Episode 0134 - Duck, Duck, Bruce

Frank Murphy is joined by his friend Elyse Bruce, Creative Dynamo. Elyse’s newest Missy Barrett mystery, The Case of the Missing Muskets, includes a chapter in which Missy and her mother visit the Frank & Friends Show. 

Frank and his wife Jere had leg-of-lamb for Easter. They tried to find a jar of mint jelly at a supermarket, which did not have any. The store’s app lets you order mint jelly for $47. Jere finally found mint jelly at a competing supermarket for $3. 

Last Christmas, Elyse had difficulty finding mincemeat in local stores. Mincemeat is actually chopped fruit and nuts soaked in rum or other spirits. The supermarket staff sent her to the meat counter instead. 

Frank thinks that Easter candy is better than Halloween candy because he believes that Spring is better than Fall. Elyse is an October baby and prefers Fall. 

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Elyse writes books about a fictional nine-year-old detective named Missy Barrett, who lives in Sevier County. Elyse created International Missy Barrett Day: A Day To Do Good Deeds and the Missy Barrett Stamp and Sticker Search in Sevier County. 

In The Case of the Missing Muskets, Missy visits her Grandpa’s farm and falls into a hole that turns out to be a Civil War hiding place. She discovers blankets, coins and ammunition but no muskets. 

Elyse writes each weekday for four hours or 1500 words, whichever comes first. Her progress can get slowed by the research she needs to do to find the necessary details for the story. 

Elyse has a blog called Idiomation which can be found at https://idiomation.wordpress.com/ It was cited in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader and several other books. She started the blog to help her son, who is autistic, to understand figures of speech more easily. 

The idiom “water off a duck’s back” makes Frank think of the ducklings his parents gave to him and his sisters for Easter one year. 

Frank wants to see the total solar eclipse on Monday. He thinks a partial eclipse is not as good as 100%. Knoxville will see only 88% totality. 

Elyse invited Frank to read his chapter during the book launch for The Case of the Missing Muskets on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. at the King Family Public Library, 408 High Street, Sevierville, TN.  Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/MissyBarrettFanPage 

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