Look at the river.... in These titles mean nothing.

https://www.rotarylights.org/live-river-cam.html

If you can make it live you can see how fast the water is going by. The trees on the island are no longer on an island.

This has felt like a mild winter here. We didn’t get a lot of snow or very much cold temperatures. But the north comes and catches up with us.

Today’s five?
1. Made the bed - less reading material today but some - two New Yorkers, my crossword puzzle book, and Stephen Markley’s Ohio. I’m getting through Ohio and I’m loving it. It has a fair amount about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a sin how that happened and how unless we were really close to it, it kind of just went by. My kids were a bit too old for that war. And of course the draft was gone so everyone who went was in some sense a volunteer. He relates those wars to the Civil War in which Ohio was a big player. Ohio is a lot like Iowa. We are farm states defined by rivers. This book is about young people growing up or dying before they get there. Lots of drugs, a certain amount of politics. A lot of family dynamics and small town life that I can pretty much totally understand. The author’s new book The Deluge is also super great. I recommend them both. The Deluge is bigger and more of a READ but Ohio is worthwhile, touching and educational.
2. Laundry again. Started a load, brought up and put away dry clothes, hung the newly washed stuff on the clothesline.
3. Took a bath and filled 5 gallon jugs with bathwater while contemplating Archimedes’displacement studies. At 8 lbs per gallon, how many gallons do I displace? More than 5 for sure. Washed my hair and later clipped the sides back and tried to encourage some bangs/trimmed same.
4. Scrambled myself two eggs with cheese. Also made a pot of super weak coffee and drank it in one of my Bonne Maman jars with sugarless cocoa = my new indulgence in the mocha latte direction.
5. My iPhone for Seniors book from the library showed up yesterday. It came from Scranton Iowa. I am in love with the tiny town libraries which have the books I ask for and send them to me kindly. Scranton has 500 people and the oldest water tower in Iowa, 9th oldest in the US. It has a very sweet wiki article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scranton,_Iowa#Demographics
If you go to look. Scroll up and down get the whole article, for some reason I got demographics when I wanted the whole entry.

Here’s a pic of mine from last week. Details of what passes for life.

Have a good day, friends. Be good. Hopes for a good weekend for us all.