Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Hunting Season by Nevada Barr
Aches and pains this morning. I get a lot of exercise volunteering at Baptist Center. I sit and stand up, sit and stand up, handing out sack lunches.
I have found two fleas on Blitzen. Park sevice puts ground up corn etc on park. The wind has been too heavy to put any down this spring. It would not stay. I will give Blitz a shower with flea soap. he hates showers.
As it turned out, Blitzen did not resist taking a shower. he even seemed to enjoy it. Of course, Lady Chica was there, too. She begs for a shower.
I seem to be so tired this aft. It may be allergy and I can't breath. Listening to *Hunting Season* on tape. Nevada Barr. I have read this before. I know *how* the murder was done but not who.
I kept busy all day but I don't see much result. Sorting fabric for one thing. We went to the park at seven. Ray was there with Charle and Maggie and Miles with Mickey and Avery.
Lady Chica patrols the fence during all the time. If a dog comes near she snarls at him. Sometimes she just looks, with that mother look. (Anna Pigeon says that mother look is more frightening than anything.) Today a little, little dog chased her away. Amazing. She went back however.
BOOK REVIEW
Nevada Barr, *Hunting Season*. I knew when I took the tapes out of the library that I had read this book. I knew from reading the dust jacket. Within two or three chapters I remembered the *how* of the murder. The pivotal mystery in this book is *how* the victim was killed.
Anna Pigeon, the park ranger, has been transferred to the Missippi Trace. A dead body is found and the investigation begins. This book has less description of the environment. I have my suspicions of the murderer. Listening to tapes is more fun bc I can't read the last chapter. I am tempted sometimes to listen to the last tape.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
I have found two fleas on Blitzen. Park sevice puts ground up corn etc on park. The wind has been too heavy to put any down this spring. It would not stay. I will give Blitz a shower with flea soap. he hates showers.
As it turned out, Blitzen did not resist taking a shower. he even seemed to enjoy it. Of course, Lady Chica was there, too. She begs for a shower.
I seem to be so tired this aft. It may be allergy and I can't breath. Listening to *Hunting Season* on tape. Nevada Barr. I have read this before. I know *how* the murder was done but not who.
I kept busy all day but I don't see much result. Sorting fabric for one thing. We went to the park at seven. Ray was there with Charle and Maggie and Miles with Mickey and Avery.
Lady Chica patrols the fence during all the time. If a dog comes near she snarls at him. Sometimes she just looks, with that mother look. (Anna Pigeon says that mother look is more frightening than anything.) Today a little, little dog chased her away. Amazing. She went back however.
BOOK REVIEW
Nevada Barr, *Hunting Season*. I knew when I took the tapes out of the library that I had read this book. I knew from reading the dust jacket. Within two or three chapters I remembered the *how* of the murder. The pivotal mystery in this book is *how* the victim was killed.
Anna Pigeon, the park ranger, has been transferred to the Missippi Trace. A dead body is found and the investigation begins. This book has less description of the environment. I have my suspicions of the murderer. Listening to tapes is more fun bc I can't read the last chapter. I am tempted sometimes to listen to the last tape.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Joe Grey, talking cat
Off to Baptist Center. Still asleep altho walking around. 8 am
10:37 am Well, things are slowing down. On nice days we get a lot of people. Actually we only gave out 180 sack lunches. At 11:30 we had a crush of people seeking groceries, about five at the same time. I find that confusing. I have to look up each in the data base. They are allowed to come in only once every thirty days.
Came home. Could not get to sleep. Grp Con meeting tonight. I am Primary Purpose AlAnon secy. Must read minutes.
I am so tired tonight. Last night I went to sleep while the book on tape was playing. Took dogs to park. Ray brings Maggie, and she sat under a tree waiting for her person.
AlAnon meeting was intense tonight. Topic was Step Six, about letting God remove your character defects.
Short grp conscience meeting.
BOOK REVIEW
Shirley Rousseau Murphy, *Cat Breaking Free*. Her hero is Joe Grey, a cat who talks. There are three talking cats. I could deal with that but they can also read. If one does not think about that too much, the books are delightful. Again, girl flicks. Do not recommend for a man.
I have also started reading James Patterson, *Beach Road*. I am trying very hard not to read the last chapter.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
10:37 am Well, things are slowing down. On nice days we get a lot of people. Actually we only gave out 180 sack lunches. At 11:30 we had a crush of people seeking groceries, about five at the same time. I find that confusing. I have to look up each in the data base. They are allowed to come in only once every thirty days.
Came home. Could not get to sleep. Grp Con meeting tonight. I am Primary Purpose AlAnon secy. Must read minutes.
I am so tired tonight. Last night I went to sleep while the book on tape was playing. Took dogs to park. Ray brings Maggie, and she sat under a tree waiting for her person.
AlAnon meeting was intense tonight. Topic was Step Six, about letting God remove your character defects.
Short grp conscience meeting.
BOOK REVIEW
Shirley Rousseau Murphy, *Cat Breaking Free*. Her hero is Joe Grey, a cat who talks. There are three talking cats. I could deal with that but they can also read. If one does not think about that too much, the books are delightful. Again, girl flicks. Do not recommend for a man.
I have also started reading James Patterson, *Beach Road*. I am trying very hard not to read the last chapter.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Monday, June 16, 2008
Karen Grigsby Bates
Slept in. The dogs want to play this morning. Seeing that squirrel seems to motivate them.
The squirrel is a normal size. I meant that it was six feet away from the window.
Spent the day listening to tape and sewing. And now I have four more bags full of fabric acquired this evening. A friend of Lea gave her boxes of fabric, mostly satin. Sienna and I divided it tonight.
Sienna is Lea's grand daughter down for a month from Alaska. She is a doll.
Happily I can take my dogs with me to Lea's house. I don't have to walk them when I get home. Actually they will flake out for about 48 hours.
I am exhausted. Getting that fabric was so exhilerating I am exhausted.
BOOK REVIEW:
Karen Grigsby Bates, *Chosen People*
This is what I call "chick flick" fluff complete with recipes at the end. I enjoyed it thoroly.
The author is black and most of the characters as well. Otherwise it reads like any other book. This is an enjoyable read for a mystery afficianado (as I said, my spell check ends my internet session).
As a sociologist I was glued to the page. This is blacks assimilating into white culture, like Tony Hillerman's Navahos.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
The squirrel is a normal size. I meant that it was six feet away from the window.
Spent the day listening to tape and sewing. And now I have four more bags full of fabric acquired this evening. A friend of Lea gave her boxes of fabric, mostly satin. Sienna and I divided it tonight.
Sienna is Lea's grand daughter down for a month from Alaska. She is a doll.
Happily I can take my dogs with me to Lea's house. I don't have to walk them when I get home. Actually they will flake out for about 48 hours.
I am exhausted. Getting that fabric was so exhilerating I am exhausted.
BOOK REVIEW:
Karen Grigsby Bates, *Chosen People*
This is what I call "chick flick" fluff complete with recipes at the end. I enjoyed it thoroly.
The author is black and most of the characters as well. Otherwise it reads like any other book. This is an enjoyable read for a mystery afficianado (as I said, my spell check ends my internet session).
As a sociologist I was glued to the page. This is blacks assimilating into white culture, like Tony Hillerman's Navahos.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Nevada Barr
We nearly tore the house down this morning. There was a squirrel in the tree outside our window. The width of the sidewalk. These are not trees they are ??? mimosa???? Anyhow, it gave a clear view.
Editing: The squirrel sat in the mimosa which has no bark and gave us a clear view. I think he heard the dogs barking.
This will give the dogs something to do while I am gone all day. I am going with Martha and Jeff to something at Bass Hall.
I think the squirrel has taken up residence in Sunset Gardens.
Paulette: eighty-six is rhyming slang for nix
Martha wanted to know if I was on speed. I think I drank a lot of water yesterday and that gets me high. You have to be careful how much water you drink.
We went to the Reata, a restaurant in Ft. Worth. We had an appetizer of pecan mashed tamales. Then I had salmon chowder. Then molten choc cake. I cannot even describe it.
We dawdled in Barnes & Noble. I tried to read an article in Harpers but it was obscure.
Off to Bass Hall to see the Chinese gymnasts. Oh my goodness. I said that Silver Sneakers has given me an appreciation of what they are doing. I have come home to try getting up off the floor.
Came home to take a nap after I get off the floor. Martha is driving to Laredo. Car thermometer said 102. it feels like that.
I slept for a couple hours. We went over to the park about 8 when the temp had cooled. A dozen people there, coming and going. Miles was there with Mickey and Avery. Nuka was there with her person. Blitzen couldn't get the big dogs to run the fence with him.
So tired. It was exhausting watching those gymnasts.
Book Review:
Nevada Barr, Falling Liberty, on tape
Anna Pigeon's sister falls ill and Anna goes to New York to be with her. She stays on Ellis Island with a friend in the Park Service and enjoys wandering around the abandoned buildings thereon. of course we have a minute description of her wanderings and the buildings I have a vague feeling I have read this book before. I remember action in abandoned buildings on Ellis Island.
At the dog park I am reading *They Marched Into Sunshine*, author to be supplied. It is a book about Vietnam and riots at U of Wisconsin, juxtaposed. I was teaching in a university in 1967 and I heard about the war from returned vets. I went to teach-ins organized by returned Air Force pilots.
Shelby Foote wrote four novels before he wrote *The Civil War*. It is easy reading. He describes Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. He seems to think Lincoln devised the shelling of Ft. Sumter in order to force the South to start the war.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Editing: The squirrel sat in the mimosa which has no bark and gave us a clear view. I think he heard the dogs barking.
This will give the dogs something to do while I am gone all day. I am going with Martha and Jeff to something at Bass Hall.
I think the squirrel has taken up residence in Sunset Gardens.
Paulette: eighty-six is rhyming slang for nix
Martha wanted to know if I was on speed. I think I drank a lot of water yesterday and that gets me high. You have to be careful how much water you drink.
We went to the Reata, a restaurant in Ft. Worth. We had an appetizer of pecan mashed tamales. Then I had salmon chowder. Then molten choc cake. I cannot even describe it.
We dawdled in Barnes & Noble. I tried to read an article in Harpers but it was obscure.
Off to Bass Hall to see the Chinese gymnasts. Oh my goodness. I said that Silver Sneakers has given me an appreciation of what they are doing. I have come home to try getting up off the floor.
Came home to take a nap after I get off the floor. Martha is driving to Laredo. Car thermometer said 102. it feels like that.
I slept for a couple hours. We went over to the park about 8 when the temp had cooled. A dozen people there, coming and going. Miles was there with Mickey and Avery. Nuka was there with her person. Blitzen couldn't get the big dogs to run the fence with him.
So tired. It was exhausting watching those gymnasts.
Book Review:
Nevada Barr, Falling Liberty, on tape
Anna Pigeon's sister falls ill and Anna goes to New York to be with her. She stays on Ellis Island with a friend in the Park Service and enjoys wandering around the abandoned buildings thereon. of course we have a minute description of her wanderings and the buildings I have a vague feeling I have read this book before. I remember action in abandoned buildings on Ellis Island.
At the dog park I am reading *They Marched Into Sunshine*, author to be supplied. It is a book about Vietnam and riots at U of Wisconsin, juxtaposed. I was teaching in a university in 1967 and I heard about the war from returned vets. I went to teach-ins organized by returned Air Force pilots.
Shelby Foote wrote four novels before he wrote *The Civil War*. It is easy reading. He describes Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. He seems to think Lincoln devised the shelling of Ft. Sumter in order to force the South to start the war.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Flag Day
I must look up flag day in Wikipedia. Have you ever thot that Wikipedia is returning to the way the Bible was written?
June 14, 1777, Second Continental Congress adopted the flag.
10 am and Lady Chica has been determined to get me out of bed. She doesn't want anything. She wants me to look at my email. (Well, she just knows I sit at the computer.) She has gone back to sleep, but a watchful sleep. She reminds me of my uncle's cow dogs. At milking time they herded the cows back to the barn.
I call this the "Lassie Syndrome". In the original book, Lassie traverses the length of Scotland bc she needs to be at the school at 4 PM to pick up Timmie.
DOES ANYBODY WANT AN AGING DACHSUND NAMED MAGGIE? Ray is providing a foster home. He says two months. I cannot imagine him putting her down.
The sudden death of Tim Russert shocks me, as it does most of America.
1 PM Why do the dogs need to go out just when the story reaches its climax? (including tv programs but at least with a tape I can pause). I have a hunch they may pick up some nonverbal cues on my part.
The Plus size thrift store has been replaced by a regular thrift store with small sizes. Alas. I need to lose a size or get a new swimming suit. Probably Walmart.
BOOK REVIEW
The Whited Sepulchre has asked for book reviews of what I read.
*Blind Descent* by Nevada Barr is too slow for mystery readers. It is a fascinating description of what it feels like to descend into a cavern. Nevada in each book describes what Anna Pigeon (her hero) is feeling. The end of the book is usually scary.
At present I am listening to tape 7 of 9, and Anna and a friend have begun to discover a person buried for four days in a cave-in. at that point the dogs demanded to go for a walk.
We went to the dog park at seven. Ray was there with Charlie and Maggie. Miles with Avery and black dachsund. Somebody with Tiger who is a chatahoula. Women chatter and chatter and chatter.
At library I took out Shelby Foote, Vol I of the Civil War. It is a huge book and I do not expect to read all of it.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
June 14, 1777, Second Continental Congress adopted the flag.
10 am and Lady Chica has been determined to get me out of bed. She doesn't want anything. She wants me to look at my email. (Well, she just knows I sit at the computer.) She has gone back to sleep, but a watchful sleep. She reminds me of my uncle's cow dogs. At milking time they herded the cows back to the barn.
I call this the "Lassie Syndrome". In the original book, Lassie traverses the length of Scotland bc she needs to be at the school at 4 PM to pick up Timmie.
DOES ANYBODY WANT AN AGING DACHSUND NAMED MAGGIE? Ray is providing a foster home. He says two months. I cannot imagine him putting her down.
The sudden death of Tim Russert shocks me, as it does most of America.
1 PM Why do the dogs need to go out just when the story reaches its climax? (including tv programs but at least with a tape I can pause). I have a hunch they may pick up some nonverbal cues on my part.
The Plus size thrift store has been replaced by a regular thrift store with small sizes. Alas. I need to lose a size or get a new swimming suit. Probably Walmart.
BOOK REVIEW
The Whited Sepulchre has asked for book reviews of what I read.
*Blind Descent* by Nevada Barr is too slow for mystery readers. It is a fascinating description of what it feels like to descend into a cavern. Nevada in each book describes what Anna Pigeon (her hero) is feeling. The end of the book is usually scary.
At present I am listening to tape 7 of 9, and Anna and a friend have begun to discover a person buried for four days in a cave-in. at that point the dogs demanded to go for a walk.
We went to the dog park at seven. Ray was there with Charlie and Maggie. Miles with Avery and black dachsund. Somebody with Tiger who is a chatahoula. Women chatter and chatter and chatter.
At library I took out Shelby Foote, Vol I of the Civil War. It is a huge book and I do not expect to read all of it.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Friday, June 13, 2008
Friday the thirteenth
My Motto: I march to a different accordian.
Last night was one of those nights when I could not get to sleep. I did not want to start listening to a tape where Anna Pigeon is hanging on a rope descending into that cavern by El Paso.Carlsbad Cavern. After four cups of coffee I feel fine this morning.
Our little walkabout in the complex was so exciting. We (Blitzen, Lady Chica and I) saw a squirrel. He sat in a tree and chattered at us.
Finally began to listen to *Blind Descent*. Sewing and then fell asleep.
We waited until 7 PM to go to the park and even then it was too warm. By the way, Maggie who was quarantined now lives with Ray. Maggie is a weiner dog who nipped a little girl. She was quarantined at home, that is, at the place where Tom the owner was staying. Tom was staying with his niece, and the husband wants Maggie put down.
Does anybody want a weiner dog age 10 or so.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
Last night was one of those nights when I could not get to sleep. I did not want to start listening to a tape where Anna Pigeon is hanging on a rope descending into that cavern by El Paso.Carlsbad Cavern. After four cups of coffee I feel fine this morning.
Our little walkabout in the complex was so exciting. We (Blitzen, Lady Chica and I) saw a squirrel. He sat in a tree and chattered at us.
Finally began to listen to *Blind Descent*. Sewing and then fell asleep.
We waited until 7 PM to go to the park and even then it was too warm. By the way, Maggie who was quarantined now lives with Ray. Maggie is a weiner dog who nipped a little girl. She was quarantined at home, that is, at the place where Tom the owner was staying. Tom was staying with his niece, and the husband wants Maggie put down.
Does anybody want a weiner dog age 10 or so.
Hugs, Dr. Liz
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