October 2023 - Change In the Weather

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Quite a bit cooler this weekend compared to last so it's actually starting to feel like October. Smoked a cigar yesterday, an Oliva and paired it with a pre-made Old Fashioned cocktail. High was in the 50s so it was perfect leather jacket weather. 

Every year for the past 8 years or so Seth has illustrated about 3 classic ghost stories and releases them before the Christmas holiday season. 

I pick up and read all of them every year but there was one I didn't get to last season titled The Corner Shop by Lady Asquith.

I began but didn't finish it today. It's quite good. 

Finished my cigar and Dale called me in for dinner. We had a shrimp and pasta dish.

Finished the ghost story today. It was very good. The teaser on the back of the book says, "Peter Wood enters a charming antiques shop owned by two young women one stormy evening. But after he returrns a second time to a strange old man and a far gloomier atmosphere, and leaves with an unusual jade frog, Peter soon discovers that his purchase is worth more than he paid."

Chicken pot pie for dinner. It was delicious.

Pumpkin cake roll with cream cheese frosting from Lunds for dessert.

That was delicious too. It's beginning to feel like fall.