Hunting for Fossils and Sapphires: Heading to Montana This Week

 

Well, this weekend I'm...yes, you guessed it...traveling again...this time to North Texas for a baby shower. I will get home Monday, and then Tuesday we are flying to Montana for a rock dig. My husband and I will be hunting for fossils and sapphires. Wish us luck!

Just one book finished this week, but it was a good one,

filled with lots of ideas based on science about excellent ways to walk.

52 Ways to Walk by Annabel Streets

Another Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Everyday by Clemency Burton Hill (Nonfiction)

The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis (Narniathon)

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel (Nonfiction)

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Chapter-a-Day)

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Nonfiction)

Last week I posted here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Four Five-Star Reads This Week...Around the World in 80 Books...Lessons in Chemistry...Patient Zero...and Happy for You

Precious Days...Dire Days...Big Day...New Day...Every Day: Books with Days in the Title

Musée Picasso, Paris

For 50 Years, Alexander Has Been Having Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Days (NPR)

Goodreads Members' Top 72 Hit Books of the Year (So Far)

Once again, we checked out a few things from the library while our grandkids were visiting. Annie and Wyatt loved using the butterfly punch...We ended up making and decorating over a hundred paper butterflies. The kids also loved the giraffe sprinkler we checked out and playing in our sandbox. We taught Annie to play Uno (she won!) and we taught Wyatt checkers and Candyland. We also had a picnic and went to the park. Fabulous weekend.

Good Thing #1

Aqua Fit, Aqua Zumba, and Aqua Yoga classes have begun!

Two new swimsuits.

Good Thing #2

What's better than seeing a zinnia you've planted pop up?

Seeing a zinnia you've planted with a butterfly on it.

Good Thing #3

I've signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo for July.

I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below. 

Musée Picasso, Paris

Picasso.

It's a person, 

but it's also a word that instantly makes you think of an innovator.

Picasso is known for 

co-founding the Cubist movement, 

the invention of constructed sculpture, 

the co-invention of collage.

I visited Musée Picasso when I was in Paris.

For more wordless photos, go to Wordless Wednesday.

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative! It was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion and is now hosted at Elza Reads.

Precious Days...Dire Days...Big Day...New Day...Every Day: Books with Days in the Title

Choose any unit of time---seconds, minutes, even years or millennium---and you will find a book title that includes that unit of time.

But my favorite is day. Not only did I find books with day in the title, but I found lots of books with day in the title, and, even better, I found lots of good books with day in the title. Here's my list.

These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon E. Garrity

The Big Day by Terry Lee Caruthers

A New Day by Brad Meltzer

This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live by Every Day by Hoda Kotb

Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

One Day by David Nichols

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

Great Day for Up by Dr. Seuss

Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel

Want more? How about a title for each day of the week?

Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith by Suzanne Strempek Shea

Mister Monday by Garth Nix

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Wacky Wednesday by Dr. Seuss

Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartnett

Friday's Tunnel by John Verney

The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.  

Four Five-Star Reads This Week...Around the World in 80 Books...Lessons in Chemistry...Patient Zero...and Happy for You

 

Our granddaughter Bailey delivered a fantastic valedictorian speech. Here are her final words: "If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet, how important you can be to those you may never even dream of... There's something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." 

I had an exceptional reading week. Yes, four 5-star reads and one 4-star read. Exceptional.

Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch (Book-About-Books)

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Fiction)

Happy for You by Claire Stanford (Fiction)

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases (Nonfiction)

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner (Fiction)

Thank you those of you who recommended these books

     

Another Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Everyday by Clemency Burton Hill (Nonfiction)

The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis (Narniathon)

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel (Nonfiction)

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Chapter-a-Day)

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Nonfiction)

52 Ways to Walk by Annabel Streets (Happiness)

Last week I posted here at Readerbuzz:

Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris: Authors (and a Few Other Notables) Buried There

Comfort Reads: The Best of My Pandemic Reading

The Sunday Salon: Reading a Stack of Picture Books and Traveling Again!

Good Thing #1

Our granddaughter, Bailey, graduated from high school!

Good Thing #2

We are getting new flooring!

 

Good Thing #3

Our grandkids, Annie and Wyatt, are coming to spend the weekend with us!

I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below. 

Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris: Authors (and a Few Other Notables) Buried There

It was a stunningly beautiful day as my sister and I set off to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. We had a list of authors I hoped to find in the cemetery. I also had a couple of other folks I hoped to find.

  

Oscar Wilde.

The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Jean De La Fontaine.

Fables.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The Social Contract.

Molière.

Tartuffe.

Frederic Chopin.

Honoré de Balzac.

Père Goriot.

Gertrude Stein.

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Marcel Proust.

Swann's Way.

Heloise and Abelard.

Jim Morrison.

World War I Memorial.

I also saw the graves of Sarah Bernhardt, Édith Piaf, Modigliani, Moliere, and Isadora Duncan.

For more wordless photos, go to Wordless Wednesday.

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative! It was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion and is now hosted at Elza Reads.

Weekend Cooking was created by Beth Fish Reads and is now hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader (and Baker). It is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to grab the button and link up anytime over the weekend. You do not have to post on the weekend. Please link to your specific post, not your blog's home page. For more information, see the welcome post.