Weekly Friday Finds | 10-04-2024
Welcome to Friday Finds, 10-04-2024. I hope you have had a wonderful week. It doesn’t exactly feel like fall outside, but the calendar says October, so I’m going autumnal with my theme today.
Not much is happening here on the farm. We’ve eaten the last of the tomatoes. Onions and fall radishes are ready. The turnips should be done later this month, and then we can do the final clean-up and put the garden to bed for the winter.
I try to link to anything mentioned in this post at the bottom. I particularly love my dicer. It makes chopping and freezing onions so easy. I love grabbing a handful of diced garden onions to use all winter in my cooking.
I’m off to visit the closest grandkids today. It’s their school’s Homecoming. The Grand-princess will be marching in the parade and performing with the color guard during the football game. The grandsons will do some serious snacking at the concession stand. They are more interested in that than football!
I’ll also get to visit the Great-Grand Princess. Boys are much more prevalent in our family, so only the two girls so far. I hope to meet the newest great-grandson today, but he is less than a week old, and visitors are limited for now. Maybe I’ll bribe the new parents with some deviled eggs. That’s their favorite dish that I make.
Until next week, Peace & Happiness!
Gina
Weekly Friday Finds | 10-04-2024| Blog News
These are the blog posts I shared this week.
Welcome to #ThrowBackThursday, where I highlight an older review or post a current review of a backlist title. Today, I’m sharing Deceptions of Chenille by Sally Dallas. I’m currently reading Delusions of Chenille, Book 2 of the Chenille Trilogy. I thought it appropriate to update and re-share my thoughts on Book 1.
[#ThrowbackThursday] Deceptions of Chenille by Sally Dallas (Chenille Trilogy Book #1) | #Fiction #Suspense #Mystery
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Welcome to my WWW Wednesday for 10-02-2024. Learn what the 3 W’s are and check out my answers. Feel free to leave your answers in the comments or share a link to your own blog.
#Reading #ReadingCommunity #BookMemes #BookX #Bookstagram #BookBloggers #wwwWednesday
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[Excerpt Tour] Falling From the Nest by Bobbi Candas (The Green Tree Series, Book 2) | #HistoricalFiction #TheGreenTreeSeries #PostWW2 @GoddessFish @BobbiCandas @BobbiCandasAuthor
With the historical backdrop of the post-WW2 era, Falling From The Nest reads as a stand-alone story but also serves as a sequel to author Bobbie Candas’ previous novel, The Lost and Found of Green Tree.
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The Lesser Known Travel Tips memoirs are a hilarious series of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection by Australian author Simon Yeats, who from an early age learned that the best way to approach the misfortunes of this world is to laugh about them.
Simon shares his comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living life as an Aussie ex-pat and having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as the Spanish Flu in 1918 or hordes of Mongols in 12th Century.
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The mix of romance and mystery against the backdrop of a charming, slightly mysterious small town gives the story a cozy vibe but with plenty of intrigue to keep things exciting.
Terrabyte Security by Tena Stetler (Mountain Town Mysteries #2) | #BookReview #MountainTownMysteries #Paranormal #RomanticSuspense @GoddessFish @TenaStetler
Weekly Friday Finds |10-04-2024 | Recipes
If you’ve never had Texas sheet cake, you’re in for a treat! This Southern-inspired cake is traditionally made as a chocolate-on-chocolate cake baked in a large sheet pan. It gets frosted with chocolate fudge icing and served directly from the pan for a brilliantly easy cake perfect for parties, potlucks, or just chocolate lovers. While you can serve Texas sheet cake with or without pecans on top, most Texans will tell you that pecans are not optional. I usually put nuts on half and leave the other side plain.
The Pancake Princess did a taste test bake off of nine recipes. I may have to try them all to see how they stack up to my recipe!
If you try any of the recipes, let me know your favorite.
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Since we’re trying all the cakes, let’s have a healthy main dish. We recently made salmon grilled on a cedar plank, and it was delicious.
I used very light seasoning. In a simple hack, I used one of the little tubs of garlic butter sauce left over from a pizza to smear on the salmon and make the seasonings stick. Then I sprinkled on some Penzey’s Mitchell Street Seasoning and a bit of Everything Bagel.
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Weekly Friday Finds | 10-04-2024 | Books
What are you reading this week? Here is one that caught my eye this week.
Karen Marie Moning has a new series starting. I haven’t read any of her books since the Highlander and Fever series, so I believe it’s time.
The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning (The Watch Hill Trilogy #1)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning is back with a gripping, imaginative, and seductive new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets…
Weekly Friday Finds |10-04-2024 | Independent Author News
Mark J. Engels sent in news of a StoryOrigin promotion for All Flavors of Fantasy. All are available through Kindle Unlimited through October 12, 2024.
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Weekly Friday Finds | 10-04-2024 | Trivia Time
There is no trivia contest this week while I evaluate how well it’s been received and whether it will remain in the Friday Finds. Any thoughts?
The answer to last week’s question:
What is the whale’s name in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick”?
Trick question… the answer is Moby Dick!
Weekly Friday Finds | 10-04-2024 | Crafts
Enjoy DIY of the Fun: These fall crafting supplies can improve operation ability, cultivate patience, relieve stress, and cultivate sentiment during DIY. They are suitable for beginners and skilled people so that you can spend happy family time while playing with your children.
- Package Contains: you will receive 12 sets of diamond painting coasters with black metal Holder, which are exquisite and in line with the autumn theme. The rich and lovely design can meet your various DIY and crafting needs
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Congrats on your newest great-grandson.
Deceptions of Chenille by Sally Dallas sounds like my kind of book. I like all kinds of thrillers and haven’t read a romantic thriller is a while so might add this one to my TBR.
I love the idea of Trivia Time. So fun!
Salmon is one of my favourite foods and yours looks yummy. Those cake recipes have made me hungry too.
Thanks for stopping by, Jo. My Friday Finds are a labor of love. But, readers seem to connect with it really well. I try to have one thing to appeal to readers, no matter what their focus is. I’m pretty excited about the new baby. I can’t wait to snuggle him.
I will definitely be trying some of those Texas Sheet Cake Recipes, they look yummy. My sister makes a plain one, but some of these look great.
Also, congratulations on the newest great-grandson, Gina. I hope you have had the chance to meet him and even hold him.
Not yet, but I’m hopeful for soon.
Me too, Carla. That’s one of my favorite cakes. I rarely use nuts on mine, but they do look good.
Congratulations on a new grandson! Wow! Sharing your post, like always!
Thank you, Eve. And I appreciate your shares.
Forgot to say how much I liked the crafts too, thanks Gina
Books look like interesting reads especially Deceptions of Chenille
Thanks for stopping by, Crystal. It’s quite the thriller/mystery.