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There was a great full moon last night, and I do hope you got out to enjoy it. You may have read that this is the last blue moon before July 2015, if you think a blue moon happens when two full moons occur in a month, which happened just last night. But blue moon has more than one meaning. It is sometimes the second full moon in the month, or it can be the fourth in a season (which usually is three months so a year has three), but in any case, it doesn’t happen often.
The seasons can have more than one meaning too, depending on your experience. In N.TX. where I live, the summer is punishing, and I don’t like to see it come along. Even though there are pleasant associations with vacation, it’s just too hot for me to enjoy, and closing up the windows is not greeted with pleasure. I much prefer September, happening today, and am so happy to see the Harvest Moon coming, at the end of this month.
There’s a beginning of fall here in PA, where I’ve been visiting all summer. The leaves at the tips of the trees are turning. That’s something that always makes me glad. Of course, usually I don’t live where the cold is a problem. When I hear people talking about the fall being a sad time, harbinger of winter, it’s surprising to me. Of course, my Texas winter doesn’t really start until January and lasts about two-three months.
When fall comes here, in NW PA, the windows close down. In N. TX., where I live and where I will be returning in a very few weeks, the windows can go up. I escaped the bad times, the heat dome that toasts the N.TX. area during summers, and I am so happy that I did.
Fall may be the time for planting, especially for putting in my iris tubers and spring blooming plants. It’s the time I always look forward to cooling off enough that I can go out and take walks, breathe the cool air, even get some sun. Here up in the north, it’s about bringing in crops, especially the wonderful sweet corn.
When I spent a summer in Maine, I heard that there were two seasons – winter and August. When I lived on Okinawa as a child, I didn’t have winter at all.
Is fall something you look forward to, or does it make you dread the cold to come? Or is it the heat of summer you want to see leaving now, after a particularly nasty one?
We all have something we’d like to consign to once in a blue moon, and make that seldom as possible. My choice of season to have least of is the summer.
Last night's blue moon
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Rabbit rabbit rabbit. (How you start a month, for good luck.)
Since I’m going to an artefact show, demi will be helping out later as host/ess here later, and many thanks.
My 4th grade teacher told me that and I’ve been doing it ever since. Passed it on to my children, too. I pluralize each ‘rabbit’, though.
Good morning to you Ruth. Happy Weekend.
If I could consign one thing to be a ‘once in a blue moon’ thing? Taking my kids to cheerleading practice :(
I don’t like sitting their for an hour and a half, in the heat, twice a week. Going to the games is fine. I’m okay with that part. Just don’t like practices.
Ah, yes, summer football practice always looked like a good reason to stick to soccer, also. I see it’s 100F today in Dallas… sorry.
Good morning, Ruth and Kris and any lurkers!
I like fall because of the colors and the crisp air and the hint of smoke, but I don’t like fall because it means winter is coming, when my bicycle goes up in the garage under a plastic sheet and I have to put up with snow and more snow (NW Indiana, being east of Lake Michigan, is in a snow belt.)
I personally think snow should be limited to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and banned entirely the rest of the year.
I moved from the gulf coast to northern Iowa a few years ago.
Down south, everyone would wait for that first cool front in late September that dropped the highs down to about 80 and dried out the humidity. Everyone looked forward to winter, and by the time April rolled around, you started dreading the upcoming summer.
Up here, most summers were about like autumn down there–very pleasant. In fact the first couple years I lived here I did without air conditioning with no problems. I remember one summer where it only hit 90 one or two days.
So, the perceptions were just the opposite. Here, people were sad to see summer end.
Now, that’s changed. Our last two summers have been brutally hot. A couple of days ago it was 99. And many, including myself, are looking forward to fall.
Falls here were always nice, as they are in most places. So, it should be enjoyed on its own merits, and not dreaded because of the looming winter.
I always dread the cold to come, though I look forward to the lower energy bills.
We’ll hit 100 in the Austin area, too. I’m supposed to go hold a sign outside the polling place for our Tax Ratification Election. I’m thinking I might pass, let the other volunteers do that work, and just be the hero that brings ‘em cold water.
Good morning molly!
I love the smell of the fires in fall. Always makes me smile.
I’m not a snow fan, either. When my wife and I were deciding on a place to move to a couple years back, we both decided that we would go somewhere with no snow. Snow is fun to look at and visit, but sucks to live in.
There in the bicycle belt … had to throw that out. Ah, the nip in the air. That crispness doesn’t come into the air in N.TX. until almost December sometimes, and it’s hard to wait out the heat dome most years.
My kids were swimmers, so we sat through a LOT of practices and meets in warm, steamy, chlorinated air. Mostly we could drop them off and pick them up from practice, but the meets sometimes went on all day, or two days.
Oh, and ‘winter is coming’ = A Song of Ice and Fire, one of the most awesome series of books evah!
That real heat seems like it just happened a few times, here in PA, this year. But it was unusually dry. You got the TX heat dome, I suspect, it wandered north this summer and was horrible for everyone, especially anyone dependent on growing crops.
Sheesh. If I had to do it for 1-2 days at a time I don’t think I could!
Lowering those electricity/gas bills is a great reason for skipping the extremes – my elected path this year. Will you folks please make sure the summer ends by Sept. 12, when I get back? Thx.
The iceman cometh? heard that somewhere…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iceman_Cometh
Oh, you probably would, to see your kids swim a race and sometimes even win. And it became our social life. We’d stay at the same hotel with the other swim parents, bring food and drink, and mostly enjoy each others company.
And of course they swam and competed year-around, so there wasn’t a break!
No no no, Winter is Coming. So much cooler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_is_Coming
Should’ve read the wiki before I posted the link. That’s about the pilot episode of the HBO show and has nothing to do with the phrase recurring throughout the first 5 books.
Sorry to “hit and run” but I have to get to the Farmer’s Market (and it will be crowded!) and then my daughter & family are coming from Indianapolis. So I gotta get going on the day.
Have a great one, and great weekend. I may peek in later to see if you are all behaving, or if you’ve voted on a place we can all move to! HA!
I grew up in and around Houston and I remember summers being much wetter. It was like clockwork. Along about mid afternoon the “popcorn” thunderstorms would fore up and those things could dump a whole lot of water in a hurry. Though I no longer live there, I still keep an eye on the climate, (because I have a long term control to compare it too), and it’s been routinely much drier in the past couple of decades.
My nephews were swimmers, too, and had that kind of social life, too, really liked it.
Our little one (prominently featured in this news story, in case anyone missed it, watch the video), does cheer in the fall and softball in the spring, so we get 1.5 seasons off. I don’t think I could go year round.
For working class people like myself, that’s just not an option.
Good morning everyone.
Thank you for the post Ruth.
We had a cold front come through last night and it is cool and windy this morning after 90′s most of last week.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Sounds worth exploring actually, and ‘Iceman Cometh’ was really just joking about your carrying the cool drinks. I remember reading some of Little House on the Prairie, about the intense cold, and making my kids shiver one winter.
Good Morning Ruth and Pull Up a Puppers
I was just outside looking at the moon again. It seems to have been full for two nights now. I’m also looking forward to the Harvest Moon next month. And, I want to look up the rising time because I love to see it on the horizon. It appears So Big.
Many trees in the Midwest are turning color early because they have been under stress from heat and drought.
Happy fresh veggies to you! Hope to see you later.
What I moved to northern Iowa from the deep south, the question on everyone’s mind was, “how can you stand the cold”?
It turned out that–or dealing with the snow–wasn’t the real problem.
What I hate about winters here are the colors–everything is grey, white, and brown for months on end. It reminds me of dirty diapers. That’s it, I live in a world of dirty diapers.
Also, I noticed that during winter when you go outside, you can’t smell anything–no dirt smell, no vegetation smell, no rain smell–everything is frozen up tight.
in me yute, whenever we needed our spirits lifted we’d go out and moon everyone
blue moon we called it
It’s been a long haul, and I know exactly what you are dealing with. That makes me all the more aware that getting to retirement is something that really needs to happen for all of us.
That sounds dreadful. I like for the natural world to be alive and present, ya know?
Relief is good. How good to hear you’ve got a taste of livable weather. This has been a hard summer to get through.
hmmm
I’m not in a great mood today, am thinking *maybe the blue moon*
but nowadays a man my age would get arrested for it
*sigh*
Our moon is so very cool. By far the biggest ratio of moon to planet in our own solar system, (Pluto doesn’t count, sorry). There are some researchers who claim that life wouldn’t exist here if it wasn’t for the moon. I don’t hold to that theory because that worked for life on Earth doesn’t mean it’s the only way to do it. I grew up in the midst of the race to the moon, next door to NASA and everybody around me lived, breathed and ate moon shot. I’ve been reminded of that since Discovery Science has been running a series of moon related shows in honor of Neil Armstrong.
Like Molly, and prolly most people, I love the scents and colors of fall. Autumn is my favorite month. It’s not here yet, but it’s dropping hints every few days. Oh boy, Oh boy!
The ice used to build up and get dirtier and dirtier, the winters I lived in the NE. I remember how monotone it seemed, but the smells were something I didn’t miss – discovered bayberry candles then!
Living in N. Ill. I noticed that too.
Usually the leaves start changing the 3rd week of Sept. and really turn the first two weeks of October, in a normal year.
This year I think they will be off the trees by mid-September, just my guess.
Galena, Illinois has a large festival which coincides with the 2nd weekend of October and the leaves are really beautiful walking in the park. Hope they make it that far this year.
Oh, glad you mentioned it, not a great time for mooning, the winter.
Gonna be a while for me and at the risk of sounding political, if the cat food folks get their way, it may be never.
Funny, rising always does seem like the moon is bigger this time. We took pictures last night, and when it first came up it was the best.
Harvest moon coming at the end of September, we’ll have to go out and take some more photos. My albums are bursting with beautiful pictures, guess I can do some organizing in the cold indoor months.
All three of them? ;)
I can finally get some things done outside without coming in to take two or three showers a day. Not that I am a clean freak, just very uncomfortable in the heat and humidity.
With the folks from the South on here and what they endure, I should not complain at all. Like demi, I love Autumn, but hate what comes after it.
We’re used to that in N.TX., and I have a hickory tree I have to water if there is any fall color at all. Last summer I had to water just to keep it alive.
G’Morning, Mr. Canyon
I’ve noticed that the seasonally changes have been happening about a month or so earlier than in the past. The crepe myrtle trees that usually don’t bloom until September or later put on their colorful gowns starting in July. And, our heat actually started in May. We didn’t even get much June gloom here.
Me too. However, there is at least one positive aspect of climate change: I went through all of last winter without having once heard “So much for global warming”.
Ruh roh. I didn’t grasp that.
Maybe a reminder to put up a pot of coffee. :)
The cherry trees in D.C. play around with the dates of the Cherry Blossom Festival, this year were a distant memory. It makes planning events to go along with weather a losing proposition, to have this weird weather change we’re seeing.
Margaret,
Good one on that comment!
I laughed out loud.
Chris Issak’s version of Blue Moon.
Ugh – a grim reminder of fall.
Dove season opened today. My back fence-line is actually the city limit line, so everything behind me is county land. Open for hunting. The volley of gunshots hasn’t stopped since dawn, at least a dozen shots a minute.
Ruth, Margaret, and demi,
I love this Saturday morning PUAC, and I thank all of you for what you do to ease into the weekend. We do not really cover politics like we do for the rest of the week and it is a real comfort level for me on Saturday mornings.
Thank you again.
Oh, dear. That’s doesn’t sound pleasant.
Good Morning, Kris. Yeah, play the hero today. You’ve worked so hard for this. If you have a superman t-shirt, you might consider wearing that. :)
I usually go topless on Saturdays…
Oops. No edit button.
Ruth, when you have to take off for the show, can you lend me the Edit Button? :)
I missed that edit button too. I was going to add the Diner to the good discussion days too, but no edit.
I’m glad you enjoy it and for my part, you’re welcome.
Good morning, Ruth and PUAC pups. Good subject, Ruth, as summer is beginning to morph into fall. Grew up in northern Ohio and have many fond memories of fall, the crispiness of the mornings, the pleasant temps of the afternoons and the Saturday pick-up football games with neighborhood kids down at the local elementary school. Indian summer especially, that last hurrah of warmth before cold weather set in, the fall colors and the smell of burning leaves. Can picture it like it was yesterday.
I notice that the doves start shying away in that season, when they’ve been downright pushy before. My driveway has a place they like to bathe in the gravel.
I’ve noticed that, too.
We typically have some in the backyard in the morning, or at least on the power lines visible from the back of the house.
None in sight today. Lots of other birds, but the doves seem to understand that they’re being hunted.
I’m glad for the respite, too, but it is hard to stay off politics altogether. It’s a big part of our lives.
Like Peg said, you’re most welcome.
I almost said, yeah what a team, but you know, I truly consider that everyone who comes to PUAC, especially the faithfulls, are on the same team. One Big Happy Family.
(Although I will say working in concert with Ruth and Margaret is a true pleasure.)
Wish I could, but as I’m just about to shove off now, you’re going to need to go back and reply instead, to correct things. Sorry.
Good Morning People,
Waking to 56 F this morning, sun and no wind. Been out to check the apple trees to see how they are doing and to disrupt the feeding pattern of the near neighborhood deer a little. I might get a couple of apples reaching maturity and into my larder that way.
Ha! I was thinking about adding a link to a youtube of We Built This City On Rock and Roll, but decided that might invite politics.
(poking my finger in my cheek, and batting eyelashes.)
Oh, yes, and anyone remember raking and burning the leaves? I had that a few times, and it was just glorious, something we don’t get in the south.
I like the rotation because it means that a single one of us has to be here EVERY Saturday, with our butts in a chair. Like today. I have to get motivated because I’m going to drive up to Kerrville and see some wonderful friends. Hope everybody has a great Labor Day weekend!
I have coffee now, so that should help with my typing.
I hope you really enjoy the show, and knowing you adore artefacts, I’m sure you will. Hugs to you and yours.
I too am lamenting the lack of an edit function. That should have said that the rotating schedule means that one single person doesn’t have to be here every Saturday.
No apples here, it got warm then froze when the trees came into bloom. The deer are having to content themselves with corn, and elderberries. Just finished off the elderberries we’d kept fresh yesterday, my first ever. I could get to these PA goodies.
Well yes you might have because I might have argued it was also built with sex and drugs.
Wow, a nice drive and a visit to good friends. Sounds great, Peg.
Are you spending the night there? Gonna barbeque and such?
Glad we’re taking turns too, I like that we get different ideas and backgrounds in play. (and thanks for sharing)
Hi Ruth, thanks for getting the thread going today. Our little island micro-climate is sometimes a wonderful thing, our apple and a majority of our cherry blossoms survived the early spring.
My favorite aspect of this rotation schedule is that the idea and functioning of, happened organically, pretty much. Ya know what I mean? Like people really can work together and without quorums and focus groups and all that red tape.
Sorry to leave so quick, wanted to stay at PUAC and visit for a while, but the mrs is calling me to help her set up with the yard sale at her mom’s house. Have a great day everyone if I don’t get back.
Okey Dokey, here ya go then:
We Built This City!
Because, hey, it’s Saturday Morning. Bring on the R & R! The other two are optional, but definitely allowed.
Glad you were able to be here, but priorities must be respected. Don’t get in trouble with the Mrs. And, it sounds like a worthy project. Keep mom happy too.
Lucky to have room for growing them. A friend with a small orchard near me in N.TX. called it the ‘bird feeding station’.
I wonder where my old man is?
That’s a fair point. We seem to have been through several rotations until we hit upon one that works. Yep! Spending the night and camping. I’m providing the buns, which are freshly baked onion rolls. Yummmmm.
Get into line, back there! (joke)
Speaking of your dad, did he ever get his test results?
Another aspect of the turning season is New Wardrobe! As a child, I always got new school clothes. I don’t buy new clothes very much any more, but it’s a real treat to pull out the jeans and long sweaters. During bouts of 110 degree weather, it’s short shorts and sleeveless t’s. Doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination and well, carrying a few extra pounds is much easier with the long clothes.
It’s a scientific fact, I think.
Moonstruck comes to mind. Spuds is making breakfast, just getting ourselves off to the artefact/atlatl show and running late because all you folks are such good people to talk with.
These apples are pretty much taking care of themselves as remnants of part, very small farm operations at this place. There is a wonderful pear tree, wild plums whose blossoms entirely scummed to the frost, and formerly cultivated green and red grapes that are too quickly found by the wild turkeys.
He keeps stuff like that pretty close to the vest with us kids. My understanding is everything is fine. No Big C. But we’ve never really had a conversation about it.
Winter clothes are much more forgiving.
Camping you say? Yay for you, Peg! Is there going to be live music?
Is this a yearly event, and one that you lamented not having the money to attend in the past summers? So happy for you.
We’re spending a coupla nights at South Carlsbad State Beach this week. Sonny has to stay home because he’s starting community college the same day we leave.
Hooray for camping!
:)
We had breakfast for dinner last night. The kids love that. It ruins my breakfast prospects for the morning, though.
part = past sorry.
I’ll have to ask him when I see his fonts again. Thanks.
Yeah, right, like that’s going to happen. (back attacha)
Let’s see….yes, yes and yes!
You’re reminding me of the day of going back to school in N.TX. when we all showed up sweltering in fall stuff, then immediately went back to summer clothes again until November at least.
Ha. We had that conversation with the kids a few weeks ago. Back to school shopping was upon us, and the girls wanted new wardrobes. We had to remind them that we live in Texas now, where they won’t need jeans until at least late October.
Ever tried hanging aluminum cans and pie pans to fend off the boids? Not that it ever works, but I see it tried on trees around and about.
We always did layers so we could strip some off or put back on, depending on the temperature. But I do like to be able to wear SLEEVES sometimes!
(Because cap sleeves suck).
I want to come with! But, aside from living so far away, and not being a party crasher, I’ve been feeling a little fluish, just plain puny for a few days.
I think I’m going with KrisA’s idea of breakfast for dinner and stick with scrambled eggs or soup or cereal here today.
The tubes need to be rigged to run the maple syrup down there. It’s everywhere here, though not for much longer.
Here, going out to pick elderberries and such we have to wear sleeves, and need the cool. But to wear sweaters was such a shortlived treat when I was in school, and I loved them. sigh
I even do arm exercises while I’m walking, but that only helps so much. But, you’re right. They suck.
Hope you feel better. I was a bit ill too earlier in the week. Not really “sick” per se but feeling very run down with just a bit of a scratchy throat. Feeling better now.
Now demi is being thrown the task of host(ess)ing, and I have to get on my way, thanks so much for coming by. You’re all such good friends.
Yeah. I’m a big fan of sweaters and would rather wear one than just about anything else. Last winter was a treat in that I never even put on the heavy coat.
Have fun! I gotta split too. Laters all!
I’m glad it was a short yuck for you. That sounds like how I’ve been feeling. I was at Big Lots yesterday and found a large jar of dead sea salts with eucalyptus oil and I soaked in that last night. Seemed to help. Maybe mind over matter, but either way, I fell to sleep pretty fast after that. Gonna take it slow today. Build my snark back up.
Ruth and Peg, you two go have a blast.
Good friends are hard to find and we’ve all spent a while getting to know and trust each other. And, that goes for alla y’all puac’ers.
I see there are now two parts to the Festival summer and fall. I remember hearing frequent highlights of the Kerrville Folk Festival, on NPR’s Folk Festival USA weekly programming, I’m thinking mid 70s to early 80′s. The wine and music festival sounds like a lot more fun to me than just a plain old music festival. ;)
The names of the performers are no longer familiar to me, but a first ever brewfest reminds me to mention the dozens of WI breweries that put out exceptional heartier beers and October festival brews each year.
Okay, it’s been established that the girls like the forgiving winter clothes. Is it like that for the guys? At all? Here in SoCal, lots of guys wear shorts all year round.
The Fall fest, called “Little Folk” has been described as a staff party that other people help pay for. I like it much better than the big fest after Memorial Day.
REALLY gotta go now! Poor Neko! She knows I’ll be gone tonight. :(
You’re cracking me up. But, I agree.
By the way, sonny went out to the garden and did some major cleaning up of some plants that had either gotten fungusy (they had grey on the leaves and shriveld up and died, but after they had produced. He came in with two loads more of zucchini. Swear! Gonna have to take a trip down to MEND this morning, after PUAC. I’m going to blanch and freeze some, but, ya know? It’s alotta zucchini and MEND will put them to good use.
Just drive safely. I know you will. Hugs!
Hey, Nonny-non, is it just you and me now? We won’t get into trouble will we?
I would need to find some of that aluminum, have not had any around for a decade or more. If I get some, I get some. The neighbor cultivates a deer food plot, just over the property line, to attract deer for his hunting season.
(and, Spud, if you’re lurking, get outta here. Get that girl to the fair. We don’t need no stinkin’ chaparonne.) heh, heh, heh.
I’m glad you are getting to enjoy it this year. There are several free music venues here this weekend within a few minutes driving time.
Sounds like folks all have things to do and places to be. Not me. I’ll be here for a while. The things I’m doing are in the next room, so if anyone new shows up, I’ll be right back to say Hey!
My hour here is up demi, sorry. Part-time residents are here for the weekend (usually from some nearby big cities) and I have two appointments to see about some potential work. These people want you there when they are here, been that way my whole self-employment life. I don’t have any set office hours. Part of what I try to sell is that personal service and attention stuff which is genuine of course. So i need to grab a couple of tools, unplug the laptop (part of my portfolio is on it) do a quick change from the garden clothes and allow myself enough time in the weekend traffic to be on time.
Have fun camping next week.
Have a productive day, Non. See how long it will be before I invite you to get into trouble again.
I may take my guitar with me this time. All the music festival talk.
Thanks for being here and for being a friend.
As usual, I am into EPUland, but I just didn’t have time to read through the whole thread. Whatever season of the year I am in is fine with me; it means that I am still alive. There is no use in hating a season because it will live out its time no matter what you do. I find it best to look at what is good about it and emphasize that because it seems to make life more bearable. For me it is the same as where you are living: look for the best and life goes much better.
Since we live in a lake community, each season has it beauty. In the summer there is swimming, boating and the US Open tennis plus other activities. In the fall it is better to get out to run or walk and get in the last of what you wanted to do during the summer. In the winter there is x-country skiing (or down hill skiing) and ice skating and fire in the fire place. Spring is the reverse of the fall and just as much fun.
Good morning, whomever is left.
I was nonplussed to see 122 posts, and it was around 7 AM! Then I saw it stared at 3:53!
Way too early.
Post 122 is at 6:09, so unless demi does show, I suppose I’m last.
Ok the time shows here as 6:34, but my time is 7 :34. So Ruth actually started at ….my mind is still too numb to do the math!!
Coffee, please!
Morning, BearCountry
I was humming Turn, Turn, Turn to myself earlier. For everything there is a season…
Sounds like you have a good attitude.
PUAC always starts at 5:00 pst. For some reason, the time stamp at myfdl is off by an hour. But, it is what it is. Glad you showed up, anyway. :)
So it isn’t ma brain attall! If the post says 6 when it is 7 here, that means we are running on Yukon time!
I didn’t think Ruth was in the Yukon!
It must be the Blue moon. That’s what it is.
Blue Moon,
You saw me standing alone…..
Ya never know where Ruth’s gonna be! Ha. Not really. She’s in The NE right now, but will be moving back to Texas in a few weeks. It doesn’t really matter what part of the country or even the globe. When we’re here, it’s Lake Time.
What I respond to is the transitions. The finest photo opportunities happen then. Water changing to ice, snow back to water. Blush of color on the ripening fruits. The hot pasty skies yielding to clarity, but first there is the clearing and the billowing sky. Morning. Evening.
Etc.
Seems like that’s a matter of faith, since the time stamp said otherwise. But what other happens to be the wise then?
Anyway, the blue moon did it’s thing, didn’t it!
That’s what you get for showing up so late. I actually posted a link to that song, waaaaay up towards the top.
I hope you know I’m teasing you.
I’m gonna take off now. Hope everyone has something fun to do on this long weekend. If you don’t already have a plan, I bet you can come up with something. A drive to see turning leaves. A walk in a park. Buying or making a soup that you’ve been craving during the hot months?
Whatever you do, make it good.
TTFN, demi.
EPU also, but Fall is myfave season a d K don’t get it anymore. Am on the plane to Bmore where I, m hoping for a tiny taste of fall. Some changing leaf olors would be very nice. Sorry about the Kindle typing.
I ‘m almost used to fall leaves in December.
Buy I ‘ve packed way too much for a 3 day trip, since today should be hot followed by rain and coolish Sunday or Monday.
Sihh. At lesst I don’t have 6 paper books with me. Yay Kindle.
I installed Kindle on my desktop, so I can put a tech book on one screen while running the app on the main screen.
But in general, I vastly prefer to read from paper. Even a contrast ratio based on proper screen calibration is too bright for comfortable reading, but that’s what is called for doing graphics or Photoshop.
Get that. Ive slowed Kindle book buyying bc so far, havent finished one on Kindle. Paper is still est for me, but this travelling thing is hard to beat. Andnow Im going to check my email.
noti e Ive given up punctuation?
I’m glad so many came by with great comments after I thought that I was in EPUland. The time stamp seems to gravitate toward Honolulu time. For instance, I made my first comment in the 10 o’clock hour, but it was stamped in the 6 o’clock hour. It must have something to do with the server time. I find the time differential to hold about 95% on comments. Once in awhile the time stamp will show my local time.
tejana, I’m just learning to text on a cell phone and it’s driving me crazy about half the time.
I just checked Amazon for the Kindle reader. Most of the versions are either not available or used.
Hmmm. Other readers? I notice that some e-books are not available for viewing on Kindle.
You are legible!
My Device is a K Fire.
Yes the ebook market is still shaking out.
K Fire is only available used on Amazon.
Hello folks. Anyone still here? I’ve been to the farmer’s market and have heirloom tomatoes with onion and garlic and olive oil roasting in the oven for tomato sauce. Just waiting for daughter and family to arrive.
I have Kindle app on my iPad (and on the iPhone, but can’t imagine reading a book on the iPhone). I don’t care if a book is paper or electronic. A friend told me the public library has thousands of ebooks available for 2-week checkout.
Our library here in bear country is expanding its holdings in ebooks. The library gives lessons in how to download and use the ebooks. It is certainly not a library from my childhood, and for that I say “Hooray.” My personal preference is ink on paper to hold in my hand, but “the times, they are a-changin’.”