Archer & the Bunny & Pineapple Easter Egg Winners
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Discover the Yule Lads in Chapter One Below!
In Icelandic folklore, thirteen troll brothers known as ‘Yule Lads’ visit for the thirteen nights leading up to Christmas Eve. Children leave their shoes on the windowsills, and the designated Yule Lad for that evening places a gift inside for good behavior. If the child is naughty, he or she gets a rotten potato instead.
If you’ve ever smelled a rotten potato in your pantry, you know the Yule Lads aren’t messing around. At least they don’t eat your flesh like the worst version of Krampus, Santa’s hairy, fanged buddy. Krampus has issues.
Luckily for Icelandic children, the Yule Lads are just weird. Really weird.
There’s Sheep-Cote Clod (Stekkjastaur), who harasses sheep, and Gully Gawk (Giljagaur), who hides in gullies to bother livestock.
Then there’s the kitchen contingent—Stubby (Stúfur), who steals food from pots, Spoon-Licker (Þvörusleikir), who licks unwashed spoons, Skyr-Gobbler (Skyrgámur), who eats all the yogurt, Pot-Scraper (Pottaskefill), who scrapes pots for leftovers, and Bowl-Licker (Askasleikir), who—you guessed it—licks bowls.
Believe it or not, the last six brothers are even stranger. There’s the Door twins (Hurðaskellir)—one who slams doors to wake people like an angry poltergeist, and his brother, who sniffs at entryways, looking for food. Then there is Candle-Beggar (Kertasníkir), who steals candles, Sausage-Swiper (Bjúgnakrækir), who is pretty self-explanatory if not rife with phallic innuendo, and Meat Hook (Kjötkrókur), who sounds terrifying, but who only uses his hook to steal smoked lamb from the rafters.
This delightful group is rounded out by Peeper (Gluggagægir), who peeps into your house, looking for things to steal. He sounds a little creepy, but after hearing about the rest of his dysfunctional family, he doesn’t come as a surprise.
Their mother, Grýla, must be so proud.
Actually, the Yule Lads’ mother probably is proud, because she’s a troll, too, and this sort of behavior is cool by troll standards—especially a couple of pranksters like Grýla and her lazy husband Leppalúði.
It’s safe to say most of the residents of Pineapple Port have never heard about the Yule Lads.
But they will.
Archer & the Bunny - VIDEO
I had some excitement recently... Archer was barking at a rabbit in the back yard, which isn't that strange. He's obsessed with rabbits—the fact that they run around the neighborhood without his permission makes him LIVID.
I waited until Bunny went to the large hole under our fence that leads to the preserve behind the house and then let him out so he could feel like he did something useful.
But Bunny did NOT go down the hole.
Instead, it freaked out when Archer came close and threw itself into the pool. There's poor Bunny swimming back and forth with Archer, watching over it like the world's worst lifeguard. I run to get the net, scoop out Bunny, and put it RIGHT NEXT TO THE EXIT HOLE. I can't hold the dog AND save Bunny. I can't fling it over the fence like a lacrosse ball. This was the best idea.
Bunny, whose poor head is spinning, decides he'd rather run toward the Kill Box - a section of the yard where Archer tries to trap lizards, etc. because there's a little fence and no escape hole.
NOOOO!
I go running after him again with my long net in hand and drag him away from poor Bunny, who has squeezed himself between the fence and the netting that is there to keep rabbits OUT. Archer has his face pressed against Bunny, getting a good whiff of him for the memory banks.
Finally, I drag all 90lbs of him away, and Bunny runs off to the hole—finally—unharmed.
The back yard camera caught it all! I can tell you I felt like I was moving a lot faster than it looks! 😂
Winners of Pineapple Easter Egg
Below are random winners of my latest release, Pineapple Easter Egg! It was a "name the baby chick" contest, but it started out as a "create a movie Easter egg" so if some of the answers don't seem like names, that's why!
| Trudie | Ellie |
| Dianne | Buffetina, Flicka, Harmony |
| Audrey | KiKi Petals |
| Lori | Harvey, Margarita, Fruitcake, Bubbles, Banana, Miss Magic, Surfer, Gypsy, Lah De Dah |
| Joy | How about Butters, because chicks are often yellow? |
| Tammy | Flip flop, Marge-arita, Chickie Doodle, Pip, Cha Cha, Mr. Peeper, Cluckers |
| Stephanie | Name the ChickFarfegnugen. It means to "derive pleasure from". Plus I once know someone who named a chick that. |
| MITZI | This is a name for a Chick - SUNNY |
| Cindy | Marshmallow or Someday or Piston - these are references to a favorite movie, Knight and Day (Someday is part of a saying in the movie that it is a code word for never, and Piston is in honor of April's (Cameron Diaz) chosen profession of rebuilding older cars.) Margaret - main character from The Proposal movie with Sandra Bullock |
| Celeste | Chicklit |
| P J | Duckie! |
| Cherie | A name for one of the baby chicks could be Lemon or Daffodil. |
| Claire | Tater Tot |
| Pam | Pickie the Chick |
| Shelby | Most of our chickens have food names: Cranberry, Twix, Blueberry, Nonpareils, Corn Flake (aka Twisted Sister as she had a scissor beak), Raisin, Poppy, Caramel, Caramello, Mayonnaise, Mustard, Hollandaise, Anise, Olive, Marshmallow, Ketchup, Relish, Honey, Coca Cola, Frank (aka Frank’s Red Hot), Cheeto, Cheez-It, Molasses, Scotch, Toffee, Espresso, Peppercorn, Pretzel, Coconut, Cinnamon, Saltine, Oreo, Mushroom, Earl Grey, Marmalade. Our outliers: Queenie, Ol’ Blue (Christmas Story reference), Red Mama |
| Annmarie | Fluffernutter |
| Sylvia | Declan and Charlotte are sitting at a beach cafe having a margarita when Sandy and Danny from Grease come out of the water. |
| Stephanie | Chickpea! |
| Amanda | Archie I have a rooster named Archie, and he's a big baby |
| Karen | Eggatha Christie |
| Marilyn | Dirty Dancing - Charlotte & Declan enter a dance contest, and she has to learn how to do a lift! |
| Gail | Bubbles |
| Sheila | Daisy Mae |
| Maria | Funny Girl Bunny |
| Heather Swanson | In The Muppet Christmas Carol Michael Caine is shown outside a shop called Micklewhites which was his real last name at birth. |
| Kiera Kirchner | I am a total Star Wars nerd so I would definitely have a chick named Yoda! |
| Robert | Darwin, who better to decide which came first, the chicken or the egg. |
| Trish | Favourite movie....x Cat People There's black panther on the loose. It didn't escape from the zoo, someone let it out. Charlotte must find out who and why. |
| Jeanette | Gizmo, if you have a chicken that always stumbles around away from where he should be hihi. |
| Kelly | Peepsqueak |
| Elaine | Crusher |
| June | I have two favourite tv soaps I love, Emmerdale and Coronation street, So out of the first one, I'm going to say Amy and for my second choice I'll choose Betty. |
Archer & the Bunny - VIDEO
I had some excitement recently... Archer was barking at a rabbit in the back yard, which isn't that strange. He's obsessed with rabbits—the fact that they run around the neighborhood without his permission makes him LIVID.
I waited until Bunny went to the large hole under our fence that leads to the preserve behind the house and then let him out so he could feel like he did something useful.
But Bunny did NOT go down the hole.
Instead, it freaked out when Archer came close and threw itself into the pool. There's poor Bunny swimming back and forth with Archer, watching over it like the world's worst lifeguard. I run to get the net, scoop out Bunny, and put it RIGHT NEXT TO THE EXIT HOLE. I can't hold the dog AND save Bunny. I can't fling it over the fence like a lacrosse ball. This was the best idea.
Bunny, whose poor head is spinning, decides he'd rather run toward the Kill Box - a section of the yard where Archer tries to trap lizards, etc. because there's a little fence and no escape hole.
NOOOO!
I go running after him again with my long net in hand and drag him away from poor Bunny, who has squeezed himself between the fence and the netting that is there to keep rabbits OUT. Archer has his face pressed against Bunny, getting a good whiff of him for the memory banks.
Finally, I drag all 90lbs of him away, and Bunny runs off to the hole—finally—unharmed.
The back yard camera caught it all! I can tell you I felt like I was moving a lot faster than it looks! 😂
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