pins and needles...

not much of anything these days

the heat came back 

 went out in it for a few minutes and couldn't take it

there were horrendous storms again last night

this time way North of us

(I know...US weather from a crap UK paper!!!)

we got nothing

and we need rain

just a few miles West of us it reached

111 deg. F

43.8 deg. C

no matter where

that's hot and it doesn't belong in the foot hills of the Blue Ridge

so I have been in

the

roomontheleft

quite a bit

playing with the cool fabric

or on the couch under the fan 

set on medium

reading my books

my favourite books ever

Alexander McCall Smith

and his ladies

Ma Ramostwe

or

Isabel Dalhousie and her philosophical musings and her tartan clad baby Charlie

or

Bertie and his overbearing mother

or Cyril (a Highland Terrier) and his gold tooth and his weakness for human ankles

have you read any?

if you haven't

 you should!!!!

I can't stop reading once I start

husband watches the pages fly and close to what he thinks is the end

he asks

shall I hit the buy button

we have them stacked in the wish list on Amazon

because

A MC S

hasn't stopped writing

and I won't stop reading until he does

I may not read for a while but when I do

there better be three or four waiting

so in the heat I get to go to Edinburgh

or

to the heat of Africa

a heat I do remember

even though I was little

but it seemed different somehow

and we certainly didn't have ceiling fans

set 

to 

medium!!!