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...
I assume you have also seen Hitchcock’s film “The Thirty-Nine Steps” — a wonderful Film Noir!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful time with all the prep for Christmas… mae
We are planning to watch it soon.
DeleteBeautiful photo with Bailey. I am so happy for her.
ReplyDeleteMany congrats to Bailey! What a great photo. I love your winter flowers and spinach.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteJust spent a week in Plano, Tx and loved the sunshine and warmer temps. Got some outdoor walking in too.
ReplyDeleteI love discovering things still in bloom in my garden and your flowers look beautiful! Congratulations once again to Bailey!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Bailey! Graduation is so satisfying.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you got to go see her graduation! I know she was glad to have you there. I haven't watched too many holiday movies yet this year. I was waiting until we were on Christmas break. Now it's time to get them out of the cabinet and have a few marathons! I hope you have a wonderful week.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Bailey.
ReplyDeleteI haven't watched any Christmas movies yet, but I'd really like to. Lots of Christmas music playing while I drive and in the house though. Have a wonderful holiday!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Bailey. I hope she has a wonderful career ahead of her.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to Bailey! I hope you and your family have a great Christmas.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations again to your granddaughter and I do hope Santa's helpers at the post office/UPS/FedEx/etc. get everything where it's supposed to go and on time.
ReplyDeleteI hope Santa comes through for you!! Merry Christmas! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely granddaughter you have and it is great that you got to share this important moment with her. I love those blue mistflowers. They are among my favorite autumn flowers. Mine are in bloom now, too.
ReplyDeleteI love Lantana, too, but we can only grow it here in the summer and then have to replant it the next year. when I was in Italy I was gobsmacked by the huge bushes of it everywhere. Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI'm not really feeling the season yet; maybe a Christmas film woud help - the 1947 Miracle on 24th Street is one of my absolute favourites...conversely I found it's a Wonderful Life scary and depressing as a child. Wonder if I should give it another go.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Bailey! Merry Christmas! Have a great week!
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