Quiet Weekend

          My Guy is away for the weekend, and I should be accomplishing no end of productive projects. It’s not as though I couldn’t do these things when he’s home, but something about having a silent house makes me feel both guilty and free.

          I’ve at least finished one audio book and I’m halfway through reading a new Anthony Horowitz book. Like his other, Magpie Murders, this one, Marble Hall Murders, is a book within a book within a book. It takes a fair amount of concentration to sort out the characters since this Russian Doll sort of plot uses the same initials for the parallel people, and the background on them is much the same.

          The rest of the day will be a stay at home one anyway since the weather is rainy and cool, discouraging even a stroll outside. Who knows – I might actually get back to working on book 5, since I have absolutely no excuse not to.

 

         My Guy is off in Atlanta for a hobby show – a gathering and competition of people who build and paint replicas and original figures and scenes, some historic, some fantasy, He generally brings home at least one award whenever he attends.

    His display this time is all "flats", scenes with two dimensional figures which he paints, along with the backgrounds.

His display at the show

          He took my car, since it’s newer and the safer vehicle for the three+hour trip. He went to a friend’s in Ocala, who then drove the two of them in his own car to Atlanta. Our old 2019 car used to be mine and I drove it to work for almost 10 years, but it’s getting creaky and now it feels enormous and unfamiliar; a Sherman tank would feel diminutive by comparison.

          I’ll welcome both Honda and hubby with open arms tonight.  

Mulch Madness

 

       In spite of being old enough to have a 23 year-old grandson, and having bought a condo (and paying a hefty HOA fee for the landscaping), I found myself outside spreading mulch.

Valentine Cuisine

 

Our Valentine’s Day festivities were just as dull as they usually are. And we’re just fine with that.

Fuzzy Memories

 If one purpose of a blog is to record events and memories from our lives, it occurred to me that perhaps I could list all the animals from my life.

Snippets

 

Yup, still here. And it’s not as though there’s been such a cavalcade of events that I’ve been too busy to post. Although there was that thrilling trip to Costco to re-stock our Glucosamine, and perhaps I could have written about how often I’ve been out to sweep the common hallway due to all the leaves blown in by the wind.

 

Almost parallel universes

 

          Here we are in the ‘sunshine state’. And sunshine we’ve got- plenty of it – but last night’s forecast included snow for parts of Florida.

Familiar Skills

          Last night was dinner out – not in an exciting-culinary-kind of way, but just a gathering of fellow residents contributing to the meal.

          I didn’t have much else going on, so I decided to make bread.