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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 14 hours ago
In response to "Cell phones"

I miss my landline some times because I always gave that when a phone was needed and never volunteered that I had a cell phone so I could avoid texts.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Mar 20, 2025 at 11:31pm
In response to "When Will Spring Be Active"

I agree with you Spring does have it's entertaining moments.

Purple Catching Up

Mar 18, 2025 at 7:26pm
In response to "Dancing at the Mall"

Haha! Very creative. I love that she referred to the hat as odds and ends.

Apondia

Mar 18, 2025 at 4:37pm
In response to "Ides or the center of the month"

Ides means center I think.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 18, 2025 at 4:34pm
In response to "Dancing at the Mall"

I wasn't expecting that! Nice work.

Purple Catching Up

Mar 14, 2025 at 3:05pm
In response to "Ides or the center of the month"

I knew about Ceasar, but was surprised to find out how far back that dates goes when it comes to disasters. It's no wonder Shakespeare went for that date

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 12, 2025 at 5:02pm
In response to "Ides or the center of the month"

March is a time of change or leading to change. At least in Montana and Kansas. Where I grew up, near to you, April was change. Same in Thailand and Costa Rica. Either winter calm giving way to storms or heat building until rains poured down. The Ides of April is the 13th.

Imho, a certain contemporary leader needs to be wary of the Ides.

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Conrad Moriarty

Mar 12, 2025 at 3:38pm
In response to "AI?"

I have so many mixed feelings about A.I.: at once horrified and awe-struck. I think it's a good tool to construct processes, plans, and maybe toward the very end of a writing process it's like a sterile pair of eyes. I want it to have as little to do with my creative process as possible. Honestly, it just feels...wrong.

I've explored interesting philosophical queries with it, including past-life regression. Those "conversations" are usually a ton of fun.

What role do humans play behind the steering whell, Lyn? I wasn't aware of that. Let us know if you can find the link, too, please!

I deeply fear for the youth. I teach adult students and when I assign them in-class projects, the majority of what they present is A.I. generated. It's obvious: word choices, turns of phrase, and...they're reading quite a bit off their screen monotonously, without deep acquisition. I use an A.I. detector and give 0's to work that is A.I.-made. You'd be surprised the % that still use it for their writing. It's troubling.

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Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Mar 7, 2025 at 12:27am
In response to "Tariffs?"

No the problem lies much deeper than that.

Purple Catching Up

Mar 5, 2025 at 11:44am
In response to "Promise of New Life"

Sunshine is such a mood changer! I'm all for melting snow

January 13, 2025 at 10:47am

#1082310

Pine Woods

I inhale the essence of:

Good morning.

Pine is the essence of winter at this time of year, I think. Because of trees and wreaths for the holidays. Pine livens up the household and gives off a scent that reminds of walking along a forest trail.

No scents inside the house full of animals is pleasant. Two of my dogs have hunting genes and are inclined to smell anything that involves other species like birds on the front porch or mice in the walls. They also have exceptional hearing, which causes them to alert when there are birds at the feeder, deer browsing near the house, or rabbits hopping around close to a window or the porch.

Winter still solidly at home outside, More snow in the forecast. After a few years of mild winters this is just not fun.

Keep warm.

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