Snippets from my journal: blogging

As a blogger once said, “Make your reading work for you,” so I am lifting items from my journal that began August 8. Parentheses are my “comments” either before or afterwards, brackets denote the source.

*(Oh, gee.) “Paul Krugman, NYTimes: “Talking nonsense is what you have to do to get anywhere in
today’s Republican Party.” [from an op-ed in the AD-G.]

*Headline: “Tired 1853 home gets some love.” Within the article, “… home peeks out …” and “But its bones were good.” (personification) [Article on the Wm. E. Woodruff house in Little Rock, written by N. Wentling, AD-G]

*Sri Lanka used to be Serendip.

* Watered the dogwood and the zinnia bed using the new, $65 hose (industrial quality, after I’d asked Daughter to buy the longest and best quality) and the yellow, twirly sprinkler.

* Pictures of this-year’s teachers in the local paper. I knew only 3 of them. I retired 21 years ago, so that’s why. My colleagues have retired, too. Oh, two of those teachers were former students.

* (Good first line for an interior monologue story) “I couldn’t move away if I wanted to.”

* (Hotter inside than outside) 72 degrees! Seeing a hummingbird at the feeder for the 3^rd time, I added some cooled nectar. A lizard between the screen and the glass—for the past two days—is nowhere to be seen. (Why I keep the windows down.)

* Metaphor for ridding the Delta of drugs and guns: “pulling weeds out of our neighbor’s backyards.” [news article about Blytheville drug stings]

*Australia is a major coal exporter. [M. Innis, NYT/AD-G]

* Names – Nearvonna, Flinn (97), Annjanette, Tap (male), Edgar Gaston & Vivian—1918-era, Bowen, Charleszella.

* A hummingbird flew around the filled feeder, but didn’t stop and sup. (Darn!)

*Southside in Independence County is Arkansas’s newest city.

*Surnames – Pitstick, Spain, Gray, Jolly, Pace, Plum, Roseburrow. (Good word-bank for a story.)

* On porch swing with different pillows. The old ones were “watered” with the zinnias last night.

* Four more days till school begins. Then the early-morning traffic will pick up. Cats went out late last night and I went to bed. They seemed eager to get back in this morning.

* “… anguished, angered and ashamed …”—Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General. (Why didn’t I write what made him thus? I seemed only interested in the alliteration.)

* “ … the working poor who don’t have health care.” [J. Kasich, GOP presidential candidate] (This describes grandson Billy, now 25.)

*Places in Arkansas – Douglas, 1914; Eight Mile – 1915; Fair Oaks.

* One-hundred years ago, Argenta––which became North Little Rock––schools opened September 20. New students had to have a permit from the superintendent beforehand. [OTHER DAYS feature, AD-G] (What a change from today!)

* “Summer lasts 37 more days,” Frank Fellone wrote on August 15.

And may the remainder of your summer be filled with hummingbirds, robins, wrens, blue jays and cooler temperatures.

   c 2015 PL            

 

               

 

 

 

 

 

 

               

 

               

 

 

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