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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Of course... even when I'm not reading...
I'm reading.  I always read the newspaper, The Houston Chronicle. How I still miss the long-gone Houston Post.  Oh, how I miss the Chronicle from the time when it was a real newspaper instead of a mournful shadow of itself. 
 
The mail periodically brings, well,  periodicals:  The Economist, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Consumer Reports, Texas Highways, Texas Parks and Wildlife, a plethora of home decorating mags, and the public relations publications of Adubon Society, Houston Zoo, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Nature Conservancy and para-church pubs.  
 
The latest addition to this list is our Christmas gift from our god-daughter, Holly:  Mental Floss where knowledge junkies get their fix, an entertaining, kooky, fun and thoroughly delightful read which David and I both enjoy and highly recommend:
 
And, of course, I seldom miss my daily devotions.  "Of course," just as my great grandmother, Mama Calahan, said to my sister and me.  "Of course, I know you girls completed your morning devotions long ago, but Mrs. M_ and I enjoyed a late start to our morning and hoped you wouldn't mine joining us for ours.  It's so nice to have good, young voices to read and sing for us."  Of course, neither of us had given a single thought to ever doing any morning devotions although I think we have often done so since.  For me morning devotions are now an "of course" just as they were for my great grandmother.  This year my devotional readings are coming from two sources:
  1. Jowett, John Henry:  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year.  New York Chicago:  Fleming H. Revell Company, 1924.  Project Gutenberg.  Kindle.  Each day's reading in a short commentary on a scripture reference which I'm incongruously reading in the Amplified Bible, the Lockman Foundation's Kindle edition.
  2. For a number of years now, my daily Bible readings have been taken from a lectoinary.  This year I'm using the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops with readings from the New American Bible.  I'm posting a link to today's reading.  http://www.usccb.org/nab/today.shtml
Now, that LadyBird is happily jumping up on Cathey's kitchen counters and that  Rice Owls Baseball was on hiatus followed by an out-of-town series before returning to Reckling Park and that most of my post-funeral correspondence has been attended to...  I had time for a   Fiction Binge: 
 
Braeme, Charolotte M.:  Dora Thorne.    Project Gutenberg.  Kindle.  Braeme's (1836-1884)  last name is correctly spelled "Brame" but often spelled variously including "Braem" and her pseudonym for U.S. published books is Bertha C. Clay.  She was  the author of Grandma Wieland's "now that's a story" Married in Name Only.  Grandma's other book for which I'm still searching was titled, Wed and Parted.  I read Dora Thorne because it is the best known book of an author associated with Miss Toosey's Mission as part of evelynwhitakerlibrary.org.  I recently had an email from her great great great niece. FICTION ROMANCE 19th Century
 
Whyte-Melville, G. J.:  Kate Coventry. An autobiography.    T. Nelson and Sons, 1909. Project Gutenberg.  Kindle.  I read this book about a year ago but somehow never noted it in my journal so this is a second reading.  An amusing story and an excellent depiction of "the new woman."  There is a good deal on horsemanship (or horsewomanship) and fox and stag hunting.    FICTION ROMANCE 19th Century HORSE HUNTING WOMEN'S FRIENDSHIPS COUSINS FAMILY NOTE CALAHAN
 
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Bye-Bye Birdie
Lady Bird, the border collie puppy, came to visit on Good Friday and went home on April 30th.  She grew from a 12-week old puppy (terrible two's in human years) to almost 16-weeks (a tweenager) and was either terribly sweet or horrid most of the time.  It was an experience for all of us. Her last couple of days were near perfect.  Mandy was willing to play with the pup and it was fun to watch them play herding games but   I'm the only one who misses her at all.  Mandy's reaction was to show me the kennel and ask if she could have the uneaten puppy chow.  Cathey had a lovely trip to Ireland and I can tell I'm going to have to follow in her footsteps one day.
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