Daily Notes- Tuesday, February First. Sunshine & Snow.

 For those of you wondering what I am reading.  The first of the Sonali Dev books has Persuasian in the title.  Read them in order as the characters each have stories and out of order ruins them.  My favorite is the last of the Dev books.  Incense. There should be one more coming soon as there are four adult children in the Raje family.  The Trouble with Hating You was different.  Not your usual funny book about the family.  This one had hard subjects but strong characters.  Another has been written and I am going online to find a library that has it. Eventually, all the "girlfriends" will get their own love story. Fabulously weird "meet cute" at the beginning.

My Library is carrying many new "brown" authors in this very very non-brown State. Possibly the "whitest" State in the Union.  And we are also being offered books on relationships between same sex couples. I am enjoying ALL of it.  And I am thankful to our Librarians. Very much so. We all might be different in many ways...but inside...we are all part of the same humanity..

In the mail yesterday, a postal package with leftover sock yarn.  I used the pale pink and aqua yarn to mend 6 different holes in my favorite grey sweater.  I was going to take a picture for today- but you'll have to wait for tomorrow.  And todays' red sweater has three enormous holes.  So that is on my schedule for the next mending day.  I have to decide on grey or black for the patches as I do NOT have a donor in red.

Thank You Paula!!!  I used your yarn leftovers to mend socks the first time and now sweaters.

I had SOUP for supper last night and this particular pot of Pantry Soup (Dee!!) was more delicious than all the ones that went before.  How can that always be the case?  I am having Soup again today. I watched a PBS cooking show I had recorded with Chicken Paprikash (which my grandmother made often).  And I learned that a massive influx of immigrants came to America in the late 1800's and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.  My grandparents and their brothers and sisters included in that massive amount..  Some of the brothers and sisters later moved to Pennsylvania or  New York State. My grandparents and my grandmother's sister and her family stayed in Cleveland. I saw their names on a census record living in the same two family house.