A weekly look at all of the silly stuff I download to my phone and then never look at again…
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Let’s talk about my hair for a moment. It’s baby-fine, mousey brown, and a good portion of it has fled my scalp for parts unknown, leaving more skin showing than hair. In other words… It really used to bother me, being only in my early thirties when I started to lose my hair. This pic is of me and Boy #1 about twenty or so years ago. You can already see it start to thin at this point. I’ve tried so many different styles to try to camouflage the thinning parts, but I think the battle is lost at this point. I went through a wig phase a few years…
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Our area is currently on day 2 of being blanketed by the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. Yesterday it was an interesting anomaly – “Hey, look how red the sun is! Isn’t the yellow haze the weirdest thing? It looks spooky!” But today? It’s just bad. Not only is the smell of smoke overpowering, but you can practically taste it in the air. Definitely not healthy for anyone. The forecast says we’ve got some rain coming. I’m not usually one to pray for precipitation of any kind, but if it helps to push all this smoke down out of the air, I’m all for it. Below are some highlights of…
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A weekly look at all of the silly stuff I download to my phone and then never look at again.
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Dear Virginia, I received your letter today, say! you can certainly write a book if you want to can’t you? How is Shirley? I suppose you two are having a swell time together. You know, I wish you wouldn’t expect so many letters from me, you know how I hate to write. You say Dan is in the Hospital? What’s the matter with him? Hope its nothing serious. I hope he gets home on his leave, it would certainly be good to see him again. Boy, did it snow here yesterday, flakes came down as large as popcorn balls, or something. I wish it would make up its mind and…
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I posted the other day about the crochet project I had just finished up. But I’m not the only crocheter in the house now. Boy #2 has gotten into amigurumi, which is essentially 3-D crochet. He has been making lots of stuffed critters over the past few weeks. Like this highland cow… …and this turtle… …and this little gnome! So far he has gifted his creations to his friends, but his latest project he’ll be keeping for himself. Any guesses on what this might end up being? I’ll post pics of the finished product when it’s all done!
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Off the Map by Trish DollerBeck Sisters series book 3Out now from St. Martin’s Press I fell in love with the Beck Sisters from the moment I met Anna in Float Plan. Now we follow honorary Beck sister Carla as she traverses the beautiful Irish countryside on her way to Anna’s wedding. Along the way she is escorted by brother of the groom, Eamon Sullivan. Do the two of them fall for each other along the way? Of course they do! But the insta-love/insta-lust seemed a little too…insta I guess? It didn’t grab me at all. And while this book does deal with some serious issues, like Carla’s father’s struggle…
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My dearest Virginia, How are you to-night? It is now about 11:30P.M. Mon. evening. I just came home from work and was thinking about you, so I decided to write a letter. What do you think of the snow storm? Did you get home allright? I hope so. I certainly had a good time Sat. night, you looked awfully good to me. I hope you had a good time. I could have held you in my arms all night, but Leon’s girl had to get up in the morning, so there was nothing we could do about it, was there. I got home about 2:45, and didn’t get up until…
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Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita KellyPublication date: 7 March 2023 from Forever I usually wait a day or two after reading a book to write a review of it, to give my brain time to work out my thoughts, but I literally finished reading Something Wild & Wonderful like three minutes ago and if I don’t get this overwhelming love out of my head right now I might literally explode. This book was so beautiful, y’all. Like, it wrapped me up in this cloud of happiness, even when there were tears streaming down my face (tissue count: 5). Ben and Alexei are such beautiful characters, and I identified with…
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I hate Daylight Saving Time. It needs to die. It’s ridiculous that we still have to suffer through these time changes twice a year. It takes me days, and sometimes weeks, to recover from each change. Why can’t we just pick a time and stick with it???
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What has been keeping me so busy that I neglected my blogging duties? This crochet project! The past few weeks I’ve been working on this wrap for my mother for her birthday (which was yesterday). The pattern is Cassia and the yarn is Dewy DK in Oxblood, both from Expression Fiber Arts. Watching Chandi’s videos on her YouTube channel has taught me everything I know about crochet. I can’t always afford her beautiful hand-dyed yarns, but everyone once in a while I treat myself to some, and when I saw this yarn I absolutely had to have it for this project. My next crafty challenge is to try to learn…
