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.
First things first – He is risen! He is risen indeed! Happy Resurrection Sunday!
What a week last week was — or at least part of it.
I wrote about it on the blog yesterday for my Saturday Afternoon Chat but the gist of it was my husband had a wisdom tooth pulled under sedation at a dentist about 90-minutes away from where we live (it went very well), our youngest cat was sprayed with a skunk early Friday morning (he still stinks so bad after two baths), and Little Miss had nausea all week from possible food poisoning.
But then, to make the week a little better, Little Miss won a local Easter coloring contest from the small weekly newspaper in our county and received an absolutely huge Easter basket full of goodies yesterday.
We couldn’t even believe how big the basket was or how much stuff was in there. It was very kind of the newspaper to hold the contest and then provide such amazing gifts to the winners.
The owner/publisher of the paper is our neighbor but “an independent board of residents” judges the contest, he said, so he and his wife (who also works at the paper) were pleasantly surprised to see Little Miss win the first prize.
While picking up the gift basket, I apologized to him for stinking up the neighborhood since it was our cat that got sprayed, but he said he didn’t smell it luckily. He asked which cat it was and when I told him it was the youngest he said he feels bad for Cass (the youngest) because he keeps trying to get in fights with their old cat Oscar and Oscar has like 20 pounds on him.
“He keeps beating Cass up,” my neighbor said.
I told our neighbor that Cass is young and has to learn his place and stay in his own territory, so I guess he will have to learn not to push Oscar’s buttons. Then Oscar won’t have to beat him up. Ha.
We both did say we hope Oscar doesn’t hurt him too bad, though and I’ll be keeping more of an eye on him so he doesn’t go up there. Our properties run right together, though, so it might be hard to do. So far, Cass hasn’t looked beat up so I don’t think Oscar’s aim is to hurt him, but to tell him to head back home.
Yesterday The Husband was driving from the town where he works to the town where our closest Aldi is to pick our groceries when he called me.
As he usually does on this drive, he said to be about 10 minutes in, “Okay, I have to let you go. I’m getting to the Marie Antoinette, and I’m going to lose you.”
Non-locals would probably be confused by this. He’s almost to Marie Antoinette? What does that even mean? Wasn’t she the French queen who was guillotined? Yes, she was, and she’s also the French queen whose servants and fellow noblemen took a ship to the United States when the revolution started heating up to set up a community for her in what is now Pennsylvania. Many of those servants stayed in our area even after she was killed, while some returned to France.
Because there was a connection to her, though, there are sites in our area named after her — including an overlook called the Marie Antoinette overlook and an inn called the Marie Antoinette Inn.
My husband’s cell service disappears at the Marie Antoinette Overlook and then comes back about ten minutes later, but remains spotty until he reaches the town where the Aldi is. That’s why he announces he is at the Marie Antoinette, and he has to go.
Why did I explain all this? I have no idea. I just found it an interesting way to tie in our local history.
What I/We’ve Been Reading
Just Finished
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
In Progress
Right now, I am reading Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse (so much fun) and Heidi by Johanna Spyri.
I’m reading Heidi with Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.
I am also reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and Still Meadows by Gladys Tabor, which is a book with chapters for each month so I am probably going to read a chapter a month throughout the year.
Up Soon
Up next, I am reading A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie as part of the Christie Challenge for 2026.
I am also looking forward to a Murder She Wrote book, Aloha Betrayal, sometime in April.
What The Family is Reading
The Husband just finished Hamnet. He loved it.
Little Miss and I are going to start Heidi this week as she said that sounded more interesting than the other book I was going to read to her for school.
What I/We’ve Been Watching
This past week I watched Shadow of the Thin Man and a lot of Murder, She Wrote.
I also watched the season finale of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with The Boy.
What I’ve Been Writing
Last week on the blog I shared:
- Saturday Afternoon Chat: A dentist appointment and a frustrating little kitten sprayed by a skunk.
- A Good Book and A Cup of Tea April Link Up and some Highlights from March
- Five phrases that make me run away from a book and five that make me pick it up.
- Classic Movie Impressions: The Third Man (1949)
What I/We’ve Been Listening To
I am listening to The Best of Jeeves and Wooster on Audible. I don’t do well with audiobooks, though, so we will see how it goes.
This for Easter:
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?
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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