Heat Wave and Other Things

I believe we are officially in a heatwave here in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. This means we have had three or more days of temperature in the nineties. When Fred and I lived upstairs, we would take the Scrabble board and retire into the bedroom which was the only air conditioned part of the apartment. {For newer readers, Fred and I moved from the upstairs apartment in this house to the downstairs apartment in the same house. An easy concept to understand , right? Not for Verizon who took an unbelieveable couple of months to transfer the DSL from one apartment to the other apartment…} Anyway, to go back to what I was saying, now we have the whole apartment air conditioned and we are really REALLY appreciative.

I think I forgot to mention that finally the garden shop called and said they had the topsy-turvey plant hangers in stock again. So, yesterday I went down and got one and they were selling them with a free tomato plant! So, I got one and today I will be putting it together . Photos will follow. {Ummm, yes, I know I have been saying this for a few days, but today I really mean it because I have remembered where I put my cameras when I tidied them away! } I felt very sorry for the workers in the garden shop because it was so hot yesterday. I was acutely uncomfortable just standing in line. And, of course, I was being served by a lady who was a total chatterbox with everyone who was in line before me. I wanted to say, "For goodness sake, stop the chatting and get me out of here before I collapse dramatically on the floor from the heat!" But I didn’t!

I am still loving my Kindle. And yesterday I bought it a lovely new red leather cover! The black one it comes with is OK but Patricia’s Kindle deserves only the best! I bought it on line so it will be a couple of days before it gets here. I had looked at this one a couple of times but only bought it when two Kindle owners wrote about how much they liked it. The big problem with the case the Kindle comes with is that there is a tiny little plastic tab which is supposed to slot into the back of the Kindle so it doesn’t slide out of the cover. Sometimes this plastic tab works and sometimes it doesn’t. And that is the only thing holding the Kindle in place. Yes, there are two corners on the left side but nothing on the right. The new one has three corner supports and a small elastic support for the top right-hand corner. { This is elastic so one can easily reach under that corner to turn the Kindle on or off.}

Book club meeting this evening.

What I am reading:

I have almost finished The Emancipator’s Wife by Barbara Hambly
I have been rereading Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I have a sample of Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert waiting to be ummm, sampled
My next book to begin reading will probably be Mistress of The Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. I have never read anything by this author before but I liked the sample I downloaded and bought the book.

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht, 1933

Pat

June 10, 2008

I can’t wait to see how the upside down tomato plants do! Every time I go on Amazon, I look longingly at the Kindle. One day…

bambamgotchatwice

I’m really enjoying Eat, Pray, Love… I hope the sample gives you enough of a taste though. The first couple of chapters are going through the sad things the led up to her decision to do what she did… I really, really loved it when she moved on into talking about her time in Italy.

ladylovestheocean

Violet

So what happens to the books once you’ve read them? Is there a way to keep them, or do you just delete them?

Lily47

i’m interested in your experience with the kindle. i have to think this is going to be more and more the way we’ll read “books”

Dot Com Man

I am on page 663 of the 945 page “The Pillars of The Earth” by Ken Follet. It’s just interesting enough for me to finish the darn thing. I feel sure that I will skip the sequel since you told me it wasn’t all that great. I don’t read fiction as much as used too. I read every other genre on earth. But I read fiction upon occasion. The reason I read “The Pillars of the Earth” I was at a frinds house when I mentioned a book that a Texas millionaire business man, Ross Perot. commissined Ken Follet to write (he, Perot) must have read one of Follets books, and was impressed. I have the book, now in the hands of my grandso, but damed if I can remember its name. Anyway, Ross Perot, in the data processing business in Dallas, had a group from his company in Iran under contract with the Shah (sp) Of Iran. The Shah left Iran because of political pressure and the revolutionary faction locked up Perots people. Perot financed a group of ex military types, led by a former Army Colonel, to go more or less covertly into Iran. The covert team rescued the locked up team taking them out of Iran via jeep on the back roads to Turkey. So Perot commissioned Follet to

It’s been over 100 the last couple of days here but luckily should cool down to the low 90s for the next couple of days. I’m wondering why I ever left Minnesota. I want a Kindle. The are so great!

to write a book of the feat. As I said I can’t recall the name of the book. Anyway, the friend, having heard me mention the author, Follet, insisted that I must read her copy of the “Pillars of The Earth”. How could I refuse to read the book in the face of her enthusiasim. The story in my own book, describing the escape of Perots people from Iran, is a true one whereas Follet normally writes fiction. Any way, I didn’t know how to refuse reading my friends book when she pressed it upon me so enthusiastically.. So thats the story. Gosh, I didn’t mean to write so darn much about such an inconsequential thing. This reminds me to get my non-fiction Follet book back from my grandson.

Mezzo

Oh boy! Pictures!!!! And red is my very favourite color!!!!! Love ya! ~M

momof2boys2

Wow we haven’t seen 90 here at all. We are lucky to be getting into the 70’s for the next few days. It was humid over the weekend but the highs were in the low 70’s so it didn’t feel so bad. I love the Kindle too, some day I may own one. I am so amazed at how you find things and live in such a modern world. Good for you. I am clueless about these things.

gray tabby

i think we’ve had 4 days of 90’s. today, in manchester a record was reached…99 degrees… the old one was 94 in 1986. of course your kindle should only have the very best!!! take care,

grape jelly

I thought about getting a Kindle but I love good old fashioned books and probably always will 🙂

gosh I don’t seem to have read in ages. You have changed your look – like it. Glad to hear you are still enjoying your Kindle.