Pedln, thank you, we're fine here, nothing but sudden limbs in the woods falling. My grandbaby John and I were actually sitting in the creek which comes off his little pond his daddy made him in the woods, and digging in the sand. We felt nothing but we HEARD in the woods plop plop of branches falling and one quite close bang, of a fall, otherwise nothing but the occasional old dead limb down in the yard.
Wow on the damage in the DC Arlington area, I am glad you're all right Mary Page and Frybabe, and anybody where it hit.
Frybabe, lookit you go, here you hesitated but just kept swimming and I bet the end is in sight, is it? And we got to share in it as you went! Congratulations! We'll throw a party when you graduate!
I saw film of them flying around the Washington Monument, have never heard of an earthquake on the East Coast, what a strange thing! I wonder what this means about the plates shifting, and what it might mean for CA? I seem to have developed some kind of major obsession with PLATES. We actually have earthquake insurance because I remembered light years ago as a Geology lab assistant being stunned to find out that a very old fault line runs right under our area. Nobody seems to know anything about it and it's never mentioned but it's definitely there and has a name, so we took out earthquake insurance and I recall being laughed at at the time. That was 32 years ago. I hope we never have to use it. We just, however, are getting a new roof, because of the storm damage from earlier this year.
Carolyn!!! Good for you, telling the Librarian about our Latin classes!! Well done! Maybe she can visit us someday, I bet she'd have some wonderful recommendations for books, too!
That's interesting about a Latin teacher turning into a librarian, back in the day here in the States one could get a Masters in Library Science (is that the right termination, former Librarians here?) with a BA in something other than library science, and I once thought that would make an interesting line of study (till I found out you have to have a super organized kind of mind to do it hahahaa).... But I understand that is no longer the case? You have to now have a BA in Library Science, is that right before you can then take an MA in it? And today in the schools they are Media Specialists, that almost is another degree in itself. I know that a real librarian is something to be prized and they are being fazed out of the state prisons here simply because it costs so much to have one.
I am continuing with First Wives Club and loving it. It's just the type of book I need now as I am still plowing thru Antony and Cleopatra by Goldsworthy, boy that guy is hard to read, either in iphone or in regular print. While you're reading him each sentence is gold, you want to underline it and dog ear the page, etc., but it's like a buffet on a cruise: too many items, too much, you are surfeit with info after a paragraph and you have to put it down.
Is one developing ADD? One worries about this reading Goldsworthy. But one can't stop. At this rate ONE will be 1000 years finishing the book.
I wonder if I had it on audio book if that could possibly make a difference? I'm running out of formats!
If The First Wives Club keeps on like this I'm going to read all of hers in order. It's a perfect Beach Book. I do have some qualms about the protagonist, and a decision she is making, but I guess that's what makes a "dive in and enjoy" book good.
