When I opened the back door for the dogs, I discovered the chickens already wandering around. We never braved the rain last night to put them away. Actually, they put themselves away: heading into the coop to roost just about dusk. But we close the various gates to keep them in and potential predators out. Last night, however, it was pouring like crazy and it just never happened. They appear no worse for wear.
My husband said when he got up to let Ivy out in the middle of the night, the frogs were singing. Not a surprise when you look around this morning. My neighbor’s woods have been transformed into a wetlands. We didn’t get rained on and I thought it looked like it was clearing. Then, as I sat down to write, I noticed that it was raining again.
I’m spending the day with my parents. We’ll do some shopping and if it does clear take a walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Dinner is easy, just have to get the chicken in the crockpot this morning.
I managed to finish the VITAL newsletter last evening. Just two or three more of them to do. I wondered if I should try to continue but I think it’s time to bring it to an end. I do get comments from several people about how much they appreciate it. And, I never really know what I’m going to write about for the opening essay. Yesterday was no different, but then I started writing about how the Kindle has done for books what iTunes and Netflix did for music and video: made them instantly available. So, the other day, when I heard through Twitter that the Bryant Park Project was going to have a book club, I decided to join in. But, I had also made that new year’s resolution about buying books and had just come home from Roanoke where I had majorly broken that resolution. What to do? Turn to the Kindle. Sure enough, the book–In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar–was available. I saved about 5 dollars buying the Kindle version.
Of course, there are drawbacks: I can’t share the book with others, I can’t sell it at the paperback book exchange, I can’t donate it to the library. But, for now, I have plenty of other books for which I can do that. The Kindle allows me, along with the public library, to start making decisions about whether or not I need my own printed copy of a book.
