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June 12, 2025
Episode recap: The Hardy Boys The Mystery of the Flying Courier
I have been sharing my takes on the episodes from The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries show from the late 70s off and on for the last few months. The show was, of course, based on the separate series of books from the 1930s and switched off between featuring The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew each …
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June 10, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books on My Wishlist
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is: Bookish Wishes (List the top 10 books you’d love to own and include a link to your wishlist so that people can grant your wishes. Make sure you link your wishlist to your mailing address or include the email address associated with your …
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
Saturday Afternoon Chat Link Up: VBS, pretty churches, and the end of homeschooling for one child and
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 …
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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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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