Dear Sunday: Back Home

Dear Sunday is my weekly post participating in the Caffeinated Book Reviewer series.

This past week has been a busy, fun week, as after moving all my furniture into a new apartment (aka My Dream Apartment) I set off for a family reunion. Seeing my older relatives gave me an opportunity to pick their brains about their lives growing up. I learned small things (my grandmother used to clean churches -- just like me-- but for free-- not like me) and big things (my great-aunt vehemently denies actually /legally/ marrying her husband of 60-something years, I wasn't able to get to the bottom of that story). I'm fascinated by the past, always wondering what it was like to live in it, and how things have changed with time (my grandmother would wear lipstick growing up but no other makeup, it just wasn't popular). My relatives humored me, not quite understanding why I was so curious about what they considered mundane at best, private at worst, moments of their past.

Speaking about my obsession with the past: on my personal blog I wrote a post about stumbling upon a series of photos a WWII-era sailor sent home to his wife, complete with messages scrawled on the back. It was such a cool find!

This week's photo collage includes a perfect fluff-ball of a puppy a family friend just adopted, the best Northern BBQ I've ever eaten, a wild rabbit my cousin has tamed, and three cute little birds who live with said rabbit-whisperer cousin.

But anyway-- back to the book world!

...not much.

• Dear Sunday: The move
• It's Monday: What I'm Reading
• Review: Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

who knows. but here are some ideas...

• What I read: June
• Review: some book TBD
• Maybe a stacking the shelves?

Stay tuned! I have to say, I am missing the Top Ten Tuesdays a bit-- I'm looking forward to when that series is starting up again, sometime in August.

Well that's it for this late edition of Dear Sunday; I hope all is well with you, dear reader! Now excuse me while I go spend hours playing the new Zelda game my friend just loaned me :) [[breath of the wild for those wondering]]