Tuesday, February 23, started with drizzle and went downhill from there. We hunkered down all morning. Phil had a radio interview with KNX and right in the middle of it Dixie got excited and started barking up a storm. Right in the middle of giving his expert advice, Phil had to admit that he was pet sitting but the radio announcer thought it was funny. I worked some more on blogging about the weekend and finished listening to a audio book download of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. It's a fascinating survey of several periods of European history centered around people who had been affected by an illustrated Hebrew manuscript interwoven with a contemporary story of a book historian and archivist.
After lunch, we braved the downpour and went for a drive. First we attempted to find the entrance to the Forest of Nisene Marks, but overshot it by a quartermile and ended up on a dead end in front of a gated community. We drove around back streets for a while and finally ended up at the Aptos branch of the Santa Cruz County Library. It's a large branch and busy for a rainy day. We were impressed with the local history collection and the number of documentaries on DVDs. We stopped off at the Aptos Coffee Roasting Company again and read for awhile as we sipped our coffee. It's an interested mix of young and old customers, but the baristas do seem to have their favorites and we felt a little snubbed by their brisk treatment.
We came home to a cold house and Phil got busy building a fire in Steve's state of the art cast iron stove. By supper time we were snug and warm and enjoyed some yogurt and blueberries as we finished the National Parks DVD.
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