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Hello everyone! We have been having an unusually busy weekend! This morning I have to get ready soon to meet my crew at the nursery to plant shop, an annual tradition for us. This year though, I am buying a coffee and that is it. With the wheelchair ramp project commencing soon, we won’t have time to do much else, not to mention I can’t visualize the footprint. I wasn’t planning on doing too much this year anyway, just adding some trees and I can even do that later on in the year. Anyway, I am going for the company today which is all I need!
Read Last Week:
So! I finished Watership Down, complete with annotations this year. Sigh. Always such a good read. I also read Flowerheart which was such a light read. I enjoyed it so much and I needed a read like that. Then I followed those two up with two middle grades, Strawberry Hill and The Ghosts of Mercy Manor.
Reading This Week:
This week I am reading Lisa at Boondock Ramblings book, Gladwynn Grant Takes Center Stage, which is the second book in her Gladwynn series. I really enjoyed the first one so I am looking forward to this one!
Posted Last Week:
Top Ten Tuesday – Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon
Thursday Morning Coffee Catch Up
Watching:
Billy and I have been watching a few different things lately. Fallout, which is Billy’s pick, Season 3 of Only Murders in the Building which is my pick, and last night we watched Beyond Paradise. I was glad to see that Beyond Paradise has been renewed for another season!
I have also been watching a few YouTubers in the evening. My usuals, like Forgotten Way Farms and Darling Desi, don’t post very frequently so I need some new channels to watch! I started watching Randi Lynn Reed last night, and her channel is so pretty, all art and nature and some tea thrown in. I also watched Liv’s Library. She has a lot of different books that I hadn’t really heard of, plus some that are pretty popular, like Abby Jimenez. Finally, I started watching Morgan Long, and she seems very sweet. She talks about a whole bunch of things, but one of them is of course books – and tea.
And that is it from around here! I hope you are all well!
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Strawberry Girl is on my list to read soon! Looks like lots of fun and good reads this week and lots of other stuff going on too! Have a good week. 🙂
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Strawberry Hill was an interesting read. It dealt like head on with antisemitism. It wasn’t like the whole book, just one part but I was impressed about just how very clearly it was handled and done. I will chat you about it.
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ooh. That’s definitely not what I thought that was about so I’ll be interested in hearing about that.
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Yay for Booktubers! I haven’t had as much time lately to watch them, but I anticipate having more time starting tomorrow 🙂
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I love a good book YouTuber! Who do you watch?
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Ooh have a look for my friend Paul Magrs’ YouTube! Say hi from me on the comments if you enjoy it!
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Oh I will!! How fun!!
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we are watching fallout as well both hubby and my kid have played the games but i had no idea what it was about but i acutally enjoyed it. i love only murders in the building such a fun show. I read watership down once and it was quite the read as i was younger then i not been able to bring myself to watch the movie they made. Kind of like old yeller loved it but can’t watch it again. Have a great reading week.
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Yes! The book is not nearly as traumatic as the cartoon. Lol. I remember watching it as a kid and being horrified. And ugh Old Yeller too. And there is another one about a sled dog that I absolutely refuse to read again even now as an adult. Lol.
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I’m glad to see that you still enjoy your rereads of Watership Down. Wonderful.
I look forward to seeing what you think about Lisa’s book, Gladwynn Grant Takes Center Stage.
And sometimes it’s fun just to get together with others and shop a bit even though you don’t really want to buy anything new.
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I love that I can just quickly settle in. I love the familiarity and the personalities of the rabbits, just the whole thing. Lol.
I am enjoying it so far! Today during our independent time break during school I will be reading it again.
It is. Out of four of us one only one did any real shopping. I did buy a cute little snail planter. He looks super sad and serious so I named him Solomon.
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That is busy! I’m all over the yard. I wasn’t going to add a new food garden but now I think I will.
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Oo fun!!! I am going to miss our garden this year but it is just not a good year for us to have one. Next year though!
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I read Watership Down when I was a kid, but I’d really like to do a reread at some point. I absolutely loved it all those years ago!
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It is so good!! I read it first when I was about 9 or ten and I reread it every year – although not since I was nine. I started rereading it every year about 15 years ago. It is such a fantastic book.
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I’m still plugging away on my Truman Capote book. I’m past the halfway mark! We started watch a Star Trek series…we’ve already seen it, but Mike doesn’t remember watching it. That’s OK…it gives me a reason to zone out if I want to. Yay for the new ramp and some new trees at some point. It looks like almost all my plants made it through the winter. I just have to replace a couple of hostas and a couple painted Japanese ferns. But, I’m itching to get the plants for my pots. I just don’t know what I want.
Have a fantastic week, Erin!
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Lol! I saw a Truman Capote book while out this weekend and I thought about you reading that one and saying you weren’t super excited about it but still reading it.
I like shows I can sort of zone out to as well. Lol.
Yay!! I am glad that your plants survived! I am super excited, my new David Austin rose gets delivered today!
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I hope you enjoyed your nursery trip! I also need some YouTube recommendations. I mostly just listen to anti-anxiety music on there.
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We had a good time! I like YouTubers who are sort of easy to watch mostly, like Forgotten Way Farms. She just has a gentle way of speaking and it is relaxing. Lol. She talks about food and thrift shopping mostly. I just sort of veg to her.
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Sounds like you had a good week. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
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Coffee and the plant shop sounds good. Anyway trees can become rather large and then they have to be trimmed. Looks like a good reading week.
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It seems wise to curtail gardening when other things are going on — but still enjoy the social tradition that you have going!
I’m glad Flowerheart worked for you.
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We had such a good time chatting and walking around! And Flowerheart was so cute. 🙂
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It is nice to get out for company and I love visiting a planting nursery even if I didn’t buy anything I still love looking at plants and dreaming. Have a lovely week, Erin!
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We had a lot of fun just hanging out together and chatting!
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I love the look of Strawberry Girl. Once you can visualize how the ramp will go I bet you will do a fantastic job landscaping around it. I hope you’re having a wonderful week!
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Thanks Katherine! Strawberry Hill was pretty cute! It had a few serious moments in it though that I thought were interesting and that I was not prepared for!
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