Farm News: June 11, 2023

 

So I guess I'm back!  I need to make one last ditch effort to get this blog back up and running for good or else wave goodbye forever.  I have to find some happy medium to make it work so here's hoping I can do that.  Also, I want to thank my dear friend Stormi for encouraging me time and time again to get back in the game.  So basically this will be a small life update and little reading update.  Look for at least a review I have planned for next week and a Can't Wait Wednesday post - which I am affectionately calling Feed Your TBR.

First and foremost, I have to let everyone know I lost my soulmate puppy Cassius on March 26th.  It had been a turbulent year with him which looking back, was probably the result of an illness building we couldn't see.  He got aggressive at times with Apollo again and I ended up twice in the ER due to bites breaking them apart and Mr, Mike ended up there once.  At the end of January, we noticed a lump forming on his chest.  The vet thought it was a fatty tumor but it started growing rapidly so we were doing a biopsy before a scheduled removal.  When the vet did it, he discovered it was full of blood and likely the result on cancer throughout his body and causing internal bleeding.  Within a week he couldn't go down steps without us carrying him so we had to make the humane choice that broke my heart and honestly one which I am still not over.  I will love him forever and he touched my life in ways no other dog before him ever did.  I miss him everyday and am a bit broken now.

But through it all I've still maintained my love of reading and my dogs have always had a presence on this blog so I will continue to honor him and share Apollo's antics.  He is now 3 1/2 and although he's a bit more lonelier than before, he is still being spoiled rotten.

This week I had to pick up a few library holds.  I have been using one of my branches pretty regularly, as well as several branches for Libby and I have to admit, I'm doing pretty good at scoring a lot of the reads I've been wanting to get to.  I have become a Tessa Bailey fan recently and was thrilled to be the first in line to get Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess #2).  I have been having a real hit or miss summer with thrillers but I am anxious to give The Chateau a try. And finally, I grabbed My Murder after seeing it pop up all over the place.

So what are you reading this week and do you have any fun summer plans?