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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. |
| What's your favorite muffin? What do you do to be comfy? What's your favorite cherry dessert? And finally share a favorite pet story if you have one. Don't have a favorite muffin. Tried a recipe for blueberry apple sauce muffins not long ago turned out delicious. Especially like cherry cheesecake. not often because of high calories. My son had a large ginger cat as a pet. I was raising chickens for eggs. We had a hen house in the yard, I let the hens out to graze one day. In the evening at feeding time, I chased them all back into the henhouse. One refused to return to the safety of the henhouse for the night. No matter how I moved to put her into the house she outmaneuvered me. The cat sat watching my efforts, which went on for half an hour. I was standing still trying to figure out what to do when the cat marched over to the hen and calmly chased her into the henhouse. No matter which way she turned the big ginger tomcat was there to push her the right direction. I closed the door of the hen house. I thanked the cat. ![Merit Badge in BCoF 2
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| Write about a puppet show. Hi: Here is a puppet show that would entertain at any time. How to make a street more interesting at any moment. Cold at my house today. In the teens outside, How is everyone else? |
| I've included the article as well if you want to read more. How concerned are you that more and more of our younger peers have become dependent on AI? Do you use AI yourself? Hi. I actually asked AI a question that it answered wrong. I also looked into AI enough to know that all AI has a person managing everything it does. To put it bluntly AI is not on its own in any respect. There are still people involved in whatever it answers or does. Presently, it is not a threat if the human handlers are not a threat. I have not read the above-mentioned article. I hope this is not one of those "put it over the public," scenarios. Anyway, AI asked once if they could write my messages or articles, I declined. It can wash my dishes or do my laundry so I can write my own messages or articles. Sincerely, ![Merit Badge in News
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For your response to [Link to Forum Post #3705865]. Well done!](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/genre-News-1130.gif) Apondia, I write news.P.S. I tried to get to the article it said, "Article not found." I am on Microsoft Edge which often does not allow me to read things free. They are trying to contain anyone who will try to find facts to uphold news. Plus, I am skeptical about how AI could actually stop your independent thinking ability. Unless you just let it run your life and put your name on whatever it does. Sounds like a money-making scheme in some ways. I do like the program that is correcting my spelling and punctuation to some extent. |
| What was your favorite publication as a child/teen. Newspaper comics, perhaps, or a magazine, etc? Does it still exist? What was the draw for you? Hi. We did not have magazines around out house. A daily newspaper which dad brought home from work. The funnies were my fun read and still are. Lil Abner, Prince Valient, I liked his sister who ran around with a pack of Irish Wolfhounds following her, Little Orphan Annie, Archie, I still look the funnies up and read them online sometimes. I will read any of them. I also like political cartoons. I will usually read most of the funnies in the paper. bye. |
| Today is Pay A Compliment Day. Who deserves one and why. HI.Anyone may deserve a compliment. For instance, the people who put up the prompts keep the blogs moving along from day to day. They are using their initiative to find interesting things to blog about. I applaud their perseverance. Any service to any cause on earth can deserve a compliment. I wonder what is on the calendar for tomorrow. |
| Prompt: "China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets-that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon." Constance Spry Write about this quote in your Blog entry today. Hi! I don't remember what year it was. Probably about 20 or more. I was outside on a February day, not wearing a coat. The sun was shining. The sap was running. I remember enjoying the weather after a heavy snow winter. I looked at the temperature when I went into the house it was 28 degrees outside. We had a really nice February that year. Now I wonder if my thermometer or memory is wrong. Most Februarys lately do not have temps in the 28 to 30 range. Today the sun is brightly shining. Present temperature is 19 degrees. We are having more sunshine daily, which makes me happy. The sun melts down some of the piled snow. Then the freezing temps hit in the night and put a glaze of ice on the top part of the melt. Our back yard is a two- or three-inch layer of ice from the backyard to the barn. Yesterday the walk to fill the bird feeders was a pure hazard. When I made it back to the house, I felt like an Antarctic explorer who conquered an iceberg. All this and no January thaw this year, Weather has its' own ideology. Bye. |
| My favorite Valentine: HI! My favorite Valentine is taped to my desk. My oldest granddaughter sent me a bug on a card when she was very young. If you wave the card back and forth the bug gets bigger or smaller. It says, " Let's bug out Valentine." It is a plastic card so will probably be around a long time. Valentines day still 10 days away. So, today is national thank a mail carrier day. Mail carriers in this climate have had a rough rural route to drive around this year. Today there is ice everywhere. Driving to and reaching those mailboxes along the road would be a challenge. God bless the mail carriers and keep them safe. Have a great day. If you find sunshine let it in. |
| Groundhog, Phil: Hi! reference: Wikipedia He is kept in captivity at a zoo. Punxsutawney Phil lives in a manmade burrow at a roadside zoo located in Punxsutawney, Penn. His burrow has a viewing window, meaning the public can stop by and observe him every day of the year. He lives there with his wife, Phyliss. Also, a Groundhog in Canada that is a weather prophet. Wikipedia tells the whole story. Apparently from German history. |
| What are your thoughts on the recent airplane and the helicopter in the DC area? Do you believe there are going to more of these tragedies or less? Hi.Early yesterday morning I went to NBC news on my Kindle. A reporter was telling that he had listened to a tape about conversations between air traffic controllers and helicopter pilots and airplane pilots in which; both were well aware of where their aircraft were situated in the sky. Then the horror happened, and air traffic controllers could not decern how it happened. The reporter at that time acknowledged that what he heard was not yet available to the news media. The news conferences I watched later in the day did not refer to or acknowledge these taped conversations. As of last night, the earlier report was actually still listed on Kindle NBC news availabilities as a report. Whenever, I watch or hear of tragedies in the news I am sincerely in mourning for the lost souls. Their time on the earth was up with a horrifying suddenness. As to the second part of your question, I prefer to wait and watch. Weather here is raining on top of several foot of snow. Now slush. Yuk. |
| Write a story or poem about the New Year. Hi! Its a blustery day in January. January Corn News, 2025 Wild bird feed: cracked corn. Whole corn fuels the black corn stove. Sweet corn served at dinner. |
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