AFTERNOON WALK |
IN OUR BACK YARD |
Under a heavy overcast sky (no rain) and gusty winds, Pheebs coaxed me out for an afternoon walk over by the Park's pond.
I recently finished my latest book, Moonfleet. What a riveting page-turning tale this book was. I sort of vaguely remembered something about an old English church with a large hidden vault underneath it when I think we studied this book in a high school literature class, but the strange thing is that there wasn't one single thing in the whole book I remembered from first reading it over sixty years ago. Nothing. But that's okay because I thoroughly enjoyed the story all over again as I must have the first time. I loved J. Meade Falkner's English prose and writing style. A true late 19th-century English storyteller. I enjoyed the book so much that I decided for my next book I would remain in the same era and in the same country. After some searching, I settled upon another novel and chose, The Secret Garden by author Francis Hodgson Burnett. I've just started this book and I am already enthralled with what I am reading. Again, I like the old English writing style. It was about a year ago now that I also took a break from my usual heavier reading fare and comfortably settled in to read some books of fanciful imagination, whimsical adventure, page-turning suspense, intrigue, and touches of magic and mystical happenings. And it was all sprinkled in here and there to keep me enjoyably captivated. These were the kinds of books I enjoyed so much as a boy and they are the books I now choose to read for the next little while here in my latter years. Tis a young swashbuckling wee lad I feel again it tis:))
LOOKING FORWARD TO MY NEXT BACKYARD CAMPFIRE IN THE SPRING |
GROANER'S CORNER:(( My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned. I couldn't concentrate. Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe. After that, I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it - mainly because it was a sew-sew job. Next, I tried working in a muffler factory, but that was too exhausting. Then, I tried to be a chef - figured it would add a little spice to my life, but I just didn't have the thyme. I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it I couldn't cut the mustard. My best job was a musician, but eventually I found I wasn't noteworthy. I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any patience. Next, was a job in a shoe factory. I tried but I just didn't fit in. I became a professional fisherman but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income. I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining. So then I got a job in a workout center, but they said I wasn't fit for the job. After many years of trying to find steady work, I finally got a job as a historian - until I realized there was no future in it. My last job was working at Starbucks, but I had to quit because it was always the same old grind. So, I tried retirement and found that I'm perfect for the job!
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Tim: I wish I had the money to buy an elephant.
Tom: What do you want with an elephant?
Tim: Nothing, I just want the money.