No excuses

I have been sitting here for thirty minutes trying to come up with a cute story or a funny anecdote or something, anything worth posting, and have come up woefully short. My brain is so full of garden plans and non-bloggable life things and the book I started today that I just can't think of anything else.

And so, in penance, here's a link to a whole bunch of book giveaways.

Here's a great book I finished yesterday.

And here is my favorite You Tube video of all time:



And ohmygod, they made another one!

An Engineer's Guide to Voting:


"It's time to buzz the tower!"


Reading:  The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Playing:  the Coraline soundtrack