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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Sunday Salon -- SPRING!

The family gathers to help Mom celebrate her 95th!

Weather: Spring has arrived but even though the trees are flowering, it is still cold and moist, read wet, outside.


95! Mom celebrated her 95th birthday with a goodly number of her family with her. So much love. So much laughter.

My younger sister, Grace, gave my grandsons books. They loved them.

Family love: We do enjoy being together. My sisters love my grandsons as I do. Our niece had a baby boy three months ago and we got to meet him finally. (They requested no photos.) A cousin's daughter just had her first baby. 


Palm Sunday: Today is Palm Sunday, the day in the church calendar when Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem kicks off the Holy Week before Easter. Our grandsons waved palm branches at the beginning of the service. Afterward the service we took a family photo. As you see Jamie was having none of it. Being three is hard work.

Ready. Set. Go: We head toward Utah on Tuesday where we will vacation with our immediate family for a week and try to take in all the National Parks that state has to offer. We are also packing lots of games and books.

Audiobook possibles: Don and I are driving, the kids are flying and then renting a car. We will meet up at a rental house near Zion National Park. We have at least 30 hours of driving time. You know what that means -- lots of time to listen to audiobooks. Here is a list of audiobooks I have queued up on my phone. We'll see which ones we actually listen to:
  • The Fraud by Zadie Smith (We have three hours left to this book, so we will finish it first.)
  • The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (It is a Women's Prize longlisted book for 2024.)
  • Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (A Pulitzer Prize winner from the 1970s.)
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (My One-Big-Book for 2024.)
  • Symphonies of Secrets by Brendon Slocumb 
  • The Great Divide by Christina Henriques
  • The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
April is National Poetry Month: Since we will still be on the road during the early part of April, I have a pile of poetry books  which I will pick through before we leave to take along with me.
  • All Souls: Poems by Saskia Hamilton
  • Dark Testaments: Poems by Crystal Simone Smith
  • The Kissing of Kissing: Poems by Hannah Emerson
  • Serenity: Poems by F.S. Yousif
  • Suddenly We by Emily Shockley
  • How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett

Pair of Pileated Woodpeckers: At our suet feeder. Imagine our surprise when we looked up and saw this big fellow chowing down at our feeder. His mate was hanging out on a fence nearby.

And the cats:
Fred can't decide if this is a pulpit, lectern, or barstool.

Fred and George are playing with Jamie's waffle-blocks setup.

Happy Spring.

-Anne
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