Saturday Snapshot... Just dreamin' of spring

No these are not up yet, but I had to remind myself how great they looked.  I don't think I'll have any this year, those darn squirrels.  I could understand if they needed to eat them, but they don't they just pull them out and leave them to not grow.  UGH!  I was at the cemetery the other day and someone had brought a lovely flower box full of these beauties and here's me chasing the rodents away and digging them in deeper.  In my back flower bed I put chicken wire around my flower bed and it seems to have worked, but I can't do that everywhere or I'll be picking my letter carrier out of the wires.  Wouldn't Canada Post like that?  What's he doing cutting through my flower bed, I've already told him to stay out, every time he thinks I'm home he does the all the way around route, but I have evidence to the contrary, who does he think he's messing with, I watch CSI.  Anyway hope the weather where you are is wonderfully sunny and springlike and the blooms are a plenty. 

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce from at home with books

On the reading front, I finished The Burning Air, Erin Kelly.  HOLY SMOKE this is definitely going on my list of top ten.  If you like a little mystery and a whole lot of thriller, you must read this one.  Love the character development and the story line was just so gobsmacking in your face,   I'm sure the look on my face made people on the train move to another compartment.  BRAVO Erin Kelly.

On the creative front, I finished my princess chair.  The group have decided it should be called the preparation H chair, when I remember to take a photo, you'll understand why.  I won't have it home for a couple of weeks, it will be in the booth at the Creative Festival along with my cork chair and stool.  Now the request is to write up a little journal of the two transformations and the story behind them.  And I'm finally getting around to making a couple of cushions from some gifted embroidery, my aunt created.  I'm going for a McKenzie Child's look, with a little wild animal print,  the clerk at the fabric store was looking at me kinda strange.

Sunday salon... Earth Hour

So how did everyone spend earth hour?  I was a little confused (what else is new) and thought it was 8-9 p.m. when in fact it was 8:30 to 9:30p.m. so I've added another hour on to the no lights zone.  I had made a tea and brownie prior and sat down to do nothing only to find my tea cold and brownie untouched.  I guess my brain said no lights, must be time to sleep.  My neck is a little crooked today.  

 Beyond that, Sunday Salon finds me "FINALLY" finished  In The Woods, Tana French.  It took me almost a month to read that book, not that it was not good, but I just found some of the parts a little TOO disturbing for me at this point in my life.  I was stumped as to "who dunit" until well into the book.  I really hate the statistics that show it might have been one of the parents. At any rate, In The Woods, was a mystery/thriller, in every sense of the description.  Story set in Ireland, against the backdrop of political intrigue (minor element) and missing/murdered children, and a detective team that are very unusual.  I truly had hoped that there would have been a resolution to the underlying mystery, but the conclusion was well played anyway.

My week has been the usual, I'm on March break this week, and the basement is calling.  I was hard at it yesterday, on the ladder, and the phone just didn't stop, it wasn't until I finally fell reaching for it that I said, "NO MORE CALLS".  My arm is a little sore and my back quite sore.  Today is Palm Sunday so there will be no housework.  My youngest is a little under the weather so I'll be pampering him.  No idea what else.  Maybe some Advil and a rest.  Up next on the reading front is " The Burning Air,' Erin Kelly.

Tony Goldwyn

Quinn

In the Woods was read for the Ireland Challenge and I'm giving it a 4.5stars. I much preferred it to A Faithful Place,also Tana French, although I must say A Faithful Place had me turning pages much faster, I didn't appreciate the end of that one nearly as well. And the characters were more attractive, visual.  If I had to type cast Rob Ryan from the description in In the Woods it might have to be someone like Tony Goldwyn and Demi Moore, don't care for either of them, but Faithful Place would have had to be Aidan Quinn, but only if Johnny Depp was not available.  Oh heck who am I kidding it would have had to be Quin all the way, with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.  But, Tony Goldwyn looks like the right one for Rob Ryan.  

Reading The Burning Air
Listening to (trying to listen) Miss Marple Investigates.

Have a great weekend.