Brad and Kim have a new baby boy. He was born August 29 at 11:14 PM. He weighed 7 lbs. 4 oz. and was 19.5 inches long. His name is Nathanael Truett White or “Nate.”
This makes 10… wonder if they will decide to make it an even dozen. 🙂
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Roberta Gellis
Ramona tells me i should post book reports too. I tell her that the kind of books i read are not as worthy of being reported, but she says that doesn’t matter, so here goes.
I picked up a book i read years ago and kept because i enjoyed it so much i thought i would reread it one day. Rereading does not always work out well for me (my interests and reading tastes change) but this time the book was good the second time around.
Bond of Blood. This was the first book by Roberta Gellis I read, and it set me on a binge of her books. It is set in medieval times, the heroine a 15 year old heiress who is betrothed in the first few pages to a neighbor. It may sound like a typical romance, but it isn’t. The description of the times is graphic and, i believe, mostly accurate; the romance is sweet and not typical of the genre.
Then i read the other book by Roberta Gellis that i have kept with the intention of rereading, The Rope Dancer. This book, if you look at the cover, looks like a typical romance. It isn’t. The heroine is a rope dancer and proud of her calling, but without a strong protector she is pretty much helpless. She is found in a heap on the road by a troubadour and his dwarf friend/servant/fool and, of course, they end up forming a small troup of players and romance blooms. The story is, again set in medieval times with a good description of the times, and the romance is non-typical and satisfying.
Roberta Gellis has a masters degree in medieval literature. It shows in her writing.
When i looked to see if there were any more books by her in the library that i have not read, i discovered that she has been writing mysteries lately. I just finished my first, A Mortal Bane. What can i say, I like the way she writes. I read it in one day, though i should have been doing other things. This book was not, perhaps, as interesting a study of the times, though descriptions of attitudes and rules of society did play a part in the story. She has written 4 mysteries. I have a feeling i will wish there were more when i finish the last one.
The Company They Keep – book
Back to back book reports! Well, I got to do a lot of reading over the last two weeks.
Very high marks for this book. I’d seen it referenced on Amazon (it’s tangentially about Tolkien/Inklings, so it was linked from other books I was looking at). Then a person, a person in the Tolkien chat room whose literary taste I was willing to trust, really talked it up. And then my Amazon gift card points roughly coincided with this surgical down time .. and I decided to go for it.
So glad I did.
Equator & jellyfish – 2 books
So, here are the two more memorable books I read while recovering this week –
1) Never hit a jellyfish with a spade and
2) Latitude zero: tales of the equator
I checked out four books and dipped into all of them .. these are the two that I fully read, the two that actually caught and captured my attention.
Patrick
Pat has decided to go ahead with his release surgery. He said that he has reached the point that he has to do it. or he is not going to be able to function. His scars are so tight right now that his chest is drawn down so much he is becoming hunchbacked and his neck is so constricted he cannot move his head. To look right, left, or up he has to move his whole torso.
He has one big job lined up which i think he said was going to take 2 months. This job involves about 900 feet of crown molding which he says is hard for him to do. Hmmm, perhaps if he could look up…. He is going to try to schedule the surgery for right after this job ends. He has made an appointment for the preliminary exam.
Going in..
So. Tomorrow is the big day.
Nervous, scared – not quite sure of what, but just that it’s surgery .. that I’ve never been ‘in surgery’ like this before. And I want them to find something, but on the other hand I don’t want them to find anything too serious .. some of their ‘comforting’ comments have being growing all out of proportion in my mind .. we all know how that goes.
I’ll let everyone know how it goes, though I won’t really know anything till the post-op appointment, which is another two weeks. But maybe it’ll be something obvious, and we’ll all know right away.
Anyway .. tomorrow noonish … send good thoughts ..
Child furniture
Chris & Christina
OK, we talked about this a while back, said I’d send photos & dimensions, so here they are.
Toy chest is 35.3″ wide, 25.5″ deep, and 18.75″ tall. Yes, it would be completely repainted and have Aleah’s name on the top.
Dresser is 46″ wide, 18″ deep (though I’d allow 20″ to account for the mirror supports), and 27/63.5″ tall (first is just the dresser, second is dresser and mirror). You can see on the side where parts of the veneer peeled; I have those and need to re-glue. But still, you can see it isn’t pristine. Fully broken in already. There is a glass shelf that goes across the middle; you can see it on the ground right now.
Pictures are at http://ramona.4101.org/furniture/. First three of toychest; next three of dresser, then one of the desk. Didn’t take dimensions of the desk – probably not something she’s ready for yet. But, Mom, if you wanted to put out word to the other extended Azbill cousins – Lisa’s sons have kids now; maybe they would be willing to take it. It has been repaired, but not refinished.