Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothes and when you open the new book they are still with you.

From The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield my book club book last month, and very much recommended.

After contemplating that quote for awhile (and I will continue to do so), I realized that I do have a way to close the membrane - I write the title, author, and date finished in my book journal. Does anyone else have a "finished book" ritual?

This morning the phone rang early - it was Eddie "look outside"
"Is it snowing?" I asked
"No" he said
I looked outside - I could see his car and waved.
"Do you see the flamingos?" he said.
I could after he pointed them out - it was awfully dark.

An entire flock of flamingos had landed on our front yard - it's a fundraiser for the youth group in our parish - we will have to pay to have them removed.
Although, as Cedric said this morning, "they add something. Something that would have been added if you'd let us put up a blowup snowglobe"