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Susan Niemann's avatar

I love all this so much...It looks like your birthday was grand. As is your immense talent.! 🎉🎉🎉

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Oh that's so kind of you to say!! Thank you!!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚

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Lorraine Evanoff's avatar

Awww! The birdie in heels with coffee!😻

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Lol!!!!!! I'm glad you liked it!!!! 💚😻🐈💚😻🐈

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Nicolas Sutro's avatar

Happy Birthday!

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you!!!!

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Rob Woller's avatar

Happy Birthday! Thank you for the book recommendations. Your artwork always puts a smile on my face and relaxes me.

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you!!! Your comment is such a gift!!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚

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Sheila's avatar

Well a very happy birthday to you! 🎂 🎁 I’m a big hash brown fan but I’ve not had that style of homemade hash browns. What is it you have with it? 💚

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you!!! The homemade hashbrowns at Joe Brown's are really special! What I have with it is scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese and a patty of sausage! Totally yummy and indulgent!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚

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Sheila's avatar

A patty of sausage, never heard of that. Is it pork meat?

We currently driving to breakfast but we’re still a wee while off and that hash brown is calling me! The toast I’ll be having will pale in comparison I know 😆🤣 But hunger is a good sauce so I’m sure I’ll be gobbling it down anyways!

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Yes, a patty of sausage is pork meat along with some spices. I had a mild sausage patty but they offer a spicy one too. The patties make it possible for the cafe to make egg, sausage and toast sandwiches. But there are no hashbrowns on a sandwich and I just had to have the hashbrowns!! 🤣 I hope your breakfast is wonderfully yummy!!! Hunger is indeed a great sauce!!!!!

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Sheila's avatar

Ooo, no way! Spicy 🌶️ for breakfast! That seems not for the faint hearted.

I’m the very same, if hash browns are on the menu, they’re a priority! Even if it means ordering them as a side.

The breakfast cure the hunger but wasn’t the best. We stopped in a bar who support Franco, we’ve been so curious about it for years as we pass it on the way to Madrid. We decided breakfast was the cheapest way to have a look as we didn’t want to fund fascism. In hindsight, we could’ve picnicked in the carpark and snook in as no one would have known.

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Yes! Spicy for breakfast indeed!! Even the mild sausage at Joe Brown's is spicy - it's just not as spicy as the one labeled spicy. And I like spicy so much that I'm often putting the tobasco sauce on my eggs! 🤣

I'm now very curious about what you saw during your breakfast!! I completely agree with you about not supporting facism.

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Sheila's avatar

Wow, the not spicy is spicy for someone who’s accustomed to spice! That sounds HOT 🌶️ 🌶️🌶️

We’re on a big road trip and I’m trying to keep a diary. I wrote something about the fascist breakfast. It was an experience 😆

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Danielle Myburgh's avatar

So much love for N K Jemisin books. They are all brilliant

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Sue Clancy's avatar

I just discovered N K Jemison and I've almost finished "The City We Became" and I love it!!! I can't wait to read more of Jemison's work!! Do you have a favorite you'd recommend??

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Danielle Myburgh's avatar

I particularly loved The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you!! I will add it to my list!!! 💚💚

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Daniela Gaidano & A. Visintini's avatar

I particularly loved this newsletter, so rich of beautiful drawings, and the reading suggestions! Thank you and happy birthday!

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Oh! It delights me to hear that!!! Thank you so very much!!! 💚💚💚💚💚

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Shauna K. Hunt's avatar

Happy Birthday, Sue!

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you!!!

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Diane’s Blue Forum 👩‍💻's avatar

I love the photos and drawings!💚💙💚☕️☕️💚💕

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Sue Clancy's avatar

I'm so glad!!! Thank you!!!! 💚💙💚💙📚📚📚📚☕

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

Happy extended birthday to you Sue! Sounds perfectly wonderful! I adore your little critters and can't even choose a favorite because they are all so delightful and expressive. The little mice having coffee took me back to reading The Borrowers as a kid. 🥰💙🐁🦔🐰

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Sue Clancy's avatar

I adored the Borrowers when I was a kid too!!! Have you read anything by Kate DiCammillo? She has books with mice characters and rabbits....

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

I haven't yet, but she's on my list! 🐰🐁💓 You know what just popped into my brain? Watership Down! Now there's a classic that I read in the early 80s.

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Sue Clancy's avatar

I read Watership Down back in the late 1970's and loved it!!! I reread it sometime in the 1990s and it's due for a reread!!

Glad DiCammillo is on your list. "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane " is the title of her Rabbit book.

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

Thanks for the tip! Hoppity hoppity hoppity hop!

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Lorraine Evanoff's avatar

Good for you, celebrating the right way! HBD Sue!🎂💓

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you so much!!!!! 💚💚💚💚📚☕📚☕💚💚💚

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Lorraine Evanoff's avatar

🥰👯

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Mary R's avatar

An abundance of delightful drawings this week!

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Awww thank you!!!! I loved having the time to do so many!!! 💚💚💚

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Sandy S's avatar

Sue, How to Draw a Dragon arrived yesterday, and I am so happy with it! Love the size and generous number of pages to work on! My niece and I will have many good times with it, probably wearing paper crowns! Thank you!

And I see I now need at least one copy of A. M. Sketching, too! Love the preview so much!!!!! Will be good to have on hand as a gift, too. 🎈🍰😃

You are the goods! And much appreciated. 🤩✨

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Sue Clancy's avatar

That is so special!!! It makes me smile from ear to ear to hear that you and your niece will enjoy my work together!!! And it delights me that you enjoyed the preview of the book AM Sketching too!! Your comment and kindness mean the world!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

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Sandy S's avatar

BTW - You might enjoy Susan Wittig Albert's Cottage Tale series which is a fictionalized version of Beatrix Potters life in the Lakes District. The audio books are also wonderful and available on Libby via many libraries. 😀

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you for the recommendation!!!! I loved Susan Wittig Albert's mystery series with China Bales and I follow Albert's Substack too. I will look those up! Yippee!!! 💚💚💚💚

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Beth T (BethOfAus)'s avatar

Happy, happy sigh. What a wonderful birthday week! Lots of joy. Thanks so much for sharing it all with us. I’ll have to check out those books too. Much appreciated. 🤗🤗🤗😘💕

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Sue Clancy's avatar

You're so welcome!!! Hoping you enjoy the books too!!!! 😊🤗🤗💚💚💚💚📚📚📚☕☕

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

A day at the cafe never fails. It’s nice connecting with you https://open.spotify.com/episode/6niPD9x1rtSOlftLyrxwoI?si=kzzgmrAWQxWhEKAVl5mA1g

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

A day at the cafe never fails. It’s nice connecting with you https://open.spotify.com/episode/6niPD9x1rtSOlftLyrxwoI?si=kzzgmrAWQxWhEKAVl5mA1g

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Sue Clancy's avatar

Thank you!!

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