Pumpkins...
Just love this time of year... Visited the Pumpkin Patch (Lee's in Tualitan)...ate warm Pumpkin Donuts and hot, fresh cider, wandered among the orange vegies, defended our pumpkins from thievery, and had a wonderful family adventure.  

funny things Bonnie writes...
Bonnie is busy with her Law School applications.  She is very frustrated by the process by which the LSAC (the organization that submits all apps for you) is operated.  Can't say as I blame her...So she has these funny/related comments on her Gchat:Getting closer! I defy your diabolical antics, LSAC, by actually completing applications.I think my month's salary is going to go to law school apps. Law school wants

interlibrary ecstasy...
I am a book addict.  I know it.  If you know me, you know it.  I seem to always have 10 things checked out at the library, but that doesn't stop me from picking up something new at Costco if it is just too irresistible to me.  And then there's Inter-Library Loan. It's an ENABLER!I recently read The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman.  This wonderful little gem was about a young woman from 1599 England, kidnapped by corsairs near Constantinople and s

witchcraft in literature...
     I just finished The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe.  The protagonist is a grad student in Early American History (as is Howe), who ends up being descended from a woman tried as a Salem witch (as is Howe).  Hmmmm....    I enjoyed the mystery that was the heart of this book, but I had it figured out well in advance of our heroine.  She was searching for Deliverance Dane, whose name she found in key in her Grand

fall is bliss...
Walking Cookie up and down my beautiful little lane, I noticed the first horse chestnuts lying in the road, in their spiky, lime-green skins.  The days have cooled down; the nights are downright chilly.  The garden is still chalkfull of various blooming plants:  the lantern-like fuschias, the burnt orange mums, pink and orange roses, the bright green orb-shaped leaves and pumpkin orange nasturtiums, frothy pink heads of sedum, and so many more.  I sit for hours on the sun-drenched deck, reading and napping.  Recovering from my surgery in the glow of that lovely garden.  Cookie and Biscuit nap nearby.  My favorite squirrel is playing clown for me in the trees, sometimes scol