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Anna Knight says:

Wow! I’ve never seen so much cotton before! We sort of have our own “snow” in southern California. It’s these trees, and when they bloom they have hundreds of tiny white petals. So when the wind blows it looks like it’s snowing (the only downfall is that it makes everyone sneeze, lol). Have a good week! 🙂

sjhigbee says:

Oh wow! I learnt all about cotton bols when I was at school a lifetime ago, but I’ve never seen a field of them like that. Thank you so much for sharing! As for oysters – I reckon the first folks who sampled them were probably desperate and hungry:)). Have a great week, Laura:)

thebookdisciple says:

I love the look of cotton fields!! I used to live in the south and always thought a cotton field was so pretty!
Have a wonderful December with the south’s version of snow!

Rachel @The Readers Den says:

The cotton fields look so pretty! Looks like you’re a mystery lover, too. Enjoy your books! 🙂

the bookworm says:

Pretty pictures of the cotton. Happy reading!

Chrissy says:

Sleigh-Wrecked looks like a good one! I’ll have to check it out!

Stormi D Johnson says:

Cotton fields look so cool! It’s always interesting to think about who it was to do something first.

Have a great week!
Stormi

Yvonne says:

I love those pics!

Sleigh Wrecked looks good. I’m going to read that one. All your freebies look good, too. I have a few.

Hope you have a great week!

Barb (boxermommyreads) says:

It does look like snow. You got some great books and I’m off to check out some of those freebies.

La La in the Library says:

There was a living history museum near us that had a flax barn where they prepared flax, carded it, and spun it into thread. I was always fascinated by the process. The same thought occurred to me about whoever thought of doing this in the first place. I am wondering if the museum is still there. I never hear anyone mention it anymore.🌾

I “won” one of the Purple Turtle box sets, but the iRead Tour person said she needed my phone number to claim my prize. I questioned her about that and she said that all authors and publishers require phone numbers before they ship books. I told her that I have won many many books and have gotten over 100 review books since I started blogging, and I never once was asked for my phone number. I tweeted and no one else has ever heard of it either, except once for an international mailing, but they needed the sender’s ph # not the addressee’s number. She was also very condescending in manner, making it sound like I was inexperienced and stupid. I don’t give out my phone # to people I don’t know. I am really upset because I was going to donate them to the nonprofit daycare near me. I told her regardless of what she thinks, asking for the winner’s phone number is not common and she should state that you will need to provide it to claim your prize in the giveaway rules. I am going to email the publisher to find out if they really needed it, or if it was actually something she was getting for her own information. 🙁

Have a fabulous week. 🙂

Drangonfly says:

I always wanted to visit a cotton field! The pics are so pretty! Thanks for sharing the freebies! I like how Murderous Little Darlings looks!

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction says:

I’ve thought about that with a lot of foods too—how did the first person think to use a certain ingredient in that way? I never thought about it with cotton, but you’re totally right—I wouldn’t look at that fluffy white stuff and think “clothes.”

Katherine P says:

I love the cotton fields though most of the ones around here are already clear. It looks so sad when it’s all been picked. It is strange that someone ever looked at that and said let’s make clothes out of that and the food is even weirder! There’s some plant that has to be boiled 3 times to not be poisonous. Who thought of that? And who thought after the 2nd time of getting sick that they’d try boiling it one more time? Have a great week!

chucklesthescot says:

My mind allows boggles about the concept of the internet and how that was invented!