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Nancy said:
I made a couple of cherry pies yesterday, after picking pie cherries off a neighbour's tree. So....maybe I can share with all of you??? The cherries are a bit tart, but I like them.
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mmm
tart cherry pie izza best :3
leave the sweet to the cherry cousins, strawberry and blueberry!
 
Mowed some paths and a few small patches in the meadow that makes up most of the back part of the lot. Some parts had or have Queen Anne's Lace/Wild Carrots up to above my eye level. The middle area was mostly clover and other plants between knee high and mid thigh. Just go a small fraction done today.
 
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Can science fiction — especially sci-fi cinema — save the world? It already has, many times. Retired officers testify that films like Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked changes and helped prevent accidental war. Soylent Green and Silent Running recruited millions of environmental activists. The China Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention to those failure modes. And the grand-daddy of "self-preventing prophecy" — Nineteen Eighty-Four — girded countless citizens to stay wary of Big Brother.

It’s not been all dire warnings. While optimism is much harder to dramatize than apocalypse, both large and small screens have also encouraged millions to lift their gaze, contemplating how we might get better, incrementally, or else raise grandchildren worthy of the stars.

Come along with legendary science fiction author and astrophysicist David Brin on a quirky quest for unusual insights into the power of forward-looking media.

How does the romantic allure of feudalism tug at the men and women who benefited the most from its decline?

Why does almost every Hollywood film preach Suspicion of Authority, along with tolerance, diversity and personal eccentricity?

How do these seemingly-contradictory messages help keep us free?

Though some critiques are offered from a lifetime of respect and love and gratitude, no one is spared scrutiny — not Spielberg or Tolkien or Cameron or Costner... nor Dune or demigods or zombie flicks. And certainly not George Lucas or Ayn Rand!"
-David Brin
 
I think to "standardize" a definition of violence in this context is important, and yes, I expect you weren't intending to be flippant about the damage/trauma experienced by people. It's just how it appeared to come across.
 
Hard to say. It touches on politics, relationships, the earth and the world. It is very interesting and thought provoking.
 
Boy I'm thankful for AC today. Rain is in the forecast for Monday. Here's hoping we have a rainy Monday and for more than just one day even though the forecast is for one day
 
AC-10 is best in 1st edition
AC 10 is none (AC 9 in Basic)

Eventually they went with an increasing AC rating which makes for no upward limit
and so it goes :3
 
Good morning! Apple dumplings and cherry pies, along with the assortment of hot beverages available; air conditioning and hopes for rain, yard work and shopping, all the other stuff that happens, we are ready for it. The Coffee Cart is up and functioning, all are welcome.

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(I can vaguely remember some 'famous' grammarian, saying that the word 'all' is a collective noun, and therefore singular. The proper expression, according to them, would be 'All is welcome.' I think they were fighting a losing battle there.)
 
Redbaron said:
(I can vaguely remember some 'famous' grammarian, saying that the word 'all' is a collective noun, and therefore singular. The proper expression, according to them, would be 'All is welcome.' I think they were fighting a losing battle there.)
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Interesting. We would say "the family is welcome" with family being a collective noun.

Everyone is welcome.

All people are welcome.

Hmmm.
 
Saskatoon pie baked yesterday for breakfast this morning. By about 6:30 this morning we had 1.5 inches or 37 mm of rain since about 4 am and it is still raining. I need to drive on about 10 km of gravel road this morning to get to the church where I am preaching in the Laurentians. It is supposed to rain through to early afternoon when it will shift to thunderstorms like the one that hit about 4 this morning and lasted over half an hour. My breakfast beverage is generic cola.
 
Pi is served in slivers, slabs and sectors fought over with great impropriety in kitchens ... wry MS stressed ... regarding indeterminate numbers ... when quality counts! Power is against it ... as they wish the entire thing as hole A' ... irresolution continues ... as extended myth ... it goes on CS Lewis! A prickly or urchin-like situation in reproduction ... we are driven to demonstrate unconsciously (mostly)! Reptile brae ends ... as' dragon affair ... comes down on the beach as something broached ... breeched and bridled ... hung out to dry! Tryst it to occur in the kitchen ... and something is cooking ... there's thus smelt thing ... old odours?
 
Good morning! Happy Monday! Saskatoon pie is good stuff. Hope all enjoyed it! The Coffee Cart is up and running, hot water for tea and fresh brewed coffee are ready. Come on by and join in.

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jimkenney12 said:
Just orange, toast, and cola for breakfast here on a mostly sunny day. MAiD bothered me enough in the night to prompt me to get up and send an email to our prime minister about the government murdering inconvenient people.
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Thus inconvenient virtue is recessive in light of the dominant corruption! Data's theta's thing ... hypothetical ... humanities future is deemed to be dulled because of the vast will to retain naivete? The great mystery needed a place to put it and utopian bodies have to visit to observe it for real! Folly ... dystopian escapism as ignorance has to stop somewhere ... thus onus! Some say Adonus and other Adonai ... don ated? The entire item was swallowed by a faction ... because of lack of clarity in the nebulae ... levitation??? Vita mins evolved ... minor items in the bush and trees ...
 
Good morning. It was a windy night. The noise of the wind kept me awake longer than I'd like. I had also resurrected an old tablet so my brain was on problem solving mode at bedtime. Dumb.

Thankfully it's a day with no plans here. Rain is in the forecast. Here's hoping it comes and without the thunderstorms that are also in the forecast.
 
Nancy said:
@jimkenney12 My husband and I will be passing through your neck of the woods...travelling from Sudbury to Round Lake and then Renfrew later this week. It's a daunting trip with some of husband's health issues, but he is eager to see family and friends.
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We live 2.5 hours east of there now. Renfrew has a downtown with a comfortable old city feel. I am trying to remember if the fabric store was still open when we moved. I hope it is a good trip for both of you. We have an appointment this afternoon in Ottawa and hope to watch a movie afterward.
 
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