Shepherd's Pie and a New Book

Pie

Above is the shepherd's pie that I made yesterday. It was delicious, and every bite was consumed.

I've decided today that I'm going to have to lay off the comfort food. I've gained another four pounds. Pretty soon I'm going to be as big as Taco, comparatively speaking. I don't think I eat a lot; I think I'm just eating the wrong things. And I get very little exercise, just some chair yoga and some leg exercises holding to the back of a chair. I wish I could still do my walks like I used to. But I can't.

417Ka5J5HXLMy book club's chosen read for November

Fortunately,, the book club meeting was postponed from this past Tuesday till Tuesday next. I had not read the book, and I was about to panic when Ramey (our book nazi) announced the postponement. 

My sisters and I, along with various others, have had a book club since shortly after my retirement in 2001. The group has gone through three iterations as time went on. After maybe four or five years, the first one folded because She Who Will Not Be Named got mad and pitched a fit.

So we laid off for a while. Then we started back with some new members and old members including She Who Will Not Be Named. I can't remember exactly what broke up the second group, but I think it involved SWWNBN, a chicken sandwich, and unreadable book about a sea captain or a pirate or some such. I could be wrong about that--well about the chicken sandwich. I know SWWNBN and the book were involved.

After a year or so, one of the previous members suggested to Sister Ramey that we start back. Ramey agreed with stipulations: Ramey was to choose all books to be read and all new members, and there would be no open advertising of the group. Basically it would be a closed group. Thus the title of the group: The Clandestine Book Club. Ramey does sometimes take book suggestions from other members.

We have had some new members, but all of them except one have dropped out due to other commitments. Sadly, five of our original members have passed on (including SWWNBN) and one moved away to be near her daughter when her husband passed away. 

Anyway, I finally started reading the book last night. I wasn't enthusiastic about it for some reason. It sounded like one of those boring chick books with romance and sex, etc., etc. Well it turns out there is romance and and there is sex (very one-sided romance and very brief sex). But there's also murder, mayhem, and intrigue. It's very engrossing. I'm almost halfway through and hope to finish today, depending on how the day goes. So I best get to reading.

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On 11/11/2022, Barbara Anne said ...

It sounds like an interesting book and I envy you the book club. I read a lot because I need to sit often and I love to read, so would likely have to host all of the book club meetings!

I'm using the method AMIL said worked for her: Eat less, move more.

Keep this happy thought: You can still eat beef!

Hugs!

On 11/15/2022, Bonnie said ...

That is the funniest story about a book club I have ever read! It only takes one, doesn't it? In the first club I was in, many years ago, we read best-selling authors and one woman always said, "I wouldn't have written it like this... I would do x, y, z, etc." Well, she didn't have any best-selling books to her credit, now, did she? Enjoy your book. I think I have to put it on my list.
--Bonnie in Minneapolis
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