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.

Our son turned 19 on Friday. We had a chilled day that day and didn’t do a lot at his request but yesterday he and his dad went to a college town a couple of hours away and explored the town, visited a comic shop, had breakfast and lunch, and just generally had a great time.

The Boy picked up this awesome double record of Johnny Cash at a used book/record store.

The Husband found this for me at a store —

I used to drink these all the time in college and was thrilled to have a bit of a blast from the past.

We call him “The Boy” by the way as a sign of affection because he is the only boy grandson out of seven grandchildren on my husband’s side. Someone my husband knows was afraid the term would offend our son (she was very polite in her concern), but we mainly only use it online and sometimes my husband will jokingly say, “Where is the boy?” when he walks in the house. We obviously call him by his given name offline.

I also don’t use his real name on my blog to protect his privacy a little because I used to use it and … it was sort of weird for him, even though I no longer share anything too personal about his life here. He wasn’t angry about me using his real name but I felt like I should protect him and Little Miss as they grow. They are okay with me occasionally posting photos at least.

Today we plan to go to my parents and have lunch with them and make apple pie together for The Boy’s birthday, which is a tradition because he is not a cake fan.

On Friday night, our cat Scout was unable to put weight down on her back paw.

All the vets around her in the Middle of Nowhere Land are closed for the weekend so we’ve tried to make her comfortable until we can get in somewhere. If she were yowling the whole time and it was clearly broken, we’d call the emergency line of the vet we usually go to. For now, she’s just extremely angry we won’t let her outside, so I am guessing she’s going to be okay.

She also bit me this morning while I tried to see if there is something in her paw or if it had been cut. We think, however, that the paw got pinched between the bed and the wall when Scout tried to curl up with Little Miss on Friday morning.

I am not the type of person who can handle a cat being in pain or upset, so this has been emotional for me. Having a new kitten in the house has also thrown things off, and our eldest cat has been angry and hissing and also trying to bite. I’m about to take them all to the no-kill shelter and be done with it, but, of course, I really can’t do that. They are family, and we just need to adjust to living as a family with a new member.

I am reading my first book for my Nancy Drew November, The Mystery of the Fire Dragon. I will have it finished today. Honestly, it’s pretty good other than Nancy getting hit in the head AGAIN and no one taking her to the hospital AGAIN. This time it was a flowerpot that fell from a third story window. In reality she’d be dead.

I am also reading Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier. Earlier this week I mentioned on Instagram that I was reading Rebecca by didn’t say by who and some very young Bookstagrammer said, “Oooh…what’s that?”

I felt very old. Another person thought I was reading Rebecca Yaros and said they loved Fourth Wing. Siiiiigh.

I’m really enjoying Home the Harmony by Phillip Gulley. I was reading it before bed the week before last but laid it aside most of this week to read Nancy Drew and Rebecca. Last night I picked it up again and ended up laughing so hard at one part. The book isn’t really a cohesive story, but a series of short stories about the same characters, with the main character being a Quaker minister. I am fairly certain I read part of this book if not all of it when I was in my 20s, and it seems familiar, but I don’t remember a lot of it so it’s like reading it all over again. I am enjoying it and would recommend it for a light, humorous and touching read.

Coming up, I hope to read another Nancy Drew, but my husband also picked me up a fancy copy of The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie. I’ve never read or heard of this one so I might bump one of my planned autumn reads to read this one instead.

After that, probably more toward December, I want to start My Beloved by Jan Karon. I am so excited for it but my mom loves Jan Karon so I let her read the copy The Husband bought me first. She hasn’t shared what she thinks of it yet, but I hope it is good.

Little Miss and I are reading a Civil War-based book right now for school called Secrets of Civil War Spies by Nancy LeSourd.

This past week I watched a movie called Storm in a Teacup with Rex Harrison and Vivien Leigh. I believe it was released in 1937 and is an English movie. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed seeing both actors when they were so young.

I watched a couple of later episodes of Murder, She Wrote, my farmer (Just A Few Acres) on YouTube, and more The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries from the 1970s. The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries are both good and horrible at the same time.

I just wanted to leave a little note to thank any of my blog readers who have taken the time to read my cozy mysteries, the Gladwynn Grant Mysteries. Those stories are fun for me to write, and I appreciate anyone who indulges my little hobby. I would love to say writing books is more than a hobby but for now it’s essentially a time consuming hobby and I’m finally okay with that.

I am working on book four, Gladwynn Grant Goes Back to School, and it is taking me a while but I do have much of it outlined so I am hoping I can get it finished and released by February.

I have links to the books at the bottom of this post.

This week on the blog, I shared:

• Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot November 7
• Comfy, Cozy Cinema: The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down a Mountain
• Top Ten Tuesday: Ten books I randomly grabbed off my shelf
• Nancy Drew November
• A Good Book and A Cup of Tea Bookish Link Up For November

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.

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

Hello! Welcome to my blog. I am a blogger, homeschool mom, and I write cozy mysteries.

You can find my Gladwynn Grant Mystery series HERE.

You can also find me on Instagram and YouTube.

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 was fairly busy with vet appointments and sitting with my mom who is a fall risk. I went alone on Tuesday and on Wednesday Little Miss and I went together. She and I had fun spending time with Mom and then taking a ride on the golf cart on Wednesday after my dad arrived home. It was fun to watch little Zooma the Wonder Dog sprint next to us as we rode. She likes to race us but also likes to take a quick break by jumping on the cart with us. I had to hold her tight when we rode up to the neighbors because they raise labradors and although they are in kennels, I didn’t want her to stir them up.

Little Miss had four online classes as part of her homeschooling this week, which also kept us busy.

Thursday and Friday were days for relaxing, though, luckily. I was also so happy this week to see the hostages from Israel released and hope to see peace come to Israel and to the Gazans with the hopeful removal of Hamas’s power.

I am not sure what is coming up for this week other than homeschooling and an extra class for Little Miss on Outschool. I know it will be cold, though, because cool autumn air is definitely here with some of our nights dropping into the thirties already!

Don’t forget that Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I are hosting the A Good Book and A Cup of Tea Monthly Link up for all book related posts. You can find that link here:

https://lisahoweler.com/a-good-book-cup-of-tea-monthly-link-party/

This past week I finished A Fatal Harvest by Rachael O. Phillips and Come, Tell Me Where You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowen.

A Fatal Harvest was a cozy mystery and I will have a review of it up on the blog tomorrow.

Come, Tell Me Where You Live was non-fiction. It was a type of memoir by Agatha of her time in Syria with her archaeologist husband.

Now I am reading Trick and Treachery by Donald Bain. It’s a Murder, She Wrote Mystery.

I am also going to start A Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse this week.

I am supposed to receive a copy of Rebecca by Daphne DeMauier this week and I hope to start that soon as well.

Last night I rewatched the Anne of Green Gables movie from 1985 with Little Miss. Earlier in the week I watched The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula to prepare for writing about the two-parter later this week.

I’m working on Gladwynn Grant Goes Back to School for a February release.

Last week on the blog I shared:

• Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot Oct. 17
• Comfy, Cozy Cinema: The Young In Heart
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Wish I Could Read Again For the First Time

I didn’t take this particular photo, but I saw it yesterday while looking at other photos and was just struck by its composition and beauty. It is obviously an Associated Press photo, so they get the credit.

Here are some photos I did take:

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 in my new link party if you also write a weekly update like this.

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

Hello! Welcome to my blog. I am a blogger, homeschool mom, and I write cozy mysteries.

You can find my Gladwynn Grant Mystery series HERE.

You can also find me on Instagram and YouTube.