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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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Your blogging is always welcome at [Link To Item #1985857] .](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-The_Blogging_Banana_Bar-2246010_9.gif) P:18: UFO'S What's the truth in your opinion. Dear Public or To Whom It May Concern: Whenever I read about a new UFO sighting, I wait for the explanation. There is always an explanation. Sometimes it's fake camera shots. Sometimes, rays from the sun are making odd atmospheric shows. Once in Pennsylvania it was some type of air ship being tested by someone. Crop circles in the UK had a reasonable explaination. I guess I don't remember what it was at the time. I saw a picture a few weeks ago supposed to be an alien ship, which looked to me like a kite someone was flying. Another odd thing is: All these sightings are often a different shape from one or another within separate sighting. If they are alien ships, they sure have a lot of different styles of ships. Or are we the zoo that they are visiting with their families? NO. I won't believe in aliens until a ship lands and the inhabitants make face to face confrontation. Right now, there are too many variables. This is a group of people preying on superstition to keep the public on edge. I can't see how much of the news about aliens and even war is true. A lot of it seems to be hyped to keep the public, even worldwide public on edge. The war between Russia and the Ukraine is real. If people from off this planet are watching, will they step in to stop Nuclear War? The alien question is not new. We have space observatories. Are the people watching outer space tracking ships that fly in and out of our atmosphere? Or are they intimating that the ships are not coming from outer space but coming through some wormhole within our atmosphere? The alien hype does not ever, no not ever give any rational answers. Just give out more questions without answers. Nor have they proved Loch Ness monsters or Big Foot creations. RESULTS FROM BING: Yet science does identify: A number of New Species Discovered Each Year. Each year scientists record another 18,000 new species of plants and animals. In recent years they added about 70 new reptiles and 400 new fishes annually to the world's databases of species. www.currentresults.com/Environment-Facts/Plants-Animals/number-of-undiscovered-species-living-on-earth.php With all our technology we can identify new species each year. We can track species going extinct each year. We can clone animals. We can't make contact or prove aliens consistently running in and out of our atmosphere. Get real. Show me the proof. Skeptically Yours, Apondia All Word Count on WDC:437 |
| Andre the Blog Monkey's Banana Bar / Share the Love Event P34: Have you read any bloggers other than writings besides the blog? Were you surprised or disappointed? I have read other parts of Blogger's portfolios. I'm not necessarily surprised about anything people write. Bloggers tend to write about things that are tweaking their curiosity or happening in their minds or lives at any given time. I was never disappointed. Just interested about how many subjects can be written about on a writing site like WDC. Some bloggers are writing nonfiction or fiction besides their blog. After all, just because you are a blogger does not mean you are not a serious writer in some realm. I wonder if a writer who also blogs has more than one muse? One blogger I have read is also a traveler. Some of their other writings are about travel. For a while in my life, I was blogging and also reading. I wrote a lot of reviews of the books I read for a reading challenge on WDC. I continue to be an avid reader. I don't review a lot of the books I am currently reading. I just got tired of posting reviews on Goodreads and meeting all the reading challenges. Before the technology took hold, reading on kindles, etc. I had a difficult time using the local library because libraries made the townships pay for people to use the town libraries. Now, it is easier to get library cards. Plus, reading books downloaded online from libraries has become a normal part of life. I treasure the ability to download and read books. I also sometimes get a yen to write a short story or a poem. WRITE ON! All Word Count on WDC:266 |
Prompt: What items offline or online do you read every day?   I read every day. I download books and audio books from the local library. Sometimes I get books from Amazon. Especially books about some subject I may be researching. Or look up recipes for cooking. If you read 3 chapters from the Bible a day you can complete the Bible in one year. I read 3 chapters a day from the Old Testament and 3 chapters a day from the New Testament. If I miss a day, I play catch up with 6 chapters from either book. I do this every year now. Did you know most of the things taught by Jesus originated in Old Testament writings? I think reading Church History and historical spiritual writings is important. I also read nonfiction or fiction from my kindle most days. Although we do play the TV. It is not always on. Sometimes it is not on at all since we read more than we watch the TV. I can listen audio books while I do other household chores. My most recent story was The Golden House by Salman Rushdie. I wanted to see why he always has to have a bodyguard. Now I understand. I have another of his books on hold in my local library. I often follow a really intense book by a mystery or lighter interest fiction. It keeps my brain from frying. I have a daily bible study book I read from a couple times a week. It is called the Daily Study Bible Series, revised edition, volume 2 of the Gospel of John. By William Barclay. I finished volume I in December sometime. I used to play Township on Kindle. I don't give enough money to kindle games so, they will often stop downloading if I don't pay them enough. (Their loss)  . Only a zillionaire could contribute enough to keep them satisfied.Several times a week I also read my email and try to get onto WDC to read and write. I used to do this daily when I had my own computer but, someone hacked mine so I'm using K's. It curtails the time I can use online. yeah. I'm the kind of person that reads the labels on things in the grocery store. Have a great day. |
 Day 5635: February 22, 2023 Prompt: “You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert What do you think? Can you describe something beautiful in your life? I have lots of beauty in my life. Right now, there is a new snowstorm moving across the area. The snow is coming down in a peaceful way. Large fluffy flakes covering the ground at a slow rate. I have a group of pets that keep me company every day. They have sweet souls that take their naps near me, as I do online things or listen when I play music. It's a beautiful thing to know creatures other than people want a human's companionship. Just before Christmas I restrung my guitar with new strings. The old ones were about 20 years old. I have not played in several years so, I wanted to find out if I still could. It took me almost a month to season and tune the new strings. Now I am practicing old tunes and it is really a pleasure to remind myself of playing faults and learn new tunes. We really never forget things we learn. Sometimes we have to take out old brain cells, shake them off like a dusty, old quilt and use them again. Memories can be beautiful, sights out a window can be beautiful, reading new books can be beautiful, I guess it's true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ![Merit Badge in Every Moment Matters
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