Reading: Green Dolphin Street (1944)

Since I like to read books that have been made into movies, my dad is on the lookout when garage-saleing and picks up ones I haven’t heard of, usually. Green Dolphin Street, by Elizabeth Goudge, was made into a movie starring Donna Reed and Van Heflin, and while I haven’t seen it the casting is [...]

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Reading: Twilight

Yes, I bought Twilight. Once the buzz on a book reaches a certain level, I figure I might as well see what it’s all about. I’ve read the first 5 Harry Potter books, too. Plus, Costco had a copy (well, many many copies) for $6.89 so what the heck. First 250 pages: Solid. Compelling. Hard [...]

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Reading: The Three Mustangers (1933)

The Three Mustangers, by Will James. Here’s the opening paragraph. If this was made into a movie, you could just hear Wilford Brimley doing the voice-over narration: “Andy Thomas would of most likely been a plain average and just a hard-riding cowboy if he’d been brought up where such kind of men rode. There was [...]

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in the garden

There was a baby grouse or ringneck pheasant out in the yard. I’m thinking pheasant since I haven’t seen grouse around here, but it really did look like a young chicken so might have been a grouse. It made a scrape for itself under a rotting bench that holds plants, and then ran and hid [...]

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Another busy week

Boy, not much blogging this week! Elle had a fever for 3 days, so that slowed me down. I took her to the doctor when it reach 103, and the doctor said wait it out. Like for 6 days before bringing her back again. Really–nothing but Tylenol for 6 days? Uh, okay. The Tylenol brought [...]

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