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Hello and welcome :)

Hello and welcome :)

I don't think that's off topic at all. My grandma used to read me a story called "Little Black Sambo", which was horribly politically incorrect, but I loved it. I don't think it's the nice stories that stay with us, but those that teach us something worth remembering.

Hello and welcome.

:lol: We had a couple of huge bird kills here a few years ago - red-winged blackbirds. They determined that fireworks being set off on New Year's Eve were responsible - the fireworks didn't hit the birds, but scared them from their perches - they ran into things in the dark, or couldn't find...

As I read these, I thought back to the books I read my own children when they were little. Definitely quite different. In most of today's children's literature, no one dies, nor is punishment for one's actions terribly severe. Basically, most modern children's stories are "nice." I wonder if...

I bought a lovely book of natural photography for my dad for his birthday.

Are you "not sure" as in you've seen it and you can't quite decide whether you like it or "not sure" as in you haven't seen it and don't know?

Yes. Can you make any bird calls?

I don't remember - very sad :( Again.

Erin Morgenstern who wrote The Night Circus is also an artist, and there was a lot of lovely imagery in the book.

Yes - I grew up on a chicken farm and some of the roosters would get pretty mean. I had to get stitches once. What do you take in your coffee?

Sorry to rub it in regdog, but I believe we are expecting a high of 79F today. I've been out digging the potato patch and sweating!

I did not vote for the Wilde, but I will put my two cents in as soon as I get a chance to start it. It's been a busy week.

I hemmed and hawed over continuing the series myself. I have decided I do NOT want to read the rest of the series - partly because I have read a few of the synopses and I can tell that some of the books will just piss me off because the characters won't do what I think they should, and partly...

A great romance where the people hardly ever meet but fall in love anyway is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Absolutely beautiful writing style.

I think just one more would do it - I'm mostly doing the ebook thing now. Do you grow any of your own food?

Hi Ema, hope you enjoy it here.

Great fruit - couple years ago I made a raspberry fig jam, it was FANTASTIC, if I do say so myself! What's up with that?

Hi Jeenie - what do you like to read? Or what have you read in the past that you liked?