2024 Reading Challenge

2024 Reading Challenge

2024 Reading Challenge
Ruth has read 44 books toward her goal of 85 books.
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2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge

2023 Reading Challenge
Ruth has read 0 books toward her goal of 90 books.
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2022 Goodreads Challenge

2022 Reading Challenge

2022 Reading Challenge
Ruth has read 0 books toward her goal of 80 books.
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2021 Goodreads Challenge

2021 Reading Challenge

2021 Reading Challenge
Ruth has read 0 books toward her goal of 75 books.
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2020 Reading Challenge

2020 Reading Challenge

2020 Reading Challenge
Ruth has read 0 books toward her goal of 75 books.
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Goodreads 2018 READING CHALLENGE

2018 Reading Challenge

2018 Reading Challenge
Ruth has read 0 books toward her goal of 72 books.
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Goodreads 2019 Reading Challenge

2019 Reading Challenge

2019 Reading Challenge
Ruth has read 0 books toward her goal of 75 books.
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Beginning of summer

The past few weeks have flown by. We celebrated my mother's 95th birthday, with almost the entire family, with a catered dinner. It was really nice, and my mom was really happy surrounded by kids, grandkids and even great grandkids!
One week my husband and I drove from McAllen Texas (about 5 miles from the Mexican-US border) traveling through twelve states in six days. Why? Well my husband bid on a car on an online auction site and "won". Actually the trip was sorta fun despite the fact that we had couple of incidents with the transmission not working well. It was a pretty drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway. In several states we stopped at a quilt shop so I could continue to collect fabric for my 50 states quilt. We stopped at the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and did a short hike which was calming and beautiful. Needless to say once home we had a mechanic go over the car and fix the little transmission issue and the car runs beautifully. When we started it had 35000 miles on it and we drove over 3000 to get back to Connecticut.
My book club met in May. One of our members was in the process of selling her house and moving back to Virginia. This development opened a discussion on how our group would be changing in the coming years as some of us would be retiring or moving on to a different career. Not sure what the group will be in five years. Last night the Democrats in my town held a presentation by Alyssa Mastromonaco who has published a book Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? about her time working for President Obama (even before he was president). She was funny, witty, smart and very friendly. Clearly she was used to being in the limelight. Afterwards she autographed her book and took pictures with everyone. Well done by the Dems.
Book club meets next week for our annual June potluck dinner and (hopefully) book discussion of Best to Laugh. Always a good time. Before I close I am going to share several pictures of flowers from my gardens. This year the rhodies and iris are especially beautiful.
And lastly a double rainbow that appeared while my husband and I were eating dinner in Westerly, RI last week.

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