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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
TALK ABOUT CHILDHOOD MEMORIES: For: Blog City:  My Brother died this year. During the year I think in the month of June. As the years wore on, we did not get together much and the last time we talked he said he was well. Anyway, no one told me until two months later. Not cool! I have a lot of good memories about Duane. He built me a tree house once and talked my dad into letting me use it. I spent a whole summer in it reading and watching the sky and the wind blow the branches and leaves around in the tree. When he was in the Navy, he bought me a radio. And he gave me my first puppy. A part German Shepard, part collie. A great dog that was my side kick for a lot of years. He also talked my dad, into letting me keep a stray cat. He pretty much looked out for me after my mom died some. When I was in first grade there was a carnival at the school, I'm not sure what they were celebrating. I was in line to get a pop when an older boy put a piece of dry ice on my leg. My brother smacked him. Dad was sure upset at my brother for fighting but I thought it was cool. We were kind of rowdy kids. When he was on leave from the Navy I was learning to drive. He had an old car with stick shift in it. So. He was teaching me to drive it. He said, stop so I carefully brought the car to a slow halt. Making sure the clutch was used properly. So, he was not happy I had taken about 10 feet to stop the car. He told me, " When I say stop, I mean now not 10 feet down the road." The next time he said stop I dumped the clutch, slammed on the breaks, and his head struck the wind shield. I said, "Was that better?" I drove him a lot during that leave and learned to drive stick. Just before I was married, he took the time to teach me how to cook scrambled eggs the Navy way. He said if you can cook eggs, you will never go hungry. And when my husband was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, he took me and my son into his home for a while until I could make arrangements to go to Panama. He was always a force in life. Death of the body makes an empty space. I've discovered the Christmas season is here. Snow is forcast for the weekend.. |
| On this day in 1949 Gene Autry's single "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" first appears on music charts. "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer by songwriter Johnny Marks based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer published by the Montgomery Ward Company. Gene Autry's recording hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts the week of Christmas 1949. What's your favorite Christmas song? Do you sing carols with your family?  I still know the words to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I always liked the singing cowboys when I was a kid. I like Christmas carols. There are a couple that irritate. One I'm not so fond of is the one that enumerates the days of Christmas. Evan though I know the words to that one too. I've never been quite sure why there is a partridge in a Pear tree? My favorite is "The Little Drummer Boy." "Shall I play for you? Ba Rump a Bump Bum, On my Drum." I don't think anyone in my house but me and Drifter (my dog) sing. If I hit just the right note Drifter will join in. He actually tries to follow the notes as they go up or down. It is kind of cool to have a singing dog. And you know what? I've been really busy still cleaning. I finally reached the basement, and it is the worst place in the house. I'm probably only a 1/10 of the way finished with it. It will take all winter to finish it. Then, I decided to have family Thanksgiving at our house. I have basically ignored Christmas. Until I put up the tree this week. It isn't decorated but it is up. I haven't cooked a turkey in a while and the food all turned out great. The family gathered and we all had a good time visiting. The only cloud was my two oldest boys who still stay away. So, now I'm going to find my Christmas carol disks and play carols this afternoon. Until I read this prompt, I had not even thought about Christmas carols. Christmas is one of my favorite holidays. Merry Christmas to all. apondia#1781748 |
| When do you do your best thinking? I don't know. I think a lot. I have time to think almost any time of the day. I've spent a lot of time over the years emptying thoughts because they are not relevant to whatever present I might be in. Guess I need to think about this question some more.  |
| For Blog City: Mentors: I've probably had several. Certainly, one I will always remember is a riding instructor. She knew a great deal about horses. She also knew many people on the show circuit that we used. We moved our horses into the stable that she was managing. She taught me the proper riding gear I needed. I had one lesson per day. I was riding a very green horse, which she helped me bring along at a proper pace for the horses age and experience. She taught me a great deal about training horses. Her approach to animals was with kindness and patience. I looked her up on Facebook several years ago and found out she was deceased. A certain loss to the horse world. Mentors are very needed as people grow, live and learn. |
| When you think of the midnight hour, what comes to mind? I should be sleeping, the song In the Midnight Hour, the clothing line MidnightHour, the witching hour, is midnight a new day, I'm burning the midnight oil. It's your blog, tell us what comes to your mind. It's such a fun word, have fun. Creepy! To me the midnight hour is when one day ends and the next day begins. Mostly nothing special. Unless there is a reason I won't be up at midnight. If I'm reading a good book sometimes, I make it to eleven. But I get up to feed and put dogs out at 4 or 5 a.m. and rarely go back to sleep after that so lights out for me can be as early as 7 or 8 p.m. since I'm not good at taking naps. If you read a lot of church history, you find some odd ideas in days gone by. Those ideas still linger in some types of cult attitude. Some people {King David for one} would get up and study at midnight, have parties, eat late night meals, do business then go back to bed and sleep late into the morning. Some church beliefs followed this in Europe in earlier years. I Read about it in a church history a long time ago can't recite the years involved. It is still a cult idea in some circles. Also, along with this can be people who don't believe in sleeping at all. Much of this comes from the Old Testament. This goes along with Kabbalah, and other types of cult routines. It can also extend to the people who don't believe in speech but, believe in conversing mentally. Phillip K Dicks wrote a science fiction story about these people. And they were also mentioned in the last book of the "Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" I'm not sure, was it called the "Last Battle?" Have to look it up, I guess. Some of these things creep me out because I don't believe in numbers, colors or other ways to manipulate people mentally. K and I fight about these things. Things like this come up when reading Histories that pertain to church, wars, and spiritual information's. Books like the Zohar were written before the Christ showed up on the earth. The internet gives access to ancient ways to curse people and other creepy ideas which often involve the midnight hour, satanism, and witchcraft. I know too much about this kind of thinking to tell it all in one blog, so I'll just drop it for now. Any way if I was going to quote things, I would have to look it up, and the book titles, and authors who wrote about it. Have a good day, keep safe. |
September Days:  Reference: https://www.thespruce.com/reasons-to-celebrate-in-september-4178816 September is 30 days of celebration. Sometimes a cool down from August summer heat. Some of the holidays listed in the reference are: Eat an extra dessert Day / National Cheese Pizza Day / World Coconut Day / National double cheeseburger Day every day on the calendar has something listed. Most of the celebrations have to do with food. There is a winter storm warning out on the web which says a particular part of the USA will get heavy snows and dangerous stormy weather this winter. It has been quite a few years since we experienced any kind of heavy snow. In any event we will be as ready for winter this year as any other year. Today's weather is definently cooler than August, at least today. The goldenrod is in bloom. A beautiful golden yellow border between the mowed hay fields and the forests. I should bag it and sell it by the pound. It is an herb and grows wild here. It has a host of uses and can be made into a tea or oil or just eaten raw. By the end of this month, we may be finished with lawn mowing for the year. Lawnmowing will be replaced with snow plowing if we really get a lot of snow. The last two years we did not plow because the snow was not heavy, and it would quickly melt. I'm thinking of Christmas presents though, I like to get my shopping done early. September for me is a cross over month. Good-bye to summer Hello to Autumn. Actually, the trees are already losing their leaves which isn't quite normal. Have a good day, whatever September brings. One day at a time. |
| Prompt: door CAT DOOR The cat was trying to enter through the door. I could hear it scratching near the floor. Magnets fastened the bottom of the plastic flap. It could not break the magnet power with its' pat, pat, pat. I took a screwdriver and popped the magnet off. Now the cat is purring on my desk, soft, soft, soft. |
| Write about what the rainbow symbolizes to you. When I was a young Child, my dad pointed out a rainbow and told me people believe there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. He also said people have been looking for the end of the rainbow forever, but no one ever found it. I always remember that day and what he said. So, as years passed whenever I saw a rainbow I would try to see where it began and ended. Then, when I went to college, I took a course about weather. By this time, I already knew about the spectrums of color in the rainbow and that things in the Bible often refer to colors in the sky. And we learned in the college class the times after a storm or a weather shift in the atmosphere what causes rainbows. No symbols in the class just scientific fact. Nevertheless, I have a habit when a rainbow appears of trying to find where it begins and ends. Have you ever driven through one? Rainbows and Santa Claus will go on being part of folk lore. |
| Prompt: A beautiful baby giraffe was born in a zoo in Tennessee. Whats the big deal? She has no spots! She is all brown. Write about this in your Blog entry today. She is part of the species called Reticulated giraffes. There are 4 species of giraffes. Also, other spotless giraffes have been born in other places. Two siblings were born spotless in the 1900's in Japan. It is probably of interest to people who follow zoo news and just are interested in environmental species throughout the world. Also, the group of people out there, who are interested in environmental biology is quite large. It is a news item that brings a certain calm to the other more alarming news that can be in any news media. It reminds us that an exact replica of anything cannot necessarily be counted on in earthly biology. Just my thoughts. |
| Prompt: If you were a household furnishing, what would you be and why? I thought of all kinds of furnishings with a soul. I imagined the sofa, rugs, washing machines and other furniture dancing around. My muse was a little out of control. Something like Walt Disney's musical popped into my mind. I think I would be a Television. Because I could bring in the news, music, and entertainments. |
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