What would the neighbours think?

[malvernrob]

Red, I finally purchased two books and used the gift certificate that you gave me for my birthday.

Covers and descriptions from Amazon.



Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write.

And



Here is the enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune.

(Yeah, not much of a description on the second one. Ha)

Good reading material for my vacation. :)

~O~

I have done three loads of laundry so far, with one more to go. I have done a ton of vacuuming. And the grass still needs to be cut. It may not be noon yet, but I need a drink.

~o~

Four day weekend :D

(We do have labour day weekend here in Canada as well).

edit to add: Ahh Mill Street Brewery you do make nice beer. :)