What are you reading?

Recently, Shelley in her Intermittent Farm Report examined what she had been removing from her pockets at the end of each day. She had an interesting collection of objects and they gave good insights into what her daily life is like. It made me curious about what other things we have and what they might say about us. With that in mind,  I thought I'd take a look at our family and what we read. To narrow the selection down a bit, I just looked at what we had on our nightstands.

Take a look at the current books that Theodore, Wally, Ward, and I have on our nightstands. See what conclusion you would draw about us from them.

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Ward

4 sudoku books, 5 Scientific American magazines, 4 woodworking magazines, 4 books: The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, The Man Who Forgot by Clarence E. Macartney, Cold by Bill Streever, and Commentary on Luke by Ray Summers

So what do you think?
If you concluded that Ward likes logic and nonfiction you'd be right. But more importantly, he never met a word that he didn't want to read.

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June

3 crossword puzzle books,  1 Cat Fancy magazine, 3 books: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, At Home by Bill Bryson, Weeds by Richard Mabey

So what do you think? 
If you concluded that I like to have a few different things to read depending on my mood, you'd be right. But more importantly, I didn't realize that I had 3 crossword puzzle books on my nightstand. I need to look at the bottom of my pile more often.

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Wally

1 book: Blind Man's Bluff  by by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew

So what do you think?

If you concluded that Wally does not want a picture of his room on my blog and he does most of his reading on his laptop, you'd be right. But more importantly, Wally likes to read on his bed because there is always a cat who wants to join him.

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Theodore

1 book: Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David Friedman, 

So what do you think?

If you concluded that Theodore also does not want a picture of his room on my blog and he does most of his reading on his laptop, you'd be right. But more importantly, he likes to read by the sunlight in his room which is just right from 1-3 in the afternoon.. 

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Food Waste Friday--January 6, 2012

It's time for Food Waste Friday, when the Frugalgirl encourages us to post pictures from the previous week of wasted food from our household. This accountability hopefully will help us to be more careful with our food and maybe save some money.

Here it goes for this week.

I'm glad to be back at Food Waste Friday. For the couple of weeks that I didn't post, I was a lot more lax about using up leftovers. Apparently, I am motivated by public approval because I'm back on the bandwagon.  This week, we only had some moldy bread that didn't make it. Just one of those things, I guess. 

Happy New Year to one and all!

A Second Look--January 4, 2012

I did my Second Look this week from the window because it was very COLD outside. Luckily, I was able to get a few pictures before my camera had its unfortunate accident. 

Here's what I saw this week.

Blue jay

Red bellied and downy woodpeckers

 Blue jay

Female cardinal

Male cardinal

Fat furry grey "bird"

Happy New Year--2012

Happy New Year! 

Some years I make New Year's resolutions and sometimes I don't--usually because it takes too much effort to think them through. This year the work has been done for me. I found a list of  Woodie Guthries' New Year's Resolutions for 1942 and I think that I've found a pretty good list to work from. He covers every topic from "Take bath" to "Stay glad" and they are all (almost all) things that would be good for me to do. I'm going to start simple and work up to the whole list. Today I am going to change my socks (#11).

 

(Click picture to enlarge.)

 Hat Tip: boingboing via Science of Heroes

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But Wait, There's More!

What song is Woodie Guthrie best know for?

This Land is Your Land

Oops!

Recently, my camera got dropped into some water and didn't survive its dunking well. It is slowly drying out and I am hoping that it makes a full recovery. In the meantime, it is taking some pretty interesting pictures. 

If you want to play a little game, see if you can identify these objects among the wet camera pictures below.

afghan, Kleenex box, telephone, dining room chair, clothes basket, mug, book shelf, loaf of bread, fish-shaped napkin rings

Good luck!