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It will be really, really hot then but the entire country is upside down weather wise this year.

I always enjoy reading about your families and trips and activities of everyone. Since I moved, my principal interaction is with favorite checkers at the grocery and pharmacy This is a neighborhood of young families–they are friendly, wave and speak, and all busy. Once I have the knee replacement and have more mobility I hope to expand my outside world. Certainly that is the case with Jo and I’m happy for her–just wish she would come here, too. I miss Garvin and Traude and Jenny, Georgianna and the rest–glad Jerry still checks in.

I enjoy my nice big back porch, flowers and yard. Keeping the squirrel-proof bird feeder full as well as the squirrel feeder occupy some time and watching them is interesting. I didn’t believe there was a squirrel proof bird feeder but this one really works. The squirrel will jump onto it and his weight pulls the springs attached to covers that cover the recessed food cups. When they give up and jump off the springs release and the birds come back and eat. Sure has to aggravate those squirrels to watch that. They have to settle for their own feeder with corn on the cob.

Candace

I will be enjoying the Texas hot weather in August when I visit my son and family in ElPaso. I am not sure it is any more uncomfortable there than here in the east. It is in the 90′s with high humidity. I will do my daily lap swim at the pool but will stay inside most of the day.

Jo is on face book but may be loosing interest. I haven’t posted because I figured I was hogging this space.

It is summer, maybe people are busy.

Yep–looks like we’ve been abandoned…. you and I can talk about the hot weather in Texas…

Candace

Here we are on this lonely island, where no one is even talking! Where’d everybody go? On vacation?

Well, I miss you all. Jo in CO –where are YOU?

Glad you heard from Jo, Darlyne, I was about to rescind consent to her move to Colorado–wouldn’t have done it if we’d thought she would ditch us!

Am listening to Kentucky Sunrise by Fern Michaels. It started off rather slow but, listening in the car I’ve found I drive slower to stay with the story before I get home. Quite the opposite of Jurassic Park–that was the first book I listened to in the car and was so engrossed in the escape I realized I was driving 70 on a 50-mph part of the freeway! Scared myself for real.

Candace

I just got a note from Jo, on Face Book, that she is unable to get on this blog for some reason but she will keep trying. She is fine.

Found two more Harold Bell Wright books–When a Man’s a Man and The Shepherd of the Hills. Looking through those took me back several decades when I first read them.

Candace

Candace, I agree completely. When the only adjective used in an entire book or story is “f___ing”, I really wish they could come up with something more imaginative!

I, too, enjoy this group; just get very busy and often don’t have anything new to add.

Jerry, I am so sorry to hear about the cracked ribs. That is SO painful! (I was tempted to type “so f____ing painful” but decided not to.) LOL Take care.

I have been reading a series of books that our Jo in Co told me about. They are Sci-fi about the Napoleanic wars but with the addition of talking dragons! Very well written and interesting. The dragons, by the way, are more intelligent than many of the humans in the stories. The books are by Naomi Novik and the first one is “His Majesty’s Dragon” if anyone else enjoys historical sci-fi.

take care all.

Judith

That’s exactly what I as thinking, Darlyne. Some writers have settled on the F word as their sole expletive and use it over and over and over–much like a six-year-old experimenting with a new word that at least in the past shocked their parents. These people don’t even an impressive vocabulary of profanity.

Candace

Can you imagine Zane Grey using th “f” word?

I need to get down two boxes marked “Old Books” up in a closet. I remember the book and the cover which had an outline on it–I think it was of a horse–first read it roughly 75 years ago. There are some Zane Grey and Gene Stratton Porter books in those boxes–it would be interesting to read those again. The writing style of a century ago is so different–as well as the language.

Candace

I am glad it isn’t quite dead yet. Jerry, take care. Cracked ribs are no fun. I thought I was getting the cd of Presumed Innocent from the library and instead got the movie. I want to read Innocent and have it reserved but it may take quite a while before I get it. Friends told me I should read Presumed first. The movie was great.

I’m not dead either, just haven’t had much to say. Recovering from bruised ribs after a nasty fall six weeks ago trying to walk across some large stones. (They ought to be outlawed!!) Just finished reading “Shepherd of the Hills”, by Harold Bell Wright. Written in 1907 in Ozarkian vernacular. When finished had to have the movie. Got it from Amazon with four others starring the Duke. Some of you may remember the movie from 1941. Really a nice movie. I hate the Duke so the other four in the set will have to languish in pergatory. After that I read a couple of Westerns given to me by a friend. They’re not bad once you get hooked on ‘em.

Keep this blog going if you can folks, it’s about all we have left.

Huggz all,
Jerry

Just slower–I think of something I want to share then get distracted and the next thing I know another week has gone by. Nursing my knees until surgery I move like Tim Conway’s old man character so I imagine others may have some of the same situations. I don’t want to lose this contact–since I moved across the state my contacts are limited and I need to know you’re out there.

My cousin recommended a book, A Proper Pursuit by Lynn Austin. She is not an avid reader and said this was one of the few that had her laughing out loud the more she read. I downloaded it to Kindle and to my surprise it was free. I’ve read the first couple of chapters and am enjoying the writing style a lot.

Candace

I think this blog is dead.