Quiet Saturday

It feels as if we are stuck in the middle of a horror movie, here in Iowa. A foggy mist hovers over the landscape hiding the sun.  I can’t remember the last time I noticed sunshine. The warmer temperatures and rain today did manage to melt some of the snow and thank goodness we didn’t have a deluge like they were predicting.  A local weather person made it sound like we would have major flooding.  So glad it didn’t happen.  I live in a two story house with lots of angles on the roof.  Several times during the day, ice rumbled off the roof and crashed onto the back yard. 

Last week one of my writer friends put a photo of a huge icicle hanging off her house.  My first thought was that it would be a perfect murder weapon.  You could grab it, stab someone and as long as they were inside the house, you could leave and let it melt. Voila, no weapon.  I do think someone did something similar in an old mystery I’d read once.  That’s what I like about writing mysteries. You can come up with such devious ideas but it’s okay because it’s all fiction.

Speaking of ice falling off the roof.  It was so loud, it scared our son’s cat, Sadie so bad that she ran out of his room to sit by my side while I worked in my office. She gave me an accusing look as if I’d done something wrong.   She’s a tortie with an attitude.  Loves both my husband and my son, Jason but she can’t seem to warm up to me.  We tease Jason about having a stalker.  She rarely leaves his sight and always seems to be watching him with a dreamy look on her face. This evening,  Steve and I were watching a movie in the family room.  Jason was gone for the evening and in one outdoors scene bird song filled the room.  Sadie ran all the way downstairs and sat watching the television, hoping to see a bird.  Besides ignoring me, she spends an inordinate amount of time sitting on the window sill in the living room bird watching.  Sometimes she gets so excited, she makes a little barking sound. The only time she is nice to me is when her food bowl is empty. After I fill it, she again gives me the cold shoulder.

Hoping to get together with my friend Sara for a chat tomorrow.  Also plan to post my week 5 on novel writing blog but that may not happen before Monday.

Virginia

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