#5JoysFriday

1) I forgot my phone so no beach pic but had a lovely walk on Saturday and it was so clean. Well done to the folks who cleaned up after the 4th!
2) A very tired Pippin after our walk. Getting up and down the dune in the loose sand is hard work.
3) A new Sinead O‘Connor song 💙 https://open.spotify.com/album/1zRBstfS1hrewghWWzyRHw?si=Yx1OREc-R9y1_pAbwnukAg
4) The deer just watching us walk by.
5) Time spent with my dad.

Friends I believe we have a troll (?). No posts just a weird comment on @Eggbeater #WDNCW post. Thought you‘d all want to know and proceed with caution

DEFINITELY A CREEPER. COMMENTED THE SAME ON MINE. LET THE BLOCKING BEGIN.
@Amiable @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @AmyG @dabbe @TheLudicReader @Susanita @CBee @mcctrish @KadaGul @Aims42 @AnnCrystal

#WeDoNotCare #WDNCW

We do not care if tonight is “Do it yourself” dinner. We have planned, shopped and cooked your dinner for almost 40 years. We are out of ideas. I‘m eating cereal.

@dabbe

#WeirdWordWednesday

I saw a IG reel posted by Cory Booker of a woman sharing the definition of trumpery. And sure enough it‘s right there in my Miriam-Webster dictionary. Sometimes the universe gets it right.

@CBee

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL27UaMPpAV/?igsh=b2xiZDZieGd0NHlw. Edited to attach the reel so all can enjoy!

Tag you‘re it, @Tamra

You posted a review of this book that‘s on my shelf.

Find a book and a post and play along.

@Chrissyreadit

This is the beginning of Robert Reich‘s post today about what it means to be a patriot. I find his work to be informative, encouraging and hopeful. Happy to forward the whole thing to anyone who is interested.

#ReadingisPolitical

#Fridaythe4thPlaylist

America - Simon & Garfunkel
American Idiot - Green Day
Land of the Free - The Killers
America, the Beautiful - Ray Charles
Take Back the Power - The Interruptors
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
Do You Hear the People Sing - Les Mis soundtrack
Alexander Hamilton - Hamilton soundtrack
I Want to Break Free - Queen
Not Ready to Make Nice - The Chicks

@dabbe

#5JoysFriday

1) Funny things and this comic especially 🤣
2) I‘m behind the group but I‘m loving this first time read of Emily…a swap gift from @TheBookHippie
3) Staycation in Time swap
4) Pippin: the holder of my tears and also the best playmate
5) Visiting my dad for the long weekend. I love the north Oregon coast. Can‘t wait to get to the beach.

@DebinHawaii

#StaycationinTime

Thank you @forestandcrow Tyler for my fantastic box. I cannot wait to try to goodies. Love the tote and bookmark and my new favorite ice tea glass. Thrilled with your book choices and an NYRB edition to add to my collection is next level.

Thank you for hosting @Chrissyreadit and @DinoMom Love this swap 💙

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ87-kcMmOw/?igsh=cThnZDdvMXIweG11

Seeing a lot of fantastic poetry in this now most dismal of days. I follow Caitlin (?) on IG. I love her spoken word.

Today, and everyday, I am grateful for all the women who came before me and those here now.. Those who fought and continue to fight for a woman‘s place at the table. Those who do the hard work of caring for their communities, who are fighting against the atrocities that are happening on our streets. Those who remind us that we are all human, we all deserve dignity and caring for your neighbor is the point. They give me strength.

#WeirdWordWednesday

Today‘s theme continued.

@CBee

#WeDoNotCareWednesday. # WDNCW

@dabbe

#ranttime

I do not even have the words to describe how I feel when I see this. I have read those books. Never in a trillion years would I think this could happen here. I have nothing but rage and tears, no answers.

https://youtu.be/xEMy34qhQe4?si=a7kK7bVUPUD8g67C

One of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, seems appropriate for today.

#TuesdayTunes

@TieDyeDude

#ReadYourKindle/Ebook

No progress in June except I did not add to my ebook backlog so that‘s a win. 🤞🏼 for July

@CBee

#BookSpinBingo

Keeping it loosey goosey for July.

@TheAromaofBooks

@GingerAntics

Saw your post. My favorite sign from the first go round.

#MondayMood #ReadingIsPolitical

Tagged book is on my shelf.

Today‘s shirt: With fear for our democracy, I Dissent” Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Play along if you like!

#5JoysFriday #OnSaturday

1) Finally decided which books to buy with a gift card.
2) Farmville…mind numbing is occasionally warranted
3) Finished binging GG and I have thoughts but I have never felt so seen in a TV show. Lane with an SDA mom was a nicer version of my life as a teen. I hid my radio in a cut out dictionary.
4) Time in my sewing room. Finished a baby quilt
5) Monday‘s concert … music is life changing, soul cleansing, necessary

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

I LOVE summer at the movies and miss drive-ins. And I broke 50, 🎉

So many favorites:

Grease
Raiders
ET
Shriek
Pirates
HP
Guardians

@dabbe

#StaycationinTime

Hubby picked up two boxes from the post office today and I think both are for the swap. So excited!

Thanks @forestandcrow ❤️

@Chrissyreadit @DinoMom

#ChristiesCapers

This kindle edition of the tagged book is weird. On page 36 there was an author pic of Agatha and I thought ‘sloppy editing‘. Now there are different pics on pages 79 and 114, does that mean it‘s intentional? Is so, I don‘t think I like it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Librarybelle

The state side cards are in the mail. Apologies for my tardiness #SummerCardSwap peeps.

@TheBookHippie

#MondayMood

I‘m hardly reading and not on here much these last few days. If you need me I‘m in my sewing room. Hoping to shake it off tonight at a concert and be recentered tomorrow.

How‘s your mood?

#5JoysFriday

1) Book mail is the best mail
2) but so is #SummerCardSwapMail
3) I shouldn‘t buy more legos BUT I could not resist the Jane Austen set
4) Pippin tuckered out from daycare
5) Lunch and quilt shop browsing this afternoon and an off brand sewing machine lego.
6) Bonus time in my sewing room working on cards for swap. Foreign mailed today, domestic hopefully out Monday.

It‘s been a good week inside my walls.

@DebinHawaii

#Staycationintimeswap

My box was mailed today due to arrive on Saturday. Sorry I forgot to take a pic and forgot to tag the outside of the box with the #.

@Chrissyreadit @DinoMom @forestandcrow

Thanks for hosting!

#MondayMood

HOPE! An inkling of a turning tide. A desire for a better future for ALL. A need to be steadfast in what I believe to be true.

What is your mood today?

#5JoysFriday

1) Working on my #SummerSwapCards. Decided to make cards so they may be a bit late.
2) Amanda brought Pippin new toys, the manta ray is his favorite. We have a blast playing.
3) Cards are arriving. So appreciate the joy they bring.
4) Prepared for #NoKingsProtest tomorrow, sign and shirt. The graphic is from #BadAssQuilter and used with permission. Be safe out there. 💙✊🏼💙
5) Caved and joined @AardvarkBookClub and got my 1st box

#Two4Tuesday

1) I‘m eagerly awaiting my copy of the tagged although I won‘t read it until its #CampLitsy25 week. I have also preordered the latest Louise Penny due in November. B&N often has 25% off preorders so you can get the book you want and tell your husband it was a great deal when it shows up 😂

2) Mostly auto buy authors although not many series lately

@TheSpineView

#TuesdayTunes

Not what I listen to day to day but a clip showed up on IG and I had to go find the whole song. I‘ll be thinking about this one of a long time. Listening to it hurts my heart, as it should.

https://youtu.be/Zg0-q8-Wy_o?si=0SzZEHUppts_uKDm

@TieDyeDude

#MentalHealthMonday

My heart is heavy today. Tears are riding at the surface, blood pressure is elevated, finding motivation is hard.

But I will not let them steal all my joy! They want me to give up, to say it‘s too much (and it is) but I WILL keep trying.

@Kerrbearlib

These lines are from the tagged book. I listened on my drive to attend a show with my daughter. A story about a young woman trying to live the life she wants not the life that is expected of her…and she has the privilege to do that.

As I drove I thought about that last line in depth. Do we not ALL deserve to live our right life? Without poverty, food insecurity, without racism, hate for who we love, how we dress, what we believe? ⬇️

#MondayMood

#5JoysFriday

1) Oregon Beavers won the first game of their super regional today.
2 & 3) Tried my hand at strawberry freezer jam and we got a great smallish freezer to put them in.
4) My dad is having some health issues but endoscopy and colonoscopy came back fine. No firm answer yet but having colon cancer ruled out brings much joy.
5) Pippin‘s joyful greeting when I got home from my dad‘s.

@DebinHawaii

#ReadYourKindle

Tagged is #NetGalley

And the other three #SeriesLove25

@CBee

#WeeklyForecast

Tagged was the best of the week. Loved it.

@Read4life

#ReadYourKindle

I think I‘ve been reluctant to acknowledge June so am behind on all the things.

@CBee

#5JoysFriday

1) Samantha and Darrin on the Flintstones on IG
2) Rose bushes are blooming
3) Pippin
4) Started a baby quilt using baby animals in teacup fabric
5) The Wallflowers in concert last night

@DebinHawaii

#WondrousWednesdat

1) Hazel I would have liked to be named after my grandmother
2) Favorite names: Huckleberry Finn (an Irish Setter), Roady short for Another Roadside Attraction (a calico kitty rescued from s ditch) and now Merry Pippin.
3) Stellaluna

Want to play? @AnnCrystal @BarbaraJean @BarkingMadRead

@Eggs

#TuesdayTunes

https://open.spotify.com/track/07Fw4Ms3XMoZJExcYOLnde?si=Wpju6vggQAiKwlJYxUKzNQ

New to me. So good.

@TieDyeDude

#Two4Tuesday

1) I think the tagged will be my favorite of the month.

2) Gabriële and #CampLitsy books

Tagging anyone and everyone ?

@TheSpineView

#JumpStartSummer #WrapUp

Having hubby home cuts into reading time. Finished my two buddy reads and progress was made on my audio and ebook but zero progress on my other 2 print books.

Thanks for hosting @TheSpineView

#MentalHealthMonday

1) I‘m ok today. Feel like last week‘s funk is dissipating. Had a good walk this morning, did some chores and got groceries. Ready to start the week.
2) Daily walks, lots of pug snuggles, lunch with a friend and hubby is home for the next ten days.

@Kerrbearlib

#BookspinBingo

@TheAromaofBooks

#WhereAreYouMonday

Mesopotamia 631 BC
London 1840
Turkey 2014

How else could I experience theses places in these times if it weren‘t for stories? How bereft my life would be without books. How thankful I am to be a reader!

@Cupcake12

#MondayMoodinMemes #MondayMood

Continuing my sanity project. Grateful for all the creative content creators that capture my thoughts and feelings so well.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ9ROMluOoa/?igsh=ZndndXV4MXh4ZGZv. Link to Bruce‘s reel which made me tear up.

Please join and tag me in posting your memes if you are so inclined.

#WeeklyFavorites

Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy are each sent to London by their parents to expand their social connections and if they find a match so much the better as long as it‘s not each other. Of course murder happens and they are again called into help the investigation. I‘m really enjoying this series and glad to know there willl be at least 2 more.

Thank you #NetGalley!

@Read4life

First Finnish for #JumpStartSummer

What a delightful read. Loved the descriptions of Tiffany and the excitement of NYC as described by a Midwest college student. A summer to remember🩵

@TheSpineView @TheBookHippie #SundayBuddyRead

#5JoysFriday

1) Saw the rare Mountain Bluebird on the coast. No phone on me unfortunately.
2) Jumping between Gilmore Girls and Father Brown while I work through my funk
3) Loving my star dogwood and Japanese Willow
4) Enjoyed my time with my brothers while at my dad‘s
5) Grateful for the patient ear of a good friend

@DebinHawaii

#JumpStartSummer

These are the physical books I hope to finish along with The Road to Tender Hearts on audio and the first half of Lamentation on kindle.

Thanks for hosting! @TheSpineView