With regard to my last post: discussing this question with a couple of people, family "things" dominate the answers. I'm with this like I am my Seven Ideal Dinner Guest List: I don't go family, mostly because having to end the event would be too heartbreaking.
And, btw, I have more 3 Questions for another day.
While waiting to fall asleep last night, I started thinking about Fancy Blogs. You know the type I'm talking about: the header photo is of a row of drying yarn, folded over the back garden gate. It's yarn they hand-dyed using the berries they picked over that weekend in the mountains. While waiting for the yarn to dry, they'll be mending that quilt of their great-grandmother's. They found it in that cedar hope chest when their partner offered to refinish it once they get back from coaching their children's soccer games. (Oh, and they also provided the postgame snacks, having come across a wonderful recipe for Quick Energy Bars.)
I'm lucky if I can find a stock photo or a publishable GIF to load here, and they're sharing pictures of their pretty crockery with pretty food on it on a table with an heirloom table runner and a seasonal floral arrangement visible in one of the upper corners. How do they do that? Even if, just off-camera, the dog is throwing up on the couch and the children are screaming at each other and that picture of the table is just shy of loads of things pushed out of view, they still found time to take and load pictures and come up with those Creative Writing-type entries. Maybe when I'm trying to fall asleep tonight, I can cook up something interesting to say, and a poetic way to say it next time.
My son, in addition to being a podcaster himself, enjoys listening to lots of podcasts. We share many tastes, so I've found enjoyable episodes in casts he has recommended. He likes "The JV Club," where comedian Janet Varney interviews famous and semi-famous people. At the end of each episode, she asks her guests some interesting questions, and in one I listened to, she asked her guest, "If you could witness any three events in past history or in the future, what would they be?"
Mine:
1. The Sermon on the Mount
2. The Gettysburg Address
3. The 1973 Preakness Stakes
I imagine I went through the story of Tap's name when he got here, but last night I was working a crossword puzzle, and one of the clues told the entire story nicely.
You might remember that his name at the shelter was Gene Kelly. Now, Kelly was remarkable in many ways, but that little guy (who could not make it up the front steps of this house when he arrived) was not a "Gene Kelly." So, I went to my favorite dancer:
I have tried to begin posts with each of the following, but nothing spurred a whole entry, so here they are all together. Then I'll be done with them.
Reading, reading, reading:
and some others.
All the Michigan ACLU Please Vote postcards have been finished and mailed back.
I watched "Anna Christie" (Garbo Speaks!)
My dandy lion/dandelion guy is done:
Some of you are also doing this: I've been writing postcards to voters for the last several days. Voters here in Georgia, plus in Kentucky and Michigan, will be getting cards with my purple ink on them. I'm not sure if it's my posture, or the way I hold my pen or what, but I can't do too many at a time without my arm starting to hurt. I think I'm down to about 50 more to go.
On the subject of mail, I've been giving avid bookshop here in Athens as much business as I can during the pandemic. Most of it is to support a local business, but some of it is so I'll get these cool packages from them:
Last night, I decided that today was going to be a "Just Eat" day. Since my weight loss, I've tried to be consistent and healthy in my food choices, but last night I wanted pizza.
I've had a good nails game today. This is a shiny deep burgundy called "Gloomy Kitty."
This is my day.
Well, it's an animal, I'll give you that much of a clue. But what kind of animal? You can leave guesses in the comments, and mayb...
