Just a little note

Hello, my dear readers! : )     Well, it's been a beautiful week and I have had a simply wonderful time carving pumpkins, working at the stand and playing with the bunnies, watching John Adams and Northern Exposure, reading True Grit  for the second time (it is absolutely amazing!), drinking hard cider, and eating lots and lots of muffins and peanut butter cookies. Oh, and school too. : ) We're having...

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The Party Wire: Part 2

(I was thinking-- which is something I do a great deal of-- and I realized that the title The Party Wire really doesn't have anything to do with this story. Any ideas for a new title?)  CONTINUATION~     The man did not appear to be on the run from the authorities, for he seemed to be moving at an uncommonly slow pace, which made the situation all the more puzzling. Jennie and Betsy each held their breath...

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It wasn't THAT hard, was it?

 Well, here are the answers to last Friday's Quotes Quiz. Apparently this game was so hard that none of y'all wanted to play it! But that's alright. I guess I didn't realize I had made it so tricky, and I apologize! Personally I think some of these are really great quotes, though, so I hope you enjoy reading them! : )Quote #1   Aunt Juley: All the Shlegels are exceptional. They are British to the backbone, of course, but their father...

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The Party Wire

 Normally I don't post things related to school on this blog, because, y'know, who really wants to read about that anyway? But last week in my history there was a lesson about the great American painter Norman Rockwell, and the writing assignment for the lesson was to write a short story about one of his paintings, namely one that had been shown in the lesson. I love writing little stories, especially silly ones (although...

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Another Quotes Quiz!

 Today we will have another quotes quiz! I made this one a little trickier than the last one, but I hope it's not too difficult. There are 12 quotes in all and five points will be awarded for guessing the correct movie, and five points for guessing the character who says the line. If there are two characters, ten points will be awarded for guessing them both correctly. The blanks are where there are characters' names, and in one case...

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The Joys of Autumn

  When the pumpkin yellows  And the standing corn  Is pale with frost, and cobwebs  Hang silver in the morn,  When Orion rises  Over fields cut bare,  And the fallen apples  Smell cidery on the air,  Then comes the witches' Sabbath  Of the flocking crows;  Standing by the barn door,  Every farmer knows  When he hears that clangor,  Hears that windy flight, ...

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Allow me to set the record straight

It occurred to me that, in the time since this blog came into being in February of this year, several of my views on a variety of different subjects have altered considerably. I have written things that I now feel differently about, and so I decided it would be a good idea to write a post addressing some of the areas in which my views have changed.  In this post, written back in April, I said that I was not very impressed with the television...

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