I think. This morning I had more time feeling like me. But this afternoon I was back to
So I’m going to believe I’ve turned a corner.😄
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Clinic closed. Can’t do the two hours drive. Darned UTI
Ah, Christmas Valley. High Desert of Oregon. It isn’t Santa or Noel you are famous for. It’s the wind.
Having lived in the High Desert of California where all the trees lean east, you’d think I’d be used to it. The constant wind.
And though it’s a nuisance and often scary with fires all around, it helps us stay cooler than many other cities. It’s a dry heat. Not so great for complexion, but easily cooler with swamp coolers.
Once the wind winds itself up, it is days of feeling sure a green lady on a bike will fly by.
I can’t decide if wind is better or worse in Winter than Summer. Like I mentioned, fire season makes the wind scary. And makes breathing outside difficult.
The super winds brings in you neighbors’ trash. Flying trampolines do happen out here.
With piano, when I feel I’m done, I sneak in one more song or watch piano YouTubes
With my thumbs hurting I am slowing down on yarn projects. But I have set up the goal of at least one row. Still a photo wouldn’t show progress.
Around the house, I’m implementing one thing in each room, even if it’s picking up something on the floor.
The result of this is I seem to have the stamina for a little more everyday. Tomorrow I will finish the corner where the new cat tree will be.
And, I will finally put rocks in the bamboo and change water as the instructions suggested. I had that lucky plant for maybe ten years but it was getting sad. I hope to propagate many plants from this one. Right now the new babies look like this:
Among other things
Any Day Now by Robyn Carr
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
As I mentioned in the review for the first book, if you like the streaming series of Sullivan’s Crossing (Netflix, I think), you’ll like these books. The same love and concern for each other, living in a tranquil place of camping and hiking, and sweet characters combine to make a heartwarming story.
Roby Carr writes a beautiful story. This second book seemed to have a bit more repetition than may be needed, but it is easy to forgive. Terese Plummer narrates the tale well. I wish she could vary the character voices better. All the men sound the same; all the women sound the same. It is hard, sometimes, to know the person who is speaking. But Ms. Plummer keeps the listener engaged.
This book has quite a lot of suspense near the end. Thank you, Ms. Carr, for leaving us in a happy place regardless.
I found this second book on Audible. I want to go camping at Sullivan’s Crossing again soon. Next paycheck, I guess.
This happens often in our house. We honor the sleeping-pet-on-the-lap rule.
What We Find by Robyn Carr
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Have you watched Sullivan’s Crossing? If you have you will feel like you are watching it the whole book. I love Robyn Carr’s writing style. It makes you feel comfortable. You see and smell the environment.
The narrator, Therese Plummer, is good, but it is hard to tell whose point of view she is portraying. All her males sound the same. Still she’s far better than text-to-speech.
I must admit that the order of the story is different than the show, but it works as well either way. My Audible version will be ready when I want to listen again. And now I have book two.
Darswords 
One-Liner Wednesday
Where do accidentally deleted comments go?
I finally got around to catching up on comments. I got distracted and my clumsy fingers hit something. I glanced back as a red notice says, Undo. By the time I saw it, it disappeared. I went to the comment in my email. I hit reply and was told that comment was deleted.
By the way, Kim Smyth, thanks for your comment, cats are harder to dispel from laps. And beds! My Shilo is a big lump I have to lift up often as I readjust myself to sleep. 😔
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