walking! fridge and other random comments

I went walking with R. who I haven't seen in months and months. Very fun! And I think I'll be going again with A. and possibly L. later on today (and my A., of course).

Tomorrow we get a fridge in Acton, sometime between 8 a.m. and noon. I won't be there for the festivities because I'm taking A. in for a shot at 11. Hopefully, R. can take T. with him; otherwise that's going to be one busy morning for me.

I. went to Cape Code yesterday and is going to Portland today; hopefully we'll see her for dinner tonight. She returns on Friday, which is sad; the week went by very quickly. She went up to the Whites including Bretton Woods and North Conway on Monday (?) and hung around on Tuesday and took me out to sushi lunch which was very enjoyable for me (sushi and conversation -- what's not to love?); hopefully I did not bore the heck out of her.

Once the fridge is in and working (assuming it _does_ work, which one should never put too much reliance upon), we can start thinking about when we move down. I'd like to wait one more week for the washer and dryer, but we probably don't strictly speaking have to wait.

_Melting Stones_, Tamora Pierce

I have temporarily abandoned _Religious Literacy_. I had a migraine yesterday; probably but not definitely the sun.

The quartet from the two quadologies is off-stage in this entry, but the girl found by Briar, Evvy, is off to the Battle Islands with Luvo, Rosethorn and a water temple initiate named Myrrhtide but nicknamed Fusspot by Evvy. Something is mysteriously killing plants, poisoning water and otherwise doing some damage on the island Starns. Turns out it is volcanic activity.

I'm about halfway through this. I didn't even know this book _existed_ until I saw it at Willow Books (see, this is what happens when I don't visit bookstores in person -- I've been waiting for the next Beka Cooper book but not keeping an eye out for other projects). It is an unalloyed and unexpected (in that I wasn't anticipating it for months but pleasantly surprised) joy. I'm sure there are people out there who don't love Tamora Pierce, so I guess they might not like this one too. She wrote it for audio, so if you love audio books, give this one a spin and tell me how it works for you. I'm reading it the old-fashioned way: on paper.