Where is the Sun, la, la,la ,la

Our place looks stunning right now. All the trees are glowing with water logged moss. The leaves are opening and we are getting shelter from the world in our little forest. Every morning I am serenaded awake by the birds. 15 years ago I planted For-Get-Me-Nots and they have spread all over the front yard along with the pink Bleeding Hearts. Our sugar peas are up about 6 inches and reaching for the sun that isn't in the sky. The lettuce has sprouted but very small still. We are hoping for sun in the next day or so.
Friday is book club day and I am really looking forward to it. I heard that Ken Follett's book "World Without End" is going to be one of the books offered for us to pick. I was on page 316 before I heard this bit of info so I stopped reading it until after Friday. Joe and I really enjoyed Ken F's first part of the story, the book "Pillars of the Earth". Ken tells a gripping tale that is hard to put down.
I read Sea Glass these past few days and I really enjoyed the story. I think Anita Shreve is a good story teller. The book was about the
1920's and 30's and the mill workers and the strikes put on by the unions and communists to get better wages and conditions for the factory workers. I wondered how it was going to end and I was surprised. It could have been 50 pages shorter. I find I feel that way about a lot of books lately. I don't know what that means. Either the writer has drawn out the ending or I have lost interest. Today because of all the rain I will need to find a small book to read until Friday (today is Wednesday)

What a day. Rain pouring like cats and dogs. Great day to read a good book or do some art. I have just finished making a tiny book for my Friday Kahlo ATC. The book is less then 1"x1" and has 6 Frida paintings in it. It has ended up that I have done each ATC differently. I am trying to find a style that is lush like Frida's life. I just keep adding things to them and waiting to feel the magic. I am so enthralled with Fridas life and "The Lacuna" is a fun way to read about her life and the political climate at the time. Only 100 pages to go and looking forward to the next book I have on the book shelf. That's funny since I have hundreds of books on the selves to read.

Come and go

Going out today to get groceries. Looks like the rain stopped for a couple of days...I'm dropping off some books at the mobile home park down the road. I am using them as part of my "29 days of gift giving". Everyday I am looking for my book club book "My Family and Other Animals" to arrive in the mail. No luck yet. The company emailed and said they sent it on the 20th of January, I am mostly just excited to get it, it will be here in a couple of days. I have finished my ATC's for my local group and the Valentine cards for my book group. I am pleased with them. I realized that the past two recipe books that I put together from the book group were pretty scattered. This past year is the third year and the best so far because the same person that picked the book also made the recipe page. I looked at the past two recipe books and I can't tell which person picked which books to read. Every year we seem to do it better.

Rainy day

A January day. This year we are having a lot of rain. The cats have cabin fever and are bugging us bigtime. We may need to start keeping them out of the bedroom at night. Ebby jumps on and off of us every 2 minutes wanting food at 6 in the morning.

The last few days I have been working on getting my mom's laptop up and running in the front room. I ordered a tiny Canon printer to hook up to the laptop. Hopefully I can print photos from that computer. I read that the printer doesn't work with the memory card on my camera so I will try to find a way around that little problem, maybe a cord to run photos from the camera onto the laptop??? New things to learn.

The book I'm reading isn't very good so I am thinking of skimming the last part of it and moving on to another one. I have shelves of great books that are waiting for me to read. I used to read a book that I started even if it wasn't good, now I allow myself to put it down and move on. I am waiting for the Book Hag selection "My Family and other Animals" to arrive from Alibris. I have noticed that my book group is reading really good books that are more complex and I am thinking that fluff books are not that interesting right now. That may change as everything does.

I have Valentine cards to make for my friends. One card down and 8 more to go. I had major trouble with the gold doilies I'm using. The die-cut machine that stamped them out mushed them together so tightly that the little holes stuck and they are almost impossible to get seperated without riping. I will be on the lookout for some small candy to use on the cards.