The Sunday Salon: Latte Literati; Butterfly Monitoring; and the New Bicycle Arrives

     

Welcome! I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. What is the Sunday Salon? The Sunday Salon is a place to link up and share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

My daughter-in-law, Lisa, and son, Ben, planned a surprise anniversary party for Lisa's parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary, and we went to Chicago last weekend for the celebration. What a wonderful time we had! We got home from Chicago last Monday evening. Whew, I was tired! 

I plan to stick close to home from now until July, I think. My Zumba swim class starts mid-May, and I'll continue to meet with my writing group as well as taking a writing class this summer. Still, things should slow way, way down.

And because I was at home more this week, I managed to finish four books. I highly recommend Elmer Gantry to you if you haven't read it, and Anne Lamott's latest book is lovely and well worth reading.

What I Read Last Week (links take you to my review):

Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Flash Nonfiction

Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

What I'm Reading Now:

World of Pies by Karen Stolz (Novel)

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading by James Patterson (Nonfiction)

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Children's Fantasy)

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Whirlwind of a Week

May Flowers

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Emma of Words and Peace, has announced that she will again host Paris in July 2024. I'm starting to assemble my plans for the month.

Everyday Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Action for Happiness

Meaningful May 2024 - Action for Happiness

I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. Now I've established a regular routine of writing down my 3 Good Things. Here are 3 Good Things from last week:

Good Thing #1:

We've agreed on a name for our writing group:

Latte Literati.

Now if we can come up with a design...

Good Thing #2:

We saw 86 butterflies from 13 different species

while doing butterfly monitoring this week.

This butterfly is a Fiery Skipper.

Good Thing #3:

My bicycle has arrived, and 

it's everything I hoped it would be.

I've now ridden it three days in a row

for a total of eleven miles.

Weekend linkup spots are listed below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

I hope you will join the linkup for Sunday Salon below.