Miss Lynn Sings: 2014

Rollin' with Jane: New Jersey and the Carolinas

Tales of Adventure from my travels with Jane Dough!

We love love LOVE Aldi. So it was very exciting when we found one between library visits in New Jersey!

Audiobooks are an absolute must for long days of driving. Andrew Clements is one of our favorite authors. On this particular day, he was helping us make it from New Jersey to Virginia!

It's Jane's first time in South Carolina, so naturally she had to have her picture taken in a palmetto tree!

On to North Carolina (Charlotte, to be precise), where we visited with our friends the Adams! (Their names aren't really Fred and Doris.)

Major League Bocce in Charlotte!

Of course, we had to visit a new, fabulous doughnut spot in the Charlotte area: Your Mom's Donuts. They were even better than they look

Jane and I couldn't do all this traveling without help from a LOT of folks along the way. And it's important to say "Thank you" for all that help . . . just a quick shot with Jane before these notes hit the mailbox!

Rollin' with Jane: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York City

Tales of Adventure from my travels with Jane Dough!

Obviously, Jane is not in this photo. But she was with me when I visited the Ames Free Library in Easton, Massachusetts. It is an extraordinary place. This is the main reading room, complete with perpetual (video) fireplace!

I think Jane may have been a little intimidated by this giant dosa when we went for Indian food in Sharon, MA!

Also in Sharon . . . Jane with her canine friend, Dobby!

The town of Merrimack, NH is reading Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. Jane got her photo with Holmes and Watson outside the Merrimack Library!

Jane hasn't read The Hobbit or seen any of the movies, but she loves Martin Freeman almost as much as I do.

We went to see my friend Eddie Gamarra's film "The Maze Runner" while we were in New York City!

Jane fit right in with the homey aesthetic at The Kitchenette in NYC.

New York City Marathon! We were amazed at all these intrepid athletes.

Rollin' with Jane: Firsts along the way

Tales of Adventure from my travels with Jane Dough!

This trip includes a lot of firsts for Jane. Here she is for the first time in Virginia!

We stopped off at one of the locations of Fractured Prune, outside Baltimore.

Fractured Prune is unique among doughnut stores I have visited in that they make the doughnuts fresh to order, and then add glazes and toppings.

Our selections from Fractured Prune. They were yum-mazing!

Jane's first visit to the Nutmeg State! Unfortunately, we didn't find a lot of photo ops as we were driving through.

We arrived in Rhode Island, where Jane got to experience her first pumpkin patch!

The wind was chilly that day, but the sun shone bright and warm. And the cold didn't stop us from having fun!

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 40: INVIOLATE

"I know that her word is inviolate." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter III)

"inviolate" on Dictionary.com

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 39: PRECIPITANCE

"A little over-precipitance may ruin all." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)

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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 38: OSTLER

"The word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of spectators, well dressed and ill—gentlemen, ostlers, and servantmaids— joined in a general shriek of 'Fire!'" (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)

"ostler" on Dictionary.com

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 37: SURPLICED

"There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)

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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 36: MEWS

"I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter II)

"mews" on Dictionary.com (definition #4)

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 35: VIZARD

"He carried a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, for his hand was still raised to it as he entered." (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter I)

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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 34: ASTRAKHAN

"Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat . . . " (A Scandal in Bohemia, chapter I)

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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 33: DIAPHANOUS

"She was seated by the open window, dressed in some sort of white diaphanous material, with a little touch of scarlet at the neck and waist." (The Sign of the Four, chapter XI)

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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 32: BLUFF

"They landed me at Vauxhall, with my heavy iron box, and with a bluff, genial inspector as my companion." (The Sign of the Four, chapter XI)

"bluff" on Dictionary.com (definition #1)

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 31: AQUILINE

""Pile it on, men, pile it on!" cried Holmes, looking down into the engine-room, while the fierce glow from below beat upon his eager, aquiline face." (The Sign of the Four, chapter X)

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"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 30: SLATTERNLY

"Now, however, we were beginning to come among continuous streets, where laborers and dockmen were already astir, and slatternly women were taking down shutters and brushing door-steps." (The Sign of the Four, chapter VIII)

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Rollin' with Jane: New Jersey and the Carolinas

Rollin' with Jane: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York City

Rollin' with Jane: Firsts along the way

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 40: INVIOLATE

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 39: PRECIPITANCE

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 38: OSTLER

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 37: SURPLICED

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 36: MEWS

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 35: VIZARD

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 34: ASTRAKHAN

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 33: DIAPHANOUS

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 32: BLUFF

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 31: AQUILINE

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 30: SLATTERNLY

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 29: PITHY

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 28: PLETHORIC

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 27: SNIBBED

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 26: STUPEFIED

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 25: QUERULOUS

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 24: VALETUDINARIAN

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 23: SALVER

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 22: JARVEYS

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 21: BROUGHAM

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 20: SURETIES

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 19: INEXORABLE

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 18: CHAPARRAL

"Sherlock's Good Words" Day 17: SENTENTIOUSLY