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.

I hesitate to write about my cat drama yet another week, so I will keep it as short as I can this time around. If you follow my blog on days other than Sunday (and don’t worry if you don’t. There are just so many good blogs out there. It is terribly hard to keep up!) you will see that I already wrote about our family’s cat drama here and then here.

What I will share here is that our elder cat, Pixel, disappeared for four full days and five full nights, and because she is not a cat who has ever wandered away for more than a couple of hours, I was convinced she had died.

She had been sick before she disappeared, and when you grow up in a rural area with outside cats, you learn that they sometimes wander off to die. I did not think that Pixel was that sick when she disappeared so that was bewildering to me.

She’d been let out briefly last week while sick, but seemed to have recovered, and we didn’t imagine she was strong enough yet to take off. Apparently, she was because when we went back to find her under the bush she had been sitting under Sunday morning, she was gone.

To make a really long, emotionally distressing story short — she showed back up on our porch Thursday morning and I was in total shock.

She has been upstairs since then, not coming down to eat but instead preferring we bring her food to her, still recovering from the virus she had when she wandered off. She did jump up on a bed to sleep today, instead of snoozing under my son’s coffee table in his room or a bed or in a spot on the corner of the stairs, which is where she’s been since returning.

The Husband said she even came down to try to get back outside this morning.

I think not, cat. You don’t disappear for four full days and think you’re going back outside anytime soon.

We still do not know if she was in someone’s shed or where in the world she was.

Also, what happened to me making this story shorter?!

So…moving on….

What I/We’ve Been Reading

Just Finished

I finished Nancy Drew: Nancy’s Mysterious Letter by Carolyn Keene.

I decided to put Thrush Green by Miss Read aside for a bit. I was about 50 pages in an just couldn’t get into it the way I had hoped to. I might try again later in the summer. Maybe it will hit me right where I need it then.

In Progress

I am slowly reading Stillmeadow Daybrook by Gladys Taber. Since each chapter is a month, I plan to read a chapter a month.

I am reading The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie, which is a short story collection featuring her detective Hercule Poirot. I am not enjoying it as much as the standalone novels of hers I have read.

Up Soon

I found two books on my bookshelf that I want to start soon — one that I said I would read two summers ago but never did and another one that I thought I had read but haven’t.

The one I was going to read two summers ago is Summer By The Tides by Denise Hunter. I haven’ t read any of her books and might not enjoy it since it is romance, but I’m going to give it a try.

The one I thought I had already read is a Cat Who book by Lilian Jackson Braun — The Cat Who Brought Down the House. I have read most of the series, but have not read this one and a few more from the series so I added it to my summer hopefuls list.

What The Family is Reading

I am so proud of The Husband. I actually convinced him to not finish a book he was reading and hating. He usually pushes through no matter what, whining the entire time about how bad the book is. I don’t know why he does that when there are so many good books out there to read.

Maybe the book just isn’t for him. He needs to admit that and move on, so I told him that and this time, for the very first time, he actually listened to me about it. In order to take my advice, though, he said I had to pick out his next book.

I picked out the sixth, and latest, book in the Hawthorn and Horowitz mystery series, A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz. So far he is breezing through it, so I picked well.

Little Miss and I are still reading Heidi.

The Boy is listening to a Warhammer book, but I forget which one.

What I/We’ve Been Watching

This past week I watched Dangerous with Bette Davis and did not like it. It was not very interesting and Bette was super whiney and dramatic in it. Plus it seemed to be a typical movie from the 1930s where “woman bad, man good” was the main theme.

I will talk about it more later this week when I write a blog post about it.

Yesterday I watched The Heiress with Olivia de Haviland and it was so  much better than Dangerous and just good overall. Olivia won an Oscar for her performance, and I can totally see why. I plan to write a blog post about this one as well.

I started My Sister Eileen last night as well. This one was recommended to me by my friend Heather. This particular movie is a  musical but there is a black and white movie with the same story called The Lady Eve. I plan to watch that one too.

What I’ve Been Writing

Last week on the blog, I shared:

• Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot May 15
• A totally baffling update on my missing cat –
• The cat update I didn’t want to give
• Book review: Murder, She Wrote, Aloha Betrayed by Donald Bain

What I/We’ve Been Listening To

I’m still listening to The Jack Benny Radio Show (a podcast with full episodes) when I go to bed. I often fall asleep before I can hear the entire episode, however, so I just load up the que each night and see how far I get – often waking up with episodes still playing and catching a bit more when I fall back asleep (I ask up a lot for a variety of reasons.)

Recent Blog Posts I Enjoyed

Tuesday Tour: that’s a tap

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.

Now It’s Your Turn

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

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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 and Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Reading Reality.

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