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It feels like it has been so long since I have shared here on the blog for some reason! It’s just been really a few days but it feels longer. We had another repeat of the week before – Billy working lots of late nights, Wyatt and I hanging out, homeschooling, playing games, that sort of thing. We have also been really busy with home projects, finishing up things we have wanted to do but never get around to. So that feels good and I will be happy when they are finished. I will be especially happy to have an office room again! We are getting ready to paint and I ordered a few things to spruce it up, a new rug, some new curtains. Nothing major but enough to make it feel all different. We also splurged on new dining room chairs as one of my cats has destroyed the ones we have. Thanks Mags. These are hopefully indestructible as there is no fabric on them at all! It’s been fun to rework our space a bit. We have lived here twenty years and Billy and I realized we have not done too much to change things at all in that time. LOL. My car’s service engine light came on too, and Billy ran it up to the dealership and it is some sort of transmission slipping gears issue that is thankfully covered. So my car goes in on Monday for a few days. Just a little bit longer without a car – I haven’t been driving it since the light came on, right after Christmas! With COVID and everything we had to wait until the stars aligned and Billy had a moment to take it up there. We don’t really go anywhere but it is nice for Wyatt and I to at least take a ride sometimes during the week to break things up! I also somehow got one of my besties to adopt a tiny little pixie frog from the pet store (although pixe frog is a misnomer in my opinion, they get quite huge!) I spotted it when I ran in to buy crickets for Harry and snapped a photo. It looked so cute! Apparently Kelly thought so too, because she went and got him the next morning.
Meet James Lime! (she also has a Pac Man frog named Frances Lemon)
Read Last Week:
I am still working on both of these, but I think I will be done with both of them in the next two days. I have been enjoying them a great deal! After these I am not quite sure what I will be reading. I am hoping I get approved on NetGalley for the new Erin A. Craig book Small Favors. If that happens that is what I plan to read. So fingers crossed!
Watching:
All Creatures Great and Small. LOVE this show so much. As much as the original show, if not more honestly. I have loved the books my whole life, and this show feels so perfect. We finished up Wartime Farm, and started The Hardy Boys, which is pretty good!
And really that is about it from around here! Stay safe and well everyone.
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
Oh my gosh I love that frog! I’ve never thought about having a frog, how cute. I like turtles too so I must have a soft spot for all these terrarium type critters lol.
Murder on the Orient Express- I should really read that! And Hardy Boys? What’s this? I’ll have to check that out!
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Isn’t it adorable!!! I am thinking I want frogs now too, but ones that stay tiny. Big frogs freak me out a little. LOL. And turtles are so cute too!!
Hardy Boys is a Hulu show, and it is pretty good. It reminds me of Stranger Things, as it is not modernized. It’s fun!
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I haven’t watched All Creatures Great and Small, but I recently downloaded the book on audio and I look forward to reading it. Good luck with your home projects, it’s nice to make a few changes and improvements from time to time!
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I am pretty excited about our little changes (and big ones too!). It does make the house feel fresher. Especially as we are here so much these days!!
I loved that series. I even named our “school” James Herriot Primary. Lol.
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James Herriot Primary – love it! 😁
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I watched All creatures great and small (the new one) last week and absolutely loved it. I never heard about Wartime farm, I’ll take a look at that, thanks for the tip. Enjoy your books and new chairs ^^ and have a great week !
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It is so good!! I know already that I will be sad when this first season ends. Lol. Wartime Farm is a BBC show, I found it on Youtube – search Absolute History Wartime Farm. There is an Edwardian Farm and Victorian Farm too, on Amazon, with the same historians. It is really neat. (if you like history and farm stuff)
And thank you!
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I remember loving The Hardy Boys books…and when I was a kid, in the OLD DAYS, lol, there was a serialized version of the books showing on …wait for it! The Mickey Mouse Club.
Your week sounds good…and good luck on the car repairs.
Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.
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Lol!!!! I will have to ask my mom if she watched it! I know she loved the Mickey Mouse Club!
Thanks Laurel-Rain!
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I had so many animals in my school library that it was sometimes referred to as the zoobrary. Parakeets. Cockatiel. Bearded dragon. Blue tongued skink. Guinea pigs. Chameleon. Whatever people donated, I took. That frog looks intriguing. Never had a frog!
I can’t wait to read your review of Wintering. It’s a book I’ve been eying.
We haven’t gotten around to the new All Creatures but we’ve taken great delight in spending so much time in the old series.
Good luck with your home improvement projects. It sounds like you will enjoy your new office.
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I love that!!! What fun for the students!! A chameleon would be so fun! I have a feeling that when we finish the office I am going to want some sort of critter for in there…
Definitely spend time with the older series, it is such a good show. And then you can move on to the new one! Lol.
Thanks Deb!
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We live about 100m from a river so frogs are pretty common around here, they aren’t that cute though 🙂
I forgot about The Hardy Boys reboot, I’ll have to add it to my watch list.
Wishing you a great reading week
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That would be so fun! We were talking about putting in a small yard pond eventually, and hoping that frogs show up. Lol. But they won’t be this cute either.
It is pretty good!!
Thanks Shelleyrae, you too.
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Home decorating projects are always so exhausting. All you want to do at the end of the day is just to veg out.
I don’t know how you’re managing to cope with that and do home schooling at the same time
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I do quite a bit of vegging out at the end of the night these days lol. It is so tiring! It has slowed my reading down a bit since I fall asleep after 10 minutes. Otherwise I am powered by coffee.
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How productive you are! I put a hold in All Creatures Great and Small.
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I hope you love it too!!
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Sounds like you have been busy. It always feels good to spruce up the home.
Nancy Drew is back for season 2. 🙂
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I can’t wait for it all to be done so I can see it all together. And to be able to really use the office again. 🙂
Ooo I will have to watch! It was so good!
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Aww, look at that little frog. It’s so cute. Good luck with your home projects. Have a great week!
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It really is!! He was there for two weeks for sure; I saw him two weeks ago and was like aww so cute, then when he was there the next week in the same spot, I texted him to my friend and was like go get him! I am pretty excited she actually did. 🙂
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That frog is so cute! Good luck with the car repairs… and I know what you mean about just having the car there. Even though we aren’t going out much, it’s nice to be able to just go out for a drive if you need a change of scenery. Have a good week!
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I know right! So little and cute!! And thank you. Yes, it is so hard to not be able to just say, ok, let’s just get in the car and take a ride to get out for a minute. Especially since it is so cold here right now!
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It sounds like you’ve had a good and productive week – even the smallest of changes to our surroundings can feel like such a difference. Good to hear you’re enjoying both of your books. A happy week to you – bookish & otherwise.
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