Tuesday : Books, Decorating and bug bites!

I finished 3 books this past week........one I'd been reading for quite awhile.  Some books are so full of information as in non-fiction, that you can't digest it very fast and in fact some evenings just a few pages were all I could handle.  Such was this book.....

 But it was a wealth of information and I have already put some of it to use....I figure the more financial books I read maybe the better I will get in that area...hopefully?
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book as I have all the previous Agatha Raisin books.............her mysteries are great.

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I also read this one....it made me laugh more than once!

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 For my Good Reads Challenge I have read 49 of 75 books.  I have 26 books left to read until the end of this year.  I am trying to read 'smaller' books to reach my goal.  I was reading the 2nd book in the Outlander series but they are huge books also I want to read more of Kate Morton but again...huge amount of pages....we're talking 600 range.  Maybe I'll go back to my 50 books a year which is about 1 per week.  I don't want to read to make my goal...I want to read for the love of reading!  Maybe no challenge at all? LOL!  That sounds like a great idea!
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I did some decorating outside as 'the rains' are coming......I had 2 'volunteer' pumpkins this year from the ones that I shoved off the steps last year....they rot and there is no way to 'pick them up'......

I cut the stems but one was already rotted on one side so I took it out back to start a new place to grow 'volunteers'.  The other one was just right!  I never have to buy pumpkins but I won't eat these as there has been weed killer sprayed out there for poison ivy.

I took down my solar butterfly lights and strung some orange halloweenie lights instead..........

The flowers are just now starting to perk up...it's been a long hot summer!

I hung my ghosts in the trees............

and the wreath on the door............

Stay tuned for more inside Halloween decorating coming this week!
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This happened awhile ago and thank goodness it hasn't happened again but I'm pretty sure it happened at night and there was some spider or something in my bed because I got 3 bites...I just couldn't get them all in the picture.  I checked my bed the next morning and saw nothing but they were scary looking bites and they turned purple and I was hoping it wasn't  a brown recluse and my skin was going to start falling off!   Do any of you recognize this bite and what could have caused it?  I looked online and nothing really looked like it. P.S.  I do not have bed bugs or fleas...lol!

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The garbage is out and back in, I went to the store and got a few items as there are storms in the forecast for this afternoon and the next few days.   My de-cluttering is going wonderfully and I have thrown out lots of junk stuff!  Yippee!  I've pulled out my Falling Leaves scarf again.  I'm trying to finish things and I had forgotten about that one.  I'm going to try and make some cinnamon rolls this afternoon.  Things are good on the homestead!  I hope all is going well for you too!
Happy Trails!!!