What's Happening...(04-27-19)

So I'm doing things a tad bit differently this year and will be combining all of my regular weekend posts.  This will enable me to add more content on Fridays and it is just starting to make more sense.  I'll still be linking up with Stacking the Shelves at Tynga's Reviews and Sunday Post at Caffeinated Reviewer.  Both blogs are awesome so make sure you check them out.

So as most of you are aware, it's been a trying week at The Farm.  We are all struggling with Booker T's loss,  but we are coping.  We've been spoiling Cassius something rotten because we both feel badly that he's now home alone during the day by himself and I'm just grateful I can stop in at lunch and check on him.  And I know people are being kind but if one more person sees us walking is the neighborhood and tells us we're missing one, I might hit them over the head with a bottle of Jack Daniels.  I may have an extra one or two on hand.  And one more thing, we are now sleeping with a stuffed squirrel.  When we buried T, we sent his favorite blanket, toy and snack with him but we kept the toy squirrel which was his constant companion while he was sick.  For several days, he used it as a pillow.  So yep, you guessed it, it's now a permanent fixture on our bed.  

We did manage to watch a few movies.  I don't know how much I took in of them but it kept us busy.  We watched "Glass" which was the day after he passed and I know I missed something important because I didn't really care for it.  And then we watched "Mercy Black" on Netflix and it was a pretty decent horror flick considering I never heard of it before.  This weekend we may try something else and the NFL draft is also on so there will be mindless banter in the background while I read.

Speaking of reading, here are the books on the this weekend's stack.  I started "The Department of Sensitive Crimes" Thursday evening and am about 30 pages in.  It kind of has my attention.  I also need to read "Killing November" and/or "A Curse So Dark and Lovely" before they are due back to the library.

And I did get a few books for review.  I really like Charlaine Harris so I'm excited to give "Small Kingdoms and Other Stories" a chance.  "Till Death Do Us Part" is touting a killer twist so that may be a bad sign but I do like the cover.  And "The Chain" has been blurbed by Stephen King and sometimes that is all it takes.

And a final rant.  What the heck happened to itunes.  Now a lot of time I stream music but sometimes there is a rare music release where I want the whole CD.  I've always been able to get these reasonably from itunes.  April must be music month because there are 5 CDs I want.  I probably didn't buy 8 all of last year.  Usually I just purchase a single or two with Christmas gift cards.  Itunes prices have skyrocketed.   Single tunes are now $2.19 vs $1.79 and I won't even go into the albums.  Let's just say that when I do end up buying them, itunes is forcing me to give Amazon my business.  Okay, rant over.

So thanks again to everyone for all the kind thoughts and words during this difficult time and I hope you all have a lovely weekend ahead of you.