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Friday, March 30, 2012

Freebie of the day: free Garnier Ultra-Lift!

Yay! It's Friday! And for today we have a free sample of Garnier Ultra-Lift (which, for the record, I use -- love the stuff!) Just fill out the form and they mail it to your door. My favorite kind of freebie!

Click here to get it!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

(Almost) freebie of the day: Restaurant.com coupons for $2 until Mar. 31!

Good morning, everybody! This isn't quite a freebie, but it is seriously cool - I just got three $25 gift certificates to Malabar Farms Restaurant (which is da bomb!) for nine bucks. Yes, you have to sign up at the site (more junk e-mail, great), but you can search for restaurants by your zip code and until March 31, they have a coupon for 80% off -- which means most gift certificates are only two bucks!

If you're going to RT, I suspect they have a ton of restaurants in Chicago ;-) Go check it out here, and happy Thursday!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Freebie of the day: Free JOCKEY item at Tanger outlets!

Good morning, everybody! It was a busy morning out in the barn today -- buckets to wash, the tack room to clean, trash to empty, and of course stalls to muck out and horses to feed. That's okay, I got kisses  :-)


We've got a pretty darn cool freebie today -- one free Jockey item (up to $16 value) at any Tanger outlet, now thru April 7th. Click here for all the info, and have a great day!

Monday, March 26, 2012

Freebie of the day: read The Hunger Games online & Burt's Bees Sample!

Hi everybody! We've got another Facebook freebie today -- a sample of Gud lotion from Burt's Bees. I love Burt's Bees stuff, so I'm psyched about this one :-) Go grab it here!

And for everybody (even everybody who's not on Facebook!) I found a wonderful site where you can read b books online for free, legitimately. It's freebooksread.blogspot.com and they feature a lot of NYT best-sellers that have been turned into movies including the Hunger Games trilogy. Happy Monday, and happy reading!

 -- Sierra

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Freebie of the day: Free Delilah Devlin ebook!

Hi guys!!! I was just over on Facebook, where I discovered this morning that Delilah's begun editing (in addition to writing, don't worry!) for Cleis Press. Since I was thinking about her, I went and found... Yup! A free Delilah Devlin download at Amazon!

The first book in her "My Immortal Knight" series, and you can get your copy here! Have a lovely Sunday, everyone :-)

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Freebie of the day: Free Lipton Tea'n'honey sample!

Hi everybody! This one is perfect for all you Facebook folks -- just "like" Lipton's Tea'n'Honey page to get a sample of one of their tea mixes. Click here to go right to the page, and I hope everybody's having a great weekend!

And hey, did you grab a free download of Desiree Holt's Hot Moon Rising on Thursday? If you didn't, you really should! Short and spicy, yummm! Get it here!

Friday, March 23, 2012

Freebie of the day: Chanel four-piece skin care set!

Hi everybody! I've got more self-pampering supplies for you! This is for a four-piece sample of the Chanel LeBlanc skin care system, and a very easy freebie to get. Just fill in name and address and they'll send it to your door. Gotta love it! Go here to claim yours by March 25th, and have a good day!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Freebie of the day: HOT MOON RISING by Desiree Holt!

Hi guys! I thought I'd do a little poking around over on Amazon this morning, and what did I find but a freebie by Desiree Holt! Yippie!!!

Come grab your copy of Hot Moon Rising right here!

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Freebie of the day: Herbacleanse sample!

Good morning everyone, and happy hump day! It's been a busy morning for me -- I had some bushes to transplant, a door to stain for hanging, more manure to put on the new flower bed (still have to work it in but at least it's on there), and of course big snorty beasties to feed :-) I figured it was about time for a tea and freebie break!

Today's freebie is a ten-capsule sample of Herbacleanse (which I've never tried before), and you can get it here. I hope everyone's having a lovely day -- it's absolutely gorgeous here in mid-Ohio, and I want to get back outside before it gets too hot. Have a good one!

 -- Sierra

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Freebie(s) of the day: X Factor tickets and doggie treats!

Hey everybody, and happy Tuesday! One of these "freebies" isn't really a direct freebie -- but it's kinda cool anyway so I wanted to share it :-) The X Factor is having auditions later this spring in Austin, Kansas City, San Francisco, Providence RI, and Greensboro NC. So if you live in or near any of the above and would like to sign up to be notified when they're giving away tickets, click here!

And this one is for all the dog lovers among us (and we are legion!): Another freebie from Walmart (and don't forget about the free custom wall photo they're giving away at their photo centers while you're at it!), you can get free samples of Beneful Baked Delight treats for your four-footed buddy. Click here for info, and have a great day!



RIP, my wonderful friend. I miss you :-)

Monday, March 19, 2012

Freebie of the day: Waffle House hash browns and Hobby Lobby coupon!

Hi guys! I have two for you today! Just 'cause it's Monday and hey, we all gotta do our best to make Mondays better, right? :-)

For the hobbyists in the group we have a printable coupon, good for 40% off one item this week at Hobby Lobby! (I love that store... I don't knit, do very little sewing, but dang, I still love it.) Just click here to get it!

And for everyone who loves Waffle House (and who doesn't love Waffle House?), print out this coupon for a free order of hash browns! (Smothering and covering extra, darn it, but hey...) The coupon's good till March 31, so you've got plenty of time to use it.

Happy Monday!

    -- Sierra

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Today's freebie: YEARNINGS box set for Kindle!

Hi guys! Once again, I don't know how long this one will be around for -- whether it's a short-term special or a full-time freebie, but I saw this and thought you should know about it. Amazon Kindle has a full box set of paranormal romances including titles by Carolyn McCray and Amber Scott to download for free!


Go grab it, and have a great weekend!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Freebie of the day: Happy St. Patty's Day!

And you can celebrate with free fries at Burger King! No link to click, no form to fill out -- simply stop by BK today or tomorrow and grab 'em!

Friday, March 16, 2012

Freebie of the day: Free paint from Ace Hardware!

Hey everybody! I have to admit, I'm partial to Ace Hardware. It's a small-ish chain that really goes out of its way to give good service, and tomorrow only, they're giving away a free quart of Clark & Kensington paint! Simply print out the coupon and take it in with you tomorrow. You can get it here! (Oh, and check in tomorrow before you head out -- I've got another St. Paddy's Day freebie for you, too)

It's a gray and gloomy day here in mid-Ohio. A good day for staying in and writing! Which is where I'll be most of the day :-) Here's wishing you a wonderful Friday and weekend!

 -- Sierra

Thursday, March 15, 2012

A day that starts with horses

Crrrrrrrrack!  

That's how my day started today. It didn't dawn (not for another three hours yet); it didn't ease into wakefulness. It splintered around me like a china plate smashing. Which is cool -- I love thunderstorms. And then I thought, The horses. Shit.

These are not my horses (sadly). They, like I, are boarders here. They get the barn and pasture, I get the house. Six of them -- the quarterhorses, minis, and pony -- belong to a lovely young woman named Rosa. The Arabian, Amira, belongs to Emily, a delightful nursing student in her early 20s. But since they're here and I'm here, I get to enjoy them, scratch their noses, and help look after them -- which means I get up at 6:30 every day to feed them and muck out five stalls. Yes, I'm still horse-crazy enough that mucking out stalls is actually cool :-)

Normally, this is a lovely part of the day for me. It's calm and quiet, the inside of the barn still shadowy and dim and full of soft munchings and stampings as the horses chomp down their grain. The barn cats, Olivia and a little gray-and-orange one I call Smokey, rub around my legs as I go about my chores, slinging hay down from the loft and refilling water buckets.

Not, however, this morning. Lightning lances across the sky as I stomp into my boots at four a.m., shoving the laces down inside so I don't have to waste time tying them. The barn stands out in stark relief against the night sky in the sudden flare of light, and the first raindrops turn to silver streaks as they slant across my vision. I can hear the pony, Stormy, neighing frantically inside the barn, and hasten my steps as the sky opens above me and rain starts to pound down.

The storm is unexpected. The weather has been fair and clear, and so the big 'uns (Amira and the three quarterhorses: Sunny, Chi-Chi, and Ed) were left out for the night. It's this knowledge that makes me dash into the barn, throwing open stalls as I race for the back door...

Oops! Not so easy. Stormy is in Chi-Chi's stall, rather than with the minis where she belongs. First task -- get Stormy back into her stall. Easier said than done. The second I open the stall, the minis, Ace and Freedom, dash out. It's like chasing cats -- they scurry around the barn in a frenzy, little bundles of storm-worried energy that don't even quite come up to my hip. With the aid of a flake of hay, I herd them back into place, then slide open the back door of the barn.

Another flash of lightning sears the air, and rain streaks across my vision. Where are the horses? Not in the lean-to, as I expected. They're clustered together in the middle of the pasture, heads down, nostrils flaring. At my whistle, they streak toward the barn and crowd inside, milling in the open center with the same nervous tension that propelled the minis. Amira's eyes roll. Sunny dances in place, a thousand pounds of keyed-up muscle. Ed tosses his head, snorting. One by one, as the rain turns to clattering hail on the metal roof, I loop a rope around their necks and over their noses, guiding them back into their stalls.

More hay. Soft, murmured words. Lots of forelock strokes and scritches, and slowly they begin to settle. Emily shows up, dashing in frantically in her pajamas. I can see the tension drop away from her at the sight of Amira in her stall, still nervous and whinnying softly.


She soothes Amira as I pet the others, and eventually they calm. Outside, thunder booms and rolls, gradually retreating as the storm marches west. One last clatter of hail rakes the roof, and the rain settles heavily into a steady, soothing drone. Emily, looking bleary, heads back home to bed. I stay for a while, sitting on the tack box with the barn cats in my lap, rubbing their ears and listening to the warm rumble of their purring.

The horses shift and whuffle, their muzzles buried in fresh, sweet hay. A peacefulness both deeper and more fragile than the early morning quiet I'm used to settles over us. There's a different quality to it -- a sense of something precious, something gained only through fear and effort and uncertainty. It's not the calm of home, of well-ordered familiarity, but of sudden sanctuary, sweet and unexpected.

It's the nature of humans to take things for granted, I think as I finally set the kitties down and take one last look around the barn. Health, love, safety...even life itself. Maybe it really is only when those things are threatened, or even lost, that we savor them the most deeply, recognizing them for what they truly are -- a gift, fragile and fleeting. I run through the rain, the heavy drops soaking me in seconds. When I reach my door I pause for a moment, shaking the rain from my eyes and looking back at the barn. The storm starts up again with a swift gust of wind that chills me to the bone. A sudden spear of lightning stabs the ground somewhere nearby, making me jump.

I don't care, though. Not about the lost sleep, or the shaky after-effects of adrenalin, or the cold tightening my skin into goose pimples as I stand there, letting the storm pelt me as it will. As far as I'm concerned, this morning couldn't be more perfect. As far as I'm concerned, any day that starts with horses is a good day.

Freebie of the day: Free 10x13 photo portrait from Walmart!

Good morning everybody! Yes, I'm up early (about which I'll write more in a minute :)  so I thought I'd spend a few minutes with tea hunting for freebies. And this morning, what I found for us is a free custom wall print from the Walmart Photo Centers -- just click here! This one's good till April 21st, so you've got a bit of time to take advantage of it.

And add me to your blog feeds, follow me on Twitter, or friend me on Facebook to feed your daily freebie need!

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Freebie of the day: Prepare for the wearing o' the green!

Yep, it's almost that day again! The day when the entire population of the earth, it seems, decides to claim descent from one tiny little island.But who can blame us? It's so dang beautiful (and I will go there before I die! Yes yes and absolutely!) So to aid you in your celebratory preparations, today's freebie is a free "Lucky Charm" t-shirt iron-on available from i love it all (which is a wonderful crafts blog, by the way, with tons of cool ideas -- plus I love their slogan ;-)   Grab your freebie iron-on transfer here!

And hey, if you're in the mood for a rogue with a touch of the brogue, check out the yummy guitar-playing songwriter Sean O'Shaughnessy in Sex and the Single Werewolf, the first story in the Shifter Sisters collection! (Which contains all three Shifter Sister novellas in one ebook.) Man, I haven't thought about Sean in a while.... Mmmmm.....  Yeah....  *happy sigh*....

Wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, grab it here!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Freebie of the day: free Maya Banks ebook!

Okay, I am one of the many-many-many who unabashedly loved Maya Banks' Colters' Woman. (Yeah, three sexy cowboys, one stranded damsel in distress? Why on earth would I like that? lol!) And I was thrilled to discover that in addition to the other books in the Colter's Legacy series, she has penned a free follow-up ebook:

Colter's Wife by Maya Banks!

Yep, it's free (for the moment, anyway) and available as a Kindle download at Amazon! Click here to get your copy! Oh and hey, when you've read it, take a minute and leave a review -- she's been getting a lot of flak reviews from people who've been downloading it because it's free and then are shocked -- shocked, I tell you! -- to discover it's a menage story. So throw Maya some luv!

And if you don't have a Kindle, you can get a free Kindle reading app for your computer -- just click here to download. (Hey, two freebies today!)

And finally, you can show me some luv, too! Just click that little Google +1 icon right below this post, or share it to Facebook or Twitter. Happy Tuesday, and happy reading!

 -- Sierra

Monday, March 12, 2012

Christening the new blog: Freebie of the day!

Okay, no, the revamped site isn't really up and running yet, but I did want to go ahead and start blogging again (Hi everybody! I know, it's been forever.) And I decided to inaugurate my new blog with a new feature -- the freebie of the day! And today's freebie is:

Free Genifique from Lancome!

Okay, I admit, I'm getting to the age where creams and potions and things that delay or downplay those little "character lines" are, ummmm... Well, let's just say I've got plenty of character, thanks ;-)  And I loooove free samples of stuff. So here ya go -- go grab yourself a free sample here!

And add me to your blog feeds, follow me on Twitter, or friend me on Facebook to feed your daily freebie need! We've got some great stuff coming up!