Perry Mason Day

 
I didn't do a thing all day except watch old Perry Mason TV shows and rest up. I still have a pretty good headache, but my throat isn't sore and my nose has pretty much stopped running. I have to be up early tomorrow to go to Traverse City for an all-day vendor event, so I wanted to be sure I will be as well as possible. Have a bit more energy, so I think tomorrow will be fine.





You can blame a lot of my love for mysteries on Perry Mason. I own all the TV shows on DVD, and every single one of the books.

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Little Green Visitor

 
I am truly sorry I didn't get any pictures of this that are in focus. The whole insect is about 1/2 inch long. It's a lacewing, considered a beneficial insect because the larvae eat all kinds of aphids, mites, and other insect eggs. There may be up to 3000 species in the Chrysopidae family. I wouldn't begin to guess which one this is. The thing I'm really sorry you can't is is why they get their name of lacewing. The wings have network of veins that is very pretty.



In other news: I'm pretty much down with a nasty cold. Wrote a tiny bit in the morning and managed to format one chapter in the afternoon. Watched a movie and drank tea. Hopefully, my nose will stop running tomorrow.

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That Tree Again

 
It's just a picture of that hybrid cherry tree across the tracks. But I love it. I know... every time I show a picture of it in fall, it looks just the same. Too bad. I still love it. And it's not this pretty every year.



In other news: I wrote in the morning, and worked on formatting, editing, and other book stuff some in the afternoon. Got the go-ahead from the printer that I'm formatting correctly for them. Hooray! Now I can work on that a bit, as I get things edited. I may have a little cold. A tiny sore throat, but I don't think it's anything major.

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How Gauche

 
In French, left is gauche, and right is droit. Thus, we get the words for clumsy or crude and adroit for skilled or dexterous. Being left-handed was historically a sign of something amiss. The word sinister also comes from Latin for "on the left side" and considered to be unlucky.

Today, it was just funny.

At handbell practice, Lew was pulling spare gloves (worn to protect the bells from scratches) from the pockets in the table covers. He kept finding left hand ones.

Interesting. Is there something about the way most of us play the bells that makes the right glove wear out sooner? Since most people are right handed, do we ring the bells harder with that hand and cause more stress on the gloves?



Then I really had to laugh when the director brought out a box of other pairs of gloves, and there was a whole bag, labeled even, of left hand gloves with no mates! Um... if the right ones mostly wear out, there's not much point in keeping all the left ones, eh?



In other news: I worked on the book in the morning, then got ready for writers' group, had bell practice and writers' group. Busy day.

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Yummy Rainy Day Project

 
The autumn olive berries have been very plump and moist this year. I decided to do something with a few, other than just eat them. I've made juice before, but it's not my favorite. Of course, this doesn't make a tiny dent in the number of berries available.

Anyway, I made orange poppy seed muffins, and threw in some autumn olive berries. Oh yeah, they are good. Om thought the fruit was cranberry.



I tweaked the recipe a bit so it has fewer calories. I could probably cut the oil a little more and add more yogurt. Click this picture to see the recipe.



In other news: I worked on the book in the morning and made these in the afternoon. It seems like I should have done something more, but I didn't. Ho hum. Oh yeah, I cleaned the kitchen.

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