Pumpkin Sunrise

My antarktis shawl is making some progress and boy oh boy am I loving this knit so very much.  You should knit this, wait....most of you have or you currently are!  My notes are here I finished my book last week Lost and Found and I really didn't care for it at all.  The story started off so promising but I felt the plot was crazy weird and the characters acted out of character.  I frequently did some eye rolling as well.  Oh well, this is the first book of the year that I wasn't thrilled with the read.  So I'm okay with a so so book. My current book is pretty good!  I am enjoying the story as it slowly unfolds.  I read his other book A Man Called Ove  and thoroughly enjoyed that book.  A great story and the translation read smoothly.  So far this one might be a winner, stay tuned. Joining Ginny

Weekends are for memory making,  relaxing and enjoying quiet moments of our days.   If you would like, please share your weekend moments  in the comment section with a link to your blog. I'm still in boycotting summer mode these days...I have such a LONG way until Autumn.  One day I wore jeans just to make a statement.  Thankfully I have air conditioning. How are you?  How was your weekend? My weekend was pretty good.  I knit quite a lot and finished a book (yay!).  I also made one s'more over the stove for my dessert.  S'mores are the perfect dessert - crunchy, gooey, and full of chocolate. Who needs a campfire?! And who needs outside? I didn't walk much because the hot weather bothers my arthritis.  I did quick little mini walks around the yard and pretended it was a power walk.  Frodo likes the little walks and if he could talk he would say "mom, I don't like summer much either". Oh and I made some serious progress on my sock

I'm lucky to have phone calls from my kids almost daily.  Our son is in Boston (soon to move back to PA at Penn State University) and our daughter is in Santa Barbara a few years as her husband completes a post doc.  So many transitions! During one conversation with my daughter, she mentioned some personal goals she created for herself.  Well you know me all too well, I had to think and create some goals.  The usual ones are:  eat healthy, walk daily, do yoga daily and pray daily.  Simple, doable and quite refreshing for the mind. While contemplating detailed goals, I've compiled an addendum list to add to the goals I achieve each and every day. So here it goes: -use the good camera daily.  (seriously dead simple) -create ONE new recipe once a week -plan out my stay-cation with day trips, and fun events like going to the local amusement park to walk around, visit new to us restaurants, a LYS crawl (!) etc.... -learn to identify the trees I admire on a walk and