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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. |
COLORS FOR BCoF  People ask me about colors once in awhile. I'm not sure why? I don't have a really favorite color. When I was a child I always said Red was my favorite color. Now, I wear lots of different colors. I do prefer pastels to really dark colors. At least for me, color depends on moods and what you are doing with color. I found this on WIKI about Chromeisthesia. When you hear a strong sound and your mind connects it to a color. This is a part of Synesthesia. Some people see letters or numbers as a color. When this happens it's called Grapheme Synesthesia. If a sound triggers a color in one of a persons senses it is called Tone Synesthesia. The word synesthesia means something connecting senses to colors. Or something that should stimulate one of your senses actually stimulates more than one sense. Like colors showing up with sounds. There is actually a formula X---Y where X is the trigger experience and Y indicates the additional sense experience. White noise is all the colors of the rainbow mixed together so not one is distinguishable from another in the sound. Sound waves do have colors depending on The depth of the sound wave. Pink noise is considered the best for deep sleep. I'm wondering now if it is found in some bell sounds. I think color is important to life. It helps us know things about what we see. Is the apple ripe? I wish everyone happy traveling in August. Bye now I have to pack for the trip. Apondia apondia#1781748 |
| Congratulations on making it to the last day of the competition! What was your favorite prompt from the last month? What was the most rewarding aspect of participating in the competition? Quote: “What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.” – Tim O’Reilly https://criteriaforsuccess.com/18-awesome-technology-quotes-to-inspire-motivate/... COMMENTS  I like the socialization on the comments. In the 60's I lived in a trailer court. The managers held a morning coffee get together for all the residence 5 mornings a week. It was the place to share ideas or problems with other females or just catch up on the residential news. 30-day comments delve into lots of problems which often we all share. That's a good kind of sharing. Favorite was July 28 because there were lots of relevant comments and discussion involved. I'm still thinking of comments for that and technologies for July 29th. I really liked the video of the cooking robot in the kitchen I'm wondering how much 60 thousand pounds is, cause that's how much it cost. NASA has one so it must work. If there is an august holiday I'll be back for it. Bye now.  apondia#1781748 |
Write about an invention or technology that you wish existed that would make your life better.{/c Quote: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.” “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/freedom-of-speech NEW TECH I guess affordable WIFI. When I first heard about 5G it sounded like it would do the job but, now there are all kinds of glitches. We can't get DSL through phone because the phone lines have never been upgraded. We had VO wifi by Verizon but were priced out of it. Hughes.net is where we landed which has always been excellent but we cannot run a business unless we upgrade to another price. Price for rural people has always been a problem even for line telephones. There is technology out there being developed. Some of it may be still in the development stage. For instance, a company in Israel is developing a way to recycle every kind of trash known to humans. It would ease the recycling problems. Right now where I live recycling is practically non existent. All the centers have been closed and the one that is close makes you pay to recycle by the bag full. In Pa. you pay for everything you do. In more ways than money. I would like to get another floor cleaning robot. The one I have is so efficient. Even with the fact that you have to stop it every so often to empty the bowl it still does a great job on the floors which saves me lots of time. There again price is always a problem but the makers of these little fun cleaning agents are incorporating more and more innovating ideas into the product. Someone deliberately removed a small gasket from the spinning cleaning brush on mine. I figured out how to fix it and it still works great. Something else a kindle in which, the battery could easily be changed. A robotic food dispenser. Or, lawn mowers that could be programed like floor vacuums. Around here we don't hear about the new idea out there which are being tested and put into use. I watch for new things by looking on the internet or listening to a TED. There is a new tech version of a robotic arm that fries burgers but I haven't read much about it. ![Merit Badge in Favorite
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| All month, you’ve been replying to prompts straight from the Challenge War Chest, filled with prompts from previous 30DBC competitors. Today, write three of your own prompts and then reply to one of them in your entry.   Promptly Find Prompts Quote: "It can be hard to get going in the morning. Some days it feels nearly impossible. We all need a little help to get moving every once in a while." https://inkandvolt.com/blogs/articles/15-inspirational-morning-quotes-journaling... Prompt one: What kind of motivation do you use to get moving when your day starts? Quote: “Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.” Robbie Gass https://inkandvolt.com/blogs/articles/15-inspirational-morning-quotes-journaling... Prompt two: Often stories start with a quote or the writer uses a poem or quote in their story. How often do you use a quote in a writing? Where or how do you find a quote you want to use? Have you ever been influenced to change your life by a quote? The Prompt I'm Writing About Prompt Three: I was in my final year of college when I found this idea in a Readers Digest magazine: Stand as close to a wall facing it as you can get then touch your nose and toes on the wall. Tell us how you felt while you were doing this and what happened when you shared this experience with other people? Have you done any other small funny things? After I read this I tried it.  At first I felt silly and then started laughing, because it isn't difficult to do but, beware of losing your balance. shared this with some other students in a class I was taking. The obvious idea was met by blank stares but, one young person laughed with me and said he was going home after class and try it. Life gives you some odd ideas not all of them have serious thoughts attached. I was 60 when I first read this and tried it. It's just a funny thing. People do lots of odd things. I recently watched America's Funniest Videos. The segment was; a father held his cell phone against the wall with his young son facing the wall. He was going to drop the cell phone and if the child could catch it with his forehead he could have it. Of course, the child was excited by this and you could tell the dad was thinking, never happen he will just bang his head against the wall. Well of course the child caught the phone and walked away with it. The family watching this was over whelmed by the accomplishment with cheers and the dad was very startled to lose his cell phone. Lots of odd and startling ideas out there to keep pandemic at bay. HAVE A FUN DAY |
| What food would you like to judge in a Cook-Off? {/center Quote: “Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” – Harriet Van Horne https://littleraesbakery.com/2020/02/19/12-quotes-about-cooking-from-the-heart/ NOT AT ALL I do not enjoy cooking. I can cook. You don't raise dairy goats and sheep without learning the art of making cheese and preparing palatable lamb dishes. You don't raise a garden and raise 4 children without learning how to cook. My grandmother taught me to cut up and clean a chicken, my brother taught me the navy way to scramble eggs, my first husband taught me to cook an egg easy over, make tuna casserole and bought some recipe books. My second husband bought me more recipe books. An aunt gave me a recipe for her home made bread. Now I use a bread machine. I don't like to cook, because I like to snack not eat. K started the garden idea. His family always had a large garden which his father did a lot of the work in it. K's idea is he tells me how to do the work, I do it. Ha. Ain't gonna fly. I like raised beds and container gardening. Lots of flowers. He likes traditional neat rows of vegetables. No weeds. Ha.  Who is gonna do the weeding. Over the years one of my sons helped me lay papers between beds to keep down weeds. Helped for awhile. Oh yeah and lots of wonderful cooking means dirty dishes. I do the dishes. Now we have a dish washer. In his favor, he has been trying to do better since corona. Unloads the dish washer now and then keeps his own room clean. His job he likes and does best is to keep the machinery running. Most of the machinery is elderly and needs maintenance on a regular basis. That's a job I don't like to do. So, he can have it. It's a fairly regular job too. As bad as house cleaning. I guess I could judge a cheese making cook off or yogurt or even bread and be fairly accurate about what the results should be. Vegetable dishes would be fun too. It just occurred to me if I'm the judge someone else will do the cooking. OK then good deal. I don't like green beans, however green beans and mushrooms cooked in a butter sauce are pretty good. Salmon patties with a cold salad and strawberries in ice water for a summer cool drink. See I can cook I just don't like to cook. I'll cook if you do the dishes. Don't forget to clean the table and sweep the floor. |
| Reflect on your week. What was challenging? What did you do that made you feel successful? What made you smile? {/c  Quotes: "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." -- Winston S. Churchill 2. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -- Herman Melville ttps://www.inc.com/jayson-demers/51-quotes-to-inspire-success-in-your-life-and-business.html The Week Isn't Over A truck just drove in with a tractor on the back. Haying season for us is about to commence. Family members are younger and gearing up for haying means maintenance on machinery. Before they hay I will be doing some extra barn cleaning so all they have to do is drive the wagons in and unload. My week has consisted of keeping laundry going. Trying out a new recipe of Vinegar, salt, and dish soap to kill grass in the dog pen. Mix it fill sprayer, spray the pen. The recipe does kill grass immediately and is biodegradable and won't harm the pets. The down side is that it will have to be put on regularly because it does not kill the roots of weeds or unwanted grasses. Also, kept the floors vacuumed, dishes done, banking done, household banking data up to date. Mowed the back yard (might mow some more today) Fixed my glasses frame which is falling apart. worked in basement cleaning and rearranging family room. Read books two afternoons. Going to set up the back porch swing today; daily blog and daily playing Township, daily pet maintenance, kept the ice bucket filled, and the watermelon cut so people could eat it at leisure. Meal preparation. This is just daily and weekly living maintenance. Busy work. Storms a couple days this week. Busy work can be boring but is necessary we can just walk in and out from bigger work and rest instead of do housework. I don't have a routine. Some work is harder than other work. Some weeks I'm more active than other weeks. I'm cooking less because we are eating less. That's actually good for us. We received a package in the mail a small box. About 6 inches by 8 inches. When it was empty I set it on the floor. The kitten I got last summer has grown into a very large cat. She is actually bigger than my dog by a couple inches high and a couple inches longer. She squashed herself into the box in a sitting position and was quite satisfied with herself. I got a great picture of my dog who walked right up to look at her. The picture is of both of them. It made me smile. Tried to send it to my granddaughter but, the phone won't send or received pictures. The most challenging part of any week now is having K here 24 hours of the day. He does not feel like doing anything. If he has his druthers he will just sit down all day. It isn't good for either of us to just sit to long. I think it's probably bad for him to have to live with me. After 40 some years I pretty much do what I want, when I want. We don't have a lot in common for every day living causes lots of strife. Lots of yelling over nonessential problems. |
If you could switch places with one other person, who would it be and why? What in particular would you do?  Quote“Maybe it’s time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change because we took the time to add to the monument which is them.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough {/i https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/changing-people Changling This is a difficult prompt for me. One of the types of movies I don't enjoy is one where two people move into each others bodies for a time and they learn how it is to live as someone else. There is an old saying--Walk a mile in someone else's shoes. I remember this being posted on a lot of classroom walls during my life. I guess a real teacher knows what problems students face. I've struggled to hold on to my own personality and talents for years. I finally realized that to join any church means to leave your real self behind and become one of a crowd that usually is being run by one family that wants to clone itself. Maybe that is why I've read so much history about the Christ. I wanted to find the real message. I have a picture in my mind of the Messiah sitting on a hill surrounded by hundreds of people who wanted to hear and find something they were not receiving from the general message in their local synagogue. I don't believe God intends to make us into someone else. He seeks out people who are individuals and know to remain what the core individual really is. Psychology tells us the environment we grew up within pressed itself on our individuality. So, it takes time to become who we really are. That isn't an easy job so working on your individuality may take a lifetime. To answer this prompt I have to look, really look, at other people around me. K's health is failing and watching another individual meet the fact that he won't be on the earth one of these days is indescribable. When I look at Hollywood characters I think the most successful actors are one's who know their own individuality and can slip into and out of a role like its a suit they put on for work. You can see I'm still working on my epic. I know teachers who want students to be like them so they can't really impart knowledge properly because they can't see their own strength yet. So I'm failing the prompt because I can't visualize the result of living in someone else's skin. I know I would end up applying my own solutions, in my own way, even if I lived someone else's life. People would just dislike some other person for being me. KEEPON KEEPIN ON!  to climb! |
| You've been given a full budget and creative license to bring a book you read to film. What book would you pick and who would you cast as the characters? If you choose a book with an existing movie adaptation, what changes would you make? MOVING STORIES Movie Quote: "Just keep swimming" - Finding Nemo, 2003 https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/film/top-100-movie-quotes What fun this would be. I guess I would choose to make an epic. Wikipedia says Chesapeake by James Mitchner covers 400 years of history. No one ever tried to make a movie of it, because of the amount of historical time it covers. I think with a full budget and creative license it could be done and the story has everything--rivers, Indians, several different wars, plantations, church problems, settlers, ship building, pirates, moving history. The difficult part would be the parts that show the spiritual struggle of the colonies, catholic settlers vs. protestants vs. Quakers vs. Indians. The changes in a sociological movement as people learned to live in America instead of Europe. How they were schooled. How owning their own ships spurred a freedom of movement they had never known. It would be important to show the movement of time. Changes in living conditions as time marched forward. Changes in abilities to school children as time moved forward. Specifics about the way the war between England and the colonies evolved. Ideas and attitudes. As for actors there is a lot of room for many different characters. I'm not good at picking character actors though. So, I'll leave it up in the air for now. I looked up some names here are some of them that I would try out in parts to see if they fit. Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Terrance Morgan, Colin Firth and females Hallie Berry, Kate Winslet, Charlize Theron, Zoe Saldana. I saw more but, it would require some specific parts for specific people and more thought than I'm going to put in to it today. I'd like to read the script in view of making it into a movie, that would do some justice to the Book. A serious story with a view to entertain. Wouldn't be easy, but fun, and maybe even profitable if done right. Little cartoon ships to introduce segments of time. An epic in the making. |
| You've been given a full budget and creative license to bring a book you read to film. What book would you pick and who would you cast as the characters? If you choose a book with an existing movie adaptation, what changes would you make? |
Make a list of the top five most important virtues and why. You're Listing Without Virtue Quotes: Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.by Nicola Tesla Quote is from Wikipedia It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. Nikola Tesla Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/nikola_tesla_127335?src=t_virtues Nicola Tesla: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/nikola-tesla List: Honesty-courage-compassion-loyalty-humility combined with grace. Why: Honesty,  because life gets scrambled with out honesty.Courage,  because it takes courage to face living from day to day. We often have to face the actions brought into our lives on a daily basis by laws, lacks, and limitations.Compassion,  because knowledge brings into your sight all life around you.loyalty,  because it requires wisdom to use it.Humility,  because ageing proves you're not the only fish in the sea and grace to give you all the virtues you need.There are so many I just could not stick to 5. Some of them seem to lean on others. Happy Trails. Keep Smiling. |
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