Cock-a-doodle-do!

Monday
We got a bit of a late start this morning, but it was a lovely sunny day, so after breakfast Roger got out to do some work on repairing our split rail fence, while I was inside finishing my book for Book Club this evening. Early afternoon we got out for a bike ride on the Little Miami trail, north from The Monkey Bar and Grill, for 14 miles return. At one point, I came across this unusual sight of a rooster walking along the bike trail, so I decided he had to be my blip!
Tonight was the first time our Book Club met in person since last Summer/early Fall when we were able to have a few meetings outside, and widely spaced. Otherwise we have been meeting on Zoom since last April. We were planning to meet in L’s garden, but the weather was a bit cool, so we decided since there were just five of us, and we’re all fully vaccinated, we would go ahead and meeet inside. It was so good to see people and catch up on news again, we didn’t start discussing the book for about an hour! We don’t usually have much in the way of refreshments, but L. thought it was reason to celebrate so she had opened a bottle of wine!
This months book was At the edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier, a dramatic story about a pioneer family on the American Frontier, beginning in 1838 in the Black Swamp of northwestern Ohio, and ending on the west coast, and centered around trees, initially apple trees in Ohio, but later Redwoods and the giant Sequoias in California. She does a lot of research for her historical novels, so you learn quite a bit along the way.As several other members in our group I found it hard to get into, it wasn’t until about a third of the way into the book it really began to pull me in. I had read a couple of her books before, her famous Girl with the Pearl earring, and The Last runaway, and thoroughly enjoyed them, and I did this one in the end, with a few reservations.