Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 10, 2020, 12:09:14 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had comedy and errors and mothers, and now it is time for you to post until the comedy cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: INDOMITABLE!
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Thanks George. I was able to forward the view from our walk as it is in email.
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I will email the other photo once I am on my computer.
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Thanks George. I was able to forward the view from our walk as it is in email.
Got it. I'll see what I can do.
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Thank you George for recording my shiny new plateau for posterity
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And now good night
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Here's Jane's photo:
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Thank you George for recording my shiny new plateau for posterity
My pleasure!
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And a Happy Birthday to (former) Samantha, DR Cillaliz's niece!
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And now good night
Good night, Vixmom.
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Thank you George. The photo doesn't do Mt Hood justice as it was a clear morning.
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Thank you George. The photo doesn't due Mt Hood justice as it was a clear morning.
I can imagine...and having to shrink the photo to be less than the board's file size restriction doesn't help, either.
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I think I'll try to actually be in bed by two. That would be a good thing.
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Page one? Really?
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Time for bed.
Have a good day, all!
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I'm still gonna try and be in bed by two.
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And I don't care who knows it.
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Good morning, all!
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And Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers out there!
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I sadly have little good to say about mine: she was foolish, narcissistic, a poor housekeeper, and her personal baggage did real harm to my brother Randy. She had a chip on her shoulder that her family's poverty prevented her going to art school, anger that she had married the wrong man, and her life was full of unfulfilled dreams she was unable to cope with. I think one reason I care for Follies so much is that the character of Sally is so close to my mother. Sadly, I cannot say that I miss her very much. I miss her mother, a loving grandmother, much more.
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What's even more frightening is there were much worse mothers on both sides of my family, my dad's sister-in-law Dorothy being the absolute worst!
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I have things to accomplish today: laundry and pasta sauce being the two principal things on my agenda.
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DR Ginny, I'm happy to hear the DD driver was tracked down as I predicted.
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I finished kitty cleanup and took the laundry to the basement. When I got back to the apartment, Annabelle dashed into the hall as soon as I opened the door. While trying to get her back inside, Stella got out, and I had two cats frolicking in two different parts of the third floor. I apprehended Stella, and, carrying her, chased Annabelle to the apartment door. Both are inside now and chasing each other about the apartment. I suffer from Excessive Romping Kitty (ERK) syndrome.
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Good morning, all.
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And a Happy Mother’s Day to all concerned!
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Good morning, all.
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Happy Mother’s Day!
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Two!
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I think the only news I have to report is that it SNOWED in the late afternoon and early evening yesterday.
SNOWED. On the ninth day of the lusty month of May.
Just one squall passing over, but there were dozens of these all across NY state and New England. Not too far north of us they got a thin but complete covering of the stuff. Ours was like large sleet or small hail, but the pellets were white, and during the few minutes the squall was over us it was a regular whiteout.
And yes, I have the photographic evidence.
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I feel your pain. I moved out of New York after it snowed in June one year. Too depressing.
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I think that was 1991.
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Half of my life ago.
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I think I always enjoy the movie The INDOMITABLE Molly Brown when it is on TV.
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Congrats to DR VIXMOM on her millstone.
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Happy Mother's Day!!!
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This sounds like the right time. Yo-Yo Ma today offers a virtual requiem. Next week Norm Lewis. And last week Wynton Marsalis, who lost his father to covid-19, had one.
https://observer.com/2020/05/lincoln-center-yo-yo-ma-memorial-for-us-all-music-remembrance-coronavirus-deaths/
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Congrats to DR VIXMOM on her millstone.
Congratulations, indeed.
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I feel your pain. I moved out of New York after it snowed in June one year. Too depressing.
Our "styrofoam" snow pellets are gone now, I think. The real aggravation in my area is the continued cold temperatures. We've been down to freezing last several nights, and our daytime temps won't get above the high 50s until next weekend.
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I am making beef and noodles today......first time.....but what could go wrong.....right?
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Congrats to Vixmom on her DOUBLE NICKEL MILLSTONE!
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This is a pretty card. Thank you.
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And Happy Mother's Day to all those mothers out there!
Thank you.
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What's even more frightening is there were much worse mothers on both sides of my family, my dad's sister-in-law Dorothy being the absolute worst!
That is very sad. Thank goodness for your grandmother. I never had a grandmother.
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I finished kitty cleanup and took the laundry to the basement. When I got back to the apartment, Annabelle dashed into the hall as soon as I opened the door. While trying to get her back inside, Stella got out, and I had two cats frolicking in two different parts of the third floor. I apprehended Stella, and, carrying her, chased Annabelle to the apartment door. Both are inside now and chasing each other about the apartment. I suffer from Excessive Romping Kitty (ERK) syndrome.
;D
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And a Happy Mother’s Day to all concerned!
I think it is a day for mothers and children of mothers.
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Happy Mother’s Day!
😊
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I feel your pain. I moved out of New York after it snowed in June one year. Too depressing.
In June :o
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Happy Mother's Day!!!
And to those missing their mothers.
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I feel your pain. I moved out of New York after it snowed in June one year. Too depressing.
Our "styrofoam" snow pellets are gone now, I think. The real aggravation in my area is the continued cold temperatures. We've been down to freezing last several nights, and our daytime temps won't get above the high 50s until next weekend.
I wish I could send you a few degrees.
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Well, I just received my first food delivery, and I think I may cancel further ones What I got were packaged meals for the next three days: nine plastic trays containing three breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, primarily salads and fruit - an apple for lunch, an orange fpor dinner - although the breakfasts also included small packs of Lays potato chips! According to the label, I received the "C' package, so I wonder what A and B got?
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The laundry is finished! As I was heading to the basement to cart down the food carton and pick up the laundry, Annabelle escaped and played "Chase Me" as she ran to the fourth floor. As soon as she got to the fourth floor, she started yelling her bloody head off, I took the elevator and found her scratching at the door to 4C, directly above us, and squalling. I picked her up and rode back down to three with her.
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I've been wondering about Annabelle a lot lately. She's so affectionate and loving that I still wonder how she ended up at the Brooklyn Animal Care Center. As soon as I lie down on the bed to rest my legs, she climbs into my lap and settles there for the duration. I am so lucky I have her, but I worry that someone else misses her as much as I would if I lost her.
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Mother's Day greetings! We've finished church with the congregation in Beavercreek, via Zoom. Fr. Richard had been scheduled there every Sunday in May long before we locked down. They announced today that they have a strong candidate for rector, so maybe Richard will be able to retire - again.
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Starting to watch The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. It's very much of its time. I doubt that a movie about a woman made today would have a male narrator, unless that becomes part of the story later.
Also interesting, when the narrator announces that an area of Rose was know for its assignations, the first image shown is of two men getting together.
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DR JohnG, I forgot to answer your question about Lacenaire. I haven't seen The Elegant Criminal since the mid- to late-1990s, so my memory on the movie's content is really poor. I have a memory that he's either gay or has a gay accomplice.
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Good afternoon!
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Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms.
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I watched By Jeeves too, DR JohnG. I enjoyed it too but also think it was too long.
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Page 3!
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We had a rain and windstorm in the backyard.....in the front yard not so much.
It was most interesting.
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Beef and noodles turned out fine.
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I am also of the thought that MR BK should not make a visit to the wrong house of desserts.
There was really not much else they could do but bring it into the house....no one to call and report it to.....
And there are a LOT of crazy folks about......
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Just so you know:
Saturn, the ruler of karma, is heading into its retrograde cycle today, and will spend the next few months helping you sort out your destiny. The past, present, and future are all entangled now, calling past decisions into question and making you wonder about current and future ones as well.
Depending on your past reactions, you might be sitting pretty as far as karma is concerned. If you’ve made your share of mistakes, you might have some apologizing to do. Actions like these are all part of the natural cycle of things, and Saturn retrograde helps you not only to keep track of the score, but also set the record straight.
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Do the DoorDash deliveries have the intended recipient’s address on them?
Either way, I think DoorDash should confront the other people.....with a bill for the goods. :)
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Starting to watch The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. It's very much of its time. I doubt that a movie about a woman made today would have a male narrator, unless that becomes part of the story later.
Also interesting, when the narrator announces that an area of Rose was know for its assignations, the first image shown is of two men getting together.
:o
;)
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So, Jane e-mailed me the other photo of which she spoke, and here it is:
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That's a great picture, Jane!
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And now, I must get out of bed and get ready to go to my parents' house.
Be back later.
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It is a great picture, Jane. Thanks, George, for posting.
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Finishing up Roman Spring. It's interesting that Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs has a nonspeaking part as a girl that Warren Beatty's character keeps flirting with.
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I watched By Jeeves too, DR JohnG. I enjoyed it too but also think it was too long.
It really needed a good, firm editor. I think part of the problem was that Ayckbourn both wrote and directed.
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BTW, BK was almost too kind when writing about how bad Warren Beatty's Italian accent is. It's more Spanish and yet more bad than anything.
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The pasta sauce turned out quite nicely. The cats are being impossible. All three refuse to eat the dinner I gave them.
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I have not seen the kitties for four days now. I think they are gone.
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I have not seen the kitties for four days now. I think they are gone.
Maybe you should adopt one?
https://sanantoniopetsalive.org/adopt-a-cat/
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Nice picture from DR JANE via DR GEORGE.
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Well, I just received my first food delivery, and I think I may cancel further ones What I got were packaged meals for the next three days: nine plastic trays containing three breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, primarily salads and fruit - an apple for lunch, an orange fpor dinner - although the breakfasts also included small packs of Lays potato chips! According to the label, I received the "C' package, so I wonder what A and B got?
Interesting. Might they be handy after your surgery as a compliment to food from your freezer?
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Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms.
:)
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That's a great picture, Jane!
Thank you, and thank you for sharing it. Keith took this at our mutual good friend's son's wedding.
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It is a great picture, Jane. Thanks, George, for posting.
thanks you.
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Nice picture from DR JANE via DR GEORGE.
Thank you.
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I have not seen the kitties for four days now. I think they are gone.
Maybe you should adopt one?
https://sanantoniopetsalive.org/adopt-a-cat/
With the bird, I can't bring a cat into the house. But I like the neighbors' cats. And the ferals.
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It's warm out there. I went to Lowe's to look for some paint to redo an old chest of drawers and a saw. The paint selections were so drab they depressed me. But I bought the saw.
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That’s nice of you to want to paint the saw, too, DR John G., but it really probably doesn’t need it.
:D
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That’s nice of you to want to paint the saw, too, DR John G., but it really probably doesn’t need it.
:D
It might have helped with the little trees I had to cut down.
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too hot out there for the yard work. I'll take it up again tomorrow after work. My yard work bin is full anyway and tomorrow is pickup day.
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let's move on ...
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So..... remember those new chains I was going to put on the chainsaws?
Just did it. And what a difference. Oh lordy. This was long overdue.
And I believe that’s my big accomplishment for the day.
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Four!
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Happy Mother's Day!
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So..... remember those new chains I was going to put on the chainsaws?
Just did it. And what a difference. Oh lordy. This was long overdue.
And I believe that’s my big accomplishment for the day.
Those are wonderful things. Way too much power for the little job I had to do now. But I could haul mine out for work in the backyard.
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It has been so cold the past few days. Thank goodness no snow (just a few flakes that melted on the ground). But so brisk. Last weekend I was outside in a t-shirt. And now i have 3 layers. :(
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I'm waiting for Yo-Yo Ma's concert in a few minutes.
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Did anyone else do anything with saws today? Speak up, folks.
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Oh yeah, I'm up - eight hours of sleep, almost. But had to immediately do a phone meeting to fix stuff in a chart and correct some rhythm issues. And once that was done there was a Zoom birthday bash for Adryan Russ that I had to do.
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Then I had two tuna sandwiches for food, and now I'm toying with the Reese's peanut butter cheesecake, which is sinfully good.
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I just saw the Yo-Yo Ma concert, ChasSmith (if you'll excuse the saw pun). If you didn't, try to catch it on replay on the Lincoln Center channel. Incredibly moving. About 20 minutes of him playing everything from Schumann and a Bach sarabande to Schubert's Ave Maria. Dvorak's Coming Home made for a powerful finale. Throughout is a list of names of people who died from the virus.
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DR Ginny, I'm happy to hear the DD driver was tracked down as I predicted.
DR Elmore, I think it was DR JRand who posted about the Door Dash disaster.
I haven’t used DD and, after hearing that story, I might never.
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I watched Funny Lady this afternoon, because we’d seen Funny Girl on TV last weekend. The sequel has its moments, but doesn’t hold a candle to the original.
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It's warm out there. I went to Lowe's to look for some paint to redo an old chest of drawers and a saw. The paint selections were so drab they depressed me. But I bought the saw.
I am surprised your color options weren't better.
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So..... remember those new chains I was going to put on the chainsaws?
Just did it. And what a difference. Oh lordy. This was long overdue.
And I believe that’s my big accomplishment for the day.
I would say that is a good accomplisment.
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Happy Mother's Day!
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It has been so cold the past few days. Thank goodness no snow (just a few flakes that melted on the ground). But so brisk. Last weekend I was outside in a t-shirt. And now i have 3 layers. :(
Last week I had three layers now I am wearing a t-shirt & shorts.
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Yo-Ma-Ma......
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I just saw the Yo-Yo Ma concert, ChasSmith (if you'll excuse the saw pun). If you didn't, try to catch it on replay on the Lincoln Center channel. Incredibly moving. About 20 minutes of him playing everything from Schumann and a Bach sarabande to Schubert's Ave Maria. Dvorak's Coming Home made for a powerful finale. Throughout is a list of names of people who died from the virus.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve got a tab open to watch it later.
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I watched Funny Lady this afternoon, because we’d seen Funny Girl on TV last weekend. The sequel has its moments, but doesn’t hold a candle to the original.
No. But I do love those Kander and Ebb songs, as well as the classics.
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Yo-Ma-Ma......
Exactly. Like I told someone else today, I've been called a mother many times before. So, when I hear Happy Mother's Day, I just figure they're talking to me.
:)
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:)
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Happy Mother's Day!
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My mother got a Mother's Day card from one of my cousins. It was a very nice surprise for her.
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Mom enjoyed The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, though she found it a little depressing. I told her, sure, it was set during the Depression, and there was hope at the ending and that was good.
Has anyone read Jojo Moyes's The Gift of Stars, also about the book women in Kentucky?
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Mom enjoyed The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, though she found it a little depressing. I told her, sure, it was set during the Depression, and there was hope at the ending and that was good.
Has anyone read Jojo Moyes's The Gift of Stars, also about the book women in Kentucky?
I’d like a sequel to Troublesome Creek, following Honey into adulthood.
And, yes, I’ve also read the Moyes book. Her version doesn’t ring as true.
The thing that astonished me when I read these books was that I’d never heard of the packhorse librarians before. Even with an undergrad degree in American studies that included a lot of history courses, a Master’s in library science, and 30+ years of working in the field.
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Mom enjoyed The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, though she found it a little depressing. I told her, sure, it was set during the Depression, and there was hope at the ending and that was good.
Has anyone read Jojo Moyes's The Gift of Stars, also about the book women in Kentucky?
At the time DR Ginny mentioned The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek we discussed the difference and similarities between the two books. While Ginny preferred Troublesome Creek I felt they were equal, but then I read Giver of Stars first. I would suggest your mother wait a bit before reading it, if she plans to.
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DR Ginny I am sure I read about the book women prior to the release of these two books, yet I can't find what I might have read. I certainly knew about them, though not as well as I do now.
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Mom enjoyed The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, though she found it a little depressing. I told her, sure, it was set during the Depression, and there was hope at the ending and that was good.
Has anyone read Jojo Moyes's The Gift of Stars, also about the book women in Kentucky?
I’d like a sequel to Troublesome Creek, following Honey into adulthood.
And, yes, I’ve also read the Moyes book. Her version doesn’t ring as true.
The thing that astonished me when I read these books was that I’d never heard of the packhorse librarians before. Even with an undergrad degree in American studies that included a lot of history courses, a Master’s in library science, and 30+ years of working in the field.
Kentucky is so Republican that, I'm sure, they tried to erase any WPA progress that had been made.
I'm going to give Moyes's book a try. Nice to know beforehand not to expect as much as Book Woman.
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I wasn't expecting Bryan to call today as he worked last night. Before going to pick up a nice brunch for Kate, and then going to sleep, they called us. Keith answered in the kitchen on the Google contraption they gave us and we chatted while Keith cooked blueberry buttermilk pancakes for me.
I wish we had been making a video of the call. Freyja was especially happy and responded more to us, or at least to our movements. We discovered she likes watching & listening to Sherlock's monkey squeaky toy. She smiles at the sound of the animals from her baby book. When Bryan makes sounds like Chewbacca she scrunches up her face to cry-not good when her Daddy is a big Star Wars fan-lol.
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After breakfast we went for a walk then chatted with Craig once we were home. It was a very nice long chat.
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Let’s move on.
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Five!
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An then I was among a number of women mentioned after this post on Facebook.
"But I would I also like to honor all of those women in my life who have filled a void in some way, sheltered me, mentored me, loved me, guided me, and modeled what being an amazing mother could be."
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I thawed a cod fillet and baked it in garlic butter with some coleslaw and a tomato salad. And a chilled glass of rose’. Just right for the day.
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It was a very nice Mother's Day in quarantine.
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Watching a bizarre film from Eric Rohmer about the French Revolution. It’s called The Lady and the Duke and it’s based on a true story of an English woman in Paris at the time of the revolution. What is bizarre is that instead of creating realistic sets, he uses painted backdrops in the style of the period for everything.
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An then I was among a number of women mentioned after this post on Facebook.
"But I would I also like to honor all of those women in my life who have filled a void in some way, sheltered me, mentored me, loved me, guided me, and modeled what being an amazing mother could be."
Nice!
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Thank you.
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I'm going to read for a while.
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Good night, all.
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I Thawed a Cod Filet - that's the title of my next novel.
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Finished two motion pictures and now a drive.
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This is pretty cool...Kerry O'Malley is in this episode of POETRY IN AMERICA: Finishing the Hat, by Stephen Sondheim (https://www.pbs.org/video/finishing-the-hat-by-stephen-sondheim-ththn2/). It says that it expires on 06/06/20. I don't know if watching it is limited to people in the KCTS Seattle PBS broadcast area. :-\
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They should've interviewed Robert Yacko, too.
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Great photo, Jane.
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They should've interviewed Robert Yacko, too.
Robert Yacko where?
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They should've interviewed Robert Yacko, too.
Robert Yacko where?
For the PBS episode that I posted above about the song, "Finishing the Hat." If I remember correctly, Robert played Georges/George in the west coast premiere of Sunday in the Park with George. :)
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Hi, Tom.
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Thanks DR TCB.
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Well, it is time for me to shut-off my laptop before ir reaches 0% battery power.
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Good night.
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Good night, Tom.
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'night.
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I Thawed a Cod Filet - that's the title of my next novel.
What is it, fish?
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Can’t sleep.
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Good night, Jane.
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Hello, John.
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Well...
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...since...
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...we're...
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...so close, lets get to page...
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6!!!!!!