animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

daddy’s girl

And I thought The Fireman had a fantastical plot. This one had the Underground Railroad, an escape tunnel from a prison and exploding propane tank. A more contrived plot than this, I don’t think I’ve encountered. Not Scottoline’s best work. Still, it was an engaging read, which I wrapped up …

thief

I went downstairs to get something out of the pantry and saw an empty tortellini bag on the floor. At first glance, I thought Buster got into it, but the bag had a fairly small round hole chewed into it and that’s just not his style. There was another tortellini …

the fireman

The is the latest novel from Joe Hill. It was pretty good–better than anything I read from just about anyone else, but definitely not my favorite of his. The plot was pretty fantastical, though. It was about a pandemic which caused the infected to spontaneously combust. I mean, it was …

indian summer

We’re in the midst of some crazy, beautiful weather. It’s too bad I have to go to work this week. I was off on Friday for my annual “planting of the garlic”. I suppose I should have postponed my time off until this week, but it was pretty nice on …

lacking

Another week, another obligatory post. Nothing much to report here. I’ve been trying to get some stuff done outside before the snow falls. I have most of the garden torn out and will be finishing that up on Friday, which I took off work to plant garlic. There’s still a …