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Review, Giveaway and Blog Tour for John Rocco’s Book, Blizzard

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I was sent a copy of John Rocoo’s book, Blizzard. I knew one thing about John and that was that he wrote and illustrated this book about the Blizzard of ’78. I was four when that happened and we lived right over the Rhode Island border, close to where the story takes place. I remember being in our house with no electricity, a two year old sister and a brand new puppy. I’m sure that my Mom remembers that blizzard much more vividly than the rest of us because she had to deal with the new puppy and two kids under 5. My Dad was out helping to plow the snow. I remember being told that if I even step out of the house I’d get lost in a snow drift.

Illustration copyright © 2014 by John Rocco. BLIZZARD
Illustration copyright © 2014 by John Rocco. BLIZZARD

Reading this book to the kids made me think back to that Blizzard as much as my four year old self remembered. Mostly it was things that people told me and no so much what we did during that time. I can’t remember it all that clearly. John is older than me and when the Blizzard of 78 hit he was old enough to be outside and help. Blizzard is a story of how a young boy helped his neighborhood during that Blizzard.

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Weathered the Storm

Weathered the Storm
Photo-A-Day #1489

Looking for flowers to shoot in the yard I found this one that got nailed by the rain.

Not too much going on here. I’m still working on pulling together the plans for Disney. I’m very excited because I made a simple change of location and it looks like many more of my Orlando friends are going to be able to hang out too. We’re now going to be having dinner Friday night at Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. I’m really looking forward to that.

I am also excited because the lens that I ordered the other day has been shipped. It should be (crossing fingers) here by our Disney Trip. I really hope that it is.

We received a package today though, it was the 5th book in the Percy Jackson series. It is called The Last Olympian. We’ve read all four of the other books too and they are really fun.