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Life & Events > 101 in the Shade!

101 in the Shade!

The air was just like warm syrup when I stepped outside to
walk a little before seven a.m. I met two charming cats and
the black and white socks cat tried to follow me home. Cats have very little loyalty I am afraid.

I am happy to have the girls with me every day. Ashley is remarkably more mature now and has stopped her incessant
crying over every ill, both real and imaginary. Adrienne and Dakota are still an item. It seems that in middle school one trades insults with one's friends and she has enlightened me about the grades and degrees of the insults.
She has an adorable Chinese girl, Erika, as one of her best friends. They are both A students but I think perhaps that
Erika is not boy crazy which Adrienne definitely is.

I am having an awful time finding anything worth reading at
the library. I nodded off last night reading a book called Ruby's Spoon. English authors are my favorites but this book is either slow getting started or dry as dust.

Have a good weekend!

posted on Aug 21, 2010 6:27 AM ()

Comments:

I envy your weather! We are having a decisively 'wet' period to say the least

I noticed in your reply to troutbend you mentioned the word 'cor'. I tend to use that word a lot both in speech and in writing. It is a word which has been altered from its original meaning which is 'god'. The people of London used it and gradually, it changed its sound. A couple of examples are:
'cor, I didn't know it was that time = God, I didn't know it was that time &
'cor blimey = God, blind me (this is used as an 'exclamation' at or about something). Hope this has helped a little -

comment by febreze on Aug 23, 2010 5:11 AM ()

I'm still slogging through the 50s and 60s and 70s paperbacks I think we got from a discard box at a used bookstore many years ago. There are a few good ones, and the rest are mediocre, but unless they are really bad, I stay with them in hopes of a redeeming feature in the story or the writing. I'm working on three different ones right now: a very very wordy one by the guy who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman, a non-fiction about a 1950s safari in Africa, and one about an American soldier who got leprosy in the Philippines when he was involved in America's War with Spain in 1898. It didn't manifest until nine years after he'd returned to the USA.

comment by troutbend on Aug 21, 2010 9:07 PM ()

Ruby's Spoon turned out not to be worth the time it took to read it. It had a very complicated dialect that I had never read or heard before. For instance cor means cannot so you had to be mentally translating as you went.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:12 AM ()

One of the reasons I am moving back to Texas is to be closer to the girls. They keep my spirits up.

comment by redimpala on Aug 21, 2010 5:22 PM ()

You are making a wise choice I think. We have never regretted for a moment moving nearer my son and his family.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:14 AM ()

Have you ever read anything by Wally LAmb? I just got his newer book out from the library because I loved his past two, I like it... The best by him was "She's Come Undone" (imo) but this one now "The First Hour I believed" is good thus far!

comment by kristilyn3 on Aug 21, 2010 9:22 AM ()

I read She's come undone and liked it. I will look for his newer one.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:16 AM ()

Still have not weather there.We are having cool nights now.Daytime low humidity.The way that I liked it.

comment by fredo on Aug 21, 2010 8:51 AM ()

I would love to be able to spend more time outside. I was hot and sweaty
when I finished watering. I should get in some good porch time this fall.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:22 AM ()

cats are loyal-well as long as you have food

comment by grumpy on Aug 21, 2010 7:35 AM ()

true but I can overlook that because I admire their independence and supreme arrogance.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:24 AM ()

I read a story where a woman lost her cat. After some time went by, she and a friend went to a shelter to get another cat, and left without choosing one. When they returned to make a decision, they noticed that her lost cat was there. They were told the cat had stopped eating after she left the first time. When I returned from a New York trip a couple of years ago, my cat, Brunswick, jumped up and raced to me when I walked in the door.

comment by tealstar on Aug 21, 2010 7:15 AM ()

China was always very fussy with us when we returned from a trip. She
would go under the be and sulk for an hour or two before she would seek
us out and bestow any affection on us.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:28 AM ()

It is hot here too so I spend way too much time indoors. Isn't it neat to be able to spend time with your grandchildren? Bet it makes you so happy that you moved.

comment by dragonflyby on Aug 21, 2010 7:12 AM ()

We spend a lot of time indoors too and I need to do some weeding but the weather doesn't cooperate. It was so humid this morning.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:30 AM ()

Geez... 101... it's almost fall here (not that I'd want it that hot).

comment by jjoohhnn on Aug 21, 2010 6:55 AM ()

I am so looking forward to autumn. It is my favorite season.

reply by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 7:31 AM ()

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