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.

What’s Been Occurring

 This past Tuesday Little Miss and I had a wonderful day swimming at my parents. The pool was in perfect shape and the temperature was absolutely perfect.

We ate some lunch before we went and took lunch to my parents as well. Then we spent two hours in the pool, took a break for a light supper, then back in the pool for another 90-minutes. The temperature was fairly high outside so the pool was perfectly nice inside.

Little Miss enjoyed swimming underwater, doing flips, and practicing floating on her back – all skills she learned this summer.

The Boy helped my dad with mowing the lawn since Dad has been suffering from a pinched nerve in his lower back that has made doing work outside very difficult.

On Wednesday Little Miss and I went back to the pool and Dad and The Boy went to a county fair near us.

On Tuesday I will start classes with the kids, even though I don’t have everything I need yet for the oldest. He, however, only has a couple of classes to take to finish out the credits he needs to graduate since he is also attending a technical school this year.

Little Miss will be my main focus this year and we are trying new curriculum in almost every subject. We will see how it goes but what is great about homeschool is that I can switch to a different curriculum at any point if needed. 

What I/we’ve been Reading

I started Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers because several cozy mystery readers (vloggers) said it was good and it is good but I could do without the language. I know. I’m a prude (and also  a hypocrite if you must know the truth), but, well, I didn’t expect the f-word and other words to pop up in the fourth or fifth chapter. I do really like Vera, though, so I am going to continue to read it.

I’m also reading through my long Netgalley list so this week I started An Assassination on the Agenda (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery) by T.E. Kinsey.

I’m also reading Trouble Shooter by Louis L’Amour but I am reading it a little bit slow because it is a slower read for me. There are a lot of descriptions of rounding up cattle and falling off cliffs and old time writing that I have to push through. I do want to finish it, though, because I am really enjoying the story and want to know what happens.

Here and there I am reading Little Men by Louisa Mae Alcott. I figure this one will get pushed off until November and December, which is when I read Little Women last year.

The Gardener’s Plot by Deborah J. Benoit

A Simple Deduction (An Amish Inn Mystery) by Kristi Holl

The Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn Keene (A Nancy Drew Mystery)

Murder Handcrafted by Isabella Alan (An Amish Quilt Shop Mystery)

The Cat Who Brought Down the House by Lilian Jackson Braun

Little Miss and I are reading The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright.

What We watched/are Watching

This week I watched The Detective… a 195… film with Alec McGuiness based on the short stories about Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton. I discovered it by accident and ended up really enjoying it. I started The Third Man with Orson Welles but forgot to finish it. I will do that this week. Then I watched What We Did on Our Holiday as part of the Comfy Cozy Cinema feature that Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I will be doing starting this Thursday.

Here is the list of movies we are watching if you want to watch with us and write about your impressions of them. We will be sharing a link up each week.

What I’m Writing

I am working on Gladwynn Grant Shakes the Family Tree and having a lot of fun. Tomorrow I will be sharing the first chapter with my paid supporters on Substack. I will be revealing the cover sometime in September and hope to have the book out in early November.

On the blog I shared:

• Saturday Afternoon Chat: Our last swim? The start of homeschool looms and county fairs
• Summer Movie Marathon: Clambake
• Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot – Come Link Up With Us!
• Summer reading list – what I planned to read versus what I actually read
• An interview about Cassie

What I’m Listening to

I am listening to The Cross-Country Quilters and also to An Assassination on the Agenda when I can’t read it because I love the narrator who narrates all the Lady Hardcastle books.

Photos from Last Week

Recent Blog Posts I Enjoyed

This week’s Small Pleasures by Thistles and Kiwis

Friday Feels: Three Questions and An F Word by Deb’s World

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.