Hobby Farm Magazine e-mailed and said they are publishing my essay in their new Readers Resume column. Yeah! First piece in a national magazine and will be in their "next issue"...I think they mean June/July. They want me to send photos of me working on the farm...oh joy...this is phat season...I work in quilted Carharts. I'll look like everyone's phat Granny <g>.

Another six hours, a lot of it on the mountain because the spring was stopped up again. This is getting rude. Temps were in single digits because of wind chill. My bones are still achey...aspirin and bed for me.

Congratulations on acceptance in a national magazine!

I noticed a post from you on the Children's Writers Yahoo list. I assumed it was you. I don't know how many Sandy's are from Thistle Cove.

And I'm sure you'll look great in your pics!

Donna

Thistle, will we be able to see it online? Please let us know.

Hi Donna - yep, that was me on CW. Someone asked about historical photos. The Library of Congress has thousands and thousands of photos, not sure how one goes about using them but an 8x10 can be bought for just a few dollars. Imagine having a Margaret Burke-White or D. Lange photo!

The Hobby Farm Mag is not on line but go to a BAM or B&N and peruse a free copy. <g>

Dave brought the camera to take photos when I was feeding yesterday afternoon. He lasted about 10 minutes before the whining and cursing started. Something about being cold, heck, it was almost 32 above! I wore a colorful jacket so at least I look colorfully phat! <g>

Someone told me the April issue of Hobby Farms magazine is on the newsstands; I'm the Reader's Resume for this issue. That's a good thing; the bad thing is...it brought out some strange people. I got an e-mail from someone in LA (as in the state) who wanted to know if I would ship her my white faced dead lambs so she could have them stuffed. She would then take photos of them and little children in her photo studio. She said she'd send me freezer packs and container so they would keep for the journey.

YIKES! is it me or does anyone else think that's a little bit outside the nebula?

THANK YOU GOD that I didn't have any white face lambs to die this year!!!!

I'm curious to see what photos they used. I sent them some pretty funny ones.

Sandra, congrats on the publication!

As far as the email from LA, my first thought was, will the lambs be posed with live children or dead ones? Sorry, but that whole thing was way too weird for me. Scary, actually.

My husband and I thought the number of scourgings in "The Passion" was excessive and not Biblical so we looked up 'Roman scourge' online and I posted a site about them on here somewhere. (We thought they were limited to 39 stripes, but Mel was right. There was no limit for Roman soldiers.)
Anyway, later I went back and checked the site and turns out they have a lot of info about scourging, and sell scourges, and they also sell stuffed lambs and peacocks and other weird stuff.
Maybe it's the same folks.
Sorry if anyone went to the site and got grossed out.
smile

Y'all help me out here, please & thanks. Dave and I bought a copy of the Hobby Farms mag where my "article" appears...they had told me they paid $50 per article plus that's what they advertised in the Jan issue. Well...at the end of the article it says something to the effect that "Sandra has been given a pair of ___ horse clippers for her article." I raise CURLY horses for the love of pete! I do NOT use clippers!!! (I'm laughing out loud here...) Is it kosher for me to sell the danged clippers which arrived this week? PLEASE say YES!

And at least they used the good photograph that doesn't make me look like Ma and Pa wuz fust cuzzins.

First I'd write them and make sure you're getting the $50. If they say the clippers were a substitution, tell them to send you a postage paid box and you'll send the clippers back, and explain why. No matter what, you're not obligated to keep the clippers. It's not like a wedding gift from a blood relative.

Sandra, I agree with meredithead, first query them about your $50.00 and then either send back the clippers (but then you'd have to pay for postage) or since they're yours now, sell the stupid things. No postage that way and the profit is yours. Hopefully that way you'll hasve $50.00 bucks and the cost of the clippers, not bad and congradulations on the sale of your artice. I like others would like to read it and I will personally buy the magazine.....Writers supporting writers. YES!!