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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:

Kåre เลียม Enga

a day ago
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.

Conrad Moriarty

a day ago
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.

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

Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 3, 2025 at 12:12pm
In response to "Spring Thoughts"

Yes, an orchard sounds nice. What apple varieties do you have? Any pears?

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Feb 27, 2025 at 11:52pm
In response to "Spring Thoughts"

Sounds like a good spring project to me, I hope you have fun.

🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

Feb 27, 2025 at 10:58pm
In response to "Just a Color Away From Perfect"

I don't think I knew that ink coloring pencils existed. I'll have to look into them. Unless you mean markers? I do have those.

You have a lovely mix of coloring books.

Hope you have a great day and that the rain / warmer weather melts enough snow and ice so you can safely get out of the house soon.

🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

Feb 27, 2025 at 10:56pm
In response to "Spring Thoughts"

A fruit tree orchard is a dream of mine too. We do have a cherry tree but it's more ornamental than productive. I had planted some fig trees but an overzealous helper thought they were weeds and killed them.

🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

Feb 25, 2025 at 6:20pm
In response to "Life Moves On"

We have robins and red-winged black birds all year here.

It's nice to have warmer temperatures!

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Feb 21, 2025 at 12:45am
In response to "Muffins and stories"

I have two ginger cats, both are male. Macavity is 11 and Pumpkin is 3. Both have very strong personalities.

My son raises chickens and this young kitten appeared out of now where one afternoon. My son saw the tail up following the chickens around. He didn't give it much thought because he figured it was the neighbors kitten. He discovered the kitten in the henhouse nestled in the hay with one of the chickens. He put it outside and shooed it away. Only to find it there in the morning, so he called the neighbor who said they didn't have any kittens.
The kitten did live long in the henhouse because once my grandson saw the kitten he became a member of the family. His name is Tom, he still hangs out with the chickens during the day but comes inside to get dinner and sleep with CJ.

November 3, 2024 at 11:21am

#1079438

Books and an Author

Prompt: Rading a Book

Hi! I'm Apondia

Just finished reading a book called "The Body" by Bill Bryson. Be prepared, if you read the book to wade through some very specific data about the Body. The library did ask me to finish the book or send it back because many people wanted to read it. Sometimes I have to renew a book if I'm reading it slowly this time I would not have that option.

I am interested to finding out that a lot of people in library land are trying to discover anatomy and physiology. I am not alone in my pursuit to learn specifics in the makeup of our organic nature. One of the courses I took online called the human body an Organic Machine. I think that is the best description I have learned so far.

In chemistry the shape of organic molecules differs from the shape of other molecules. Simply speaking organic molecules are three dimensional. That is enough description for this article.

The author of this book, Bill Bryson, also wrote "A Walk in the Woods". I think there is a movie about this as it is about a man walking alone on the Appalachian trail. Watched from Amazon on my kindle. Another Amazing story.

Guess I'll go read a book. Just started a paperback book I bought on Amazon. Went looking for a bookmark found one on my desk from

It needs coloring. I really like getting the paper bookmarks then coloring them. Always like my mail from WDC. Have a great day. Day light savings changes again. Spring forward--Fall back. Bye.BB

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