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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Prompt: Showering...

What kind of shower do you like? Some people prefer the overhead showerhead that sprinkles down like a gentle, warm rain. Some like a gentle flow, but mine has to pound down with water pressure like Niagara Falls! Those drive-me-nuts-with-frustration showers that seem to trickle along,... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Where do you want to go?

Even now, I am thinking of other places to go, things to see... Australia is high on my list, and also Great Britain--Wales, particularly. What's on your To See list? If you are no longer making that list, what are the best places on your I've Seen list? Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Phenom!

This weekend gave us, at least here in Colorado Springs, a gloriously clear view of the lunar eclipse from first shadow through totality to the brilliant, unshadowed moon again. If you didn't see the photos before... go here and click to the left: https://flic.kr/p/23HZMy8 I watched a solar eclipse... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 12, 2019

What they said, what I read

"Chicken Will-maker" an ad from Quicken Books... "These Top Cruise Lines Are Elegant & Randy For Seniors..." Elegant and Ready... Sometimes my brain just reads what it wants to read. How about you? What stuff have you mis-read that made you double-take? Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Sounds like...

Do you ever listen to recorded ambient sounds? It's one of my favorite things, adding the sounds of nature to my surroundings, including to go to sleep by and wake up with. Here's a new sounds library from Yellowstone Park: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/soundlibrary.htm Do you have... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Sounds the Earth should not lose:

Sounds the Earth should not lose: the songs of whales the complex voices of elephants the sound of an orca taking a breath the vocalizations of chimpanzees in the wild the pipings and cries of the pika on mountain slopes the howling of wolves in the wilderness There are many, many more, of course,... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 22, 2018

Most memorable gift you ever found under the Christmas Tree

What were the best gifts you've ever gotten? What have been the worst? When I was 6 or 7, my mom put together a clothing wardrobe for my doll and packed it all in a big round travel-hat box. I remember also a gift when I must have been 3, The Illustrated Book of Children's Literature. I was so... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Speaking of movies...

What is your favorite Christmas movie? Since I first saw it as a kiddie, one of mine has been the Alistair Sim CHRISTMAS CAROL. He made the most Scroogiest Scrooge of all! Also the most delightful, when he wakes on Christmas Day a changed Scrooge. Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

The most beautiful movies ever made...

Last night I sat through over 3 hours of BARRY LYNDON, a Stanley Kubrick film from 1975, touted as "one of the most beautiful films ever made." I don't buy it. The scenery, the opulence are grand, but the characters are flat and hard to like or even care about. Many scenes were soooo lonnnng! I have... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Overwhelmed...

What things overwhelm you? How do you react to that 'overwhelmed' feeling? I tend to leave things for later, like filing papers, like deciding what stuff in my house to save or toss, like washing up the pots and pans, like actually doing the laundry all the way from carried to the washer to hung up... Sign in to see full entry.

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