The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Here’s a quick post to let you know my husband and I are heading out to New Orleans this morning. Google maps says it’s a nine hour trip, and I am hoping it (they?) is (are?) correct. Our son is going to be holding down the fort here, even though Sprite (our puppy) is no longer with us. Having him here let’s me enjoy my trips.

My husband and I are scoping out apartments for our daughter. Her clerkship is over in August and she will be starting another one the next week. So we will be trying to find a place for her to rent for the year she is in New Orleans. I hope we find a place she’ll be happy and SAFE. She has e-mailed us several complexes that she has looked into, which will make our scouting trip a little easier.

We still haven’t decided whether we are going to turn the scouting trip into a vacation. We’ll wait and see how many places we end up looking at, and how tired we get.

I’ve got a few posts that will be going up automatically: the TV Mystery Movies and the May New Releases. Other than that, I’ll probably be chatting about our trip. Hopefully it will be more amusing than just talking about the apartment situation.

I downloaded the latest Alexander McCall Smith No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon) and his last 44 Scotland Street (Bertie Plays the Blues) as well as Spencer Quinn’s The Dog Who Knew Too Much and some Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, and Ngaio Marsh mysteries. We should be able to agree on at least one audio mystery!

Spring Fever. Spring Break. Spring Forward. Spring Bouquet. Spring Cleaning. Spring-in -your-step. Spring Flowers. Spring Semester. Well, you get the picture…

I actually just went over to my calendar to see when Spring will begin, so that I could wish you all great Spring times. Lo and behold, I missed it! Spring actually began last week, and I was totally oblivious to that fact. You would think that after changing/reprogramming several clocks in the house, it would have occurred to me! Perhaps that would explain why I have been in a springtime type of mood. (No, that doesn’t include Spring Cleaning!)

I prepared our Hummingbird feeder at the very beginning of March since we were having such spring-like weather. I knew it was too early, but with it being so warm, I thought perhaps the Hummingbirds hadn’t gotten the same memo they do about when to fly to San Antonio. I wanted to be sure that everything was ready for the little fellows. I knew they had traveled quite a distance to get here.

Of course, nature being what it is, the little birds didn’t appear until they were actually supposed to appear, regardless of our unusually warm weather for this time of year. The only thing that happened with our Hummingbird feeder is that it got very yucky, since the nectar was stagnate for so long. (That’s right, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”!)

This past Thursday, I bought two red hanging geraniums to catch the attention of the Hummingbirds and then I cleaned and re-fueled the Hummingbird feeder. I don’t know why I chose Thursday, it just felt like the right day to (again) get ready for the Hummingbirds. Within hours, our first Hummingbird arrived.

As I said, I just checked my calendar to see when Spring will arrive this year. Imagine my surprise when I saw that Spring sprang last Thursday. It appears like that little, tiny Hummingbird knew a whole lot more than I did!

Hope you ALL have wonderful Spring times!