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Coffee With Steve…#01.
Hi everyone and welcome back to “Coffee With Steve”! This is actually our first coffee chat of the new year and the new decade. Wow, so hard to believe how fast time flies. So much happened last year, especially with my blog and all of you wonderful new friends that I have made since I first started blogging. And much more to look forward to as we head into this new decade. I hope all of you are having a fantastic Monday! And for some of you it is very close to being Tuesday. It is just so nice to meet new people and make new friends all around the world.
Well, it’s still a bit too cold to have our coffee chat outside like we used to do last summer, so we will be back at my apartment once again. And as a nice treat, Sheree has brought along some of her delicious carrot cake for us to enjoy today. It is just melt in your mouth kind of goodness indeed! Thank you so much Sheree! Don’t forget, if you would like to bring some of your favorite cookies, cake or baked goods, I will definitely give you a mention right here on our coffee chat each week.
And I have a couple other treats for us coming up in the coming weeks. We will be visiting a couple other favorite spots to enjoy our coffee time. So don’t forget to join us each week, you never know what we might talk about or place we might visit. Actually our coffee chat might only be every other week, I’m not quite sure yet, we will have to wait and see about that. And Muffin is excited now to meet all of you as you stop by. She was a bit shy at first, but our new mystery series has really opened her up to new things. Generally she is not a people cat, though she does like women much better than men, due to being abused by her original owner.
So any of you guys might want to be careful and not get too close, until she is ready to come around to you. Hi Eugenia, I have your coffee right here. You and Sheree like your coffee the same way I see. Are you ready for some more Michelle? Poor Dusty, didn’t listen to me, but don’t worry, I’m sure the bleeding will stop soon. It’s only a 6 inch (15cm) scratch. You should see some of my scars from when I first got Muffin! She is such a loving, cuddly cat now. Ready for some more raspberry leaf tea Simon? I managed to convince him of the health benefits of that tea. Looks like Muffin has decided to curl up on Renee’s lap today.
I had a request to see a pic of a quilt I made, so here it is in the pic above. Certainly not perfect, but that’s okay, it’s nice and bright which is what I wanted. I do enjoy sewing and would like to make another quilt, but it’s just a little too small in here to work on such a large project. Sewing is a great hobby, plus you get to make so useful items at the same time. And it is a good stress reliever too, especially if you can’t get outside much, like around here in winter. Just decided to show a few pics around the place, but I will start showing more specific items as we go along.
Time flies for sure, and here we are at the end of another coffee chat. Thank you all so much for stopping by for another visit today. It’s always a joy to have everyone together like this. I hope you will come around again next time. Until then, I hope you all have a wonderful week and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
20/20 Investigations, Inc…Chapter 6.
Poor Muffin, she fainted, draped over my shoulder. Inside the coffin was a skeleton with my name on it…and a stuffed gray cat with Muffin’s name! Wake up Muffin, it’s okay, someone is just trying to scare us with this little display. They obviously want us to leave. Meow, meow!! What do you mean, good, let’s leave? There’s nothing to be afraid of here. Meow?? (We’re going to die and you try to tell me there’s nothing to be afraid of?) You worry too much Muffin, we’re not going to die. Besides it’s a long walk home don’t forget. Meow. What do you mean it’s a nice night for a walk. Meow. And it’s healthy too? We’re not going anywhere until we solve this mystery. Wow, that was a loud sigh!
Okay, let’s go back upstairs and look around some more. And stop sighing like that. We will check all the bedrooms thoroughly this time for some clues. Meow? Like a knife in the back? Stop with that! Okay, sit on my shoulder and look behind us, I don’t want any surprises. Meow. There’s no surprises at home? No money either. Meow. Dead people can’t spend money? Just try to stay calm, it will all work out fine. Muffin and I go through the bedrooms one by one. Well Muffin, this is the last one, and it’s the only one that isn’t covered with dust. Maybe that ghost…I mean, that woman sleeps here. Meow! No, I’m not agreeing she’s a ghost, it was just a slip.
It’s also the only bedroom with a closet I see. Let’s look in there. I open the door, hmm, completely empty. I’m thinking this was likely Mrs. Baker’s bedroom and…what’s wrong Muffin? She looked terrified and pointed with her tail behind me. So I slowly turn around and there’s the woman in white again. But how did she get in the room? The door is still closed. What do you want, she asks, why do you invade my home? This isn’t your home, who are you? I’m Mrs. Lydia Baker, and this is my home, you are trespassing. Don’t give me that, I said, Mrs. Baker died many years ago. That’s true, she said, I did die years ago.
Another flash of lightning, followed almost immediately by such a loud crack of thunder it startled me and I dropped my candle. The whole room was so completely dark I could see nothing. Fortunately Muffin could see and she batted the candle back over to me. I quickly lit it but the woman had vanished again. Too bad, we almost had her that time Muffin. Meow? Yes, we want to catch her. You’re not really afraid of her, are you? How did you learn to roll your eyes like that? Never mind, I don’t want to know. She didn’t go out the door because I put that wastebasket in front of it, just as a warning for us if someone opened the door. Meow. What do you mean I’m smarter than I look?
There must be a door here that leads to another passageway. We both searched but found nothing. Hmm, this dresser drawer is open a bit, I don’t remember that. I couldn’t open it any further so I closed it. A door opened beside the dresser. Hey, we found it Muffin, let’s check it out. Meow? Yes, we need to, this could be important. There was a narrow passageway, barely wide enough to walk in. At the end it turned to the right and went down a narrow set of stairs. We must be back in the basement again Muffin. She wrapped herself tightly around my leg again.
There was a door at the bottom of the stairs that opened to a small room, well lit with candles. Someone is obviously living in this house Muffin and it must be that woman. We looked around but couldn’t find anything that might help us. There was another narrow door in the room. Let’s see where it leads Muffin.
To be continued.
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
