Field Trip!

This morning Frank asked me, "Are you ever going to post something new on your blog?" 

Go figure!  We spend 23 out of 24 hours of the day together and even he doesn't know what's going on in my life

Things have been busy on the LLB/Lorna front.  I had a stupendous day of writing on Thursday--and nothing since.  *Sigh*  Well, that may change...soon.  More on that in a minute.

Yesterday I fulfilled a two-year dream:  I found a day bed for one of the tiny bedrooms at the cottage.  I wanted to keep the "girliness" my mother brought to the room, while removing the double bed.  That's about all that fit in the room.  We had been going to look at bricks for a tiny weedy space in the backyard, and on the way home stopped at a couple of garage sales....

Man, if I was still in business at The Craft Antique Co-Op, I could've bought a ton of stuff for my booth.  It's so hard passing by all these wonderful things.  But what am I personally going to do with it?  So I bought one plate (which turned out to be chipped, dammit) and...the day bed.

It's got a few problems, not the least of which being it belonged to a small child who scuffed it up.  But once I put the dust ruffle and all those lovely pillows and a few teddy bears, it'll be gorgeous.  And it was a third of what I figured I'd have to pay (or was willing to pay) to get it.  Always a plus!  It looks similar to this--but so far without any bedding.

Of course, that meant taking the damn thing apart to fit it in the back of the mini van, hauling it 40+ miles to the cottage, getting it into the cottage, hauling out the old bed, reassembling it and cracking myself in the hand (I have a bruised and swollen finger -- and shin), but it's together.  Doesn't have any sheets or anything on it.  That's another thing I have to find/get.  But it'll all work out.

Today is Mother's Day--Happy Mothers Day to all who deserve it (even if you are fathers).  We're having my folks over for a picnic supper.  Yum!  I'm making the stuffed mushrooms recipe from Murder Is Binding.  (I LOVE stuffed mushrooms.)

Tomorrow is the field trip.  I'm doing research for the third booktown mystery. 

SPOILER ALERT:

It concerns a food pantry.

END SPOILER.

That should be interesting.  My contact has already directed me to a very helpful website and I got lots of really cool information.  I'm very interested in the subject.  It sort of ties in with my interest in going Green, too.

We're also heading to Buffalo tomorrow.  It's a belated Mother's Day trip to visit my mother-in-law, but it's also an opportunity for me to connect with bookstores and (hopefully) sign copies of Murder Is Binding. 

Also on the horizon:  DEAD IN RED bookmarks have been ordered!

And that's what's happening around here.  What's going on with you?