In typical hyper-sensitive OCD form, I'm scrubbing down every surface in our house to keep the rest of my family healthy. It feels good to pull things together again, wipe away the dust and cobwebs, cook a healthy meal, catch up with all the laundry. I tossed back the last antibiotic before bed and hope to regain my acute sense of smell by bedtime tonight.
I met with my Type A Anal-Retentive Should be a CPA, Not a Ecologist Federal CRP person Friday. She's a bean counter by nature and the federal rules and guidelines for CRP property make her even more By the Book. Sadly, nature gives a crap what the federal guidelines are. Trees and grasses will grow where they please, thankyouverymuch. I despise our meetings, but the financial incentive through this program is a great motivator. I may have come off a little harsh, however, when I sniped that "I'm NOT spraying Round-Up around 1,900 tree seedlings. I have a life. We'll keep mowing and do our best for weed control, but you knew the site conditions before we agreed to this and we're following your recommendations."
Then I passed my sword form module test for Mr. O Saturday morning.
And I finished reading May's Bumble Book Club pick.
I went grocery shopping--a very different crowd there on a Sunday afternoon. I'm a Monday evening shopper, mingling with shoppers coming straight from work. They put much healthier food in their carts than the Sunday shoppers--salads, broasted chicken, gallons of milk. Sunday I passed one other cart that didn't carry 2-3 cases of soda. The Sunday afternoon shoppers also collectively looked like hell, puffy, pale, flaccid people with dead eyes and unsmiling faces. I blame their diet, I really do.
I have no Reveal today, our Super Secret Project won't wrap up until May 1st because a critical part hasn't been shipped yet.
Instead I bring you April's FABULOUS! The Blue Virgin by M.K. Graff is the best type of murder mystery--it's a COZY. (I do love cozies, I'm not a blood-guts-gore kind of mystery reader.)
The mysterious death of Bryn Wallace draws American author Nora Tierney to Oxford to clear her close friend Val Rogan, who has been wrongfully accused of Bryn's murder. Or has she? Nora quickly becomes embroiled in the murder investigation, much, to the dismay of Detective Inspector Declan Barnes and the illustrator of Nora's children's book, Simon Ramsey. Simon's efforts to save Nora from herself become increasingly frantic as Nora is forced to use her wits and wiles to prove Val's innocence.
I'll draw a lucky Fabulous winner out of the comment box Sunday, so leave your comments all week to increase your chance at winning this book!
And speaking of virgins, blue and otherwise, spill it, reader. What have you never done? I'll go first: I've never ridden on a snowmobile, been to Las Vegas or drank any of those pre-bottled cocktail drinks like Mike's Hard Lemonade.
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