Exploring All Genres

Woke up to about 1cm (0.4 in) of snow. There hadn't been snow in the forecast. Ah well, I guess winter is here. Time for another cup of hot chocolate. I might whip up some soup for dinner.

Getting our first snow of the season. Thankfully, it's not accumulating, but this feels a bit early.

It's a damp, chilly morning with rain in the forecast. Took the dog for a walk and now I'm enjoying a cup of hot chocolate. The rest of the day shall be spent curled up in a blanket either reading, watching a movie, or playing a video game.

Another day, another library haul. Picked up 4 more movies to enjoy. I feel like all I do is make library runs at this point, but that's not a bad thing at all. I love using my library and having access to the movies, books, and the many other features they offer. #libraryhaul

I just realized it's already the 18th of October and I have to ask: Where the hell did the month go?! I swear the months started only a couple of days ago.

It's a chilly day and my ankle is still giving me issues. So, I suppose I will have to spend the day doing what I enjoy most, curling up under a warm blanket with a book.

Up next for my reading adventure is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. I have never read any of her books but I have heard so many positive things about this books, I just hope it holds up to the hype.

After 4 DNFs over the past week, I finally found a book to actually read. I knocked out Run Away With Me Girl Vol 3 and it was fairly good. A nice little short manga series to check out. Now, to figure out what my next read will be.

I don't know what I did, but my ankle is absolutely hurting. It might be an old injury flaring up or just some new trouble with it. Either way, this shall be a low energy day to let it rest.

We've got a wind storm coming in and had to cut our morning walk short because it was gusting too much. But, a short walk is better than no walk.

Made my weekly trip to the library to return some loans and pick up some holds. I didn't get too much this time, but there are some hold still in transit to my local branch. #libraryhaul

Is it "too early" to decorate for Christmas? Probably. Am I considering decorating my home office already? Absolutely.

I'm not sure whether to start a new book or a movie today while the turkey cooks. I will likely end up doing both over the course of the day, but not sure which one to start with, and then there is choosing what book/movie to consume. Decisions, decisions.

We woke up to below freezing temps and a heavy frost covering everything. Needless to say, I think the garden is officially done now. However, the frost sure looks pretty on the flowers.

My social battery has been drained. Hubby took us out to eat for dinner, at a pub no less (neither of us drink alcohol) and let me tell you, sitting there surrounded by people downing alcohol while we waited for our extremely mediocre food was not a fun experience.

Spent the morning baking pumpkin pies. Tomorrow is Canadian Thanksgiving and the day isn't complete without pumpkin pie.

There is snow falling in the mountains outside of town and I'm not sure I'm ready for winter, especially after the lack of nice summer weather (due to wildfire smoke) we had.

It's a damp, chilly day and I really didn't want to leave the house. However, there were movies I needed to return to the library. And while I was there, I picked up two movies to watch this week. #libraryhaul

It's been a busy few days but now that I have knocked out my big to-do list, I will have the weekend free to do what I want, which mostly boils down to reading and watching movies.

Had a Final Destination moment today when I got stuck behind a logging truck, on an extremely curvy single lane highway with ZERO ability to pass for the longest time. I gave that truck plenty of space...just in case. Thankfully all logs stayed on the truck where they belong!

It's one of those days where I don't feel like doing anything. But, I still dragged my ass out of the house and walked my dog because she deserves the exercise. Now, with that done, I can be lazy.

Made a butternut squash soup for dinner, something I've never had before and it was delicious. Although, it technically wasn't a true butternut squash since I used a pink banana squash (yes, it's a real thing), which tastes like butternut but acts and looks like a pinkish spaghetti squash.

Just harvested a ton of cherry tomatoes from the garden. I cannot believe how many there were but also the fact that the plants are flowing again. We've had two and a half weeks with near freezing nighttime temps plus a heavy frost and yet the plants are acting like it's summer.

It's been a busy morning. Walking the dog, got groceries, did laundry and planting garlic in the garden. This will be my first time attempting to grow garlic, so I planted more than I planned to allow for any potential loses due to pests, diseases, poor germination or plain old lack of experience.

Oh, I just realized it's October 1st! That means it's officially candy corn month!

Had to return some movies to the library and figured while I was there I might as well grab some more. Ended up grabbing mostly documentaries plus one movie we will watch as a family this weekend. #libraryhaul

Today's reading selection. I've been meaning to continue this series for a while and now I'm finally getting it it.

It was -1C/30F when I got up this morning. Took the dog for her walk and now I'm enjoying the first cup of hot chocolate of the season. It's a day for staying inside, cuddling up with a blanket and a good book.

The painting is done. No more dreary beige bathrooms for us. I'm loving the light blue-purple color. Now I'm even more excited to paint the bedroom this weekend, I just need to settle on a color first.

It's painting day. After living here for nearly two years, we are finally tackling some overdue painting projects. Today, we are doing the bathrooms in a cornflower blue. Then, hopefully this weekend, we will be painting the master bedroom - color yet to be determined.

Made a pretty big pile of books to get rid of, I'm sure more will be added but for today that's good enough. Since I got them for free I will give these away, likely depositing them in the various little free libraries around town.

It's a chilly autumn day, and that seems like the perfect time to reorganize my books. My first big task is to tackle the collection of free books I got last summer, there are some classic SciFi gems in the stack but most of them are non-fiction alien conspiracy theory books I don't really want.

Somehow, today is slipping away. I'm not sure how it's 2pm already but here we are. Made another library run today and picked up an audiobook and a movie. I borrowed this audiobook a few months ago but the disks were in terrible condition, they have been resurfaced so should work this time around.

Was fairly busy the last two days harvesting the last bits of the garden and enjoying both sun and rain along with cooler temps. Tonight we watched Misery (1990) as a reward for all our hard work.

I had some running around to do, so of course I had to hit up the library. I've still been watching more movies than reading books lately, so happily picked up a few to watch over the next week. #libraryhaul #movies

It has been a very busy month or so, but life is slowing down again so I'm hoping I will have more time to read and be around here.

I'm so sad to hear that Dolly Parton passed away.

What if we...

Woke up to a strange sound at 5am. It turned out to be a torrential downpour. Then my spidey senses started tingling & I'm glad I listened cause a drain near our garage door had gotten plugged and water was starting to come inside. Took me an hour and a half but the crisis was dealt with. I'm tired.

Hit up the farmers market first thing this morning and could hear quite a bit of thunder in the distance. We are expecting rain with storms for most of the day and that means a day of reading.

I'm running on little sleep because the last two nights I have stayed up WAY too late reading. My plan to just read a chapter or two of Tears of the Wolf by Elisabeth Wheatley before bed has backfired in the best of ways. I don't want to put the book down but it is affecting my sleep.

Tonight's dinner and a show was Fast Five paired with the Tuna Sando, No Crust (but I left on the crust cause I prefer my bread that way) from the Fast & Furious Cookbook. It's a tuna sandwich, it was fine but I feel that with some modifications, it'd be a pretty decent meal.

Happy book mail day. My latest order has arrived with two Mercedes Lackey omnibuses. I've been enjoying her first trilogy, which I borrowed from the library, and decided to go ahead and purchase the next two trilogies since the library doesn't have those. #bookhaul #booksky 🪐💙📚

Last night, we watched 2 Fast 2 Furious and made the Street Tacos from the cookbook which were good (sadly forgot to take pictures of those). Tonight, we watched Fast & Furious 4 and made the California Republic Grilled Cheese and they were amazing! That will be a recipe we make reguarly.

Spent the morning outside dealing with more dry grass around the yard (we're in a drought so there is a bunch of it), and then took all that plus what we raked up the other day to the wood pile at the dump. I'm hot, tired, and quite filthy but I'm glad that job is done for now.

A few months ago, my son read this book and he recommended that I also read it. I started it last night and got about halfway through. It's short, about 200 pages but I've really been enjoying reading about the discoveries that Horner made back in the late 70s and early 80s.