Book Club Meeting.......................without a name!

A good boy scout mom friend of mine started a book club and invited me back in February (I think), but we haven't been able to come up with a good name for our fun and lovely group!

We met at my house last night and reviewed "The Art of Racing in the Rain" which was a really good book. It seems that we usually meet at least 2 hours and spend about 45 minutes to an hour discussing the book. The other time is spent catching up with life and drinking wine and enjoying a yummy dessert. We are a group of 10 with different connections and careers but enjoy reading and sharing thoughts. I feel this has given me the opportunity to make new friends since Karen was the only one I knew. Now Joyce and I have become close friends due to our love of running! Karen and Joyce and I follow each others blogs and then I found out that Cathy is a blogger too!

My hubby was the photographer for us last night along with chief wine bottle opener!

Next month we will be discussing "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" at Gretchen's house.
There's the back of my head and then from left; Cathy, Lindy, Charlee, Gretchen (scratching my kitty cat) and Karen.


Here's a picture with the other two, Joyce and Luann.

The Kindness of a Total Stranger

I haven't blogged for awhile..................just nothing special to write about but today was it! I went to the local Lowe's to get a patio set for the deck. I have wanted one with a cute umbrella forever and today was the day! So of course the Lowe's "man" helped me saying sure we can fit that in your Honda Accord........................a 36 inch patio table and 6 stackable wrought iron chairs! Yeah I believed him, I wanted it!

So they were Barney Fife and Goober, real nice, but that table was just about 2 inches too wide and the chairs..............well the back doors just wouldn't open wide enough. And one of them was worried about tearing up my "leather." Funny thing is, hubby had a Ford F-250 truck up until about a year ago which he traded for a Honda Civic because diesel was so expensive! So I went back into the store to "return" the set and get my money back.

Then a really nice "good ole boy" offered to take it to my house. A complete stranger! Just put it in that gray truck out there after you move the saw to the side and I'll follow her home after I do my shopping. After he said it twice, I agreed........................I wanted it! First we put it in the wrong gray truck, it had a radial saw in it, plus so much other junk. The man came out hollering "wrong truck" so we moved it to the right one and it was much bigger and less junkier! So Barn and Goob went back inside and I sat in my car waiting on my delivery guy. And I waited, and I waited, then I got worried. What if he didn't come out and then I went in to find him and then he came out and drove away with my loot?? What if he turned the other way and took my stuff? So I wrote down his tag # and a description of the truck. Called the hubby..............called my son................turned off my car....................turned it back on. Then "he" came out.....................chatting with a friend........................such a nice guy. I got out and he said "just drive slow and I'll follow you home." And he did! He helped us unload it, didn't want any money, saying he hopes someone will help him someday when he needs it. It's the new thing, pay it forward, but I convinced him to take a twenty dollar bill telling him to take his wife out for dinner.
Wow that was nice! A total stranger...........................only in Pittsboro! John Sanderford from Moncure!