When I opened the back door for the dogs, I discovered the chickens already wandering around.\u00a0 We never braved the rain last night to put them away.\u00a0 Actually, they put themselves away: heading into the coop to roost just about dusk.\u00a0 But we close the various gates to keep them in and potential predators out.\u00a0 Last night, however, it was pouring like crazy and it just never happened.\u00a0 They appear no worse for wear.<\/p>\n
My husband said when he got up to let Ivy out in the middle of the night, the frogs were singing.\u00a0 Not a surprise when you look around this morning.\u00a0 My neighbor’s woods have been transformed into a wetlands.\u00a0 We didn’t get rained on and I thought it looked like it was clearing.\u00a0 Then, as I sat down to write, I noticed that it was raining again.<\/p>\n
I’m spending the day with my parents.\u00a0 We’ll do some shopping and if it does clear take a walk in Colonial Williamsburg. \u00a0 Dinner is easy, just have to get the chicken in the crockpot this morning.<\/p>\n
I managed to finish the VITAL newsletter last evening.\u00a0 Just two or three more of them to do.\u00a0 I wondered if I should try to continue but I think it’s time to bring it to an end.\u00a0 I do get comments from several people about how much they appreciate it.\u00a0 And, I never really know what I’m going to write about for the opening essay.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 So, the other day, when I heard through Twitter that the Bryant Park Project<\/a> was going to have a book club<\/a>, I decided to join in.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 What to do?\u00a0 Turn to the Kindle.\u00a0 Sure enough, the book–In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar–was available.\u00a0\u00a0 I saved about 5 dollars buying the Kindle version.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 But, for now, I have plenty of other books for which I can do that.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I opened the back door for the dogs, I discovered the chickens already wandering around.\u00a0 We never braved the rain last night to put them away.\u00a0 Actually, they put themselves away: heading into the coop to roost just about dusk.\u00a0 But we close the various gates to keep them \u2026 Continue reading