Reading A Body In The Bathhouse, by Linsey Davis; one of the Marcus Didius Falco series set in ancient Rome.  Your basic murder mystery, a solid whodunit.

My old Dell laptop bit the dust, so now I'm working on a new Toshiba something or other. I took it out of the box, opened it up, turned it on, started the booting-up process, set my defaults, and sat for a minute while the computer did its thing.  I'd had it out of the box not five minutes.  When I looked down, the keyboard was covered with cat hair. Not five minues out of the box.  I tell you, those cats-!

Anyway, now I'm waiting for my tax refund so I can get new tires for the truck.  The excitement, it never ends.

I spent the weekend with Mom in Knoxvile, celebrating her 91st birthday.  I took her out to dinner, and she wanted to go to Krystal.  I offered Outback, Olive Garden, Regas, any of the nice places you think of when you want to go out for a birthday, but no.  She wanted Krystal.  So we got ourselves a sack of ten and went down by the river to sit and eat it.  Proof positive that the heart disease in the family is from Dad's side.

We're under a state-wide no burn/no fireworks ban due to the drought.  Everything's tinder dry around here and they're understandably afraid something will spark and cause a fire. There will be Fourth of Juy Fireworks on First Avenue, where the sparks will hopefully fall into the river.  They hope. 

We're having the Nashville Hot Wings Festival in the park across the street today and I thought I'd go see what the fuss is all about.  I think they've got twenty of the wing restaurants in town already set up in tents out by the baseball diamonds. 

I've taken Thursday and Friday off to get a few things done around the house, and maybe get some sewing done.  I need new garb and I'm thinking Byzantine; at least, something designed for a hotter climate. Viking is problematic when the temps are in the 90's, even in linen. We're doing a demo at the Gallatin Library on Saturday, and I'm going to run down and visit friends in Lewisburg on Sunday.  

It's going to be a busy month.