Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books, Movies, and TV
Happy Easter! Happy Passover!
Happy Easter!
Our daughter will be moving to Washington D.C. this summer. She will be living there permanently. I remember about the times I moved when I was single, or after my husband and I got married, we did everything by mail and phone calls. Now things have become so easy! The internet has made looking for an apartment almost as easy as just a few clicks.
Our daughter is currently click, click, clicking through D.C.’s different metro (subway) stations, “walkability” ratings, tenant reviews, neighborhood police reports, let’s face it, everything! She is coming up with a list of apartment complexes she thinks look promising. My husband and I are then going to fly out and check out the complexes and their areas. We’ve done this before, but this time we decided that since she will be doing all of her commuting to and from work via the metro, we’re going to do the same thing.
This should be interesting! The last time I was on a subway was in Boston (the “T’ in Boston), and let me tell you, I was a little disillusioned with what I saw going on! Let’s just say that the subway today is a whole lot different than from what you might see in an old black and white movie! (Did they even have subway systems back then?!?) I was surprised to see men and women of all ages sitting on the T while eight-month pregnant women were forced to stand. Hmmm…
Even though our daughter won’t be moving for several months, my husband and I have discussed D.C.’s hot summer months, so we are planning on going during April. When our children were little we lived in Maryland for a while, so this will be a going-home of sorts for us. However, it will be our first trip to neither rent a car nor take our own, so this might prove to be … hmmm… fun. (???)
Happy Spring!
[I’ll talk about my current Cozy Mystery by one of my favorite Cozy Mystery authors , Rita Lakin, at the end of this entry, so it’s not like it’s totally devoid of Cozy Mystery information!]
So, once again: Happy Spring!
I know this isn’t the way a lot of you want to begin spring, but hopefully it will get a lot better for you ALL soon. Seeing that those of you in the northeast are in the midst of snow (again!) takes me back to when I went to college in Iowa. Brrr!
My computer monitor conked out yesterday, which, as you would guess, was a hassle. I always get my husband’s or son’s hand-me-down computer components, so I now have my husband’s mammoth-size monitor. (He ordered a new one for himself.) I actually have had to move my new monitor over toward the wall so I can still keep an eye on my birds outside. We now have a Cardinal pair who are making our Goldfinch feeder their choice of feeding places. I’m really enjoying them >>> probably a whole lot more than the tiny Goldfinches are enjoying their company!
I just started a book by one of my very favorite Cozy Mystery authors: Rita Lakin. There hasn’t been a Gladdy Gold mystery since 2011, so I am really spacing out the books. I don’t want the series to end! This is a Senior Sleuth series, but in reality, it’s a senior sleuthS series! Gladdy lives in a Florida retirement community, and she is helped by a few other ladies who live there. Don’t be put off thinking these ladies take things easy! These ladies are active! These book titles should give you an idea of the series: Getting Old Is Murder, Getting Old Is Criminal, Getting Old Is to Die For, and Getting Old Can Kill You. How can you go wrong with titles like these?!?
Well, I’m going to post this entry now, so my husband can use my computer. (His monitor won’t arrive until tomorrow.)
Happy Spring to ALL of you!
Yikes!This is a particularly STRANGE Friday the 13th! It’s the second month in a row we’ve had a Friday 13th, and the last time this happened was something like eleven years ago! Now that I know all of this, here’s my second warning:
