Farewell to my Summer 2022 To-Do List

Labor Day has come and gone.  While summer weather tends to linger through September here, leaves are starting to turn different colors and pumpkin spice everything is filling the stores, so... time to see what I checked off of my Summer To-Do List and start gearing up for an autumnal one.

(Any idea why I snapped this picture at the Zane Grey museum?)

~ Keep pushing My Rock and My Refuge closer to publication Check!  I expect to have a release date set by the end of this month -- probably in November, but before Thanksgiving.

~ Start reposting my old Femnista articles here Check!  I've posted a couple already, and will continue to do so.  It's fun getting to discuss them in the comments here.

~ Read 3 books from my current Classics Club List Check!  I read five, which means that now, I only need to read ONE more book and I'll have finished my third batch of fifty books!  Anyway, the five I read this summer were:

• Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
• What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge
• The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
• What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (review to come)

(Couldn't swim for six weeks because I broke my arm while rollerskating,
so I read by the pool while my kids swam.)

~ Read 12 books off my TBR shelves  Check!  I read nineteen :-o  Quite a few of those were from being laid up with my broken arm, and going on a couple of short road trips helped a lot too.

• Jane Eyre (Manga Classics) by Charlotte Bronte, Crystal S. Chan, and SunNeko Lee
• Liar by Jan Burke
• The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found by Karina Yan Glaser
• Emma (Manga Classics) by Jane Austen, Crystal S. Chan, and Po Tse
• What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Manga Classics) by Alexandre Dumas, Crystal S. Chan, and Nokman Poon
• Seventh City by Emily Hayse
• Pride and Prejudice (Manga Classics) by Jane Austen, Crystal S. Chan, and Po Tse
• Murder by the Book by Rex Stout
• Sense and Sensibility (Manga Classics) by Jane Austen, Stacy King, and Po Tse
• Bones by Jan Burke
• The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
• Hamlet (Manga Classics) by William Shakespeare, Crystal S. Chan, and Julien Choy
• What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
• Rose Petals and Snowflakes by Kendra E. Ardnek
• From These Dark Depths by Vanessa Rasanen
• Great Expectations (Manga Classics) by Charles Dickens, Crystal S. Chan, and Nokman Poon (review to come)
• The Cherokee Trail by Louis L'Amour (review to come)
• Bowdrie by Louis L'Amour

(from my Instagram account)

~ Watch 6 movies off my TBW shelves Check!  I watched ten, again partly because I was laid up with a broken arm and couldn't do much but sit in the recliner and read or watch movies for ten days.  The DVDs I got off my TBW shelves were:

Blood Alley (1955)

Vengeance Valley (1951)

Paris When it Sizzles (1964)

Moonfleet (1955)

The Saint Takes Over (1940)

Death on the Nile (1978)

Redhead from Wyoming (1953)

Leverage season 5 (2007-08)

The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)

Wild Harvest (1947)

(my downfall)

~ Go see Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris in the theater  Fail.  It was only here a couple weeks, and I was either gone or busy the whole time.  Booo :-(

~ Go see Vengeance in the theater  Fail.  Just never got there.

~ Co-host Legends of Western Cinema Week once again Check!  Visit this post for a complete roster of links to all the contributed posts.

~ Go to Tweetsie Railroad with my whole family Check!  We had a wonderful day there :-)

~ Go to Colonial Williamsburg Fail.  Never got around to it.  Partly because of the broken arm, and partly because of going other places and having lots of busy stuff going on.

(never had a cast, just surgery to put in a plate, and then an arm brace)

~ Find a good copycat recipe for Dole Whip Check!  DKoren shared one that we all liked so much, we made it multiple times.

~ Make red, white, and blue popsicles for our Independence Day party Check!  They turned out really cute, though we ended up not eating them at the party.  But we shared them with friends a different time instead.

That's a wrap on the summer of 2022 for me!