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.
Tropical Storm Arthur passed through this week. We got four inches of rain in one day, but it drained off quickly and we did not suffer any damage.
I read almost nothing until I got home from taking care of chickens, but days of rain have allowed me to catch up on my reading this week. I'm happy to have read all nine of the Little House books at last, and I loved the new Elizabeth Strout book.
What I Read Last Week:
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House #8)
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House #9)
Annie Knows Everything by Rachel Wood (Fiction)
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction)
Make Life Happier by Mark Williamson (Nonfiction)
Lost Horizon by James Hilton (Classic)
Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice (Poetry)
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim (Classic Club Spin)
What I'm Reading Now:
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina (Nonfiction)
My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Book Club; Fiction)
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:
It's my 18th blogoversary!
Good Thing #2:
We are sharing alligators
with kids
for the summer reading program
at the library.
Good Thing #3:
Despite the rain, I was able to enjoy
Aqua Zumba and Aqua Aerobics
at the swimming pool a few times this week.
Many congrats on 18 years of blogging! Seeing an alligator when it’s tiny would be so interesting. I’d enjoy that. Glad you got to catch up on your reading, and that the storm didn’t do any damage.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a great run of blogging!
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter was young we read her all the Little House books and loved them together. . In the last few years we have ben disillusioned by some of the revelations about the authors, especially about Rose Wilder Lane, the daughter who probably did a lot of editing (she was an extreme right-wing activist verging on Fascism)). But the charm is real.
Have a great week and thanks for hosting…. best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Lost Horizon was one of my favorite books! And the movie based on the book, too.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you helping out at the children’s summer camp. I just volunteered for three sessions at a local camp - two in July and one in August. We’ll finalize the details after I get back home.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 18 years of blogging! That’s incredible! That is also a lot of rain. Please feel free to send some our way. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteHappy blogging anniversary! I think I started in 2007 and Never imagined I would still be at it, lol.
ReplyDeleteLots of great books you have on tap and I am glad you like the Strout book. I have Lost Horizons on my classics short list. I look forward to heariing what you thinkn of the Backman book.
Happy Blog Anniversary! I'm so glad I discovered you several years ago. And yikes -- I'm so relieved you didn't have damage from the rain. Whew!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 18 years of blogging! That's awesome. :D And I love These Happy Golden Years. It's a book I've read many times. Wish you could have sent some of that rain to my state. We really need it! Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteGlad you didn't have any storm damage. Happy 18th Blogoversary! I'm happy our paths crossed in the blogosphere. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy 18th! What a great accomplishment. I'm glad to hear you didn't have any storm damage. Hope you have a good week!
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