The Ramblings and Rumblings of my Life......
Thursday, January 10, 2019
DEATH OF A SISTER....
My baby sister, Tina, passed away yesterday morning.
Tina was an ER Trauma Nurse for 25 years. She loved being a nurse.
She graduated from collage and it was off to the races for her. She loved working with people and helping them. She took care of our parents when they became ill. Tina has 3 children...Brad, Heather and Zoe. They were the love of her life. Tina recently became a grandmother, Jaylen is now 18 months old, and she loved him so much. Tina will be missed by family and friends very, very much.
Love ya sis......
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
TUSAL....
Totally Useless Stitch Along....the new one for 2019 is up and running.
Hop over to It's Daffycat to check out all the folks joining in.
This is my 2018 jar of ort's. The little pile of threads is my January so far.
Hop over to It's Daffycat to check out all the folks joining in.
This is my 2018 jar of ort's. The little pile of threads is my January so far.
Saturday, January 5, 2019
MONEY......
I saw this cool idea on facebook....I think I'll give it a try.
You start with 1.00 and the next week add 2.00 dollars and the next week add 3.00 dollars. Just keep doubling every week.
Friday, January 4, 2019
CRAZY QUILT.....
I've joined Sharon over at Pintangle for her 2020 Crazy Quilt Challenge. I've got 2 blocks done.
Block 1
Fabric - 4
Braid - 1
Threads - 1
Buttons - 16
Charm - 1
Motif - 1
Beads - 2
Silk Flowers - 1
Stitches - Lazy Daisy, Buttonhole Wheel, Running Stitch,
Chain Stitch, Buttonhole Stitch
Dollie - 1
GRAND TOTAL.....40
Block 2
Fabric - 5
Threads - Pearle Cotton # 5 - 1
Buttons - 12
Charms - 0
Motif - 2
Beads - 17
Silk Flowers - 0
Dollie -0
Stitches - French Knot, Chain Stitch, Back Stitch
Braid
Rick Rack - 2
GRAND TOTAL - 42
TOTAL SO FAR....
82
Block 1
Braid - 1
Threads - 1
Buttons - 16
Charm - 1
Motif - 1
Beads - 2
Silk Flowers - 1
Stitches - Lazy Daisy, Buttonhole Wheel, Running Stitch,
Chain Stitch, Buttonhole Stitch
Dollie - 1
GRAND TOTAL.....40
Block 2
Fabric - 5
Threads - Pearle Cotton # 5 - 1
Buttons - 12
Charms - 0
Motif - 2
Beads - 17
Silk Flowers - 0
Dollie -0
Stitches - French Knot, Chain Stitch, Back Stitch
Braid
Rick Rack - 2
GRAND TOTAL - 42
TOTAL SO FAR....
82
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Friday, December 7, 2018
CRAZY QUILT CHALLENGE......
I've been following Sharon over at Pintangle to keep track of her Crazy Quilt Challenge. You can get all the info for the challenge here.
The idea is to make a Crazy Quilt with 2020 different items. You can count fabric, beads, threads, ribbon, lace, technique and buttons. I'm going to do this one, don't know it I'll get it done by December 2020, but I'm going to try. If you want to see Sharon's Crazy Quilt blocks (she had 10 done) you can see them here.
I made a Crazy Quilt last year, but haven't got the top together. Mine is 12 x 12 blocks. I thought I would try a rectangle shape this time. I've got a couple pieced but haven't started the embellishment. I've set up a tab to put the pictures when I've finished them.
Be sure you check out Sharon's place for lots and lots of goodies to look at. Sharon also shared from
Janis Stoker a printable PDF file you can use to keep track of the items you use.
Have an awesome quilting day!
The idea is to make a Crazy Quilt with 2020 different items. You can count fabric, beads, threads, ribbon, lace, technique and buttons. I'm going to do this one, don't know it I'll get it done by December 2020, but I'm going to try. If you want to see Sharon's Crazy Quilt blocks (she had 10 done) you can see them here.
I made a Crazy Quilt last year, but haven't got the top together. Mine is 12 x 12 blocks. I thought I would try a rectangle shape this time. I've got a couple pieced but haven't started the embellishment. I've set up a tab to put the pictures when I've finished them.
Be sure you check out Sharon's place for lots and lots of goodies to look at. Sharon also shared from
Janis Stoker a printable PDF file you can use to keep track of the items you use.
Have an awesome quilting day!
Monday, October 8, 2018
GOOD, RANDOM, FUN......
Tamar over at Random-osity is the host for The Good, The Random and The Fun...hop over and check out what everyone is sharing.
THE GOOD:
I finally finished up the Sunbonnet Sue Blocks....
This weekend I started the Overall Sam blocks....
THE RANDOM:
Found this little guy hanging on the kitchen window the other night. What is it??? It's a Tree Frog, they hang around all over our yard. You can hear them of a night singing to each other. He's in the upper right corner of the window. If you want to see a bigger picture, just click on the picture....
THE FUN:
My Nephews carving pumpkins....
Also linking up with Nature Notes......
I finally finished up the Sunbonnet Sue Blocks....
THE RANDOM:
Found this little guy hanging on the kitchen window the other night. What is it??? It's a Tree Frog, they hang around all over our yard. You can hear them of a night singing to each other. He's in the upper right corner of the window. If you want to see a bigger picture, just click on the picture....
THE FUN:
My Nephews carving pumpkins....
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
SATURDAY SNAPSHOT.......
Over at Melinda's place....West Metro Mommy Reads.....it's Snapshot Saturday. Got pictures to share....head over to Melinda's place.
Our dog, Bob, sleeps in some of the most uncomfortable paces. This is Bob sleeping.....
Does that look confy to you???
While I was taking this picture my grandson, Luke, decided to stick his head in front of the camera.....
He has a boo boo on his eye lid. He won't let anyone take the band aid off.
Our dog, Bob, sleeps in some of the most uncomfortable paces. This is Bob sleeping.....
While I was taking this picture my grandson, Luke, decided to stick his head in front of the camera.....
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
TAST.....
TAST(Take A Stitch Tuesday) is hosted by Sharon over at Pintangle.http://pintangle.com/ She gives you a new embroidery stitch each Tuesday. I've been doing the stitches, but not posting them here. We are to Week 35, which is Long Tail Chain Stitch. This is my version of the stitch.....
If you want to see all the stitches I've done....they are in the TAB at the top of the page called TAST. I've been putting them all there.
Monday, August 27, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Product Description(Amazon)
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks.
Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago’s South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother’s descent into madness. But when his father moved the family west to Seattle, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows Ironside, Sanford and Son, and The Cosby Show; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award—winning Back on the Block, a striking blend of jazz, African, urban, gospel, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-seven Grammy nominations, and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and television producer, tireless social activist, and business entrepreneur–one of the most successful black business figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor.
Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a complex, many-faceted man with far more than his share of talents and an unparalleled vision, as well as some entirely human flaws. It also features vivid testimony from key witnesses to his journey–family, friends, and musical and business associates. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants, and provides the raw material for one of the great African American success stories of this century.
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (October 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385488963
ISBN-13: 978-0385488969
MY THOUGHTS: Very interesting book. I haven't heard any of his music, but I'll be finding some on YouTube. Quincy has had an interesting life. Has lots of friends and has traveled the world. If you want to know anything about Quincy Jone, read this book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges....
Alphabet Soup Challenge(Finished-read 26 books)
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks.
Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago’s South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother’s descent into madness. But when his father moved the family west to Seattle, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows Ironside, Sanford and Son, and The Cosby Show; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award—winning Back on the Block, a striking blend of jazz, African, urban, gospel, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-seven Grammy nominations, and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and television producer, tireless social activist, and business entrepreneur–one of the most successful black business figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor.
Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a complex, many-faceted man with far more than his share of talents and an unparalleled vision, as well as some entirely human flaws. It also features vivid testimony from key witnesses to his journey–family, friends, and musical and business associates. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants, and provides the raw material for one of the great African American success stories of this century.
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (October 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385488963
ISBN-13: 978-0385488969
MY THOUGHTS: Very interesting book. I haven't heard any of his music, but I'll be finding some on YouTube. Quincy has had an interesting life. Has lots of friends and has traveled the world. If you want to know anything about Quincy Jone, read this book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges....
Alphabet Soup Challenge(Finished-read 26 books)
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
BOOK REPORT........
Hillbilly Elegy - J. D. Vance
Product Description(Amazon)
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062300555
ISBN-13: 978-0062300553
MY THOUGHTS: This is my book club book for August. Do you believe Hillbilly's is a cultural thing? Well, I was married to a hillbilly for 48 years. My hubby was a Kentuckian. He moved to Indiana, got a job, and had friends. According to this book. The working class of America is in crisis. My husband were among that class of people. And believe me, it is a fact that the middle class families have a hard time making a living.....not because they don't work, it's because the money they make is so low you live from pay check to pay check. You can't get ahead of the game. This author takes you into the middle of this crisis. Really awesome book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challnege
Product Description(Amazon)
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062300555
ISBN-13: 978-0062300553
MY THOUGHTS: This is my book club book for August. Do you believe Hillbilly's is a cultural thing? Well, I was married to a hillbilly for 48 years. My hubby was a Kentuckian. He moved to Indiana, got a job, and had friends. According to this book. The working class of America is in crisis. My husband were among that class of people. And believe me, it is a fact that the middle class families have a hard time making a living.....not because they don't work, it's because the money they make is so low you live from pay check to pay check. You can't get ahead of the game. This author takes you into the middle of this crisis. Really awesome book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challnege
Friday, August 17, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
2nd Chance - James Patterson
Product Description(Amazon)
A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 2)
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 4, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316693200
ISBN-13: 978-0316693202
MY THOUGHTS: This is the 2nd installment of the Women's Murder Club. This time Lindsay is up against someone who is randomly shooting people. So it seems at first, but Lindsay finally connects all the murders, but she has to find out why. The girls put their heads together to come up with a plan. Will it work? Do they catch the guy? I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 2)
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 4, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316693200
ISBN-13: 978-0316693202
MY THOUGHTS: This is the 2nd installment of the Women's Murder Club. This time Lindsay is up against someone who is randomly shooting people. So it seems at first, but Lindsay finally connects all the murders, but she has to find out why. The girls put their heads together to come up with a plan. Will it work? Do they catch the guy? I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
BOOK REPORT.....
The Enoch Effect - Rick Acker
Product Description(Amazon)
Product Description(Amazon)
Insurance litigator Leigh Collins
has a knack for turning up that missing e-mail that wins the day or
breaking down complex facts to sway a jury. So she’s hoping to make
partner with her latest case: cancer researcher Dr. Elijah Rhodes and
his life’s work are lost in a lab fire, and Biosolutions looks to cash
in on a $100 million policy. Unfortunately, she’s up against Daniel
Rubinelli, assistant general counsel for the biotech giant, who has a
personal vendetta against cancer. In court, Leigh and Daniel clash from
the beginning, ensuring a grueling case.
But soon greater concerns emerge. The late doctor might have found a “kill switch” for cancer cells—potentially wiping the disease off the face of the earth. While most of his findings were lost in the fire, he likely backed up his data, though encrypted beyond recovery.
Now, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller, two contentious lawyers must set aside their differences to locate the research before the doctor’s greatest discovery falls into the wrong hands…and the secret to life ends in death.
Paperback: 396 pages
Publisher: Waterfall Press (May 23, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1503942929
ISBN-13: 978-1503942929
MY THOUGHTS: I must not have been in the mood to read when I started this book. It's a slow going book for me. I'm not real fond of reading legal mysteries. But once I got into the book it was really interesting. If you could wipe Cancer from the face of the world, would you?? Starts out as in insurance case, turns into an arson/murder cast. I give this book 4......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
But soon greater concerns emerge. The late doctor might have found a “kill switch” for cancer cells—potentially wiping the disease off the face of the earth. While most of his findings were lost in the fire, he likely backed up his data, though encrypted beyond recovery.
Now, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller, two contentious lawyers must set aside their differences to locate the research before the doctor’s greatest discovery falls into the wrong hands…and the secret to life ends in death.
Paperback: 396 pages
Publisher: Waterfall Press (May 23, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1503942929
ISBN-13: 978-1503942929
MY THOUGHTS: I must not have been in the mood to read when I started this book. It's a slow going book for me. I'm not real fond of reading legal mysteries. But once I got into the book it was really interesting. If you could wipe Cancer from the face of the world, would you?? Starts out as in insurance case, turns into an arson/murder cast. I give this book 4......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Sunday, August 12, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Jackaby - William Ritter
Product Description(Amazon)
Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job,Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.
Series: Jackaby (Book 1)
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers (September 16, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1616203536
ISBN-13: 978-1616203535
MY THOUGHTS: New series and author for me. Really liked this book. The setting, is the kind of books I like to read. I have some history and a murder, plus lots of unexplained beings. Abigail is looking for a job, and comes across a posting. The goes to check it out and meets R. F. Jacaby. An investigator of the unexplained. Does Abby believe all this? Will she stay at the job? Read the book it's really good. I give this book 5.....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job,Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.
Series: Jackaby (Book 1)
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers (September 16, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1616203536
ISBN-13: 978-1616203535
MY THOUGHTS: New series and author for me. Really liked this book. The setting, is the kind of books I like to read. I have some history and a murder, plus lots of unexplained beings. Abigail is looking for a job, and comes across a posting. The goes to check it out and meets R. F. Jacaby. An investigator of the unexplained. Does Abby believe all this? Will she stay at the job? Read the book it's really good. I give this book 5.....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Friday, August 3, 2018
BOOK REPORT.....
Things Fall Apart - Kenneth McIntosh
Product Description(Amazon)
Maeve Murphy, who saw a horrible roller coaster accident as a little girl, believes she has seen a ghost and that someone is trying to kill her, and must use the skills of forensic engineering to investigate a cold case.
Series: The Crime Scene Club (Book 10)
Library Binding: 144 pages
Publisher: Mason Crest (December 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1422202569
ISBN-13: 978-1422202562
MY THOUGHTS: Ever have questions about Forensic? Want to know more about it? This is the book that explains lots of that. There is also a story all about The Crime Scene Club. At the end of the story they give you all the Forensic's they used to solve the case. Really good book. I give this book 4.......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges........
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Maeve Murphy, who saw a horrible roller coaster accident as a little girl, believes she has seen a ghost and that someone is trying to kill her, and must use the skills of forensic engineering to investigate a cold case.
Series: The Crime Scene Club (Book 10)
Library Binding: 144 pages
Publisher: Mason Crest (December 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1422202569
ISBN-13: 978-1422202562
MY THOUGHTS: Ever have questions about Forensic? Want to know more about it? This is the book that explains lots of that. There is also a story all about The Crime Scene Club. At the end of the story they give you all the Forensic's they used to solve the case. Really good book. I give this book 4.......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges........
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Saturday, July 28, 2018
BOOK REPORT.......
1st To Die - James Patterson
Product Description(Amazon)
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 1)
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 5, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316666009
ISBN-13: 978-0316666008
MY THOUGHTS: This is the first book of The Women's Murder Club. I really enjoyed reading all the characters and I liked each one. The plot of the story is a serial killer on loose. He's killing bride and grooms on their honeymoons. Lindsay Claire, Jill and Cindy decide to take a different way to solving the crime when the conventional way hits a dead end. They each add something to the investigation and come up with a name. But is this the right person, do they still have murderer on the loose? I give this book 5.....
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 1)
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 5, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316666009
ISBN-13: 978-0316666008
MY THOUGHTS: This is the first book of The Women's Murder Club. I really enjoyed reading all the characters and I liked each one. The plot of the story is a serial killer on loose. He's killing bride and grooms on their honeymoons. Lindsay Claire, Jill and Cindy decide to take a different way to solving the crime when the conventional way hits a dead end. They each add something to the investigation and come up with a name. But is this the right person, do they still have murderer on the loose? I give this book 5.....
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
UPDATES AND BLOG HOPPING.......
I was over at Daffycat's place and came across a challenge. It's a Piggy Bank Challenge, being hosted by Val over at Val's Quilting Studio. Isn't that a cool idea! Most everyone saves change, as do I....I find coins laying around the house and I also get coins and bills in the laundry sometimes. So thought I'd join up.
Here's some Info....
All's you have to do is create a post this week sharing your "piggy bank".
Include your goal of what you'd like to purchase with your savings come this time next year.
Include the linky button above to help spread the word to all your followers.
Return and link your post here anytime this week until August 1st.
Start "penny pinching". (Coins and bills are allowed)
Next year we'll all empty our piggy banks on July 6th and create a post exclaiming our totals, share what quilty purchase we're going to make and link up here once again to celebrate! (Don't worry, I'll send emails to all who link up this week with reminders.)
My goals:
Buy Fabric
Embroidery Floss
Something Special for ME !
Now for my updates....
I have been doing the TAST(Take A Stitch Tuesday) over at Sharon's place, Pintangle. I'm learning so many Embroidery Stitches and want to share them with everyone. Today is Week 27, haven't got this one done yet, but have several I haven't posted about for awhile. So here goes.....
WEEK 23
Wheatear Stitch
WEEK 24
Twisted Lattice Band
(Had some trouble with this one. I think I invented a new stitch, lol)
WEEK 25
Butterfly Chain Stitch
WEEK 26
Herringbone Square(Had some trouble getting my shapes to look like a square)
Well that's it for now. I have a couple new projects I'm working on, I'll posting about those in a few days. Come back and take a look.......
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My goals:
Buy Fabric
Embroidery Floss
Something Special for ME !
Now for my updates....
I have been doing the TAST(Take A Stitch Tuesday) over at Sharon's place, Pintangle. I'm learning so many Embroidery Stitches and want to share them with everyone. Today is Week 27, haven't got this one done yet, but have several I haven't posted about for awhile. So here goes.....
WEEK 23
Wheatear Stitch
Twisted Lattice Band
(Had some trouble with this one. I think I invented a new stitch, lol)
Butterfly Chain Stitch
Herringbone Square(Had some trouble getting my shapes to look like a square)
Monday, July 9, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Product Description(Amazon)
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.
Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.
Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
Hardcover: 293 pages
Publisher: Villard Books; 1st edition (April 22, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679457526
ISBN-13: 978-0679457527
MY THOUGHTS: I had heard about this on the internet and caught pieces of it on the T.V. news. When I saw the book at the library, I picked it up. I haven't seen the movie, but it is on my list of movies to see. For now the book will do. If the movie is anything like the book, it will be a good movie to watch. The book gives all the details you don't get watching the news. I can't say I understand the obsession behind climbing Everest, but this author gives you all that info plus more. I give this book 5......
This book is for 4 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Strolling Through Non-Fiction Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.
Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.
Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
Hardcover: 293 pages
Publisher: Villard Books; 1st edition (April 22, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679457526
ISBN-13: 978-0679457527
MY THOUGHTS: I had heard about this on the internet and caught pieces of it on the T.V. news. When I saw the book at the library, I picked it up. I haven't seen the movie, but it is on my list of movies to see. For now the book will do. If the movie is anything like the book, it will be a good movie to watch. The book gives all the details you don't get watching the news. I can't say I understand the obsession behind climbing Everest, but this author gives you all that info plus more. I give this book 5......
This book is for 4 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Strolling Through Non-Fiction Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
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