 It's
too freakin' cold to look for birds. Besides that, with
this northwest wind they've probably all been blown so
far south they'll never see north again. With the amount
of rain we had over the weekend, I'm amazed there is
still snow on the ground. There are bare patches here and
there, but amazingly the snow pack is pretty much intact
in this corner of the the universe. Whatever did melt is
now deep ridges of solid ice. I was amazed at how bad the
road is to get in and out of my condo complex. Who needs
speed bumps when you have ice ridges?
So rather than brave the icy world,
a world I am increasingly withdrawing from anyway ice or
no ice, I curled up with the latest cat mystery from Rita
Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. How she gets her cat to
write in English is a mystery to me. :-) These mysteries
are more violent and more complicated to solve than
The Cat Who series, though Crozet, Virginia is a
less interesting place than Moose County. The Tail of
the Tip-Off is well plotted and kept me guessing to
the last 10 pages or so. And I finished the whole thing
today, which provides more evidence that my slowness in
reading has to do with my choice of reading material and
not some fundamental brain glitch. I've always marveled
at people who read a book a day or even a book a week. It
took me almost two months to read The Measure of All
Things, which La Madre gave me for Christmas. That's
partly because I couldn't stand to read about the French
revolution at bed time and partly because the book was
just chock full of ideas about the relationships among
politics, economics, and science, which I need to digest.
Anyway, today was a day for a cat mystery and a pot of
gen mai cha.
It's March and nobody I know has
seen a single redwinged blackbird yet. And the
temperature is in the single digits outside. In March. Go
figure.
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Today's Reading
The Tail of the Tip-Off by Rita Mae Brown, Cat
Culture: The Social World of a Cat Shelter by Janet
Alger and Steven Alger, Early Spring in Massachusetts
from the journals of Henry David Thoreau edited by H.G.O.
Blake
This Year's Reading
2003
Book List
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