The Week that Was

Trying to come up with titles is sometimes easy, but not often. I’m not sure what has happened to my creativity lately, but it feels a bit squeezed out. Going to have to try and work on that this week.

Anyway, it was a busy week–lots of peopling: Superbowl watch party with great friends, colonoscopy with lots of white coats, and a spaghetti/bingo fundraiser at the county fair building. I believe we left the house more this week than we had in the previous month.

The colonoscopy was obviously a necessity, but so too was the time with friends. Tennessee and I are both homebodies and would almost always prefer to stay home, but it’s not good for us.

The watch party was fun and it had nothing to do with the game or the commercials or the T-Swift connection. It was about being with our friends. And also we had a chance to scope out their house as our wedding venue to get some idea of logistics…but mostly it was about being with our friends. 😉

Last night’s fundraiser was my first real community event and Tennessee told me it was a very good sampling of life in this small town, both good and bad. Though apparently, it was the first one with all three local lesbian couples in attendance at the same time. I would love to know how many in the crowd knew that besides us.

I still have not met the third couple, but I’ve heard a lot about them. My massage therapist is one of their neighbors and they used to be neighbors of Tennessee’s BFF before they moved here.

Speaking of T’s BFF, she’s the only one who won anything at bingo, at least from our group. There were a lot of great donated prizes and I really wish I could’ve won the giant candy bar the lady at the other end of our table won, but we all had a fun time anyway.

I also managed to finish two books this week one of which was for my book club which meets later today.

Book 10

“Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett and performed by Meryl Streep.

Usually, I would say ‘narrated by’ instead of ‘performed by’ but this was Meryl Streep and it was a performance. I had originally borrowed the eBook from the library, but I couldn’t get into it and my time expired. This is not one of those books I normally would have picked for myself but as it was for book club I splurged and used an Audible credit.

So glad I did-Meryl brought the main character and all those around her to life in a way that the reading of the eBook just couldn’t for me. I have absolutely nothing in common with any of the characters and I couldn’t connect with the written words.

That’s not to say it wasn’t well written, it is, but I just didn’t connect. The audiobook version allowed me to do that thanks to Meryl’s beautiful voice and performance. I could listen to her all day.

The story is about a mother telling her life story to her three adult daughters as they work like crazy to do the job of many people to pick cherries on their cherry farm in Michigan. It’s just the family without the farm hands because of the pandemic and that is an essential element to this book.

If you’re going to read this book, I highly recommend you do the audiobook.

Book 11

“The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels” by India Holton.

I honestly cannot say that I loved this book, but every time I think about it, it makes me smile and shake my head. It is an over-the-top, preposterous, tongue-in-cheek, Victorian farce with pirates and flying houses. At its core, it is a love story where the proper lady is actually a scoundrel and her love interest, the scoundrel, is actually a proper gentleman, well mostly anyway.

I hate not being able to recommend books, but neither of these will hit the top 10 of many favorite books for this year. You, however, might enjoy them.

Be well, my friends.