She was at it again last night, checking us both out for a couple of hours. I feel sorry for her. That's a lot of time to spend on a forum where you don't even post.
I feel jealous of people who have too much time on their hands. I have just sat down after being 12 hours on my feet. Melc and Cheryl, perhaps you two are very famous but you are unaware of it yet?
Living on an acreage in the north has its advantages. I got to see the Aurora Borealis last night. . It was a lovely warm fall day. There was a pair of ruffed grouse at the bird feeder while we were having dinner. Then just before we went to bed my DIL let the dogs out. She came running in to drag us all out side. I've seen them before but these were spectacular. The colours were so vivid and they were dancing. After I went to bed I could hear the coyotes howling. What a day!
Melc It all sounds awsone! I would love to hear coyotes howling at night although I know I would feel scared. All I can see and hear (sometimes ) over here is skinny dirty foxes scrounging for food. I am ready to swap around
Are you sure you want to leave there, Melc? Sounds like your son and his family have found a special place to call home. Loved hearing about your eventful day.
This place is beautiful,Cheryl I'm so happy for this family to have such a great place to live. I've loved here for the past two weeks. I've been to town twice in two weeks and haven't gone stir crazy. However I'm a city slicker at heart and it's time to head home. I'm grateful that I can have the best of both worlds. Marta I love London so I would trade with you in a heart beat. Autumn The coyotes have a certain charm. They are far away and there's something soothing for me to hear them howling at night.
The coyotes have a certain charm. They are far away and there's something soothing for me to hear them howling at night. [/quote] We have coyotes here, if you can believe it. Not in huge numbers, but enough that on rare occasions a stray can be found wondering around the underpasses in the city. ::trying to imagine them howling together with the ethereal beauty you describe::
'Children of the night. What sweet music they make.' It wasn't until I spent time in Boulder & Pasadena that I realised coyotes often produce frantic huffs & yelps, in addition to the lone & iconic wolf like howl. Whether it were onomatopoeic yelps, growls, barks, huffs or woofs, to my foreign ear these sounds remained symphonious relative to the abhorrent sounds often heard at night in Australia. Unlike the prolonged & mournful, pensive, alluring, & possibly romantic connotations of a howl, the emotions & mental imagery induced by the sounds of Australian mammals at night remind me only of astringency, overexposure, miosis, abrasiveness, a sort of sterile torment, & the grating vocals of Mudvayne's Chad Gray *chuckles Upon a howl I wouldn't be surprised to turn & glimpse a tall shadowy figure turning Mina's tears into diamonds. However upon a Ringtail's screech, I wouldn't be surprised to catch sight of Chad's head, squeezing itself through an electrical outlet.
Anybody else on here want to know where they can buy a copy of Nathan's book? Wish I could write a description...that descriptive.
Mother Nature is pissy again. Here it is the 2nd of October and we are in the midst of a blizzard! Our city has winter storm warnings out. : :
No, no, no. What is Mother Nature thinking? I heard today that it's snowing in Wyoming and Colorado, too. It's hard for me to imagine that because it's 82 (27C) degrees here today. I'm ready for it to cool down some, but a blizzard is taking it a little bit too far. One day you're picking tomatoes and the next day it's snowing? Mother Nature, get your act together.
Don't know if he's aware, but Nathan has a small fan club here. He has so much good stuff stored in that awesome brain of his. I'm honored to call him my friend.
No, Mel. I'm not pissy at all actually! I just feel so honored that you and Cheryl finally figured out my true, higher level of being! I try to keep it all together, but you know what they say, "into each life some rain must fall."
Rain I can handle. Snow in early October...not so much. Lighten up Autumn/Mother Nature. You have all winter to throw snow at me!
If you insert coins into my ear, a book may emerge from one orifice or another. Does that not explicitly communicate the possibility that if I ever were to write a book, that it may well be awful? Moreover, perhaps, does it not acknowledge the honest author who admits that the process of producing a book is often significantly painful?