We’ve made it through another year. I still miss Guy Lombardo but will stay up for the ball drop. I finished The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo and have restarted The Music Teacher that I’d stopped when something else came along months ago.
Let’s meet here again in the New Year.
Candace
<I was glad to see the Packers win, our youngest son in law is from WI, and I've given up on the Vikings. We have 2 cute chincilla's in our basement, in their cage. They came with our grand daughter who stays here through the week to attend 10th grade in East Grand Forks. Her parents are moving back here in the spring. I'm caring for them over Christmas as Sydney and her family are in Madison with the other grandparents.
Chinchillas are cute, eat a lot, and show off late at night and in the am, they sleep all day. They take "dust baths" in ashes, spinning rapidly with dust flying. They are not to get wet. I don't know what they do in the mountains of South America, where they are native. And they eat Timothy hay, like our cows did when I was a kid.
I just finished "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult, she must do a lot of reseatch for her writing. This is about an augsburger 18 year old.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, we have NO SNOW yet. Jacky
I’m a Packers fan from way back and love Rodgers, too. I have a hard time rooting for a team when I don’t like the quarterback as a person. The only exception to rooting for the Packers was when the Oilers were playing and it was good to see the Texans have a winning season. Last week’s loss was such a strange fluke I was happy to see the Packers back on track.
I got the best present from my son and dil–a Kindle Fire! It is so much easier to read–he transferred (or actually copied) all my books from the old one onto the new one. I’m enjoying learning the new twists. I have always used the largest size font and now I am using the 5th out of the 8 available–that 8th one is really big so I feel sure I’ll never “outgrow” this model.
Candace
That’s a lot of big dogs in the house Candace. Nice! I bet the cats rule. We watched the Packer-Bear game last night and are happy that the Packers won. I am in Wi you know.
Darlyne, that sounds like a great way to spend Christmas–surrounded by furry friends. I visited my son and DIL and their St. Bernard 8-month old, 80=pound puppy, 7-year-old, 130 pound rescued Landseer Newfoundland, 5-year old, 80 pound rescued Lab/Newfie mix and two cats–all with Christmas collars and toys all over the floor. A fun day.
Thank your girls for getting rid of the intruders.
Candace
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.With many dogs in the kennel, four in the house,(two in crates it has been a busy time. We will relax a bit today and have dinner at a friends.
My daughters are working on getting this fixed but it isn’t yet.
I am trying to read The testament but it isn’t easy with two labs running around in the house. I usually don’t read this author but it is on my Kindle and Iam finding it easier to read on the Kindle than a book, here at least. I am in WI in the land of dogs. The kennel is full, the grooming shop is busy and yesterday I watched my daughter at a training class. It is a different life here and a nice change.
Looks like GGOBIT may have to get a new name or something this spam, and duplicate spam is wearisome!
Are those last two posts something that should actually be on our site? I think not.
The movie title I couldn’t think of is “On The Beach”.
CCNL, I also recently finished reading “One Second After”. It is a frightening thing, but they make mention in the afterword or maybe foreword of “Alas, Babylon” and also that famous movie (the names escapes me at this moment) where the bombs went off and a message being received by a submarine is from the pull on a window shade clicking. Help with the name will be appreciated. There was even, (synchronicity) an episode of NCIS-Los Angeles, last night that dealt with EMP. Scary as heck!
and it is “possible”.
I just finished “The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins” by David Willman. This was another C-Span 2 interview that led to an immediate download. There are mysteries that not nearly as intriguing as this story. It deals with the anthrax scare set off by spores in letters to Tom Brokaw and others shortly after 9/11. Suspicion eventually pointed to Dr. Steven Hatfill. I remembered reading that Hatfill had won a lawsuit but not what had happened to the investigation.
Now I’m reading “Capital Punishment” by Jack Abramoff It describes his early life and tracks his experience leading up to becoming a lobbyist and serving time. It is a timely and disturbingly graphic picture of how that proverbial slippery slope is greased with money in Washington. These two books demonstrate how dramatic non-fiction books can outdo fiction.
Described in an interview and just downloaded is “One Second After” by William Forstchen, described as fiction that explores the potential of the electromagnetic pulse as a threat to national security. It sounded similar to some by Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy and Robin Cook, which contained a lot of truth. I was surprised to find the foreword written by Newt Gingrich.
“Black Tuesday” by Nomi Prins is a fictional account of the Wall Street meltdown but does it in the context of the times of 1929. It personalizes the effect on people on all sides of the all-too-similar circumstances.
Back to reading and a Merry Christmas to all.
Candace
Hello Everyone. I so appreciate this forum. Maybe my New Year’s Resolution will be to read books.
Have a wonderful Holiday Season. Be safe. Georgianna
I had already translated jeep/keep, Darlyne 
–I have to do it all the time on my own writing. Just what I need–another book that sounds like a page-turner!! Glad the Kindle holds a lot of books. I am thinking I’ll upgrade since the new ones have added two more font sizes. My daughter-in-law brought over her new Kindle Fire to show me. I didn’t think it included the additional font sizes since they never include that in listing the features of that one. It is intended to compete with the IPad. Now that I’ve seen it I really would like the color feature as well as the larger fonts. I started out using the maximum size when I got mine and more floaters are beginning to make reading hard on that one.
Candace
I should have edited this before posting. Rocky was a EMT and she wanted to keep the dog.
I just finished this book by Jacqueline Sheehan.it is about Rocky,a psychologist and an met,who finds her 42 year old husband on the bathroom floor dead. She preforms CPR but cannot revive him. She leaves her job,moves to an island off the coast of Maine and takes a job as a dog warden. She finds a lab who has been shot,saves him and goes through much trauma in order to jeep him.She meets a neighbor and recognizes an anorexic troubled daughter, an elderly lady and the sherif,and a stalker of the dogs owner who has taken her own life. There is much more to this story but the dog is a big part of it. I couldn’t put this book down even though I should be getting ready for Christmas and my trip to WI.
Raining slowly so it can soak in. Hope my wireless connection holds to post this. Very erratic–comes and goes–trying to get an appt with Apple to take the computer in to have the “fried” part replaced. Catch-22 in that you have to make the appt online which you can’t do if your computer is not working! My daughter-in-law is trying to get through to set up the appt. Once again glad I have that old book on Kindle that has become a common term to refresh my memory even as I deal with the reality.
Candace