We often do beginnings on Sunday, taking a look at the start of one of my novels. CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF, the 16th novel – but not the last! – in the Chet and Bernie mystery series -comes out April 14 (preorders make the publisher happy and therefore me). We’re now doing the beginning of each one, going backwards (since the series can be read in any order) and on the 16th Sunday we’ll do CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF. Today we’re at SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY.
Home at last! We’d been away so long, first in swampy country, then in a big city – maybe called Foggy Bottom – that confused me from the get-go. Is there time to mention the air in both those places before we really get started? Soggy and heavy: that sums it up.
Where were we? Was it possibly … home? Yes! Home! Home at last! Our home – mine and Bernie’s – is on Mesquite Road. Mesquite Road’s in the Valley. Quite recently I might have heard that the Valley’s in Arizona, but don’t count on that. What matters is that right now I was inhaling a nice big noseful of Valley air. Light and dry, with a hint of greasewood and just plain grease: perfect. I felt tip top. Bernie opened our door, kicked aside a huge pile of mail, and we went in.
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When Chet feels ‘tip top’, the rest of us do too. That joy is infectious and cures a multitude of ills.
Thank you for the kind words for me and Huny Punkin. Thieves, I feel that quilt and have crawled in to hide for a few moments as last night was especially brutal. I’m looking for Amalia as I know we could comfort each other warmly. Who would have ever guessed that so many kindred spirits could find each other on a blog? Well, no blog like this one could ever be found! 💕
Just to second what the Thieves said last night about the Plunderer Quilt and its magical comforting powers. Indeed quilts have always played an important role on this blog (and its predecessor); indeed the very formation of the Plunderers is at least partially attributable to the quilt we gifted Peter with back in the day.
WTAFP: If we were to, er, help Franklin out of Mother Jail for the duck incident last week, and take him to the Quilt to tend to Reba, will that count as community service and absolve his spotless permanent record?
I would say yes, definitely.
Funny how the conversation has come around to quilts.
I haven’t made one in quite a few years, but I have some fabric sitting around that needs to be used or put away. It’s dogs. I know I have more of it and maybe even a panel for the middle. One my HELOC stuff gets done and the fence is repaired, I think it is time I get back to quilting. Might be a year or more but with a quilt to look forward to the work might go faster.
Reba, so sorry to hear of Huny Punkin. Like many others here, I know about the stress of caregiving.
Quilt!….I’m on that there Quilt we all together collaborated on. Wookie’s Maw did the final touches (or was it Staff?)…and sent it to The Charming Mr. Abrahams. …chuffle! …He was very surprised to receive it ….chorkel!…I hope he still has it hanging in his office above the garage….snuffle!
Thieves!…Progress has been made on the Anchorage Puzzle….snort!….I hope you received the foto of where we are with it today….guffle!….Still a long way to go. The hardest part is yet to be puzzled out….yeeep!