Wednesday. Receptionist back. Salesman back.
Steve has got the gun range tonight. I may read. I may binge (I'm at the start of the third season of Without a Trace). I don't think I'll play with beads. I will definitely go to bed.
I went to the bead shop at lunch today per Wednesdays. Just Ann and Hallie were there initially. Just before I left Bev and Carol arrived (no Jim or Pat). They all have said they really liked what I came up with.
So maybe I'm on the right track, creatively.
The drawing for the randomly-generated winner of the July Found Object Challenge last night ... wasn't me. Everyone does good and have such different beads mostly and different skills and skill levels so this makes sense and all you win are some more beads. Actually the "winner" was one of the three ladies in the current gathering who are from Montana. I think she lives in Kalispell. Also last night, the new packets of beads for the August Challenge were available. I ordered mine right away.
It's coming from Minnesota so I should get my bundle maybe Saturday at the earliest. Randee (the lady doing this) said she had 53 packets available and over half are already gone this morning (she does a live YouTube coffee chat on M-F mornings that I try to tune into).
On the reading front, I'm haven't really been sticking with other books I've started recently. But today I may be reading THE BARRISTER AND THE LETTER OF MARQUE by Todd M. Johnson. Either a stand alone or first in a series, it doesn't indicate yet.
As a barrister in 1818 London, William Snopes has witnessed firsthand the danger of only the wealthy having their voices heard, and he's a strong advocate who defends the poorer classes against the powerful. That changes the day a struggling heiress, Lady Madeleine Jameson, arrives at his door. In a last-ditch effort to save her faltering estate, Lady Jameson invested in a merchant brig, the Padget. The ship was granted a rare privilege by the king's regent: a Letter of Marque authorizing the captain to seize the cargo of French traders operating illegally in the Indian Sea. Yet when the Padget returns to London, her crew is met by soldiers ready to take possession of their goods and arrest the captain for piracy. And the Letter--the sole proof his actions were legal--has mysteriously vanished. Moved by the lady's distress, intrigued by the Letter, and goaded by an opposing solicitor, Snopes takes the case. But as he delves deeper into the mystery, he learns that the forces arrayed against Lady Jameson, and now himself, are even more perilous than he'd imagined.
Published 2021; 407 pages.
Have a good day
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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