Mary Ricksen

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Name: Mary Ricksen
Location: West Palm Beach, FL, United States

I moved to Florida in 1980. I was born in Vt., but it's cold sooo long, I'll settle for scenic North Carolina. I enjoy the change of seasons. Spring, summer, winter, and fall, all have such a unique flavor; here it's just too subtle. I loved to ride horses more than anything. My dog Junior is a character in my first book, and there will be more of my pets in my next book. We moved a lot when I was young, from Canada to New York, and from Texas, to Florida. I met all kinds of people, and I find that the more rural it is, the more friendly people are. I have been married for a long time. So long it's like he's my left hip. But I'll keep him, he can fix anything! I have a beautiful secret garden, with everything from Plumeria, to Penta. There is nothing better than sitting out there with a good book and seeing the palms and ferns wave in the breezes, in winter, the real time to be here in Florida. I have written and published my first book in a series that takes place on Lake Champlain in Vermont. My always home. The only thing like the Green Mountains are the Great Smokey's, and a little town called Bryson City, NC. My next home, hopefully!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Author Roast And Toast cooks Skhye Moncrief

Come by and visit the http://authorroastandtoast.blogspot.com

The hostess's of the AR&T cook their next victim! Come and visit on Friday 1/15

Be there or be square!

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Hey it's Cuddles bad cousin Muddles, uh oh, that can't be good! He sneezes and causes trouble!

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Author Roast and Toast On Friday 12/18

The Author Roast and Toast crew is hosting Kathleen O'Connor on Friday. Come to her party. The atmosphere is warm and compelling.

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Make a comment and have some fun with this cyber party. Oliver will be making some of his specialties for our guests. And Kathleen is looking awfully good in her new outfit.


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And please,


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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Just a Reminder

Don't forget to go to the http://authorroastandtoast.blogspot.com for a great blog and a lot of fun with Cindy K. Green, while we freeze our butts off for this wonderful White Rose Author. Snow bunny, hmmmmm? Sharon's wonderful imagination can almost make me one.

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Lyn, Mary and Sharon are shocking the multitudes! You have to check out this blog!!

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Forget how you usually feel in the morning and join us for some fun, verbal banter, laughter and a dose of Oliver, Junior, and Cuddles.
What better way to start the day.

Here is my Friday gift to you!

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

GO TO THE AUTHOR ROAST AND TOAST



Tomorrow as a member of the Author Roast and Toast Blog, http://authorroastandtoast.blogspot.com, we welcome Roni Adams/Rhonda Penders. I would like to welcome all of you to participate and leave a comment for her blog. Let's show her what she means to us!



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Friday, October 2, 2009

Ashley Ludwig on the Author Roast and Toast Blog Today

We who host the Author Roast And Toast Blog
http://authorroastandtoast.blogspot.com, are proud to announce Ashley Ludwig as our next
victim, sorry I mean guest, on our weekly blog. Come and read what she has to say. Come and tease and laugh with the rest of us as we feast on Ashley's choice of repast. We have a lot of fun, we get to mess with one another and we get to be less serious for a while, while we forget our troubles.
Join us and our handsome Butler, Oliver, he's such a......a....a...man.
Cuddles will amaze you with his magic abilities, while Junior wags his tail, licks you and reads your mind.
Friday's now, with Sharon Donovan, Hywela Lyn and myself, will be the best day of your week.

Wish Lyn a joyous Happy Birthday and many more!!


There will be a prize for the best answer to the question?

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Ha! It feels good to Laugh Out Loud

No this is not my DH but he wouldn't pose for me so I had to use this picture. The purpose of this picture is to make you stop and look at my blog.
First I offer you a hot looking guy, then I pass along some jokes.

But I would also like to mention that I am still on cloud nine. After getting a great review from You Gotta Read Reviewers, I am up there. I don't think I am gonna come down for awhile. It's nice on this cloud. I've never been here before.

I'd also like to mention that this Friday The Author Roast and Toast blog will be roasting Kat Henry Doran. Please drop by and make a comment. Tease and cajole Kat and spend the day laughing with other authors and your roasting hostess's.
Looking forward to meeting you all there. Ten in the morning till we are too exhausted to type. It's fun! http://authorroastandtoast.blogspot.com



Marriage Humor


Wife:
'What are you doing?'

Husband:
Nothing.

Wife:
'Nothing...? You've been reading our marriage certificate for an hour.'

Husband:
'I was looking for the expiration date.'

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Wife
: 'Do you want dinner?'

Husband:
'Sure! What are my choices?'

Wife:
'Yes or no.'

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Wife: 'You always carry my photo in your wallet.. Why?'

Hubby:
'When there is a problem, no matter how great, I look at your picture and the problem disappears.'

Wife:
'You see how miraculous and powerful I am for you?'

Hubby:
'Yes! I see your picture and ask myself what other problem can there be greater than this one?'

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Stress Reliever

Girl: 'When we get married, I want to share all your worries, troubles and lighten your burden.'

Boy:
'It's very kind of you, darling, but I don't have any worries or troubles.'

Girl:
'Well that's because we aren't married yet.'

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Son:
'Mum, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.'

Mom:
'Well, you have done the right thing..'

Son:
'But mum, I was sitting on daddy's lap.'

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A newly married man asked his wife, 'Would you have married me if my father hadn't left me a fortune?'


'Honey,' the woman replied sweetly, 'I'd have married you, NO MATTER WHO LEFT YOU A FORTUNE!'


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Girl to her boyfriend: One kiss and I'll be yours forever.


The guy replies: 'Thanks for the early warning.'


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A wife asked her husband: 'What do you like most in me, my pretty face or my sexy body?'


He looked at her from head to toe and replied: 'I like your sense of humor!'



Husbands are husbands

A man was sitting reading his papers when his wife hit him on the
head with a frying pan.
'What was that for?' the man asked.
The wife replied 'That was for the piece of paper with the name Sally on
it that I found in your pants pocket'.
The man then said 'When I was at the races last week Sally was the name
of the horse I bet on'
The wife apologized and went on with the housework.
Three days later the man is watching TV when his wife bashes him on the
head with an even bigger frying pan, knocking him unconscious.
Upon re-gaining consciousness the man asked why she had hit again.
Wife replied. 'Your horse phoned'

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