The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated reviewer book blog, and is a post to recap my bookish and non-bookish things from the last week. I'm also linking up to The Sunday Salon hosted by Deb Nance @Readerbuzz.
It's been a busy week. Monday I visited a garden famous for their tulips with my sister, her husband and a couple of friends. We ended up at my house for an early dinner and had a wonderful visit. Spring in Northern California has been so beautiful!
Crystal Hermitage Garden Tulips
Shenanigans continue at work. They've called me in an extra day and I'm working another extra day this next week. Not excited about that since my son just decided to come visit this week.
My husband and I flew out to Texas to visit our daughter, SIL, and the grandkids on Thursday. I'm writing this late Saturday. I'm scheduled to fly out at 6am so we have to get up and leave by 4am. We're leaving earlier than planned because the whole family has cold/bronchitis/pink eye. My husband and I are hoping to escape the infections. As usual. Seems like every time we visit they're some virus that has overcome the household and we are the unfortunate next victims. Would've been nice to know that before coming. My husband says his eyes are already burning...
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You Shouldn't Have Come Here was a strange sort of horror story. More to come later. The Bride Wore White was an entertaining historical/paranormal mystery with a splash of romance. Total on brand Amanda Quick. Loved Seven Girls Gone. Allison Brennan is an auto read for me.
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Two audios and a library lend.
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How was your week?
The tulips look beautiful. We have a tulip time festival here (in Holland, a neighboring town) and they really are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteYikes- sorry to hear about the infections! I hope you escape the worst of it.
I just saw Seven Girls Gone somewhere else too and it sounds like a great thriller.
You should share some photos next time you go, Greg! Yeah, I think I'm coming down with the cold and maybe the pink eye. My husband has pink eye so it's not looking good. :(
DeleteSeven Girls Gone was excellent!
Oh no :(
DeleteThose pictures from the garden look amazing. Wish I could have visited it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mark! I think you're in Southern California, right? If so you should go the Huntington Gardens and Library in San Marino. Out near Pasadena. They have the most amazing gardens!
DeleteGorgeous pictures of the tulips!!! I hope everyone is feeling better.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Maree. I think we've been infected unfortunately, but apparently my grandkids, SIL and daughter are doing better.
DeleteI love a pretty garden! We often seek them out when we travel. I've only tried one Brennan book and it wasn't for me. Maybe I'll give this one a try since you enjoyed it so much.
ReplyDeleteTerrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
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I usually look up botanical gardens to visit as well. Love flowers! Oh, bummer about not enjoying Brennan. She has several series'. I really enjoyed her Max Revere series, the See No Evil series and Quinn and Costa. Seven Girls Gone is part of the Quinn and Costa series and I'd start with the first one.
DeleteThose flowers are incredible! Looks like you had some good weather too. Sorry to hear everyone got sick during your visit, but I hope you are reading this with NO pink eyes.
ReplyDeleteThanks! No pink eye as of yet, but my husband just got it!
DeleteOooh! Those flowers look so beautiful!
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DeleteI hear there's a kind of flu going around. Makes me wary of traveling right now. Hope you feel better soon to enjoy the spring. Love the pictures of the flowers.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we got it from our grandkids, but I hear pink eye is going around like wildfire. Thanks!
DeleteI really hope you'll escape the viruses Rachel and I am sorry for all the extra days you have to do at work!
ReplyDeleteI may not be going in one of them (tomorrow) as I am not feeling so good right now.
DeleteI love the tulips. Hope you avoided the viruses! Have a great week. Here's my SP: https://bonniereadsandwrites.com/2023/05/07/sunday-post-hold-your-horses/
ReplyDeleteThanks! Unfortunately I think we've come down with them. :(
DeleteGorgeous tulips! And I really hope you don't get sick from your family visit. Loved ones can be so generous with their germs sometimes. And good luck at work this week! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks, and yes! They're little germ factories! :)
DeleteBeautiful photos. I love my spring flowers. I also loved Seven Girls Gone and Drowning. I hope you don't get the illnesses. I try not to travel, stay in my small group of people I know. You're likely traveling or exhausted for the chat this afternoon.
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Unfortunately our daughter, SIL and the grandkids now live in Texas so in order to see them we have to travel. I hate the plane rides! *sigh* I love them, but being your typical 5 and 7 year old, they are germ factories!
DeleteWhat beautiful tulips! I hope the family feels better and you guys don't get it. Pink eye is awful! As a teacher, pink eye and lice are my biggest fears!
ReplyDeleteEeeek! I think lice is worse than pink eye!
DeleteAaah the tulips are gorgeous! Lovely and colorful.
ReplyDeleteThe Bride wore White is making the rounds, I will have to take a closer look at it. Glad to see you've enjoyed it too.
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Thanks! You too!
DeleteI hope you guys stay well!
ReplyDeleteI think that's not in the cards, lol.
DeleteI'm loving all the flowers that have come with spring time, but the heat is already threatening us here in Texas. What part were you visiting?
ReplyDeleteThere were so many beautiful flowers on our trip! I'll post some photos next Sunday, but yes it was hot! Cloudy with some rain but hot and humid. Just outside of Austin, a place called Bee Cave. Where do you live, Ethan?
DeleteThe tulips are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI hope you are able to avoid the illness. I believe Pink Eye is a symptom associated with the new strain of CoVid.
Wishing you a great reading week
Yep, I read that. They tested negative for Covid. At least there's that. :/ You too, Shelleyrae!
DeleteSuch lovely flowers! I wish for the same here
ReplyDeleteBoo she a igans at work
It seems like you're finally getting some green in your neck of the woods (saw your photos on Instagram). Hope you get flowers soon too!
DeleteHow great to have a visit with your daughter, but that is one early flight out. Ugh. Hopefully you managed to take your leave before catching anything! (Although your husband's burning eyes do not sound promising.)
ReplyDeleteIt was! Especially since we got up at 1:30 am in our usual time zone! I was beat after getting home and worked today. And yep, we caught their germs. Hubs has pink eye and I don't feel good.
DeleteLovely flowers. Thanks for sharing about your visit!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting!
DeleteUgh, I hope you don't get sick!
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What beautiful flowers! I hope you were able to keep from getting sick.
ReplyDeleteYour pics are lovely and I see some great looking books.
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The flowers are beautiful.
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