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!!

Sandra,
I too agree with Meredith. You have earned the $50.00 not a pair of clippers that you don't need.
Maggie

You mean I'm supposed to keep those goshawful gifts from blood relatives???? The day Dave and I were married on the farm, folks wanted us to open their gifts to us. I opened a card from a lovely elderly woman and she had cut off the bottom of the card where the former person had signed their name. Then, she signed her name on the back portion of the card that was in sight. I'm a bad person for my feelings written on my face and, before I could help myself, I felt my face drop in amazement. "OMIGOSH," said I, I am so sorry. I've been spelling your name wrong all this time. Please accept my apologies!" Dave leaned over and whispered in my ear, "nice save!"

Thanks Meredithbead, Maggie and Chatty for your good suggestions. What I'm going to do is donate the clippers to the Curly Horse Rescue, let them auction them off and we all are made whole. One lemon is making a pitcher of lemonade <g>.

YES! Thistle, I finally got to see the Hobby Farm Magazine with your article in it. What a wonderful life you lead. Interesting to learn that all of this is new to you. You sound like an old pro. Must be a passion because that's what happens when you finally find what makes you tick. I tall comes so naturally.

The picture was precious. I also saw where they printed your prize. I had to laugh because I recalled how you felt about it.

Congrats. I'm proud of you. Seems like the perfect article to publish your work. Have you submitted again?

I'm with you Meredithbead...really scary and totally weird! Just think...they probably had children <g>.

Similinize - because it was Roman rule it was Roman law and they could do what they wanted. Kinda like where I live now <evil grin>.

Thanks Dotsie - most of this learning has been OJT or by the seat of my pants. I've gotten to be an old pro at giving shots <vaccinations>, trimming feet, shoving de-wormer down throats, etc. Unfortunately, an old hand at burying old friends as well. Zeke, our old barn cat passed away last week. God alone knows how old she was, she was an old cat when she showed up here. It was sad really, she made it through a particularly nasty cold winter and died the first warm spell we had.

Chesapeake Family printed my article in their April issue. They gave me cover publicity as well...there's probably a correct name for that but I don't know what it is. A title for an inside story...what's that called?
They printed photos on the table of contents page and on the 2 full pages of article. They also gave me half one another page and 1/4 of another page. I'm excited and happy! It's a 40,000 print to upscale families in Annapolis, MD and surrounding areas <Safeway Grocery Store and places where children would go...Toys R Us, doctor's offices, etc.> And they paid me. I sound like a hick I know but it's my first cover. The Hobby Farms Magazine is a bigger, glossier magazine but the Chesapeake Family stuck to what they told me they would do in the first place. I'm a sucker for honesty.

Oops...sorry Dotsie...forgot to answer your question. Yes, I submitted yesterday to Christian Woman Magazine and am working on a series of articles for an industry specific magazine. My big project now is workig on a partnership/exchange program between rural citizens in the USA <southwest Virginia> and Russia, Komi Republic and Armenia. It's starting out with writing the curriculum for the program and then, possibly, going to one of the former USSR countries as a exchange volunteer.

That's fantastic about the Chesapeake cover

I'd keep a copy of each magazine intact, and get another copy to cut out your pages and laminate them.