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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. |
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Congratulations on your virtual blogging adventure!](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-BCoF_2-1901868_14.gif) HI. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. By Mother Teresa (founder of missionaries of Charity.) I'm presently reading, 101 answers to questions about the book of Revelation. By Mark Hitchcock. I'm up to part 4 about 30% read. I like it because the layout of information is specific to each topic. It relates Revelation to the apostle John. The book explains church history about the time the book was written.There is some relevant history about each of the 7 churches. I borrowed the book from our local library online. Then I looked it up in books for sale on Amazon and found out it could not be purchased there yet, although, it is listed by individuals who sell on Amazon. Even though I'm not far into the book I would recommend it. Because it reveals church history relevant to the time it was written. Also, because it is very precise and can quote other people who have studied Revelation in-depth. There is an in-depth look at the symbols used within the book. There are dates about when the churches mentioned in Revelation were active. Hitchcock mentions different views from other authors about questions listed in his book. In all, so far as I have read, it seems like a well thought out and organized questioning of the entire message formed in the Revelation. Yay! Spring is showing up more each day.  apondia#1781748 |
| "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Thomas Jefferson Hi! "Despite the forecast live like its spring." by Lilly Pulitzer.Because the prompt quotes Thomas Jefferson it proves what I believe. If you are fond of reading about the history of humans on the earth, you already know there has always been a struggle to survive. We know because of Old Testament history that the type of struggle is between evil and righteousness. Watching history you find keeping freedom available for large amounts of people takes a lot of maneuvering of laws and policing of peoples actions. We can not always tell if what we hear or read is accurate. Vigilance is a small price to pay for freedom. Vigilance has to be combined with action in a timely manner. Spring is on its way.  |
| Let's talk about memorable experiences in your life. Quote by Mary Dixon Thayer 20-th century writer "Always there remains portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter. Invite them as we may." Hi. I thought I had done this. Talked about my life I mean.Here is a new one to laugh about. I think it was 4th grade. The school nurser set up tent like apparatus in the hall outside our classroom. It turned out she was testing each students hearing. After she tested me she sent a note home with my dad. Next day dad showed up. She put me in the tent again with the buzzer and tested me with dad watching. The jist of this was, she was proving I can hear sounds above what most people expect to hear. Now, I can often hear sounds of people who pray the rosary. Not necessarily able to identify the subject, about which they are praying, but the rhythm of sound waves as they move. Especially if more than one prays in sinc with each other. There is a rosary society in a town not to far away. Grandma use to say itchy ears mean someone is talking about you. Tinnitus is another way of catching sounds with your brain that you cannot necessarily identify. I've never studied sound in a very serious way. I have a belief not necessarily founded on anything I can show you. I believe each person can be identified by sounds or the waves in the air that sound makes. How about this interesting thought? Can we be identified by Enoch as he lists us in his heavenly book by the sounds linked to our DNA? apondia#1781748 |
Prompt: We're seeing more DUI (driving under the influence) related deaths. Do you feel the consequences are high enough or should they make them more severe? I know we all live in different areas, is it just in the states or is it problem where you live as well? HI!I think it must be a problem all over the USA. After the military started attacking drug carrying ships from South America I just kind of assumed it is an effort to stop the flow of drugs into our country because the public seems to be at a loss to stop it by themselves, within the states. I'm kind of out of touch with how many accidents are in the area. We don't subscribe to news papers or even keep up to date with local news on TV. Although I have Facebook alerts for several nearby communities. Not too many accidents show up on those alerts. And when they do, the cause of the accident may not be listed or even the state of drivers and passengers may not be listed. Reading " Slanted" an expose by Sharyl Attkinson, about the media. It tells a lot about how the public is missing the valuable contexts of news that use to be available to the public. When I can't get here often I miss WDC news. Spring is on its way. |
| Prompt: “Do you remember? Prompt: “Do you remember? Hi! Do you remember Underwood Typewriters? How about hay rakes that had a rider and a dump lever? Pulled by a team of horses then refurbished to use with a tractor. Do you remember loose haystacks in the barn, then square bales, now round bales. How about congressional hearings about Dentists during Mr. Reagans presidency? Is this one accurate? The snow melted some Tuesday this week and then froze to ice yesterday. Not as bad as the year the whole front yard was ice and my boys ice skated on the front yard. Not sure what year that was? Olympics are interesting yesterday. 11 USA medals. I don't think I watched them in the last 4 years. The pipe has grown to 22 feet high. I still think luge sled hill would be fun to ride down. Keep warm. |
| Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.” Do you like hot chocolate, and what are your most favored hot drinks? Hi.  Yes. I like Hot Chocolate. I have been drinking more of it this winter. I cannot drink it often. It leaves a heavy feeling inside me, that I don't appreciate. I put a day or two between cups. I think the chocolate and warmth is good for my energy levels. I actually like warm water when I'm eating a meal or trying to keep warm. I discovered warm water is just as good as tea one day, when I ran out of tea. I do like Oat stem tea as a tisane with lemon mint tea. I also like tea with strawberries dropped in it. Or blueberries. Oat stem tea is my regular go to drink whenever I need a pick me up. It is a mild flavored tea that mixes well with any kind of fruit. When I was a child helping dad in the hay field he taught me to chew on sticks of ripe green orchard grass to keep thirst away. Oat stem tea is similar in flavor to ripe orchard grass stems. Yep, I'm a farm girl. Stay warm. |
| Tell us about your weather HI. Weather here is horrid. below 0 for several weeks. wind chills often 10 or 11 below 0. Last year someone put rats in our house. K says they were trying to stop us from using corn to heat our house. Did not work. Still heating with corn. However, we are experiencing lots of problems. Rats tore out a lot of the insulation last year. So now we have experienced loss of water for a couple days. And colder temps in the house than normal. Needless to say, I have not been cooking or cleaning as much and so am reading to keep my mind busy and don't have the screaming mimes too often. Temps in house running from 47 to 57 depending on the day and weather. Too cold for me to type well or think well, I guess. We have radiant heaters in a couple rooms which are the only rooms I want to be in most of the time. One book that was amusing," Don't Ever Get Old " by By Daniel Friedman. It is a series of two stories about a retired policeman and crime. Lots of laughs. Not going to stay here long today we just got the water back to washing machine and am catching up on washing clothes. I am grateful to all well wishes, for my birthday. Kept me motivated thinking there was warmer weather out there somewhere. Don't forget Spring is on its way. See Ya. apondia#1781748 |
| Prompt: “Many years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to never make New Year’s resolutions. Hell, it’s been the only resolution I’ve ever kept!” — D.S. Mixell HI. Every year I say I don't make New Year's resolutions. Sometime during 2025 I said, "I should have made a New Year's resolution, because I was able to achieve some of the cleaning in the house, I had been attempting for a while. The reality is no resolution of that type is ever safe here. So, no resolutions will be attempted.  Wishing you all a Happy New Year with lots of blessings. Having stated the above I am now thinking of all the nice things I would like to happen in 2026. It takes action I guess not just resolution. |
“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions,” says James Michener. Hi!   Swirl is a good word for today. Seven A.M. 48 degrees. Balmy weather. I filled the bird feeders as the wind blew in a new blizzard. By 9 A.M. the temperature had dropped by 20 degrees. There is a lot of snow in the air. It eventually drops onto the ground. The wind is from the south and cold, cold, cold. I just write because I don't talk much. One thing I've noticed this year with all the snow and blow of air and grounded clouds. There is a red squirrel out in the midst of the worst stormy weather. He climbs up and down the tree outside my window. I know they only hibernate in the worst part of weather. This is a small red flash. I have not figured out where its hidey hole is? The blizzard has been blowing fast across the ice-covered yard for about 4 hours. I think the red-tailed critter should call it a day and tuck into his or her nest for the evening. Something to ponder. There is only one out during the worst storms. Errand runner for the family? Happy New Year. Stay warm.  Spring is on its way.  |
| People are guilty of saying-- I don’t have enough time. We have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, etc… So, if time isn't the culprit, what is?? HI.   I'm not sure about the science end of time as it relates to the above important people. Maybe we do have the same amount of time they had or maybe not. Sometimes it is money instead of time. Other problems could be the types of education or the type of interests we have gravitated to in our youth. What pricked our interests? The biggest thing is mental drive. What causes us to stick with something until the end. To just go back to it if you are not finished with the result the first time. I took my first guitar lessons in Texas on a second-hand guitar in the 60's. The lessons were on PBS. Then, when I moved back to Pa. I did not do guitar at all until the 80's. I bought a new classical guitar because the old one was junk. I found a teacher for classical guitar and in spite of being told females did not usually play classical guitar, which I later found out was not true. I made some progress was able to play up to the 7th position and learned a lot of music. Next, I put the guitar away until 2023 when I picked it up one day and said, "Why don't I play this anymore?" No children to feed or raise, no one who dared to tell me I should not need any more lessons. And lots of online encouragement to play classical guitar. There is a special openness to classical playing now. YouTube is full of both male and female players with lots of knowledge and music to share. I am revisiting some other knowledge I gained in the 1980's. Upgrading, renewing, and expanding knowledge. We have the internet now. We have access. Those people mentioned in the prompt may have had a better start toward learning. I heard someone say once if you don't educate females, you are wasting a percentage of the brain power you have in a nation. Our schools are more concerned with how knowledge is distributed. Also, you have to have the guts to go for it. Is there something you want to know more about or something you need to practice. Put aside 10 minutes a day and do it. You may be surprised how well that works. Add a walk or try a new recipe or restore a talent. Will we cure a disease or find a new species? Actually, it is possible. Just try. HAPPY HOLIDAYS.  |
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