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Monday, June 22, 2015

Radish 911!

All available equipment has been dispatched to deal with this year's radish crop!

Those really are radishes (not potatoes!)

and we're going to be eating them for quite a while.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Friday Flowers

It's been a long week, so all I can muster is a photo of my multi-purpose

anniversary and birthday flowers. Happy Weekend!

Thursday, June 18, 2015

My goal for Book Bingo 2015 is to try to cover all the squares on my card. I'm not a competitive or terribly goal-oriented reader, but for Book Bingo last summer, I ended up reading 24 books (without any planning beforehand!) and read some of the best books ever. I'm hoping that something similar will happen this year. I'm trying to not buy any new books (Our Souls at Night and Go Set a Watchman are the exceptions), so I've scoured my to-read list, perused my bookshelves at home, gone through books I already own in my Audible and Kindle libraries, and borrowed from the library to arrive at my plan.

What I've Read/Am Reading So Far:

With a protagonist/narrator over the age of 50 - Our Souls at Night
Western - Across the Great Barrier
Young Adult Novel - On the Far Side of the Mountain
With an animal on the cover - An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
10 Short Stories - Tenth of December
Biography or Memoir - Do No Harm

What I Plan to Read Next:

With time travel - The Memory Painter
At least 800 pages - Centennial
That your parents wouldn't let you read as a kid - My Left Foot
Currently on the bestseller list - Go Set a Watchman
With an animal as a key character - Frightful's Mountain
Has an animal in the title - Never Cry Wolf
Revolves around a holiday - Thanksgiving
With a number in the title - How to Bake Pi
Published the year you were born - 4:50 from Paddington

Unplanned Squares (So Far):

An academic/campus novel
Borrowed from the library
Found in a used bookstore
Graphic novel
About a disease
With food as the theme
That you chose because of the cover
Cozy mystery
An audiobook

Hmm...Seeing this all written down, I can see that I better get reading, especially with that "At least 800 pages" book looming in the future, and nine unplanned squares. I do have some ideas for those, but they seem a bit easier to fill in so I'm leaving them open for now. I welcome your suggestions, especially for the academic, disease, and food squares!

The planning and reading have been enjoyable so far, although this seemed almost effortless last summer. I'm betting that the next time I bring home a big stack of books from the library and settle myself on the front porch swing, the real pleasures of summer reading will return!

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Ten on Tuesday - Sum Sum Summertime

This week's Ten on Tuesday topic is 10 Things On Your Summer 2015 Bucket List. I honestly haven't thought too much about what I want to do this summer, so this is a good place to start.

~~Visit Ryan in Fort Collins~~. Sadly, this one is already over.
Visit Justin at Mainframe Whitetails. Gladly, I still have this one to look forward to.
Scrape, sand, prime, and paint the front porch. I don't really want to do this, but it is a necessity.
Read enough to cover all the squares on my Book Bingo card.
Finally finish knitting the Hitchhikers that I've started. (Also, the pair of socks I started long, long ago.)
Don't feel guilty about time spent reading and knitting.
Spend a minimum amount of time sitting in hospital waiting rooms. Hopefully, much of this will be done after Thursday, but on the plus side, it does provide plenty of time to work on numbers 4 and 5.
Really, seriously, intently, purposefully clean out my yarn stash. The amount of yarn in that closet has been weighing on me for too long. I want the yarn in my stash to make me feel happy!
Grill something new for dinner - pineapple, peaches, romaine, plantains, zucchini, pizza...
Eat from the garden as much as possible. This one is easy, as I'm already happily inundated with spinach, lettuce, and snow peas. Next up will be beans and tomatoes. Mmm, fresh, red, ripe tomatoes!