Colors

my fave color changes with my mood, but more than not it turns out to be orange… why? not sure really, it’s an odd color, you don’t see it very often… no body but me and Etoile wear it, I’m the only person in my area that has an orange (and metal flake too) car, plus I own an orange MudBug… my walls are pained a pale orange creme with lemon chiffon yellow trim, I have orange and yellow curtains… I just seem to surround myself with orange things, because it’s such a cheerful and happy color that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside

when I’m not in love with orange, my fave color sometimes changes to red, in the brightest, bloodest shades… most of my cloths ae red, my fave gown is made of bright eye popping red velvet, in the winter, my favoe color always seems to become various shades of blue, that’s when I usualy start wearing my blue stripe empire gown with bell sleeves and train, and my royal blue velvet burnoose (a huge long trained cape with volumptuous hood).… these 3 are the colors that always remain my faves, I just keep going back and forth between them, but once in a great while a forth one shows up: olivine or peridot green… it’s so nice and peaceful… when I’m tense or stressed out, I tend to surround myself with olivine greens which bring comfort and tranquility and peace of mind

Unusual flower…

Ealier this week I found some very rare flowers growing on our land, as well as one  I have never seen before.

I just went back out and got samples of the Indian Peace Pipes to show you.

You can see in the pic, the regular white one, these are rarther common and found throughout the woods here

next to it is a pink one, which is quite rare, but seem to grew plentiful in our forest

and last you see the strange mulit-blossomed yellow one… I’ve never seen one like this before…. does anyone here know what this is? I have gone through all my books and even did a Google search, but I can find no mention of a multi blossomed yellow Peace Pipe like the one I have found.

 

What do you read?

I found this post, and thought it would make for a good topic here on my blog: What do you read?

Quoting the questions from this post, I give you now, my answers:

I’m doing some research, and I hope you can help!

Okay

How old are you,

31

and are you male or female?

female

Do you read?

oh hell yes, I own The Twighlight Manor Library… it’s madeentirely with my own private colletion, some 10,000 +/- books, 8,000 +/_ comic books, and a couple thousand magazines… and I’ve read all of them at least once

If yes, what do you like to read?

everything,

my books cover every topic in the dewy decimal system except for sports.

I have everything from non-fiction, auto-biographies, biographies, how-tos, hobby books, cook books, garden books, college text books, I’ve even got an entire collection of medical books (not Random House self-help stuff— these books came from a local sugen, and a local hospital after they restocked their shelves and discarded the old books) and all other possible no-fiction topics

…tons of fiction…all the great classics… Dickens, Poe, Dumas, Aristotal… all the way up to todays greats… Stephen King, Kieth Laumer, etc.

than there are the children’s books… I own one of the world’s largest collections of first edition Little Golden Books, all of which I inherited from my grandmother, lots of old “politicaly incorrect stories” including a first edition Little Black Sambo, and a first edition Bunny Blue… most of my childrens books are from the 1920’s through the 1970’s,… including all 26 volumes of Sweet Pickles (not an easy set to come by)

lets not forget the antique books… huge leather bound books with titles and authors no one has ever heard of

I could continue, but listing all my books would require a whole card file, so I’ll move on…

What are your favourite genres or themes?

well, the thing I read the most, are the Victorian era classics, I love Sherlock Holmes esp., but my #1 all time fave book, which I’ve read and re-read many times is Douglas Adams’ Hitchicker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I’ve rad all 5 1/2 volums of the trilogy

my fave author is Keith Laumer, and I’m obsessed with his Retief character *sigh* why aren’t real men like him?… the Retief series is the greatest work of fiction ever written

other stuff I read lots of, are Alfred Hitchcock’s Three Investigators & Nancy Drew… I love those long running series… I like to read lots of books that feature the same characters over and over again

for “new” fiction… Harry Potter ranks highest on my list, with Stephen King running up close behind

genre? HGTTG & Retief? guess that means it’s hard core 1950’s sci-fi with space travle and kooky aliens and a touch of humor for me, but I also love sword & socery, fantasy, horror, & gothic romance too.

Do you ever read short stories?

uhm… I listed one of the 1950’s-1960’sgreat classic sci-fi short story serials didn’t I (Retief, by Keith Laumer), plus Sherlock Holms… another magazine serial short story classic

If you don’t read, why don’t you read?

that does not apply, but I guess you figured that out by now LOL!

Do you not have time?

well, I do find that I don’t have as much time to read as I used to, but I still read when I get a spare chance

Do you find it boring?

nope, being able to sore on space crafts to distant galaxies or help great detective solve crime, is never boreing… books are wounderful

Why is it boring, if it is?

it isn’t

We’re writing a collection of short stories, yet we need to come up with a theme. What themes would you like to see/do you like in short story anthologies?

I like anything remanisant of classic 1950’s-1960’s style sci-fi (Retief or Star Trek, type of thing)…

I can’t get enough of hi-seas adventure (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Horatio Hornblower, etc.) saddly very little good pirate fiction exists… I am always looking for it though

I tend to lean towards adventure type stories (think Indian Jones type movie or Xena type TV… only in book form), but again, good fiction of this type doesn’t show up very often

as for short fiction… I love it, it’s great for taking along with me to read in the car or in a waiting room or at the beach… I like 5 min walk from the beach, I need a lot of good short fiction

quoting an eariler poster from this same thread:

Quote:

For the most part, I don’t enjoy reading short stories, because I like character development.

uhm, confusion… I like to read short stories because they have such great character development… I’ve read so many stories about Retief that I feel like I know him, and non of the stories are very long, some are less than 10 pages! and what about Sherlock Holmes? what SH fan couldn’t tell you his fave food, all his likes and dislikes, all his weird little quirks? no novel would have had the time for such details, but years of continuing short stories turned him into a rich detail filled cgharater… and how about Jupiter Jones? after 91 stories about him I know his life insideout….

mysteries, suspence, thriller are always good themes for short fiction

super heros… and dasterdly villians… I love them, but they have an annoying habit of only appearing in comic books… I’d like to see more non-comic super hero stories too.

Should members be forced to post?

This thread brings up a good topic, on which I shall make my own feelings known: Should members be forced to post?  It aplies to message boards and chat forums. 

I was once an active member on a board…one of it’s mods even…I posted an average of 20-30 posts a week, tried to stay active on every board and most threads, talked with all the members, went and invited all my friends to join (ending up bringing in about 25 new members), this went on for about 6 months, than my teenaged brother ended up in the hospital with a heart problem 2 days before Christmas in 2005, and I left a post telling them (the admin and members) that I’d not be around for a few weeks, cause I didn’t have time for a message board when I had to take care of my little brother…well long story short, my brother got some of the best doctors around and is doing fine now; a total of 6 weeks past before I got online again…I went to the board to tell them that my brother was okay now and that I would be able to return, and was shocked to find that I had been banned and could not sign in…I emailed the admin and asked if she knew about it and how I could sing in, and she sent me a very mean, nasty, and rude email, accuseingh me of ruining her board because I stopped posting, she said since her board was “obviously not important to” me anymore that she had no choice but to ban me. I was shocked and stunned. I couldn’t believe it. Later my 25+ friends who had joined, got in touch with me and told me that, she had banned each of them as well over the next few weeks, her reason, was that they had gone over a week without posting and therefore “did not care about” her or her board. This continued on for several months, until she finaly had banned over 50 members, and than sent us all an email saying that she was forced to delete the board because everyone left. That was the weirdest experiance I think I’ve ever had with any forum I’ve ever joined.

For me, on my own boards, I do have a posting rule. I ask members if they are going to join please at least post hen they get the chance to stop by and read, at least to say hi if nothing else. If a year goes by (365 days since the member’s last post) I email them and ask if they still want to be members or if they’d like to un-join. Most times they come back post a couple of times, say they’d deleted their cookies and lost the link back and were glad I’d emailed them asking them to return. So far I’ve never had to delete any of my members as a result.