Well, no sooner than I had written my last blog about the beautiful days we have been having down here in San Antonio than this>>> It has been raining absolutely all day, and I now have big, muddy puddles outside… which means I have to carry our dog (Sprite) over the mud. Of course, I could let her just lumber out and enjoy the feeling of the mud between her pads, but I am opting to not give her a bath today, so I will just keep insisting that I am the only one who knows how to take her outside today.
You would think that with four adults in the house, "the others" would know how to let Sprite outside… but I am the only one who apparently knows how to bathe her, so I insist that I am the only one who knows how to avoid the tracking of the mud through the house. (Of course, I am also the only one who has ever mopped the floors in our house, although I am pretty sure that "the others" could handle that unpleasant task with great aplomb. (Ah… you may wonder why there are four adults in the house…. spring break is here… regardless of the dreary weather we are currently experiencing.)
I am hoping that I learn my lesson and don’t show off about our gorgeous weather in the future… or at least if I do, I knock on wood…
Wow! There sure are a lot of detectives of “a certain age” out there in the world of mystery books! When I started going through all of my authors and trying to categorize them, I divided them into more obvious themes… I had sleuths who cooked and cleaned, amateur detectives who gardened and golfed, accounting sleuths, amateur detectives who skated and golfed, sleuths who owned book stores or worked at libraries, ETC. However, I think that the “senior” sleuth was the most ambiguous of all of the categories. When I was in my twenties, I probably would have said that 60s would be considered senior. Now, however, I don’t think of 60s as anywhere near “retirement time.” (Note that I don’t say just “retirement”…. since I am truly looking forward to the day when my husband can retire and we can really start living… it up, I mean! Travelling during the time when other people are locked into the school schedules, taking off when we feel like it, going where we want to go, ETC… and that’s a BIG “ETC” of all the things that are available once you retire from work… but by no means from life! (Enough philosophizing for the day!)
What better way to begin this list than by listing Anne George’s Southern Sisters Cozy Mystery Series! Here is the second part of the Senior Sleuth Mystery Theme…