Weekend dog meets Monday cat

 

Monday

 

Had a nice quiet weekend. I beaded, I read, and I napped a couple times. The cold appears to be leaving. 

 

Sometimes when I have a cold, I get the feeling not only for comfort food but also comfort reading. A little while ago I reread the Tobey books by Rosamond duJardin. This weekend I reread most of the Penny and Pam books.

 DOUBLE DATE (1952)

 

 

Quiet, sensitive Penny Howard has always tried to be as much like her vivacious twin Pam as Pam wished- wearing the same clothes, and letting Pam arrange dates and choose their activities. But as the girls start their senior year at a new high school, in a new town, Penny resolves to no longer be a carbon copy of Pam.. To her surprise, she finds herself quietly cheered on by their mother, and their grandmother, and most happily for Penny, by Mike Bradley, the boy she was afraid Pam had chosen for herself.

DOUBLE FEATURE (1953)

 

Pam and Penny's grandmother is marrying Lucius and now they must agree on which college to attend. Pam must also decide what to do about Randy's growing feelings for her. The twins choose Harwood, where Mike is also going and Pam decides to break things off with Randy who is heading east to go to school. At Harwood, Pam meets Cade, who plays the same game of hard-to-get that Pam is used to playing herself. But she also meets Jeff, who doesn't really belong to her crowd, but attracts her nonetheless. At the end, she must decide who is more important to her and also changes her ways as she learns more about what it is like to grow up and change.

SHOWBOAT SUMMER (1955)

 

A summer vacation aboard the Harwood College Showboat was an exciting prospect for Pam and Penny, the twins of Double Feature. To Penny, it meant being with Mike who had a job on the tugboat that pushed the old Regina from town to town along the Ohio River. To Pam it meant a chance to act, and perhaps a leading role in one of the gala showboat performances.

 And one more to go:

 DOUBLE WEDDING (1959)

Graduation seems far away to Pam and Penny, as they start their second year of college, especially since their marriages are postponed until their fiances' graduations. But college days are crowded days and many things happen to shorten the waiting. Then sooner than Pam and Penny ever dreamed possible, it's commencement time... will a double wedding follow?

And I read some of the Jordan. 

Street Outlaws on TV tonight. I've got to do more beading for a while. I don't know what's for dinner yet.

 

Have a good day

 

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster