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I met a lot of lovely women at the book club. We talked about the book (of course) and then we just chatted over muffins and parfaits and fruit. There was other food there too, but it wasn't vegan so I didn't partake. It's nice being part of an all female group to just chat. One of the women loves puzzles too so we might start exchanging puzzles with her. YES!!! I love puzzles right now.  It stopped raining so Emory and I ventured out a little. We went food shopping which we desperately needed to do because our fridge was down to the nitty gritty of condiments and a few herbs.  We've been watching a Drink Masters show about cocktails paired with food and we decided to play a little with our food. We had to get bourbon which I've never drank so I don't know if I'll like it and we found a maple bourbon chili recipe that we're going to try. I'm a little nervous. He is too. He asked what we would do if we don't like it. I said we'll take it to th...

We went to the beach for the weekend and it rained so hard. We were in a good place in the middle of everything so we walked down to the dock and got drinks, then walked back to the restaurants and got tofu bowls. The rain got worst and the wind was pretty rough so we ended up going back to the condo and played with a puzzle. It took us a few hours to get the 500 piece puzzle put together.  My brother gave me a 12 Days of Coffee calendar and I'm drinking the candy cane coffee right now. I was a little afraid of having mint in my coffee but it's not bad. Actually, I sipped it and said, "Mmm, candy cane," and Emory laughed because I kept saying that with every sip. So it's good. I'm so excited for the coffee I got for Christmas. I love my coffee.  I saw these mugs at the beach! So cute and if we needed another mug I'd totally have bought it. I'm a sucker for coffee and coffee mugs. I'm drinking tea right now in a mug my mom gave me that belonged to m...

There have been "atmospheric rivers" out here in California, but higher north. One of our lakes is 34% higher in water level which we need because our droughts have been so bad that a news article read that we were running out of water. The mountains have been getting a lot of snow so that's good because I believe that's how we get our drinkable water.  Arizona at Christmas Time I love this picture because it has the sunset and the mountains and the drive. It was a beautiful drive that I think we'll be taking again real soon. I've been reading for book club, but I don't know if I'll get far along in the book before the meeting. It's so outside the norm of what I usually read and I'm not use to all those flashbacks. Usually the stories I read give tidbits of the past but everything is happening in real time. This story is mostly flashbacks and I can't tell right away if we're in "real time" or the "flashback." Fun. Em...

Book Club: The Four Ms Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton Happy New Years! We stayed home this year, but Darleen and Mr. M went to play poker at a friend's house and Sue stayed in watching a Netflix series. Ann and John went dancing and Rose went to a pajama party. She's a graduated woman so the pajama party probably had some liquor too. 😁 Emory and I put together puzzles and watched Disney movies until 12:00am and then we opened our door and listened to people shout and fire off the fireworks. When I was a child, we would take pots and pans outside and bang them yelling "Happy New Year" but since we live in a community, we decided not too, but people were shouting all around us. It was fun. I'm on the group text between two communes so my phone was blowing up. That was fun. This morning it's the same thing, except a third commune opened the group text chat. Today had a theme, send pictures of the food you're making to celebrate the New Year. I posted a pictu...