Books and Blooms

 Still very chilly weather and the strain on our 46 year-old furnace has caused it to quit. Middle son has called for a fellow to fix it if it is possible.  Meanwhile we have a few electric heaters going.

We had a heating pad that hardly worked at all any more so we bought a new one and put the old one in Miss Kitty's bed ( well covered by her blanket just in case it gets too warm). I think she loves it because yesterday she hardly moved out of it to wander around the snowy back yard. 

I have time to read and I'm reading both my latest library books at the same time.  Do you do that? Read more than one book at the same time?  I'll post the blurb for each book but feel free to skip that part if you're not interested.  I received a copy of Gretchen Rubin's first book (The Happiness Project)  when it came out some years ago and have reread it again. She's such an interesting person and her books are very informative but also easy to read.

 For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she’d been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She’d spent so much time stuck in her head that she’d allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world invigorated by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.

Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew has had more than her fair share of struggles. Abandoned as a baby, she spent her childhood moving between foster homes. Now she is running away from her past ...

A holiday in Morocco seems to be the perfect escape. Especially when she meets Philip, a fellow tourist who distracts her from her troubles. After a brief affair, Lizzie returns to England, to a solicitor's letter.

Philip Samson has died. In his will, he has left Lizzie a gift of £15,000. But there are conditions attached to this unexpected legacy that will soon force Lizzie to confront terrifying secrets from her past life ...

 

Calla Lily gifted to me by Eldest Daughter

 African Violet that she brought on a recent visit.  I don't have much luck getting African Violets to rebloom after their initial burst fresh from the greenhouse. I water them and put them in a bright light but any new blooms are few and far between so the plant goes to the thrift store and someone with a green thumb buys it and no doubt has great success.  (yes, there are thrift stores that will take plants to resell).

 I'll be back in two days.......thanks for visiting.