The baby sparrows and their mom was like watching a Disney wildlife movie, but I had to add my own dialogue.
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THUNDER OUTSIDE AND THE SKY IS YELLOWISH WHITE
Share Your World 7th June 2023 I’m assuming rain is on the way. Thunder has been rolling for the past hour and a bit, though no rain yet. I has rained every day for the past three days, but we had… Read More ›
NEVER BUYING THAT AGAIN!
5 Things I Don’t Buy Anymore Like others, I had to make a distinction between things I haven’t bought in a long time because they aren’t the kind of things one buys frequently and things I know I won’t buy… Read More ›
WHAT SHOULD I READ?
Blogging Insights 3.0 # 12 — Reading I think we all learn to write or discover we want to write by reading. I can’t imagine any other way to discover you want to write. But the question of what to… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS, MAY 2023
The Changing Seasons, May 2023 It has been strange month in many ways. But it has been a strange year. We are coming into June, so that’s almost half a year gone. It doesn’t feel like half a year. It doesn’t… Read More ›
THE ART & SPORT OF BARGAIN HUNTING
I have acquired a lot of sweaters over the years. This is New England. Winters are long. Heat is expensive. Sweaters fill the gap. This morning I noticed more than half my sweaters are purple. I’ve got a few in black, a couple in… Read More ›
HOW LITTLE HAS CHANGED: WAR & POLITICS IN 1920s CARTOONS
FELIX THE CAT RUNS FOR OFFICE, REVOLTS AGAINST CITY HALL, AND JOINS THE ARMY: 3 ORIGINAL CARTOONS Although many people have said these cartoons are all dated, looking at them today — disregarding the primitiveness of the style — it… Read More ›
LISTEN FOR THE BELLS
Originally posted on Los Perdidos:
?This is a story about Sarah who was in the fertilized egg business. She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. She kept records and any rooster not performing went…
HONOR THE FIGHTERS WHILE HATING THE WAR
WQ #21: Is Being Honorable Better Than Happiness? Being happy — really happy — is always a better choice than pretty much anything else. Words like honorable always leave me wondering what exactly it means? By whose standards? I have my… Read More ›
ENGLISH AIN’T EASY
Let’s face it. English doesn’t always make sense. HOMONYMS sound the same, but don’t mean the same TO-TOO-TWO all sound the same. The first is a pronoun. The second means “also” and the final is a number. ONE-WON – unless… Read More ›
GREAT CORMORANT!
Great Cormorant, Bird of the Week XIII It sounds like the kind of cursing Clark Kent’s boss at the Daily Planet used. “Great cormorant, what are you writing Clark?” As it happens, I do have a few cormorant pictures from last… Read More ›
A GREAT BLUE HERON IN THE MUMFORD RIVER
As we arrived by the dam, there was a huge heron in the river. One of the delightful things about herons is that they will stand very still for long periods of time while waiting for just the right fish… Read More ›
WORKING FROM HOME
Fandango’s Provocative Question #215 Before we get into this, let me start by saying that I think Elon Musk is a very wealthy moron. The two things, as we have seen with our former Prez #45, are not contradictory. You can… Read More ›
THERE’S AN “I” IN MAY
CMMC – May Alphabet any word with an “I” There may not be an “I” in team, but this month, there’s an “I” in May.
LOCAL ELECTIONS AND HAND-WRITTEN BALLOTS
In theory, these are the safest ballots if the only safety you are worrying about are GOP cabal theories of stolen elections. Otherwise, they are a total pain in the butt. You make any little tiny mistake in filling them… Read More ›
PROFESSIONAL WRITING – BLOGGING INSIGHTS
For whom do we write? This is a great quote except that it goes under the assumption that writing is a hobby, fiction or blogging. It ignores the possibility of people who write for a living. They will write whatever… Read More ›
THE SUPER FAST MONTH OF MAY
Share Your World 23rd of May I don’t care what anyone says. Time IS going way too fast. I need to talk to the Monks who manage time and tell them to please slow it down. It has been a difficult… Read More ›
THE BLACKSTONE IN BURRILLVILLE
I just learned the actual spelling of Burrillville. Everyone just calls it “Burriville.” You’d never know there was a double “L” in the middle of the word. The pronounciation of the word has long since eliminated that extra “L” sound…. Read More ›
MEDIA WAR STORIES – EPISODE 14
And now, we are at Episode 14 shown on May 14th — Mother’s Day. It don’t think it’s a Mother’s Day special, but it is special. And funny. Yul Brynner’s story remains untold, planned for every week. Before they record… Read More ›
DISTRACTIONS!
5 Things that distract you from blogging (other than work, family or housework) I’ve been blogging for more than 11-years — closing on 12 — and for most of that time, I was so absorbed in blogging, everything else was… Read More ›