Happy St. Valentine’s Day! Yes, according to what I’ve read, a priest named St. Valentine actually lived during the third century. He defied the evil emperor Claudius, who forbade his soldiers to marry. Valentine married them anyway and for this, Claudius had him killed. You can read more about it in This Day In History.
Master’s Hardware
Yesterday, I made a trip to Tahlequah. It was a good trip in visiting with Richard, Linda, and Norma. It was sad in that I went down Muskogee Avenue and saw the remains of Master’s Hardware. That store, a historic building which had been in Tahlequah for more than a hundred years, is no more. Never go look at a destroyed local landmark on a cold and dark day, when everything looks bleak enough anyway. It is not conducive to lifting one’s spirits.
The Bedwell House
On a happier note, I took a picture of another historic home in Tahlequah, the Bedwell Place, built in 1906. It is a lovely home. However, since its building, smaller houses have crowded in around it and the middle school is just across the street. Tahlequah is full of old, beautiful homes and I can imagine what the town looked like more than a hundred years ago when the houses had yards around them that were big and roomy. They often had wells and maybe a barn. They had elbow room.
When I got back home, feeling kind of like I had one foot here and one foot there and was not wholly any one place, I found a neat picker-upper stuck inside my storm door. Dayla and the girls had left a Valentine sack filled with candy and homemade Valentines. That was a day brightener. I especially liked Dayla’s original verse: “Folgers is hot; Nemo is hairy. We love you but your mysteries are so-o-o scary.”
hyacinth
It’s raining this morning. Rain! Wonderful rain! Thank the Lord. The hyacinth beside my step that Sara and I planted many years ago is blooming. The Folgers is indeed hot this morning, and there’s hope in the air; we are celebrating another St. Valentine’s Day even though the good saint lived centuries ago. That’s the way my world turns on this February 14, 2017.
My scary mysteries can be found here: Pen-L.com, here: Amazon.com, and here: BarnesandNoble.com.
Another happy listener to Best Left Buried, narrated by Michelle Babb: This mystery is like peeling an onion, the layers just keep uncovering more and more of the past and it all impacts the present. The publisher’s blurb gives hints and there is no need for spoilers here. This series is compelling, suspenseful, and yet has plenty of humor. I have enjoyed every one that I’ve read and can’t pick a favorite.
I prefer audio and Michelle Babb is great!
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