The Da Vinci Code. Now I love history and I mean, LOVE history and will read pretty much anything pertaining to the same, mostly non-fiction but if there is a big brouhaha about a book, well, I'll try it. That having been said, this book was one that I could not finish...I slugged thru about 50 pages and gave up...I find the movie just as droll ( Read more... )

should read "...gain/loss of this hour". Still freaking sitting here pissed that I cannot figure out what it is I want to do for the rest of my life.

of the season and again it is large hard balls and coming down fast with a wicked north wind. Large in the sense that they are not flakes and bigger than a pinhead, maybe 1/4 of a peppercorn sized. I also get to sleep in tomorrow, who-hoo, now the trick is to just do it!

Identify 50 titles of horror movies!

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After all the winter hoopla this week it seems I better get all the tender produce and plants in the house. We'll be pulling the boat in soon and all the lawn furniture has to get trucked to the barn. While I love all the seasons here, the onset of the "grey days" makes me feel like hibernating in many ways.

Two nights ago we started getting snow and not the fluffy soft kind either. By the time yesterday had ended we had about 5 inches, two towns over had 8 and the UP got socked with 12!!! I just need to remind myself it is October 13. This was also the earliest recorded snowfall in MI!!!!

I just realized it's the first day of Fall!!!

When the dew is so thick on the fields it looks like a coat of water for as far as I can see and it smells so clean. Soon that will be frost and the first thing I'll do in the morning is to make sure the woodstove is filled. Most of the birds are still sleeping today, with it getting cooler and cooler as the days begin. There is a noisy woodpecker ( Read more... )

am making it a three day weekend. There is a wonderful chicken noodle soup simmering and I will soon start a pot of applesause to get rid of the half bushel I have sitting in a lovely punch bowl display on the table. The breadmaker is doing it's thing with a cottage cheese and chive bread. My friend down the road has tons of tomatoes and I am ( Read more... )

Sitting in my new (well newly furnished) sun room I can see how much more I am going to enjoy this room this winter. I moved my rug hooking frame and the current project (actually it's been current for 10 months now) and workbasket here yesterday from the library where it has always felt too cramped to work comfortably and worked two sections. ( Read more... )