This, That & the Other

I never had a chance to post yesterday so today is mishmash of things. Happiness Challenge, Thankful Thursday, books....

Happy Day 27:  I took a walk around the neighborhood with my daughter and the grands. It was just a nice time together.

THANKFUL THURSDAY

This week I am thankful...

** that all family and friends came through Hurricane Laura okay.

** for lots of rain and more on the way. We really need it. This has been the driest summer in years.

** for a friend who blessed me with a late birthday gift, but more importantly, a heartfelt note.

** for a visit with a former member of the bible study group I belong to. She remarried and moved away a few years ago and this week came back to visit with her kids. Gosh they have grown!

** the "singing" of the tree frogs at night.

** for a life largely untouched by tragedy.

** to have been born in the United States.

** for our President and lovely, gracious first lady and all they endure to try to make life better for all of us.

** as always, for each one of you!

BOOKS

Finished Reading: 

Dead Men Don't Eat Cookies by Virginia Lowell.  

It's a cozy mystery that was quick and easy to read. I mostly enjoyed it, but there was one thing that ran throughout the book that drove me nuts. She mentioned time references a lot, but those times rarely added up or made sense. One example, the characters attended a dinner party at 8:00, which you'd think lasted at the very least an hour. That would make it 9:00. After dinner they did some other things for a time...we'll say an hour or two...making it 10-11:00. Then they worked in their store for a couple of hours and Lowell specifically wrote that it was 11:00 when they finally looked up at the clock. Like I said, it was all the way through and it bugged me to no end.

Currently Reading: 

Get a Clue by Jill Shalvis.  The mystery part isn't bad, but the rest of it is very racy.

From the Cover:

When Breanne Mooreland gets left at the altar, she decides the best thing to do is to go on her honeymoon alone. Of course, she loses her luggage along the way and ends up snowed in at a Sierra mountains lodge run by a noticeably quirky staff. And before she can order room service, she finds a naked-and gorgeous-man taking a shower in her suite who refuses to leave.

Vice cop Cooper Scott is in serious need of a vacation. He's not about to give up the only available room to a stranger because of a mix-up. They'll just have to make the best of it by sharing the bed. They're mature adults after all. But when Cooper wakes up kissing the long, leggy Breanne, he wants to show her exactly what the honeymoon suite is intended for. That will have to wait, though, because a screaming Breanne has just stumbled over one very dead body.

Reading Next:  

No idea.