A day late and more than a dollar short …
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Our weather has been all over the possibilities for the last few days … sunny and warm, light clouds and cooler, rain, overcast with showers, fluffy light clouds and temperatures in the 60s, below freezing, and today predicted to be in the 70s.
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The dandelions are still doing the disappear and then reappear trick. Juncos and RedBreasts, and BlueJays and who knows what else.
Paul had picked some dandelions for me and I’ve had them in the fridge. I’ll rinse them later this morning and get them dry and try to do shortbreads tomorrow morning. Maybe dry enough so that when rhubarb is ready I can tackle a pie.
Wish me luck. It will be my first outing back in the kitchen for baking since …
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I’ve made contact with an installer for the new tub and it is all set for the end of May/first of June and a much lower cost than Kholer proposed … $17,000!
Excitement …
Installation reports as things happen. Stay tuned.
The installation of the new sink faucet sprang a slow leak a couple of days ago. I have a neighbor who is currently open to doing small handyman chores for me and he got it under control with some white tape (teflon?).
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Have noticed some further interesting things in my current reading … the repetition of character names in some variation. Case in point … Dr. Marten and Doc Martin.
Have also read the current Kellerman novel. I enjoyed those in the past since they are set in the greater LA area.
It’s been some time since I lived there and I wouldn’t recognize it now. But I can extrapolate from the past and so don’t get too lost.
Maybe I’ll go back and catch up on the books I missed. Fortunately they seem to be chronological but not continuous … some set of characters but not one book starting right where the previous one ended.
And there are some Kellerman father-son collaborations I may sample later.
I have some series in the pipeline currently … one in samurai era Japan, two in England (one Victorian and one almost contemporary), and one in the Scottish highlands. I can’t recall who said it but “My library card is my passport.”
Those books listed, with a smattering of standalone novels, will keep me reading for a time.
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Little by little I am adding previous pastimes to my tiny weekly repertoire. Have some iris corms which need attention today or tomorrow as well as some muscari transplants.
My weeks are filling up.
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And a parting thought …
Life may not be all you wished for, but as long as you’re still here you might as well dance. — Unknown
So,‘til next week …