Sunday, July 25, 2004
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
Took Mom and Dad to CVG this morning. They're taking a river barge from Vienna to Amsterdam for two weeks, then spending a week in England and Ireland. Nice.
Took the scenic route home, through Pendleton, Bracken and Harrison Counties. Also a quick jaunt through Robertson County, which I've always been fascinated with because it's the smallest in area and in population. Anyway, it was a pretty day and beautiful country. Very hilly -- lumpy hills closer to what's around Bald Knob rather than the gently rolling one's we've got. Since we've had so much rain, everything is still green. Very green.
Spent the evening mowing. That stupid mower bogs down if you go faster than a crawl. Frustrating.
Reading three books at the moment. Bee Season is excellent, more on it later. Feet of Clay is my second attempt to read Terry Pratchett. I tried The Color of Magic a while ago and didn't finish. This is good, but not great. Finally, Starlight (or Starsomething) can't remember by Neil Gaiman. It's good -- a faerie story in the traditional sense described by Tolkein in On Faerie Stories. Oh, and Bob Edward's book on Edward R. Murrow is in the can downstairs and I'm about halfway through that. And HMS Surprise is on tape, so I listened to a big chunk of it on my drive today -- it's excellent, O'Brian doesn't disappoint. And a P.G. Wodehouse Psmith novel (Journalist?) on the Palm for reading on the go.
Took the scenic route home, through Pendleton, Bracken and Harrison Counties. Also a quick jaunt through Robertson County, which I've always been fascinated with because it's the smallest in area and in population. Anyway, it was a pretty day and beautiful country. Very hilly -- lumpy hills closer to what's around Bald Knob rather than the gently rolling one's we've got. Since we've had so much rain, everything is still green. Very green.
Spent the evening mowing. That stupid mower bogs down if you go faster than a crawl. Frustrating.
Reading three books at the moment. Bee Season is excellent, more on it later. Feet of Clay is my second attempt to read Terry Pratchett. I tried The Color of Magic a while ago and didn't finish. This is good, but not great. Finally, Starlight (or Starsomething) can't remember by Neil Gaiman. It's good -- a faerie story in the traditional sense described by Tolkein in On Faerie Stories. Oh, and Bob Edward's book on Edward R. Murrow is in the can downstairs and I'm about halfway through that. And HMS Surprise is on tape, so I listened to a big chunk of it on my drive today -- it's excellent, O'Brian doesn't disappoint. And a P.G. Wodehouse Psmith novel (Journalist?) on the Palm for reading on the go.
// posted by Frank L. Dempsey @ 10:25 PM 
