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February 4, 2025

Winter of Fairbanks Jr. movie change

If you’ve been following along on my blog you know that I have been watching Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movies this winter. I was supposed to watch Having Wonderful Time this week, but it turns out I didn’t do a very good job making sure these movies were streaming somewhere and can’t find this one before …

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Published on February 04, 2025 15:42

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 books I planned to read in 2024 but didn’t get to

|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is: 2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To (will you be prioritizing these this year?) I don’t really pay attention to new releases very well because I read all over the place and most of my reads …

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Published on February 04, 2025 07:40

February 2, 2025

Sunday Bookends: Is that a gunshot or is the wood on my porch just cracking in the cold?

Welcome to my Sunday Chat where I ramble about what’s been going on in my world, what the rest of the family and I have been reading, watching, listening to, and what I’ve been writing. Last week our weather started to warm up after two weeks or more of nasty cold. That meant going outside …

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Published on February 02, 2025 06:36

February 1, 2025

Saturday Afternoon Chat: Staying warm in the winter in the 80s and an unusual cure for my knee pain

Good Saturday afternoon! As I write this I am actually sipping grape juice instead of my regular morning tea, but I am going to go grab some tea in a moment. I have not tried any new tea flavors. I know. So boring. How about you? Any new tea flavors? During our horrible cold snap …

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Published on February 01, 2025 10:19

January 31, 2025

Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing Chapters 1 and 2

Welcome to a serial fiction series of my book Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, a light cozy mystery. You will be able to read chapters of this book each Friday. You can also find a list of chapters HERE. If you don’t want to wait for the next installment or click through each chapter, and …

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Published on January 31, 2025 05:25

January 30, 2025

Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link Up With Us!

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 them. Look for the …

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Published on January 30, 2025 19:24

Winter of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: The Young In Heart

This winter I am watching Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movies for fun and this week I watched The Young in Heart. It was such a refreshing change after the disaster I felt Gunga Din was last week. This movie was full of hilarious moments, charming characters, sweet transformations, and hopeful overtones. I absolutely loved Douglas in …

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Published on January 30, 2025 13:54

January 28, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-me Authors I Discovered in 2024

|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024 I did discover quite a few New-To-Me Authors last year, but for the most part I stuck to the familiar. Authors who were new to me were: 2. Jesse Sutanto, author of Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice …

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Published on January 28, 2025 13:24

January 25, 2025

Sunday Bookends: Cold weather (still), planned reads for February, and a lot of Edwardian Farm

Last week was very cold and I chatted about it a bit on my Saturday Afternoon Chat yesterday, if you’d like to go read that. Today is a day of relaxing and taking part in the Crafternoon zoom event with some other ladies and Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs. We are going to …

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Published on January 25, 2025 21:05

Saturday Afternoon Chat: Cold weather, evil, spell-casting cats, and family history

This past week our area was plunged into an arctic cold that had me wishing I could wrap myself in a cacoon of blankets and only crawl out to use the potty and get snacks. I spent much of the beginning of the week acting like anyone who stepped outside our door into the arctic …

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Published on January 25, 2025 13:23