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 also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there.
Valentine's Day. Mardi Gras. Early voting. Beginning of Lent. The Great Backyard Bird Count. Naturalist club meeting. Two book club meetings. Putting in our spring garden.
A busy week at home.
Native Nations: A Millenium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (History)
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes (Poetry; Classics Club Spin; Black History Month)
This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page (Fiction)
Vigil by George Saunders (Fiction)
Profiles in Ignorance: How American's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz (Nonfiction)
What I'm Reading Now:
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Classic)
Caraval by Stephanie Garber (Fantasy)
Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations by Frederick Buechner (Spirituality)
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
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:
I voted.
Good Thing #2:
I cooked for Valentine's Day.
Manicotti and Italian Wedding Soup.
Good Thing #3:
I spent hours watching birds
last week during the Great Backyard Bird Count.
I saw or heard 56 species in my backyard
over the four-day event, including
this Cooper's Hawk, who wildly flew at
some of the small birds around my feeders,
missing them all.
That’s a great total bird count for you back yard! Your reading totals are also impressive. Have another great week, and thank you for hosting Sunday Salon.
ReplyDeleteI reviewed another book and added my review post. Sorry about that.
DeleteNo backyard bird counts as yet. Trees and branches have been removed for house safety. There are roaming cats in good weather.
ReplyDeleteThat Cooper’s Hawk needs to up his/her game! A backyard bird feeder should be like a smorgasbord. Great to be catching up again. We returned from the Bahamas yesterday afternoon and had a harrowing drive from the airport in Ottawa to their place in Maberly. We’ll need to plough the lane this morning before we can get our car out to the road to drive home. Such is winter!
ReplyDeleteI've sent your review of Profiles in Ignorance to some friends. Our library doesn't yet have a copy.
ReplyDeleteGlad you voted!
I’m just finishing (and loving) This Book Made Me Think Of You and hope that you are too Deb. Have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteI'm on the library list for This Book Made me Think of You, I also hope to win a copy from Goodreads.
ReplyDeleteSo cool about the hawk. I love seeing birds here and I was fortunate enough this week to see an enormous number of cedar waxwings in my birdbath. I don't think I have ever seen them before and had to look thgem up. I just happened to look out to see if rabbits were in the back yard and on the birdbath were at least twenty vying to get to the water. Never had seen anythign like this kind of crowd there.
Your bird count was amazing! So many varieties in your yard! Oh, I've voted too. :-)
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