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[Riya]

This is awesome Teresa, and the penguins are quite adorable!!

[Vicky]

Yay Teresa! :)

And to follow the theme, here's a cupcake penguin!



And a Monocle Penguin, because this picture cracks me up.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

I love this one!

[Captain Cupcake]

Penguin Cupcake! Time for a Penguin Happy Dance.

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[Mary X]

I didn't even think of that when I picked penguins. I will aim for P or blue themes unless I'm inspired by something else.


Aww, Penguins in love ...,

[Sarah]

What is this? Penguin porn?

[Mary X]

Penguins need love too.

[Sarah]

Hee hee

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I thought I should return Teresa's spying visits to LJB and look at all those cute penguins! gorgeous! Glad I stopped by :)

[Mary X]

Dinner Time.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Karen wrote: "I thought I should return Teresa's spying visits to LJB and look at all those cute penguins! gorgeous! Glad I stopped by :)"

Welcome, Karen! All spies visitors welcome!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

thanks :)

[Mary X]

Bed time.

[Riya]

hahaha, that's totally my favorite!!

[Mary X]

[Jackie]

Just popped back in to see what was going on. Love the penguins!

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Good Morning!

[Mary X]

Cute. I was going to do peacocks today. I'm starting a peacock needlework project.

[Mary X]

We went to a zoo in CT recently and they had all these peacocks running around everywhere. I don't know how to get pics from my SD card on here w/o signing up for some sort of photosite thing.

[Vi]

You can upload the pic to GR - that's the only other way I know of.

[Vicky]

Obligatory peacock baked goods!

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I couldn't pick just one. :s

[Mary X]

Oh I wish I could decorate cakes like that. Mine always look like a child did them.

[Mary X]

Everyone is so quiet today. I hope that means everyone is reading. I did the Sunday update and we added 43 books this week. Last week when I did the update we had 227 and we have 270 now. Way to go team!

[Mary X]

This is the wall hanging I'm starting. This is what it's supposed to look like from the book where I got the pattern.

[Vicky]

I want an albino peacock for a pet, they are gorgeous!

Not so much reading today, unfortunately. I've been helping my dad with some much needed home repairs (like our basement drain that's been overflowing with dirty water from the washer and dishwasher and stinking up the entire basement). It was oh so fun, let me tell you! haha

Yay 43 books! That bumped our average books/week up from 29 to 34. Go team! :)

[Mary X]

Last week were were in 11th place. I hope we moved up a notch or three now that we have a full team.

That's out of 19 teams. But the bottom couple teams are either new & not full teams or are just holding teams for possibly inactive players. So really it's like we're 11th out of 17 teams.

[Riya]

This is so awesome!!!!! I'm proud of us- and the peacocks look quite epic- I love the last one you posted Vicky!

[Mary X]

Awesome action pick.

[Sarah]

Well happy Fathers Day. I am at work on break and my Kindle pooped out on me last night. The screen went blank. I bought it recently because my other one wouldn't charge. I was hoping when the battery died it would reboot cause there goes all my books I was about to read. I have a library of books at home, but none scheduled now.

[Mary X]

Have you tried plugging it into your computer? One time mind did that and I thought I would have to get a new one when charging it didn't help. But when I plugged it into my computer it rebooted itself and I'm still using it months later.

[Mary X]

Not much reading for me today. But I read a lot yesterday and finished a couple so I don't feel guilty.

If work stays as slow as it has been, I'll be knocking out Kindle books at work this week. Which I need to do because I over did it on the library ebook check outs.

[Mary X]

Goodnight!

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Worked a few hours today and it's Father's Day so I haven't been online. Doing things with the husband and son, then watched some Grimm with the husband. I am not sure what I'm doing next, I'm pretty tired. I'll get some reading done at some point tonight, though.

Love all the peacocks!

[Riya]

Yeah, I'm reading For Whom the Bell Tolls and it's just one of those books that you have to take slow... Awesome goodnight peacock!!!!

[Lisa Kay]

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Love all the peacocks!"

What she said.

[Sarah]

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Have you tried plugging it into your computer? One time mind did that and I thought I would have to get a new one when charging it didn't help. But when I plugged it into my computer it rebooted i..."

Yeah. I am on my kindle now. I was able to charge it when I got home and rebooted ;)

[Mary X]

[Mary X]

We held our 11th place spot. I was hoping we'd sneak up a spot or two (or three) but we held the same. We earned a 4 book bonus for finishing the 7% challenge. But everyone that finishes gets that.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Have a fabulous Monday, everyone!

[Vi]

Teresa, that's cute!!

[Mary X]

When I put up the July mini-challenge that's for our group only, would peeps prefer that I put it here in this thread or created a seperate thread for it? I'll probably put something together this weekend since I will be driving my kid to PA the last weekend in June.

You know what. I think I will just create new ones. Then it doesn't get lost in the discussion thread and when it's over, it isn't clogging up the discussion thread.

[Mary X]

Here are my thoughts on mini-challenges.

What if we actually did Imke's challenge idea starting July 1st and made it for 80 days and ending Sept. 19th? Around The World in 80 Days theme? Not sure how well I could stick to her layout, based on the book, personally. I would probably do better if I could do it out of order.

For July we'll keep it simple and do a Moon Themed Challenge.

For the August one that we have to submit, still working out ideas on this one. Was thinking 8 x 8 theme: 8 books for 8 categories as a team. But 64 books might be too much. Also 8 might not work well for a spell out unless we don't complete the words.

Octogon Challenge: (working title)

1: Spell out Pewter Blue
2: Spell out August (1 & 2 together are 16 books)
3: 8th in a series, 8 words, 8 letters etc., (require 8?)
4: 8 Green Covers for Peridot birth stone.
5: Leo/Zodiac: books w/cover, plot, title, character etc.., Leo, sun, orange, red, fire, cats (big & small)
6: Summer Fling: books under 300 pages
7: Long Hot Summer: books over 500 pages
8: Water, Water Everywhere: books set near water, water in title, water on cover etc..,

[Lisa Kay]

No, 64 books isn't too much, Mary: HDLS. There is a new announcement from the mods regarding the August challenge in the Captains' Group.

[Mary X]

Ack! We need 75 books to get credit for finishing.

Now I need to refigure. 64 worked good for 8 books in 8 categories. 75 is an uneven number!

[Sarah]

Can't we just use the remaining numbers to be extra books we don't use in a categories or spell out END OF SUMMER which is eleven letters - the remaining number we need?

[Lisa Kay]

Oh, clever, Sarah!

[Sarah]

Yeah I thought that was clever. Are we going to get to go until Sept. 19th

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

No.

Something else is planned for September.

[Mary X]

No the September 19th was for our own Around the World challenge. Books could be used for both challenges. In August we have a chance to win bonus points if we submit a challenge and then complete it.

I thought the around the world thing could just be something fun for anyone who wants to try it. Same with the Moon themed challenge.

[Mary X]

I was thinking of adding a category for Women's Suffrage as the 19th Amendment giving woman the right to vote in the US was passed on August 18, 1920.