26 Wednesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, bookcase, books, family, grandson, happy, imagined, moments, perfect fit, widow
so I’ve been thinking about where to put the 100 books, lol…
my housemate had a bookshelf stored elsewhere and we arranged to have it delivered…
it fit in the spot I’d imagined perfectly 😊…
took a while to empty the boxes and bag, but I was so happy when it was done…
and, in the end, the 100 books fit exactly…
24 Monday Aug 2026
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blessed, friends, big girl pants, widow, grandson, books, moments, declutter, moved, stair library, shop
my friend is decluttering, and donating many of her books to a local book sale…
when she mentioned this, I offered to help and shop at the same time…
we had great fun, going through shelves upstairs and down, as she decided what could go, and the few that needed to remain…
she’d give me reviews as the books came off the shelves…
I had brought a single grocery store box to hold the ones I would bring home, lol…
we made two trips to drop off the books…
when I got home, there was that box, a grocery bag and two cardboard boxes… all full👀…
refilled the stair library with a few of them…
still thinking about where the rest will go🤪…
20 Friday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, books, GLOBOsapiens, moments, reading, sale, shopping, stair library, widow
went to Globosapiens to pick up some books…
they have a great sale on now…
updated the stair library, and plan to go back in the next while to pick up more great reads;-)…
09 Monday Mar 2026
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Technology, big girl pants, widow, books, moments, internet, F1, switches
when I got home late Saturday afternoon it was to discover that the internet was down…
that means no Google or tv🤪…
luckily there are still books to read… and actual light switches to use;-)…
but, as the evening progressed, the internet had not come back on… usually it wouldn’t be such a problem, other than the fact that there was the first F1 race of the season at 11 pm…
found a Youtube channel on my phone where the drivers parade was on and then found a program that showed the race in real time but as dots on a map of the course…
certainly not the best, but at least I could hear the progress…
about halfway through the race, the internet came back on… 😃…
11 Sunday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, binge, blessed, books, favourites, JD Robb, moments, Nora Roberts, organized, widow
been on a decluttering binge… who knew…
started in the computer room closet and found some comforters to give away…
next I sorted the JD Robb books I’ve recently received and put them in order… there are still a few missing, but the collection is nearly complete…
and then I went through the Nora Roberts library to see which ones I could let go, lol…
I really enjoyed the trilogies, so was able to gather a fairly big pile of others to give away;-)…
03 Saturday Jan 2026
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2025, apps, big girl pants, books, Goodreads, moments, read, Technology, widow
while talking with someone about the 100 books I read in 2025 (yay me), I discovered there were apps out there to track your reading… who knew🤪…
my method had been to take a photo of the book when I finished it and add it to a Books Read album on my phone… this worked well until I dumped my photos, lol… then I would record the count in a new album and continue adding photos of books as I went along…
I am trying one called Goodreads… this one has many options… you can join groups, accept challenges and review books you’ve read… all I want is a place to record what I’ve read…
so, we will see how it goes…
30 Tuesday Dec 2025
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today, I finished my hundredth book of 2025…
I am very happy… I would have done better except for one book which I didn’t like, so kept on putting reading off, lol… but I did finish it…
so many of the books were enjoyed in the garden over the spring, summer, and fall;-)…
I need to work on putting a book aside, without finishing it, if I don’t like it, lol…
28 Friday Nov 2025
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Advent boxes, big girl pants, blessed, books, Christmas, den, library, moments, naked, trees, widow
the book stair library has been moved into the den in anticipation of trees and advent boxes…
I will just have to remember where they are when I finish my current book, lol…
right now the stairs look a bit naked…
10 Monday Nov 2025
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authors, big girl pants, blessed, books, family, friend, GLOBOsapiens, moments, reading, releases, Technology, visit, widow
a friend dropped by for a visit on Saturday morning and brought me a few books…
a bit later my housemate and I went to Globosapiens to pick up some additional books… this time I chose some new releases as well as some of the authors I usually read…
the Halloween decorations had filled up most of the stairs as there were very few books left to read…
I took this (⬆️) photo on November 1st before the decorations came down…
now, the stair library is booming once again;-)… woohoo… I haven’t been enjoying the current read, so may just put that one aside and start on one of these;-)…
15 Monday Sep 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, compare, family, JD Robb, list, moments, need, Ottawa, Technology, widow
been working on my list of needed JD Robb books…
my daughter found a bunch in a used bookstore on a walk in Ottawa…
that meant I had to find, and compare, my list with the titles she sent me… found the list, phew, and sent her four that I could use…
this morning my housemate helped me double check the books on the shelf with the list, and I forwarded that list to my daughter… she found another four…
so, now that the comparison has taken place, it appears that I only need ten to complete my collection;-)…
woohoo…
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