Finally Friday - Fun Read - Night Passage by Robert B. Parker

Finally Friday and time for a fun no brainer book. Thanks Linda Hoffman for your thrift book purchases. 

Night Passage by Robert B. Parker is first in a series with a new character, Jesse Stone.  (Parker is known for his Spenser novels).  Anyway, Jesse Stone is thirty five, newly divorced,  borderline alcoholic, and dumped from his LAPD detective job. He gets a call from a Massachusetts town called Paradise and is hired as the new police chief. Is this a new start?

cover blurb  For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption - replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen, and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. 

Jesse Stone must use his unnerving quiet power and skills to uncover all the dirt and emerge a hero.  Or does one false move lead to  death?  Keep turning  the pages and find out.  This is a quick read with underlying humor and some "oh wow" moments.  Good brain candy. 
 

Whatever Wednesday - Dame Agatha Christie

 1926!   The Murder of Roger Ackroyd      Dame Agatha Christie

I almost don't need  to say more.   I picked this book for our PA book club.  Let's go old school.  It was listed as THE  BEST Crime Thriller  Novel EVER on a few lists. 

What  the heck! Let's give it a go.  I was not disappointed. 

I went through an Agatha Christie phase back in junior high and high school.  Hercule  Poirot, Jane Marple - oh the best detectives.  The clever plots.  The small town settings.  The subtle clues I never got. 

This book is amazing  considering 1926      Seriously.   How  did she come up with this?
 

I'm not  going  to give away plot or characters or possibilities.  You MUST read this book and just  bow. 

Kudos Dame  Agatha.  I guessed everyone in  the damn village, and then said, "WTF?"

Oh yeah!        Enjoy, my friends.   Re-visit the BEST. 

Monday Moments - Earth Day

Our earthly ball a peopled garden - Goethe 

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag

Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection - Walt Whitman

I look to the sea

Frozen earth

Blooms of spring

Happy Earth Day!

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?  Henry David Thoreau

 

Finally Friday - Spring in San Saba

Spring Saturday in San Saba, TX.   Hill Country.  Ray and I visited Aunt Pat on solar eclipse weekend.  One chore was a new flag for James' grave and trim up the area.   

Nifty decoration as you look over the land

Ray in hog heaven - using the tractor

Gorgeous sunset

Ray and me with a heart cactus

That's a round-up of spring in San Saba   (look out for snakes - rattlers on the move.  None slithered out on this trip)
 

Whatever Wednesday - Let's Go Fly a Kite

Butterfly hair band, yellow dress, pink shoes, and a kite string in hand - Dakota is ready to soar

 Set sail in the sky, a new kite swirls

ribbons trail, wordless signals of joy

crane our necks to watch to the show

memories of past kites - wispy wishes in the wind

Monday Moments - Random spring and Easter pics

Levi (5 months) was wide awake early. By the time the Easter egg hunt began, he was snoring. 

Silly basket head girls

Kevin's crew

Silly Ray - a wascally wabbit. 
 

Finally Friday - new home, new season, new friends

Chris and Krystal just signed on to their first new home - very exciting for them.  The place is lovely and they have years to enjoy, decorate, and create memories. 

Opening Day tailgate - Ray style.  We actually bought sandwiches from Jersey Mike's and enjoyed our lunch in this parking  lot.  Arrived at the ballpark at 2 pm, didn't leave until victory in the 10th inning at 10 pm.  Whew!  Long  day

NO we did not eat this Triple Play Boomstick - that's a lot of calories right there and it's expensive too.

Extra fun being the World Series Champions 2023

And these mermaids are out of the water and eating at Ole Enchiladas.  Yes, this is my water aerobics crew - Debbie, Elayne, and Claudia.  I'm on the front right.  Fun times and we could talk without treading water. 

Happy Weekend everyone!