It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to.
This week I’m joining up with Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, Deb at Readerbuzz, and Kathyrn at The Book Date.
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What’s Been Occurring
I wrote about our week in my post yesterday.
After I posted that post the kids and I picked up a friend of The Boy’s and brought him home to our fold to become one of the family for a couple of days – though he is really part of the family even when he isn’t here.
We also stopped and picked up groceries.
Yes. It was a very exciting day, but we needed that after our busy week last week.
What I/we’ve been Reading
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery.
I’m very much enjoying this book which is so much different than the Anne of Green Gables books. I love the main character and can’t wait to see what happens to her in the end.
When You Returned by Havelah McClat
Tracking Tilly by Janice Thompson
I put Dandelion Cottage by Carrol Watson Rankin to the side and plan to pick it back up in the fall to read with Little Miss – or actually we may start it this week because am I as writing this I remembered we finished our read aloud this week.
Return to Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright
Renee by Sandra Ardoin
Trouble Shooter by Louis L’Amour
An Assassination on the Agenda by T.E. Kinsey
What We watched/are Watching
This week I watched the original Gidget movie (1959) for my planned Summer Movie Marathon and will write about it in a future post.
I also rewatched the 2010 version of True Grit with The Boy and his friend. As usual I cried at the end. It’s such a good movie.
What I’m Writing
This week on the blog I shared:
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Tornado warnings, fainting children, washing cars, lots of swimming, and . . . is it autumn yet?- Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot. Come link up with us!
- Top Ten Things I Love about Little Women
- A relaxing Sunday because sometimes we need them
What I’m Listening To
I am currently listening to The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini.
I have also been listening to Anne Wilson’s album, Rebel.
Photos from Last Week
Now it’s your turn
Now it’s your turn. What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to or writing? Let me know in the comments or leave a blog post link if you also write a weekly update like this.
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I’m on my second book in the twisted cedar mysteries by C.J Carmichael, and I started reading a book called The heat will kill you first by Jeff Goodell, but then I gave it back to my husband to take back to the library when the author started writing about how crickets taste great and that rich people have cooler neighborhoods more so than poor neighborhoods because they can have trees. I knew then that I was just reading a propaganda piece and couldn’t even finish it after that.
Having lived in two of the poorest neighborhoods in the state of Arizona, I witnessed how the city destroyed the mature trees in those areas, tearing them down for mass apartments and got rid of all the nature to build more HOA neighborhoods. The state, and the city government did that. They created the cement heat pocket that Phoenix now is.
Also, in the poor neighborhoods I lived in, once the younger generations took over the homes the parents passed down to them, and if they came with trees, they stopped taking care of them and let them die or cut them down because they couldn’t be bothered with raking leaves. So the author of that book was just following the propaganda script in my opinion, to blame it on a certain class of people. And not everyone likes crickets.
I watched Texas Rangers, and now I started watching Mistletoe ranch to put me in a Christmas mood as I get a head start on making my hand made gifts to give out this year. I really enjoy reading what’s up in your part of the world, makes things seem nice and normal out there in the world…thanks for that. You and your beautiful family have a great week, and God bless you all.
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I feel the same about reading your posts because so much else is backward and upside down!!
That’s too bad about the trees in your town in Arizona. How are things going where you are now?
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Oh and God bless you too!
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Little Women was a favorite when I was in elementary school. I’ve seen a few of the extremely numerous adaptations. I liked the ones that were more faithful to th original.
best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com
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I can’t believe it took me so long to read it!
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Oh gosh, I haven’t seen Gidget in forever– though I was a much bigger fan of the TV show. I just finished The Comeback Summer by Ali Brady and we watched The Rainmaker this weekend– another old movie I hadn’t gotten around to watching at all before.
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Titles have to be the hardest part of a blog, right? Our weekend was kinda meh. I had to go to an HOA meeting. Our neighborhood just got completely built out shortly after we moved in. The builder WAS the HOA. So, for the last couple of years, the new board (who are not paid and are neighbors) have been trying to figure things out. Yesterday, we had to vote on new bylaws…I thought there were going to be blows! One woman stood up and accused them of favoring others. They probably do…they’re only human…but wow! Anyway, I needed to be there to vote and hear what changes they’d made.
I finished None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive. I was kinda disappointed in it because the title really had nothing to do with the book. And, it had one of those non-endings when you really have no idea what the main character is going to do.
We are watching the latest Star Trek: Strange New Worlds which may be my favorite so far. It’s a little less intense than others have been.
Have a fabulous weekend, Lisa!
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Samesies in the title department – I don’t have one that inspired a song/video this time, but I did the last few times. LOL I need to go check out your post about Little Women – I want to read it and watch the movies this summer, before my daughter’s high school theatre troupe does the play this fall 🙂
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I really enjoyed the book — I will say I skipped the one chapter where it was detailing Jo’s plays. I found it a bit dull but I loved the book overall. I have watched three movie adaptations so far and I think I’m going to go watch the really early one from the 40s or 50s or whatever it was, just for fun this fall.
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The True Grit book was so well written, and I’ve been meaning to see both of the movies…but I have not done that yet. How well I remember Gidget! Perfect for summer…
Yes, if only we could always have every busy week followed by a quiet week.
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I would watch the 2010 version over the original with John Wayne. It’s so good. I would like to read the book at some point — add it to the TBR. Sigh.
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