Saturday Afternoon Chat: Walking weather, cozy days for reading, and a fairly routine week

/ Lisa R. Howeler

A cup of peppermint tea with honey, a piece of chocolate with coconut flakes, a warm blanket, and a book are the tools I have been using today as I try to relax.

Of course, I had a few household chores to do (dishes, yuck!), but otherwise, I am hoping this weekend to focus on reading and finishing the last couple of chapters of the book I am writing. Of course, after I finish it, I will have to go back and edit and do rewrites, but, hey, I’ll at least be done with the main draft.

Look at this, everyone!

The neighbor’s crocuses popped up this past week! So exciting!

Today the temperatures are falling, but on Monday the weather was nice and warm with the thermometer reaching 63. The Boy went for a five-mile walk in and around our small town earlier in the day.

I needed to get my youngest out of the house this week, so that day she and I went to my parents and had some lunch with my mom while my dad took Zooma the Wonder Dog for an impromptu walk.

Dad was planning the walk and decided Zooma could come along with him since she loves following him wherever he goes when she visits. I wish I had grabbed a photo of them walking together because Zooma really looks like she has a huge smile on her face when someone takes her on a walk.

Little Miss and The Boy took her on another walk yesterday since the weather was almost as warm as Monday and we knew today would be cold and rainy.

They took her on a walk after Little Miss and I drove 20 minutes to get our pickup order from Aldi and stopped at my parents to drop off the grocery items I had added to my order for them.

I walked a little bit down the road and the cats followed me, apparently very confused about why we had walked off the property for the first time in probably four months.

Both of their tails were puffed out so I guess they really were alarmed. Or they were having a fight between each other. Usually, those tails only puff up when they encounter an animal outside the family, though.

Today there is a book sale in a town close to where we get our groceries but I am being a good girl and not going to it. I have enough books to read – both physical and digital.

Still, I do find myself sitting here and wondering what treasures I am missing out on by not going. What if someone gave away a whole set of Nancy Drew books? Eek! The stress of it all.

I keep telling myself that I must be strong and simply grab the Nancy Drew books I haven’t read yet one at a time on Thriftbooks instead. I can do this, right?

Besides, there is an even larger book sale going on in a town 45 minutes from us in April so I will try to hold out until then.

Our area is also getting a bookstore soon. I don’t know what kind of books they will sell but it will be nice that there is a bookstore near us – even if it will be a 45-minute drive. Actually, it might be best it is that far away from me.

We don’t have a lot on tap this upcoming week but I’m sure plenty of things will come up for us to do. We are looking forward to some nicer weather so I am sure we will be at a playground at least once during the week.

How was your week last week? Do anything interesting?

What is coming up this week?

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9 thoughts on “Saturday Afternoon Chat: Walking weather, cozy days for reading, and a fairly routine week”

  1. Our crocuses bloomed too and then it snowed on them yesterday, so now they’re all wilted. 😦 But the daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths are all beginning to poke through the soil. It’s chilly but warmer weather is supposed to arrive in the next day or two. At least now, the snow is gone!

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  2. Your black and white cat looks just like the one we used to have (sadly we had to put him down a few years ago when old age just got the best of him). We haven’t seen any crocuses or daffodils yet but our ground is nice and thawed so I’m betting we’ll see some soon.

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  4. That sounds like such great weather! We’ve had warm days and then cold days with snow flurries. But the spring flowers are trying to pop up here also! I’m so looking forward to spring. And we have a book going live on Amazon this week!! My husband’s second children’s book looks to be finished on there finally! I hope to be announcing it later this week.

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  5. You are not going to want to hear this. One of the guys my husband worked with was downsizing and getting rid of lots of books. He had a huge set of Nancy Drew books. I told Mike to grab them and put them in my classroom library. When I retired, I left them for the teacher who “inherited” my classroom. She had been my student teacher. A year or two later, she left to pursue a different career. But, she TOOK my books…not just the Nancy Drew ones, either. I had a huge library I had inherited from the previous teacher and had added to it over the years through PTA funds and my own hard earned money. She took almost all of them and gave them to her sister who was thinking about becoming a teacher! I was so shocked and saddened for the next teacher. 

    I really need to start looking for a book for my son. I bought him The Catcher in the Rye many years ago. It was a hard back, used copy, and he loved it. Unfortunately, he lost it. So, I want to find him another used, hard back one. I can’t use eBay because he uses my account to buy other things. 

    Well, that was a bit of a novel, right? I’m glad you’re nearing the end of your writing project.

    Have a wonderful week, Lisa!

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