Field Notes- Sunday August 28th. Grocery shopping today instead of tomorrow.

 Cornfield- Tony Allain

The corn in my back fenced garden has been eaten by mice or other rodents or by large birds, squirrels etc. and animals are eating the peaches now and just leaving the peach pits as evidence.  Which...is fine- eating the whole peach ...not just the one bite that spoils the fruit.

I made a second Peach Cobbler.  Husband asked me to make it again.  He is back to eating dessert with his evening coffee.

Husband took the compost kettle out to the pile and brought back a nice summer squash.  Reminding me of the packets of seeds I dumped into the compost pile in the Spring.

I am reading a book.  It's new and freshly installed in the Best Sellers of NYT list.  Book Lovers.  Emily Henry.  Hard Cover and none of her others have been.  (Lessons in Chemistry is also on the list and Crawdads..)  I LOVED both of those books.

What is ODD.  I am reading and it's like "I've read this book"......like quite awhile ago.  Not in the past year but I have read it. Before that. Before COVID. The cottage out in the fields, the long stairway, the abandoned town, dyeing each other's hair, swimming at midnight with the handsome guy............ I read enough books over and over to know when I am re-reading a book--(no surprises).  But today- on the Best Seller List.  AND investigating my bookcase- there is a Trade Paper copy of Book Lovers.  Already on the shelf next to her other two books (been there awhile)). In other words....WTF.  And it's not even a good book.  Her others are so much better. Beach Read and  People We Meet On Vacation. 

This was the first book the author wrote......a long time ago.  And it wasn't published.  My guess. I think the Editor in this new book is named in Beach Read.  Waiting for pages. And a plot line from the book being written in Beach Read is also mentioned. See...I remember my books.

Husband read a book for 2 hours and forgot COMPLETELY that he had been reading just minutes after closing the book.  I tried several ways of jogging memory- but it was GONE. Now I wonder ..was he reading or just staring at the book for two hours?  Like Amnesia.