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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #1311011
A terminal for all blogs coming in or going out. A view into my life.
Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.

Ferry boat between Solvorn and Ornes across the Lustrafjord i Sogn og Fjordane.




I'm starting a new blog because
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L'aura del Campo  (13+)
Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
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had over 1,200 entries and that was getting close to full. I don't want to trim it by deletion. I did that once, much to my dismay. Will be used more for poetry.

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Hoarfrosts from Hell  (GC)
Anything I'm not happy about or that I don't want in my main blog!
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is still hidden from the public and will remain so. It's more personal and full of angst. Was used for 30DBC for May 2020 and now used for Blogville.

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Enga mellom fjella  (13+)
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
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was full... until the number of entries was increased. A mixed blog, mostly stories.

I'll be linking to
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On The Write Path  (13+)
ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.
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as I need to post there about my travels.

 
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O Pinions!  (XGC)
May my opinions gather wind under their wings and fly, perchance to soar.
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is for my opinions. *Laugh*

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Nurture your Nature  (13+)
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
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was set up for nature observations and musings.

 
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Watt's Gnus  (18+)
On topics and today's gnus. Definitely opinionated. Set to 18+ for a reason.
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come out of a need to share interesting stuff I come across. When I was young I did a small newsletter named as such. (or was it column in the newsletter? Been 30 years... I think.)

 
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Flash Fiction  (GC)
Short 300 word, more or less, "stories" .
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is where I put my flash fictions. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and have enough good ones to publish. Ratings vary and some are hidden from view.

I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
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Space Cadet - the never ending journal  (18+)
Journeys of an Alien Space crew.
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I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
 
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Conquest ... to keep track of contests  (18+)
A place to keep track of in progress works and up-coming deadlines as well as any awards.
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(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville   (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
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is for posting personal blog entries in hope that folks will comment and post their blog entries there as well. I will be commenting on all blog entries posted. It's my effort to rebuild a blogging community.

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Bibimbap 비빔밥   (13+)
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
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an E blog focusing on food and culture. Easily digestible for the Queasy and Questioning.

March 9, 2021 at 1:18am
March 9, 2021 at 1:18am
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11 p.m. 30 degrees. Gonna be warmer and sunnier the rest of the week.

Pushing 4 thousand blog views. It's been like pulling teeth. I'm not promoting this blog as I'm already doing 2 blog entries each day. I post the 30dbc prompted entry, then this one I'll add to all day.

Saw 2 long-legged brown dogs about an hour ago. Some call them deer.

Haven't seen robins, but they are here and the sparrows are mating.

Spring is a coming in... *Music2*

10 a.m. 34 degrees. *Sun*

Lay in bed too long. I have no schedule at home. I even struggle with mornings when I travel. "Up-n-@-m" may as well be ancient Illyrian.

Broke a cup last night... only lost it's handle. I reuse broken things when I can. Most cups become flower pots. I need to pot my onions. I used the scissors yesterday to snip off green shoots to add to my egg salad. I should eat soup today. Add onion? Drink it from a cup?

Wednesdays = groceries (except milk). On Tuesdays I do an assessment. Bread? Eggs? Sugar? There are many things I only buy on sale... and when they are I buy regardless of whether I have any. Soup is an example. It goes on sale every few months. I stock up on dry goods knowing I'll use them.

Bread can't be stocked up on though. *Laugh*

39 degrees at 2 p.m. and chilly

I didn't go on a walk because I was wearing my suede jacket and there were flakes in the air. Now sunny with flakes shrouding the mountains.

I ate my cream-of-chicken soup with chiken, added some onion greens, dunked a day-old croissant. It's more than enough. Some people are concerned with 'portions'. For me there's only one portion... which is whatever how much is sitting in front of me.

A even had a few salty potato chips today offered by a friend. I don't dare buy them. One bag = one portion.

6:20 p.m., 38 degrees, and still light in the sky.

Alpenglow rests beautiful on white mountains, but much of the snow has melted.

I took a long nap. It felt needed but now I'm groggy. Dunked a cookie in a coffee, so now we'll see.

Just wasted a long comment to a blog entry. The system wouldn't let me post, go back, retrieve... yes, I messaged WDC Support, but I don't have time to play games.

An answer to the QOTD re beach or camping.

Interesting to note how age and health are an issue. They truly are! I stay in hostels but always request a lower bunk and may need to make other choices as I age. Also how beach or mountain people may consider a vacation to the 'other'. On the other hand, I crave the green oceans of the grasslands.

What I'd really prefer is to visit y'all. I should've visited Sonali in India in November '19. Now? Who knows. I've visited WDC folks in England, Sweden, Australia, Romania... and California, Washington, Montana, Iowa and Minnesota. I've had offers to visit Florida and Mississippi. Some day I may get to visit Sarah in Zimbabwe.

But beyond WDC I went to Prague, Czechia because of a Czech I met in Bergen, Norway. I ate supper on Oxford Street in Sydney with an Italian that I had also met in Bergen at the same time. I spent a lovely day in Oslo with a Mexican who lives in Oklahoma that I met in Costa Rica. I visited a family in Gdansk that I met in Oslo. A man from Osaka I've met twice in Tokyo after first meeting him in Gdansk.

And so on and so forth.

Yes, there are lovely mountains. Yes, there are lovely beaches. Yes, there are lovely parks. Yes, there are fabulous museums.

But there are also lovely people ... everywhere in the world.
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March 9, 2021 at 12:25am
March 9, 2021 at 12:25am
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*Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev*

PROMPT March 9th

Write about the mythical or science fiction
creatures/beings that could actually exist.
Imagine a world where there was definitive proof
of their existence - how would life be different?


*Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev* *Noteg* *Notev*


Covid isn't a monster? Malaria, lyme disease, syphilis?

Narwhals exist. Hairy pigs exist. Woolly rhinos used to and may again. Neanderthal genes are found within human populations.

So do people with wrinkled-pea skin, 6 fingers, three limbs, three sets of teeth (normal is two).

Not oxygen based? H2S can work like O2. Extreme temperatures? Duh. Silicon instead of carbon? Yep.

Exoskeleton versus endoskeleton versus no skeleton? No problem. Mobile/sessile? Ditto.

There is so much life on Earth that we have difficulty understanding, like fungus and slime molds. We need look no further.

There be dinosaurs. What Earth Year was that? There be no dinosaurs now? Ever hear of birds!

Life persists. A world without humans is more likely than a world with them. A world redolent with life that is toxic to humans?

Earth ... possibly sooner than later.


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