It has been a difficult week. I apologize (in spite of the admonition to never apologize, never explain) for subjecting you to what should have been a journal entry. Not a blog post.
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The holiday weekend started with thunder and lightning beginning a few minutes after midnight friday followed by rather intense rain. Rain continued intermittently, mostly after dark, and temperatures were well below what it had been just the week before.
Now it has turned cool with rain nearly every night.
Nice.
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I recently learned something about bananas which I had never known.
If you pull off the skin from the blossom end rather than the stem end all those pesky strings go with the peel and you don’t have to either eat them or pick them off one string at a time.
It works.
Did you know that? Well it was new to me.
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Have any of you readers noticed that authors have their own way of seting-up chapters in their books?
In one series of books I’m reading the author uses very short chapters. Chapters are often just two or at the very most five or six pages with the top of the first page of the chapter devoted to “Chapter xx”
Another has very long chapters but with a space or *** or other sigal at various places in a chapter signifying a change in time or place or story flow. Those breaks seem to be random in number and placing.
That choice of style doesn’t stop my reading other than momentarily (misplaced modifiers stop me more surely and make me more prone to take time to mentally correct the grammar). My go-to example is “We only sell Fords” which instead of indicating that they sell only Fords … no other makes such as GMC, Honda, Subaru Dodge, etc.. Instead what it says is they only sell Fords … they don’t finance or provide any other service..
But back to chapters … I just thought chapter style was interesting.
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I saw a very interesting phenomenon this morning. One of the small black birds which seem to have been defending nests stopped while passing over the massed daisies and unidentified small yellow flowers just across the street from my front porch and seemed to be hovering similar to a hummingbird.
It startled me. Now I will be watching more closely to see if it really happened or if it was an optical illusion.
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I got a few more pictures of the local blooms. Queen Anne’s Lace … little white daisies … Yarrow … unknown little yellow daisy-like flowers … red clover and some others. But my computer is being switched from an old computer which is dying to a new one and so the pictures will wait until the transfer is complete.
There should be photos next week.
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To end the week …
As hard as it may feel, it is better to stand empowered and alone, than diminished and surrounded by people who don’t care.
— Grandmothers’s Wisdom
So, ‘til next week …