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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Black and White Lining Up
Black and white baby calves with their Mom-mas.
Three day weekend for projects.
Cross off the accomplishments on your list.
Weeded hillside and planted five pounds of sunflowers.
Italian White, Lemon Queen and Red Sun reach up to
touch the Wolf Moon the other night.
Rain helped in the work, making the soil let go tap root filagree,
bristly mallow and bermuda buttercups. My hands ache. I like the
cheerful yellow buttercups but they are toxic to livestock. This
reminds me of outlet covers, baby proof dishwasher and cutting grapes
in halves. Caring is habit, makes me happy.
One of the Polish chickens, Red McRib recovered from "self poisoning."
She persists in eating succulents until drunk. I removed the plants; but,
she obsess on other dangers. Naughty teenager.
Update: tried a tiny pony tail on her to test if lack of eyesight is the
source of her crazy behavior.
Here's a video of her behavior:
Last weekend her party endeavors left
her shaking and blurred vision. Red black and gold
feathers scattering everywhere in a dervish.
She spent the week in the screened porch.
Isolation is hard on chickens.
I set up a soft box inside a huge plastic bin, and forced her to drink water and eat every two hours. Red's back with the crew, but not back to normal.
More skiddish and crazy yelling than before, sigh.
Below is a Kiger Mustang stallion. He visited a neighbor and is on his way
to Utah. These majestic horses are amazing. He nods his head, yes.
I asked Dave Malone to edit the Climate Change novel, I'm still playing
with titles. Okay leave me a comment: Vote - 1. Climate Change
2. The Great Drought 3. you make it up the story is about a woman
prepper in the future when water is drastically scarce.
Began the next long form novel, and booked a studio for
the Audio book. The year ahead I have my plans written down. News
media has distracted us all. I'm reading everything, mis-trusting main
stream media- frankly all print propaganda. Stay positive. Keep your
eyes open. Be extra kind to others. Big hugs to you all.
Intercontinental Hotel Friday night I will be sipping a Rob Roy
meet me there
Copyright 1/15/2017 Caroline Gerardo
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Goodreads Book Reading Challenge
2016 I did the Goodreads Reading Challenge. It was fun to keep track of
200 books (well to record most of the books I read this year). There are about 30
I started but either lost under the nightstand, left out on the porch or couldn't struggle
through emotionally. Some books take a great deal of time - all year I worked on Roland
Barthes Empire of Signs. Sentences spun in my head as I weeded in the garden.
Other books were literary, poetry, thrillers, comic books, new releases for friends and
wild and crazy.
Here is list of books, I owe a few reviews, when will I have time?
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/5010900/
I'm going to do the challenge again with same number count goal.
Writers should ALWAYS be reading, listening to spoken word readings and
writing. Long form, poems, short stories, notes, letters, handwritten and
online... Put on your writing hat, mask, costume, superstitious mask but
just write.
Caroline Gerardo


200 books (well to record most of the books I read this year). There are about 30
I started but either lost under the nightstand, left out on the porch or couldn't struggle
through emotionally. Some books take a great deal of time - all year I worked on Roland
Barthes Empire of Signs. Sentences spun in my head as I weeded in the garden.
Other books were literary, poetry, thrillers, comic books, new releases for friends and
wild and crazy.
Here is list of books, I owe a few reviews, when will I have time?
https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/5010900/
I'm going to do the challenge again with same number count goal.
Writers should ALWAYS be reading, listening to spoken word readings and
writing. Long form, poems, short stories, notes, letters, handwritten and
online... Put on your writing hat, mask, costume, superstitious mask but
just write.
Caroline Gerardo

2016

2016
TOTALS

200
books
44,337
pages


SHORTEST BOOK
12 pages
Peeling Back the Trees...
by Erik Anderson
LONGEST BOOK
733 pages
The Collected Stories
by Lydia Davis
AVERAGE LENGTH
235 pages
MOST POPULAR
480,801
people also read
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr

LEAST POPULAR
1
person also read
Peeling Back the Trees...
by Erik Anderson
MISSING BOOKS?
You can easily add books to this list by setting the Date Read for each book to any time in 2016.
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