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April 17, 2025
Springtime in Paris: Paris Blues
Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I are watching movies that take place in Paris this spring. Up this week was Paris Blue, which isn’t as happy or cheerful as the other two we watched but it’s the real Paris in the 1960s at the height of the Jazz movement. It shows the …
April 16, 2025
Coloring in illustrations in Nancy Drew books
I’ve been enjoying coloring in the black and white illustrations in “old” Nancy Drew books. These are not original Nancy Drew books from the 1930s and 1940s, but instead are reprints of those books. For those who don’t know who Nancy Drew is (like those from other countries), she is an amateur sleuth created in …
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April 15, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: Literary Friendships
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is: Ten Unpopular Bookish opinions, but I decided to change the topic up and share a list of top ten literary friendships (for me anyhow) instead because I could only think of one or two unpopular bookish opinions I have. Are these two really friends? …
April 13, 2025
Sunday Bookends: What is that family doing?
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. This past week was a fairly relaxed one until yesterday. Little Miss needed some cheering up, so …
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April 10, 2025
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Springtime in Paris: How To Steal A Million
For the months of April and May, Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I are watching movies set in Paris and rambling about them on our blog. This week we watched How to Steal A Million with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole. I actually think I watched this movie or part of it …
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April 8, 2025
A recap and thoughts on The Hardy Boys 1977 episode “The Mystery of Witches Hollow”
I’ve been watching and writing about episodes from the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mystery Show from the 1970s. For the first season the show would switch back and forth between The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Last time around, I wrote about a Nancy Drew episode. Now here we are back to a Hardy Boys episode …
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April 5, 2025
Sunday Bookends: A trip to a used book sale, the same books, more canal journeys
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. I want to start by sharing that today is my sister-in-law Kim’s birthday so happy birthday to …
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A book sale, a trip to a garden center, and what’s up with the turkey vultures in our area?
Today for our chat I am pulling out some tea, cocoa, lemonade, and even iced tea. What are you in the mood for? This week’s weather isn’t really calling for lemonade since it will still be fairly cold, but I think lemonade can be good on any day. I’m going to be having some peppermint …
April 3, 2025
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