I Think

The whole thing fell apart. No wedding. In fact, no boyfriend. I had not questioned any of it because he appears to be a nice guy and they have known each other more than two years. I am grateful they parted before, not after.

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On the other hand, one of my daughters went to Maui and today was married.

Congrats! We just returned a few minutes ago. My sister in law was good enough to pick us up at the airport to bring us home.
Sure is cold here!!

All I got to see of the islands was the base and downtown Honolulu. But even that was a good memory.

Downtown Honolulu has changed dramatically. The pink Royal Hawaiian hotel is still there.

I spent all my time walking, to see what I could see. I somehow had expected Waikiki Beach to be larger.

It is large. It goes from the Hilton Hotel to Diamond Head..

I didn't feel privileged to walk down to it from where I stood.

I have never had a dog like Rocky before. I have told how he has killed possums, moles, rats, and how he fought a copperhead snake. He has a red mark on the lower left, almost under the nose, as a reminder of the snake. He had swelling of the snout, after that experience, but did not appear to be bad off. I gave him some children's Benedryl and it fixed him right up. Lately, I have taken to sitting in the sun for ten or fifteen minutes every sunny day. Rocky often lies down nearby, in the shade. Today, we were doing just that, when he leaped up and ran for all he was worth, across the yard. By the time I looked around, he had grabbed a mockingbird. The bird was struggling, flapping its wings. I tried to get close, to see if it could be saved, but it was not just too late - Rocky ran around the house, to keep me from interfering with his kill. After that, he watched my actions and grabbed the carcass and ran off with it if I even looked that way. It took some strategy and about three hours to get that bird away from him. I would like to stop him from doing all of this, but don't think I will.

Is Rocky part setter?

He was passed off as a Shepherd/Lab mix.

I had a Lab/something mix that had similar habits. Recently lost her after 12 years when she jumped into the pond and met her match with a water moccasin.

I was semi kidding about him being part setter, since they tend not to kill the birds but carry them to their human hunting person.. and part not kidding, since he likes the carrying.

Shortly after he killed the bird, he brought it in the house and was napping with it behind my chair. I made him take it out, because I could not see struggling for it in the house. Later on, he left it outside and came in again. I locked his doggy door and closed the front door, then sneaked out the back door to get at the dead bird. It worked that time.

Good..
what a doggie, gotta love 'em, eh?

God is a true concept Edgar, hands down. The question is does that concept applies to anything beyond peoples poor metaphysics...I think Order is real, and I think there is a world wich is bigger then me, therefore a proto concept of God apllies.

I also think war on stupidity in America cloweded the intelectual judgment of many inteligent people on the diversity of meanings such a large concept can find.

If you believe in the World and are not a solipsist you are imediatly confronted with "God" instinct of one sort or another.

Alrightie.

Some would forgo reading Harper Lee's Watchman novel, because it does not stand up well alongside of To Kill a Mockingbird. Something about, it diminishes Mockingbird to read that one. I don't agree. I have read Grisham's A Time to Kill and loved it. I will continue to love it as much after reading crap from Grisham, such as The Runaway Jury. I don't think Watchman can hurt Mockingbird in any respect.

I wouldn't let it affect my view of the first book either. But hard to say for sure.

Asa Carter wrote 'The Education of Little Tree' about his own life but many people refused to believe it was after learning he also wrote George Wallace's 'Segregation Now,...' Speech and belonged to the KKK. People are complicated.