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“There was loads of food set up on a large #picnic table just outside the kitchen door. Potato salad with green beans. Sautéed squash with onions and garlic. Tomatoes on their own, or stuffed with cream cheese, or with rice and peppers. Bowls of salad, dressed and undressed. Fresh bread. Berry pie, berry cobbler, berries and cream. Pretty much everything had been grown by the class, and it was enormously satisfying to eat it all.”

#JulyJazz

I did find some time to stop by the Sweeter Than Fiction bookstore in Charleston. Really cute Taylor Swift themed bookstore. They had a great selection of romance novels. I didn‘t buy any books but bought my 10 year old a cute bag tote. They had lots of other bookish merchandise: totes, stickers, candles, puzzles. It was busy while I was in there. Definitely a fun little bookstore to visit if you‘re in the area.

#haikuhive
#haikuaday

Went to a lavendar farm in Pine and posed for this silly pic. I should have put my head further in!

My silly l'il sis––
you brighten up many days.
Glad you're in my life.

I'm excited to go to my first silent book club tomorrow.

I realized late yesterday when I started listening to this that it‘s an Audible Plus selection that will disappear from my library on July 15th! So, I really delved into it today and I‘m quite enjoying it so far. All the recipes and baking have me wanting to start making my own cupcakes! 😅
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#100DayProject2025
(July 10, 2025)

My kids created a song challenge in which they give each other a time signature, a key signature, a duration, and 2 or more virtual instruments, and they each compose a song on their favorite DAW that meets those parameters. The Siren feels like someone gave Katherine St. John this kind of challenge but for novel writing. It feels like there's a laundry list of objects, events, themes, and even characters crammed into the story.

I bought this as a mystery book from a charity shop because the description made it sound charming & light. Just what I wanted in the midst of all the chaos of the world & it did not disappoint. Yes there are some dark bits & yes some of it was a bit predictable but it was nice to have some pleasant predictability & I was enthralled. I could not put it down. It made me smile and feel warm when I finished it. Charming is definitely the right word.

#40
Robyn Carr writes great family books, this was a good one

A typical Jilly Cooper romp, but at over 1,000 pages, it felt way too long for its genre!

Book 54/60 #Read2025 @DieAReader
#SeriesLove2025 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

#SundayFunday

The tagged book and author Sally Thorne.

I‘m sure there are plenty of other authors on my TBR LOL