. . . writes very suspenseful novels.

I began Rising Sun this afternoon. Unfortunately it is about 500 pages, so I won't be finishing it this evening.

But I'll be working on it! At the moment, I'm more or less planning to go in to work tomorrow. But if I do get overly involved in the reading, I can postpone that till Wednesday.

This morning I had a call from my neighbor asking if it was okay for them to formally adopt Emma. Emma has not been in this yard for about a month so it's sort of a polite formality. Emma adopted them a while ago.

She also told me that the old dog Emma had taken to had passed. I told her about Fabian. She offered her husband to dig Fabian's grave at some point.

Multi-pet owners understand about freezers. I told her there was lots of room in mine if they needed it for Duke (the dog.)

We also talked about tree men. Needless to say, they had noticed the tree work I'd had done. The whole trick is to get the ailing trees out BEFORE hurricane season. The cost of taking down dying trees rises astronomically when there's a storm in the Gulf. And if you don't have a regular tree man you may not find a good one.

Yesterday I bought a new floor fan to replace the one that no longer works. It was advertised (at Walgreen's) as regularly $29.95--but there was a $10 rebate available.

Imagine my pleasure when I saw the sticker price marked down to $15. Wonder if I'll still get the rebate?

So I put the non-working one on FreeCycle. My late husband could usually get fans working again when merely cleaning the blades was no longer successful and I'm sure there will be someone willing to try with this one. I think there are a couple of other semi-working fans around. And there's one that I have unable to disassemble to clean the blades.

Back to the book. TV tonight has nothing that piques my interest.