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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. |
Prompt: E.E. Cummings said, “Peering from some high window, at the gold of a November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.” When you look out your window, what do you see when the day ends?![Merit Badge in BCoF 2
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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) Usually if I'm looking West where the sun is setting. I can see it from my back porch or my kitchen windows. The sun falls behind a horizon of trees that grow across the road behind a neighbor's house. I look for the colors of the sky which can be quite awesome at times. West is also where most storms show up first. Or I may notice the road if I hear automobiles going by. Everything slants downhill from my home. There is an infamous swamp in those woods behind Kim's home. Bears, bobcats, all kinds of birds, deer, fox, you name it. If it is a wild forest beast it probably lives in that swamp. I watch the sky a lot. Sometimes freak storms come from the East direction behind my house those are the worst storms we have.  |
| Are you familiar with the poem The Night Before Christmas? Do you like it? If not, why? Did someone read the poem to you as a child? Did you carry on the tradition with your loved ones? Good Morning. Yes. There was a book in my childhood that had the poem in it. I'm not sure if it was my book or my brother's book. I remember the picture of the man with the cap and nightwear. I do remember the first part of the poem. It's an OK poem. {When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter.} I read the poem to myself, apparently more than once; since sentences are presenting to my mind as I write this. No. My children were not given as much attention to reading as I should have been able to give. I was 19 when my first child was born. The two oldest boys had a mother that was still in her own childhood. Plus, I was never around people raising their own children. I did not have a very in-depth high school education. Really I was not smart enough to be raising children at that time. I still believe you have to have an in-depth, well rounded education to make good choices. Or people around you who are devoted to helping you grow up with enough information to avoid life's pitfalls. |
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