Librarian D.O.A.

DOA On TV : La Brea Season 1 and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Season 2

2026-06-07T15:39:10.573-05:00

La Brea

New on Netflix is La Brea, a 2021 series that lasted three seasons. I've seen all but the last episode of season one. I love science fiction concept shows like this. I don't know how I missed it in it's original run.

A family is driving in LA packed traffic to school and work, when a huge sinkhole opens right on top of the La Brea tarpits. The son and mom fall into the sinkhole, but the daughter gets away. Her father, estranged from the family, is soon there to help her cope with the disaster.

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the sinkhole, the mom and son awaken in separate spots unharmed by the fall. A bus and some streets signs, and a few cars that can be looted for supplies are all the 30 or so survivors have to work with.

Once a sabertooth tiger shows up, the groups knows they aren't just at the bottom of a hole waiting for rescue, they're out of place and time. 10,000 years out of place and time.

The episodes are full of action, most characters are likeable. Puzzles pile on puzzles. What's not to like?

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Season 2

In the small English town of Little Kilton, Pip Fitz-Amobi continues to be the person to go to when there's been a crime or disappearance.

Pip carries a lot of guilt for the way things played out as she solved mysteries in season one. She's reluctant to try to find a friends missing brother, but eventually agrees. Secrets are unearthed nobody wants revealed, there's plenty of guilt and regret to go around. Pip feels bad for digging awful information up, but once she's on the track of a possible killer, she can't be stopped.

Pip has a fierce foe in Max Hastings, a nasty rich boy who just keeps getting off scot free no matter the evidence against him. I'm no fan of invulnerable villains, so I hope Pip brings him to justice if there's a season three.

This show is also on Netflix.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Word Find

2026-06-06T17:30:00.000-05:00

It's Caturday, and we have FOUR visiting cats this week. How about a cat themed Word Find? Yes!

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 5/30/26 Rebus

2026-06-06T07:00:00.000-05:00

Summer is finally here. No more 30 degree nights. It's safe to plant tomatoes, beans and cucumbers. Isn't it lovely? The hints are sort of tiny on this answer key. Click to enlarge!

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam Keen

Five Things Friday 6 5 26

2026-06-05T07:00:00.000-05:00

Mary's Recipes 6/4/26

2026-06-04T17:30:00.000-05:00

Mary, possibly at House on the Rock based on next week's photo :)

DOA on TV The Boroughs Ep 1-5 (Netflix)

2026-05-31T16:58:00.619-05:00

I’ve watched the first five episodes of the Buroughs and will finish tonight. Promoted as science fiction, I think it’s pure horror. What a great scary, spooky show.

It takes place in a retirement community far out in the desert. The homes look like something from the 70s or 80s inside. Dark and full of wood paneling. Single level ranch style with attached garages.

New to the community is Sam Cooper, a retired engineer who was supposed to come here with his wife. She recently died of a stroke and he’s sad and angry and doesn’t want to be here but he can’t sleep on his daughter’s sofa anymore.

He definitely doesn’t want to join the community in any way described by the community “transition manager”, who he ousts from his new home as she’s cheerfully in mid-spiel.

He works at first to try to get out of his contract though he has no place to go.

His neighbor Jack blows past all of Sam’s reserves with his irresistible charm and understanding of Sam’s lot in life.

Soon Sam is still grumpy and unfriendly, but slowly gets to know his neighbors.

When one dies, it’s not unexpected but it’s the middle of the night and Sam is wakened by alarms at his neighbor’s place. Breaking in when there’s no response at the door Sam finds something with impossibly long legs hovering over its victim and Sam grabs a hammer to chase it away.

Despite the fact he knows it will sound crazy, Sam tells the EMTs what he thinks he saw, but has to draw back from it when the EMT wants to bring him to the hospital for an assessment.

Little by little all the neighbors are drawn into the mysteries of this supposedly perfect community, guarding each other at night and trying to find the source of the horror they didn’t know they were living with.

A bit more is revealed in each episode. The cast is excellent. Despite being at the end of their lives, everyone fights to live.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Rebus

2026-05-30T15:36:49.805-05:00

It's Rebus time! No clues for this one, it will probably just reveal itself in a trice :)

Five Things Friday 5/29/26

2026-05-29T07:00:00.000-05:00

Welcome back to Five Things Friday. I’ve been pootling around in Facebook again, which means I take screenshots of everything that interests me. I think I captioned the Things in the past but I’m guessing no one ever read those captions so I’ll just let the Things speak for themselves.

From Vintage Recipes

Mary’s Recipes 5/28/26

2026-05-28T15:54:38.582-05:00

A fun picture of Mary looking for something in the...crocodile bin? Alligator bin? We know she made it out safe is all we can say.

Memorial Day In The Garden

2026-05-25T19:14:16.728-05:00

It’s unlike me not to make my goals. It turns out, if you’re me, you can only work in the garden for four hours or so before I need to stop for the day. Pfft I used to work morning till night in high gardening season.

Ever adjustable and optimistic, I now reason that my garden should be complete-ish by the last day of May.

Most flowers are potted up. Tomatoes are in the ground and are unhappy looking. They should spring back in no time. Mostly I still have herbs to plant and flower and vegetable seeds. I got this.

DOA on TV : Sheriff Country

2026-05-24T15:59:05.175-05:00

I was behind on the episodes for Sheriff Country, but caught up this weekend. The first season of the show has been consistently good with new mysteries weekly.

In the last set of episodes, it was a wild ride with Mickey's father Wes heading a "commune" of weed growers, making deals with Bulgarian cartels trying to edge into the area, and a deal gone wrong that makes Wes think stealing three million dollars back from the DEA via armored car robbery was a good idea. He almost pulled it off, but he was unaware there was another local player bent on taking over all of the farms and going commercial in order to save their family business.

This player had an inside man in the DEA, who was "tying up loose ends". Unfortunately for Mickey, she'd fallen in love with the rogue agent.

In a huge twist in the finale, Mickey's dad is released from prison to help fight the cartels closing in on Edgewater. He's supposed to work with Mickey, who hates him now, but both are shocked to find that the head of the DEA is Mickey's mom, Wes's wife, who was supposed to have died years ago.

Pretty great stuff going into season two.

DOA's Saturday Puzzles A Cryptogram

2026-05-23T19:11:26.768-05:00

What I did today instead of posting a puzzle:

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Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the Retro Rock N' Roll Match Game

2026-05-23T07:00:00.000-05:00

No shame if you got caught up in a YouTube run through of old rock groups. Happens to me all the time.

Mary's Recipes #24

2026-05-21T17:30:00.000-05:00

Retro teenage Mary :)

DOA On TV The Rookie and Will Trent

2026-05-17T16:02:39.889-05:00

It’s been over a week since the finales of Will Trent and The Rookie. I’ve been a bit unhappy with the Rookie this past season and I’m not sure why. I think I liked it more when it was a police procedural, showing the daily life of cops.

Will Trent has piled on the character deaths this season in such a way that I may not return to it when it reappears in January 2027.

The Rookie The Bandit Season Finale

The episode revolves (again) around ultra rich and well connected Heath Everett’s cohorts carrying out an elaborate escape involving a car and a helicopter. They carry him off to a secret ship that will take him out of the country.

A team of LAPD’s finest alongside the FBI go in at night before the ship leaves port, and snare Everett back.

Tim and Lucy who led the attack finally get a few moments alone on the beach at sunset, and Tim proposes to Lucy. A well earned sweet moment, but suddenly a smiling couple walks up and stabs each with a syringe, payback from Everett.

I really dislike all powerful villains, who beat your heroes at every juncture.

Will Trent Be of Service Season Finale

The main plot of the show was the abduction of a high school student that turned out to be tied to a human trafficking ring that has operated throughout the season. This storyline will apparently continue into season five.

Meanwhile Angie and Seth head to the hospital to deliver the baby. They were always such a great couple and Angie deserved the life she had with Seth. It’s over in a flash as another car rams them on Angie’s side. Angie and the baby are fine, but Seth, on the other side of the car sustains internal injuries though he seems fine initially. Left alone for a moment while Angie is rushed to surgery, Seth collapses and dies alone, sprawled on the floor in the hallway.

There’s a montage of Angie curled in bed for months while Will and Nico and Betty step in to watch over little Edie and get her started in life.

The showrunners are all about re-setting the show and characters, but I am beyond unhappy with how they’ve done it.

Written on my iPad, logo added later.

DOA In The Garden 5/16/26

2026-05-16T19:17:36.139-05:00

I've been so busy raking, buying and potting up plants, watering, spreading 4 yards of mulch (the mulch spreading hand in hand with Mr. DOA), and this week mowing season began. I am out of shape, but hope all of this activity gets me into better shape.

So much to do, particularly if I'm going to meet my goal of having the garden planted by Memorial Day. The actual day. I'm good at meeting goals, so let's see what I've got in the tank.

Impatiens and Fuchsias

English Daisies

Fuchsia that is purple but doesn't show that way on film.

Another Fuchsia, a Black Petunia (actual names hopefully added later), Impatiens, Hollyhock, Lavender, Rosemary, Coleus.

A beautiful tuberous begonia and a calibrachoa.

Another Tuberous Begonia (It might be "Groovy White" though it has pink touches) and very fragrant white Alyssum.

A pink geranium I buy every year. You'd think I would know its name. A woman at the nursery had a cart load of them.

Sea Thrift and Blue Flax.

Another English Daisy

I can't resist Angel Wing Begonias. I'd like a white one too.

Lobelia, Ageratum and I can't recall what the green plant is. I just thought the three would be pretty in a pot.

Long view of the garden east to west #1

Long view of the garden east to west ##2

Long view of the garden west to east #1

Long view of the garden west to east #2

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles: A Retro Rock N Roll Match Game

2026-05-16T17:30:00.000-05:00

I had the Rock N Roll theme idea while drinking my coffee. If you can imagine, I was originally going to make a crossword puzzle with the phrases. Nope, nope. Here's a pleasant match game using some of my favorite rock n roll artists. Top 40 all the way, baby.

LIbrariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the Mary's Recipes Word Find

2026-05-16T07:00:00.001-05:00

Hope you had fun finding the recipes!

Mary's Recipes #23

2026-05-15T19:00:57.879-05:00

Mary's residence is in a parade every July. She loves parades!

I had trouble reading the name of this recipe. It looks like Zucckini Baltic to me :)

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Mary's Recipes Word Find

2026-05-09T17:28:00.006-05:00

Just in the nick, I figured out a puzzle for today. Here's a word find based on recipes from Mary's collection. Enjoy!

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the May 2, 2026 Cryptogram

2026-05-09T07:00:00.001-05:00

I'm guessing Mr. DOA got this inside of ten minutes, as it's a quote he uses, and has used recently. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations knows all.

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

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Mary's Recipes # 22

2026-05-07T16:39:00.006-05:00

Happy Mother's Day!

DOA In The Garden 5/3/26

2026-05-03T22:45:00.003-05:00

I have been working hard on my vegetable garden/perennial garden. It is ready for planting, should it warm up. As it is, I'm bringing everything out in the morning, then bringing them back in at night.

I hoed, raked and tilled my center vegetable bed today. I have a new tiller that's eight inch but it did a great job on my small plot, despite the inevitable roots. I did prep and try to remove the roots, but it's impossible. I keep telling myself that I see those videos where they're planting seeds in a farm field, the soil looks awful, but they get big harvests.

I'm planting most things in pots, including herbs, but I want my veggies in the ground. Here's my garden today after a lot of hard work.

DOA On TV May 3, 2026

2026-05-03T21:57:00.004-05:00

Most of my shows have had their finales, so this week I only have The Rookie and Will Trent.

The Rookie Dead Ringer

The episode was an odd mix. A serial killer sought sole custody of his children. Tim is inadvertently letting everyone in the precinct know he’s looking for a ring for Lucy, providing a fair amount of comedy. It’s the end of the line for wily as anything Monica, who finally made the wrong deal with the wrong person and she was killed and dumped in a remote spot.

Will Trent Where’d You Come From Little Angel?

A scientist and his lover are found dead by a construction crew working in their house. Nobody heard any sounds that might indicate a break in and attack.

Will, still reeling from Amanda’s death struggles to put the pieces together, and he’s attacked in the deserted morgue and stuffed in a drawer. He hallucinates about the case, but is also reunited with the Amanda he met in his teens who offered to help him get his life straightened out.

Sydney Park plays young Amanda. She has down Amanda’s speech patterns and facial expressions perfectly. The actress played young Amanda in earlier seasons, but she wasn’t quite so dead on as she is here. Not that I recall.

While Will loses consciousness and hallucinates, he and young Amanda work the case together, and get to say a final goodbye.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Cryptogram

2026-05-02T17:30:00.001-05:00

Hi, it's Cryptogram time. You can't make this stuff up, but I do!

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