Good Morning Monday

   Just popping in to say hello.

     We are in for another very hot and humid week. I have had to stop my work with moving rocks as I have really messed up my bad knee. It's really bad this time.

  Kept off it yesterday, keeping ice packs on it through out the day, and then the knee brace I have. This knee has torn cartilage from about 20 plus years ago-and I have just babied it and been careful. With the rocks I was watching out for my lower back never thinking about my knees.  I was doing pretty well with walking, til I had to carry down a large bag of ice down the hill and the stairs when I went grocery shopping Sunday morning early. The stores near me don't sell the smaller bags just these huge bags and I hadn't realized before how heavy they are. The ice maker quit working last year in the frig so I have been buying ice. Of course we use more during the summer months.

   Larry just walked in and has had an accident-something snapped and one of his arms has a long cut underneath-He shouldn't be out there working in this high heat and humidity especially by himself any more, but he is not one for sitting around when a job needs to be completed-the dock. I wish mother nature was not throwing out this extreme heat again.

   Saturday I decided I needed a craft room day, so I stamped up a dozen cards from cardstock. Mostly for fall and a few to finish up with the summer. I have several slow mail blog friends I mail to, so is why I am not sharing a photo. I was pretty happy with my new hand stamped cards-and I used my watercolor pencils too. A fun craft day.

   I have been doing allot of reading in the evenings. Finished up a book The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau. I have read this author's other books and have enjoyed them-this one I picked up a year or so ago when it was on sale and just found out it is a series with two more books, I would never spend the current price of  around $12.00 for an ebook.   I know nothing about very early English history and the catholic church at that time, so I had a difficult time getting through this book not knowing what was true from the fiction.  I did like the plot and the characters, so would pick up the other two if they should go on sale

   I don't remember now who suggested the following book but was from one of the blogs that I visit-thank you I am really enjoying this book. 

     World of Wonders in Praise of Fireflies Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments   by Aimee Nezhukumatahil

  This is a beautifully written and illustrated book

    I found the below review on Ebay--and is where I found a good price for a hardcover copy.

"Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders is the first book to make me feel like a firefly as much as it reminds me I'm still a black boy playing in Central Mississippi woods. The book walks. It sprints. It leaps. Most importantly, the book lingers in a world where power, people, and the literal outside wrestle painfully, beautifully. This book is a world of wonders. This book is about to shake the Earth." -- Kiese Laymon Have a good Monday