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Sunday Snippets 12.31.23

Well, this is the last Sunday Snippets of the year, being as it’s the last day of 2023.

Where has the time gone? The years just whirl on by, don’t they? That’s the way it seems to me anyway.

It’s been colder this past week. Fitting for the beginning of January weather. I’m wondering if we’ll get any snow this year?

Seasonal snow is not a sure thing here in Oklahoma. And when it does snow, it typically never lasts long because it warms up and it thaws and disappears fairly quickly.

If children want to play in the snow here, they have to get out there before it melts!

What I’m Watching:

I’m still watching shows on Sundance Now. I do love my mysteries.

Liar is a very good British thriller, but unfortunately only has two seasons. However, it packs a lot of punch into those two seasons.

A surgeon and a teacher meet and go on a first date. After the night is over and she wakes up the following morning, she’s certain that she was drugged and then raped.

It’s hard to believe that this kind widowed father would do such a heinous thing. So people wonder who to believe?

The thing is: How well do you really know someone? All their secrets and what’s happened in their past?

To make matters worse, the surgeon’s teen-aged son attends the school where Laura teaches. Also her sister works with the doctor at the hospital. So it’s a convoluted situation.

The way the story winds around here, there, and everywhere, you can never be sure who is telling the truth.

But finally, when you do find out, the story just continues to deepen. That is not the end of things between these two families. Not by a long shot.

This is a great and suspenseful show to watch on Sundance Now if you like mysteries and a crime procedural.

I subscribe to it through Amazon Prime Video. All told I currently subscribe to Britbox, Sundance Now, and PBS Masterpiece.

What I’m Reading:

I’m currently reading “The Patient’s Secret” by Loreth Anne White.

Secrets worth dying—and killing—for, in a novel of suspense inspired by a horrific true crime by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White.

When the battered body of a female jogger is found beneath the cliffs of an idyllic coastal community, these perfect neighbors suddenly don’t seem so perfect…

Lily Bradley is a respected psychotherapist married to a distinguished professor. They live in a dream house with their two children in close-knit Story Cove. Lily lives a well-ordered life. Or so it seems. As a therapist, she knows everyone keeps things hidden. Even her.

Then sensual and free-spirited Arwen Harper rolls into town in her hand-painted VW van, her sixteen-year-old son riding shotgun. Overnight, Story Cove’s secrets are no longer safe. Because Arwen might know her new neighbors better than they know themselves.

Now someone is dead, and it looks like murder. Brutal and personal. The death invites the shrewd eye of Detective Rue Duval. Rue’s job is to expose secrets. But she’s also an expert at keeping them.

As the lives of three women become inexorably entwined, one thing is clear: when it comes to survival, ordinary people can do the most terrible things.

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This is another mystery you can attempt to untangle if you want to read this book.

Ivy:

And of course I added a photo of Ivy for you.

She’s been getting into my Q-Tips and dragging them away to play with. I’m finding them everywhere.

Ivy even puts them in the bathtub. Remember she’s always held a fascination of sorts with the bathtub!

Sometimes she brings a Q-Tip to me to throw so she can run and fetch it. And of course what fun would a Q-Tip be if you couldn’t pull the cottony ends off?

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I'm Brenda, creator of Cozy Little House. I live with my cat, Ivy, who keeps me laughing. I graduated from journalism school with a degree in professional writing and won awards for feature writing. I practice gratitude and enjoy my solitude. The glass is always half-full.

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23 Comments

  1. Happy New Year Brenda from sunny Melbourne Australia. My wish for 2024 is for both our health to stabilise so we can continue to enjoy life and that we can all practise kindness to one another. Unfortunately our world needs a good dose of Love, Laughter and Kindness …..

    1. I forgot to put my name …. Carol Staton from sunny Melbourne Australia

  2. Happy New Year, Brenda. Wishing you a wonderful 2024. For all of us, I wish Peace…Maybe…………..it could be.

  3. Brenda, I wish you and Ivy Lou and all your fans a peaceful, prosperous and blessed New Year!

  4. Happy New Year to you ,Ivy and your family, the online one as well 🎉🥳

  6. Happy New Year Brenda, time does tend to fly especially as we age…my husband is 80 and I am 79. You always mention what mystery series you are watching…have you watched The Killing on Britbox…it is a dark, gloomy, and gritty murder mystery with a lot of red herrings. I like both the female and male partners for the Seattle police department. Take care, Charlotte

      1. Thank you very much, Brenda. I do miss my little guy very much. He lives in my heart.

  8. Happy New Year’s Eve to you. Looking forward to many more
    wonderful postings by you❣️🎉🥳

  9. Oh, that look on Ivy’s face. It probably is an interesting dip into the various personalities of your followers when we look at Ivy looking back at us with such a variety of expressions on her face and we comment on it. In this photo Ivy looks like she’s thinking ” MOM! Why are you taking another picture of me? I didn’t clean my ears out – where are my Q-tips? Sigh.” These retirement years, for reading material I restrict myself to ancient history and Regency through the Edwardian period romances (and watching and watching again movies adapted from Jane Austen’s novels). I can’t deal with thrillers, mysteries and such, reminds me too much of reality and I prefer something other than reality these days. But tonight I’ll probably watch “Die Hard” and “Airforce One.” Yeah – absolutely opposite of a Regency romance and lots of blood and violence. But there are happy endings in both movies and the satisfaction of AAAHHHHH, WE BEAT THOSE BAD GUYS, and I only watch movies these days I know have satisfactory happy endings and the bad guys really get it. I like watching the Queen Latifah TV version of “The Equalizer” for the same reason; can’t wait for the new season to start some time in January. It is 32 F here and sprinkling snow, but the ground is soggy from rain we’ve received off and on over the fall into winter so it will take a lot to stick (not in the forecast). This is a far cry from the Christmas/New Years weather I remember here as a child, teenager and young woman. The squirrels and birds have been out in force, I’m going through 25 pounds of shelled raw almonds a week plus the shelled and unshelled peanuts I throw out (the sparrows and cardinals like the shelled peanuts, the red-headed woodpeckers that have now been here for 3 plus years like peanuts in the shell and the shelled almonds). Prices are ridiculous but I must feed my wild life “babies. I wish everyone a prosperous, safe and happy New Year.

  10. 🥳Happy New Year Brenda!🎉

    🎉I wish a Happy New Year to all your friends, family and online friends too!🥳

  11. Beautiful Ivy keeps you on your toes! My husband and I take advantage of running errands during the weekdays before dark and staying home during the holidays. If we were lucky enough that our daughter and grandsons lived closer I’m sure we would be visiting with them more often. We haven’t seen them in 10 months but have a trip planned in a few weeks. We were lucky when our son in law was stationed 4 hours away for about half of his time in the military. I was hoping to not have to fly again. Wishing you a Happy New Year!

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