A SUNLESS SEA.....by Anne Perry........................ Have been watching "Hawthorn" from Netflix. Story of strong nurse,CNO that started off very well but in the third season is not quite as good .. or I am sick of it. I finished reading "Excavation" on Sun and started "A Sunless Sea" by one of my favorite authors. This is one of her William Monk stories set in England in 1864. He heads the river police and has a very charming wife Hester who was a nurse in the Crimean war and now runs a clinic for stret women. She always gets involved in his cases. I can't remember how many Perry has written with these same characters but they have all been very good as is this one. Each book can stand alone but it is better if you have read them all. Am trying to get dining room picked up so my son and I can eat in there. He will be arriving a week from this Sat. Played Bridge on Mon but played badly and had bad cards. Wed went to Dr. Schnieder who performed my lumpectomy. Says all is OK and will have mammogram in Dec. Have been feeling very tired lately and plagued by my usual trouble which seems to be worsening. Kathryn took me to the MD on Wed and also to Biron's to look at flooring for my downstairs bathroom. Brought home 2 samples and got an estimate. Really want to do this. We also went to Beaver Pond Farm..I got corn. Later did grocery shopping.

Operation Napoleon and Excavation Finished Op Napoleon on Tues. A fast read and rather exciting story about a plane lost in the Artic. Started an old book Tues nite, Excavation, written in 2000 but I cannot remember reading it. Usually look it up in my book diaries but did not bother as I usually remember after reading a few pages. Pretty interesting about a dig in Peru with all the usual disasters. So far a booby trapped grave site and a collapse trapping our main characters! Got up late but did watched some of my usual political talk shows Sun and played Bridge on Mon but was not invited for Wed. Made a small cabbage soup on Tues...delicious. Had soup for supper tonite and an hour later had half a ham salad sandwich with my favorite dill pickles..Clausen. My helper came today and she did the usual..change bed, laundry, tub, vacuum and wash floors. Also takes care of all the trash...out to bins and dumpster. Also helped me to move table by my chair in the living room so that I could vacuum there and clear off table and put a little polish on! Am still picking up from that... will finish tomorrow. Got a special match from My Heritage ... something new, absolute correct match they said. It turned out to be the facts about my own father which was not new info to me!!!!!!! Also answered contact re a match to one of my grandfather's brothers. Must be a correct,match as born on the same day and year in the little town of Pierreville, Quebec. I've been there so I know it was a very small town. Am taking a break from genealogy today. Plan to play a little gin on the computer.

"Wicked Business","Operation Napoleon" and Genealogy! Finished City of Dreams Tues nite before going to bed. Started Wicked Business Wed. and finished it Fri. It was rather silly, although I like Janet Evanovich, I doubt if I will read any more of this series. I think Operation Napoleon will be much better. I did look up Beverly Swerling online and found three other books she has written all about old NY. Hope to get them from library as I cannot get them for my Kindle. They are all City of...Glory...God... and Promise. Played Bridge Wed and had ok cards. Played and made bid of 6NT .... was my best hand of the week!! Three tables ... was fourth out of twelve players. My daughter was here today and we went to the Pet Store, Market Basket, Hannaford and Leo's. Got home and found I had forgotten my key! Have not done that for years. Kathryn was able to get in by the side porch..which I now have locked up. She also rehung one of my wall baskets which I had taken down one night when there was a chance of frost. Cannot get it up myself because of my bad shoulder. Soon all the flowers will be gone but they have been beautiful. I did write my French email!! It was in answer to a reply I got from My Heritage. I have made a little progress on the family tree...found Adeline Hitchcock in the 1852 Canadian census with her husband Eugene Rousseau and five children which must be hers. The youngest is 2 but there is no Cornelia. As Adeline is only 34 at this time, I assume she may have had more children. Am still digging!! Very time consuming but most interesting. Some areas of the census include how many animals, fruit trees and guns the families had!

"City of Dreams" Finished Zoo...very well written and unusual story. Started "City of Dreams" Wed nite. Published in 2001, I picked up a hard cover at a used book store ages ago but had not gotten around to reading it. Author is Beverly Swerling. It is a story about New Amsterdam and early Manhattan. It is rather long .. 591 pages but I am enjoying it very much. It starts in 1861 and follows certain family members thru the years to 1878. Less than a hundred pages left to read. If you are interested in New York you would like this story. I will have to look this author up online as I cannnot remember reading her before. I made a mistake re the pricing of My Heritage space for my family tree...It is $108 for 2 years and I did get it. Have checked on one match and got an email from Canada but it has not helped yet....early days. Email was mostly in French so will try to answer it in French sometime soon ...will be challenge as I have forgotten most of my French learned at home and my writing will probably be "terrible". Played Bridge today and will play Wed. Had no luck ..was third. This flexible Mon group is what I call the nurses' group as everyone is an retired RN with the exception of one NA who we trained to become surgical asst. I don't think there is anyone younger than 70 and the oldest is 95! It is always 4 nurses but not always the same four. It is a fun group but playng serious Bridge! Hve finished watching "Lillie" on Netflix..4 discs telling the story of Lily Langtry the actress.. will get 4 stars from me.

Am up to 188 people on my family tree site at My Heritage. Here's the funny thing. I had about decided that I would join in Jan if my children did not give me a subscription for Xmas. The cost was $75....which is fine but yesterday I was offered a special deal...28% off and the price was $107!!! Strange indeed... Don't know what to do now... No contact email anywhere...just a blog which I wrote on to see if I could get their attention!

I did play Bridge twice last week. First place on Mon with great cards but very bad on Wed, did not win the booby though! Started Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva on Mon 8/27 and did not finish it until Sun 9/2. It was good story, a bit far out but I like his style. It was one of his Gabriel Allon novels, so it was about spies and art. The only reason it took me so long to read this book is the fact that I am also working on the family tree. My paternal grandfather's side has already had quite a bit of work done. I posted all of this on my family tree site then decided to go back into my grandmother's family. Much to my delight and surprise it lead me directly back to Acadia. The last birth date I can be sure of is one in 1713 in Acadie as it is called in French records. Am still digging!! Also tried to find records further back in my grandfather's family...so much material to plow thru ...leaves me feeeling crosseyed!! Also started looking at Ellis Island sites for my husband's family. Am now reading Zoo by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Very unsettling idea....animals becoming more aggressive and killing humans left and right. Well written though, started it last night and have already read 242 of its 527 pages...it is large print. My daughter drove us out to my sister's at the lake this afternoon and we stayed for dinner. Visited with her grandaughter, who is there with husband and 2 children. Watched some TV and then turned it off at 10:30....enough!