- Hubadub and I returned from Disney World on Friday. We had a great time, but now I have PDWD (Post Disney World Depresion)
- We got about 2" of snow here in the Deep South. I did not take pictures. Please accept my apologies. Another inch was predicted for this AM, but it's been downgraded to rain. (I'm really beginning to wish for drought conditions. This is one of the wettest winters I can remember.)
- The knitting "mehs" have returned. I did a bit o' knitting in Florida and finished a couple of dishcloths, but I'm back to having no desire to knit.
- The Big Boss canceled the trip to the Shrine up north due to inclement weather. We now have a day to work in our rooms and catch up. Prayers do get answered!
- Yet again, I have gotten sucked into following the Olympics. I never seem to care about the Summer games, but every four years I'm glued to the TV for the Winter events.
- The "n" key on my keyboard is starting to give me iffy performance. Sometimes I hit it and it works, sometimes not.
- I finished book #s 6, 7, and 8 in my 50 book challenge:
Offspring and I do not agree about this author. She is a Phillippa Gregory fan (I've never read her) and says she just can't get into Jean, but I love her. This is book number 2 of the Ferdinand and Isabella trilogy.
7. Daughters of Spain by Jean Plaidy
Book 3. Also enjoyed this one, though the ending didn't have much closure for me. I want to know more about Juana and Catalina... which I think she does cover in Katherine of Aragon. As a whole the series is a good one. There were times that I was a little bored and wondered if I should just forget reading it, but the story grabbed me enough that I really wanted to find out what was going to happen (which lets you know how little I know about history.)
8. Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
After all the "heavy" reading and since I was traveling in Central Florida, I decided to read this. It was good, but sometimes when you are reading a children's book as an adult you can't tell if it's good, but simple writing or just bad (I learn toward "good, but simple" because this book is still around 50+ years later.) I also began to wonder if, thanks to the popularity of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, historical/pioneer fiction was the "genre du jour" in the 1930's and 1940's. Strawberry girl had a slight feeling of "copy cat." (But I admit I am cynical. I feel the same way about all the books today that have to do with a down on his luck child discovering he has magical/mythical powers a la Harry Potter.)
I'm currently reading book #9: The Yearling and unfortunately I discovered that it does not end well, but I can't stop reading it now.
