Our white roses are sitting on top of the kitchen island. They’re awfully pretty. Don has decided that the entirety of October shall be our anniversary.

So, we’re still celebrating. Next year, in July, we’ll celebrate being together for 30 years. Not bad when you consider the fact that we didn’t meet until we were in our early forties!

Yesterday, I went up to the office/studio to reposition a piece of furniture. That, as you know, inevitably leads to other changes. I contemplated Don’s guitars and amps and cameras (as well as all of my stuff) and I called down to him. Would he come up and weigh in on a few decisions? He did. We moved a few more things around and, though I hadn’t planned it this way, he was inspired to clean up his desk which had become a dumping ground. (Mine gets that way often.) So he grabbed a trash bag and started sorting things while I moved plants around and pruned them and vacuumed and sorted a bit more of my little cubicle. It turned into a few hours work, but it’s much better in there now.

When I’m getting ready to work on something like the Beacon Hill, I like to have everything in some sort of order.

Then I came downstairs and vacuumed everything. Then Don made egg salad sandwiches and we had a piece of apple pie. I flipped on the heating pad, as my back was complaining after all that bending over.

Very satisfying, though!

I’m reading The Running Grave  by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling). I’m a big fan of her Cormoran Strike series. I started reading them when the very first book was published. She’s writes so gracefully that you’re immediately immersed in the story, carried along without a lot of effort, though the plots are highly detailed and complex. The last 3 books have been considerably longer than the earlier books. This one clocks in at 900+ pages. But I’m already at page 200. This one involves a cult and it’s fascinating. If you are interested in this series, read them in order. The characters/relationships grow and change over the course of the series and it won’t make a lot of sense if you read them out of order.

And yes, I know there is a television series. I’ll say it again – I never watch the television/streaming adaptations of favorite books. If I’ve already read the series, the characters are completely realized in my imagination and I don’t want to suddenly have an actor intruding into what I’ve co-created with the novelist. If I haven’t yet read the series, I don’t want to start in already knowing what actors played what roles. It imposes something on my reading that I don’t welcome. So, as good as a series might be, I won’t watch it. I know you like to tell me about those things, but 99% of the time, I’m already aware of it and I won’t watch it. Though I certainly appreciate the fact that you care!

Yesterday’s Blythe photo:

Little miss Pippa, in the middle of an eye roll. Not everyone wants to get hauled off the shelf for a photo op!

I’m going to spend a good chunk of the day reading – I’ve already read quite a bit this morning.  And some laundry needs to be done. But first, it’s my turn to make our second cup of coffee.

It’s cool out there today but it’s sunny and that’s very welcome.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.