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Pastel, Weird Hair, and Upcoming Egg Cups

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I sometimes take part in a thing called Flat Lay Sunday, run by my friend Tania. Yesterday’s theme was Pastel. I only do it if I can come up with something quickly. In this case, I could. I went upstairs to the office and pulled 4 things I had on display, along with this quilt. And of course, Mabel, with the pastel pink hair. (She had been wearing red, so an outfit change was required.) And there you go!

Th quilt was one of the first I made and it remains a favorite.

We walked yesterday and we’ll probably walk again today as we have three days in a row of rain starting on Tuesday. But yesterday was glorious! Sunny, temperature in the sixties – everyone was out and about. It was truly lovely.

Don’s gigs went very well, especially the one on Saturday night. It was a new venue for him and it was packed with young people who were very appreciative. He fed off that energy and was pumped when he got home.

Speaking of Don, yesterday he came into the den and I started laughing because this is what I saw:

He’d been running his hands through his hair again and had no idea what he’d created.

Don Einstein? Don stuck his finger in a light socket?

I swear, it’s never the same way twice!

I have to wrap and pack an Etsy order this morning and get it to the post office, but that’s the extent of my errands for today.

I realized yesterday that Easter is on March 31st, so I suppose it’s time for a tour of the egg cups? Hurrah!

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

These Boots Are Made for Walking

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Well. I should have known it. Harper saw the boots and knew immediately just how they should be worn. That girl!

Monday morning. Cloudy. We had a lovely sunny day yesterday and we atoned for only one walk earlier in the week. It was very cold, but we did it. Winter is tricky. The weather determines our walking days. So we haven’t been able to do it as much as we like, but when we do get one in, we feel so much better. I think we’ll go today, as well.

It was a low-key weekend. I finished The Year of the Locust last night – I didn’t read it for a day or two because I wanted to delay finishing it. But last night in bed, I finished. Truly a wonderful book. I couldn’t put it down, all 787 pages of it. Terry Hayes sure knows how to write a tight, engrossing, and whirlwind of a plot. Now, of course, I’m spoiled and nothing will look as good. I’ll get back to Wolf Hall  and catch up. Wolf Hall  is wonderful but I think I would like it more if I read it like I read The Year of the Locust, rather than a chunk a week. It’s so well written, but I lose the thread. Not the book’s fault at all. When it was War and Peace, I was reading a bit each day, so I was clued into the evolving plot. Not so much this way, as the assigned pages are not daily, but weekly. So I have to get back into it. I may just keep on reading and finish the book. Then when Bring Up the Bodies, the next book in the trilogy, is ready to start – sometime in April, I think – I’ll read that.

These are quality problems.

Movies on the weekend: We watched Laura  again. Don didn’t like it. He’s not a fan of Dana Andrews to begin with and he said that he didn’t really care about anyone. I get it. It’s stylish but there’s not a lot of substance. Then we finally watched Wuthering Heights, and I didn’t like it. It was beautifully filmed, as was Laura, but I had no patience with Cathy. Or Heathcliff, for that matter. It’s a gothic romance/ghost story and, though I read only that kind of thing when I was a young teen, this one didn’t do it for me. A young Geraldine Fitzgerald was the best thing in the movie. She was so real, so present.

I much prefer Jane Eyre, where the longing is repressed and the characters are not wallowing in it, which makes for a much more interesting story.

My humble opinion, of course.

Oh, the sun is trying to peek out from the clouds!

Do you have spring fever yet? I confess, I do.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

Books and Little Boots

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Thank you for sharing your “visit” stories yesterday. They were so powerful. I have yet to respond to the individual comments, but I will later today.

It’s another somewhat gloomy day here – so far – through I do see some blue sky and clouds in the distance, so perhaps the sun will make an appearance? Fingers crossed. I had to go to Target and Michael’s yesterday to get more packing material for Etsy orders. This morning I’ll be packing a box and, hopefully, getting it to the post office before they close at noon.

I ended up reading The Year of the Locust  for most of the day yesterday. What a read! I’m very close to finishing it, but I’ll save that pleasure until this afternoon, when I can give it all my time. It is a spy thriller with a splash of time travel and my goodness, what a story! I will be sad when it ends. Very sad. I hope Terry Hayes is already writing his next book.

Then I’ll tackle my chunk of Wolf Hall  for this week. I usually have it read by this point in the week, but Locust has had my attention.

My friend in Japan made these little boots. They arrived here recently and I have yet to put them on one of the girls. I will be sure to do that this weekend. Aren’t they amazing? How does she do it?

Okay, my friends. A short post today. I’m not feeling great at the moment and I have a lot to do this morning.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday,

 

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