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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.
Happy Sunday!
We've been having some nice weather, 70s-80s. I'm still on a catch up with review books since I overbooked April and May. At least I've been enjoying all my reads.
We went to a historical talk at a local restaurant on Wednesday. It was on the history of the Narrow Gage Railroad that came through our area back in the 1800s-1900s. It was interesting! We're going again this Wednesday with the topic of the Donner Party Rescue Mission, which took place not very far from where we live.
I got a picture of our birdbath and part of our rose/vegetable garden.
Birdbath
Rose and Veg Garden. Yes, still needs a lot of weeding!
Eden, one of our climbing roses.
American Wisteria in the front
1000 Piece Puzzle Completed: Jayson Sparkin' by Charles Wysocki Hasbro 2003
This was a hard one! All those white clouds. Took me forever!
Puzzle 26 of 2026
1000 Puzzle Piece Completed: Blue Harbor by Werkshoppe
Puzzle 27 of 2026
Read:
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The Last Mandarin by Louise Penny & Mellissa Fung-3.5 Stars
An Ordinary Sort of Evil by Kelley Armstrong-4.5 Stars
The Anniversary by Alex Finlay-5 Stars
I, Spy by L.M. Kemp-4 Stars
Received:
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Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
Thank you to Berkley, Penguin Random House Publishing and Libro.fm!
How was your week?
Love the garden, so pretty. It is still cooler in NH, and we had a frost this past week so no plants in the ground yet.
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It's been cold here the last couple of days, too. We got down to 38 degrees last night!
DeleteThe garden looks great! It's nice they have those talks. I always learned so much about where I lived when someone came to visit and I did tourist things. I suppose I don't appreciate what's in my backyard enough.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Since we've moved here 4 years ago we've tried to explore and learn more about where we live, but I know what you mean.
DeleteI spent the weekend doing a puzzle purge...my shed was overflowing with them and a lot of the easier ones my mom bought because those were the puzzles she enjoyed doing the most...so now I have room to buy new puzzles. Because, like books, you can never have too many, can you? ;D
ReplyDeleteYes! You can never have too many puzzles or books! I hope you get some new ones that you really enjoy working! :)
DeleteYour garden looks lovely, and the wisteria is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your week
Thank you, Shelleyrae!
DeleteLove seeing your garden and flowers. We were having a nice run of 70-80 but this week will be mostly 90ish. At least the humidity hasn't been too high yet. Great reads you had!
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Thanks, Anne! I'm loving the garden right now. I still have a ton of weeding to do, though. We heat up a bit this next week, but it's been cold these last couple of days!
DeleteThe restaurant history nights sound really fascinating. Love seeing your wisteria in bloom. Oh yeah, I had so many early spring releases that I got behind, too.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week, Rachel.
I'm more excited by the upcoming event covering the Donner Party rescue! There were a lot of releases this season that I couldn't say no to! Hope we both get ahead, Sophia!
DeleteThose historical nights sound really good! You are getting lots of puzzles done too. Hope you have a good week!
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Thanks, Lisa! You too!
DeleteThe Donner Party is one of my rabbit hole fascinations for some reason. But I guess it intrigues a lot of people! Those talks sound so neat.
ReplyDeleteMe, too, Erin! I've sat and read a bunch of articles. More since we've moved to Northern California and only about an hour away from the location!
DeleteYour garden is lovely!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteI would have enjoyed this history session.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting! We go to the Donner Party one tonight!
DeleteYour roses are beautiful! And I'm fascinated to see a photo of your American wisteria. While the leaves are very similar to our English version, the flowers look slightly different - lovely shade of purple! The narrow gauge railway would intrigue me - Himself is a train driver and it's fascinating how quickly rail travel took hold in Victorian England. Have a great week:).
ReplyDeleteMost of the wisteria we have is Chinese or Japanese. Now I can't remember, lol, but we accidentally bought two of the American variety and they don't quite match the rest. How neat that your partner is a train driver! I think trains took off wildly in all parts. Made it so much easier to transport things! You too, Sarah!
DeleteLove the birdbath, where did you get it? We are looking for one too. The roses look splendid - so many in bloom. And I can imagine those clouds in the puzzle would be very hard, argh. I'd still be on it.
ReplyDeleteThe Donner Party should be a good talk ... I have finished various books over the years on that horrific survival tale. I hope you'll share how the talk is next time. I'm curious! cheers!
I got it at a garden center not far from us called Green Acres. I looked on the site to see if they carried it to order online, but it's not there. I hope you find a birdbath you like. I've been on the lookout for one for quite sometime. This is the first one I saw and really loved and so we bought it on the spot. I went down a rabbit hole reading articles on The Donner Party about a year ago. It was a terrible tragedy that could've been avoided, but I guess hindsight is 20/20 as they say. It was a good event!
DeleteI would love to have some wisteria, and I have to tell you that the birdbath is lovely. Good luck with all of your reads this month.
ReplyDeleteI love it too! As soon as I saw it at the garden center I knew it was the one for us! I've been on the lookout for a while!
DeleteThose roses and wisteria are gorgeous and I would find the historical talks on the Narrow Gage Railroad and the Donner Party Rescue Mission so very interesting!
ReplyDeleteThey were very interesting! The Donner Party one was last night and we found it fascinating!
DeleteLove your climbing roses! I plan to put an arbor over the bench in my newest flowerbeds sometime in the future, and I plan to have some roses of my own. I'll keep you updated!
ReplyDeleteThank you! You'll have to share some photos on your blog, Ethan!
DeleteI love your roses. I need more roses
ReplyDeleteThank you! I want more, too!
DeleteYour garden looks lovely, Rachel. I like the path through there, how peaceful. We are warming up now and getting into the high 70s, low 80s, which is a bit early for us. I have all of those books on my TBR and really need to get to them. I hope you had a wonderful week.
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