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.
My family buried secrets. I'll never know the answers to at least two events that apparently traumatized me as a child. I'm still bitter about that. Yes, I know I should let go; but, they colored my life for most of it.
It's hard for me to pick a favorite, too, but I also like and remember Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." That's the one I decided to memorize to recite to the class back in grade school. It still often pops in my mind. I think it's the easy rhythm and rhyme and the great description so well woven in. The only favorite book I remember is from way back also, "The Little Airplane." Maybe these are because I'm still a kid, even though seven decades later.
my phone does it all but I am constantly frustrated with the amount of text messages I received during the election and now with Christmas approaching. I'm spending too much time blocking numbers and reporting them as spam.
Monday December 7: Letter Writing Day
Write a letter to one of your favorite characters.
Which book and who's the author?
Anna Pigeon is the main character in a series by Nevada Barr. The series is about a female law enforcement officer. The stories are about crime mainly murder in the national parks. Nevada Barr was once a park ranger and has lots of background from her own life to draw on as she writes these stories.
Dear Anna Pigeon:
I have always wondered if your last name has anything to do with the way you suffer physical assaults in every story? Reading your life adventures in these books gives me a look at the National Parks I will probably never get to see any other way. Every time you move to a different park gives me new insight into the natural world.
I always like the way you are portrayed as adventurous and wise in the ways of nature. I’m glad you appear in so many stories. Since, I never tire reading about your adventures. You also know a lot about horses and I like the use of them in your stories.
It is uncanny how you manage to survive so many disasters. It is has always been nice to look forward to another scene in your novel life. Keep Nevada Barr at the typewriter. Building new novels around your wonderful character.
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