Spring Reading List 2023

 

Harvest Lane Cottage

Spring Reading List

2023

Hello everyone!

 Time to share my Spring Reading List. Now that I've finished it, I'll be able to cross it off my Spring Bucket List! This may seem like a lot to read, but I like to snatch moments to read (and knit), whenever I can. Use your minutes! 

One thing that helps is listening to books on Scribd. It's a great app, and you can get a free 2 month trial by using my link. I'll get a month free, too, so it's win-win to try it out. After the two months, it's only $11.99 a month for as many audiobooks, ebooks, magazines, sheet music, podcasts, and documents as you want. I get well over $11.99 a month in value. I love it. Here's my Scribd link.

My List

Lots of Old Testament

I won't be ready for New Testament until summer.

I listen on Bible.com.

I finished the Old Testament.  I finished the New Testamenton May 25th.

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Homespun Devotions Volume Two
by my friend Cheryl E. Smith
at Homespun Devotions blog

I am reading a paperback.

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The Orphan's Wish 
Melanie Dickerson

I finished listening on Scribd.

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At Home with Madame Chic
Jennifer L. Scott
Finished
I listened on Scribd.

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Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis

I am reading the ebook on Scribd. I'm going to have to get it from the library. It's no longer available on Scribd.

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The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children
Stormie Omartian

Completed
I listened on Scribd.

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The Nazi Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill 
Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch

Finished! Great book and narrator!
I listened on Scribd.

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A Study in Scarlet
A Sherlock Holmes Novel 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Completed
I listened on Scribd.
I don't know if I've actually read Sherlock Holmes before. It was fascinating. I'll be reading another novel sometime soon.

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Britfield & The Lost Crown
C.R. Stewart

I read a paperback.

Completed

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This should keep me busy while I'm relaxing, knitting, driving, and working about the house. 

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So, I'll be doing a lot of reading and listening! I hope that it gives you some ideas for your reading pleasure and for your education. What is on your reading list?

Now, I'd better get cracking!

Laura

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Laura Lately A Thrifty Week or Two or Three

Hello!

 Just a very bare bones post today so that I can begin my list again. I did these things and many others over the last few weeks. With the advent of spring flowers, I'm feeling more motivated to do homemakery things!

Altered some jeans and a blouse

Mended the crochet edge on a vintage tablecloth.

Used a gift card to go to a fancy restaurant and only paid $14 out of pocket including the tip. A Valetines treat a day early.

I made homemade granola for breakfast.

I've been using up what I have on hand.

I'm Knitting for Joy with yarn that I received as gifts from friends. 

I'm joined a scrappy socks knit along beginning the 18th.

Sent a card to a friend. I bought the cards for fifty cents a box at a thrift store last summer.

I've been taking leftovers for lunch.

Choosing to eat at home rather than out and about.

Bought eggs directly from a friend with chickens

Another friend gave me some leftover yarn

Made my cappucino drinks from a mix at home

Knit a pair of shorty socks using yarn a friend gave me

Knit a pair of shorty socks using scrap yarn that I've saved up and that my friend Jean gave me

I'm currently knitting a pair of scrappy socks for a friend

All for now. I'll start a new list. I want to start posting on Fridays or Saturdays again.

Be blessed all!

God's Extravagance

“Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance."

~ Lynn Austin

God's love knows no bounds. Aren't you glad? It doesn't matter if we ignore Him all day, He's waiting at the end. But, would the day not be better, would we not be better, if we meet him at the beginning? There are so many ways to do so. 

• Read the Bible
• Listen to the Bible 
• Pray
• Sit and think of your blessings
• Sing worship or praise songs or hymns

What matters is that we are reaching out to God—specifically to Jesus. He's the One who made a relationship with God possible for us. 

Don't wait. Do it now. Speak the name Jesus. Then just talk. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just speak to Him like you would to a good friend or loved one. He's waiting.

God bless you all!

Laura 

Happy at Home

My Spring Bucket List 2023 ~ Updated!

 Getting things done is often one part work and two parts focus. 

~smile~ 

My Bucket Lists help me to focus on the things that I want to do that aren't part of my daily routine. They also remind me to have a little fun and 

enjoy the season! 

I will change the listings to italics as I cross them off the list.

Please check back on my progress! It keeps me accountable.

Spring Bucket List 2023

• Write my Spring Bucket List

• Write my Spring Reading List

• Enjoy an Easter Lily ~ Maybe next year.

• Make Resurrection Cookies ~ We elected not to this year.

• Celebrate Resurrection Day

• Enjoy fresh strawberries

• Real Estate Investing (Decluttering)

• Clean out the garage (shudder) ~ Done! I imagine we'll need to do this again this fall!

• Go to yard sales ~smile~

• Have a yard sale ~ Did it!

• Plant zinnias for a cutting garden They're not coming up well.  We need to get more seeds and try again.

• Go to the drive-in ~ There wasn't anything I wanted to see.

• Fill pot with flowers to enjoy outside my door... 

• Picnic in the park

• Ice cream run 

• Wash windows

• Make cookies for my husband on a rainy day

• Make strawberry jam

• Paint my bedroom.

• Put new blinds and curtains up in our bedroom.

• Double Feature Movie Night ~ National Treasure 1 & 2 

• Sew a new apron

• Sew a new skirt

• Place flowers throughout the house

• Invite family for bbq ribs

• Invite home group friends over

• Invite neighbors for pie

• Pedicure I bought and brought my own OPI polish so that I can do my fingernails myself later.

• Try four new recipes 

• Knit and crochet dishcloths for my kitchen and for gifts.

• Finish quilt - I'm excited! I found a brand new, square foot sized pvc frame in my supplies that I had forgotten about. I had to sell my quilt frame a few years ago when times were tough. I worked on it, but it's taking a long time!

• Talk to strangers Always. It's just the way I was raised. It's part of who I am. 

• Finish fixing up the porch table and chairs. We had the cushions recovered.

• Go knitting with a friend

• Blow bubbles

• Destination unknown picnic

• Bake Ladybird Johnson's Lemon Cake

• Try a new pie recipe—maybe an old-fashioned pie or hand pies

• Plant flowers 

• Worship Jesus under the stars

• Put cushions out on the front porch bench

• Find a potted plant or a center piece for the front porch table—maybe a candle?

• Enjoy my daughter, Amy's, gender reveal party. She's expecting this summer! IT'S A BOY!

• Knit some baby things

• Sew some baby things

• Thrift some baby things

• Complete my Spring Reading List

I may add or subtract as I go, but it's a start! My bucket lists and reading lists inspire me and help me to enjoy life and get things done. I hope these lists will inspire you to make your own list! I know some items will be passed on to my summer bucket list, but it is motivating!

What will you put on your bucket list?

What is on your reading list?

Be blessed!

♥

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ஐღLauraღஐ 

...doing what I can with what I've got where I am 

on a short shoestring budget!

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