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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. |
THE SUNDAY NEWS-Thai boys soccer team from the Than Luang cave complex. I guess the media ( we get NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS) was keeping us up to date on events but, I thought the coverage we were getting had a lot of repeat in the content. Our prompt sheet for the week told me more about how they actually led the boys to safety than I had watched anywhere on our channels. Our channels focused on the hospital ward where they were recovering, which was of course very important and than later we saw coverage of some of the boys after they returned to their homes. I was very glad to hear they were all safe, especially, after the diver died. The coverage was as indepth as it needed to be as to the physical state they found the group in. And, of course, if you are sitting at home watching them warn of the rains that were going to wash out everyone you get anxious for them to get on with the rescue. I put myself in the place of the relatives sitting outside waiting all those days. I wished they had done the coverage more on a cultural side so I understood how these people were living, whose boys were stranded. I also wondered why the whole team was taken down into the cave in the beginning? ![Merit Badge in Celebration
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Creation Saturday: Unbranded the movie A riding dream concludedThis is a review of Unbranded a movie that came out in 2015. It is 1 hr and 45 min. long. The movie is a documentary about 4 young men who rode from the USA side of the Mexican border North to the USA side of the Canada border. I've only been on three 50 mile over night trail rides. Looking back, that is enough to realize what this ride must have been like. When you view the vistas they rode through, it becomes an amazing adventure with horses as companions. There is a burro that enters the ride about half way through. I thought of Brighty a little burro that was used for taking supplies to the river at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I was sure when I first read Brighty of the Grand Canyon, that I was still in high school. I found a copy of the book on the internet. It listed the publisher as Aladdin and the author as Marguerite Henry. It also had a publishing date of 2015. So, I'm thinking it was republished at some time. Anyway, at one time only the trained burros were aloud to traverse the trail to the bottom of the Canyon but these young men took their horses through the trail to the other side? That must be a feat of its own. Then there is the fact that the movie is an indepth work about the wild mustang management in the USA. The horses used in the movie were Mustangs. The ride took longer than they expected. Even with IPods for communication, maps, and GPS they sometimes had to alter the route. Accurate ideas are portrayed throughout the movie about the abilities used to complete the ride. I especially liked that the movie is a picture about the horses and their companionship to the riders. It definitely shows the interaction between horse and rider that is sometimes left out in other types of movies. Happy Trails! apondia#1781748 |
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