A Good Friday

briilaint, beautiful sunny day. hot. temps 26

This is unbelievable. Stunning day. Sunny, sweet. Birds singing, trees budding. bluebells out. Tony came by and repaired the broken screen on the screen porch then helped up put the furniture on the porch. Table, sofa bedm rocking chairs. Hassocks. And now we're siting on the screen porch, in shorts and sandals...Michael reading scientific papers on cancer screening and me responding to emails...and writing to you.

Hectic day. Wrote until just after 3pm. Did a load of laundry including our bedding...and hung them on the line outside. Nothing smells so good as line dried bedding.

Trudy rolled in skunk poop again. So she got her special shampoo - again. Thankfully with the weather so great we could do it outside. Then Michael and I walked down the road to feed Markus some carrots.

We got him organic carrots. Jana was very, very nice about it but she did suggest maybe we wanted to buy his carrots by the ton and not the ounce. Or at least by the sack.

We're going to have our first barbeque of the year tonight. We're also aware and watching the flooding in the eastern coast of the US. Hope you haven't been affected.

Wrote 2,000 words today. keeping the critic away with a stick.

Happy Easter!

Watching Out

sunny, warm, gorgeous! temps 16

Wow - fabulous day! Walking around the pond with Trudy it smelled both musky and sweet. The ice is going out of the pond. Wonderful for us to wander the edge, looking into the water. Trying to find the fish. They won't be out for a while, but fun to look.

Trudy, clever girl, decided to take stink-dom to a whole other level. it wasn't enough to smell like a skunk, today she decided to roll in skunk poop. covered in it. Now she smells of skunk and poop. Love is not just blind, it had no sense of smell. Lucky for her.

Our neighbors Guy and Nicole dropped by last night. They're starting up Neighborhood Watch. We joined. But we're not worried. We have a dog who smells of skunk and poop and a family of skunks under the front porch. If we invited robbers in they'd decline.

We had breakfast this morning with Philip and Danny to discuss the upcoming Knowlton Literary Festival, this summer in July. If you can come it will be huge fun. I'll be doing something I almost never do. I'll be giving a workshop on mystery writing. It's free. I'll be giving you more info as it gets closer...but if you're interested you can get in touch with Danny and Lucy at Brome Lake Books.

On the way home we stopped by to see Markus. He is wonderful. Calm, gentle. He kisses carrots off our hands. Even Michael fed him some carrots. We are beyond relieved, and thrilled. And kinda amazed that anyone would not want him.

Gorgeous day - wonderful weekend ahead.