Coffee

[digitS']

Soup for lunch and broth is started on the stove.

It's laundry day. Some of it was supposed to be started yesterday morning but we had an unexpected morning visitor. If sheets are to be hung out, they will need as many hours as possible in these cool temperatures, even if there is sunshine. (Ya know, freeze drying laundry doesn't really work ... just to be informative for the southern TEG members .)

I often think back on laundry days to my first washing machine. College and apartment living and we had a new baby! Disposable diapers --- didn't know the meaning of the term.

Clothes rack in the living room and a portable machine . Wash/Rinse cycle on one side, final spin on the other:

Steve

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Bacon and Cereal this morning (yes great healthy breakfast )

I had to go to the other big town I don’t normally visit yesterday and found a great used book store. I was good! I only bought two books. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and A Tale of Two Cities) Now the only problem is I’ve had to ban myself from going back until I get my waiting to be read shelf under control. I’ve currently got over 60 books staring at me over there.

 

[digitS']

Wonderful choices, @Artichoke Lover . Books, of course .

Doyle's Sherlock and Watson were favorites sometime in high school. Fairly sure that I read every one. I then drifted far from detective novels, at least, I didn't really return to that genre.

Dickens was a dickens to wade through. That is, the Huge Number of pages to Great Expectations nearly put a cap on me continuing with Dickens. I read A Christmas Carol, of course. After seeing movies and TV specials and knowing the story so well, it almost read itself in my hands .

Steve

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I can sort of understand. For all I love Tolkien, I have never actually read any of the books myself. I had the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings read TO ME, when I was a child (they were my bedtime stories when we ran out of Oz books we could get.) but never re-read them once I could do so.

And while I an a DEEP lover of Sci-Fi and fantasy, there are some so called "classics" of the genres that I just couldn't get into. For example E.R. Edddings Ouroboros trilogy (often said to be the only fantasy epic comparable in age to Tolkien that can be fairly compared to it in quality.) REALLY turned me off after the first book (I HATED the fake archaic language and spelling, and the end twist of the first book I found INCREDIBLY stupid.) And David Lindsay's A Voyage to Acturus would seem to only be meaningful if you are REALLY into the philosophy of Wittgenstein (Wittgenstein famously said "Life without pain is meaningless". Lindsay seems to have taken this one step farther in the novel and said "Pain IS the meaning of life.")

And there are authors where my tastes are split, like Orson Scott Card (LOVE the Alvin Maker stories, HATE the Ender's Game ones.)

Then there is Sanislaw Lem. I HAVE read Solaris and DID get through it, but got through very few others. It isn't so much that I don't like them, or I think they might have lost something in the translation (which I have to use, since I read neither Polish nor Russian.) It's just that everyone tells me that Lem is supposed to be very very FUNNY, and I just don't see it (I SORT OF see in in the Fables for Robots) but not in anything else.) A Russian person who I know said they aren't funny in THAT sense as much as they are clever (like Terry Pratchett is). But I GET (and LOVE) Terry Pratchett and I DON'T GET LEM (maybe it makes more sense if you grow up under Communism).

 

[Zeedman]

Clothes rack in the living room and a portable machine . Wash/Rinse cycle on one side, final spin on the other:

That is similar to the washer DW & I used too, for the first couple "apartment years" of our marriage. We hung onto it for quite a few years even after purchasing a new washer & drier; it was handy for spin-drying the hand washables. We eventually gave it to DD#1, for her to use when she moved out into her first apartment.

 

[flowerbug]

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Dickens was a dickens to wade through. That is, the Huge Number of pages to Great Expectations nearly put a cap on me continuing with Dickens. I read A Christmas Carol, of course. After seeing movies and TV specials and knowing the story so well, it almost read itself in my hands .

i tried to read Great Expectations (i've come to call it Grape Expectorations since then) several times and never made it, yet other books of his i did not have that same trouble. i now take most authors of that era with some grains of salt as they were paid by the word a bit too forwards in their thinking. i was able to get through some of Jules Verne but i think you'd need some extreme efforts to get me attempt any others. Shakespeare made a bit more sense to me - it didn't pay well to put a theatre full of people to sleep (perched aunts (ants) to dream)...

 

[baymule]

Since I only have one small hut for the ewes and lambs, yesterday I built a cow panel hoop hut. Now there is plenty of room. This morning there was a new ewe lamb! Nova is a first time mom and doing a good job.

 

[baymule]

Coffee is ready! Got an appointment in Livingston this morning with the CPA. I've been keeping my "important" papers in the front seat of the truck so I wouldn't lose them, LOL LOL

 

[digitS']

Good Morning.

Cinnamon toast with Tangerines for a second breakfast. Works well with my steaming herb tea concoction - star anise, licorice root and the dry peels from those tangerines.

Just need some sarsaparilla, a mill, and a marketing team and I could go into business .

Steve

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Bacon and Cereal this morning (yes great healthy breakfast )

I had to go to the other big town I don’t normally visit yesterday and found a great used book store. I was good! I only bought two books. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and A Tale of Two Cities) Now the only problem is I’ve had to ban myself from going back until I get my waiting to be read shelf under control. I’ve currently got over 60 books staring at me over there.

I have both those books. I think both kids read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but I am not sure I got either one to read A Tale of Two Cities. I read that in school. I used to read a lot and so did my mother and brother. After my mother went blind she listened to talking books for the blind. My brother said he was starting to read again. I stopped reading when I got married. DH did not read and seemed to need somebody to watch a TV show WITH him. He would just kind of stare at me while I was reading, almost like he was wondering if his TV show was not as good as my book. lol