Of Africans and Meteor Showers

Home in time from work to walk the fur daughter in a gorgeous sunset and am now enjoying a strawberry banana frozen treat which the life partner has pronounced "too healthy" although I notice he didn't hand his back to me.

Am thinking it's going to be an early night this p.m. as I stayed up late to try to catch the meteor shower last night. I actually saw about five or six of them when I eventually put on my glasses. At first I thought 'wow look at that one!' but when I got the specs I realized 'oh, it was an aircraft - best to get the bifocals'. It has been cooling off at night lately in the way August evenings do in these parts so I wrapped myself in what the kids used to call "the african" as in "Mom, Mom she's got the african and I'm cold and I want to watch Mr. Dressup now" a knitted blanket which others know as an afghan - and sat on the front doorsteps. This because the shore captain told me that "to the northeast is looking up the driveway". There were crickets singing, a few cheeps in the woods and the very occasional vehicle going by on the road making it very still and beautiful. Ahhh.

I found the link to a blog from someone who HAS already retired - having achieved the golden handshake apparently. It's good writing and interesting reading but the only question I have for the blogger is....if you're retired, how come you're only posting once a month eh?

http://oldguywithtime.blogspot.com

Well, since I'm an older gal without as much time between now and the alarm I'm off to settle in with a few pages of my library book. Speaking of books and writing, the oldest daughter sent along a link which analyzes your writing style called I Write Like

http://iwl.me

And just for the record....I write like Arthur C. Clarke - you know of Space Odyssey 2001 fame.