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G Is For...
2018-04-08 09:59
GardensThe kids are each seeing if they can get six rows of seeds to start growing. We did not pay much attention to recommended start times but are just doing it (with older seed packages)… Read More
2018-03-06 07:17
I am reading the preview excerpt of "The Queens of Innis Lear" which comes out at the end of the month. Like a lot of books set in a foreign world, it is taking a bit for me to start sorting… Read More
2018 Blogger Shame Challenge
2018-01-14 07:50
Okay...this is an opportunity for me to tie up any and all loose ends. Let us see what I can find in bookcases, files and storage. This is from a BlogHer Virtual Blog Tour in 2007. I found a… Read More
Book Date
2018-01-13 22:22
Post-in-progress. :-)Watching Husband's artwork this week has been nice. :-)More progress and drying for the first panel of a commissioned triptych. Hyper-textured. Right now, it is entitled… Read More
And Now A Guy Fawkes Movie...
2017-12-24 01:11
An HBO (3-part) mini-series. Guy Fawkes. The time of the Protestant oppression of Catholics. England's relationship with Spain. I could do without parts of the soundtrack...I find repetitive… Read More
Audiobook Challenge 2018
2017-12-17 23:38
Since the kids and I listen to a lot of audiobooks in our homeschool...I will go for the 50+ "Marathoner" level. ---Outside of this challenge, we need to finish the audiobook of "Trumpet of… Read More
Sunday Stealing
2017-12-17 23:14
1. What’s your favorite thing about the holidays?The excitement of happy family time. Spreading the light at Christmas Service last year...Husband's and my candle.A Christmas Eve tradi… Read More
Sunday Post
2017-12-17 19:30
-----Emily Dickinson's Coconut Cake-----We celebrated Philip K. Dick's birthday last night. :-) Husband and I watched episodes of "The Man in the High Castle." Creme pie(in lieu of birthday… Read More
The 12 Books Of Christmas Challenge
2017-12-17 17:16
Hmmm. What Christmas books do I have? What time do I have? The answer is probably not much on both...especially since I just found this Challenge. I will aim for the Elf status...1-4 books… Read More
2018 New Release Challenge
2017-12-12 18:26
There are 5 possible levels:1-30 books per year – New Release Newbie31-60 books per year – New Release Pro61-100 books per year – New Release Veteran101-200 books per year… Read More
Coyer!
2017-12-12 17:40
Sign up HERE._____________There are a few different ways of doing this challenge...I am doing "Coyer Switch" and making sure it requires a maximum amount of reading. :-)So, my reading will b… Read More
Monday Book Date
2017-12-11 16:36
I am on page 63. Thus far no sexual content (I was worried that it might get explicit at some point...hoping it won't because I am enjoying the book). There is a death scene that is fairly g… Read More
Food And Music...Music And Food
2017-11-20 23:48
I made:Red Potato Salad with Whole-Grain Mustard DressingThis was so yummy! We had tons of red onion in ours.I made:Cauliflower Stuffing. This one doesn't look like it will become stuffing… Read More
Frightful! FrightFall!
2017-10-09 15:01
Time to start adding some of my October reading tally. :-)This month, I have read at least 10 pages of "The Magician's Nephew" to 1st-Grader and Pre-K-er. We are reading the chronicles in c… Read More
2017-09-23 14:26
Love the title and the suspense. I am puzzled though as to where this book is going. It doesn't seem the main character is going to suffer any loss in terms of family casualties post-apocaly… Read More
Back To The Never Cooked With List
2017-08-24 10:23
Licensed photo. "Farmhouse Fireplace." Taken by Roger Kirby. Well, I haven't been keeping up with my ingredient wish list for a while...high time I got back to it. :-)-----Barley Malt S… Read More
2017-08-18 11:10
Of course, it's one of those movies with a bet...there's always a bet. A lot of the supporting actors are abnormally bad actors. Still, the plot is moving along Read More
2017-08-14 10:21
-----Chicken Piccata Soup. ~~~I am adding more chicken. Husband likes his dishes to have meat and lean meat is supposed to be a part of my diet.~~~I almost always use jarred minced garlic be… Read More
Willy Nilly Friday Five
2017-06-12 02:54
So, it's actually Sunday...but I thought of participating late...and I am still participating. :-)This rose bush has at least 27 open flowers. :-)A coffee cup that I won as part of a gift pa… Read More
You Have To Love A Reading CHALLENGE!
2017-05-02 07:42
So, for the "Clean Sweep ARC Challenge" I will be going through and reading any unread books but I have also decided to go back and do a more thorough job on some feedback and/or reviews. Wh… Read More
2017-04-29 22:15
So, apparently the cough I got yesterday after being around a bunch of people and what I call a "fake fever" feeling from my thyroid issues might be related this time around. I still have th… Read More
2017-04-23 04:58
1) Subways can be bright and noisy. Do you need it dark and quiet before you can fall asleep? Usually. I can go to sleep with all sorts of noise if really tired...as I did yesterday when I… Read More
2017-03-12 13:00
I was having a day where most everything I did turned into klutziness...so, I decided to keep dinner simple tonight...Seasoned Oven-Roasted Chicken. This was yummy. I would recommend making… Read More
Pink Saturday
2017-01-14 10:41
It is hard for me to find pink in my house...beyond my daughter's loads of pink clothing (her favorite color). This is Daughter's piggy bank...a present from her great-grandmother. So, it lo… Read More
2016-09-17 15:27
This years Banned Book's Week runs from September 25th-October 1st. We have picked our reading. What are you planning to read? "The Giving Tree" -----"How to Eat Fried Worms" movie and book… Read More
Saturday Nine Meme
2016-07-23 07:19
1) When the song was written, "Surf City" was a fictitious town.* Tell us a song that is set in a real place."Little Old Lady From Pasadena"...also Rob Zombie's "Go to California." Husband a… Read More
Scenic Weekends Meme
2016-07-23 02:49
Cypress knees peaking up out of the water in Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum. Cincinnati, August 2011.This is one of 15 ponds there. PARTICIPATE IN SCENIC WEEKENDS :-) Read More
2016-06-21 10:10
I still don't like the fact that it was put in...but I would go out on it. (No matter what you tell him about the construction, Preschool Boy insists that he would not go on it because it mi… Read More
FREE Book Found.....
2016-06-11 18:51
When Mazie Reynolds was a young girl, she believed monsters lived under her bed. Now a grown, married woman, she discovers one sleeps in her bed. Mazie schemes to save herself and her daught… Read More
On The Considering-to-Read List
2016-06-08 05:16
Dark Moon is a Sci-fi suspense thriller about a time in the near future when creatures from ancient legends emerge from hiding to help the surviving humans fight sinister alien invaders who… Read More
Pluff Mud Murders
2016-05-22 14:55
My review goes up May 23rd. :-)Well, so far, I don't find any of the characters likable. I don't have anyone to cheer for yet...hmmm. Murders? So, there will be more than one death in this b… Read More
Clean Sweep ARC ChallengeMAY 2016
2016-05-04 16:32
I AM CURRENTLY READING:A memoir of a woman who is defiantly Christian in Romania during Nicole Ceausecu's Communist regime. The author, Virginia Prodan, is an international human rights atto… Read More
Musing Mondays
2016-04-25 15:56
Preschool Girl wants swimsuits for her baby dolls, her Dora the Explorer doll and "my (shopping) cart, even, too." She wants our doggie to have a swimsuit but I explained to her that the dog… Read More
PROGRESS!
2016-04-24 19:34
Reading so far:24 pages "The Salmon of Doubt" by the late Douglas Adams41 pages  "Innocent in Las Vegas"   FINISHED32 pages "I am the Dog" by Daniel Pinkwater FINISHED4 pages "The… Read More
Spring Cleaning Readathon
2016-04-16 16:35
I found the activity late but I am starting now. :-) Today I have read 15 pages of the Reader's Digest Condensed Book version of "Tree of Gold" by Rosalind Laker. The heroine is reminding me… Read More
Musing Mondays Meme
2016-04-11 15:28
I AM READING:Solomon starts out the story as very sad and I am wondering how much of the book will have this tone. This was book number 4, 807 in my mother's collection. I am reading this fo… Read More
Thursday Thirteen
2016-04-07 19:56
1. So, I signed up for "Banned Book Challenge 2016." I am keeping track of my reading progress HERE. 2. The kids made this bracelet out of string from a damaged backpack and a stra… Read More
Thursday Thirteen(Post-in-Progress)
2016-04-07 01:08
1. So, I signed up for "Banned Book Challenge 2016." 2. The kids made this bracelet out of string from a damaged backpack and a straw from a Dairy Queen trip. :-) 3. You can sign up for the… Read More
Banned Books Challenge 2016
2016-04-05 02:12
So, I start with book number in my Mother's collection. To this day, "The Shadow of Blooming Grove" is a go-to biography when reading about President Harding. The "banned" and "challenged"… Read More
2016-03-14 17:18
Photo by Annisa Lam (former member of Stock.exchng)Licensed photo DO NOT COPYCurrently I am keeping the following in my thoughts &  prayers:Husband is trying again to give up cigare… Read More
2016-02-22 11:26
What time is it? Time to get some dishes done...but need to wait for the kids to get back to sleep.Quick. What’s the first green thing you see? A headband to put glowsticks in...it mak… Read More
2015-11-27 10:40
We homeschool, so that takes up a lot of my reading time lately. In addition to reading through curriculums, I have read "My Adventures with Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and Ch… Read More
2015-11-25 03:36
Hace Frio (It's Cold)Tonight, the kids decorated snowflakes with colored sand as a part of their working on basic Spanish phrases. ‪#‎homeschooling‬ ‪#‎StayWarmEver… Read More
2015-11-25 03:25
I have been enjoying Chris Stapleton's music lately. This reminds me a bit of Waylon Jennings and a bit of the TCB Band (Elvis' rhythm section). Mmm. I made Chicken Soup with (Brown) Rice. W… Read More
2015-08-22 21:10
I am studying Afghan cuisine for a Food and Wellness class that I am taking. Barley is one of the major crops in Afghanistan. A few of my American friends would find the eating of chicken at… Read More
2015-08-19 13:34
(FREE as of this writing, please double-check before clicking.)A once-great journalist, Cole Sage has finally hit rock bottom. When the daughter of his lost love goes missing, Cole sees a ch… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
"C" is for Comfort Food!!!-----Koshary. An Egyptian comfort food. It doesn't seem like it's for every palate...but we will likely try it this month.-----We are sneaking some zucchini into th… Read More

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