Welcome to Litsy!

A week ago I did a leap of faith. I visited a neighboring country and our family was bigger after that. Let me introduce to you... TENGIL. Smooth collies are pretty rare here, even rarer if you want to give home for an adult who is seeking their forever home. This guy had already tried one home unsuccesfully and had been searching his family for months. I had to take a risk.

You shared my sorrow when I lost Hugo, wanted to share this with you.

The overarching joy this week is that both of my big kiddos are home for the summer! Other joys are of a suburban/urban scenery and fauna nature (although I suppose my kids are suburban fauna, too):

1) Bee snuggling in a rose.
2) Dewy spiderweb.
3) Cat sleeping in packing material.
4) Mom and babies in a bird nest on an electrical box.
5) Sky.
@DebinHawaii #5JoysFriday

Summer break!!!!!!!

My husband made this accurate AI picture of us today🤣
He often comes home only to find me at the library behind our house🤓📚, or walking back with more books😬

I'm in Boston on vacation!! #5joysFriday thanks @Kshakal @DebinHawaii

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
No pics from my week, so I thought I‘d share my parents‘ cat Millie 😻1️⃣Finally enjoying summer temps to sit outside and read in!2️⃣ I‘m off work today, my Aunt and I shopped our town‘s annual “community wide garage sales” 3️⃣ Had an ebook I was on hold for come in and I‘m enjoying it 4️⃣ A “Sunday Funday” planned with my BFF, looking forward to it! 5️⃣ Watching the breakup of Cheeto Taco & Muskmelon is hilarious 😂

I'm Currently Reading 2 books

Piercing the Darkness
'It could have begun in any town.'

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
'There was an old Jew who lived at the site of the old synagogue up on Chicken Hill in the town of Pottstown, Pa., and when the Pennsylvania State Troopers found the skeleton at the bottom of an old well off Hayes Street, the old Jew's house was the first place they went to.

@CBee #readyourkindle #readyourebooks

I forgot to post my official list but here are my options for this month's challenge. I am feeling pretty good about the possibility of me actually reading all for this month but I guess only time will tell.

#MidsummerSolace

#Fridaynightshare is back. Here's where we stack up the tbr pile. 📚📚📚
Let us know your favourite summer read this year. It can be fiction or non-fiction.
Comment on here or post pics with your recommendations.

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

Happy #5JoysFriday 💛💛💛

My joys this week:

1) a lovely trip with @VaniBarelyReads with a little shopping and an awesome dinner 🌸
2) bringing my dad to the station for his long needed vacation ☀️
3) the kids of my cousin who are absolutely adorable 🥰
4) Tiny car family has grown again! 🚗
5) I have a lot of overtime, so I'm only working 3 days right now 😎

@DebinHawaii

#5JoysFriday

1. My boys…always!
2. Zeke continues to show no adverse reactions to chemo.
3. Last weekend‘s birthday weekend, filled with books and my parents, who made my day feel special.
4. IRL book club
5. Catching up on the drama in Virgin River on Netflix.

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: D-DAY

Thanks 🙏 for the tag @Ddzmini #wondrouswednesday @Eggs A day late ⏰ 🤷‍♀️🐉 - my emojis 😂 - finding the funny side of things can help smooth out some of life‘s toughest moments -The Wedding People had me laughing at one point I may have snorted some soda over my work shirt oops 🙊 I did 1 and 2 in the wrong order

Lololol

Stolen from FB

Last night we unexpectedly had to say goodbye to our Sparrow. She wasn‘t feeling well and wouldn‘t eat. We took her to urgent care where we were told she had developed a very rare complication from diabetes that required a very aggressive treatment with a low survival rate. She was declining so quickly we had to make the hard decision to let her go. She was a good reading buddy; the kitty who liked to sleep with my books. She will be missed. 💔💔

#JuneSpecials
Day 3. Egg
#Egg

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: WORLD ENVIRONMENT

Two Len Buonfiglio/St. Pierre Caribbean Mysteries!!

FULL SHOWCASE & GIVEAWAY IN MY BIO: https://tinyurl.com/2taf5xah

Brian Silverman
@partnersincrimevbt

1. Always be learning. This includes learning about people who are not like you and backgrounds/experiences different from your own

2. 🧶📚👩‍🦼🐶🐔🌏 (i never have been obedient)

3. Dog videos on insta

@Eggs #wondrouswednesday

This is an intimate short story about life, about death, about mourning, about laughing. It feels true. We temporarily lose ourselves and hopefully we come back to ourselves, but we will never be the same. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

1) Be in tune with yourself, empathetic to all living things, laugh, love, hope, immerse yourself & those around you in nature, teach

2)📚❤️🌲

3) students at work today 😂

Came across this while on goodreads. So if u buy through Thriftbooks and spend $35 or more on books, you get a free Grumpy X Sunshine Trope tote.

#wondrousWednesday Thank you for the tag @Ddzmini 😊

1. Be satisfied with enough.
2. 🙊😻📚
2. The book I am reading “Woodworking” by Emily St. James.

If you‘re reading this and want to respond, consider yourself tagged!

1. Laugh, be kind, and travel (which I'm doing today)
2. 🤓🦈😂
3. Jumping on a trampoline with my friend and her kids
Thanks @peaKnit @Kshakal @Eggs #wondrouswednesday

I'm Vinting again if any UK folks want to check out my Vinted profile.
Plan on uploading more stuff in future too.

https://www.vinted.co.uk/member/220756078-raewatts

You‘ve got 21 days to determine what will get (at minimum) 25 minutes of your attention on June 25th!!
Do you already know what you will be reading? Tag it!!
Let‘s start getting excited about this now!! Why wait?!?

Also, in grade school do you think our teachers gave us more than 25 minutes of reading time, exactly that, or less?!?

#Read25Day

I currently have 57 books on my TBR from #BookishMonopoly and that's alot. So I decided to do a wheel for my books. My next read (after I finish The Spellshop... which I have under 2 hrs left) will be When Katie Met Cassidy which is perfect for Pride month! 🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈
Love is Love! Our Bodies Are Our Own! We Aren't Hurting Anyone! Can't Catch The Gays! Leave Us Alone!

Thank you @Eggs for tagging me #wondrousWednesday

1) Be happy wherever your at and appreciate everything

2) 🤣📚🥵

3) my hubby and I discussing our past escapes when watching some show … still love him 🥰

If you haven‘t been tagged or played and I‘ve tagged you play along 👍🏼😊📚

You know it's going to be a good day when three of your book subscription boxes arrive at the same time! 😍📚 #botm #fairyloot #owlcrate

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs 😊
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView 💕

1) Don't say pizza and naps. Don't say pizza and naps. Don't say pizza and naps.
I think the most important thing in the world is connection to others. Reading On the Calculation of Volume really drove this point home.

2) 😅📚🍑

3) It was probably something really juvenile like a fart 🤣🤣

@The_Penniless_Author @CBee Yours?

This was one of my #roll100 picks in... April, I think? My library decided to get one copy and I was happy that I've been able to read this book. It was better than expected. It's YA but so, so good. I expected the story to go a certain way - but it didn't! Anna Dimitrova has a strong and very clear message and I would love that school in the DACH region would read this with their students. All the stars.

@PuddleJumper

#MidsummerSolace

I absolutely adore this. What perfect advice on how to live a life.

Artist - Grant Snider (Thanks @Faranae 😊)

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: CHEESE

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: EGG

I forgot to do this yesterday.

Save the Pharao! I listed to this children‘s mystery because I was looking for something to play in the background while my students are working on their papyrusses in our project week. There is a conspiracy against the Pharao going on and two kids are the only ones knowing about it. Of course they are trying to save him. And the kids listening have solve quizzes along with them in a enclosed booklet. It‘s definetely entertaining.

#MonthlyRoundup

Reading instead of of doomscrolling is paying off this past month! 😂

#BookReport for May

📚 Finished
The Crimson Crown ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beltane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Stand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Protection Spells - Read five chapters. On page 181.

#WeeklyForecast

I‘ll be starting The Long Walk in The Bachman Books, and continuing with Writing Poetry in the Dark this week.

My May wrap up. 📚🌼

May was a slow reading month. Hoping to get more accomplished this month.

Finished one for #FairytaleReadingChallenge (2024)
Finished one for #SeriesLove2025
Finished one for #LosersClub

Still in Progress:
Writing Poetry in the Dark
Protection Spells

#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

I think it's Tuesday today? Not sure... Whatever, here's a song for you. Or for me.

People like us we've gotta stick together
Keep your head up, nothing lasts forever
Here's to the damned to the lost and forgotten
It's hard to get high when you're living on the bottom
We are all misfits living in a world on fire
Sing it for the people like us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWbMz_aBlMU&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

My favorite #egg 🥚 🫶🏻

Love you my bestie!

#JuneSpecials

#ReadYourKindle

I think I‘ve been reluctant to acknowledge June so am behind on all the things.

@CBee

Couple of Bingos, plus both BookSpin & DoubleSpin.
May #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

My #ReadYourKindle2025 books for June are:
20: Under the Storm
2: Champagne Widows
3: The Block Party
9: Etiquette of Lovers and Killers

I'm hoping to get them read this month. I can't believe it's already June 🤯

@CBee #ReadYourKindle2025

In honor of #readyourkindle day, I present a haiku:
Today is the day
Trusty spinner thingie speaks
Which books will you read?
Have fun, friends! #readyourkobo #readyourebooks #readyournook

HAPPY PUB DAY!!

@julieclarkauthor
@kimberlybellebooks
@quartland
#courtstevens
@sourcebooks
@bookbrowse
@parkrowbooks
@uplitreads
#giftedbyuplit
@harpercollins
@harpermusebooks

Here is my June #readyourebooks list. I managed to get two off last month, hoping for the same this month.

I sent some #LitsyLove
@ShelleyBooksie
@Blerdgal_Fenix
@BookwormAHN

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
My plan for #PrideRec2025 is to add a book to each colour every week this June. If I'm able to stick to it - that we will see.

@PuddleJumper