The Case of the Disappearing Snowman

Every year, at Christmas, we decorate the window with appropriate decorations, including a giant stuffed snowman.  While most of the decorations are taken down just after the holidays, he stays up until Valentine's Day.  But after.  Every day or so, we take some of the stuffing out of him, as well as some of the fluff on the display surrounding him.  This makes him look like he is slowly melting.  How fast he melts depends on when Easter is.  If Easter is in late March, we quickly melt the snowman so that the Easter decorations are up in time.  However, when Easter is in mid-April, like this year, we take a little longer to melt him.  Still, we expect him to be gone in another week or so.  Then we start the change to spring and Easter.  That is not the only decoration that goes revisions over the year.  Take a look at our rabbits, as seen on our Facebook page and on the site's title page if we can't get it to show up here.  They are dressed as the king and queen of Mardi Gras.  For Independence Day, they wave flags.  For Halloween, they wear masks.  For Christmas, they have stockings and have garland on their necks and ears.  For Valentine's Day, they hold hearts.  For Easter, they have nothing because they are already rabbits after all.  One last bit of news,  we might not be contributing reviews to the Pikeville Medical Leader after all.  Wait for further updates.  Until then, check out the original blog, now retitled for Reviews, elsewhere on the web site.

The Blog Is Back Baby

Somehow, the original blog has come back.  The glitch is gone.  Now that it is gone, we will be using it as a destination for book reviews starting this weekend.  We feel that this would be the best use for it as this blog has a more general feel for news and events.  With that, we are going to cut this post short so you can get to reading the first review, hopefully up about the same time as this.

Reformatting and Optimizing and Other Techno Jargon

We are a little late with this week's main post as we have been adding a few changes to the site.  First, we have changed a few of the headings to make sure they are in the correct hypertext to be read easily by search engines.  Not that big or noticeable a change, but it has to be done since we might not have did it correctly when we first created the site.  Second, we have added a chronological listing of all of the author signings we have had over the years.  As mentioned on the News/Event page, we have not yet completed putting every author in yet.  We need to cross-reference our files with old calendars to get the years right, as most of the old ads and flies have a day and date, but not a year.  Also, some local authors needed to be checked up on to make sure we have the right information.  Last, we might be removing some things from the site that do not really go with the overall theme we are going for.  It will take some time to finish, but we hope it won't be too distracting.  That is all for now.  See you next week.

Pacer Recaps, Part Four

Here is the final post recapping the topics from the original store blog.  Hopefully, we can bring the blog's posts back up somehow or transfer the original text of the original posts back.

• September 3:  the announcement of joining Google+
• September 10: the Lundy book signing announcement
• September 17:  more on the signing
• September 24:  announcement of the start of the new blog on Blogger (you're reading it now)
• October 1:  ending of the old blog, originally to be used by a different author
• November 5:  problems in the presentation of the original blog on the website

We hope this brings everything up to date.  Remember, regular posts to this blog are scheduled for viewing every Saturday morning.

And The Reviews Aren't In,Yet

Starting in the next week or so, Booknotes will be providing a monthly book review for the Pikeville Medical Leader.  Many years ago, we had also wrote an occasional book review for them.  Over the years, we ultimately decided to stop.  Now, with a renewed interest in getting are messages out, we will be writing them again.  As of this time, it is unlikely that we will be able to publish the reviews on our websites, but we might be able to have a link to them.  The technical issues are still being decided.  However, starting this upcoming Wednesday, February 8, we should be able to post a secondary review on our Facebook page.  This review will be written by the same person writing this blog, at least for now.  It won't be on a regular basis, but it might be every other week or so.  Start looking for it on the Notes tab.  Furthermore, some of the issues with the original blog seem to be working themselves out, so it might make in back up to the site soon.  The last of the recaps will still be posted soon.  That is all for this week.  Check back soon.