Want to know something else that’s kinda cool??? There are several titles of e-book that you can also download straight to your PC version of the Kindle, for FREE!!! Yep. Amazon.com has quite the little selection of free fictional e-books you can have with the click of a mouse. I’ve gotten several of them and I hope at some point in my life I’ll actually get to read all of them. I kinda went a little overboard, but I got some cool books. There are a lot of e-books listed that cost less than a dollar per download which I don’t think is too bad either.  As a writer I know that getting paid for your work is the name of the game.  There are e-books by up and coming authors as well as the classics we’ve all heard a million times.  You can even download Treasure Island for FREE!!!

Being an ancient history fanatic and having a deep love of the ancient stories and what we now call Fairy Tales, I had to check out the The Pink Fairy Book and The Green Fairy Book. I also got myself a couple of those steamy romance novels. Yeah, I have to admit that I love them, I just can’t bring myself to spend money on them that could be put to better use. Like buying more fabric for my quilts.

If you’ve been thinking about getting one of the Amazon Kindles but wanted to kind of check it out first, this is the perfect way to do it. It’s like getting to taste the champagne when all you can afford is beer.

I’m probably one of the few people in the United States that’s actually happy that this long weekend is finally over. While most people were out enjoying the last official weekend of summer, I was up to my elbows in tourists, dignitaries, and school alumni. See, our town is so little that previous classes don’t have a special Reunion year. (Example: 25th Reunion). Nope, we have annual alumni dinners. It doesn’t matter if you graduated last year or 60 years ago, it’s all one big dinner and get together.

Normally I’d be in the parade but because I’ve finally given up my position with Boy Scouts, I didn’t even watch it. Not because of anything bad, I just had to work. I work in a restaurant right on main street so I did get to see bits and pieces of it, but because some people decided to eat while the parade passed by, my attentions were needed elsewhere.

I finally got today off. Other than a few things around the house, I didn’t do a whole lot of anything and totally enjoyed it. Sometimes it’s just nice to be able to say “I don’t want to” and be able to get away with it. And the nice thing is that I got enough done today that tomorrow I won’t have to do anything at all. Other than come up with another post for this blog and my other one too. Have a great night.

Christine

So here’s how the game is played.  It’s basically the same any other blog hop.  You add the button to your site and add your site to the list, which can be found on the host’s site, or at the end of this post.  By adding a bit of code to your post, you can have the site listed on your site.  That way as followers come to your site to follow you, they can go on to the next site and follow someone else.

Now, it needs to be said that it is not required that you write a blog post about FMBT.  But it is only good manners to follow anyone back that has stopped by to follow you.  However, it is a requirement that you follow the 4 blog hostesses and the lucky winner who will be seated in the #5 position.  Those ladies are:
1.) Boobies, Babies, and a Blog
2.) Little Yaya’s
3.) Review Retreat
4.) Survey Junkies
And in the #5 position:
***Mama To 3 4 Blessings***

From there, it’s just a matter of taking a few moments out of your normal routine to say high and follow someone, or follow them back.  Go give it a shot and see if you can’t make a friend or two before Tuesday turns into Wednesday and we need to find something else to blog about. 

Though I’ve been a subscriber of Heavenly Savings for quite some time, this is the first time I’ll be participating in this blog hop.  But like many others, it’s easy to get into.  Simply check out the Heavenly Savings site and add your link to the list.  From there, check out a few other blogs and follow them on Google Friend.  If someone stops by your site and follows you, it’s not required that you return that follow, but it’s just good manners to do so.

They do require that you follow the first 3 blogs on the list.  #1 and #2 are the hostesses and the coveted #3 spot is for one lucky winner each week.  That site changes from week to week as everyone who adds their sites to the list have a chance to win that spot for the following week.  Also, you don’t have to write up a blog post about the blog hop (kinda like this one), but in order to be considered for the weekly drawing, the Admirer Monday button has to be posted either in the sidebar or in a blog post.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Heavenly Savings in NOT the only site hosting this blog hop.  The other site is called Giveaway Blogdom and they’ve got an awesome site.  I just joined up with them as well, and am heading over to check out The Not So Perfect Mom who won the #3 spot for this week.   So go give it a try and see if you can’t meet some new friends. You might even run into a few friends you forgot you’d already made. Who says Monday’s have to be bad. This is a great way to make them fun and something to look forward to.

Actually, this was the first time in 6 years that I wasn’t in the parade.  Not because I had to work, but because I have finally given up my position with Scouts.  I am no longer the Scout master here in town, nor am I the Cub master for Cub Scouts.  Other than a seat on the committee, I’m out of Scouting.  Now, let me make it clear that I still think Scouting is a wonderful organization for kids.  It did wonders for my son.  I’m just tired and it’s time that someone else took the reigns and added some much needed new ideas.

The weird part is that I’m really not all that into the festivities this year.  I really couldn’t care less.  I didn’t go check out the food vendors, or the craft fair, or anything else.  I really didn’t get a chance to watch the parade, and I couldn’t care less about the beer garden.  This town is so small that I can hear the band at the park while sitting in my bedroom.  Anyway, when they’re actually playing I can hear them.  Apparently there’s a problem with the electricity out there and the band’s mics keep going out.  Personally, I think it’s God’s way of saying, “You’re not that good, give it up”.  And I’m not just saying that to be naughty.  I’m serious.  This band sucks from where I’m sitting.  And if you don’t believe me, ask the 15 dogs in my neighborhood that start to howl every time a certain singer gets up to sing.  Sadly, the dogs are better.

Yeah, when the idea of going out and partying all night sounds too much like work, it’s time to hang it up.  I’d already be in bed except my kid is at the teen dance and I have to go get her when it’s over.  And from what I could tell when I dropped her off, that party was better than the one at the park.  LOL

I remember the first time I saw him in a movie.  Though he’d been in a few beforehand, the first time I really remember him from a movie was in the mid-80’s withe the movie The Wraith.  Don’t remember much about the movie, except that Charlie was a dead guy with a killer car and a chirpy little dirt bike.  LOL

Happy Birthday everyone else out there who happens to share their birthdays with Charlie and my sister.

The thing to keep in mind with Swagbucks is that you DO NOT get points for each search.  It’s random and only comes up every so often, but it does come up.  I usually get anywhere from 5 to 15 points within the first couple of searches, then I might not get another one for the next 50 searches.  But that’s not the only way to get points.  You can get daily points by voting in the daily poll, checking out the survey page each day, filling out special offers, and even by shopping in their online store.

So, what are the points for???  As I just said, there is an online store complete with items for sale that can be purchased with Swagbucks.  This can be anything from wallpaper for your computer’s desktop to a 32″ HD, flat screen television.  And yes, that one takes a heck of a lot of bucks to get.  The ones I’m aiming for are all the gift cards that can be purchased with my Swagbucks.  A $5 Paypal card is 700 points, while a $5 Amazon.comgift card is only 450 points.  My goal is to get either the $25 or $50 Amazon gift card.  Although I have to be honest and say that it’s cheaper to get 5 $5 cards than the one $25 card.  Why???  I have no idea but whatever.

So if you’re looking for a way to get rewarded for searching online, check out Swagbucks.  You won’t become a millionaire, or even close for that matter.  But you might be able to gain enough points to get a new t-shirt, a ring, or even a big screen TV.  And all because you went to search for something you wanted to find anyway.

I’m a huge lover of the arts.  I can’t honestly say that I understand some things that people consider art, but it’s not my place to judge.  If there’s one person who loves it, there’s surely more.  And that’s the key to being an artist, finding those people who share in your vision, your feelings.  They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there’s nothing more true in the world of art.  What one person finds as beautiful is hideous to someone else.  It all comes down to personal preference.

This could be an awesome topic for my blog.  Let’s see if I can keep it up for another month, seeing as how I’m also going to try and keep up another blog for the entire month.  My Redhead Rants blog has also been added to the blog pool for the month, so now I have to make time to keep 2 of them up every day.  I don’t have quite enough grey hairs yet, so this ought to do it.  LOL

And thank you Gina for all the comments.  They made it more fun for me to keep posting.  And reason to keep it going on again for next month.  I may not have gotten a lot of important stuff added, but I kept it up each day and that’s amazing for me.  And I can’t wait to see what next month’s NaBloPoMo theme will be.  Not that I’ll stick with that theme for the entire month, but it will be nice to have something to work from.

Plus I have to keep everyone up-to-date on the quilt.  I’ve almost gotten all of the last pieces cut out and am about ready to start on getting the last blocks sewn together.  Once it’s all in place, I’ll get the entire thing put together and post more pics.  And I also want to get started on those Christmas ornaments and see what else I can come up with.  It will be interesting.

So, thanks to anyone who stopped by on a regular basis this month.  It was a total blast, and I’m hoping to do it again starting tomorrow.  LOL.  We’ll see though.  I might use one of my other blogs instead, or I might try and keep more than one blog updated daily.  That would be something, that’s for sure.  LOL

As he climbed through another clump of bushes, Paul could see the mouth of the cave.  There it was just as the old map had shown.  Could he possibly be in a place that hadn’t seen a human in almost two hundred years?

Six months earlier, Paul Montgomery was in a small town library in upstate Maine.  He was going through and studying some of the local manuscripts and newspapers when he spotted something that instantly caught his eye.  In the middle of one of the books of court papers from the original village was an old hand-drawn map.

Paul had been around this region off and on for almost twenty years and knew there was something different about this old map.  According to the older map, there was a cave just forty miles from town.  When he looked at a current map there was no sign of it and that set Paul’s mind in motion.

He talked to some of the older folks in town trying to get as much information about the cave as he could, but nobody seemed to know anything about it.  He did, however, pick up on one of the local legends and thought that maybe the two went together.

The story said that before there was a village, pirates camped on an outcrop that had once jutted out over the ocean.  They supposedly buried a large amount of loot in a deep pit in the rocks.  The ocean protected the rocks for all but one hour of every day.  Otherwise the waves would crash in with such force, that to try to steal the bounty would surely get a man killed.

Finally the legend claimed that Captain Frederick Smythe went mad with fever and murdered his entire crew, fearing that they would take his treasure.  He killed the last man beneath the outcrop where they had camped which angered God so much that he caused the earth to shake and the outcrop crumbled down on top of the captain.  The rocks that held his stolen treasure were lost to the sea forever.

Paul learned every detail and version of the story he could and tried to find the few shards of truth within them.  He sat for hours on the rocky shoreline, searching for a hint of what was no longer there.  He took dozens of pictures from every possible angle and studied them relentlessly.

Finally he began to put all the pieces together.  He laid a tracing of the older map over a current map.  He figured that the cave would show up somewhere within the harbor, which had been proven to have widen since the late seventeenth century.  To his surprise it showed that the cave was quite a ways inland and should still be there in the forest.

Quickly he threw some supplies into a duffel bag and jumped into his jeep.  He followed the road as far as it would go but the cave was shown to be at least another five miles into the forest.  He left the jeep there and started climbing through the bushes which had brought him to this moment.

Slowly he moved on, knowing that there could be any variety of wild animals inside.  He pulled a flashlight out of his pack and picked up a small tree branch.  Wildly, he began yelling and banging the branch on the sides of the cave entrance.  Hundreds of bats swarmed from the cave and caused Paul to fall back down the hill.

He managed to get up and headed back for the cave.  He picked up his flashlight and went inside.  The stench of bat was almost more than he could bear, but still he pressed on.  Deeper into the cave, he began to see a faint scribbling on the walls.  It was three letters and a date.  “CFS 1692”, he stated out loud, “Captain Frederick Smythe”.

He looked around the cave a little longer but found nothing else.  He left feeling as though he had been transported through time.  He had stood in a place that hadn’t seen another person in two hundred years  Though he knew he had a lot more searching to do, he was thrilled to know that he had found a  little piece of truth in an old legend.