Random Tuesday/Wednesday Photo.

Well... I have been so busy trying to find a new venue for my daughter's wedding, that I forgot what day it was!  The church where we were scheduled has cancelled wedding for the remainder of the year.  I've put deposits down with 4 vendors, so I've got to find a venue available on her date or I will lose a boatload of money.

I'll start with this photo:

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Lillies are one of my favorite flowers.  This was one of the beautiful flowers in my arrangement from my husband on our anniversary.

New topic - I don't know about your neighborhood, but there have been a lot of people walking around the same time since we first went under stay-at-home orders.  My husband and I are still keeping our distance.  My point is... you get really good at geometry when social distancing!

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For example, when I am walking on the path, and person A is coming from the left and person B is coming from the right, you have to decide when to get off the path so your "lines" won't intersect at the same time!  It reminds me of a triangle and the Pythagorean Theorem.  Geometry is my least favorite math!

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I have been reading, watching, and listening to a lot of true crime lately.  I was in the car listening to a podcast about a serial killer, and I pulled into the driveway.  I was waiting for a good stopping point to turn off the podcast, when all of a sudden, my husband knocked on the car window (I was looking at my phone), and he scared the heebeejeebees out of me! Guess you had to be there!  But I've been reading a true crime book, one that a former co-worker actually knew the perpetrator's mother.  I've been watching Death Row Stories, Forensic Files, Snapped, and People Magazine Investigates, among others.

I love sarcasm!

And now...

And these...

This is sooo me!

Have a great week!
I'm linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts, image-in-ing, and Wordless Wednesday.

Thursday Thirteen

I'm having a hard time coming up with a clever T13 today.  Sooo.....
Can you guess in which room I am in at my house?
Here are 13 things in this room:
1-printer
2-cricut
3-tulle
4-paper
5-glue
6-flowers
7-label maker
8-washi tape
9-tape runner
10-sewing machine
11-ribbon
12-scissors
13-beads

If you guessed "craft room," you are correct!  Sorry, no prize today!

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Photo Wednesday

I snapped this picture at the lake last week.  He was putting on a show! (That's a duck behind him)

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Random Tuesday

Well, here we are again.  The weeks just fly by!  Does it seem like you've been staying home forever?  Since I retired in December, and I quit my other job (they weren't doing enough to protect their employees from the virus IMHO), I don't think it's a whole lot different for me because I'm mostly a homebody.  I need this shirt!

We haven't finished our baseball puzzle yet, but we are thisclose!  And the other night, we actually played Monopoly. 

We hadn't done that in years.  So fun!


Except I feel like I can't travel to see my daughters.  Soon, though.  Maybe.  One of them actually came to see us!  They had been at home since February when our granddaughter was born.  The only place they go is Starbucks, and it's a drive through, so we felt safe having them come visit.  It's not terribly far-3 1/2 hours- so they didn't need stops on the way. 

We got to hold our precious  granddaughter!  That was an absolute joy!

My other daughter and I are still making wedding plans for November.  We need to nail down our caterer soon.  It's down to two choices.  We are just waiting for a total cost from one of them.  If they beat the other company, and I think they will, we'll go with them.  Hopefully her dress will come in next month.  So glad we did that before this pandemic!

What have you been up to?
And now this...

I agree!

Before I read the caption I was trying to figure out what was going on with this dude's hair!  LOL!

Luckily, this is not going on at my house!

And last, but not least, you gotta watch to the end, especially if you like the TV show Friends. It takes less than 4 minutes.

Have a great week!

And don't forget to link up with Stacy!

Sunday Synopsis

Camino Island by John Grisham
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is not so much a legal thriller like most of Grisham's other books, although he does occasionally write in different genres. It was mostly a mystery, and it took a while to catch on at the beginning. So many characters were introduced without knowing which ones would be important in the remainder of the book or if and when these characters would intersect. Some did. Some didn't.

The premise is that The Princeton Library has been burglarized. Five manuscripts by F. Scott Fitzgerald were stolen. Not only do they need to locate the men who stole them, they need to locate the people to whom they were sold. One possibility is the eccentric Bruce Cable, a bookstore owner in Santa Rosa on Camino Island who deals in rare books.

Then, there is the insurance company who is going to have to pay Princeton in the event the priceless manuscripts are not found and returned. They turn to a woman, Mercer Mann, whose teaching position has been let go, who has loads of student debt, who is a published author, and who happens to be half owner of a beach house on Camino Island.

While the plot is rather far-fetched, as most of them are, it was entertaining. Grisham includes a zany cast of characters, although none of them are truly likable. The dialogue was less than stellar. One character must have said, "Now, Myra" two dozen times. And the abrupt ending was a set-up for the next novel. However, taking these two characters into the next novel doesn't make sense based on things that happened in this book. I could explain better, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

I liked it, maybe not as much as his legal thrillers like A Time to Kill (which I consider a modern To Kill a Mockingbird) and The Firm. But it was good.

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