There's grocery, clothes, or necessary things shopping, and then there's fun shopping, which we did today. Michael's has 50 percent off coupons on holidays so I bought a matte cutter (you wouldn't believe what framing places want just to cut a matte) and some Zweigart evenweave. Their "Mediterranean" topiaries were half off, so I got an apple topiary for the top of the Expedit divider.

James also took me to Old Time Pottery. Last night while I was looking for something for Willow, I dropped one of the decorative tins and it hit the top of the cute ceramic "cow chef" figure I had bought there and broke its chef cap. We were hoping they had another one, but all we found was the companion cow, which looks like it was meant to hold a wine bottle. I bought it anyway. I went looking and think I have found all the parts of the chef's cap and am going to attempt to reassemble it with Superglue.

We also discovered the old Apex, our original DVD player, seems to have given up the ghost. It wouldn't load discs yesterday, but kept skipping, and did so today only with the greatest of difficulty. So we went by BrandsMart to get another DVD player for the guest room, just a simple Cyberhome like we have for our Region 2 player in the living room. Surprise! they are on sale for $18.88! Got it home and hacked it to Region 0 and now it "transposes" from American to British and back with equal aplomb.

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Comments:

Hi,

Your blog came up in a search I was doing to try and find Susan Coolidge's In The High Valley to read. You mentioned that you found it on an ebook website. Do you by any chance remember which one it was. I know it was sometime ago :-)
Thanks
A desperate reader.

# posted by  Anonymous : 6:50:00 AM

 

Unfortunately, both the texts that were online of Clover and In the High Valley are gone. A British publisher did reprint both books in 2004--here's the cover of Valley but it's now out of print and Amazon.co.uk's cheapest reseller seems to have it at 25 pounds (ye gods).

# posted by  Linda : 8:19:00 AM

 

£25!!! I want it but not that badly!

Thanks for taking the time to answer me. It's much appreciated.

# posted by  Anonymous : 5:38:00 AM

 

sigh. i was hoping you would know whee to find it.

# posted by  Anonymous : 9:20:00 PM

 

If anyone comes by here again looking for CLOVER and IN THE HIGH VALLEY, they are both on Google Books: books.google.com and search for the titles.

# posted by  Linda : 3:50:00 PM

 

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