What's Happening???

I just started reading Crime and Punishment and I am enjoying it so far. I need to read more Russian authors, because I always enjoy them when I read their novels.

 

Family reunion and a 3 hour drive today. Not looking forward to the traffic, but it will be nice to see the relatives and their respective offspring.

 

YES.
This makes me happy.

 

Russian novels and novels from the American south are bae.

 

From the south?
Hmmm I read a few by Faulkner.
I don't recall any else.

Any favorite authors?

 

Flannery O'Connor is a good southern writer. She does a sort of southern gothic thing, her work is very dark

 

Christmas miracle ... Contractor found his plum-bob .. hopefully he stays away now..

 

The day after Christmas is always a little odd. Like you're not quite ready for the new year and to take the decorations down, but you know that the holidays are coming to a close. I'm not ready to let go.

 

Your caption suggests otherwise...

 

I'm ready ...and I'm not ready, I guess.

 

turned the water off to do some plumbing.. sat down and did a dab..went to get water there was no water.. now I have to do what I dont want to do .. its to nice outside. rocking 61F and sunshine makes its much warmer on the body.

 

Two drifters off to see the world
There's such a crazy world to see
We're all chasin' after all the same
Chasing after our rainbow's end

 

Well one.
. . . but, tooth-less

 

Now that the food coma has worn off from these past few days, I'm going to work out! I've always been into fitness, but this year, I want to become really strong. Like if the zombies show up, I'll be ready to take on the end of the world. #nyresolution

 

I see some family member got the boy across the way a battery motor bike. Wonder how long it will be til another crackhead family member steals it..

 

Or rides onto your property. And we all profit from the story that you'll share with us.

 

no much damage he can do with a battery bike. but I will be reporting them to child services I see the kid over the car wash alone or anywhere else a 4yr old dont belong.

 

that would be the day..

 

Eugenia Price

 

when i was 4 years old, there wasn't any place i didn't belong,

but then, where we lived, everybody's neighbors kept each other informed of where their kids were and what they were up to.
and did so unobtrusively so the kids wouldn't know about it and feel the had the freedom.

but then again, in those days people didn't think poverty nor wealth were an excuse to be inconsiderate, the way they seem to think both are today,
and the example, they didn't set the example of being inconsiderate, at least not openly in public, of each other.

i'm not saying kids were always kind to each other, but there was a lot less looking for things to tear up, and no one set the example of claiming it was ok to do so.

(that where i grew up were small towns surrounded by wilderness and the total human population was less then a quarter of what it is today, may have had something to do with it,
but i believe the culture really was different, that people were more aware and thought more about how to not make each other's lives difficult. this could have just been where i was though)