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Saturday, May 16, 2020

Do you have a personal theme music?

Someone asked today... I found mine back in 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCWWTAuEW5w I have never heard a harper I like better than Patrick Ball, either. Here is a playlist to add sweet music to your day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY_qRsghZwM&list=PLF-nNYYd7f7TcsZDEVaCdZOeiyppceA7x&index=2 Sign in to see full entry.

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Stewards instead of Exploiters

Since we humans have demolished the predator populations, we must take their place to keep prey animals in check. Some of us, anyway. I am no hunter... I also eat much less meat than I used to. Seeing what used to be simply burgers on the hoof playing with toys, showing affection and grief, it gets harder to see them as unworthy of life. Trouble is, by now there are way too many, and there need to be fewer. Of them, but also, of us. Still, a pandemic or a war is a hard way to go about it. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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What, Friday again, already? Wait... no... SATURDAY???

So pleased with the rain last night! It's the first nature has gifted the garden since we began to set it all up. There was thunder, too, and some brief hail that did no damage, though I do have most of my plants protected. There is a second planter box on legs now, too, ready to receive young plants as soon as the sprouts have grown a bit more, into their second leafing. Most of yesterday I spent creating a Patreon page, and prepping the first episode of the novel to post when it goes public.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 15, 2020

Something new!

I have decided to create a Patreon page through which to serialize my 700+ page novel, HERETICS. I know not everyone here is into the genre--Goth Historical Fiction--but if you are interested, email me, and I will send you the preview link, before I actually launch the page. Meanwhile... I hear thunder! I must go protect my seedlings from the possibly imminent hail! Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Midweek rambles

Here it is, half through another week. It will be springlike warm today, and the green mist advances in the tree tops. The big maple in front is already spreading its lush green across my view of the mountains. Between late spring hard frosts and summer hails the leaves have been less than spectacular since my first couple of years here. The past couple of years, early single-digit temps killed the leaves before they could go to the lovely golden yellow of previous years. I hope for gentler... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Today's images: Reflection

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmN7jFzT Reflections are another kind of magic, showing the world reversed, but also revealed and even, sometimes, haunted. Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 11, 2020

Shadowplay

This is one of the collections I have been going through my whole Flickr photostream to make more or less complete. It started with a walk in Pacific NW woods on a sunny day, and has evolved from there. https://flic.kr/s/aHsktmxRZr Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Spring sorting...

I spent several hours yesterday over in Flickr, sorting out my albums, especially since I realized that a lot of images that should be in albums, are not. I'm only about halfway through all of them, and some collections that you may have seen recently, like the Gardens and Flowers, keep growing like it's summertime! Others I have set up new, with particular friends in mind. This one is especially for TAPS: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmN7E2GF This one's for CCT, and very late in coming since the day I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 8, 2020

Oh, my back is gonna ACHE...!

I have mentioned the spring migration... It continued today with considerable lifting, shifting, and shoving, re-shaping of rooms... It's amazing how a change of just a few inches makes great openings for other things! Charlie will be over when he is ready to sort out why the tv won't go on now. I have checked connections, batteries in the remote, done the off/on thing, and nothing has worked so far. Then there will be some upstairs/downstairs shiftings to arrange reading-quality lighting for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Reply to Conspiracy

If you have seen the video "Plandemic" then you need to see this, too, answering with links to facts, her allegations. Kat Montgomery t i i M f n t c e a o y S 6 t c a r t p 2 t: o 1 l n 7 s n o r P g c l e M d **EDITED TO ADD: I wrote this post to help my friends sort through misinformation and did not expect it to go viral. Several commenters have asked me to cite so urces, and I agree that this is important to do. I still have a day job, but I have edited to include primary sources for all... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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