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Archive for April, 2009
COOP Book Tour and The Long Beds Concert
Final Guest-Blog Post Up.
Pig-Pen Posts
Off to talk about books and sing songs tonight. But I was home last night and the warm weather (despite a wind to pin your ears back) allowed my daughter and I to pull some posts in last year’s pig pen. We’re setting the pen up in a different area this year – some long-fallow sod we’d like turned and busted, and pigs can do that.
I’m Guest-Blogging About Poetry and Cannons
A Lotta Librarians
A league of librarians? A larruping of librarians? A bunch of’em anyway. Not all librarians, but all associated with the Fox Cities Reads celebration and the Appleton Public Library. Thank you folks. Had a great time.
Long Beds in the Fox Cities
Last week at the close of the Fox Valley Cities Reads event, the Long Beds drove over and met me in Appleton and we did a show. The photos below are courtesy of Michael Kenney of the Appleton Public Library.
I’m Guest-Blogging Over Here
The Actual Chickens
On page 252 in Coop I wrote a scene describing the first morning we had chickens on our farm. Here are two photos taken that morning after the fog began lifting:
Another Guest-Blog Post Up
The Clodhopper Monologues
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