This was a pretty good one. It was a bit different from her other stories. In this one, Kinsey was doing some free research for someone and then got wrapped up in the search for the loot from a 40-year-old bank robbery. Grafton is an excellent writer. All of her stories are compelling and the way she writes is so descriptive. Love it!
My rating: 3.5/5
I set up a Blink camera on the pond last night and monitored it through the evening, with no luck. When the dogs got up this morning, I checked it and saw a raccoon in the pond. Mystery solved. There were only one or two fish left in the pond last night (and maybe none now) so there’s no need to figure this out until I get more fish next year. But, initial research is telling me this is going to be challenging.
I went to feed the fish in my pond a few nights ago and didn’t see many fish. It was a little cooler than it had been, so I assumed they were hiding somewhere. The same thing happened last night, so I moved some stuff around and still couldn’t see more than a few. This morning, just a little before dawn, I let one of the dogs outside and went out with them. The pond sounded weird, so I turned around to look at it and something jumped out of the pond and ran away (it must have been standing on the pump). I didn’t catch what it was, but it lept out of the pond so I don’t think it could be a raccoon. I’m thinking fox or mink. Anyway, that’s a bummer. I hope it didn’t get all of the fish. I normally dye the pond water but with all of the rain we got the other week the remainder of the dye washed away. Dye can keep certain predators away, depending on how they hunt. I will have to re-dye it tonight and maybe put up the winter netting. This has happened before, but I believe it was 2013. I don’t know what the cause was that year, but there was a blue heron that was stealing fish from everyone’s pond that year, so I always assumed that was the culprit. It’s definitely not the cause this time.
The folks at Tirko Auto Sales have a car show every year and select an animal-related non-profit to receive the proceeds. This year, they selected the non-profit I’m involved with, Seven Hearts Project. Our group went there today to help out with the event. We manned the basket raffle table. It was non-stop. There were over 100 baskets and other items in the raffle.
It was a long day, but well worth it! And there were so many awesome cars. I heard there were around 80. I don’t know if that’s a lot for a car show, but it seemed like a lot of cars. We had to be there at 8 am to set up and the event was from 11 am to 4 pm. It ran a little longer due to all of the baskets. I am totally fried this evening. Good thing I cleared my schedule for today. Also, good thing Jake was in to take care of the dogs for me. I’m not sure how that would have worked, otherwise.
Another installment in the A Quiet Place franchise. This one started on the first day of the invasion (but I thought the last one did that, too?). One difference is that it did not follow the story of John Krasinski’s and Emily Blunt’s characters, as they were not in this film. Instead, it followed a hospice patient, who had gone to the city to see a play with other people from her hospice. She had an emotional support cat and, I have to say, my favorite character was the cat. He/she reminded me of my cat, Sylvia.
I feel like they could keep doing this movie forever, from the perspective of different characters. Perhaps that is their goal?
My rating: 4/5