It is no secret that I enjoy fall most of all the seasons and I hope that time year we have a good long one. I could use a season of peace.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
A Dusting of Red
I looked up the mountain side today and found that fall has begun its descent into the valley. Within the Uintas the deciduous leaves are turning ruddy in the nigh time chill. It's a peaceful feeling in some ways. Like hot coco after a long cold day.
It is no secret that I enjoy fall most of all the seasons and I hope that time year we have a good long one. I could use a season of peace.
It is no secret that I enjoy fall most of all the seasons and I hope that time year we have a good long one. I could use a season of peace.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
A bunch of Shiori pictures
The Train Cake
Boo and the big bubble
Get it!
Don't make me use this!
I am a Jedi like my father before me
More Bubbles!
Rick and Boo in Moab
Shiori the painter
It's so BIIIIIGGGG! (Boo at the Sam Noble Dino museum -Norman OK)
Monday, August 8, 2011
Birthday Week
Boo's Birthday week is upon me and I'm sick. I have a sister (aunt) who will be here tonight and my mother-in-law will be here Friday. I have a house to clean, a bunch of cup cakes to make and I've not even gotten a gift for my little girl.
If anyone reading this is interested in getting Boo a gift go with books - level one readers. You know like "Dick and Jane" One sentence per page with big letters. Also size 3T pants (no jeans) and size 4T shirts. Paint by numbers. Those coloring markers that only work on the special books they come with. stickers.
There you all go. Pictures will follow.
If anyone reading this is interested in getting Boo a gift go with books - level one readers. You know like "Dick and Jane" One sentence per page with big letters. Also size 3T pants (no jeans) and size 4T shirts. Paint by numbers. Those coloring markers that only work on the special books they come with. stickers.
There you all go. Pictures will follow.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Summer Reading With Old Friends
As summer reaches its apex I look at my list of "Summer Reads" and find I have started a few, but not finished a one. Choosing instead to pick an old favorite off the nightstand and re-read the "good" parts. I didn't used to do this much, but as I get older I find I'm not so interested in making new "friends", but prefer quality time with old pals. Perhaps this is how classics came into being.
And so I've been perusing my shelves, reacquainting myself with friends. Valen, Verall, Vetch, Vlad (V named characters make very nice friends) Constantine, Terrant, Galen, & Deomon Sadi (some nice characters aren't always "good" guys). Characters are the heart of a novel for me. If the characters are not the main focus than the story will never hold me. Characters a also the main reason I drop a book like bad leftovers. When an author betrays a character's personality for plot...Bad. When a character is killed for no reason...Bad. Then characters read like cardboard standees...bad.
Take Harry Potter. A number of people I know have been plugging into the Harry Potter final mania of late so why not me. I really did enjoy the first three books. In fact I remember reading the first one when most people had no idea who Harry Potter was (the joys of being a librarian) and thinking this was a character set with potential. I adored book three the most. The crazy "uncle" Sirius who I hoped would become Harry's family and offer him a new and exciting view of the wizarding world. And Harry, in turn, would help his "uncle" clear his name and perhaps come to think of the wizarding world with less cynicism and more child like wonderment....then Book 4 happened. Poison in the heart for me. But I kept hoping something good would happen....Nope. Characters dropping by the wayside like flies and for no good reason, predictability, and then there was all the hiding in a tent and whining while the interesting plot went on "off screen" and we never got to read it! I came to dislike Harry a lot and wished he wasn't the focus of the story.
Perhaps this, and I'll admit a few other literary disappointments in the last few years, are to blame for my lack of wanting something new to read. I wait eagerly for the novels my few favorite authors throw like bones to readers ever year or two. Quality over quantity. I have also come to terms with the fact that, while I was an English major and a librarian, I prefer flights of fancy. Oh, I'll peruse the "fiction" sections now and again or even the Mystery area, but in the end I want magic, dragons, rough and ready heroes that are not knights in shining armor (see Romance for those), but know their way around a sword. And most of all I want my adventurers not to be whiny.
*****
If you really want to know what I'm reading...
Black Jewels Trilogy
Exile's Honor
Breath and Bone
Last Herald Mage
King of Attolia
Reader and Raylinx
And so I've been perusing my shelves, reacquainting myself with friends. Valen, Verall, Vetch, Vlad (V named characters make very nice friends) Constantine, Terrant, Galen, & Deomon Sadi (some nice characters aren't always "good" guys). Characters are the heart of a novel for me. If the characters are not the main focus than the story will never hold me. Characters a also the main reason I drop a book like bad leftovers. When an author betrays a character's personality for plot...Bad. When a character is killed for no reason...Bad. Then characters read like cardboard standees...bad.
Take Harry Potter. A number of people I know have been plugging into the Harry Potter final mania of late so why not me. I really did enjoy the first three books. In fact I remember reading the first one when most people had no idea who Harry Potter was (the joys of being a librarian) and thinking this was a character set with potential. I adored book three the most. The crazy "uncle" Sirius who I hoped would become Harry's family and offer him a new and exciting view of the wizarding world. And Harry, in turn, would help his "uncle" clear his name and perhaps come to think of the wizarding world with less cynicism and more child like wonderment....then Book 4 happened. Poison in the heart for me. But I kept hoping something good would happen....Nope. Characters dropping by the wayside like flies and for no good reason, predictability, and then there was all the hiding in a tent and whining while the interesting plot went on "off screen" and we never got to read it! I came to dislike Harry a lot and wished he wasn't the focus of the story.
Perhaps this, and I'll admit a few other literary disappointments in the last few years, are to blame for my lack of wanting something new to read. I wait eagerly for the novels my few favorite authors throw like bones to readers ever year or two. Quality over quantity. I have also come to terms with the fact that, while I was an English major and a librarian, I prefer flights of fancy. Oh, I'll peruse the "fiction" sections now and again or even the Mystery area, but in the end I want magic, dragons, rough and ready heroes that are not knights in shining armor (see Romance for those), but know their way around a sword. And most of all I want my adventurers not to be whiny.
*****
If you really want to know what I'm reading...
Black Jewels Trilogy
Exile's Honor
Breath and Bone
Last Herald Mage
King of Attolia
Reader and Raylinx
Sunday, June 26, 2011
In The Bleak Mid-summer
It is now post mid-summer's eve and the season has descended into that time I think of as a preview of Hell. It has turned hot. As in 90+ with it burning the clouds from the sky. My flowers started wilting and so did I.
For example, I went to a family reunion on Saturday - outside. Had a gosh offal head ache the whole time, but got through it. When I got home I downed a tall glass of ice water (and yes I was constantly drinking @ the reunion...but not in THAT way (I wish), wiped myself with a cold wet cloth and sat by and air conditioner. Within minutes I had no head ache and was bright and perky.
As you can see I do not do the heat thing. However, I have been sewing to my little hearts content. I've made a colonial outfit to wear next weekend to the lace demos. I've set up a couple new lace things. crocheted a bag. And, thanks to Rick's furious cleaning, I now have boxes to store fabric in.
I've also been writing on my Briarwood story...that's a tentative title. #2 it Briar Root. Anyway, lots going on and my time is spent doing other things so we'll see when the next post happens.
For example, I went to a family reunion on Saturday - outside. Had a gosh offal head ache the whole time, but got through it. When I got home I downed a tall glass of ice water (and yes I was constantly drinking @ the reunion...but not in THAT way (I wish), wiped myself with a cold wet cloth and sat by and air conditioner. Within minutes I had no head ache and was bright and perky.
As you can see I do not do the heat thing. However, I have been sewing to my little hearts content. I've made a colonial outfit to wear next weekend to the lace demos. I've set up a couple new lace things. crocheted a bag. And, thanks to Rick's furious cleaning, I now have boxes to store fabric in.
I've also been writing on my Briarwood story...that's a tentative title. #2 it Briar Root. Anyway, lots going on and my time is spent doing other things so we'll see when the next post happens.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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