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June 10, 2025

10 on 10: Ten photos of things I really like or love

This months 10 on 10 with Marsha In the Middle calls for us to share 10 things we really like or love but in photo form. This one will be a hard one for me but only because I would love to share more than ten. So, in the end I actually added 11. Oops. …

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Published on June 10, 2025 05:38

June 9, 2025

Book review: The Wishing Well by Mildred Wirt Benson

Mildred Wirt (later adding Benson to her names) was the original Carolyn Keene, who wrote 28 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. Mildred also wrote other books for other companies under her own name, including the Penny Parker Mysteries. She once called Penny more Nancy Drew than Nancy Drew and after reading the eighth …

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Published on June 09, 2025 16:47

June 8, 2025

A good book & a cup of tea June 2025 party

Welcome to the A Good Book & A Cup of Tea Monthly Link Party for book and reading posts! This link party will be open for a month-long each month. 1. For Bloggers, you can link unlimited posts related to books and reading. These can be posts about what you’re reading, book reviews, books you’ve added to …

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Published on June 08, 2025 11:00

Sunday Bookends: Giving up on Mansfield Park and James Herriot is in my dreams

It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. Happy early birthday to my brother from Transmissions From The Northern Outpost who will be 65 tomorrow. …

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Published on June 08, 2025 09:29

June 7, 2025

Saturday Afternoon Chat Link Up: VBS, pretty churches, and the end of homeschooling for one child

Good afternoon! Welcome to another Saturday Afternoon Chat. What are you drinking today? Tea? Coffee? Lemonade? Water? Let me know what I can get for you. Yesterday we met with our homeschool evaluator and school is now officially over for this year. We drive 45 minutes one way to meet with her each year. This …

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Published on June 07, 2025 11:31

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Good afternoon! Welcome to another Saturday Afternoon Chat. What are you drinking today? Tea? Coffee? Lemonade? Water? Let me know what I can get for you. Yesterday we met with our homeschool evaluator and school is now officially over for this year. We drive 45 minutes one way to meet with her each year. This …

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Published on June 07, 2025 11:31

June 6, 2025

Join me for a Summer of Angela (Lansbury that is)

For fun I decided I am going to watch Angela Lansbury movies this summer. This is the list I’ve come up with. It’s subject to change, of course. You can join along and watch the movies or just read the blog posts about them. I won’t be offering spoilers for the movies. The dates are …

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Published on June 06, 2025 04:58

Post TemplateJoin me for a Summer of Angela (Lansbury that is)

For fun I decided I am going to watch Angela Lansbury movies this summer. This is the list I’ve come up with. It’s subject to change, of course. You can join along and watch the movies or just read the blog posts about them. I won’t be offering spoilers for the movies. The dates are …

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Published on June 06, 2025 04:58

June 5, 2025

Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot June 6

Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog, and providing a link so readers can learn more about it. Look for the …

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Published on June 05, 2025 18:27

June 4, 2025

Episode recap: Nancy Drew: A Haunting We Will Go

Here I am with another recap of an episode from The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries show from 1977. As I’ve mentioned before, in the first season of this series the episodes switched back and forth from Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew episodes and in the next season they started to join together. Eventually they began …

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Published on June 04, 2025 09:46