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Books Lists and Life
Our foster dog who has since been adopted! Wow, I had no idea I was so far behind in reporting my books read. Below are the lists for the months of March and April 2025. I will have to make another post soon to update you on my lists for May and June. Things have been busy, but still! My husband and I were both sick with the flu for three weeks. As I was recovering, my husband came down with it.…
Art, Hiking, Books, and Catching Up
Acrylic painting styled after a drawing I saw in a magazine. This post will feature a little of this and a little of that since I have been remiss in frequency of posting so far this year. That doesn’t mean I haven’t kept myself busy though. I continue to work on my painting skills, or lack thereof. I am working my way through a book of acrylic painting lessons by Lee Hammond. I do every…
Creativity in Cooking and Painting
Books I Read in October, November, & December 2024
I have been remiss in posting lately and hope to do better in the new year. Happy 2025 my Friends! I don’t really have a good excuse for not writing. I’ve spent quite a bit of time taking care of Zekie the wonder dog and working on my new hobby of painting, but mostly I’ve just been lazy. So, on to my list of books read for the last months of 2024. You will notice that I have begun listening to…
An Artistic Journey
My first watercolor. “What is there to do but strive, and seek, and find, and not to yield.” Enlightenment by Sarah Perry I was looking for a meaningful quote this morning and came across this one. It spoke to me as I realized that I have been subconsciously living this quote in the last couple of months. We are living in tumultuous times, and it has not gone unnoticed by me that I am spending…
Snippets of Nature
Woodland view. “I can sit alone by an open window for hours if I like, and hear only bird songs, and the rustle of leaves. The trees are pure gold and orange.” Virginia Woolf Here is another Virginia Woolf quote that is speaking to me. (Recently, I read a list of quotes from another blogger’s site that spoke to me so much that I saved the list. Here is a link to that…
Fueled by Fall
The view this morning. “Autumn is my season, dear; it is, after all, the season of the soul.” Virginia Woolf Recently, I read a list of quotes from another blogger’s site that spoke to me so much that I saved the list. (See her post here-https://katiegilley.com/2024/10/09/quotes-from-september-2024/) I decided to start my own series of posts, each on just one of the quotes I found to be…
Garden, Therapy Dogs, and Books I Read in August & September 2024
Rose & Snapdragon The roses are having a second bloom of activity with the rain and cooler weather. We haven’t had a hard frost yet, so all the plants in the walled garden are still gracing us with beauty. I think the blooms in the fall are twice as sweet. The plants bless us with a last round of activity before the long winter’s sleep. In addition to gardens, therapy dog work has been keeping…
Bringer of Joy
PeeWee Time for an update on PeeWee! He has been with us for nearly a year now. He fits in so well that it seems he has always been here. (Read about his arrival here-First Foster Dog This Year! and his trials before he made it into the house Foster Pupdate!) After we lost Baxter unexpectedly to cancer last spring, our home was not the cheery place it used to be. Our pack was older, and Baxter…
Glimmers of Fall
Dahlia Fall will soon officially be here. I look forward to it and am enjoying the cooler weather and slower pace already. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the plethora of flowers and the bounty from the vegetable garden. But it is exhausting! Assorted vegetables, that large tomato in the front is a pineapple tomato Tomatoes, mostly Lemon Boy and Jet Star Green beans, pole and Romano There was…
Books I Read in June & July 2024
One of my July reads. These summaries of my June and July reading list should get me up to date for the time being. Excessive gardening and hanging out with family are keeping me busy. Life is good! Gladiolus amongst cleome leaves. June 2024 The Twilight Garden-Sara Nisha Adams Winston is a depressed loner. He finds solace in his overgrown London garden. He begins working to bring the garden…
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Books I Read in May 2024
A wonderful selection I found at the library! I had no idea I was so far behind on publishing my reading lists! I can only attribute it to how busy we have been. Or maybe poor memory. We have been building a 12 x 16 ft. storage shed! Who knew I could lift my half of a 12 foot framed wall onto the prepared floor base? Certainly not me. My husband designed the shed and is the brains of the…
An Expanding World
View from my lounge chair. Summer is the season when my world seems to expand. In so many ways, both good and bad. On the good side, our living area increases. Our patio becomes an extension of our home, and we spend time there, reading, relaxing, drinking a cup of coffee, and occasionally entertaining friends and family. The bad side about my world becoming bigger is the increased work.…
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Books I Read in April 2024
Still reading! I started with the photo of this Bill Bryson book because I have been reading it for about a month. I am just past the halfway point. It is taking me quite a while as I usually have a non-fiction and a fiction book going at the same time. Not to mention the fact that the book is 661 pages long! Some parts are a little slow, but overall I am really enjoying it. I am certainly…
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Books I Read in March 2024 (with Solar Eclipse photo!)
Solar Eclipse, Ravenna, Ohio, April 8, 2024, at 3:00 pm. Hello, friends! Just wanted to share this photo from the solar eclipse we experienced on Monday. We went over to my mother-in-law’s house to share the experience and make it more festive. Some people who live one street over made it into a party. When the eclipse reached totality, everyone yelled and cheered. It was a momentous thing to…
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Life Moves On
I was out lunching recently with two former coworkers. As you may or may not remember, I retired about four years ago. One of the ladies has gone on to another job, and the other still works for my former employer. I worked with one for many years and the other for only about 3 or 4 years. Doesn’t matter. We are all friends who enjoy seeing each other and doing things together. We are three very…
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Books I Read in February 2024
A fun book! Unleashed Holiday-Victoria Schade I’ve been looking for this book ever since it came out in the fall. Dog trainer Chelsea Higgins is not happy when her old nemesis and former love interest Andrew locates his new gym right next to her business. She agrees to a job training Andrew’s mother’s goats. Chelsea also ends up helping Andrew train his deaf boxer and adopts an unruly Boston…
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