Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

Lots of work over the past week getting things on the computer back to "normal", I wasn't thinking and just clicked on the button from my cloud storage to restore EVERYTHING. Wrong move, said it would be three days, so I let it run for three days. Then I couldn't find anything. Early on I knew I could find individual files and I found the 10 or so I really needed. No pictures included. 

Then as I figured it out, I could just download certain folders with documents and pictures. Got that all done and finally have things where I want them and can find them. In January my old hard drive was nearly full so I bought an external hard drive to move really old pictures off. But after restoring so much to my new hard drive, that is over half full already. Maybe I should go get another external hard drive.  

After thinking about it I will be starting a new blog concentrating on what I do with books and crochet projects. The reveal date will be 

 Wednesday April 1, 2026 

https://bookshooksyarn.blogspot.com/ 

This will give me a chance to get things organized over there. I haven't done much with setting up a blog in ages. Just doing posts is easy, all this other stuff I have forgotten how to do it. Plus a few things aren't quite the same. I will figure it out, nothing like a new challenge. 

We had a successful evening at trivia on Monday, second place again. Which means a $25 gift certificate which we use for our drinks and appetizer for the evening. Taking the rest of the month off as one of our group will be on a trip.  

Monday March 16 will be a memorial post for Ducky. 

So on to the books, yes, still finding time to read. Makes me calm after being stressed out with all of the computer stuff.   

Home of the Braised - White House Chef mystery. Ollie is in the midst of planning a last minute White House dinner, trying to get her wedding organized and oh yeah, save the day with the President. 

A Dream of Death - first book in a series, Kate Hamilton Mysteries. Kate is an antiques dealer and widow from Cleveland, Ohio. She is on a trip to visit her sister-in-law, Elenor, who lives in the Scottish Hebrides. She finds out her Elenor is planning on selling the large family home that serves as a hotel. The night after Elenor announces the sale she is found murdered and buried under a pile of snow. So can Kate figure out who did it? 

The Twelve Books of Christmas - it's Christmas time and Brooklyn and Derek are hosting the entire family. They get a call from from their Scottish friends. Would they fly to Inverness to be witnesses at their wedding? Yes! However while there they look into missing books from the castle library and find a couple of bodies. I've managed to read all 17 books in this series already in less than a year. Now I wait for the author to release a new book. This last book was published in October 2023, so two years ago! I want a new book! One is in the works. 

In the Bleak Midwinter - First book in a series. Main characters are Rev. Clare Fergusson and Police Chief Russ Van Alystyne, both are former Army as well. Clare finds an abandoned baby on the back steps of her church. In trying to track down the parents, some church members aren't too happy, and when they figure out who mom is, the mom is murdered. Lots of twists in this one. 

Every time We Say Goodbye - Vivien has written a play that audiences love, but the critics don't. To escape London she goes to Rome to work as a script doctor in 1955. While there she also searches to see if she can find her any trace of her fiancee who died during World War II. Lessons as to looking behind to the past or looking forward to the future. 

Karen - a memoir by actor Kelsey Grammer about his life and that of his sister Karen. Karen was brutally murdered in 1975 when she was just eighteen. Book was hard to read, party on the subject matter but also the writing style of the author seemed disjointed to me. 

The Lost Key - second installment of The Brit in the FBI. Nicholas Drummond is a newly minted Special Agent and manages to be involved in a few deaths on his first day on the job. Those deaths lead to a much deeper sinister plot that involves a world order, nuclear material and a bit of James Bond magic. This book moved much faster than the first one, which I liked better. 

 Happy Reading.