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My Sunday-Monday Post!

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn My Sunday Monday Post40 Comments

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Hello everyone! I hope last week was a good one for you all! We just sort of puttered around but it was nice to just putter!

Read Last Week:

Last week I read another cozy, Farm to Trouble and I absolutely loved it. It was seasonal, it was Michigan, it was cozy, there was an adorable little dog named Huckleberry. I can’t wait to read the next in the series but since that one is pretty autumnal I am going to hold off until fall, although it will be tough to do!

Reading This Week:

I have high hopes for this week, listing two books! We will see!

Posted Last Week:

Game Night! For Kids, by a Kid!

Road Trip: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

Tuesday Morning Coffee Catch Up

Watching and Listening:

Hmm.. what are we watching? Nothing really new. We watched some Death in Paradise, and to my great excitement, the first new episode of Season 10 of When Calls the Heart. I loved it so much I could have watched it a second time. I feel on some level I love that show so much because it makes me think of my youth and Little House on the Prairie, of which I grew up loving so much!! I still read the books, and while as a kid I wasn’t a huge fan of the television show, I did watch it. Especially the Christmas episode, such a great one. In fact, I should see if I can find it. I wonder if Wyatt would watch it? Hmmmm.

Saturday nights used to be our movie nights, but we have sort of tapered off. Maybe because it is summer? Later tonight (Saturday) after dinner, we are walking down to the next street over’s block party. We were out for a walk while Wyatt rode his bike and one of the neighbor’s spotted us and invited us down. So if it is not too late we might take a little stroll down, even briefly.

I’ve been watching my YouTube faves as well, Darling Desi, With Love Kristina, and Dainty Diaries.

As for listening, same stuff. I am looking for some book podcasts, if anyone has recommendations!

And that is about it from ’round here! How are things in your neighborhood?

My Sunday-Monday Post

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn Sunday-Monday Post42 Comments

My Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date

Hello everybody! Last week was a better week for Wyatt – yay! It was a much better week – we got out of the house here and there, including a really cool trip to the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Ohio, which was spectacular, and Wyatt got some actual relaxing down time to recuperate while I caught up on some things around the house, including finally starting some homeschool planning for next year. I am super excited already about some of the things we are going to be doing! We also got to sit on the porch at the library, which I love. I think my dad is going to visit this week and watch Wyatt so I can get out for some “me time” and my plan is to grab a coffee, my library book, and read on the porch here for a bit. It was nice to hang here with Wyatt though for a minute or two.

Read Last Week:

I read Flower’s book Prose and Cons and just devoured it, but now I want it to be fall. Lol. I am saving the next one in the series until wintertime, since it looks like it takes place around the holidays. I did however, put another series by Flower on hold at the library..

When I finished Prose and Cons, I wasn’t feeling like a new book really, but I was looking for some lighthearted comfort and remembered how much I loved the MG book Gone-Away Lake last year. So I grabbed that copy off of Wyatt’s shelves and started rereading it. Yep, just as good as it was last year. I love this book honestly. It is a little old fashioned in some parts and in the way of the Little House series, maybe just a few problematic phrases but overall it is full of adventure and whimsy. Wyatt is not really a fan of it yet, he prefers books with animal characters, but that is ok. I mean, my favorite book is Watership Down, so it tracks.

Reading This Week:

I am excited about this one, since it is set in Northern Michigan, near Traverse City, one of my favorite places to visit.

Posted Last Week:

What Wyatt’s Reading – July

Tuesday Morning Coffee Catch Up

Watching and Listening:

Nothing too exciting right now on this front – we finished up When Calls the Heart (just in time for the new season to begin, yay!), and are working on rewatching Death in Paradise. We tried to start White Lotus but for some reason that night Wyatt was being a pill about going to bed so we switched it off to come back to a different night, and then just haven’t gotten back to it. I was enjoying it though!

As for listening, we have been just all over the place. We have been listening to a lot of Billy Strings, the National Parks, and occasionally some Jim Croce or James Taylor or Carole King. It sometimes depends on the weather what we listen to.

Anyway, that is about it from around here! How are you all doing?

My Sunday-Monday Post

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn books and reading27 Comments

My Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date

Hello everyone!! We have been getting so much rain here! It is like bouts of rainy dreary clouds/then a few hours of sun and humidity. I was finally able to get out and weed yesterday morning, before the rain/humidity cycle started back up again. The garden (and weeds) are really enjoying this weather!

Read Last Week:

I am not quite done with The Living Great Lakes but I am so close! It is excellent, and I am so glad that I picked it up to read. It was a good balance to The Cloisters, which was so well done and well written, but it was also very dark and left me feeling very unsettled.

Reading This Week:

After The Cloisters I needed something lighter! I am diving into the world of cozy mysteries, starting with this magical bookshop series by Amanda Flower, then moving on to Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing.

Posted Last Week:

Summer Shark Watch: Jaws!

Wednesday Morning Coffee Catch Up

Watching and Listening:

Billy and I have been watching Death in Paradise still, and mixing it up with The Mayfair Witches. I read the heck out of Anne Rice as a teen/new adult and the Mayfair Witches was my absolute favorite by her. I loved the whole family history that was practically half of the book. Billy has been wanting to watch the show, and while I am watching it, I can’t help but compare it to the book. I will just keep telling myself it is in the spirit of the book and be happy with that. I had a real thing for New Orleans back then, and watching the show is sort of nostalgic for me, and rekindling that love. (Reading the Karen White books set there is also fueling that fire!) We visited about 6 times, the last time the week before Katrina, when she was still at sea. Far enough out that no one knew what was coming and too early for any evacuation warnings, just kind of out there, and weather forecasters knew about her. But to be there as a tourist right before then watch that devastation was … I can’t describe it. Tragically surreal. We haven’t been back but now I am thinking I need to go again.

Billy and I are also starting a summer shark watch – not real sharks although I have heard they are unusually active this summer – but movie sharks. We watched the all important Jaws on the fourth to kick us off, and next up is Deep Blue Sea.

As for listening, I had been listening to The Living Great Lakes but I had to return the audio book through Libby and now I am reading it.

And that is it from my corner of the world! How are you all doing?