%%USERNAME%%    %%ACCWORDS%% %%ONOFF%% |
 |   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. |
 Quote: “Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.” Robbie Gas https://inkandvolt.com/blogs/articles/15-inspirational-morning-quotes-journaling... We need your help filling the Challenge War Chest! In your entry today, write three of your own prompts and then choose one of your own to complete your entry.https://inkandvolt.com/blogs/articles/15-inspirational-morning-quotes-journaling... 1. Before Covid 19 if you were out and about what was your favorite place to stay? A camper, tent, hotel, or other accommodations? Do you like the outdoors or just prefer an outing to a ball game or concert? 2. The news media states that Dog adoptions are up since Covid started because people are staying home. Tell us what you think? Why are people adopting dogs? Will people give up the dogs if they go back to their regular schedules? 3. Have you read anything in the news or on a news program that made you laugh? As for number 2. I will say there are more dogs going into no-kill shelters than years before. Most rescues are being aimed at saving and rehabilitating dogs, cats and horses. Covid has given people some time to sit around that they did not have before. The pace of life in this country was getting pretty brisk. There was not any time to sit around and watch the flowers grow. |
 What’s on the top of your mind right now that you need to tell someone about? What do you want for Christmas? (Or for your next birthday if you don’t celebrate Christmas) I am writing this prompt today from the current and ancestral home of the Anishinaabe people. In your entry today, research and write about the indigenous and native peoples who lived on the land where you currently reside. If you are in the United States, take time during your Thanksgiving meal to thank your ancestors and the indigenous people of your area. In grade school, different years, we did plays and studies about the Thanksgivings held between European settlers and Indigenous tribes. There were a lot of different tribes settled near Lake Erie and in the internal parts of what is now Pennsylvania. The link names 10 or more peoples. http://thatpennsylvaniathing.blogspot.com/2011/09/are-several-tribes-of-indigino... . William Penn, who was a Quaker, visited the interior of lands considered Pennsylvania. He became acquainted with many tribes settled in the area. Later he wrote about his experiences. His views were positive about them. He was accepting of them as a worthwhile people and felt they had beautiful languages. The only thing he felt lacking in their way of life was their religious views. Lake Erie was named after the Erie Tribe. It is called the Cat Nation. They inhabited Northern Ohio, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, and Western New York. Presently, there is a Seneca reservation located in Western New York. Lake Erie touches Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York I celebrate Christmas but rarely my birthday. I think the corn stove in our home will have to do for both Christmas and Birthday presents. Thanksgiving I cooked and we watched the parade and the Westminster AKC Dog show. The day after Thanksgiving my youngest sons family showed up with more corn to get us through the winter. They also brought along their newly adopted dog and their family dog they adopted several years ago. The newest adoptee is Roxy, part bloodhound and I’m not sure what else? She is quite large. She is also very very friendly. While the men unloaded the corn I helped play with the dogs. She was once abused before the Anna Shelter acquired her. I”m glad she has a family now that will appreciate her. I once worked in a kennel in Erie. Playing with dogs is the funnest type of work. ![Merit Badge in Keep It Up
[Click For More Info]
Hope you have a wonderful party week! *^*Bigsmile*^*](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/Kudos-Keep_It_Up.gif) |
| I seem to be moving really slow lately. We have moved some furniture around to make a better seating arrangement in the family room where the new stove in situated. Going to bed early and getting up later is causing me to get less done during the day. So here is some quick thoughts on prompts. Movie Night? I can’t be solely responsible for choosing a movie. I would have to take suggestions from the participants and then chose I guess. As for food. It would be chips, pretzels, popcorn, salad homemade lasagna, soft drinks or water or coffee and tea, cake and cookies. Robert Waltz can bring beer but any extreme inebriation will get the offender and early out. Before the movie everyone should be responsible to bring a funny quote to read. I think we would eat and snack during the movie. The movie would have to be something I have not seen yet. A crucible moment in my life? My life is full of them. My mother died. Which caused us to leave our home and live in an apartment over my Aunt and uncle’s home. A move to a new school. A different way of living. Numerous moves after that. A couple different schools until my dad settled in one place. A new skill? Last year I split most of the wood we used. Not a skill I wanted to learn. Since then I wondered if it would be fun to learn to throw a hatchet? I understand there are places opening where you can go to practice and maybe take a few lessons. Although with the county shutting down again. I guess it won’t be any time soon. Learning to fuel and run the new corn stove in a new skill. A lot easier than splitting wood. I like the thought of learning to throw knives. I like the NCIS agent in NCIS Los Angeles. She is the sniper and can throw knives. An interesting character for a women. Someone is haunting the property nights again. I wish I could catch them. They let down my bird feeders one night. Not a good thing. I’ve been keeping an eye out for a squirrel nest a couple years now. I learned they winter in large colonies to keep warm. I think I found a big one high in a cherry tree in the yard. It’s close to the house probably why so many of them raid the cat food on the balcony. This was quick but I wanted you to know I’m still here and making trouble in an ordinary way. Keep on keep en on. Stay safe. |
Share a time when an interaction with a stranger had an affect on you. {/center When we start raising different inconsistent truths, life may tip into bewilderment and the brain may go haywire. The confrontation between what is, not is, and maybe is, might embed an enduring showdown, harboring an intense apprehension, and bring us sometimes unwittingly to our knees ("The hidden sides of his character" )” ― Erik Pevernagie :https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/confrontation Almost all significant interactions with strangers have some affect on me. I am the kind of person that usually does not register an affect until later. Or the affect may go unnoticed, because it isn’t immense. I can just shake it off or scream about it hours, days, or years later. Hence my constant work on mindfulness. I’ve had a lot of interaction with strangers. Most generally, people who come here may be strangers to me, but not necessarily strangers to K or relatives of K or my brother or some cousin's acquaintance. I’m often left wondering, who sent someone to my home without telling me? So, picking one incident or another isn’t special, because there are many. Many years ago, I don’t really remember when this occurred. Sometime in the 1980’s maybe. I was unloading a small load of manure from cleaning horse stalls. An automobile came up the drive. An elderly man got out and approached. He was a thin and wiry type of person. Maybe he was not as elderly as I thought at first. Possibly late 50’s which today isn’t really elderly. I would have been in my 30’s. His clothes were worn work clothes. Not dungarees, a type of work pant worn in shops around the area. Dark tan with a matching shirt of the same color. Heavy work shoes as well. Not well kept up either. He said he came to talk to me about the boat I sold him. I didn’t sell him or anyone else a boat. I told him that, pretty much exactly as I stated it. He knotted his hands at his sides into fists. His eyes were hard and nasty. And he argued. A simple argument. Yes. You did. No. I didn’t. This went back a forth between us a couple times with me staring straight into his eyes for emphasis. With each statement his agitation grew. He took a couple quick strides in my direction. I menacingly raised my pitch fork. He stopped, not really too close. About 6 feet between us. Then he just turned around got back in his vehicle and left. At one time, I owned a boat, which I gave to one of K’s cousins, because it was not being used and the weather was depreciating it. I told K about the incident but, I never learned, who the man was or why he thought I sold him a boat. Because I never learned any more about the incident, it has become one of those unresolved memories that flies into my mind some times. The unanswered question. What was he intending to do to me? What would have happened if I had to use the pitch fork? Not the last time I had to threaten a stranger with a pitch fork either. This was 10 or 15 years before home invasions started around this rural area. Also 15 or 20 years before the women of the area started getting license to carry permits. I have a small amount of these stranger stories stored in memory. I have several, but one is too many, I think. To me it makes me think as I age, that our country is more dangerous as the years move on? Also, younger people in the area, without a thought about aging are inclined to make fun of or threat the elderly as if we have no minds of our own.  .![Merit Badge in Risk Taker
[Click For More Info]
Thank you for reading and commenting in my blog!](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/general-Risk_Taker.gif) |
Write about the biggest risk you ever took. What was the result? In your entry today, plan yourself the perfect day. Who would you see? Where would you go? What would you do? How do you spoil yourself?  Started out the day with cinnamon apricot tea. Went to sleep last night with green grass and green fields woke up to 2 inches of snow and climbing. Now have 3 inches blowing in the wind and coating all the trees. I tried to get a blog done yesterday but could not get the busy work caught up. Today I'm combining yesterdays prompt and today's because what we did today was kind of risky. November 16, 2020 I guess I’m a risk taker. I once read an article in a magazine about people who take on jobs that they are not suited for are risk takers, so that makes me what I am. Two different riding instructors told me I was too short and too underweight to ride the horses I was riding. One instructor was so worried about my size he took me off a lippizaner, that I had been encouraged to use in lessons because the owner wanted the horse to get some jumping experience. I was married the first time when I was 18. I left home immediately to live in North Dakota. I traveled to the Panama Canal Zone with my 9 month old son alone. All my stories contain some type of risk because I never once considered whether I could or would be able to complete what I endeavored to do. I cannot settle on one since my whole life I have been taking one risk or another. I guess jumping my 3 year old horse in training over a hay wagon was a biggie, I know the teacher was dismayed. November 17, 2020 I would not go anywhere today. Blizzard going outside. First Blizzard of the year. Suppose to be in the 50’s next week. Three inches of snow down now. As for the day. We spent the morning moving two easy chairs to the family room in the basement. The corn stove is chugging and it is really cosy in the family room. I don't plan special days any more. I do make a plan for what I will do each day. Sometimes I follow the plan sometimes not. Over the years the family room has changed according to the need. Now with the corn stove there, it is a cosy sitting room. I’m going to sit and read all afternoon. This morning the dog and I ventured out to fill bird feeders. I cleaned steps and salted them. And shoveled snow off the back part of a porch that does not have a roof cover on it. People in their 70’s moving furniture from one floor of the house to another is a risk. Once accomplished it is good to know it worked well. I’ve been missing blogging days because each day lately seems stuffed with get it done things. Maybe the snow will slow down some of my projects. I can get back to blogging and writing. News is pushing corona again so keep safe. __________________________________________________________________________ |
  Imagine you are invited to a party celebrating your favorite book. The dress code asks you to dress up as your favorite character. Who or what do you dress up as? The last time we did this prompt I dressed up as the apprentice, in “The Last Apprentice” by Joseph Delaney. It is still one of my favorite books. But, to do justice to the many books I’ve read, I could surprise you by dressing up as Dinah from “The Red Tent’” by Anita Diamant. I just read it this summer. Or an FBI agent in the more recent series I am reading, book 2 now, Atlee Pine, from “A minute to Midnight, by David Baldacci.. I am also fond of Sister Jane from the series about hunting with horses by Rita Mae Brown or Anna Pigeon the forest ranger from the series by Nevada Barr. There are so many good choices. Please be sure I get my invitation at least a week before. I may have to put pieces of paper in a jar with names on it Shake it up and pick one out to choose. |
Write about something you own that is weird, wacky, or downright silly. Where did you get it and what significance does it hold for you?  The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons. William Blake Read more:{link: https://www.wiseoldsayings.com/toy-quotes/#ixzz6dJdzQMf7} I Still Play With Toys When I went to college my daughter gave me a pencil case. It is a tiger, with a zipper in its’ back. It is pink, purple, and yellow with black spots. It has a loop in the back of its’ neck I can use to carry it or hang it up somewhere. The front end, (head, chest, and front feet) are stuffed. The back end, (tail and back feet are stuffed. So it will stand up on the desk. The long middle is where the pencils are kept. It’s 3 inches high, 2 inches wide, and 10 inches long. Plus the tail which is another 4 inches, but not stuffed so it just dangles. It is also washable. I really like mechanical pencils so the tiger holds highlighters, mechanical pencils, extra lead, and usually an extra pen or two. I still use it on my desk. My mechanical pencils and lead use to come up missing so keeping them in one spot is an advantage. It also is one of the places I keep my crocheted doll. One year I crocheted a tiny doll with pigtails , a hat, dress, and shoes, out of variegated crochet thread. She is my friend. I started carrying her to school with me in my pencil case. Now she rides with me in my purse because the pencil case stays on my desk. She is about an inch wide and 3 inches long. She is soft with just a little stuffing in the legs, middle and head to give her form. Because of her size she fits in pockets, purses, or just little places when she wants to ride along. Human nonsense to sooth the raging spirit. |
It's said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Describe something that you think is beautiful or attractive that someone else might consider unattractive or ugly. I have a brown tea cup. It's light brown on the outside and dark brown on the inside. The color on the outside isn't done properly. There is a white flower on it and it looks like the white color ran when it was fired or however it was manufactured. There are a few dark brown vines swirling around the flower. It was a second and I paid 99 cents for it in a department store. It was the only one like it on the store shelf . A soon as I saw it I wanted it. There really isn't anything special about it, but I really like to drink my tea from it.. It is a perfect circle across the top and round enough to warm my hands on while I drink my tea. Sometimes when I see it I wonder why I Like it so much. It's just a cup?  |
 Would you ever take a trip to a place "off the grid?" Where would you go? I think I am off the grid. But, I guess a state park would be more off the grid than my home. Just a trip would be fun but, isn’t going to happen because I have lots of pets. I could take the dog with me maybe. But, not the parrots and cats. Well, my kitten (two years old) would love a trip as long as she can sleep safe. Also, it is a problem to hire someone I could trust to house sit. I used to nag K to go to places around that offer trails to bike ride and walk on but, it just isn’t his thing. If the situation was right I think a dude ranch or trip to a riding establishment would be fun. Right now a trip around the block in the car seems kind of fun. Covid isn't conducive to thinking about new environments. So, I think we are as far off the grid as we are going to be for now. ![Merit Badge in Blog Camping
[Click For More Info]
I would travel to the ends of the earth with you. It was a very enjoyable blogging experience. Thank you for participating. *^*Heart*^* Lyn](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Blog_Camping-1788309_13.gif) |
| Imagine the year is 2030. Write about what has happened in your life over the last decade in the past tense. Dear Me: Imagine the year is 2030. Write about what has happened in your life over the last decade in the past tense. Dear Me: It’s been ten years more now. Ten years doesn’t sound like much when you are constantly learning about new things. Home security is big business even for small incomes. There are lots of new gadgets out there like flashlights and batteries that charge with USB. Drones are used more for security in the cities. We even have a drone that we can program to skim the walking trails once in awhile. Most people have changed over to greener appliances. There are more windmills since they learned to make them bird safe. Solar took off, as well so we have a lot of ways to bring in electricity. I’m still fond of my corn heat. That’s because I like going to bed warm and waking up warm. Only now, I have a corn furnace to go along with the stove which uses the existing heat runs. If it’s possible I’m slower and my hair is whiter. The mortgage is paid so I’m putting in a lift so I don’t have to walk up and down stairs 40 times a day. Just for the exercise I still use the stairs sometimes. We built horse and walking trails and took on a few horse boarders to offset the tax burden. The three cats and now two dogs are still around. I take the dogs walking along the trails. They like getting out of the house. I changed my desktop to a laptop a few years ago. WIFI has become more stable as the years move along. Covid 19 was conquered and the world was more prepared for the 2nd pandemic. It was almost cleared out before it began. The USA began educating children and turning lots of smart brains toward science. The medicine business started leaning toward the natural way to achieve health. I am working on a new degree. It took me a few years to decide which one to go after. WDC is still around. Too many people can't do without it. Quite a large crowd on the site now. Ten years isn’t enough but, the world is definitely changing. Looks like the next generation has a chance at making their mark. |
View Portfolio
Visit Notebook
Send Gift Points
Awards
Badges
Send Email
Community Newsfeed
General Discussion
Sponsored Items
Book of Trinkets
Static Items
Books
Groups
Interactive Stories
Audio
Campfire Creatives
Community Notes
Crossword Puzzles
Documents
Folders
Images
In & Outs
Madlibs
Photo Albums
Polls
Product Reviews
Quizzes
Survey Forms
Web Pages
Word Searches
