It's Monday!

It's Monday.

What are you reading?

I just finished OLD TIN SORROWS by Glen Cook.

Old Tin Sorrows by Glen Cook
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I noticed Glen Cook had published a new Garrett, P. I. novel. I went to my bookcase and looked to see if I had kept any of the Garrett novels of the past and could I figure out where I left off. OLD TIN SORROWS was the oldest that I found, published in 1995 when paperback books were $3.95 a copy. Remember those days?! I started to read OLD TIN SORROWS and didn't remember the story, so I continued reading. What a fun ride. It was everything I remembered about the Garrett novels. Great one liners. Fun characters (elves and all sorts of critters). Garrett is hired by his old marine sarge, Blake Peters. Peters has retired from the marines and is now working for the "old man", General Stratnor. Peters believes someone is poisoning the General and he hires Garrett to found out the truth. What's the saying -- the truth will set you free -- nothing stranger than the truth ... you get the drift. Garrett moves into the Stratnor mansion where he finds one surprise after another and Garrett thought he had seen it all. Morley comes to help (Garrett's elf friend who owns a bar and who is always after Garrett to eat better). I found a few more Garrett novels that I'll be reading in order to catch up to the new one. I'll be laughing all the way. Fun fantasy, mystery.

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Wishing you well and much joy!

Happy Monday!

Camera Critters: Cougar

On one of my recent visits to the zoo,

cougars Shasta and Haley were having a discussion about the best place to take a nap.

Both of the cougars are young cats and their stories are similar.

It is legal to kill cougars under certain circumstances.

It is illegal to kill female cougars with kits.

Both Haley and Shasta's mothers were killed. 

Shasta had two siblings that were found quickly and rescued, but Shasta went hiding.

He was finally found and made his way to the Houston Zoo where he is now the official

mascot of the University of Houston cougars. 

Just look at those feet! 

They share a lovely habitat -- plenty of room to climb, run and jump and no one to shoot them.

Thanks to Misty for hosting Camera Critters each week.

Wishing all of you well and much joy.

Potpourri

It's been quiet on Twisty Lane.

I've been busy and trying to cut down my online time.

But, today is Friday and it's time for a little catch up -- some this and that.

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I went on a rainy adventure with a good friend down to Alvin, Tx and Joe's Bar-B-Q.
I can't tell you how many times I've driven by Joe's and thought the food must be good
because the parking lot was always full.
I've done my own personal research now and can report that I had the best
Bar-B-Q sandwich I've ever had at Joe's.
Then we were off to Froberg's Farm for some veggies and blackberry fried pie.
I didn't get many veggies, but I did get a fried pie (or two), some honey and blackberry jam.

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The Rice Baseball Insiders dinner was held at Reckling Park (home of the Owls)on the field. 

Boy was that fun. Some folks had never been on the field.

Lots of room to walk and talk and meet the fine young men who make up the 

Rice Owl Baseball team.

This is coach Graham and the next shot is one of the 18 conference title trophies.

Each table had a trophy as centerpiece.

I'm not sure how much fun the players had, but us *old* folks enjoyed ourselves.

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A true cold front arrives today.

We start at 75 at 5 AM and will drop to 50 --probably by noon.

It's supposed to stay in the 40s and 50s the next week.

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Santa has arrived on the front porch with his tree.

I've plugged them in to make sure they are working, but won't officially turn them on

until Thanksgiving.

The snowman is on the balcony. 

Getting ready to jingle on!

Wishing YOU well and much joy.

A Little Babying Never Hurts

There are three Satsuma trees in Musashi's Garden.

They've had a hard time.

I've talked to them and babied them through the continuing drought.

Telling them they didn't have to *perform* -- just stay alive.

This year, two of the little trees provided me with orange globes of sweetness.

YUM!

Before I ate all the evidence,

I decided that I needed to document the fact that

a little babying never hurts.

Wishing all of you well and much joy!

Good Morning, Glory!

Musashi's Garden is my postage stamp size backyard.

It is named for one of our favorite kitties, Musashi-San.

He was quite the guy.

This is what Fall looks like in Musashi's Garden.

Golden Ixora

Morning Glory

This is my volunteer Morning Glory.

If you look closely you can see the visitor that I captured.

Good Morning, Glory!

I do not know the name of this rose.

But I can tell you, she is a beauty and she smells just like a rose should!

I'm joining Mary at Mosaic Monday.

Wishing all of you well and much joy!