Tag: Weekly Update

Welcome to my weekly update for December 27, 2020! I hope all who celebrate had a merry Christmas and everyone else had a wonderful week! We noticed these beautiful Christmas lights at the San Diego California Temple as we were driving around and had to stop for a few pictures. I received a few bookish/blogging […]

Welcome to my weekly update for December 20, 2020! I hope all who celebrate have a merry Christmas and happy holidays! My husband and I went to a Christmas drive-through light show on Friday night. It was a lot of fun! They even blew soap bubble “snow” on our car as we reached the end. […]

Welcome to my weekly update for December 13, 2020! I believe I finished my Christmas shopping last week! Yay! Now I just hope everything gets delivered on time. Posted: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia–4 Stars My Top Ten Christmas Books Read: I’ve been trying to focus exclusively on A Promised Land (see below) but I […]

Welcome to my weekly update for December 6, 2020! Southern California has a stay-at-home order that goes into place tonight (December 6) at midnight and will last for at least three weeks, taking us past Christmas. Ugh. At least it should keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. We experienced our first California earthquake on Friday night! […]

Welcome to my weekly update for November 29, 2020! I hope all my fellow American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving and the rest of you had good weeks as well! We had a very lowkey holiday because my husband was on call at his hospital. When he’s on call he has to be able to […]

Welcome to my weekly update for November 22, 2020! We’ve been cautiously exploring the San Diego area now for a few weeks. San Diego County was returned to the most restrictive coronavirus tier last weekend so our options are a bit limited. Luckily, my husband’s cousin and his wife are nearby so we’ve been spending […]

Welcome to my weekly update for November 15, 2020! Posted: Book Review: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (2018 edition) by James W. Loewen–4 Stars Book Review: The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey–4 Stars Book Review: Hole in the Sky by […]

Welcome to my weekly update for November 8, 2020! My husband started his new work assignment last Monday so I feel safe to say that we left Portland, Oregon and we’re now in Oceanside, California, just north of San Diego! We enjoyed our time in Portland but we’re chasing good weather in our RV. We […]

Welcome to my weekly update for November 1, 2020! I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween! How did you or you kids dress up? If you didn’t, did you see any costumes that stood out to you? Did my readers in the US remember to set your clocks back an hour? I wish […]

Welcome to my weekly update for October 25, 2020! First of all, my apologies for not visiting your blogs much last week. Thank you to everyone who stopped by here though! My husband’s work contract in Portland ended yesterday so we’ve been nailing down his next job and finding our next campground (we live in […]