Life Last Week (18-24 August 2025)

 

It's the last week for the summer photo - next week it's autumn.  I know it doesn't actually start until September 22 but in this house, it starts September 1.

Google was giving me fits and starts on Friday, so I wasn't able to comment on many of the blogs I read regularly.  I'm going to go back and give it another try today.

It's a double post day as it's the 25th of the month and that means Rudolph Day.

The weather for the week ahead:::

On my reading pile:::

I finally finished Madame Fourcade's Secret War - good grief, it took me three months to get through it!  I've moved on to The Book of Last Letters by Kerry Barrett on my Kindle and I've also got Jackie and Maria:  A Novel of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas by Gill Paul on Audible.

On my TV:::

We've watched all sorts on TV this week.  Vic usually picks out our evening viewing so it could be anything from a rough 'em up Arnold Schwarzenegger-type movie to something from Hallmark.  I think I need to do one of those "Watching and Listening" posts.

Checked off the list:::

• Honor Roll, the senior luncheon at church was a fun outing with a delicious chicken salad and a great talk by two of our church members who sold their house here in Washington, hit the road in their camper for nine months, and then ended up in Arizona where they bought their retirement home.
• Vic finished the installation of the hanging garage organizer rack from Lowe's and got it stocked.

• He also purchased the instructions to build this workbench from VanIsleStudioStore on Etsy.

• I watched the Instagram Live Reveals of the December Daily products and chatted to my friend Jodie about what we liked and what we didn't like.  December Daily is a craft project we do together (with the help of frequent video calls since we several states apart) in the month of December.
  

Crafts roundup:::

Still keeping current on my memory planning.  Working on December Daily 2021 because when I went to file away 2022, I realized that I had never completed 2021.  Fifteen stories told, ten to go.

 

And in other news:::

Scored early access tickets for Downton Abbey 3!

Lunch on Sunday at Jollibee - we had a good laugh when Vic said he applied for a job there (in the Philippines) when he was in college but wasn't successful.  He said he guessed he didn't have the "pleasing personality" called for in the job opening announcement!  Shame on them, he has a very pleasing personality!