Explanation needed for first photo. A SWAT team descended on a neighborhood, positioning themselves around a certain house. Neighbors told to shelter in place. Except no one explained matters to the cat who zipped out the cat door, found a comfy spot, and settled down for a snooze. (Supposedly, the SWAT officer never flinched, but shoulders were shaking among the observing officers.) Article went on to say that finally one of SWAT team observers scooted out, picked up the cat, and returned him to his owners. Was the raid successful? The article didn't say.
More cat pics, just because . . .
Updates to Central Florida Flood Stories
The 50 people in 21 homes (in Eustis) who had to abandon their homes due to a washed-out bridge are still homeless, with no end in sight, as that bridge was the only access to their homes and the money to fix it has to come out of their pockets (bridege HOA-owned, not county). Plus the length of time and effort to fix the problem, even if the money was readily available. The oddity is: their homes are not damaged; they just can't get to them. Try to find a moment to add these people to your prayers for those whose homes were flooded.
Today—more than ten days after Sunday night's deluges—Seminole County issued a "red flood warning" for the areas along the St. John's River. Evidently, all that water is finally making its way into the river, raising the possibility of serious flooding when it hasn't rained a drop since that fateful night.
Updates to supposed T-shirt link
Last week I posted a link to what I thought was my daughter's fossil-oriented website. Instead, it seems she sent me the link to her real estate videos. I have now corrected the description of that link. If you'd like to see videos about custom-built homes in one of Florida's most charming communities, please check out last week's link. (And yes, I'm talking about Mt Dora, featured in last week's washed-out bridge pics. It's still one of Florida's most ideal communities.)
Update on Grace's Reading
I usually avoid listing my Regency reading lest I offend any of many Regency author friends, but . . .
Julie McElwain's Regency Time-travel series is so unique I cannot pass it by. In a nutshell, Kendra Donovan, a highly intelligent, well-educated, very modern female FBI agent, is suddenly deposited in 1816, resulting in resounding culture clashes, modern detective methods applied in the early 19th c., and a romance with a gentleman dead two hundred years before Kendra was born. Stories include a wide variety of intelligent and interesting characters, including a Bow Street Runner, solving a series of well-thought-out mysteries—always with Kendra wondering if she will be plunged back to the 21st century as precipitately as she left it.
I devour each book in Anne Cleeland's Doyle & Action series as it comes out. The most recent, #21: Murder in Mercy. (Book 1 of this series is so unique I've probably read it at least four times.) Series highly recommended, particularly if you like humor with your mystery.
One of the most heart-warming mystery series out there—no, not a cozy—is Alison Golden's Inspector Graham series. Set in the supposedly peaceful countryside of the Isle of Wight, this series not only features clever murder mysteries but the remarkable growth of Inspector Graham's team as the series advances.
The same recommendation goes for Faith Martin's long-running Hillary Green series. Great stories and the continuing development of Hillary's team—all struggling to solve cold cases in a teeny weeny space in the basement. Latest: Murder Under the Sun.
Ann Lee Huber's Verity Kent series, set in post-World-War-I England and Ireland has very little humor, featuring as it does, a wealthy, upper class Englishwoman who risked her life as a spy, only to be dismissed as unceremoniously as the lowest-ranked soldier—until the Spy Master discovers he still needs her (unofficially, of course). The two most recent books feature the terrible times in Ireland in 1920. Ms Huber's detailed research is both astonishing and enlightening. To alleviate the pain of the challenges Verity faces, she does not do her sleuthing alone. (I won't spoil a major plot point by saying more.) An excellent series but not for the faint of heart.
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