The book is called "Return of the Indian" by Lynne Reid Banks.

There is a third book as well.

I can't find it in hardcover either.

I went shopping for Christmas
I bought not one present for my family
I bought myself a present lol

Gotta get packed
Gotta get the car loaded
Gotta drive up to visit with our daughter for Thanksgiving

Get back safely DB. Oh, and, you and the missus enjoy your Thanksgiving shindig.

I've been so damn busy lately

I am sorta looking forward to the 10th, but I'm also not

I will soon be spending more time here while I recover

1. Not enough sleep this entire past week, and moderate insomnia again last night.

2. Still haven't warmed up enough from having the windows in the house replaces yesterday.

3. Too much shit to do with trying to put the house back together from item #2, trying to help organize and run the s/f convention that starts (for my purposes) tomorrow.

Oldfart there are 5 books in the series.

I guess I'm going to have to come up with some other book for my niece.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I've gotten her: Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, Where the Red Fern Grows, James in the Giant Peach, and Indian in the Cupboard.

We didn't get as much snow as predicted.


I can see my breath outside.

It's cold.

hey you,

good thing you can see your breath....alternative sucks lol

LS, you can buy the first three as a single volume in paperback. Try Amazon or The Book Depository (UK, not Dallas).

I am happy today...my new furniture arrived yesterday and it is wonderful.
I am going out with a very much younger guy tonight for dinner ( my 17 year old grandson)He is over the not wanting to been with family phase lol.

We are going to shopping for his mom for Christmas presents!

17 seems to be the magic age when they are less embarrassed by us.

I am having a burger with smoked Gouda, sweet and spicy pepper sauce, mayo and horse radish for dinner with some sweet potato fries.

I am not an enabler which can leave me feeling like a shitty person.

My daughter was 17 too. For a couple of years she had done the three steps ahead of me walk.

I remember as clear as day walking down a street shopping with my mother and being so embarassed by the thought that "people will know she is my mother"
What a shitty thing to think.....lol she wasn't too thrilled to be seen with me wearing my hot pants (LMAO was I ever that thin)

Had a horrible headache last night. Went to bed at 6:30 trying to get rid of it. Woke up briefly at 9 to take some Tylenol PM and tried again. Eventually did fall asleep but slept horribly.

Woke up feeling better but so very tired.

Am issuing bonuses this week, and it's not an easy thing to do when the maintenance guys are within eyesight across the property. Must everything they do make us look like bumbling idiots??

I need a Friday
I'm making ho'made chicken noodle soup for friends of our who are all sick, the whole famdamily.
Both Mozart and Mandela died on my birthday.