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Tag Archives: reading
Bless Your Heart
And here we are in June, still mainlining Noah Kahan (with an odd smattering of Kate Bush, particularly Jig of Life which was apparently written from the imaginary viewpoint of an Irish woman hallucinating while drowning?), and still feeling my … Continue reading
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Random on a Sunday
1. Came home from a late breakfast today and caught this cardinal way up on the tippy-top of the backyard tree, singing cheer cheer cheer: Not the best pic, but I love how plump he is even after a long … Continue reading
Vacation Dispatches (#2)
Two days ago I was still grumbling about the terrible job the plow guy did on the driveway after the recent storms, and today it’s all moot. The snow is gone, thanks to a couple of unseasonably warm days, true “halcyon … Continue reading
Vacation Dispatches (#1)
1. Making progress on The Luminaries. It is so much more helpful when she sits next to the book and not on the book. (iPhone pic) 2. Making gingerbread cookies. (After two trips to the grocery store because I yet … Continue reading
Various & Sundry
Five days off, and the accounting is thus: 1) I’m still plodding through The Luminaries. There are moments when I find myself absorbed by the story, but then the story shifts characters and I’m lost again. I often read books in one … Continue reading
Identity Crisis
I was the kid who always had her nose in a book. And they were great books, full of heroines like Laura Ingalls Wilder, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, and the March’s of Little Women. There was … Continue reading
Diversions
1. Malabrigo sock yarn. 2. The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. 3. Quilt from guild’s charity pile, quilted and bound. (I didn’t sew the top.) 4. Not pictured: finding a new apartment for May.
