I have pictures!!!

Emma just walked me through the process of adding pictures to my blog - thanks Emma!! I know I'll need help again until I get it solid in my head. Fortunately, I'm on Emma's 'Fave Five' list, so we didn't have to hurry through the process. It's tough to teach an old dog new tricks.

I downloaded all my pictures from my camera - all 52 of them, starting with pictures from Emma's college graduation in 2007. Isn't that terrible - so few pictures and so many events in our lives!

As I looked at the pictures which I've posted here, it made me wish for warmer weather. It's in the low teens right now and snowing on and off and blowing. Very cold...anyway, these pictures were taken in November before the loggers started driving up and down the driveway with loads of timber from the woods. They're the "before" pictures, just in case the heavy trucks caused damage to the road which was just rebuilt last summer. It was amazing how many times we encountered a log truck either driving in or driving out of our driveway. Of course, they couldn't back up very well, so we had to be the one to squeeze way over or back up to a wide spot in the driveway. I hate to back up and don't do it very well but I wasn't going to argue with a huge, heavy log truck. Fortunately, they are done cutting down the trees since the snow and ice makes it impossible to squeeze over.

Don't we live in a beautiful spot? I love living in these surroundings.

Find time to read this book.

I volunteer at the local library and I gave the librarian a list of books I would like to read. I don't care if she buys them or gets them through interlibrary loan. My latest list was of new books so we couldn't get them on loan, so she ordered them. I volunteered there yesterday, and four of my book requests were there. The librarian (Jen) let me take two home even before they were put into the system and I read one of them last night and finished it today. The title (which is a big one) is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Odd title, but a great book. I laughed, cried, and pondered through the whole book. I read parts of it out loud to Chris so he could enjoy it. Now that I have finished it, I need to get him to read it. We looked up Guernsey Island and read more about the German occupation of the island during World War II, which is the background for this book.

I'll let you know if my other book is as good as this one was. I love to read and this book carried me to the places and time of the writing. Wonderful characters - it made me want to live there and have them as my friends and be a friend like they were to each other. Enjoy!!