[image error]Lots like the old year…hopefully starting out better for everyone! We are over whatever bug settled in for a couple of weeks. A cold front has blown in and we’re hoping for snow or rain or something of that wet nature, Sunday night. And my Kobo Plus sub ends Sunday night too. I’ll wait a while and either start it again or start KU again. Depends where I find the most books. I’m finding that Kobo Plus has more trad/hybrid authors. This time around I found some fun books by Timothy Zahn (dragon, young adult–Dragon and Thief is the first) and also Shanna Swendson! She writes wonderful cozy books so I read Tea and Empathy in Kobo Plus. It was a lovely cozy fantasy in a medieval setting. I thoroughly enjoyed it and high recommend it to cozy readers. I can also recommend the Zahn books too. I read two of them during this subscription and it looks like he has a lot more to offer.

In more mundane news, the Ranger needs yet another blower fan–mice again. We are STILL trapping mice in the shed at the rate of one or two a day. Leo gets his share. He caught one this morning. Randy says there was also a rat in the trap that was as large as Leo. Egads. We cannot get the mice to even slow down and it’s below freezing at night. Mom said there was another one in her car as well, but they keep leaving the garage door open–an invitation to the dog’s food if there ever was one.

It’s January and quite cold and I’m starting to peruse seed sites. I’m always hopeful that if I buy seeds, it will warm up faster and I can start growing things. I’m hoping my new rosebush makes it through the winter and does well enough to bloom this first year. I already have my eyes on a couple more. I only buy rosebushes that support bees and there are not that many varieties. Most have been bred to have so many petals, bees cannot get anything out of rosebushes. And I need more sage too…a shopping for seeds I must go!