Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

  August is upon us, which means afternoon thunderstorms in Colorado and the garden is finally starting to produce. I picked tomatoes and pe...

  Long, Bright River by Liz Moore - I enjoyed The God of the Woods by the same author so much that I decided to read this earlier book, pu...

Summer is blockbuster season, and I've jumped on the bandwagon with both feet, reading Whistler, like everyone else, and going to see Th...

Constance at Staircase Wit reminded me that I really ought to read The Lymond Chronicles , by Dorothy Dunnett, as part of my Reading Scotlan...

July is for reading, walking first thing in the morning, watering in the evening, making salad and sandwiches for dinner, complaining about ...

I first read JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit in my teens in the 1970s, and I enjoyed it so much that I embarked on  The Fellowship of the Ring ...

Isn't this a fantastic cover?   The Big Book Summer Challenge , hosted by Sue at Book by Book , is one of the few challenges I do each y...

Happy June! Blogging has taken a backseat to removing all the furniture, etc from the living room for the hardwood floor installation, which...

It was my blogoversary on Wednesday, May 27 (aka yesterday). Babies born when I started blogging in 2008 are graduating from high school. Pl...

 Since my last post, we took a wonderful trip to Cortez, CO for the annual Ute Mt Birding Festival, came home to two birds' nests in ver...