Here we are at the end of the week and I have not finished quilting the Optimism sampler. I got side tracked with other things as usual. Yesterday morning I made some oatmeal cookies to give to Chris for his birthday. It was a recipe I've used many times and which Larry Brown, former printer extraordinaire downtown, called "the best" he'd ever had. Somehow I left out a crucial ingredient - 2 cups of flour! - resulted in a soggy mess. I tried to correct them for the next batches but they still weren't up to par. Still, Chris was happy to receive them. We took him and a friend to lunch which was nice.
Afterwards, I got engrossed in a great book, The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, and read steadily all afternoon. Thank goodness my Kindle didn't run out of power which often happens if I'm enjoying a book. It seems to like to run out just when I reach the final denouement.
This book is told through letters by a 70-something retired lawyer and mother who has been writing letters all her life, including to someone who is, as yet, not identified, to whom she never mails. Epistolary novels like this and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society are one of my favorite genres. "Everyone" seems to be reading this novel, and I can see why. There's not a lot happening, but somehow you just want to see what does.
Last night we watched the movie The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which is based on another book I enjoyed a few years ago. Even Paul enjoyed the movie about an elderly man who decides to walk across England in an effort to keep a friend alive when she falls ill with cancer. The woman who plays his wife is well known and recognizable as Mrs, Crawley in Downton Abbey.
I have a doctor's appointment this morning (if the roads look driveable - so far they look a bit slippery), and then there will be some grocery shopping perhaps. I'll get back to quilting and look forward to reading more. Happy weekend!
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