Buckles, Boots \u0026 Mistletoe By Maggie Shayne
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I live in the teeny tiny town of Taylor NY Alliteration Alert though my mailing address is Cincinnatus my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State Cortland County There are cattle than people here The nearest big cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away in different directions and not really all that big by most standards though they both seem humongous to me I look out my window to see rolling green thickly forested hills wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue blue skies My road is barely paved The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm. Buckles, boots & mistletoeine My house is a big century I live in the teeny tiny town of Taylor NY Alliteration Alert though my mailing address is Cincinnatus my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State Cortland County There are cattle than people here The nearest big cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away in different directions and not really all that big by most standards though they both seem humongous to me I look out my window to see rolling green thickly forested hills wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue blue skies My road is barely paved The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm. Book buckles, boots & mistletoe leather My house is a big century old farmhouse I moved in here after my divorce in 2006 Just a little over a year later the house which I had named SERENITY burned It was 99% gutted and I lost my two dogs Sally an 11 year old great Dane and Wrinkles my 14 year old blind bulldog This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006 2007 My mother died that year after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer She was only 60 The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year and while that s not a tragedy at all it felt like one to me Then came the divorce And finally there was the fire it seemed my darkest night wasn t quite finished with me after all I had lost almost everything before that point and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone. Buckles, boots & mistletoef boots No better time to start over And no I didn t come to that realization that day there were a few days of wallowing in pity first particularly the day after the fire when I hit a deer and smashed up my car which I was practically living in That s when I started to laugh Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded uninjured and carefree out of sight and laughed It was just too ridiculous at that point to do anything else And from there I picked myself up and brushed myself off and said okay there s only one way to go from here Forward And that s what I did There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph living in my one mostly undamaged remaining room with a dorm sized mini fridge a futon a TV my cat nine lives and a laptop And not much else Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire was a room that had its own attached bathroom Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home which really has become my haven my Serenity I share it now with my fianc Lance and we have accumulated quite the little family together Little being a relative term We have a pair of English Mastiffs Dozer and Daisy who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet who is bigger than both of them inside her mind We also have the aforementioned cat Glorificus Glory for short who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line And we ve acquired a pair of stray cats as well a mother and son Luna Lulu for short and Butters aka Buddy Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse had a litter and vanished again We found homes for all the kittens except one Butters We got him fixed and kept him A few months later Lulu returned again expecting This litter was born on the Monster Moon Again all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat Glory is not amused. Pdf buckles, boots & mistletoe boots She has a story of her own my old Glory cat having been with me before the Dark Times descended she went through it all with me moved with me survived the fire and remains with me still She s tolerating the newcomers Barely. Book buckles, boots & mistletoe boots My partner is an artist a mechanic a welder and an inventor and the rumors are true he is much younger than I site_link Love and ChristmasAs alwAys Maggie Shayne has done it again I ve reAding her books about family and what makes them strong You can t go wrong reading any of her books 388 GreaT holiday warmupHere it is April and I m ready for the holidaysSweet reading stories that almost makes you believe in Santa Claus 388 
Quick winter love reads Perfect for a winter day They are very predictable I ran into quiet a few errors in the stories 388 Awesome box setMaggie blows me away again and her daughter s stories were amazing too This is an emotional funny suspenseful and touching set of stories and I can t wait until the next books are out for these spin off series 388 SweetAnd aggravating and heart warming Each story was a gem Buckles Mistletoe I was already a fan of Maggie s Brands last year during the Christmas season the Oklahoma Brands reminded me of the true magic of the season This year Maggie and her girls swept me back to Oklahoma and made me fall in love with the people of Big Falls Tucker Lake Grab this anthology get ready for some holiday magic 388 Join Maggie Shayne and family for a very special holiday treat Four Christmas romances by Maggie and her daughters all set in Big Falls and nearby Tucker Lake Oklahoma the places Maggie s Oklahoma Brands call home Even exciting each of these stories will spin off into a series of its own Maggie Shayne s CHRISTMAS BLUESA true believer returns the music to a lonesome drifter s soul Miranda s Shayne s FINDING CHRISTMASA small town coffee shop owner melts a humbug hero s wounded heart River Shayne s A HERO FOR HANNAHCan a woman in grave danger learn to trust one time Jessica Lewis s THE SOLDIER S CHRISTMAS BABYA lonely serviceman comes home for a holiday he ll never forget Grab a cup of eggnog curl up near the tree and fall in love with the holidays all over again Buckles Boots u0026 Mistletoe.
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Polished just right I would love to live in this town Full of hope and promise 388 These were all wonderful stories of Christmas and magic all set in Oklahoma