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Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

by Apondia

Rated: E · Book · Experience · #2050107

A Journal to impart knowledge and facts

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.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

about 11 hours ago
In response to "writeless today"

You did just fine! They weren't easy word choices.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

a day ago
In response to "July Sales"

I love the craft fairs but not shopping in the bigger stores. When I was laid up after my back surgery I watched a few Christmas in July movies on Hallmark.

Clothing is definitely more expensive these days, sales matter.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jul 10, 2025 at 9:41pm
In response to "Grandma is at home today."

My paternal uncle lived near my grandfather.

My maternal grandmother lived close to family in the hollow.

My father's family tended to live close, even moving together to Oklahoma and South Carolina.

My mother's family scattered.

I wish... but we both know about wishes without wings.

My experience in Thailand was mixed, but I don't doubt that families remain close as friends often do. In Costa Rica it can be multi-generations living in the same area.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Jul 10, 2025 at 8:18pm
In response to "Grandma is at home today."

And I'm spending a lot of time teaching my granddaughter sewing and crocheting, I love that.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Jul 10, 2025 at 8:17pm
In response to "Grandma is at home today."

I used to spend every summer with my grandfather and I loved it. During the school year I would spend weekends at my other grandparents and I enjoyed that time very much.

As a grandparent my older grandchildren would spend the summer with me. Then in 2021 when my daughter (my youngest) and her boyfriend split she asked for help, so we moved to Vegas. We share a house together, my husband, my daughter, my granddaughter and me. It works for all of us.

Apondia

Jul 10, 2025 at 6:15pm
In response to "Fixing it."

Yes. I have a ton of things to fix this year and I don't move as fast as I use to. I do expect a very snowy or just cold winter so I wand to be ready.

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Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Jul 3, 2025 at 1:55pm
In response to "Fixing it."

Those who live in the colder climates see July and August as the months to get things done before winter returns. When I lived in Maine, after the 4th July family camping trip, we harvested some of the early veggies, then canning them for later. (I made pickles with a lot of baby cukes and canned tons of green and wax beans. In the evenings we cut and stacked firewood in the woodshed.
Hope all goes smoothly for you.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Jun 19, 2025 at 10:40pm
In response to "Wilderness Trees"

I can see the green contrasting the hay fields in my mind. I miss seeing fields and orchards.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Jun 11, 2025 at 11:41pm
In response to "Bikes and Sunshine"

Riding outside is definitely more scenic.

Seffi

Jun 10, 2025 at 3:11am
In response to "Pets as companions"

Always treat an animal as if it understands your language. They understand more than people give them credit for most of the time. - Completely agree. If not the words, they understand tone and behaviour.

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June 9, 2025 at 3:40pm

#1091116

Pets as companions

PROMPT: Pets
Do you like pets? Why do you think some of us love pets more than anything? Did you ever have a pet that impacted your life in a big way?

Hi!

Interesting that this prompt should come up. I recently read an article about pets and people.

I have pet parrots, cats, and dogs. Pets have always been a part of my life. A cocker spaniel named rags was my mother's dog when I was 3 years old or so. We took rags with us as a family. Rags died the year I graduated from high school. By then I had a cat and a dog of my own. I took them with me after I married and moved to another state.

My pets are family. I'm always startled when dogs are left in shelters because their owners can no longer care for them. Or when people put a cat out at night and say, "it can take care of itself."

Cats need care. They are a special kind of pet. They need independence as well. People who start and care for cat colonies are special too. A cat colony will keep rodents down to a number that is tolerable. Cats have special abilities in a scientific way. They are able to interact with people to give health benefits. Scientists are learning more about these benefits and some articles are being published that will begin to teach people about how cats benefit human society.

What I read recently was that pet people are often introverted people. What I read also said families will often use pet lovers as scape goats for the family.

In my case I was raised on a farm where there were always some kinds of animals. As a young child I was allowed to have a cat of my own. As long as I kept it in my room. We had a barn, so when I was in school the cat was put out for the day and went to the barn for shelter.

All the creatures I have interacted with have impacted my life in one way or another. They were the mother I never had. They gave me love, kept me warm in a house as a child, that did not have an internal heating system. In some instances, they were my protector against danger. Even horses I kept were my special friends.

Because of my friendship with animals and birds I learned that male humans are jealous of females who keep pets. Sometimes boyfriends, husbands, fathers, uncles, and cousins will take a relationship between a female human and an animal and belittle the relationship or even put the pet in a dangerous situation to break the relationship.

People will often refuse to believe that communication between animals and humans often is stronger than communications between human siblings or children and parents.

Genisis 2:18-20 Animals created as companions to man. The Bible has a lot to say about the relationship between people and animals.

Always treat an animal as if it understands your language. They understand more than people give them credit for most of the time.

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