INTERESTING WEEK

Nancy and I started the week meeting Monday with the Granbury writer's group where we each submitted papers for critique. Nancy had a great devotional with good comments. I had quickly drafted a page and half of a new topic I am working on: ASSUME. I got some good comments and have revised it a couple of times. It is the introduction what I hope will be a book on how assumptions shape our lives.

Later in the week we followed up on our invitation for the Texas Folklore Society to meet in Granbury. We met with two Granbury officials who handle such things and found out that both came from Abilene in similar jobs where they worked with the TFS in 2010. So we are planning on having it here in 2014.

This week we were disappointed that the cardinals didn't build a nest outside our dining room window after two attempts. Then two days ago we found a nest in the back yard with 4 open mouth fledglings. Yesterday the nest was empty. We don't know whether they flew or what. We will check to see if new eggs appear. I put some bird feed out where we can see it from the dining table and the squirrels and birds found it today. I just put out a little hoping that there will be none for the raccoons at night. They destroyed every bird feeder that I put up last year. I am trying to encourage the cardinals to nest in front.

My Kindle collapsed with an internal failure that prevented it from downloading anything starting last Wednesday. I sent an email to tech support and they sent a long email about how to try to revive it. They instructed me to connect to my PC and delete all documents from the Kindle. That was a big mistake. I did it and when it still didn't work called tech support. The third expert was located in the Phillipines and she spent about 2 hours walking me through all kinds of checks and tried to recover my documents but the Kindle wouldn't connect. So now I can't read the books that were stored in the Kindle and have to wait for a replacement Kindle they offered me. I really miss it. I was reading Leonardo's notes about how light affects the eye and affects perspective in painting. I do have the option to download them to my PC but I want to read them when I am not on the PC. I miss reading the Abilene Reporter-News every day.