For sure I saw 2 hummers, but there could have been more. One sat on the climbing hydrangea watching & waiting for the next zoom.
Author: Julie
Current Reading List
Here’s the reading list of the Pulitzer Prize winning books I plan to read over the next several months:
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2007)
- The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand (1938)
- Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (2018)
- The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016)
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (1921)
- The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)
- Honey in the Horn, by Harold L. Davis (1936)
- The Reivers, by William Faulkner (1963)
- The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (1932)
Sighted the first hummingbird of the season at my feeder this morning!
Boiled up several batches of juice and hung out 3 more feeders. Spring has arrived!
If you want to prepare your feeder, all you need to do is boil up some sugar water….It’s 1 part sugar to 4 parts water. I use some old Classico tomato sauce quart jars, which have 5 evenly spaced lines on the glass, so I fill up to the first line with sugar and then pour a little boiling water over it to melt the sugar. Then I fill the remainder of the jar with tap water, stir it up and it’s ready for the feeder.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
BOOK DISCUSSION LINKS – Please click the three links below to view my thoughts regarding the questions presented:
01 – What were your initial impressions of the book?
02 – What did you think of the characters that Cora encountered?
03 – What did you think of Cora and her situation?
Here’s some additional links about this book that you might find of interest:
- Book Review from The New York Times: “In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor”
- Interview with Colson Whitehead: “To deal with this subject with the gravity it deserved was scary”
- NPR author interview: Colson Whitehead’s ‘Underground Railroad’ is a Literal Train to Freedom
Bert got all of his stitches out…will post more details later (he’s doing great!)
Click here to learn more about how well Bert is doing.
World Wide Knit in Public Day is June 9, 2018
Where shall we meet?
I love my Baggallini Bags
Pots for the deck
Thinking of warmer days….
Linked Article: Beyond #DeleteFacebook: More Thoughts . . .
I’m returning to my neglected blogs, sweeping away the cobwebs & taking charge of my social network. This article is timely.
http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/03/25/beyond-deletefacebook-more-thoughts-on-embracing-the-social-internet-over-social-media/
Cabin Fever Roasters opens its new location on April 2nd
The Cabin Fever Roasters’ opens it’s new location on Monday, April 2nd. The address is 7475 Douglas Boulevard, Douglasville, GA (in the Arbor Connections shopping center just west of The Home Depot).
Cabin Fever Roasters’ hours of operation at the new location will be 6:30 am – 10:00 pm.
Tonight I finished reading this amazing book. The story depicted slavery in a much more brutal way than any other story I can recall reading. As I worked my way through the book, the terms, “white privilege” (a term I have struggled to understand) and “black lives matter” have played over and over again in my mind. I also think of “black holocaust”, a term I had only recently heard, yet as I read of Cora’s experiences and observations in North Carolina, shares so many similarities to the Jewish holocaust.
I need to take a day or two to think about this book and let its story gel in my mind before I can write much more about it. I am appalled and moved beyond description for the things that occurred in this story. I think this is an important book that will stand the test of time and, and hard as it was to read, I am glad to have read it.