How cold is it?

I'm about to start ACTS OF FAITH by Patricia Wynn. This is 5th of 5 in series featuring Gideon St. Mars, a viscount who becomes the highwayman Blue Satan, and his friend Mrs. Kean, in early 18th century England. Here's a description:

Convinced that she will never see the outlawed Viscount St. Mars again, and nursing a broken heart, Hester Kean is not sorry when her relatives send her alone into Yorkshire to prepare her cousin Mary for life at the English court. Travelling on the stage, she befriends a reserved young gentleman, returning home after many years, whose mysterious behaviour is due to his fear of being arrested for receiving an illegal Roman Catholic education in France. When the young man arrives home to learn that his father has been murdered, Hester wants to help, but her efforts are stymied by the secrets the young man and his family are forced to keep. Encountering degrees of prejudice against "papists" on all sides, Hester cannot blame them for their clandestine lives, but was it that very secrecy that led to the murder? Hester has an affair of her own to keep private, for Gideon has tracked her north in disguise, determined to win her. Elated to know at last that he loves her, she still has to discover whether he wants her for a mistress or a wife. Somehow, they must hide their intimacy from Hester's cousins, while stealing the moments alone they need to resolve their future together.

Published in 2014, it has 379 pages.  As I mentioned in a previous post, it has been almost four years since this author last wrote for this series. I'm very looking forward to reading it. 

I finished CJ Sansom's LAMENTATION last night. It was WONDERFUL!

Tonight, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns after a week off. Woot!  

Last night, we went out to dinner at Outback. It has been at least a dozen years since we'd had their food but I think I'd seen a commercial recently and their steak and lobster combo looked good. We were pretty disappointed. The bloomin' onion wasn't as I remembered. It was greasy and the onion "spindles" were thin and, well, spindly. Then my lobster was small (I expected that) and so salty along with the butter so salty it was almost inedible. And my rice was salty. I mean, we didn't complain -- maybe we should have -- but we didn't. There were other food problems but the service was all right. Just ... disappointed. My birthday overall, was 99.9 percent lovely.  Steve also got me the Beleek lamp I've been hankering for but he received an email this morning that it is delayed until December 19th. I told it is a wonderful Christmas present. :)

Today the high temp is 8. Eight. We're used to cold in Montana but the abrupt change of so mild in the 60s over the weekend to this, doesn't allow the body to adjust. It just feels super cold. Cooooold.

Ryker, of course, is loving it.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster