Mockingbird Hill Cottage

I have no other photos at the moment and I love this kitchen, so that will be the photo for the day.

Not much happening. I read most of the weekend as I’m trying to finish a book and get it back to the library. It was due yesterday. The library is closed today. But I should be able to drop it off today or tomorrow morning. Life Out of Order – by Audrey Niffenegger. It’s beautifully written. After I return it, I will start Emily St. John Mandel’s newest, Exit Party.

It’s been quite cold the past few nights, so the porch plants are still in the shed. I open up the shed doors during the day so they get some light. Tonight will be warmer, but then Tuesday night will be below freezing. After that, I should be home free for at least 8 days. I know, I know. Eventually, I will have to give up, but not yet!

Dollhouse work has slowed down because there’s really no more ‘construction’ that needs to be done. Next month, I will paint the exterior. And, as I’ve said before, I need to add lots of little things, like lamps, and rugs, and books, and tchotchkes. That takes time.

I need a new dollhouse project.

We’re going to go see Judy Collins in concert on November 13th. It’s her farewell tour. We are big fans. I think the very first concert I went to was at Judy Collins at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit. It was exquisite. In those days, you could get backstage very easily. I met Gordon Lightfoot that way, and I met Judy. In that case, I just walked onstage and there she was. She signed my program. Don has also met her. We hardly ever do anything like this but we decided to treat ourselves. I’m so looking forward to it.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

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Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

From our walk the other day: that’s our town’s park and the mountains in the distance. We see the same mountains from our house. This particular view is near our library, where we stopped to pick up some newly arrived books.

The rail trail.

There are some days I just don’t have a whole lot to say and this is one of them!

Stream of consciousness: I woke up with a slight headache and it’s still with me. My coffee is getting cold. I can hear somebody mowing their lawn in the distance. It’s sunny, but there is frost on the car windshield. Don is sitting in an old chair of ours and every time he moves, it creaks. Loudly. I need to clean the windows – this is the time when the sun streaming through the windows shows me how dirty they are. But when I clean them, they quickly get dirty again. Tonight it’s going down to 28 degrees and that will be the case for the next 3 days – then it gets warmer for another week. So – you guessed it – I’ll be moving all the porch plants into the shed for the weekend. I have to read a huge chunk of my book today and tomorrow. It’s due on Sunday. The librarians and I were laughing about that. Turns out it’s very common for 2 or 3 books in a queue to arrive at once. We’ve been watching the series Homeland, which originally aired about 10 years ago. It is excellent. We are glued to the television every night.

And that’s my little monologue for this morning. It’s been a lovely fall, but the increasingly bare trees are a depressing sight. I’ll get used to it.

12 days until midterms. VOTE.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.