Sunday Bookends: Three seasons in one week

On By Lisa R. HowelerIn Sunday Bookends, Sunday Salon

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 past week we had three seasons in one week. Warm weather – spring – then sort of warm like Autumn and then Friday night it snowed.

Good grief. The weather is weird but that’s how Pennsylvania is this time of year. One March we had spring weather and were all excited and a few days later we were hit with two feet of snow.

This next week winter is going to try to hold on a bit longer.

My poor skin needs a reprieve. It is so dry and cracked I just want to cry some days.

I enjoyed reading on the front porch last weekend but this weekend there was no chance due to a windchill of 18 degrees.

The only thing I am not looking forward to in spring is pollen because my allergies have been worse the last few years and the allergy meds make me dizzy.

On the warmest day this week the kids were able to visit my parents’ pond and the creek behind it with Zooma The Wonder Dog.

They found three deer carcasses in the woods, which was quite odd and made me wonder if they had been hit by lightening or something similar because Little Miss said one of the deer had clearly been killed by a falling tree. All three of the deer were mainly skeletons. I’m not sure why I shared that, but it was an unusual part of the week. Little Miss was so disturbed she had to jump in the shower as soon as we got back to the house.

What I/We’ve Been Reading

Just Finished

In the last couple of weeks I finished The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon, Whispering Walls by Mildred Wirt Benson, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.

In Progress

‘Tis Herself by Maureen O’Hara (not sure what I think about this one. Sometimes I think it is better not to know so much about actors’ personal lives.)

Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien, which I should finish this week because I only have about 150 pages left.

Up Soon

After I finish these two books, or as I finish them, I hope to start A Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse and Murder, She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed.

After that I am looking at whatever interests me.

What The Family is Reading

Little Miss and I are still reading The Singing Tree by Karen Seredy.

What I/We’ve Been Watching

Last week I watched the third Thin Man Movie (Another Thin Man), a movie with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. called It’s Tough To Be Famous, and Libeled with Myrna Loy, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, and Jean Harlow.


I didn’t watch much else because I read more last week than I watched things.

The week before I watched The Puzzle Lady and All Creatures Great and Small, Saving Grace (the 2010 movie), and The Crystal Ball (1943).

What I’ve Been Writing

Recent posts on the blog:

Photos From Last Week

Some Housekeeping

Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs) and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea.  This link-up is for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!). Each link party will be open for a month. You can find that link up for this month here.

Each week, I host the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot with some great hosts. It goes live Thursday night but you can share any kind of blog posts (family-friendly) there until Tuesday of each week. You can check my recent posts on the sidebar to the right for the most recent link-party.

Erin and I also host a Drop-In Crafternoon once or twice a month. This is where we meet with other bloggers on Zoom and do some crafts while we chat.

We one scheduled for Sunday, March 22 at 1 p.m. If you are interested in taking part you can learn a little bit more about it from Erin’s original post about our Crafternoons and by emailing her at crackercrumblife@gmail.com or me at lisahoweler@gmail.com or leave a comment below.

Now It’s Your Turn

What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to, or writing?

This post is linked up with The Sunday Post at  Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer,  Deb at with Deb at Readerbuzz, and Book Date: It’s Monday! What are you reading hosted by Kathyrn at The Book Date. Sunday Bookends with Boondock Ramblings and Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Reading Reality.

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20 thoughts on “Sunday Bookends: Three seasons in one week”

  1. We’ve had three seasons in one DAY today – howling wind, sun, rain, and four bouts of hail. I astoundingly made it up the high street to donate some books in a gap of sunshine, but it’s now raining through sunset!

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  2. We had three seasons while I was up in East Texas – fall, in the 60s; summer in the low 80s; and winter in the 20s. I really don’t think I could live up there; it’s so cold. But it is beautiful.

    I shall try to join in for the Crafternoon, depending on what I might need to do for my dad’s wife who is having surgery tomorrow for a broken hip.

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  7. Kathy Martin's avatar Kathy Martin

    I’ve been thinking lately that I’ve been living in Camelot where it rained only in the night. We’ve had sunny days and then snow – sometimes significant snow – overnight. Luckily, we were on the Northern edge of the massive snow event that surged through the southern two-thirds of Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin. I’m looking forward for Spring’s arrival. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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  8. I want to watch The Thin Man movies. I also want to see The Puzzle Lady. I think I can borrow them from the library. I hope you get a reprieve from the weather elements. Have a great week. 🙂

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  11. The weather is certainly up and down and 18 deg chill factor is cold. The deer carcasses does sound odd. I’d be like your daughter if I came across something like that. Happy reading during the week.

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  14. Joanne's avatar Joanne

    Today I am trying like crazy of finish up Better Left Unsent by Lia Louis. It’s due back at the library real soon and I keep setting it aside to read other books but I am determined to get most of it finished today if no entirely finished. It’s too cold to want to do much of anything but read anyway!

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  15. marsha57's avatar marsha57

    This has, indeed, been a strange winter. I’m hoping…I don’t even know what I’m hoping. It’s been a long week for me. I did some knitting and finished the latest Robert Thorogood book (Thursday Murder Club series), and am just being a nurse these days!

    https://marshainthemiddle.com

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