Posts Tagged ‘Florida’

Back in The Saddle

Friday, November 6th, 2009

DSC02828Good Friday Morning… Have had so many problems with our computer, I have been playing games intead of writting on here anywhere… I have not worked on my store in a couple of weeks.. Nothing is moving… I know I said that I would not go back to ebay.. Well I broke that promise and took Agnes back… Have not had a sale there either..  I don’t know what has happened that I have nothing .. I had at least three a week during the worst of the world melt down.. And Agnes was my only seller for a while… Waiting for Agnes by local Florida Author Joe Bullard.. about the Coral Castle in South Florida, Homestead, Fl..Ok people I have not had a sale this month. . www.readerwave.ecrater.com  

The Flee Market had been closed.. due to our county fair is there now till the 7th.. It opens the next weekend and some of our children will be here for birthdays so I won’t be going … This brakes my heart.. but can’t be helped.. I really want to see kids and grandkids.So I will be there the next week ..I go on Saturdays only… I don’t see to do as well on Sundays… I have gotten alot of newer books while the market has been closed I have over 4 boxes of other not seen before books.. (not seen at my flee shop)

Husband and I went out car shopping so I have a car of my own now to go places.. I want to drive to my daughter and everyone says no… I wanted my one daughter to drive up with me and I would fly her home if need be.. She has not gotten back to me yet…

Well I guess I am done babbling or is it rambling… I think I have used that title up… so maybe back in the saddle… always did love cowboy shows.. triger  here boy or was it girl….

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Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Google Analytics this fetcher on my computer is a wonder and an enjoyment to me.. When my daughter told me she cold show me who was on my sites I was shocked.. not names of people but what  towns and how they got to my site. There is a wheel that shows if they came direct, like they knew our store address or blog… If they came by way of a search engine.. Like google … Even what countries,states and towns… Like yesterday some one from the southwest looked at a book.  From Powey that is in California I think…

Wish it could tell me what to do to make people look more and then buy.. I love my bookstore and my shot glass store.. It makes me feel bad that I don’t do better at it.. I do better at the flea market… I can’t offer as much there as its to hard to carry everything with me…

We are having a fair in our town in the next few weeks so our flee market is closed down to get ready for it… I think I will go this year to get a better understanding of it… Also there is a book fair at the Library in the next town over this week and I got some really go buys last year so I am going to go get a look at it… I will need to be careful so I think I will take some boxes with me and a dolly… I have a plastic one that I can use put the box on it and go around with it so I don’t have to carry items then I will have boxes in the car that I can switch to it will take longer.  The reason I will have to be careful is I feel yesterday in our grocery store parking lot.. Spent several hours at the hospital getting x rays… I am on some good meds.. as I don’t hurt like I thought I would this morning.. I am going to go off them this morning to see how I feel… So I can get the pain level to tell the doctor when I call for my checkup date…

As you can see I am a rambler.. This is my blog to tell my story… To let my hair down so to speak..So I talk on here as if I were talking to someone here at home… But if you have read my blogs in the past I am the talker of this family..(husband and I)..I love him,our children(his and mine) books and shot glasses… I have two online  stores Readerwave who has moved from 4 years of being on eBay to being on eCRATER.. www.readerwave.com or www.readerwave.ecrater.com  I list most of my books by author… I can place as many books as I want on this site with no charge… for listing or selling.. You say how do they make there money.. from advertising. If I wanted I could place ads and lots of people do.. I don’t… Prices at eBay got to high for the amount that I was selling… I sell a book “Waiting for Agnes”by a local author in our area Joe Bullard..This book has sold real good for me… I have offered it on eBay, Amazon and eCRATER… I have sold over 200 copies and some are more than one to a person.. Make wonderful gifts and its signed.. That is the added feature I can offer that no one else can.. And the fact I am the only one offering NEW signed copies… They make wonderful gifts… If you are a Florida history buff its great… If you want to give a copy to your Library its great… I have sold copies to many countries… I feature some of my favorite authors I am a romance,suspense reader… Some of my favorite authors many of them write stories that are a series about small town USA Debbie Macomber-Cedar Cove (fashioned after her hometown of Port Orchard,Washington..(I have been there its across the bay from Seattle..)great place… This year they held Cedar Cove Days and to hear tell it was great.. I think I can quote someone who went that said there were 40 States and lots of countries represented…   You can read about this author more on her blog  www.debbiemacomber.com  Then there is Robyn Carr and Virgin River fashioned after no particular town but after the northern redwood area of California… you can read about Rybon Carr more at her site www.robyncarr.com  Then there is Diana Palmer and The Long Tall Texans series from Jacobsville, Texas another made up town of small town America. www.dianapalmer.com  Another one which I found by accident two summers ago when I had decided to read books with a series.. and new authors to me… I found JoAnn Mapson who wrote a series about Alaska and a young wheelchair bound girl trying to keep her plant nursery going that was left to her in a will by her aunt… loved it… I have always wanted to visit there and I did thought these stories.. There are so many authors with series that I love. Joan Johnston who writes about early history in America… (settlers) Then there is Jan Karon who writes about Medford  another small town USA… www.jankaron.com   These are just a few… there are so many more.. If you have an author who writes a series you think I should try please let me know.  I have read allot of authors with a series this is just the icing on the cake so to speak… There is Susan Wiggs, Rachel Lee, Janet Evanovich, Sherryl Woods, Luanne Rice, Linda Lael Miller she has a wonderful series that I follow … www.lindalaelmiller.com  also Fern Micheals and the sisterhood , www.fernmicheals.com  then there is Dorothy Garlock who write about the early days in America the 30′s on up…great stories… There are just to many to mention…. www.dorothygarlock.com  

I like going to book signings.. In January I heard about one with 12 local authors being there.. I traveled an hour from my home and it was well worth it.. I met some of the nicest woman and I had not read any of  them … I have read almost all the books I bought and had autographed that day.. I sent several to my daughter as she likes to read of vampires and I don’t find that to be my cup of tea…

Ramblings of a Crazy Woman is what I am changing my blog title to instead of Google Analytics as it is at the moment… I am not Crazy as the saying goes just crazy about Romance Novels… and their authors… Thanks for listening to my rambling… as we all hear a voice in our head as we read, I do…

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Dudley Farm Historic State Park

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Store where they sell homemade rag rugs, jams and jellys quilts etc

Store where they sell homemade rag rugs, jams and jellys quilts etc

We just found this place.. And its in our back yard so to speak. The browser says (A one of a kind authentic 19th century working farm) the real Florida..  It was so much fun.. when we got there the ladies were in the flower garden.  They had a peach tree that they were harvesting the peaches to can..The flowers were just beautiful

It says..The Dudley landscape is typical of the early Florida Farm with gardens, grape arbors, pecan and fruit trees, pastures, pinewoods, and croplands of peanuts, field peas, Sweet potatoes, and sugar cane.  It is a native habitat for animals such as deer, wild turkey, gopher, tortoises, bats and bluebirds.

In the mid 1800′s Dudley Farm consisted of rolling land covered with longleaf pine and wiregrass.  The longleaf pines provided material for all the Dudley buildings, fence posts, and split rail fences

Ponds, sinkholes, and an extensive network of cave passages permeate the area.  The rich organic soil with a clay and limestone substructure, coupled with the Florida climate, create an area well suited for agricultural use.(the last three paragraphs I copied form the liture they gave us while there.. It has a map and directions of the area…)

Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 18730 W.Newberry Road,Newberry,Fl 32669   (352) 472-1142

Open 9am to 5pm Farmstead closes at 4pm Closed Monday and Tuesdays

dressed in period clothing working flower garden at edge of house

dressed in period clothing working flower garden at edge of house

We found the park wheelchair friendly.. a couple of places we got bogged down in the dirt but was easy to fix…

You can go on line to find more Florida State Parks at www.FloridaStateParks.org  or call (850)488-9872

Looking for a good new or used book for summer reading check out our bookstore at http://readerwave.ecrater.com  or www.readerwave.com  here you will find our two stores and one book on ebay and our blog that you are looking at now… Thanks for stopping by come again… we are always trying to improve…

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No Banana for Breckfast

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

What a way to start the day.. Yes things are great today…………..I will do my best………….

We always have banana’s except when we don’t go to the store the day before.  Its another yucky day… 56 when we woke up… Its May…  Today I am going to do laundry and take pictures… putting all my hard cover books in my store…. I am not going back to the flee market this season… Will start again in the fall…. If there is a book you want let me know..by phone or email.. or comment on here…

This week we are having company (Mom says she’s not company she has been here more than three times). Coming up from South Florida.. we use to work together, before that she was my dance teacher. We have been Buddy’s for almost 10yrs… She is the third longest friend I have had… 1st was Berta who I have known sense high school and then there is Susie who I have known sense my oldest daughter and her son were in kindergarten together… We all live in different places now… One in North Carolina, one in Kentucky, one in South Florida and me here in North Florida….

The weather is cold and has my fingers stiff this morning… Maybe that is what is wrong with Twitter.. I write and the words come up a few seconds later instead of right away…   Oh we have lots of tomatoes and squash on our plants well we have tomatoes,  and squash is bloomed so far Gene found a chemical that keeps the worms away… that is so nice…. We saw a hummingbird yesterday.. they have not been coming around as much as they did last year… We have not figured out way… have seen one rabbit a couple of times… but not as much as last year… things are changing… please pray that they get better for people and animals… Gene is feeling better this morning… He found something to take to help him sleep. over the counter… I think it worked… he did not move so much in his sleep…I think he has that restless sleep thing… and his arthritis does not help… Oh I just heard him in the laundry room… means he carried the basket there for me to tackle… 6 loads later…. well bye for now … picture of the day will be………….

3D maze

3D maze

Put in book by Sherryl Woods, find others at http://sherrylwoods.com

One of my friends is selling out their store on eCRATER take a look, maybe what you don’t find here you will find there… http://ACRead.ecrater.com

Remember we sell one autographed book by local author Joe Bullard. “Waiting for Agnes” You can find this book on three different sights… Three different prices and  many ways to pay.eCRATER is the least expensive at $19.00 plus shipping and handling.(everything I sell is cheaper here.) eBay is $19.50 plus shipping and handling. Amazon is $23.00 plus shipping and handling.  When you look at this blog today ask one person who you have never told before and ask them to tell one person… I am going to try that each day… On Twitter I will tell about one blog or store that I looked at the day before.. Trying to show other sites and have people look at mine…. Have a great day… my book (blog) is done for now.

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Up dates for Waiting for Agnes

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

I took some pictures of the book. Like the first page with the authors signature. The first written page to show how big the print is… And the back cover to show Ed with the pulley and electrical box… “Waiting for Agnes” by Florida Native Joe Bullard is a great book with 343 pages of wonder of truth and fantasy.. I have told Joe that I will sell all that he gave me today before he leaves on vacation so help….. This book is sold on three sites… Amazon it sells for $23.00 , eBay it sells for $19.99 and on eCRATER its sells for $19.50   Three different prices as these stores go from charging allot to nothing for selling the product… and they are all equal in the way they take care of the customer. One offers only PayPal one offers PayPal and money orders, one offers credit card, paypal . You have so many choices. go to  http://amazon.com  and put the name of the book in.. remember its paperback. no picture will show when you first go but open it up and see lots of pictures.  Go to http://readerwave.comand from there you can go to readerwave on line book store(eCRATER) or eBay  There are so many ways to look… If you are looking for other books look at eCRATER  and if you don’t find ask… People who live here local to me can send me email at readerwave@bellsouth.net and I will bring a copy of the book with me on Saturdays to the flee market or we can find another way..This book is $19.00 as you are picking up..  I only carry one copy with me on Saturdays unless you let me know that I will need more…Waiting for Agnes

Authors signiture

Authors signiture

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Waiting for Agnes

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Waiting For Agnes by Native Floridian Joe Bullard

Waiting For Agnes by Native Floridian Joe Bullard


I am offering this book,on both my webstores… the best buy is on eCRATER.  $19.99 for book and $3.98 for shipping. A savings almost $1.00 from my eBay sight… both offer paypal. eCrater offers money order also.

our eCRATER store has been fixed. You can now get to it at ecrater.readerwave.com
Now everything is Readerwave.  Thanks for all your waiting for us to get our act together.. Now we will just add books and hope you find us…. and love our store.
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