“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” – Luther Burbank

1. C.B. Strike – In my February book report I included the book Troubled Blood which is the latest of the Cormoran Strike series. I recently discovered the show C.B. Strike on HBO Max (originally aired on BBC One in the UK). It has four series each made up of 2 or 3 episodes that cover the first four books. I’ve been loving it! They deviate from the books quite a bit in the plot points, but I love a good detective show and I feel like they did a great job with the characters. Highly recommend, but warning of tough subject matter like murder, abuse, rape, and drug use.
2. My cat Buzz – We adopted our two cats (Buzz and Portia) a little over two years ago. They were pretty hesitant about us for awhile, but eventually warmed up. Portia has always been a lap snuggler, but only recently in the past week or so has Buzz started joining me when I sit on the couch. He used to only cuddle up to Tyler in bed, but he has become such a momma’s boy recently and I just love it!
3. Skiing – I had only gotten to ski a couple times before everything shut down last season. And we had no idea what this year would bring with Covid restrictions and the reduced capacity reservation system. But with my new flexible working schedule, I’ve already gotten to ski more this year than I have in the previous 5 years! Tyler and I skied on Monday and had decent snow with beautiful sunny bluebird skies!
4. “Shopping” my house – I mentioned on Wednesday that we’ve been doing some big furniture rearranging and reorganizing in the house. It’s opened up some new spaces for decorating and I’ve been having fun “shopping” other rooms in the house to fill shelves and tables. It’s amazing how just moving some things around can have a huge impact and completely scratch the itch I get for buying new home decor.
5. Chickens are laying again! – The winter drought seems to be over and we have fresh eggs again! Our hens stopped laying in the fall when they all started molting (losing all/lots of their feathers) and then they typically don’t lay during the short days of winter. But I peeked in the egg box on Sunday and there were several eggs in there! Unfortunately they had all frozen and cracked at some point so I tossed them, but it means we’re back into production mode!