The hunt for a house for our daughter continued through July and after several offers and two failed home inspections exhausted the inventory in Missouri. The hunt for a home then progressed into Michigan. The available homes in the southern area of Michigan and slightly more temperate winters than the extremes of the Upper Penisula was very narrow and also quickly exhausted. Then, last week, the kids found a home in the southern area of Illinois.
Definitely NOT where I’d ever expected they would find the home that checked off most of their boxes. Still, it’s a cute little “dollhouse,” (real estate speak for LITTLE house) with some acreage, perfect for the two of them and their needs. The home just passed the home inspection with flying colors. Hopefully we’ll be in moving mode within weeks (even given the current crazy real estate climate which is apparently nationwide and now spreading into the rental market as well).
I’ve been trying to keep a somewhat regular posting review schedule, but social media and my graphics have suffered with little attention to either. Shamefully, I’ve resorted to shortcuts.
We posted seventeen book reviews for August that included ARCs from NetGalley, author requests, and audiobooks from our local library.
Funny Farm by Laurie Zaleski
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves – audiobook
Love in a Time of Hate by Matthew Langdon Cost
The Ghost Campers Tall Tales by Elizabeth Pantley–Paranormal–blog tour
Striking Range by Margaret Mizushima
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz – audiobook
Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted
Murder on Honky Tonk Row by Rita Morea
The Secret Staircase by Sheila Connelly
Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly – audiobook
Target Churchill by Warren Adler
The Final Days of Abbot Montrose by Sven Elvestad
The Sea Bandits by Amanda Hughes
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney – audiobook
The Harp and the Rose by Jean Grainger
Frigate by John Wingate
The Necklace by Matt Witten
I still haven’t been able to keep up with my challenges. At a 127 count on Goodreads, I am well ahead of the game on that one. And my Historical Challenge has been met, anything now is gravy. Don’t forget to check them out at #histficreadingchallenge. You can check out my challenges progress (however far behind it is) by clicking on my Reading Challenges page.
In the meantime, WordPress did another number on their free bloggers and suddenly I was unable to update any of my widgets. I have several dynamic widgets, the most active being #comingsoon and totally locked out of it, frantically wrote the “happiness engineers” a number of times before one of them finally realized what I was asking.
I don’t WANT to do block widgets but seems they are bound and determined to force the block editor. Finally, managed to get in and update the top widgit a couple days ago. Have you experienced the same problem? Finally succumbed to using blocks for everything? Am I the last holdout?
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Sounds like a great month, Virginia. I still use the Classic Editor for a few posts, but most are in Block Editor. I am getting used to it.
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I’ve tried, more than once. I just can’t make it work for me, but glad to hear you can use it. Maybe there is hope.
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I always have to start the post in Block (basically, I put the title and one line), then save it. Go to all posts and when I get a list, right click under the post and then go to Classic Editor to finish. Good Luck, Virginia.
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Thank you, Carla. Yes, I do go directly to classic editor for posts but was totally shut out of the widgets. Finally realized they were trying to force the block. Takes extra steps but now I can access a couple of them. Got my goodreads stats updated yesterday. Yay. Old dog, new tricks and it takes me longer, struggle in the meantime.
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I haven’t tried to access the widgets, shall have to see if I can figure it out.
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AH! and i thought you were way ahead of me. mine were all entered under the classic editor umbrella. that got blocked. if you go to your widgets screen it steers you into the sidebar which allows you to add/delete or move widgets. getting into them to edit is yet another process and a good lucker.
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i truly hope it’s easier for you.
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Hurray, you found a house! Now on to those dang widgets.
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Yes, they really love their block editor. I don’t. Every time they make an “improvement” it takes extra steps to do anything.
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