frog serenades. I'm looking forward to a chill in the air and Friday night football games.Denise Enloenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-14723868283319379712012-08-24T16:48:16.055-04:002012-08-24T16:48:16.055-04:00Being a teacher, usually I dread the end of summer...Being a teacher, usually I dread the end of summer. However, this summer has been so hot here, with a record number of smog alert, high pollen days, and heat emergencies that I've been trapped in the house to the point where I'm looking for Kathy Bates to make me write more! Fall has to bring an end to some of this.Jeffrey Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08422459407138331707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-33666221562201080452012-08-24T16:27:19.141-04:002012-08-24T16:27:19.141-04:00Wearing shorts with the sun on my shoulders and sh...Wearing shorts with the sun on my shoulders and showing my tattoos. Reading endless books. Since i'm retired no work or school to go back too, but I am looking forward to the Fall season of the Met Opera and the New York City Ballet and other cultural diversions, and I hope it snows this winter since I live in New Jersey and winter was a bust last year.Mary Kay Metcalfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-26797996716354211892012-08-24T15:29:42.979-04:002012-08-24T15:29:42.979-04:00Yeah, I love my office supplies. I love rollerbal...Yeah, I love my office supplies. I love rollerball pens, especially Uniball and Pilot -- no ballpoints for me. Of course with the liquid ink sometimes it smears, but then it's like using an old-fashioned fountain pen. I like colored notebook paper. I guess I'm a big kid. One year I bought a Hello Kitty notebook with pink paper and it said Lost in the 80's on it.<br /><br />I used to subscribe to Seventeen magazine. Anyone remember Teen magazine from the 80's? I subscribed to that too. I think I read a few issues of Y.M. It used to stand for Young Miss and now I think they say it stands for Young and Modern. Weird how they can change that, right?<br /><br />Bouchercon's in Cleveland? I'm in Toledo, only about two hours away on the turnpike! Can't afford to go. I believe that mystery conventions are expensive for fans. Don't they cost a few hundred dollars to attend? If I win Publishers Clearing House I'll go (ha, ha).Michelle Fidlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10285519745590239008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-56812619394767308362012-08-23T23:06:07.906-04:002012-08-23T23:06:07.906-04:00Terry, what great news on your contract! Congratul...Terry, what great news on your contract! Congratulations! Mazel tov!Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-57221726632814269402012-08-23T23:00:39.476-04:002012-08-23T23:00:39.476-04:00Zoe, I think at Bouchercon we should have a get-to...Zoe, I think at Bouchercon we should have a get-together of all honorary Reds and back-bloggers with the real Red gals. At the bar. Only, do you think Boston is ready for all that sparkling wit and trouble with a capital T? And the laughter? And the dead-body-hiding and methods-of-ingenious-murder talk?Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-67153156235518552812012-08-23T21:37:11.361-04:002012-08-23T21:37:11.361-04:00Ingenue! Hilarious...
But how about the Fall VOGU...Ingenue! Hilarious...<br /><br />But how about the Fall VOGUE? Irresistible!<br /><br />ZOe, yes, indeed! <br /><br />KAren in Ohio--cannot wait. oxoHank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-17110368859452128202012-08-23T19:18:13.311-04:002012-08-23T19:18:13.311-04:00Zoe...absolutely..honorary Red at Bcon!
I went to...Zoe...absolutely..honorary Red at Bcon! <br />I went to a puppet parade today in Brooklyn and it felt like fall was in the air. Drinks at the River cafe watchin' the river flow. Starting to think about which palnts to overwinter...OMG Ingenue! I remember that...Rosemary Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08033747422699443024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-36771346864499073162012-08-23T14:23:22.934-04:002012-08-23T14:23:22.934-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Sandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04808623462243648978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-24858498521848829902012-08-23T14:04:31.204-04:002012-08-23T14:04:31.204-04:00Summer is coming to a glorious end with my signing...Summer is coming to a glorious end with my signing a two-book contract with Seventh Street books this week. Looking forward to a bang-up Bouchercon.<br /><br /><br />I've always loved fall--back to school, new clothes, opera season starts. The California Bay area has its summer in October and November, so I'm looking forward to the end of cold, foggy mornings and the onset of lovely "summer" days.<br /><br /> But I'm with Edith about tomatoes--and peaches, and okra (why is summer about food?).Terry Shameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07202071611825887999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-44576849754054109872012-08-23T13:52:27.399-04:002012-08-23T13:52:27.399-04:00Missing the beach at the end of the summer? Not s...Missing the beach at the end of the summer? Not so much. But I will miss my pots of white petunias on the doorstep . . . and all the fresh berries . . . and the warm weather. [I’d much rather be warm in summer than cold in winter.] <br /><br />Looking forward to the cooler weather that brings autumn flowers and leaf-peeping . . . and out come all the yummy sweaters and jackets I’ve tucked away because the weather was simply too warm for them.<br /><br />School and office supplies? Oh, yes, I am so there! Pencils . . . I love pencils [and fancy pens with sparkly ink] . . . and really nice notebooks and writing paper. [I adore the Levenger catalogue].<br /><br />Best of all? Sitting in the shade with a really good book, which I’ve given up for the summer because it’s just too hot outside.Joan Emersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-86464199715943655442012-08-23T13:48:43.030-04:002012-08-23T13:48:43.030-04:00Oh, the list could go on forever...I look forward ...Oh, the list could go on forever...I look forward to colored tights with boots, and my cool vintage jackets, and planting decorative cabbages, and switching to flannel sheets, and hot baths, and Halloween/autumnal decorations, and soups simmering in the crock pot, and the "new year" feeling that comes with September--start fresh, new goals, get hyped up for fiction again after a distracted summer (as summer, especially August, always seems to be), and a weekend away to the coast--no tourists! dramatic weather!--and the long, orangey twilights, and, so much...<br /><br />What will I missed about summer? Being a Pacific-Norhtwester: the sun. Also, walking my dog without having to change into rain gear.Lisa Alberhttp://www.lisaalber.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-3409325755891526082012-08-23T13:17:56.825-04:002012-08-23T13:17:56.825-04:00Great post, Rosemary!
I never really got into Sev...Great post, Rosemary!<br /><br />I never really got into Seventeen magazine. I usually had my nose stuck in a Horse & Hound :)<br /><br />I'm so looking forward to Bouchercon this year. And almost all the Reds are going to be there? Can I tag along on the strength of my honorary status?<br /><br />What I'm looking forward to? The smell of fallen leaves, not having to cut the grass every ten minutes, and that beautiful crisp clear winter light.<br /><br />Downside? Six months of slush. I'm arranging winter wheels and tyres for my car as we speak ...<br /><br />Oh, and congrats on the imminent book, Edith! And to Roberta and Hank, of course :)Zoë Sharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14065427744062846167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-20930714148520876762012-08-23T13:03:09.792-04:002012-08-23T13:03:09.792-04:00I'm with Leslie, I'm not giving up on summ...I'm with Leslie, I'm not giving up on summer! For us along the California coast, late summer means mornings with no (frigging) fog. Warm temps in the mid 70s to low 80s. But it also brings something I hate seeing so soon...Christmas ads right around the corner. Seriously? Do we have to do that already? Terry Ambrosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859532145979982213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-28675217543868540432012-08-23T12:59:38.029-04:002012-08-23T12:59:38.029-04:00I''m not looking forward to my return enga...I''m not looking forward to my return engagement as Chief Homework & Bedtime Nazi. I have enjoyed doing things like attending late movies and driving in the car while singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Livin' on a Prayer".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-44174259907547377292012-08-23T12:59:01.642-04:002012-08-23T12:59:01.642-04:00I hate winter. Always have. It's even difficul...I hate winter. Always have. It's even difficult for me to get through autumn, because I know what's coming. Yes, this summer has had some extremes here in southern CT, but we have had more than our share of extreme winter weather. This past winter was a blessing - almost no snow. I feel like I come alive in summer; no fears about walking outside and slipping or falling on ice or snow -doctors don't like it if you have hardware in your body and you fall; no need to wear sweaters or jackets; no need to shovel snow (even condo dwellers are required to shovel snow off their decks and to shovel their cars out of their parking spaces so they can get their cars out of the way of the plows that plow out the main parts of the parking lots; if you have medical limitations you can forget trying to hire someone to shovel for you -the job is too small for the professionals and kids just are not available,even as volunteers)or clear ice off the windshield; no worries about some idiot following too closely behind your car on icy roads.<br /><br />I always miss the abundance of fresh fruits, especially berries, as summer ends.<br /><br />What I do like is all the shelves of school and office supplies in the store. I always feel like I should be stocking up on something!Deb Romanonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-48082566233652162992012-08-23T12:56:56.763-04:002012-08-23T12:56:56.763-04:00(Phooey, posted from the wrong login.)
I will mis...(Phooey, posted from the wrong login.)<br /><br />I will miss my peaches. I've been gorging on them all summer, and they're going to disappear soon. <br /><br />However, the appeal of cute jackets, sweaters, and boots (yes, even here in southern California) can't be denied.<br /><br />See you all at Bouchercon!Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01033264133869966636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-3826275549102775782012-08-23T12:55:52.516-04:002012-08-23T12:55:52.516-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Two for the Roadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07380431227599672836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-14958379709511479082012-08-23T12:43:35.028-04:002012-08-23T12:43:35.028-04:00Rosemary,
I always get melancholy at the end of su...Rosemary,<br />I always get melancholy at the end of summer. Every year it goes by so fast. But, I’m with you - can’t wait for the new season of Walking Dead! <br />Robert D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-39303220002587761932012-08-23T12:24:17.924-04:002012-08-23T12:24:17.924-04:00You all say goodbye to summer without me. I'm ...You all say goodbye to summer without me. I'm hanging on to every last bit. It's so short and intense out here -- and started late this year, after a cold, wet June -- and I spent most of my days inside finishing up my ms. So I'm just going to use my imagination and PRETEND as long as possible.<br /><br />Until the siren song of those jeans and sweaters and leather jackets sweeps me along in its embrace.Leslie Budewitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11942314846112875042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-28901163853174164002012-08-23T12:20:47.095-04:002012-08-23T12:20:47.095-04:00Seventeen Magazine! And I do remember Ingenue. Oh,...Seventeen Magazine! And I do remember Ingenue. Oh, how I wanted those knee socks and sweaters and wool plaid skirts--although in Texas you were lucky if you got to wear them before the end of October...<br /><br />This year I'd have said I couldn't WAIT for summer to end, but since last week we've had totally bizarre mid-August cool spell. Lows in the 60s. Windows open at night. Sitting on the porch in the evenings. Sitting on my deck right now with my computer desk, which I haven't been able to do since early June.<br /><br />I had a thing for school supplies, too, Ro. It's still dangerous to let me in an office supply store, and my favorite drooling-over catalogs are Levenger and Fahrney's Pens. Geeksville:-)Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519514786198185277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-59516060786547543852012-08-23T11:04:57.755-04:002012-08-23T11:04:57.755-04:00I am looking forward to some awesome microfiche fr...I am looking forward to some awesome microfiche from the 1860: you can't do that in warm weather Also boots. <br />And blazers Jan Broganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11323983086318138814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-77768304276293355282012-08-23T10:54:20.970-04:002012-08-23T10:54:20.970-04:00I am so sad to miss Bouchercon this year! waaahhh...I am so sad to miss Bouchercon this year! waaahhhh.<br /><br />But - I'm already registered for Malice next year. As soon as I saw Laura Lippman would be Toastmaster and Laurie King Guest of Honor, I signed up.Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Museshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07486129009717476920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-57319475291968398972012-08-23T10:47:46.919-04:002012-08-23T10:47:46.919-04:00I won't miss much from this summer. It's b...I won't miss much from this summer. It's been miserable out here. We've got another Red Flag Warning day today. So hot and winds picking up. A real threat for more wildfires in this drought-stricken area.<br /><br />What I look forward to in fall: Everything! Bouchercon--this will be my first. Hank's, Roberta/Lucy's, and Edith's books coming out. Rain! Cool weather--or at least non-heat-wave weather. My birthday. All the appearances, readings, workshops I've got scheduled for fall. Handknitted wool and alpaca socks. School and office supply sales. <br /><br />I'd be happy if my year were divided between spring and fall. Those other two seasons can get pretty miserable here.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-72048627348944636422012-08-23T10:40:57.774-04:002012-08-23T10:40:57.774-04:00I'm planning to go to Bouchercon this year. Ho...I'm planning to go to Bouchercon this year. How about a JRW meetup? Karen in Ohionoreply@blogger.com