Lord of the Rings

Since I've so much time to sit around, I've been reading, a lot. I read 3-4 of the Tony Hillerman books, which were very good, easy to read and interesting. So now I've taken on the full Lord of the Rings trilogy.... again. OK, so I've already admitted to being a geek, and it all started with the Trilogy, back in the 70's. I was introduced to J R Tolkien in college, and love his writing style. I used to read the whole trilogy every year, for years. It's almost embarrasing to admit how often I read it! After I started having kids, I just didn't have time to be a Mom, wife, work , go to school and read all night long. Oh yeah, I can't just read a book, I have to finish it, even if that means being up all night for days on end. When a book is 1000 pages or so, it's tough to read overnight.

What else is going on? We are a convalescent home for the past 10 days. I'm recovering, and my daughter had to have surgery on Sept. 7. They removed a melanoma mole, and ended up taking a lot more tissue than originally planned. She has been on crutches, in a leg splint to her knee, for 2 weeks. Now that we've seen the wound, it's more understandable why she's been down for days, they took a pretty good chunk out of her leg. That just takes time to heal. So, we've been reminding each other to take it easy and not overdo things, which is pretty hard, frankly.

Yeah! The temperature has finally dropped below 100 degrees! It's been a long hot summer, and it actually felt chilly last night, for the first time since April, I think.