Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Miscellaneous Musing

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving today to all of you in America. I hope your travels are safe, and your travelers arrive safely. Have a wonderful day! Tomorrow, of course, is Black Friday, so there will be a little sale…

  • Back from the Beach

    Last weekend, I attended the Novelists’ Ink conference, which was held in St. Pete’s Beach in Florida. As well as the conference being fun and informative—and a chance to see good friends—there was The Beach! I walked the beach every day and here are some of my pix. We had truly gorgeous weather, over 80…

  • Tomatoes

    I like to can produce and do a fair bit of canning every year. My favourite veggies to can, though, are tomatoes. I peel them, reduce them to a thick chunky sauce, then put them up in quart sealers. We eat a lot of them during the year, and I love opening the jar in…

  • Summertime

    If it’s summer, I must be canning. I like making pickles and jams, although I haven’t done as much canning in the last couple of years as usual. Things have just been too busy, but this year, I realized that I miss doing it. This year, I was determined to get canning again. For inspiration,…

  • A New Regime

    As many of you who read the blog regularly know, we lost the Queen Bee last December. She was a standard poodle, who was part of our family from the time she was a little pup. For more than 13 years, she ruled the roost in our house, and we miss her very much. Recently,…