Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your hosts us. It's Ariel and Raylene.

Mm-hmm. Oh yeah. I'm back. Hello, Raylene. I feelhmm. Oh, yeah.

I'm back.

Hello, Raylene.

I feel like we haven't talked much this week.

No, that's true.

I have no idea what's going on in your life.

I know.

It's funny because usually Raylene and me are in pretty constant contact, but sometimes we

have these weeks where I guess life's just busy.

Yeah.

Or nothing interesting has happened so we don't text each other.

Yeah, exactly.

I feel like that's kind of been this week.

The only interesting thing I've done is I started gardening in my backyard, which is kind of a loose term. Basically, we scraped a bunch of

moss off of the bricks that are in our backyard, which took a long time. And then I've started

picking up leaves because there were just leaves everywhere from a nearby tree and a plant

that's in my backyard. And it just was everywhere because clearly nobody had touched

this garden for at least a couple of years.

It just looks pretty crazy.

So we just spent a little bit of time doing that and I was so sore after.

Like my legs were so sore from all of the squatting down, going back up and squatting down.

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