Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Not Having a Great Day

Things just aren't going terrifically well today - no, not really.... 

I posted a cute video of a parrot and a kitten.  It wasn't much of a blog entry, but it was something and I promised myself when I started this blog I would post something (anything) daily.  Later, I was deleting draft posts and deleted the parrot and kitten post by mistake.  I'm too lazy to go find that video again.  As I said, it wasn't much.

Next....

I went down to Noonan, NoDak, to pick up a parcel.  I couldn't bring it across the border because the shipper hadn't enclosed a packing slip with the prices of the goods on it.  So, wasted trip. 

Next....

I took my aunt to get a flu shot at the hospital.  Since I had my health card along, I thought, what the heck, I may as well get one too.  I never get flu shots; I never get flu; I seldom get colds.  But, this year, I broke with tradition.  Now, two hours later, the arm that received the needle is aching and stinging (nothing to be worried about but a bit of a reaction) and I'm starting to feel achy all over.

So now I'm going to read a book I just got (thanks to Dan Z of Saskbirds for recommending this author and his books).  I'm reading  Bernd Heinrich's Winter World; The ingenuity of animal survival.


This is an excellent book and one everyone should read - well, at least everyone at all interested in finding out how birds, mammals, amphibs & reptiles, and insects survive the cold, dark, demanding Northern Winters.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Extreme Vinyl Cafe


Bet me that I will be up all night reading this.

UpDate:  I Was.  Read it cover-to-cover and savoured every story, every phrase.  This book has mostly stories about Dave and his son, Sam.   Stuart McLean is one of the truly great among writers, humourists and story-tellers.