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I am glad you can also enjoy them
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Village Clubhouse~Place For Fun! / Re: Four Letter Word Game -Ch...
Last post by Vanilla-Jackie - Today at 01:59:20 AMLamp
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With all the books I downloaded when Ecuador came into my radar I thought I had enough to read through the winter - and probably do - however, it is heavy slogging for much of it is full of information new to me that alters my view of history and current affairs and so... there are a few books I've recently downloaded regardless of my pile - Some what lighter, both fiction and 'How To' books - Today Amazon had a freebee that sounded like a quick read - The Honeysuckle Cafe - haven't started but my guess it is a quick chit chat story... what I'm getting a kick out of that to me is humorous is, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by Edwards - The book starts with what I could not help but chuckle over...
"Guernsey, Guernesey, Garnsai, Sarnia: so they say. Well, I don't know, I'm sure. The older I get and the more I learn, the more I know I don't know nothing, me. I am the oldest on the island, I think. Liza Quéripel from Pleinmont say she is older; but I reckon she is putting it on. When she was a young woman, she used to have a birthday once every two or three years; but for years now she have been having two or three a year. To tell you the truth, I don't know how old I am. My mother put it down on the front page of the big Bible; but she put down the day and the month, and forgot to put down the year. I suppose I could find out if I went to the Greffe; but I am not going to bother about that now."
(Greffe refers to the clerk's office, the records, or the clerk (greffier) in a court or legislature, managing official documents and proceedings)
He goes on and on about his life in this self-effacing dry and emotionless way as if anything that would be traumatic or a drama to another is just matter of fact... It is one thing to think that way but to write it without fan fair so the reader gets the tone - wow I'm impressed. This writing style reminds me of Dylan Thomas - he wrote Christmas in Wales in that same non-emotional stick to the facts tone, and I love his writing...
"Guernsey, Guernesey, Garnsai, Sarnia: so they say. Well, I don't know, I'm sure. The older I get and the more I learn, the more I know I don't know nothing, me. I am the oldest on the island, I think. Liza Quéripel from Pleinmont say she is older; but I reckon she is putting it on. When she was a young woman, she used to have a birthday once every two or three years; but for years now she have been having two or three a year. To tell you the truth, I don't know how old I am. My mother put it down on the front page of the big Bible; but she put down the day and the month, and forgot to put down the year. I suppose I could find out if I went to the Greffe; but I am not going to bother about that now."
(Greffe refers to the clerk's office, the records, or the clerk (greffier) in a court or legislature, managing official documents and proceedings)
He goes on and on about his life in this self-effacing dry and emotionless way as if anything that would be traumatic or a drama to another is just matter of fact... It is one thing to think that way but to write it without fan fair so the reader gets the tone - wow I'm impressed. This writing style reminds me of Dylan Thomas - he wrote Christmas in Wales in that same non-emotional stick to the facts tone, and I love his writing...
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Don't think I could manage the -41 or even the 41 - overcast all day here and this morning had to turn the AC on - it was so humid and the the house was 74 - not too hot but with the humidity a half hour of AC made all the difference.
Tomorrow evening Paul and Sally come over for our Christmas and then on Tuesday they are off to Lubbock to be with their boys - since I've made a different set of plans for myself for Christmas I am feeling light and bouncy
Tomorrow evening Paul and Sally come over for our Christmas and then on Tuesday they are off to Lubbock to be with their boys - since I've made a different set of plans for myself for Christmas I am feeling light and bouncy
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Soda Shoppe / Re: Soda Shoppe December 1...
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For the holidays
#20
I'm on my merry, merry, way;