Hot~~~Humid~~~Blahhhh~~~Books~~~Etc.

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Another hot/humid week...  Mon. high forecast is 91 degrees.  Followed by 95, 93, 90, and 91 degrees, the rest of the week.

There was "Jazz In The Park," on Sun. evening.  Free concerts, in the lovely Park.  But we didn't feel like going down...  When it's been a very hot/humid day...  -sigh-

One of those books, which I didn't read fully.  It's a skim, and get what I want, from it book. 

It's an in depth look at the history of the Renaissance Faire.  I've never been to one.  But when I was on "Live Journal" blogging, there was much talk of Faires and attending them, etc.

You can read more about this book ("Well Met"), at "Good Reads", by clicking here....... 

Our kitchen faucet was (finally) replaced, last week.  But the sprayer hose was installed in the wrong place...  Meaning, I can't pull the sprayer up far enough...  So we have to get the plumber back again this week.  ~~~~~~  It will only take about 5 minutes, and "Uncle A." could do it...  But I don't want him to.  We have had so much trouble, getting this ding-dang-faucet set fixed, that the plumbers should do ALLLLLLLL, on it.

I'm losing track of what books I have linked to...  Here.  I've been reading faster than reviewing books, on "Auntie's Reads 2013" and this has to stop.  I mean, I have to review, post, link to... right after I finish a book.  So I don't get mixed up.

Anyway, I loved "Buried In A Bog" (#41) and you can read my review, by clicking here....

I also loved "Bweitched, Bothered, and Biscotti"  by Bailey Cates!!!  My #42 book this year.  And the 2nd in this delightful series.  Loved it!!!!!!!!!

You can read my review, by clicking here....

Sad thing is, since finishing the above book, I've been hitting-a-wall, as to finding books-I-really-enjoy.  Oh I've gotten books out of the library.  But end up, losing interest in them.  -pout-  OH Bother!!!   But have a queue of "Cozy Mysteries" coming.  Hope they are really fun!!!

Well, I'll close this kind-of-blahhhhh post.  ,-)  No need of spreading my "blahhhh-ness," any farther, in Pretty Blog Land.  Hope your Monday is not starting out "blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"...  :-) 

Weather~~~Words~~~Meaning~~~Moods~~~Music~~~

Gabe and Daddy...  "Making" faces, sitting together, at edge of the pool...

 -chuckle-  Just noticed that the above picture, should have been rotated.  :-)  Oh well...

Gabe (3 years) seems to have discovered a "new" mood, and how to "display" it.   SAD...

"Pop" ran out of cookies, in his work-shop stash of Cookies.  Now this isn't earth-shaking.  But seems as if Gabe latched onto this fact, and became SAD. 

Here is another example, of Gabe, showing SADNESS.  He would come in, stand there, just look SAD...  :-)  I DID NOT just tell him; "Oh you don't have to be sad."

Children have a right to "own" their feelings/emotions.  I don't like to tell kids, they *should not* be/feel this, or be/feel that.  I told him it was OK to feel SAD, sometimes.

"Nana" is a great believer in watching what one says to small kids.  At least, I try to be.  Think before one speaks, etc.  "Listen" to the message, we are REALLY sending, to a child.

Our understanding of words, and their understanding of them, differ greatly...  Especially when very young.  Care-givers need to keep this in mind.  In my humble opinion.   

Another steamy weekend...  On Sunday, we had A/C on inside.  I went out to take pics of family, in the pool.  My camera lens got fogged up.

Cold camera + hot outside = steam-effect.

This picture, shows how our weather pattern has been going.  Sun - Rain - Sun - Rain - Sun - Rain.  When the rain is heavy, it knocks the flowers down.  -sigh-

Ever  start reading a book, and decide you can't really read all of it?  But you have to know "what's going on"  and "what happens"?  So you keep skimming ahead, until you have answered those 2 questions?

Hope so....  Because then, you can comprehend what I did, with "Room."    If you are intrigued, and want to know more about this book...  You can click on the click-able link....  "Room" .

Actually, this book, is an excellent example of what I said above....   That small children's understanding of "words," depends on what they have so-far-learned, in their short life-time.

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Happy New Moon!  Or Happy Dark Of The Moon!

Tonight is what is referred to as the New Moon.  A New Moon occurs when the moon is positioned between earth and sun.  The entire illuminated portion of the moon, is on the back side, the half of the moon, that we cannot see.
From: Lunar Phases Explained

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Remember the old song...  Which goes like...  "No moon at all, it's so dark, ..."  :-)

Click here, to hear Nat King Cole sing it...

"Wondering"... "Did you see...?"

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Did you ever hear of a "Happy Gene"?  :-)  Neither had I.  Until a discussion about SAD and etc.  Someone said that she was very upset, after 9/11,  and her doctor gave her some temporary medication.  It helped her.  She got her "Happy Gene" back.  And discontinued the medication.

 (RED socks)

Getting back to the way, in which this time of year  (lingering of Winter),  can really mess-with a lot of people's equilibriums...  I wonder why?  Not the "Little Why's" of...  Needing to see green things growing, or being tired of feeling cold, or wanting to run out the door, without a heavy coat on, or craving the colors of flowers...  And not even the very real aspect of SAD...  I wonder why, in a basic sense, some of us get sooooo tirrrrrrred of lingering Winter?

 (Learning the scales...)

Wayyyyyyyyyyyy back, I'm sure our ancestors had a very real fear of running out of food, at this time of year.  It being too cold to plant yet, and preserved stocks of food, running low.    THAT was a real fear, and could have really upset/worried them.

 ("Make-believe-room", behind the curtain...)

But we don't live, like that.  If we are in Pretty Blog Land, we know we will eat tomorrow.  What doesn't grow yet locally, we buy in the grocery store.  Our homes have heat.  Our vehicles get us from here to there, easily.  Snow doesn't make us house-bound.  Plus, even when we do stay in our homes, we have access to the whole world, via the Net, tv, and etc.  We can "see" the whole world, from our snug home.  But maybe, that's part of "It"?

(Gabe's form of 'Jingle Bells," softly...)

Today, we can't forget, that in some places, flowers are blooming.  We see up-close-and-personal photos/film of loads of blooming flowers and green grass/trees/shrubs, as far as the eye can see.  Somewhere.

If we couldn't seeeeeee all that beauty, would we crave it?  So would our lack of this craving, help us to not be so upset/unhappy with a lingering Winter?

-chuckle-  Running low on blogging ideas.  Could you tell????  -grin-
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Did I link to my book blog (Auntie's Reads  3013), concerning "Vampires In The Lemon Grove"?  Well, if not, here is a link....   Please click here....  Thank you.
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BLOGGER  WATCH:  
 

Did you happen to visit "BJ" while her blog was switched to a whole different blog look???  It's back to looking like it always does, now.  But yesterday, it was totally weird.  What happened?  If it happened to her, could it happen to us?  Could our blog, all of a sudden, be somehow *changed*?  Eeeeeeeek.  What next, to worry about?????????????
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Perk up! Perk up! Perk up! :-) (And New Addition)

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Do the hands look out of proportion, to you?  They look smaller than they *should* be, to me.  The painter (Isaac Snowman) lived from 1874 - 1947.  My thought is, that small hands were a much-prized beauty effect, on a woman, during his lifetime.   Maybe...  ?  :-)

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I'm reading "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" by Karen Russell.  A collection of short stories, which are kinda' wild and crazy and unique and interesting and....   :-)  Have 7 read, just 1 more to finish.   Then I will post about it, on my book blog...  ("Auntie's Reads 2013")  
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With only snow-snow-snow photos presenting themselves here...  I think it's time to seek a better mood.  "Time To Get My Bunny On" or something.  -grin-  And where can we usually go, to get an upbeat post?  Why to S.B., of course!

See if you can keep a smile, from creeping onto your face, when you click right here.....  Please and thank you.
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New Addition... 

BLOGGER  WATCH

"BLOGGER STOLE OUR SLIDESHOW VIEWER... IT IS GONE GONE GONE... WAHHHH. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU CLICK TO ENLARGE AND THERE IS A SLIDE SHOW? GONE GONE GONE..WAHHHH"

Found on Sandra's blog.  Click here please...

Thank you Sandra, for the 'head's up'

I noticed this, but didn't have a Name for it.  She does.  Have you noticed this?

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Still unsure... Of blog-look preference... ,-))))

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Yes, I'm still going crazy here, with COLOR!  -grin-

And still using Blogger Backgrounds.

Which is about as crazy, as all this COLOR! is!!!  Because I rarely use Blogger Backgrounds.

Actually, I don't know WHAT I want my Blog Look to be, right now.

Nor have I tried to do even-any-water-color-dots-or-splatters.  

Plus, it has been and is still SNOWING in my world.  Everything looks like a Cosmic Baker is sprinkling Powdered Sugar about, with wild abandon!  Everything is covered with *it*.....   

-chuckle-

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 I am really NOT longing for Spring.  I'm not.  I'm simply, a wee bit tired of Winter.

Those 2 things, are not the same thing.  ,-)   Not in "Auntie's" mind, at least.

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Oh, oh...

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Oh, oh...  I think it's finally happening...

The *long-ness* of this Season, is setting in...

Dull...  Dull...  Dull...  Dull........................  The world outside my windows, looks dull, dull, dull, dull, dull, dull, dull.........

-sigh-

Look at those colors...    Dull, dark, flat, not uplifting...

Hardly any color, to speak of. 

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Color!!!!!!   That's what I need!!!!   Color!!!!

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Bright splashes of color.....

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I can't paint the trees or the bushes...   But I suppose I could paint lots of color, on paper.........

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Then again.......   What reason do I have, to be made sort-of-depressed, by the dullness of the late Season of Winter???  That is such a small *discomfort,* compared to all the possible endless real discomforts, in life.  So I should be put-out-at-myself, for even allowing my mood to be made sort-of-depressed, even for a small amount of time. 

So there!!!!!!!!!!!!

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