Monday, February 24, 2020



February 24th, 2020

Monday

The first day of the last week of Faint February, and I spent it firstly
at the loom,  beaming on a towel warp, - then at the end of the Hoover, purging rugs,
and lastly in an easy chair, reading, and listening to music.

I have no guarantee that March will be a better month, - it does not have
a good reputation here in the Similkameen, but surely it will have
more character than February, which has been so dull and uninspiring!!!

The one big snowfall we had has not melted away in the sunshine,
but rather has turned to large solid ridges of snow that line the village
roads and make parking very difficult.

Not that I am parking anywhere, since I have not driven since my
license expired a few months ago, and I am not brave enough
to go to the nearest city and take a driving test to renew it.....
somehow I don't think the license inspectors are too
interested in helping the aged to roam the streets in a motorized vehicle,
and so I plan on gaily joining the horde of cart drivers
in this retirement village, with Charles' big blue machine.

As to what I am reading....  I am enjoying
Alexander McCall Smith's new book - "The Department of
Sensitive Crimes"  which I find a delight to read...

from the dust cover.....

Alan Bradley (bestselling author of the Flavia de Luce series) says
"with astonishing heart and mind, Alexander McCall Smith
launches a bold and original series.  With The
Department of Sensitive Crimes, he invents a new
and compassionate genre:  I didn't know whether to
laugh or cry, but in the end I did both.

aside - the Flavia de Luce series is also a delight to read.....

The other book I am reading is another of Robert McFarlane's.
This time, instead of the Underworld,  he "accounts legendary
mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays
into wild, high landscapes". Great Book!!

Within it he quotes Keats...

"I stood tiptoe upon a little hill
...I gazed a while and felt as light and free
as though the fanning wings of Mercury
had played upon my heels.  I was light-hearted
and many pleasures to my vision started...."

The music I listened to was Hauser the cellist.


Absolutely gorgeous!







1 comment:

Hill Top Post said...

I understand about March's reputation, for it's the same here. Who knows what she will decide to throw at us. It's her winds that I don't care for. I couldn't help noticing the order in which you arranged your day, with first being time spent at the loom, and then to end it with your beloved music. That's a pretty darn good day, I would think...