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
I did not know that about Rose Wilder Lane.
DeleteLost 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!
ReplyDeleteHappy 18th blogoversary! Way to go! That's great that you're still going strong and building community to support us book bloggers. I appreciate Sunday Salon!
ReplyDeleteI love your photos, Deb! Congratulations on 18 years of blogging, dear friend! I am so happy for you and really appreciate you and all the posts you share.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 18 years, that's amazing.
ReplyDeleteOoh, happy blogoversary! I should work out mine... I've no idea. But you've had an amazing run of it!
ReplyDeleteHope you have a good week.
I wish you a Happy Blogoversary! I’m glad to see you read Lost Horizon and hope you enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogoversary!! I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. It would be fun to read them all again.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have an awesome week!
I was just thinking about how long I've been blogging, too. My 17th anniversary is this coming in July. I can't believe we've been at it for so long.
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary!! 18 years is a long time.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 18 years of blogging! Happy to hear the rain didn't do any damage and you were able to still enjoy your aquatic classes! Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the blogversary! I have a big one coming up in August. Coincidentally I have also reviewed The Things We Never Say in my latest post. Thanks for the link-up!
ReplyDeletewow, happy blogiversary! and to many more!
ReplyDeletewell, you did manage to catch up quite a bit in reading!
18 years of blogging is so fantastic! Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteI also read Annie Knows Everything and liked it. I LOVED the Laura Ingalls Wilder books growing up; it's great that you've reread them all. My original set still sits on my bookshelves.
Happy Blog Anniversary!!
ReplyDeleteI would’ve loved to see alligators as a kid. This is a great resource as it is. I’ve only seen them in Florida. I think it’s alligators or crocodiles I get confused about which climate that can live in.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 18 years of blogging!
ReplyDelete⭐️⭐️HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY ⭐️⭐️ What an incredible milestone, you are an absolute treasure Deb.
ReplyDeleteDid you know Netflix are releasing a brand new adaption of The Little House on the Prairie next month? Apparently it’s supposed to be closer the books.
Wishing you a wonderful week and happy reading!
I did not know that Netflix is releasing a new adaption of Little House!
DeleteHappy blogovesary! 18 years is a long time. Well done.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 18 years of blogging! We were supposed to go to the pool this week, but it was only 74 and a sustained wind of 20 mph, with gusts up to 50, it was just too cool. Glad you all had no damage from Arthur. Have a great week!
ReplyDeletePool time and baby alligators! How fun and hopefully not together. Hahahaha.
ReplyDeleteI had to think of you when a Tiktok popped up of a girl who had somehow managed to lock herself IN the chicken coop. She was chicken-sitting, same as you, but I think she said she is scared of the chickens. I don't know how she finally got out. Algorhythm hasn't brought me back for the update yet.
Happy 18th Bloggoversary!
Oh my goodness!
DeleteHappy blogging anniversary! Such an accomplishment. Read your review of the last two of Wilder's books. The last one remained unedited, which is why its tone is different than the earlier books. It was found in her daughter's things after Rose passed away. Her heir published the original manuscript a few years after Rose's death.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that.
DeleteWow! That's a lot of years of blogging and a lot of rain too. Congrats on finishing the Little House Books. Your other books look good too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteDeb, congrats on 18 years of blogging. That is a lot! Alligators for summer reading program - wow! Don't think I ever have seen that before - ha! Wish a bit of this humidity would blow away, but that's how it is some summers. We're glad for the moisture and the lakes are full! Have a good week!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the 18 years, that is quite an achievement. I really enjoyed My Friends on audio. Hope that rain goes for good for a while at least.
ReplyDeleteHappy blogoversary! Keep it going! 4 inches of rain is something -- glad your place is all right. And I'm glad the new Strout was a winner for you ... I'm about to start a library copy of it. Have a great week ... with more water Zumba
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 18 years of blogging! You are an inspiration.
ReplyDeleteSend some of the rain by me; we could use it. Happy Blogversary.
ReplyDeleteHere's to many more years of blogging, Deb! I think you were one of the first bloggers that I starting following back in the day. It's pretty remarkable to me that we are both still at it! I have no desire to stop, at this point!
ReplyDeleteHappy 18th blogoversary! I hope your French July celebration doesn't include the weather they are having now. Unreal.
ReplyDeleteHappy blogoversary! I'm a little blase about alligators since we see them around my in-laws' house in south Florida, but I don't think I'm brave enough to handle them, even the babies. Kudos to you! The kids must have fun at your programs!
ReplyDeletePlaying a bit of catch up today. Congratulations on your blogoversary! Such an an accomplishment. Some great books on your list. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
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