Sherry’s Shelves #98 – What do Kid Rock and Elephants Have in Common

Sherry’s Shelves #98 is my weekly update from October 9 – October 15, 2016.

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BORN FREE

I subscribe to the BBC on YouTube because of videos like this one.

And…for your listening enjoyment while you peruse the rest of my post…Kid Rock and his powerful song, Born Free. His music speaks to my soul and I have tears in my eyes as I listen to this. It’s kind a funny, because when I first became aware of it is when they used it for a baseball playoff promo. Plus, he’s a fellow Michigander.

You can knock me down and watch me bleed, but you can’t keep no chains on me!

Hello fellow bloggers. Our weather is still great here in the Florida Panhandle. In the 80s during the day and a crisp 60s at night. The cooler nights have taken all the humidity out of the air and the sky is a sharp and brilliant blue…beautiful. Because of the shorter days, I have been watching the moon grow fuller and it will be in all its glory tonight. I’m going to take some more photos. I have recently purchased a cord release because touching the camera caused the lens to move ever so slightly, creating camera shake. I had one before, but since I updated my camera, I had to get another one. Here’s hoping it works. “fingers crossed” How about you? Are you a stargazer?

We are still getting in the pool. It is 78 and much warmer than the northern waters where I grew up…in Michigan…and where I spent many a summer weekend…Cape Cod.

Here is an update on my blogging ahead status:

I don’t really count October, but I have overdone it a bit and spent so much time because there are so many good books out there, that I thought I would throw it out there.

  • Oct:  21 posts for the 17th through the 31st
  • Now, for the real thing:
  • Nov:  6
  • Dec:  9

See what I mean about spending too much time on October? I will be trying to limit myself for the rest of the year and catch up on owed reviews and books that I wanted to share just because I liked them!

How do YOU say no to a good book?

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I may have more posts, I’m just not sure what, so be sure and keep checking back.

  • Sherry’s Shelves
  • Review – Big Shoes by Jack Getze
  • Giveaway – Pale Riders: Zombies vs Dinosaurs by James Livingood
  • Giveaway & Review – Strong Cold Dead by Jon Land
  • Giveaway – Attack of the 14 Nights of Halloween
  • Teaser Tuesday – Witches by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
  • Giveaway – The Harvesting by Melanie Karsak
  • Spotlight – A Vampire’s Honor by Carla Susan Smith
  • Giveaway & Review – Roma Underground by Gabriel Valjan
  • Friday 56 – Night Whispers by Judith McNaught
  • Giveaway & Review – Dead Man’s Curve by Alex Van Tol
  • If I Were A Mobster Blogfest
  • Spooktacular Giveaway Hop (This is my first time participating, To thank all of you for sticking with me, I will be giving away a $10 Amazon GC)

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Sherry’s Shelves # 90 – Who’s Crashing The Pool Party Today?

Sherry’s Shelves #90 is my weekly update from August 7 – August 13, 2016.

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Hello fellow bloggers. Hope your week was full of good books and summer fun.

For your viewing pleasure, just another day at the pool.

I became mesmerized watching this video and couldn’t help laughing at Baylor’s excitement.

Also, if you are looking for an awesome novel, check out Heaven Enough by Ken LaSalle.

A very heartbreaking, yet uplifting story.

It’s on sale this weekend for $0.99. You can check out my 5 Star Review HERE.

Heaven Enough

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  • $25 GC Giveaway – The Cat Came Back by Louise Clark #LouiseClark
  • Sherry’s Shelves
  • Giveaway, Book Trailer & Review – Joshua and the Arrow Realm
  • Review – Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
  • Teaser Tuesday
  • Review – Romantic Suspense – Scar Tissue by M C Domovitch
  • Friday 56
  • One Sentence Review – Scene of the Climb by kate Dyer Seeley (cozy)

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Sherry’s Shelves #89 – Who’s crashing the pool party today?

Sherry’s Shelves #87 is my weekly update from July 31 – August 6, 2016.

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Hello fellow bloggers. Hope your week was full of good books and summer fun.

For your viewing pleasure, just another day at the pool. This is not my pool, but in Florida ya just never know what might come acallin’

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  • Sherry’s Shelves
  • Giveaway – The Soul Catcher Series by Mary Abshire
  • Giveaway – Clementina by Simon Cann
  • Teaser Tuesday – Tales of a Redheaded Sea Witch by J E Hunter
  • Giveaway & Review – Dumbest Thieves, Thugs & Rogues by Leonard Birdsong
  • Friday 56 – The Face by Dean Koontz
  • One Sentence Reviews – The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter

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Sherry’s Shelves #88 – Dogs Love Swimming

Sherry’s Shelves #87 is my weekly update from July 24 – July 30, 2016.

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Hello fellow bloggers. Hope your week was full of good books and summer fun.

For your viewing pleasure, just another day at the pool.

I love dogs and have a special love of Doberman Pincers.

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Are you looking for a book to read? Check out the books I have reviewed this month and see if one of them speaks to you!

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  • Sherry’s Shelves
  • Giveaway & Review – Blue Moon by Wendy Corsi Staub
  • Giveaway – Bearliest Catch by Biana D’Arc
  • Teaser Tuesday
  • Review –Guide to Fifty of the World’s Best Cocktails by Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch
  • Giveaway & Review – Saving Sophie by Cate Beauman
  • Giveaway – Friend of the Devil by Mark Spivak
  • Friday 56
  • One Sentence Reviews

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Sherry’s Shelves #86

Sherry’s Shelves #86 is my weekly update from July 10 – July 16, 2016.

Sunday Post #201 Countdown to Spring..

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Hello fellow bloggers. Hope your week was full of good books and summer fun.

For your viewing pleasure, just another day at the pool. Glad it’s not mine.

 

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  • Sherry’s Shelves
  • Review – The Days of Tao by Wesley Chu
  • Giveaway & Review – Forgetting Jane by C J Warrant
  • Teaser Tuesday
  • Giveaway & Review – Hidden Truth & Lies by Fran Lewis
  • Giveaway & Review – Saving Sophie by Cate Beauman
  • Giveaway & Excerpt – The Sound of Running Horses by Donna Ball
  • Giveaway & Review – Rising Tides by Katy Haye
  • Tag Team Giveaway – Suicide Lake by Ashley Fontainne
  • Friday 56

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My Adventures – 2016 Spring Break

Spring Break 2016 has begun. Mr Wonderful works for a state college, so he has a week off for Spring Break. Hmmm…what will we do to entertain ourselves?

Spring Break is a sign…a sign that summer is just around the corner and our spring break started off with a bang. A thunderstorm arrived and while the wind blew and the rain came down, a rainbow appeared. It spanned my backyard and seeing that it is right after St Patrick’s Day, I wondered if the leprechauns were looking down on us, rewarding us for our love of our little piece of paradise. Alas, I found no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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As I looked out the front door, our azaleas are a riot of color and I marvel at their beauty. I love that I get so much enjoyment from something so simple as the flowers in my yard… Some yard work is on the honey do list, but so is some fun.

Pensacola is the home of the Blue Angels and we went downtown to welcome them home on Monday. I never tire of their aerial display and we were not the only ones to herald their return.

If you would like to check out more videos of our adventures, go HERE.

On Tuesday, the sun was shining and we knew rain was coming, so it seemed like a great time to head to the golf course for a round. I love to play and even a bad day at golf is better than a day at work…or working around the house. That will still be there tomorrow and I’ll get to it then.

Mr Wonderful had a busy day of his own on Wednesday, with errands to run and a cloudy sky, I passed on the Blue Angels practice that he went to and I cleared some email…a lot of email and wrote a couple of posts and reviews for next month. With spring, comes baseball season and Mr Wonderful was training his fill in guy for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. He does a lot of games, but all work and no play makes him a dull boy.

Thursday…we expected a thunderstorm, so we knocked off a big to do job on the list. I had let the edging around the driveway get away from me, so I need to call in the big guns. That means my baby rototiller/edger and electric trimmer just won’t get the job done. But Mr Wonderful’s gas powered monster did a great job. As I sit here writing this, I hear the rumble of thunder, see the flash of lightning and marvel at the pouring rain. I enjoy a good storm every now and then. It washes the air clean, gets rid of the mess in my driveway from trimming and rids of the trees of the last of the dead leaves, allowing the new spring growth to thrive, but now there are seeds to add to the mix.

This time of year I spend a lot of time cleaning the pool. I have never seen as much pollen as I have this season and have battled it since early February, a small price to pay for a warm winter. I am out there every day, skimming and sucking up the leaves as I watch the temperature rise and the water call out to me. It’s looking good to me now.

Sunrise steam rising on pool

I love it when the air is cooler than the water and the sprites dance on the surface. So calm and inviting that it is time to jump in, relax for the rest of the week and prepare for our next adventure. Hope you will join me.

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Flamingos in all their Glory!

I love flamingos. They speak to me of the tropics.

Flamingo comes from the Spanish flamenco, “with the colour of flame”.

Their diet gives them their color and varies in shade by what they eat.

I think they are beautiful and comical at the same time.

My flock of flamingos looks a bit different than these, but I love them all the same.

flamingosFlamingos are the Bahamas national bird.

Do you have a favorite bird?

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Mardi Gras Parades in 2016

The Mardi Gras Parades in 2016 were awesome. We celebrated in Pensacola and New Orleans and had a great time!

Have you ever been?

These videos were made by Mr Wonderful. Enjoy!

If you would like to see more, hop on over to his Fundimonium YouTube page.

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Elvis is alive and well and made an appearance in New Orleans.

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These guys are hilarious. We were near the end of the parade and they are still going strong.

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What fun adventure do you have planned for this weekend?

Just warm and cuddly with your significant other?

Wild and wicked on a road trip?

Or just hanging out and reading a good book?

All sound good to me. 😆