I need one less (or two or three!) interests in my life. I live at home almost all the time. But the world is at my fingertips here, thanks to the world-wide-web, and it's here that my mind fills to bursting with ideas, with images, with opinions, with travel, with friendships, with family relations both alive and long-departed, with sports of many types, with laughter and with sorrow, with art of many kinds, with eye-candy that is non-fattening, with the highs and lows of rooting for a golfer or a tennis player or a baseball player to win their games, with foods and how to prepare them, with diaries and journals that are better than any published books I could buy, with beloved pets, especially dogs that make me want to go over and hug my own two furry coinhabitants here...

All this I have at my fingertips, and it seems that every single day I must touch on most if not all of those listed above, and more that I haven't thought of! More. There is always more, more, more to read about, to linger on, to engage in, to admire and to ponder.

For these reasons, I have been, once again, neglectful of writing my own blog, so this is just a quick explanation of why.

I did spend quite a long time yesterday preparing an entry at my "other" blog, entitled "Hawthorne's Way with Words." I am tending to enjoy doing those more than my Thoughts from Crow Cottage blog recently. I've been doing a lot more reading in real books of late, as well, and that eats up good portions of the days, and a lot of that reading relates to Hawthorne and also to some ancestral topics I've landed on.

Another time-consuming project I found myself embroiled in recently was my family tree construction - my maternal side of the tree - in which I tracked all direct links from my mother to as far back as the late 600's in Norway to a very, very distant relative named Heytir Heytsson, born in 680 a.d. in Romsdalen, Rauma, More og Romsdal, Norway, and died in Rauma, More og Romsdal (or Raumsdal), Norway, date unknown. Yes, I traced every generation from my own mother, born in 1925, back to a Norwegian ancestor, "Heytir Heytsson" who was apparently born in 680 a.d.

That project took me two whole days to organize. I am still double and triple checking that tree but I needed a little break from it all!

So it's now back to the tennis match, and as usual my lady is not the winning one - yet. She was ahead 3-0 and then blew that whole lead to lose the 1st set 6-4. Makes me want to turn it off and go read a book!

Until next time, cheers!

Bex

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Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (10) Share on Facebook		2014-10-05 12:57 PM What's The Buzz? Tell Me What's A-Happenin' I need one less (or two or three!) interests in my life. I live at home almost all the time. But the world is at my fingertips here, thanks to the world-wide-web, and it's here that my mind fills to bursting with ideas, with images, with opinions, with travel, with friendships, with family relations both alive and long-departed, with sports of many types, with laughter and with sorrow, with art of many kinds, with eye-candy that is non-fattening, with the highs and lows of rooting for a golfer or a tennis player or a baseball player to win their games, with foods and how to prepare them, with diaries and journals that are better than any published books I could buy, with beloved pets, especially dogs that make me want to go over and hug my own two furry coinhabitants here... All this I have at my fingertips, and it seems that every single day I must touch on most if not all of those listed above, and more that I haven't thought of! More. There is always more, more, more to read about, to linger on, to engage in, to admire and to ponder. For these reasons, I have been, once again, neglectful of writing my own blog, so this is just a quick explanation of why. I did spend quite a long time yesterday preparing an entry at my "other" blog, entitled "Hawthorne's Way with Words." I am tending to enjoy doing those more than my Thoughts from Crow Cottage blog recently. I've been doing a lot more reading in real books of late, as well, and that eats up good portions of the days, and a lot of that reading relates to Hawthorne and also to some ancestral topics I've landed on. Another time-consuming project I found myself embroiled in recently was my family tree construction - my maternal side of the tree - in which I tracked all direct links from my mother to as far back as the late 600's in Norway to a very, very distant relative named Heytir Heytsson, born in 680 a.d. in Romsdalen, Rauma, More og Romsdal, Norway, and died in Rauma, More og Romsdal (or Raumsdal), Norway, date unknown. Yes, I traced every generation from my own mother, born in 1925, back to a Norwegian ancestor, "Heytir Heytsson" who was apparently born in 680 a.d. That project took me two whole days to organize. I am still double and triple checking that tree but I needed a little break from it all! So it's now back to the tennis match, and as usual my lady is not the winning one - yet. She was ahead 3-0 and then blew that whole lead to lose the 1st set 6-4. Makes me want to turn it off and go read a book! Until next time, cheers! Bex ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Check out my other blog, "From the Hawthorne Tree" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Pages from the American Notebooks, Nathaniel Hawthorne Passages from Hawthorne's English Notebooks ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2003 - Present Archives at Diaryland 2007 - 2009 Archives at WordPress 2009 Archives at JournalScape 2010 Archives at JournalScape 2011 Archives at JournalScape 2012 Archives at JournalScape 2013 Archives at JournalScape 2014 Archives at JournalScape Read/Post Comments (10) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top