I had a VERY exciting weekend!
No, I didn’t go anywhere special…
No, didn’t buy anything expensive. (I did whip up a little of my old magic and buy 5 books for $6.50! I love when that happens!)
So, what was so exciting about this weekend?
It all started on Saturday morning. I didn’t have any houses to look at and my computer was not going to be available until lunchtime because I was restoring my old operating system and files.
So, what to do???
I have a goal that I set almost every year and never hit…to read one book per month. Oh, I read (or write) nearly every free moment I have. But, finishing a book has proven difficult.
On Saturday morning, I realized that I had not made any progress toward it this year…
So, I finished up a book by a man who spent “23 Minutes in Hell” (that is not figuratively speaking) and then read a 350 page slice of life history of the Great Depression years titled “Since Yesterday” by Frederick Lewis Allen in less than two days!
I can’t tell you how many times I felt like I was reading today’s newspapers. I cannot tell you how many times I exclaimed aloud over something I had read. Did you know that during the “Dust Bowl” days, the temperature in Kansas did not drop below 108º for several weeks? And they talk about ‘global warming’ now???
The book was written in 1939 and is a fairly balanced look at the time period. I HIGHLY recommend it. In fact, I am going to definitely buy his book on the 20’s called “Only Yesterday”.
