Lori Armstrong

My husband’s family is Irish so I feel entitled to post this today

H&k P7 – made in 9mm and .40,  super reliable, innovative squeeze cocking front grip. One of the coolest semi-auto pistol designs ever.

It’s my blog day at Murder She Writes – check out where I would go if I could go anywhere: Spring Fling

Ooh, and leave a comment and you might get to win a prize!

Check this out: Gunway

You find all sorts of cool things to pin and peruse– like this:

Wyoming Prairie Fire

1 shot glass of Koltiska whiskey (made in WY!) or other whiskey

5-10 shakes of Tabasco on top of the booze

Shoot it and look for something cold to put out the fire!

New DPMS .308 LR, 18″ PTFE coated Stainless bull barrel, Timney Trigger, plus a 24″ Stainless .260 upper to pop on when needed.

My youngest daughter is a varsity cheerleader for the Rapid City Stevens Raiders and the girls basketball team made it to the South Dakota AA state high school basket tournament! So the cheerleaders on their way to Brookings to cheer their team on. Good Luck Raider Girls!! Luckily SD PBS is broadcasting the tournament live so we can watch.

The pic below is of a combined routine between the Rapid City Stevens Raiders (wearing blue and pink for breast cancer awareness) and the Rapid City Central Cobblers cheerleaders. About half  the time our kiddo is one of the ones flying in the air. Watching these kids tumble and move and jump–yes, cheerleading is a sport!

So I got a bottle of whiskey from some fans (Thanks Kim R and Co in NYC!) and it’s Evan Williams Reserve–with honey.  Since I just finished DARK MERCY and I’m sort of in whiskey mode, it made me think of the scene in NO MERCY where Mercy walks into Clementine’s the first time.

Excerpt from NO MERCY 2010~ Lori Armstrong

It made me laugh, those pretentious people who looked down at the Scots and the Irish and their homemade hooch. Now those same snobs consider themselves whiskey aficionados and search high and low for the “real thing. Spare me. Only two types of whiskey in my book: free and not free.

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I’m thinking I need to hit the liquor store to see if I can find the cherry variety of this…just for comparison Got a favorite kind of whiskey?

I won’t be out enjoying the beautiful spring-like weather in South Dakota today, since I’ll be chained to my damn desk. Note to self for 2012-BETTER BOOKKEEPING FOR TAX PURPOSES. Yes, I had to put that in all caps.

I could comfort myself with Oreos–since today is the 100th birthday of the Oreo. I wish I could ask my grandma, who lived to be 102, but passed on in August, when was the first time she had an Oreo…

I will comfort myself with listening to cheatin’, drinkin’, lyin’ no-good-men songs by the Pistol Annies while I plug in my receipts from 2011.

I was VERY happy to pass off the final draft of my mystery DARK MERCY to my Simon and Schuster editor today! I will celebrate…by getting my tax stuff together.