Well, it's the first day of June, so hopefully the snow is over. I swear we got more snow in May than we did in the first 4 months of the year. I celebrated the odometer on my new bike hitting the 500-mile mark with a loop ride on the Bridge-to-Nowhere. I had to go out on a Saturday, since it rained all last week. It was nice to get out, but the bike trails are like freeways around here on weekends. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate, so I can stick to riding on weekdays the rest of the summer. The trails are much less crowded.
The saga with the birds building nests in our entryway continues. Chicken wire didn't keep them out and neither did the shiny, dangling CDs. So, Bruce took down the chandelier-style porch light and installed a ceiling fan. We've been keeping it on all day, and so far, no new nests have shown up. Hopefully the birds found a new home on one of the neighbor's porches.
Charlie and I have been walking over to Starbucks once a week from the Prairie Dog Park. The sidewalks are closed right now, because the road to Starbucks is under construction. But we can walk up to Starbucks from the back by driving over to the park. Charlie prefers riding in Bruce's Jeep, but he'll tolerate the back seat of my Mini Cooper if he gets to chase and sniff wildlife.
I finished Pearl's baby book for Janet this week. This one turned out to be easier to make than I expected. It helped finding a scrapbook kit on Amazon focused on baby girls, and a lot of the papers were in sage green (Melissa's chosen color). The pages look a little plain right now, but that's so Janet can embellish them with photos.
I've been doing a lot of reading the past month, since we've had so much rain. May's challenge was to read a book with a season in the title. "Falls" in New Girl in the Falls technically refers to water not autumn, but the only other books I could find with a season in the title referred to winter, and I was sick of anything to do with snow or cold. The book is about a former FBI agent who moves to Sweetwater Falls to be their sheriff when her husband is murdered in New York City. I like books about strong women, but the deputies in this book make some of the dumbest moves that anyone who's watched an episode of Law & Order wouldn't make. I read The Quitters Club to get a "Q" book for the alphabet challenge. It was a contemporary women's fiction, a genre I tend to avoid because of all the drama and whining, but it was free on Amazon and Q books are hard to find. I read Murder on the Oxford Canal for the category of reading a book from an author whose last name is a first name. I enjoy Faith Martin's books so much that I actually read the entire 14-book series. So, next on the list for June I have to find a #booktok rec... but first I have to figure out what in the world is a #booktok.
