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January 12, 2025
Sunday Chat: So insanely cold, watching old shows because I’m always behind the times, and shows about farming in the past
It was so cold this past week that our animals had no interest in going outside, which is unusual for the cats who like to go out even if it is snowing or raining. I’m very glad they stayed inside because I worry about them when they are outside. Yes, we have outside cats. We …
January 11, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat returns: small illness, school update, and very, very cold temperatures
I miss my Saturday Afternoon Chat with my bloggy friends. I tried to combine this post with my Sunday Bookends, but I don’t find I enjoy it as much because I don’t want to ramble in that post since it is mainly about books and what I’m watching and part of a link up. On …
January 10, 2025
Classic Movie Impressions/Winter of Fairbanks: Morning Glory (1933)
This winter I am watching movies starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. This past week I watched Morning Glory (1933) with him and Katharine Hepburn. Morning Glory is a somber commentary on Hollywood’s common tendency to send a starlet sky high and then drop her fast, destroying her emotionally, mentally, and sometimes even physically. Don’t get me …
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January 9, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot with new features! Come Link Up With Us!
Welcome to our first Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot for 2025! With this post comes some exciting changes to this feature. This is a link-up where we not only allow you to share your past posts, but we encourage it. So, share away! One thing that hasn’t changed this year is your hosts. Here is a …
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January 8, 2025
Voices from the past: Letters written during the Civil War by my family members. Part 1
Growing up, I always knew that I had family members who had fought in the Civil War. For most of my life, I only knew about the family members on my paternal side. Last year I also found definitive proof that I had family members who fought on the Confederate side — ancestors from my …
January 5, 2025
Sunday Chat: Octagenarian birthdays, starting my 2025 reads, and podcasts I recommend
Today is my dad’s 81st birthday. We had a family dinner for him yesterday when my brother could visit and will probably have another lunch together with the kids and I today. We had ham and bean soup yesterday and today we will eat some sausage balls I plan to make in memory of my …
January 2, 2025
Winter of Fairbanks Jr.: The Power of the Press
For the last couple of years, I’ve been taking a season or time period and watching movies with one actor or actress. I kicked it off in 2022 with a Summer of Paul by watching the movies of one of my favorite actors, Paul Newman. Last spring it was Spring With Cary (Grant that is) …
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January 1, 2025
Join us for our Cozy Crafternoons on zoom!
A quick reminder for January plans for this blog and Erin with Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs. Erin and I are planning some Cozy Crafternoons on Zoom in January and February to try to beat those winter blahs that happen after Christmas. The plans for now are two a month. We will just all meet …
December 31, 2024
Top Ten Tuesday: My Top Reads of 2024
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is “Best Books I Read in 2024” I have a list of 16 books I enjoyed from my 2024 list, but I whittled them down to ten for today. I’m going to leave my favorite read from the year at number 10. …
December 29, 2024
Sunday Chat: A nice, calm Christmas, getting ready for the first book of 2025, and join us for a cozy crafternoon
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. This week I’m joining up with Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, Deb at Readerbuzz, and Kathyrn at The Book Date. “Let’s just use paper plates …
