Saturday, December 20, 2025

The Sunday Salon: Last-Minute Shopping




Welcome! I am happy you joined us at the 
Sunday Salon

What is the Sunday Salon? 

The Sunday Salon is a spot to link up and share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great opportunity to visit and join in the conversations on other blogs. 






We are so happy we got to celebrate with our granddaughter, Bailey, as she graduated from college. Yay, Bailey!

We came home and jumped rapidly into gift-buying and gift-wrapping and gift-packaging and gift-mailing mode. We are relying on Santa now to deliver the gifts in a timely manner to our family in Chicago, East Texas, and Dallas. Fingers crossed!






What I Read Last Week:

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Thriller)







What I'm Reading Now:

Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon by Matthew Norman







What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:








We love watching our favorite holiday movies at this time of year. We always look forward to How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) and Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). 


This year we tried two new holiday movies, and I was glad to see them both, though they were very different movies. Both movies were on Netflix. 

Joyeux Noël (2009) takes place during the Christmas truce of 1914 as it was experienced by Scottish, French, and German soldiers. 

And, yes, Last Christmas (2019) is a rom-com, but the cast includes Emma Thompson and Michelle Yeoh so it might be a little more than just another Christmas rom-com.






I started listing 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. Now I have a regular routine of writing down my 3 Good Things. Here are 3 Good Things from last week...

We have so many pretty flowers at our house this fall...


Good Thing #1:
Blue Mistflowers


Good Thing #2:
Lantana


Good Thing #3:
If you look closely...tiny spinach flowers.




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5 comments:

  1. I assume you have also seen Hitchcock’s film “The Thirty-Nine Steps” — a wonderful Film Noir!
    Have a wonderful time with all the prep for Christmas… mae

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  2. Beautiful photo with Bailey. I am so happy for her.

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  3. Many congrats to Bailey! What a great photo. I love your winter flowers and spinach.

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  4. I love the story of the Christmas Truce (you may have seen me mention the play of that on my blog this week!) so I really do want to see this movie. I have another one on this, older, subtitles, that is similar. And John McCutcheon's song. It should be hammered into all our heads. Three cheers for Bailey! (I've told the out of towners, look for gifts by Twelfth Night -- it worked for the Magi.

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