"Jocelyn's fears that the shop would be a failure proved groundless. .. It can't last, said Jocelyn to Grandfather. I'm a new turn, like a performing bear."
"I think it will last, said Grandfather. In my experience when people once begin to read they go on. They begin because they think they ought to and they go on because they must. Yes. They find it widens life. We're all greedy for life, you know, and our short span of existence can't give us all that we hunger for, the time is too short and our capacity not large enough. But in books we experience all life vicariously."
- A City of Bells, Elizabeth Goudge
We are having a true Indian Summer here, with all the shimmer, the balmy air, open windows - but also we're to have lots of rain on the weekend. We do need it; I hope the earth can absorb it.
Before it was entirely light this morning, I was gazing at the cherry tree in the front yard, with many golden leaves on the ground around it, and Leo emerged from the leafy area - a golden cat, he was camouflaged in there!
Speaking of these neighbor-cats, we had a bit of excitement on Halloween, when some kids mentioned a black cat outside. I was all over it. Where?? Benny was close by, so we grabbed him and brought him in the house to get him off the road; I knew Dianne and Bill would be out, and she must have been unsuccessful in getting him to stay inside, but we've never let him in. Thankfully, Annie didn't start a fight, she stayed away, and he was very calm, walking around or waiting near the door to go out again; he ran out twice and we had to fetch him back. The third time we let him go. It seemed like he headed home after that, but he seemed to be interested in what was going on. We ended up with 125 trick-or-treaters, one quarter of last year's total.
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