1:25 am I sleep and dream and wake, discernment of each dissolving as one slides into another.
***************
I set the alarm and planned to go to yoga but I just couldn't. My shoulder ached and I cannot endure the torture of exercise.
I sort of rested today. by late afternoon my shoulder stops hurting. PPQS meeting tonight. Lea and I are going to Puerto Villarta in September. Tonight we were booking airline tickets. Took forever.
BOOK REVIEW
Ellen Hart, *The Oldest Sin*
The oldest sin is eating. After all, Eve ate the apple. Sophie Greenway owns a hotel in St. Paul, Minn. One of her college room mates has a support group for fat ladies. (It is now a big time organization.) They are having a national convention at the hotel the same time as a fundamentalist church. Sophie has a small reuinion of college room mates. They all attended a fundamentalist church college. Some have strayed and one remains in the church. The CEO of the fat ladies is poisoned. Eating? Get it? And the game is afoot.
A great deal of the book is devoted to the politics of the fundamentalist church.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Gillian Roberts
The alarm rang and I just could not get out of bed. So I missed church. My arm is not hurting this morning. Yeah.
Lady Chica is so tired she ate her lunch lying down and now she is asleep in her den.
Temp was 88 and humidity low. So I took dogs to Ft. Woof in order to clear up this evening for a meeting. during noon hour no other small dogs. Lady Chica went through the last half of agility all by herself. The goal is to go thru the whole thing all by herself. Blue does. Then she gave me a run for my money in order to go home. She runs all over.
I took a nap and went to an AlAnon meeting. First Sunday is always "Newcomers Meeting". We talk about AlAnon.
BOOK REVIEW
Gillian Roberts, *The Bluest Blood*
By now I feel that Amanda Pepper is an old friend. She teaches high school in Philadelphia and she spends about a third of the book complaining about her students. She teaches in an expensive private school for rich kids.
One set of parents is holding a fund raiser for the school. And then there is the Moral Environmentalists who burn books. The MEs picket the school wanting certain books removed from the library. And the leader of the cult is the step father of one of the students. then this leader is murdered and the game is afoot.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Lady Chica is so tired she ate her lunch lying down and now she is asleep in her den.
Temp was 88 and humidity low. So I took dogs to Ft. Woof in order to clear up this evening for a meeting. during noon hour no other small dogs. Lady Chica went through the last half of agility all by herself. The goal is to go thru the whole thing all by herself. Blue does. Then she gave me a run for my money in order to go home. She runs all over.
I took a nap and went to an AlAnon meeting. First Sunday is always "Newcomers Meeting". We talk about AlAnon.
BOOK REVIEW
Gillian Roberts, *The Bluest Blood*
By now I feel that Amanda Pepper is an old friend. She teaches high school in Philadelphia and she spends about a third of the book complaining about her students. She teaches in an expensive private school for rich kids.
One set of parents is holding a fund raiser for the school. And then there is the Moral Environmentalists who burn books. The MEs picket the school wanting certain books removed from the library. And the leader of the cult is the step father of one of the students. then this leader is murdered and the game is afoot.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Gillian Roberts
Slept in until almost ten. Hot already. In fact, when I made library run the outdoor thermometer read 98 degrees.
Noon and I am sleepy.
Last night the dogs were pestering me. After all, they had not seen me for eight hours. I gave them each a bone. So we took our bones to bed. I lay there trying to sleep with a bone chewing on each side of me. (I am the filling in the dog sandwich in bed.)
Took a long nap. Waking at 4:30 pm I spent an hour or so with Marilyn. I am giving her an AlAnon lesson in one easy hour. Her children are worried about her and have taken over complete control.
As the sun sinks below the trees, the dog park is pleasant. Few small dogs and many big dogs. Blitzen talks trash at the fence and they race in packs along the fence.
BOOK REVIEW
Gillian Roberts, *The Dead of Summer*
Reading the book rather than listening to tapes gives one the feeling of reading an intimate letter, rather than the slowness of the series.
Amanda Pepper is an English teacher in Philadelphia. For financial reasons she agrees to teach remedial English during summer school. The classes are a mix of ethnic groups. A Vietnamese girl is kidnapped. Racist graffitti are found in the surrounding areas. And the game is afoot.
Noon and I am sleepy.
Last night the dogs were pestering me. After all, they had not seen me for eight hours. I gave them each a bone. So we took our bones to bed. I lay there trying to sleep with a bone chewing on each side of me. (I am the filling in the dog sandwich in bed.)
Took a long nap. Waking at 4:30 pm I spent an hour or so with Marilyn. I am giving her an AlAnon lesson in one easy hour. Her children are worried about her and have taken over complete control.
As the sun sinks below the trees, the dog park is pleasant. Few small dogs and many big dogs. Blitzen talks trash at the fence and they race in packs along the fence.
BOOK REVIEW
Gillian Roberts, *The Dead of Summer*
Reading the book rather than listening to tapes gives one the feeling of reading an intimate letter, rather than the slowness of the series.
Amanda Pepper is an English teacher in Philadelphia. For financial reasons she agrees to teach remedial English during summer school. The classes are a mix of ethnic groups. A Vietnamese girl is kidnapped. Racist graffitti are found in the surrounding areas. And the game is afoot.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Tom Clancy
At the dog park, Ray has invented something cute. He has two dachsunds, Maggie and Charlie. Charlie follows him w/o a leash. So Ray has attached Maggie's leash to Charlie's collar. Putt, putt, putt, the two weinie dogs follow their leader to the gate.
Woke at ten. Off to Ft. Woof. Cookout with Martha and Jeff this aft.
The park was beastly hot. I get so irritated with people altho my dog is at fault. Blitzen was humping this little female.
bitch is the technical term
I believe there is a condition i term peri-esterus. weeks before they come in heat females give off pheronomes. (Other owners of fixed males agree with me.)
So many owners of small dogs think their dogs are babies, literally. I also think Blitzen humps little dogs just to get attention. Everybody goes into orbit. I mean the humans go into orbit. They pick up their dog, and Blitzen thinks this is a great game and he barks his play bark which frightens everybody. Well, I am home in the air conditioning. I need to shower and go to the cookout. Blitzen will be driving.
Cookout was great. Jeff grilled a turkey. We sat and chatted, drinking wine and beer. First we talked about the Battle of Hastings, then the Battle of Crecy, then the factors contributing to the dissolution of the middle ages, and finally the American Civil War. After eating nummies, I took a nap. The turkey was out of this world. Martha sent home pieces in freezer bags. Potato salad. And sorbet for desset. Some strange kind of berry from the Amazon, acacia.
On the way home I saw fireworks in all directions.
BOOK NOTES
Tom Clancy made a mistake. He thot the English won the Battle of Hastings with their long bows and we continued to speak English.
Actually the Duke of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings with soldiers who had stirrups on their saddles, giving them better balance. And we gave up speaking Anglo Saxon English. Our Creole language contains about half the words derived from Norman French. (who pronounce chateau like castle)Or is it vice versa, Leslie?
I think Clancy was thinking of the Battle of Crecy in 1315. Long bows sent arrows like a cloud over the sun. I have been trying to remember that passage about "band of brothers on St. Crispin's Eve"
BOOK REVIEW:
Gillian Roberts, *All's Well That Ends*
I picked up the book and read the jacket. This is the last of the Amanda Pepper series. I went to the web site. Roberts wanted to stop while the series was good. fourteen books. I feel as if I had lost a friend.
Sue Henry, *Degrees of Separation*
Sue Henry has created a new plot. I loved her first novel, *Murder on the Iditarod Trail*, which I have read about three times. Jesse Arnold is a musher who raises, trains and runs dog sled teams. I liked her second book. From then on the plots remained the same with different names. Even another series about Maxie and a dachsund. I thot I would try this latest, and it has an inventive plot. No snow. So her dogs are not mushing.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Woke at ten. Off to Ft. Woof. Cookout with Martha and Jeff this aft.
The park was beastly hot. I get so irritated with people altho my dog is at fault. Blitzen was humping this little female.
bitch is the technical term
I believe there is a condition i term peri-esterus. weeks before they come in heat females give off pheronomes. (Other owners of fixed males agree with me.)
So many owners of small dogs think their dogs are babies, literally. I also think Blitzen humps little dogs just to get attention. Everybody goes into orbit. I mean the humans go into orbit. They pick up their dog, and Blitzen thinks this is a great game and he barks his play bark which frightens everybody. Well, I am home in the air conditioning. I need to shower and go to the cookout. Blitzen will be driving.
Cookout was great. Jeff grilled a turkey. We sat and chatted, drinking wine and beer. First we talked about the Battle of Hastings, then the Battle of Crecy, then the factors contributing to the dissolution of the middle ages, and finally the American Civil War. After eating nummies, I took a nap. The turkey was out of this world. Martha sent home pieces in freezer bags. Potato salad. And sorbet for desset. Some strange kind of berry from the Amazon, acacia.
On the way home I saw fireworks in all directions.
BOOK NOTES
Tom Clancy made a mistake. He thot the English won the Battle of Hastings with their long bows and we continued to speak English.
Actually the Duke of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings with soldiers who had stirrups on their saddles, giving them better balance. And we gave up speaking Anglo Saxon English. Our Creole language contains about half the words derived from Norman French. (who pronounce chateau like castle)Or is it vice versa, Leslie?
I think Clancy was thinking of the Battle of Crecy in 1315. Long bows sent arrows like a cloud over the sun. I have been trying to remember that passage about "band of brothers on St. Crispin's Eve"
BOOK REVIEW:
Gillian Roberts, *All's Well That Ends*
I picked up the book and read the jacket. This is the last of the Amanda Pepper series. I went to the web site. Roberts wanted to stop while the series was good. fourteen books. I feel as if I had lost a friend.
Sue Henry, *Degrees of Separation*
Sue Henry has created a new plot. I loved her first novel, *Murder on the Iditarod Trail*, which I have read about three times. Jesse Arnold is a musher who raises, trains and runs dog sled teams. I liked her second book. From then on the plots remained the same with different names. Even another series about Maxie and a dachsund. I thot I would try this latest, and it has an inventive plot. No snow. So her dogs are not mushing.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Gillian Roberts
Hunger drove me from my bed at 10 am. I intend to rest today, preparing for tomorrow's
cookout with Martha and Jeff. I may go back to bed. I may take some hand sewing over
and sit with Marilyn.
Listening to Shelby Foote on the Civil War I am once more amazed at the mass delusion of
the South. But I guess they were provincial. They were expecting peace movements in the
North. And they did not count on the wild Irishmen just off the boat who were paid
substitutes in the draft.
Borrowed discs for Diana Stabenow's *Deeper Sleep*. Unfortunately I have read the book
twice and have it memorized.
Stabenow's main character is Kate Shugack, an Aleut in Alaska, who is an investigator. I
can't remember how she makes her living at the moment. She was an investigator for DA in
Anchorage. I have read all her books and love her. She has two books that are the Coast
Guard. It never occurred to me that there was Coast Guard presence in Alaska.
After a nap, I spent some hours sitting with Marilyn and doing hand sewing. Then to the
dog park. Not many people there.
BOOK REVIEW
Gillian Roberts, *Adam and Evil*
Caution: this is slow.
Amanda Pepper is a high school English teacher in Philadelphia and as usual in danger of
getting fired (contract not renewed). In her senior class is a boy named Adam who is
showing signs of mental deterioration. Amanda calls a conference with his parents who
are furious, insist Amanda has battered him and plan to go to the media. Amanda teaches
in a private school.
So one day Amanda takes her senior class on a field trip to the city library where a
librarian is strangled while the class is there. Adam is missing and becomes the chief
suspect. And the game's afoot.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
cookout with Martha and Jeff. I may go back to bed. I may take some hand sewing over
and sit with Marilyn.
Listening to Shelby Foote on the Civil War I am once more amazed at the mass delusion of
the South. But I guess they were provincial. They were expecting peace movements in the
North. And they did not count on the wild Irishmen just off the boat who were paid
substitutes in the draft.
Borrowed discs for Diana Stabenow's *Deeper Sleep*. Unfortunately I have read the book
twice and have it memorized.
Stabenow's main character is Kate Shugack, an Aleut in Alaska, who is an investigator. I
can't remember how she makes her living at the moment. She was an investigator for DA in
Anchorage. I have read all her books and love her. She has two books that are the Coast
Guard. It never occurred to me that there was Coast Guard presence in Alaska.
After a nap, I spent some hours sitting with Marilyn and doing hand sewing. Then to the
dog park. Not many people there.
BOOK REVIEW
Gillian Roberts, *Adam and Evil*
Caution: this is slow.
Amanda Pepper is a high school English teacher in Philadelphia and as usual in danger of
getting fired (contract not renewed). In her senior class is a boy named Adam who is
showing signs of mental deterioration. Amanda calls a conference with his parents who
are furious, insist Amanda has battered him and plan to go to the media. Amanda teaches
in a private school.
So one day Amanda takes her senior class on a field trip to the city library where a
librarian is strangled while the class is there. Adam is missing and becomes the chief
suspect. And the game's afoot.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Laura Lippman
Rose and dashed off to grocery bingo. Then off to Kroger for liniment especially.
Latest word on Bill, our tai chi teacher, is that he has shingles. My hunch is that he has always had shingles outbreak, not poison ivy.
Folklore. One woman was telling about some friend whose shingles brought on Alzheimers.
Speaking of Alzheimers, our neighbor Jessie gets worse and worse.
Slept for three hours. Woke up, ate supper, slept for two more. My shoulder no longer hurts. Not getting much reading done today. Listening to Shelby Foote and the Gettysburg campaign. I had never read much about what was going on in the Confederate states.
Took dogs to park. Came home and spent an hour or so at marilyn's. Oda Mae and Mildred are taking care of her.
BOOK REVIEW
Laura Lippman, *In Big Trouble*
This is one in a series about Tess Monoghan, a PI in Baltimore, MD. I was carried away by the book jacket which says that a new case "will end far away in another world, where people dress and talk differently." I thot she was going off planet. Turns out she was going to San Antonio.
Her former boy friend vanishes, and she is hired by the guy's parents to find him. The trail leads to Austin, TX, and on to San Antonio. Several bodies along the way.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Latest word on Bill, our tai chi teacher, is that he has shingles. My hunch is that he has always had shingles outbreak, not poison ivy.
Folklore. One woman was telling about some friend whose shingles brought on Alzheimers.
Speaking of Alzheimers, our neighbor Jessie gets worse and worse.
Slept for three hours. Woke up, ate supper, slept for two more. My shoulder no longer hurts. Not getting much reading done today. Listening to Shelby Foote and the Gettysburg campaign. I had never read much about what was going on in the Confederate states.
Took dogs to park. Came home and spent an hour or so at marilyn's. Oda Mae and Mildred are taking care of her.
BOOK REVIEW
Laura Lippman, *In Big Trouble*
This is one in a series about Tess Monoghan, a PI in Baltimore, MD. I was carried away by the book jacket which says that a new case "will end far away in another world, where people dress and talk differently." I thot she was going off planet. Turns out she was going to San Antonio.
Her former boy friend vanishes, and she is hired by the guy's parents to find him. The trail leads to Austin, TX, and on to San Antonio. Several bodies along the way.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Birthday Party
Baptist Center. Told by director to crack down on showing address. More people are coming in. I track people coming in for groceries.
Came home, took a nap. Took dogs early to dog park. The humidity was low. So a cold scarf around my neck kept me cool.
And what an evening this was!!!! Oda Mae and Russ had a birthday party for three of s, Mildred, Clara and me. So Marilyn in her wheel chair, Jessie, Peggy, Mildred, Clara and I were sitting with our hosts, waiting for Helen. Oda Mae kept calling Helen. No answer. I thot they were being overly protective.
Oda Mae, Clara and Mildred went over to see about Helen. She was lying on the bathroom floor. So Russ called 911 and her neice and her daughter. The ambulance came and carried Helen off on a stretcher. Later Oda Mae informed us that Helen had not broken anything. She was in the hospital with IVs attached.
We think Helen had the flu or something and passed out.
So eventually we had our ice cream and cake.
BOOK REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, *Bloodline*
The title is something of a stretch. I thot it was going to be a book about pedigreed dogs. (Nobody ever has a mutt. or a generic dog, like Blitzen)
The author is a man but this reads like a woman's book. The man is sensitive. Jack McMorrow is a former reporter for the New York Times who has retired to the woods of Maine. He contracts to do a free lance article on "babies having babies", that is, teen age mothers. That does not sound dangerous, does it? Nevertheless, he is almost killed.
Came home, took a nap. Took dogs early to dog park. The humidity was low. So a cold scarf around my neck kept me cool.
And what an evening this was!!!! Oda Mae and Russ had a birthday party for three of s, Mildred, Clara and me. So Marilyn in her wheel chair, Jessie, Peggy, Mildred, Clara and I were sitting with our hosts, waiting for Helen. Oda Mae kept calling Helen. No answer. I thot they were being overly protective.
Oda Mae, Clara and Mildred went over to see about Helen. She was lying on the bathroom floor. So Russ called 911 and her neice and her daughter. The ambulance came and carried Helen off on a stretcher. Later Oda Mae informed us that Helen had not broken anything. She was in the hospital with IVs attached.
We think Helen had the flu or something and passed out.
So eventually we had our ice cream and cake.
BOOK REVIEW
Gerry Boyle, *Bloodline*
The title is something of a stretch. I thot it was going to be a book about pedigreed dogs. (Nobody ever has a mutt. or a generic dog, like Blitzen)
The author is a man but this reads like a woman's book. The man is sensitive. Jack McMorrow is a former reporter for the New York Times who has retired to the woods of Maine. He contracts to do a free lance article on "babies having babies", that is, teen age mothers. That does not sound dangerous, does it? Nevertheless, he is almost killed.
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