Field Notes- Saturday, May 6th. sunshine outdoors but the house felt cold.

 Did I use this image recently?  I like it. Thinking about some dark blue fabric and some fabric carrots. I might even give the bunny a go. (perhaps am repeating myself about that also)  I used to be able to make things out of cloth- in the way back years. And I do have that large piece of sewn carrot fabrics (multiples) I could finally cut into carrots shapes.

so.....the Jude Devereaux New Book. "My Heart Will Find You".  I wasn't going to like it...but I did. And it was 1880's cowboys.

It started on the very very first day of the EPIC TOTAL USA lockdown of COVID.  The woman in the story is in an airport in Kansas......everything shuts down.  No cars, No Taxi. No luggage coming down the ramps.  Just her carry on......no connecting flights... grounded.  She does get a very impolite ride into Town and then an even more abrupt braking of the car and a "get out" as the car races away. Town is completely SHUT DOWN.

She walks down a nice street of big old homes.  A guy opens his door and looks at her and asks if she might enjoy a glass of lemonade.  The guy is very old, lives alone and is hungry.  She works in a food truck back where she lives. She very quickly cooks him something nice.  She stays.  She sleeps.  She dreams of a life in the late 1800's as a mail order bride (arriving and quickly getting married). The story goes back and forth......now and then..... Devereaux waits till the last 4 pages.....actually the last paragraph.

I haven't told you anything you won't read in the first 20 pages.  I'm not saying anything else but I was sobbing by the end.  That's the usual for me with her books.

I don't quite know how I got the book so fast.  It has so many holds on it.  But I am fine with what ever magic got it to me.  The Curtis Sittenfeld new book also got to me so very FAST with a very very long hold list..  I have one more here.  Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez.  Not a long hold list but brand new. I have enjoyed all her other books.  Am looking forward to another full day of reading. And then I might retreat to the 1880's again.......and Etta. Cry some more.

Made us pizza for supper.  Not enough shredded mozzarella so I used a bag of shredded yellow cheese also. It was pretty all right.....good.  Cheese is cheese, I guess...learn something new, even at 76.