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Dear Reader,
I'm on my annual vacation, but I left my column in talented hands today. Author Lori Copeland is filling in for me. Written with Virginia Smith, Lori Copeland is the co-author of A Bride for Noah.
Please send an email and welcome Lori to the book club. Lori will reply, and she just might send you a copy of A Bride for Noah. She has 5 copies for readers. Email: lllcope18@yahoo.com
Take it away Lori...
Red. Bright, cheerful, impossible to find. Not impossible, but it takes a rocket scientist. We recently moved and bought a house with a purple garage door and shutters. I think the original color was supposed to be reddish, but when we turned the corner to our street purple stood out. "That has to go," I told my husband and he said "You're not going to paint them red (knowing my propensity) for the color. "Anything but purple," I agreed (knowing they would be red, but why ruin a peaceful conversation?)
So we moved, hauled furniture, put in new floors and paint, cut brush and the day finally came when I convinced hubby that purple on the garage door had to go. He'd rather eat dirt than paint, but he agreed, so I set out on a search for the perfect "Old Barn Red." The first bucket was opened and a couple of brushes applied. Hubby sticks head around the door and says, "I think you'd better look at this." I was busy at the time and said, "It's Old Barn Red. It's okay." How wrong could I go?
Purple! When I walked out to check on the progress an hour later I was stunned! There wasn't a shade--maybe two differences in the garish color that previously dominated the door and shutters. Hubby stood back, jaw clenched and said. "I told you to look at it."
I went back to the paint store with my bucket of purple and told them no way was that "Old Barn Red." They said it was, but suggested I go for "Red Geranium." I complied, and took the paint home and hubby started again. The first few brush strokes looked a little light almost pinkish but the salesmen had assured me that the color would dry and look exactly like my neighbors lovely blooming geranium. "I think it will be fine," I said and returned to my work.
During a break I dutifully took hubby a glass of cold lemonade and almost fainted. Pink! Sure there was a touch of red but if that color looked anything close to that geranium next door I'd eat my hat. This couldn't be happening. My husband is a wonderful patient man, but I saw him eying the chain saw. Regardless, I didn't want a pink garage door and shutters. They were worse than the purple.
I drove back to the paint store with murder in my eye. Red could not be that hard to produce. After much consultation I brought home the winner, a simply gorgeous "Knock Out Red" and life on Swan street is simply lovely--especially the house with the red garage door and shutters.
-- Lori Copeland
Email Lori at: lllcope18@yahoo.com. She has five copies of A Bride for Noah for readers.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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AUTHORBUZZ: THE TENTH WITNESS (Mystery) by Leonard Rosen
In 1978, on an engineering assignment off the Dutch coast, Henri Poincare falls for the daughter of a German steel magnate. The family harbors secrets, and Henri, torn between love and the legacy of thirty-year old crimes, must investigate.
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