Sunday Snippets 11.2.25
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Today on Sunday Snippets 11.2.25…
I hope you had a happy Halloween. For some reason, I haven’t had kids come to my door for candy on Halloween since I moved to Tulsa.
On Friday, I went to the dentist to have the temporary bridge checked.
I will go back this week, and they will order the permanent. Then I have to figure out what to do with the other side. A bridge or an implant?
Kasi came and brought lunch yesterday, then we went to Kendra’s rental house to see what she’d gotten done. She knocked down the wall between the kitchen and dining room, and added a full bath and laundry room.
The kitchen is now open with everything new. New cabinets, floors, and appliances. Whoever rents it gets a brand new kitchen.
When we got there, she was caulking and painting the walls.
It’s going to be beautiful, and the people who rent it will basically get a new house in an old 1930s building. I’ll have her send photos once she’s finished.
Granddaughter Marley worked at a garden nursery during the summer until their busy season was over and the job ended. She just got a job working at The Gap. Now both of Kendra’s kids are working.
What I’m Watching:
I’m still watching The Bridge, though I’ve nearly finished it. It’s about the lost Juarez girls who are kidnapped and never heard from again. The series I’m watching is fictional, but the storyline is quite real.
The phrase “girls from Juárez” refers to the victims of the ongoing and systemic femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. There is an epidemic of kidnappings, rapes, and murders of hundreds of women and girls that began in the early 1990s.
So many parents don’t know what happened to their daughters. Many young women went to work in factories and returned on buses. That’s where many of them were probably snatched, or they were lured into cars for a ride home.
From the USCRI (U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants)
The USCRI, founded in 1911, is a non-governmental, not-for-profit international organization committed to working on behalf of refugees and immigrants and their transition to a dignified life.
This information is valid as of February 19, 2025.
What I’m Reading:
Book Summary
Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that, while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.
Then, a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student, and Titus’s deputies fatally shoot the student. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon.
With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.
Charon is Titus’s home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning.
I hope you enjoyed this week’s Sunday Snippets 11.2.25. Happy fall! In the U.S., we are looking toward Thanksgiving!
Great recommendations! I am definitely adding The Bridge and All The Sinners Bleed to my lists. I ordered my Thanksgiving groceries and picked them up from Walmart on Tuesday. There will just be 3 of us this year so we are keeping it simple and small. We don’t really have Halloween visitors in our neighborhood because most of our neighbors are Latino families and they usually do big parties or church events.
Good luck with the dentist! Hope it all goes well. I lost track of your blog so I’ve got LOTS to catch up on. I’m loving the new look and can’t wait to read your posts I’ve missed for so long.
Best wishes on your dental work. Always something. Have a good weekend.
All The Sinners Bleed sounds like a very good book. I’ve put it on my list.
Christmas will
be upon us in no time. As I get older the seasons seem to go by faster. I have tons of Christmas stuff that needs to be sorted through. I’ve realized I don’t need all of
this stuff. Enjoy your fall weather, Brenda.
I doubt I’ll put up a tree. I like to decorate with smaller stuff these days, though I do miss the lights…
You can always hang up just the string lights. That would still be very pretty and festive. Putting up a tree, with two kittens, might not be a good idea anyway, at least not this year. By next year, maybe you’ll feel differently and maybe the kitties will be a little less mischievous. You could always try putting up a small table top tree with unbreakable decorations and see how they do. I only put up a few Halloween decorations this year, and now I feel so much less stressed that I don’t have a million things to pack up and put away. And my house still looked nice.