In a few weeks Pops will have surgery to remove or fix his hernia, it should be out patient surgery but any surgery at his age makes me nervous, I don't even want to think about anything other than a successful outcome.
He does know he can't do it all anymore, Mom and I have noticed little things but we look on the bright side, he gets up every morning, walks Ollie, plays Chuzzle on the computer, works in the yard and is an awesome griller!
I was running errands today; picking up some things for dinner, checking out Halloween decorations, getting desk calendars for 2024 and finishing up my latest audio book from the library, "Dead Mountain" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
"Dead Mountain" is the 4th book in a series with Archeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Nora made her first appearance in a Preston/Child book called Thunderhead, then I encountered her in a few Pendergast books "Cabinet of Curiosities", Dance of the Dead, The Book of the Dead and Cemetary Dance. I was very pleased when this "series" started, I missed Nora and with "Old Bones" she's starting over, no spoilers!
Corrie was a big part of the Pendergast book, "Still Life With Crows", she's made appearances in "Dance of the Dead", " Cold Vengeance", "Two Graves", "White Fire", "Blue Labyrinth" and "Crimson Shore". It's nice that she's grown up and has a partner of sorts!
I love Preston and Child books, the first one I remember reading was "Riptide", all about a treasure vault on an island of the coast of Maine, if this sounds vaguely familiar there is an island called Oak Island...fiction and a real event!
The story of "Dead Mountain" immediately reminded me of an episode of "Expedition Unknown" with Josh Gates on the Discovery Channel. He went to the Ural Mountains to investigate the mystery at Dyatlov Pass where in February of 1959 nine Soviet hikers, college students met untimely deaths, to this day their deaths remain a mystery. I have to admit, "Dead Mountain" has a more satisfying conclusion.
yes, I have an addiction and it's not my fault!! I blame my nephew Christopher; not the adult he's grown into but the child he was. When he was 4 or 5 he wanted Legos for his birthday. Being the good Aunt I tried to be I found him a Lego Pirate Ship at the now defunct Toys R Us and to my surprise it was on sale so I got one for me! I discovered that I loved building with these little plastic bricks, I was amazed at the way the instructions showed you how to create this design and I was hooked...
I don't even know how many sets I have...
Currently I am building this...the graveyard and the beginnings of the first floor are taking shape!
I was on vacation all last week so getting back to work on Monday was a little rough. Don't get me wrong, I love my job but sometimes doing it wears me out! I basically look at the work done by others and fingers crossed hope everything is correct. I hate when I find errors but it happens. This being said it's been a rough week so I'm really happy that tomorrow is my Friday on Thursday!!!
Just found out today is Global Cat Day!! Living in a house of 6 family cats, 6 carport cats and 7 community cats makes this an important day in my family!
For most of my life I've had a cat, when I was 4 years old I got Lisa, she lived to an ornery 20 years old. Mom had BJ who had kittens and I adored Tippy and Lurch, later to be joined by Jezebel, Remi, Spike, Jake, Scootie, Tink, Belle, Max, Chaz, Roi, Rascal and Sweet Pea.
This year we lost Gandalf on March 9th and the best boy ever Gus on April 3rd.
Oddly, today is also Boss's Day and my wonderful boss is even more addicted to cats than my household. I've actually lost count of how many cats/kittens she has at this moment!!
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| handsome Harry Cat |
Feeling very good about this week, I've gotten a few things done...I mailed a box to a dear friend in North Carolina, got rid of some boxes in storage, made Pops happy with his own forever copy of Microsoft Word, finally got a new computer named Tigger, cleaned up my office area, listened to more of "Dead Mountain", even found that Preston and Childs were intrigued by the 1959 true story about the hikers in Russia.
Nice thing about getting a new laptop is I found pictures I haven't seen in over 6 years!!
here's the first picture I ever saw of Hiccup!!
more to come!
