Paul is off this morning for his last medical examination of the week. He's certainly been busy. He said it wasn't necessary for me to go with him to Corning, so I let him go by himself.

Gracie is lying on the futon behind me in the computer room. She likes to prop herself up and lie on the towel against the sofa back - after trying to scratch out a nest. A big no-no, which she obligingly stops when directed. Our living room sofa is against the front windows, behind the front porch, which shelters the sofa from the damaging affects of sunlight. One of Gracie's favorite things is to sit on top of it, and look out the window. She stays for quite a length of time there - just looking out. If the windowlight is such, you can see how skinny she really is. I'll be glad when her adult coat appears and hides her thinness. It's coming. We went to the vet's on Wednesday and she weighs now - the incredible weight of 3.75 lbs.. Up from 3.3 lbs. last month. There's more weight to her tummy. The vet predicted that she'll weigh about 5 lbs. fully grown.

We've been using the new (to us) Netflix downloaded to our tv from my computer with the blu-ray system. Ah, yes. . .I must tell you. . .
Paul got his hearing aids yesterday afternoon - and he said he's pretty much pleased with them. He listened to the NPR station on the car radio on the way home from Sayre. I've been "playing" the game of "Can you hear me now. . .?" from behind him, away from him. . .and they do seem to be working. So. . .anyway. . .
the Netflix system for blu-ray doesn't have subtitles. We watched "Julie and Julia" and he followed along, fine. There were small parts he said he couldn't understand, but those were understandably difficult - French people with french accents. If you haven't seen this movie, do. I can see why Meryl Streep was nominated for an academy award. She gets into the Julia Child's part so very completely. It is amazing to watch her act.

Today is just gorgeous. Low humidity, sunny - low 70's. Yesterday was cool and cloudy. The day before, rainy and cool. Tomorrow the forecast is 92, cloudy with a chance of rain. Sunday is 90 and sunny. Everything that should be green is green. And some of it is still the new green that comes with the Spring. Paul put up two hanging baskets of flowers on a double shepherd's crook on the corner of our back deck. The colors are magnificent. I took pictures of them, but they don't do them justice. I'm not going to even publish them.

Have finished an enjoyable $.99 Indie (Published independently) book on my Kindle - The Colorado Sequence. As I was reading it (it has 400 pages in paperback form), I realized that it was a Young Adult Sy-Fy Book, and that it had a book written before, related to it, that wasn't mentioned by the author til I got 3/4 of the way through. Luckily, it was not necessary to read it first. The author is a college creative writing professor, from Arizona, who has four books to his credit. The book's plot has to do with a math theory called String Theory, with a good explanation for us novices.

There is a 100 Best-Seller Kindle list which includes a lot of the NY Times Best-Sellers also. Since these $.99 books aren't usually advertised, the best way to get to know them is to read the Kindle reviews. One reviewer mentioned: It had a little of Indiana Jones, Stephen King, and The Wizard of Oz. BTW - Target now sells Kindles. Same price.