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Sunday was as hot as expected – 97 with a real feel of 104F (40C). That’s the story for the next week or so with a few short thundershowers in the late afternoon. But it didn’t rain so I went out and put the weed killer on the lawn I had fenced off, since no rain was forecast for Monday either. I used fresh tomato and basil from the garden to make pasta sauce. Saturday night I had made cheesecake brownies.
Monday, I worked on writing some reviews and doing some grocery planning for the rest of the week. It wasn’t supposed to rain, so I started the sprinkler on the new grass patch at 7:45 pm and 20 minutes later it poured!
I worked on helping my daughter with her knitting a blanket. I’ve spent a few hours for 3 days to unknit the part she didn’t like. She’s going to try a new pattern. We finally finished putting the grill together and I hauled it to the back yard. I made salsa with tomatoes from the garden. It seemed like I only watered on days when it rained later. When I thought it would rain and didn’t water, then it didn’t rain.
Friday, I got an Instacart order which they did a good job, but sadly the things I wanted most were out of stock. Sigh. After waiting a week, I got denied for the first audiobook I requested on Netgalley. I checked out 2 different Audible sales and found a few things.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday were all supposed to be rainy. Friday had quite the downpour. Sat / Sun then turned up not rainy. Saturday was a bit cooler so I mowed the lawn, even though it thundered it didn’t rain. I decided to make peach crisp for dessert.
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality. These are the exciting ARCs I received this week (If you click on the cover, it will take you to the Goodreads entry):
Thanks so much to Berkley Romance, and Tantor Audio.
(If you click on the cover, it will take you to the Goodreads entry)
I got The Clutter Corpse as a $1.99 deal on Chirp. Then there was the Audible Midsummer sale.
And a few things from the Audible 2-1 sale.
Now the really scary one. This is all the Kindle and Audible freebies I grabbed this past week. You can see why I need to do Thrifty Thursday to be sure I read a few at least one each month.
I really meant to cut back on freebies BUT they are free so I guess that won’t be happening.
I’m not including things like reviews posted or upcoming as they are always in the right sidebar. And, my challenge status is also there.
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Anne
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Your dog is so cute! And yum the brownie looks delicious? Have a good week, Anne!
Our dog Lulu is the cutest. This is her begging to get up on my daughter’s bed. The peach crisp was great too. I’ll have the pic of that next week.
The cheesecake brownie looks divine. I used Instacart for the first time last week and had a good/bad experience. It was very fast but also a couple issues. The box of frozen WW ice cream bars were delivered completely melted/liquified and unsalvageable. I was refunded for that. And instead of 1 lb of grapes and 1 lb of cherries I got 2.5 lbs of each. More than I wanted or could possibly use. And much more than I wanted to pay. I got a credit for those. It makes me a little hesitant to use the service again.
Well you got everything and they do credit for the mistakes so I find it’s usually worth it. I’ve done about 30 orders over the months and have had only 2 complete failures. The brownies were great I’ll have to make them again. But next week I’ll have the peach crisp I made last night. I tend to prefer fruit desserts.
Those brownies look so good!! We have been doing walmart pick up for our groceries-its no contact! We have been more successful in getting what we want and not getting any surprises. Instacart was a fail for us, and shipt is great but its expensive!
The brownies were great. Peach crisp up next. Instacart overall has been very good and usually I do Aldis. I also do Walmart pickup but only every 2-3 weeks. The problem their is out of stocks. Well that’s a problem everywhere.
Pretty Girls was so good! I hope you’ll love it 🙂
Have a great week.
Thank you! I love everything Karin Slaughter. I’m reading The Silent Wife right now (Will Trent #10)
Your dog is too cute. Enjoy the knitting with your daughter. We’ve had very hot and humid weather also around here lately. Happy reading, I loved Pretty Girls, it was very good.
Thank you. Lulu is the best. I’m a huge fan of Karin Slaughter so I’m sure it will be awesome.
I picked 4 of the freebies you did. I love freebies. That’s a bummer you got denied for you first time request an audio on NetGalley. Dang! Maybe next time. I don’t request much anymore on audio. I’ve got so many freebies, bought books, or my library to pick from. I love the pic of your dog. Adorable! I hope your week ahead is great. Happy Reading!
Thank you. Yes I have a wealth of options for audio. I have excellent relationships with most audio publishers and will stay direct with them rather than NG. But this was a new one I wanted. Oh well. Lulu is such a joy for us. I can’t believe it’s only a year with her.
I bet your tomato sauce was amazing Anne! Nothing tastes better than fresh products from the garden!
Fresh produce IS the best.
Haha, yes, you are not alone with the weather playing games on you. I water; it rains. I don’t water when its supposed to rain; it doesn’t.
Yum to home grown tomatoes for salsa. I’m starting to get tomatoes and sliced the first one into a salad. Your cheesecake brownies look good and glad your grill is good to go.
I got Crazy Stupid Bromance, too. You remind me that I need to check the Audible summer sale.
Have a good week, Anne!
Thanks Sophia! The weather is making me crazy. I don’t like the 96 degree stuff either. I’m looking forward to late August – September when I can get more yard work done and plant the 3rd season of the garden. Enjoy those new reads and have a wonderful week!
That certainly sounds steamy – and it’s something of a relief to hear that your weather forecasting service as as lousy as ours:)). I know it used to be a whole lot better back in the 70s and 80s when I used to go sailing. I love the sound of the peach crisp and look forward to seeing how it turned out. And Lulu is sooo cute! Have a great reading week, Anne:)
Thanks! This mid July to mid August here can be really hot, not always steamy but definitely hot. Lulu is the cutest.
I’m loving the Audible 2-for-1-credit sale! Have you listened to the early Harry Bosch books before? I think it’s great that Titus is re-recording the earlier books. Nice haul this week!
Have a wonderful week, Anne?
Thank you! I haven’t listened to Harry Bosch or watched the show. I’m excited to listen because you like them. I want to start on the audios, but I noticed there are many different narrators and was thrilled to get the Titus one on sale. I am not a fan of Dick Hill; I find him hard to understand. He did a bunch of the Lee Child (Jack Reacher) books so I didn’t listen to those until a new narrator took over.
Those cheesecake brownies look delicious….anything with cheesecake and I gobble them up. LOL Its my greatest weakness.
We got some rain luckily this week which was nice….didn’t have to take my car to the car wash so thats a plus. Good for your daughter learning to knit….I just crochet but I would love to learn both.
Cheesecake brownies are awesome – I will make them again. I do all the things knitting, crocheting, sewing, quilting and she wants to learn them all. She is bugging me about crocheting but she has 3 knitting projects right now so I want to have her finish one of those first.
Yum on the brownies!
I love Instacart, and most of the time I get the things I want. Sometimes the substitutions they offer are also good.
Enjoy your books and your week.
We are certainly on the dessert cart this summer. I do think Instacart does a good job overall. With the gluten-free and a few other food allergies, substitutions can be rough for us Although the fresh produce is all great.
Ooo, the new Bromance one looks cute with the kitty!
The Bromance books are fun.
That cheesecake brownie looks delicious and homemade pasta sauce sounds wonderful! We’ve been having temps like that here, too. However, we don’t get any rain this time of year. Of course when you water it rains, lol!
I’m really looking forward to the new Bromance book. Hope we both love it!
Being home all the time and having garden goodies, we are doing more cooking than usual. We are lucky to have some great reading options.
Are you an Amazon Prime member? If so, you should try Amazon Fresh for grocery delivery! That’s what I use. Obviously since Covid the inventory is kind of all over the place, but now that the panic buying has mainly subsided, I’ve been able to get almost everything through them. It’s worth checking out – especially if you already pay for Prime!
Thanks for the tip! I am an Amazon Prime member. I probably will try Amazon fresh at some point. The things we wanted were more on the Whole Foods so we have done a couple orders there for a few specialty items other stores don’t always have.
It’s been very hot here too, but I find that when biking I don’t notice it as much. I hope you have a great reading and listening week. I noticed you got some new audiobooks on sale. Enjoy!
Thank you, my great reading options are overflowing at the moment.
What a cute dog!! Those brownies look divine too!
I’ve never been one for audiobooks but I’m trying out Audible just now and my first book is really good.
Have a lovely week!
I had never done much audio but Jennifer and Jonetta converted me. I started listening on long car rides when I was moving from MN to NC about 5 years ago. Now I have earbuds integrated into my life. lol
Lulu is the best! We seem to be on a dessert binge these days.
Looks like an awesome week for books! I hope you’ll enjoy those, they certainly look great.
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yes, thanks, the great reads are available.
Crazy Stupid Bromance has the cutest cover, and I think I need it now!
I’m a little jealous of all the rain you’ve been getting! It’s been incredibly dry and hot here. The grass has all turned brown.
Have a great week!
Thank you, I’d hoped the rain would cool us down more than it has. But no, it just means more lawn mowing.
It’s great that you’re helping your daughter with her knitting. It’s so frustrating when the pattern doesn’t turn out the way you had hoped. I recently frogged a shawlette and started over with a new pattern, but at least I had only knitted a few inches at that point.
The cheesecake brownies look delicious, and the peach crisp sounds scrumptious. There’s nothing like fresh peaches. I made our Robin’s peach cobbler recipe this weekend. It’s a big recipe; we’ll be eating it for another night or two. Yum!
Have a great week, and I hope you get to read a bunch of those new books! And may the weather turn cooler again!
Thank you, we are enjoying our desserts and our garden produce. I don’t mind helping her but it’s very time-consuming. At least doing the frogging I can listen to audio. I’m always trying to read more and I’ve certainly got great choices right now.
Brownies!! My favorite. And I am so hopeless at making them…. I miss brownies. Lol. And your dog is adorable!!
I really liked the cream cheese in them and how fudgy this batch was. Lulu is the cutest!
Sounds like a every hot Sunday indeed. We have had pretty decent weather temperatures here, not too warm, but the humidity is pretty high which is not nice.
Those cheesecake brownies you made sound good! Too bad you got decline for the audiobook through Netgalley. I looked into them, but it seems I won’t be able to listen to them on my pc as it requires the app, so I won’t request them.
I hope you’ll enjoy your new books. Have a great week!
It hasn’t been too humid so that helps. But it’s the hottest time of the summer right now, for a few weeks yet. We’re enjoying our desserts and garden produce.
Mostly I was surprised at the decline because that doesn’t happen too often.
And now I want a brownie like that. Yum. We have a bakery a little ways away from here and I always get one when I go. It’s been a long time. Can’t win with your lawn and the rain situation. We are in a heat wave here as well with some thunderstorms as well here and there. Supposed to be cooler next week. Fingers crossed!
I want more brownies too but they are gone! Later this week it is supposed to rain more and be 88-90 instead of mid 90s. I don’t expect it to really get better until later in August. Thanks for visiting Lorna. I hope you are doing well.
It rained every day here. We needed it but I sure missed the pool:) Lots of great reads this week. I keep meaning to requests an audible from Netgalley but thinking I should read all of the ARCs I have first. LOL
Well I hope it improves enough that you get some pool time. I won’t be requesting many audiobooks at NG other than publishers where I am not already connected.
That cheesecake browney looks really damn good. Yumm!
I’ve been thinking about requesting an audiobook on Netgalley. But I just don’t often find time to listen to them.
Have a great week and happy reading.
It was delicious! I like audiobooks for when I’m doing chores or crafts but if you have little girl that’s harder. You might be able to listen when she is asleep or if you commute or maybe at lunch at work.