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Sunday, I heard a couple barks about 5:30am which I suspect is when my daughter went to bed. I don’t know if I don’t hear them when it is earlier or if she doesn’t bark when it is dark. But the barking is much less. And I was able to go back to sleep right away. I decided to go through all the leggings in my leggings drawer and got rid of some without pockets or that don’t fit right. I did some watering when I took Lulu out and then it was on to see what everyone has been doing this week. Oh last night I took photos of my daughter doing poses for her yoga class. We about died laughing at Lulu trying to do some poses or at least get my attention.
Monday, I woke up early enough but fell back asleep somehow. I went through my long sleeve t-shirt drawer getting rid of those which didn’t fit right. I spent the day working mostly on blog stuff. I set up some things for Library Love, my 5 year Blogoversary and Sophia’s August posts.
Tuesday, it continues to get hotter this week. I’m trying to do indoor tasks. I picked lettuce and snow peas. The broccoli is looking good. I finally put together a menu plan. I’m reading to finish up books for May. During dinner prep, I did some watering as the next days will be so hot and no rain. I ended up walking Lulu after dinner when it’s dark and hard to see the poop to pick up. But the temperature was pleasant.
Wednesday, today is the do things I’ve not managed yet. I called my doctor about a checkup and RX refills. I went to the post office and a Walmart pickup. Then I called the guy who installed our main floor furnace to do an inspection of the upstairs one and a quote for what it would cost to replace. Then I called the home warranty to place a claim for the fridge which crushes all the ice – we want cubes. I also figured out how to go into my online account to place the second claim for re-key services.
Thursday, I was stressed out about the schedule for today and woke up 2 hours early. After taking care of some flower watering, computer tasks and kitchen cleanup, we headed out for dental cleanings. I was all good but my daughter has 3 cavities. We got home just in time for the fridge repair guy and he handled it well. The farm box arrived while he was here. Then I was waiting for the guy to re-key all our locks and he called and said it would be more like 5 instead of 3-4. So even though I put in the comments I didn’t have any keys he said he needed those or he’d have to get another tool. He’ll come back tomorrow late afternoon again. I hunted in the garage and did find the keys for the deadbolts, which I called and told him. We had a really good dinner and then took Lulu for the late night walk in the dark but the temperature was lovely.
Friday, it’s my daughter’s 26th birthday. I slept later because I only got 5 hours of sleep the night before. The temperature was lovely with a north wind and a drop into the 80s along with a few clouds. There was a mixup on the blog posts to juggle. I worked on my other blog stuff. I filled my last review slot for July and I only have one left for August. The guy came and rekeyed the locks which went pretty quickly. I cleaned out the cabinet in the dining room finally, washing with Murphy’s oil soap. I also did the other wood pieces in the dining room and living room and then the wood edges of the stairs. I finally started washing the china to go in the cabinet, starting with my grandma’s tea set. With the dining table more cleared, we decided to play a couple games of Skip Bo. I took Lulu for a long walk before cooking dinner. My daughter chose what she wanted for dinner: crab alfredo, salads and lemon cake.
Saturday, I tried to get going early to do yard work. I started a bunch of laundry and washed another batch of china. I mowed the lawn. I cut some branches. I used Preen on the flower beds and the veggie garden. I picked a bunch of lettuce for lunch. Lulu and I walked a medium route. Then I showered and made up the bed with fresh sheets. I put away the china and washed another batch. I started the dishwasher. Tomorrow I must write some reviews and come up with a menu plan.
May Reading: I managed to read 22 books. Audiobooks continue to help me read more. Some count for more than one challenge. I listened to 13 audiobooks, read 5 library books, 21 COYER reads, and 2 books which I already own.
All Library books (including ones not reviewed on the blog) 2022 Library Love Challenge
I did manage to read 2 books I own (goal is 3 per month):
- Where Are They Now by UD Yasha
- 🎧 Trickster’s Point by William Kent Krueger
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by 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):
My grateful thanks to Minotaur Books, AceRoc Books, Berkley Romance, Simon & Schuster Audio, Brilliance Audio.
(If you click on the cover, it will take you to the Goodreads entry)
I got a few deals at Chirp for $1, $4 and $5.
I decided I had to have this novella for 99¢.
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.
Anne
I read all types of books but my favorites are urban fantasy and romantic suspense.I like some romance and some action / adventure / mystery in everything.I like sex in my books but please, only between TWO people.Intimate conversation is equally important to the sex in a book.It lets me see the characters.The other thing I enjoy is humor.
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- 🎧 Lightning in Her Hands by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland @poet_raquelvgil #MarcellaBlack @AceRocBooks@BerkleyPub@PRHAudio#LoveAudiobooks - October 10, 2024
- Gathering Mist by Margaret Mizushima @margmizu @crookedlanebks - October 8, 2024
- Sunday Series: Joe Pickett by CJ Box @cjboxauthor #DavidChandler @RecordedBooks#SundaySeries #LoveAudiobooks - October 6, 2024
22 books is great. It’s been really hot here. Should be 109 this week.
109 is not what we get here – thank goodness. One of the reasons I chose NC is the smaller range of temps about 15 to 100, whereas MN was -40 to 110 . Today will be 85 but with a strong north wind it just feels lovely.
Okay, I’m seriously impressed! Yoga Lulu💜💜💜
You got an impressive book haul this week, Anne. We shared some of the same titles, too (The It Girl, Movieland). And congrats on 22 books read in May!
Thanks. We think Lulu is the most awesome. Honestly I felt like 22 was a bit low, I only managed to finish 2 more on the 31st. What I like best about my book haul is its diversity.
I wish I could put together a menu plan. During an improv work someone psycho-analyzed my improv dream and said I had hard time cooking due to experiences with my mother growing up but it was improv so who knows ;).
I find it necessary to put together a plan so I don’t just buy junk at the grocery and also so I have the ingredients I need for certain dishes. I have to watch myself not to have too many things I consider staples which then go bad before we use them. Along with wanting to have every fresh item but half going bad before I use them. I have to be selective each week.
Happy birthday to your daughter, Anne! I love the photo of the broccoli, it looks like you’ll have plenty soon. Have a good week😁
Thanks Tammy. We love having a garden. I’m not sure it pays out sometimes. I think buying at the farmer’s market might be cheaper but the quality is the freshest. It certainly is cheaper on the lettuce front. Now if I could figure out why I can’t grow spinach.
Aww, Lulu is so cute during her own yoga!!! Sounds like a really busy week! I’ve got to get better about scheduling books for review as I keep ending up with at least one week a month when I get behind and have to speed though books! I’m doing a discussion post kind of about that later this month. Hope you have a good week!
Thank you Lisa. Lulu is always cute! I am doing more planning so I’m staying almost a week ahead somewhat. That way I don’t feel forced to read something in particular, the farther I stay ahead.
What a picture – Lulu doing yoga *lol* Love it! Happy birthday to your daughter. And thank you for sharing all those wonderful pictures with us. Your new header looks great. Happy reading or happy listening.
Thank you Vi! Lulu is a big part of our lives. Right now so many flowers are blooming and the garden is producing. The temperature is also nice about every other week. Once we hit July and August it will be too hot for me.
You have read 22 books? I find that epic! And happy birthday to your daughter!
Thanks Sophie. I thought it was a little bit low for me but still I read some great books. It was a busy month and that meant falling asleep more than reading at bedtime.
Happy birthday wishes to your daughter! My oldest was 26 just a few weeks ago.
I’ couldn’t find any lettuce when grocery shopping this week, the floods means it’s scarce and very expensive right now.
A new Hunter and Briggs, I’m adding both to my TBR right now.
Wishing you a great reading week
Thank you Shelleyrae! We are super happy to have our garden greens. Hunter and Briggs are core favorite authors. These books are both at the end of long series which I have enjoyed all the previous books.
Glad you were able to work around the heat. Funny about Lulu doing poses, too. One of our cats does her stretches when one of us is using the mat for our stretches. Happy Birthday to your daughter! Neat that you’re getting your dining cabinet and china cleaned up and put away. Always great feeling to go through stuff and make more space.
Way to go with your monthly reading/listening numbers. Love seeing your good library numbers. Yay for getting Soul Taken!
Have a great week, Anne!
Thank you Sophia! It is great to get the china into the cabinet where it can be admired and maybe even used after 7 years in boxes. My daughter and I have both slowly worked on the projects to get more settled. You would think with Covid and being home we would have done more and faster but it didn’t work that way. There were also repair projects around the house which happened first.
It was pretty warm here as well, but then it rained on Wednesday evening and cooled a bit. The flowers look great! Have a great week!
Your garden is looking great!
Thank you! We love having the fresh greens. I tried a new chard recipe last night and loved it.
How lovely to have fresh veggies from your own garden! And I’m always amazed by (and maybe a little envious of) your energy and how much you get done.
Your new books look good! I hope you enjoy them.
Thank you! We love having the fresh greens. I’m happy with the size of our gardens now that we doubled the space last year. I have my days. I mean that china was in boxes for 7 years before I got it settled and all cleaned up in its cabinet.
Aww I love Lulu doing yoga. Lol. And your garden sounds like it is doing great! I am so excited about ours right now as well. I have been able to pick strawberries every morning and eat them standing right there sometimes! And my husband and my son were sitting next to the lettuce the other day, just peeling off leaves and eating it just from the garden as well, which makes me so happy.
Thank you. It is so satisfying to eat things you have grown and that taste better than things you can buy. Here in NC the growing season is long and some things do well over the winter. The fall broccoli is often good until January. The chard was planted last year and is still growing more leaves this year.
That sounds cute, Lulu trying to do poses. 🙂 It hasn’t really warmed up here yet, surprising for Michigan in early June, but it’s been cool. Barely hitting seventies. That’ll change though so don’t complain Greg lol. Anyway… A Caribbean Mystery looks fun. I’m very fond of that cover 🙂
Thanks Greg! I’d like the 70s. Although my grass variety doesn’t grow much until it hits the 80s. I’ve been buying the older narrations of Christie on sale in some cases rather than the newer versions.
Those old covers always make me want to read her. 🙂
I didn’t know you could use your home warranty to re-key the locks! I should try that. We bought new knobs and keys for both the garage doors, but we haven’t done anything with the front door. Sounds like you’ve had some nice weather. It’s been pouring all day here today, but will be in the 80s and upper 90s by the end of the week. I haven’t been getting good sleep either. I wake up and think of everything that has to be done with this house and move. So, so much!
I just requested Soul Taken. We’ll see. I want the new Orphan X but will wait to request it.
The re-key is one of the things they stressed when I got the policy. The warranties are often purchased with purchase of a new home and it is something one wants to do. The weather seems to be alternating between a week of 90s then a week of 80s and I like the 80s better. I don’t know if we will get the 80s after the next round of 90s though. I’ll want Orphan X on audio!
Happy Birthday to your daughter! Wow, 22 books is amazing! well done. I love seeing Lulu, she’s as cute as ever.
Thank you Wendy! I couldn’t read as many books without audio books to listen to while I do various chores. Lulu is our best girl.
Happy birthday to your daughter! I hope she had a great day! 😀
Thank you! I think she did.
Happy birthday to your daughter! Love Lulu doing yoga. She’s such a cutie! Beautiful flowers and your garden looks great. I miss having my own home grown veggies but I need to hit up a farm stand soon for fresh tomatoes. I hope you have a wonderful week!
Thank you Katherine. We think Lulu is the cutest. We enjoy her every day. Our garden is giving us the greens but the tomatoes are a month out yet.
Wow. Look at your garden already! That’s fantastic! And I’m smiling thinking about Lulu doing those yoga poses. How cute.
Thank you! We are loving our fresh greens. Lulu always wants to be with us and do with us. It was hilarious. She isn’t really any good at yoga.
Eeeekkkk Patricia Briggs!
yes Briggs is an auto read, auto buy author at the core of my reading. UF is probably my top genre although I enjoy a diversity of genres.
Happy birthday to your daughter!
You’ve reminded me that I need to add the new Patricia Briggs to my Overdrive wishlist.
Enjoy your week!
Thank you Jen.
LOL!! That photo of Lulu made me smile.
Happy (belated) birthday to your daughter. I hope she had a fun day.
Looks like you’ve got some fun new books. 😉
Have a great week and happy reading.
Thank you Maureen. We thought Lulu was hilarious. I am thrilled with the books I get and am grateful to get them.
Enjoy your harvest!
It’s early summer in Illinois, so I’ll have to wait a few more weeks before I can start picking green beans – among other things.
This book by Agatha Christie is good.
And one day, I’ll start reading Ruth Ware!!
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Thank you Emma. I love green beans but haven’t had much luck growing them here or spinach either. It will be another month before I have any tomatoes. I love Ruth Ware and at some point will start reading more of her back list.
Thank you for sharing about COYER reads! I had no idea what they were, but think that challenge is a fabulous one! I also am a prolific audiobook reader. Knot Again sounds like a fun read. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you Patricia. COYER is my favorite challenge and the only one I do other than the Library one I host. COYER is very diverse with book clubs, read-athons, and they adopted my Read-along. It’s a really great group of people. One can participate in a small way or in a big way. There are many options / choices.
Awww, Lulu is such a cutie. Your daylilies look lovely too. Such pretty colors!
Thanks Suzanne. We think Lulu is the cutest. I tried to do mostly yellows, pinks and purples in my daylilies. I did still end up with some oranges and reds. But I love them as low care perennials. There are more blooming you will see in the next week’s Sunday post.
Sounds like another full week. Glad you got the locks taken care of. I’m always envious of all your fresh-from-the-garden goodies. Last week was so hectic at the office that when the weekend came I just crashed. I was exhausted and didn’t even attempt a Sunday Post. Better luck this week, I guess. 🙂
Thank you Tanya. I think it is hard to get back on track after a vacation. So take care of yourself. Yes we are loving our garden. It’s one among many reasons I wanted to find a home where we could stay for many years and set it up the way we want.
Sounds like a good week. Happy birthday to your girl! The yoga videos sound fun. My week last week was good – lots of emotions. My son’s last day of school and his last lacrosse game. It hit me a lot harder than I thought. Good news that my daughter and I finished our covid isolation (she went back to school Wednesday). I still have a lingering cough – but that’s from allergies… the pollen count is so high and I worked in the yard all weekend. We also got some new patio furniture!
Thank you Jen. I’m glad you’re feeling better. I’ve had an allergy cough this year. Last year, it was dry itchy eyes, sometimes it is a dry scratchy throat. It’s always something. I’m lucky to have my daughter still living with me.
Hahahahahaha can it get any more “first world problems” than this? Then I called the home warranty to place a claim for the fridge which crushes all the ice – we want cubes.
But no, I get it. We like our ice a certain way!!! I like crushed. As does a guy I work with and once, when we were both still working in the physical office, he told me he bought a little machine that does nothing but crush ice. I need that!
crab alfredo, salads and lemon cake sounds delicious! Happy Birthday to your daughter!
Thanks Jinjer. Well the fridge normally does both. I watched him fix it and I think I can do it myself next time if it happens again. But now we can get the cubes in the door instead of opening the door and sticking our hands in the bin to get cubes.
I am sorry that your daughter had some cavities to deal with. No fun. Your flowers are beautiful and I love the photo of Lulu. I hope that you are having a wonderful week!
Thank you Carole. This week has been lots of medical appointments. But things are going well.
Your veggies are looking good. I have those day lillies in my garden, though mine won’t flower until July or August. Ouch on your daughters 3 cavities and I hope she had a great birthday.
Thank you Louise. We love having our fresh veggies. I’m enjoying having my flowers after the work I did the last couple years.