Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your host.

It's me, Ariel, and me, Raylene.

It's true, from coast to coast, from sort of Vancouver to sort of Halifax.

The distant not so big cities.

How's it going over there, Ray?

We were just saying it's raining?

It's actually not raining today, but it's gloomy as heck.

So here we go again with the weather, but it's, it kind of goes into play with like what I did this weekend. So on Saturday, it was, well, let me start actually take it back farther. On Friday, it was like 30 degrees. Yeah, that scared me. Yeah, I went to work and I was like, whoa, I have to like wear a dress and not wear a coat. Am I going to be okay? Like I was kind of scared. I was like, what if it gets cold? But of course it didn't. So that was a really beautiful day. Really enjoyed that. And then Saturday, once again, really, really warm, but I was at home. So I was like, what can I do with this sunny day? And so we mainly just like did some running around,

but then I sat in the backyard and read a book. A whole book? Um, I'm not a whole book,

but most of the one. I did finish a book. I did finish a book and I read it mostly outside.

Wow. But no, like I have just been enjoying sitting outside and yesterday, which was Sunday, was like a decently sunny day in the morning but then it got kind of gloomy in the afternoon and I was sitting outside reading again because it was so nice out and then suddenly it kind of started to get cold and I could hear rain and I was like, whoa, what's going on? But then the rain went away. But I actually read that book almost entirely outside. So I have finished two books. So that'll be exciting to talk about. But yeah, I've just been enjoying the sunshine. Like normally I don't care about the sunshine. Like I know a lot of people kind of get, you know, energized from, you know, sunny weather. And I've never really felt that so much. But all of a sudden, it's starting to hit me. And I'm like, I want to be productive. I like went outside and did more gardening. I made homemade iced tea, which I'm actually drinking right now here for the people. Yeah. It's a blend of Earl Grey and a pure Salon tea, and it's quite good. That sounds really good, actually. Yeah, yeah.

It's the best of both worlds.

Kyle's favorite tea and my favorite tea. Boom. So, yeah, I've just been like getting excited about doing kind of summery activities. Even though it's only May, it's starting to feel like summer, I guess. Yeah. Spring, just like, what is spring anymore? Yeah, it went from, it's just like cold, ice cold snow, and now it's sprung.

Yeah, yikes. like what is spring anymore yeah it went from it's just like cold ice cold snow and now it's

sprung yeah yikes i know i i feel well i was going to say i feel the same i guess i don't feel

the same i feel very differently i've i always am very excited about a sunny day like um it's just

it's like the it's it's just like the complete life attitude is different on a sunny day

yeah suddenly to me everything feels possible i feel like life can be good life will be fun um and you just

feel so free when you're able to go around without a jacket or thinking about am I going to get wet.

Whereas I do totally know what you mean about like a gloomy day has a really beautiful atmosphere.

Like it is a good vibe.

But for me it's not a good vibe unless I'm like already supposed to have been having a very lazy day.

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