Rain again. If the forecast is correct, buckets of it. We have a flood watch, but looking at the amounts of snow falling in the western plains and the tornado warnings in Arkansas and Louisiana, I guess I won't complain. Rain is an excuse to do things indoors, after all, and the NaNo starts in a little over two days ( Read more... )

It has been raining more or less continuously since last night. Sometimes just light sprinkling, other times a deluge. Gary drained a half inch from the rain gauge this morning, there was another 5/8 inch at sunset, and it hasn't quit raining since then. Supposed to rain all day tomorrow and probably into Saturday. Of course, if all this were to be ( Read more... )

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I think I'm getting the cold that Gary has had all week. Wanna go to bed but I still have work to do ( Read more... )

How many of the older adventure stories involved animals, either as companions or characters of a sort? I'm referring here to natural animals, not fantasy animals who wear clothing and live in houses, but animals whose forms we would recognize as perfectly normal, yet they reasoned and in many cases spoke as if they were human to some degree ( Read more... )

*taps keyboard to see if it is on ( Read more... )

It's been a strange day. I didn't get a lot done, other than the usual chores. Yesterday's blog post got a lot of replies that needed more commentary, for one thing. Then I came in from feeding horses and sheep and found several messages in my Earthlink mail that had been somehow lost in the spam trap. It's a wonder they weren't deleted. Those went ( Read more... )

There was a time when books were the exclusive province of the wealthy and the cleric. Neither literacy nor access to the printed word were available to any other socioeconomic class.

Now school administrators in America are deliberately working to recreate that situation.

Exclusive Boston school dumps library completelyNo, you idiots, it isn't " ( Read more... )

Something like this has been going around Facebook. I think it more interesting, though, to show both positive and negative choices ( Read more... )

Sun? What's that? At least the thermostat has been turned down ( Read more... )