Two Prizes ... One is a new friend, one is a new book!

This is my new friend Becky.  She found me somehow, looking at blogs I guess, and decided that we have a lot of the same interests and sent me an email.  My first blog friend that I didn't know before, and somebody who blogs and writes herself.  Becky is working on a book right now.  She inspires me, Becky does.  Plus, she makes me feel good because she likes me, and she hasn't even met me.

Link to Becky's Blog:
Becky Povich: Writer - Journalist - Humorist

Link to one of Becky's stories:
http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/Chicken-Soup-For-The-Soul/2009/12/Thoughts-on-Love-and-Forgiveness.aspx

So, last week or the week before, I was reading Becky's blog and she was holding a contest and giving away a prize.  I usually don't enter contests, because I hardly ever win.  I thought, well, isn't that nice ... but I didn't enter.  Becky emailed me about something else and mentioned that I should get my entry in.  It was easy, all I had to do was write about making bread.  So, I did.  Then, in a computer generated random drawing, I won!  


This is what I won, an autographed book called Bread Alone, by Judith Ryan Hendricks.  Wow!  I received the book in the mail yesterday.  I was so excited.  Here it is:

Thank you, Becky and thank you Judith!  As soon as I finish The Green Mile, I will begin reading it.  I'm really looking forward to it.   Like the title of this post says, the book is one prize, but the best prize of all is making a new friend because of my blog.  It also has gotten me out of my comfort zone to read more new blogs and to leave comments on them.

I am very thankful to all of you who tune in periodically to see what's going on, here on the Kathy Channel.  I will be holding an appreciation contest with prizes here very soon.  I am almost up to 10,000 hits on my visitor counter, and I think it is about time that I show you guys how important you are to me! 

Oh, and one other thing.  Yesterday when I was in the La Pine post office picking up my new book, I mentioned that I had won a blog prize from a nice lady in Missouri.  The woman next to me told us that she had a blog too, and that the name of it is Cherry's Jubilee.  I just looked it up and boy, does she do beautiful work.  Here is the link to her site:   http://cherrysjubileehome.blogspot.com/  I also put it on my blog roll.