Happy Friday!
Okay, so. Last weekend, I did a thing. A thing I’ve been waiting to do for a long time.
No, don’t get excited. I didn’t purchase a sailboat and traverse the world. (Not that thing, the other thing!)
I stained my office door.
What, no cheers? No triumphant hurrahs? (Even Jojo is looking at me a little like…what, Maymay, are you so bloomin’ excited about?)
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Maybe I need to ‘splain more.
So, when we built my office in MN five or so years ago, I bought a beautiful knotty pine, unfinished barn door, with the plan to stain it by the end of the summer…
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Yeah, you can do the math.
It’s just that…other things got in the way. Like you know, traveling and writing books and hanging out with friends and grandchildren, and really, who wants to finish a door when you get to do that?
Five. Years. It’s literally been on my to-do list every summer…until last weekend.
I finally finished it. It took, like you know, twenty minutes. (per side, and with drying time, a whole day. But seriously.)
But, doesn’t it look nice?
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So yes. Some things take five years. And they are absolutely worth the wait.
Like this guy…in Audio! (okay, we didn’t wait 5 years…that’s a little exaggeration. It just felt like it.)
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The Steinbeck audiobook is HERE.
Book 5 in the MN Kingston series has finally dropped…and it’s soooo good! It’s co-narrated by the incredible duo of Adam Gold and Laura E. Richcreek, and together they bring Steinbeck and Emberly to life in a way that makes me say, hey, let’s hang out, forever!
Right now, it’s available exclusively in the Susan May Warren store — not on Audible yet! — and it’s 50% off this week only.
So if you‘ve been collecting the series (and you should be — it’s a fantastic series, I say with complete humility)…now is your moment. Complete your collection before the sale ends!
It has been a cold, rainy week here in Minnesota. I won’t lie — there are moments I miss Florida. The sunshine. The warmth. The beach. The complete absence of the word “windchill.”
But. We have the most fantastic friends here (as we do in FL!) And this weekend, some of my fantastic friends gave me an occasion to level up my charcuterie board game.
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Bam. Another week in the books. We all survived.
Counting my blessings this Friday — a finished door, a finished audiobook, and people worth feeding.
Have a wonderful weekend, friend. You are so loved.
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P.S. — Speaking of waiting out a storm…my friend Colleen Coble has the perfect read for a rainy Minnesota weekend. Storm Warning follows meteorologist Randi Walker, who gets an invitation to reunite with her old storm chasing team — and the ex-fiancé who vanished without a word two weeks before their wedding. She wants answers.
But the storm has other ideas. 
Grab it here → Storm Warning by Colleen Coble
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