Splendid Advice

Well darlings…last I checked, it is still December, colder than one could imagine, the store is getting raided…gone is the candy (well, mostly gone) gone are the books (many of them anyway), those Lisa B socks are walking out the door (so to speak)…we are gift wrapping, pouring Port for ourselves and others, laughing some, and having a reasonably good time as shop keepers do at this time of year!  With all that, there are still so many wonderful things left, so hurry on in before the store closes for our annual winter break – December 25th until January 7th.

Waiting for me, in my Florida Room/Sun Room is a delicious stack of unread books…I swear the week between Christmas and New Year I won’t move from the chaise lounge, until I have read every last book…I might have a cup or two of sweet black tea with milk  and once the light goes South, I might sip a glass of red wine.  I will wear some dreadful, but warm, frock…some of my own Lisa B socks and there will be no makeup and no hair products on this weary shopkeeper!  Yipee!

The books I am about to read…

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls….”Bittersweet” by Matt McAllester…”Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie….”The Canal Bridge” by Tom Phelan…and, if the week and the wine and the hot tea holds out, I will read, once again, “The Power of One” by Bryce Courtenay this is an all time favorite and a must read for anyone!