June's Top Droppers

Thank you to everyone who visited us in June!


The Journeys of Cactus Jack Splash


Coming Back To Life


Free Stuff In Las Vegas Baby


Chicago History Journal


The Screaming Me Me


Beethoven Midi


Things About Computer


Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice


Split Rock Ranch

The Kitchen Sink Post

Edna: Margie, take a look at these messages from some of our fellow bloggers. We've been tagged to do a book tag, and we've won a few more awards. Let's blog about that today!

Margie: That's wonderful, Edna. I love all our fellow bloggers. They are such thoughtful folks.

Edna: Aren't they? We got tagged by Cactus Jack Splash and his owner to do the book tag. My goodness Margie, he surely is a handsome horse! Well-spoken, too.

These are the rules of the book tag:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open the book to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the next two to five sentences.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one. Pick the Closest.
• Tag five people to do the same. (We opted not to do this.)

Edna: Now, here's the book I have closest to hand: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). I know that must seem like heavy reading for such a sweet old lady, but let me tell you folks: something is wrong with that doggone sister of mine, and I aim to find out what!

Here's the fifth through seventh sentences on page 56: "The most common associated feature of Expressive Language Disorder in younger children is Phonological Disorder. There may also be a disturbance in fluency and language formulation involving an abnormally rapid rate and erratic rhythm of speech and disturbances in language structure ("cluttering"). When Expressive Language Disorder is acquired, additional speech difficulties are also common and may include motor articulation problems, phonological errors, slow speech, syllable repetitions, and monotonous intonation and stress patterns."

Well shoot, that won't help me find out what's wrong with Margie. I'd best keep reading, there's got to be something in here about "Pain-in-the-tushie disorder."

What book are you reading, Margie?

Margie: I'm reading Jack Knife, Edna. It's all about time travelers trying to stop Jack the Ripper. I must say, though, that page 56 is a short page and the only sentence doesn't have much to do with the book.

Edna: That surely sounds interesting, and that's not something I often say when I'm talking about you. Why don't you still share what's on page 56 with our readers? You've got me curious, too.

Margie: "He tipped the corner of the certificate into the candle's flame. The paper caught, and he let it burn to within an inch of his fingers before he dropped it into the empty chamber pot."

Edna: Now I'm intrigued; you take good care of that book, I want to read it next.

We also got a whole heap of awards recently. I am so happy that people love us so much, but we just can't choose anyone to pass this along to. It seems unfair since there are so many bloggers that we love.

Maitri from Magic and Moments at Dragonfly Cottage and Lidian from Kitchen Retro each gave us the "I heart your blog" award.

Sweet Maitri also gave us the Butterfly Award and the My Favorite Blog award.

Angie from In Pursuit of Fulfillment gave us the Uber-Amazing Blog award.

Thank you very much, ladies!

Time for a little housekeeping...

Over the last couple weeks, we have been honored to be the lucky recipients of several awards. We apologize for how long it's taken us to write a thank-you post, but we're old ladies and we don't move as fast as we used to.

We want to sincerely thank the following bloggers for bestowing upon us some truly lovely awards:

Uber Amazing Blog! award from Moms...check nyo

The I heart your blog award from Cactus Jack Splash

The Brillante Weblog award from the Garden Gnome

The Guilty Pleasure Recognition Award from Guilty Pleasures

Now, we know that we're supposed to pick our own favorite bloggers to pass these awards along to. But asking us to do that is like asking a loving mother to pick which of her children is her favorite. So instead of doing that, we will simply say this: we are humbled, as always, when our readers say that they enjoy visiting and reading what these two old sisters have to say. Thank you all so much.

It has also come to our attention that we have been named honorary Captains in the All Arkie Army by everyone over at the All Arkie Army. Thank you all very much!