tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post642466810829931794..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Things of joyLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-58160820257632738412013-07-20T09:35:48.301+02:002013-07-20T09:35:48.301+02:00Bonjour Lise!
Je me demandait où allaient les noi...Bonjour Lise!<br /><br />Je me demandait où allaient les noisettes au jardin, maintenant on les achete pour l'écureil! C'est vrai que les écureils en Angleterre sont gris, ils étaient introduits des Etats Unis il y a peut-être cent ans, et ils avaient presque supprimé les rousses, sauf en Écosse et quelques autres coins. Les gris sont très audaces et gourmandes, et, en générale, moins charmants que les rousses comme notre petit Cyril!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-80321910832132238292013-07-19T22:25:30.527+02:002013-07-19T22:25:30.527+02:00Quelle chance Lucy d'avoir un écureuil dans to...Quelle chance Lucy d'avoir un écureuil dans ton jardin . Attention aux noisettes cet automne.<br />Je crois que les écureuils anglais sont gris ? On m'a raconté une très jolie histoire sur vos écureuils qui a ce qu'on dit sont nombreux dans les parcs.<br />Très beau ton reportage <br />Bises <br />AnnickLise ( Lysevaine)http://lysevaine.canalblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-52981163095440680332013-07-19T22:22:01.414+02:002013-07-19T22:22:01.414+02:00Thanks again.
Z - thanks for the heads up at Crow...Thanks again.<br /><br />Z - thanks for the heads up at Crow's, great stuff!<br /><br />R - we've seen him a couple of times since, doing his amazing feather dances, Tom says Cyril seems a rather banal name for such a beautiful creature. I resist the temptation always to reach for the camera and just enjoy watching.<br /><br />Bruce - oh I know Steve, he's an inspiration! See below.<br /><br />Zephyr - discouragement is everywhere. I often feel I am fiddling while Rome burns, of course, but also that I shouldn't let the things I'm lucky enough to have come my way go by unmarked. Glad you enjoyed.<br /><br />Francesca - I simply thought it was a turn of phrase, but Tom tells me 'shower of blessings' comes from an old Sunday-school-type hymn! <br /><br />Ellena - Of course it's still yours if you use words you've discovered elsewhere; words are universal property. You are a very conscientious follower of links! I didn't notice the bit about the old farm. Fond though I was of Prinknash as a place to visit - lovely animal park and walks - I wouldn't hold your breath about any RC foundation opening up to a more enlightened purpose, but perhaps that a bit cynical. I'm afraid my days of being interested in such groups and retreats are rather behind me now anyway. <br /><br />Isabelle - good to hear you enjoyed The Golden Bowl. Much of it I find exasperating and impenetrable, but Joe, who is one of the people who encouraged me to persist with it, suggests that it will stay with me, which what you say confirms, and there are nuggets and poignant elements within it.<br /><br />Steve - thanks so much, your faithful, careful, long-running, non-egoistical reporting of the lives of your visitors is an inspiration, and also a source of information. We've started putting out water now too.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-16508138425743220762013-07-17T18:35:32.708+02:002013-07-17T18:35:32.708+02:00Lucy,
So glad the red squirrel came back. I also...Lucy,<br /><br />So glad the red squirrel came back. I also have a bowl of water on my balcony and patio for them. Eating nuts is thirsty work.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16353373844105134032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-43510924129176375692013-07-16T00:49:15.907+02:002013-07-16T00:49:15.907+02:00That all sounds very satisfactory.
I read "T...That all sounds very satisfactory.<br /><br />I read "The Golden Bowl" once, a long time ago, and am unlikely to do so again, though I enjoyed it and still have a very vivid image in my head of the bowl, with its crack. Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59854257431413847132013-07-15T20:58:02.286+02:002013-07-15T20:58:02.286+02:00Lucy, help! How make a short comment on such a lon...Lucy, help! How make a short comment on such a long and interesting post.<br />This thing about getting someone else to knit or read for you makes me think of all the new words I learn reading a handful of posts. If I were to use them, it won't be me writing or would it? Our live-in baby squirrel was named Mischka until it moved out.<br />Will you review Mr. Bick's book?<br />How about dreaming of a retreat in the Old Farm that's being renovated to allow women and mixed groups to enjoy the hospitality of the Abbey? Tanks for sharing joy.Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-54823676599769116612013-07-15T12:14:34.453+02:002013-07-15T12:14:34.453+02:00I love your phrase 'a shower of blessings'...I love your phrase 'a shower of blessings'- and how varied and lovely the shower was! I also love the squirrel, who is keeping a beady eye on you!Francescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07643773227051148862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-58328286419642884982013-07-15T04:23:11.406+02:002013-07-15T04:23:11.406+02:00i'm so glad you shared your mail with us, and ...i'm so glad you shared your mail with us, and could report on and show us Cyril. Just what the doc ordered for me...as it has been another discouraging 24 hours here in the states. i needed to be reminded of these very kinds things.zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-57421237142171003652013-07-15T01:42:50.977+02:002013-07-15T01:42:50.977+02:00Ha! Steve, an American who lives in Germany, has ...Ha! Steve, an American who lives in Germany, has a blog called "Visitors", in which he solely chronicles with photographs the visits to his balcony by an assortment of squirrels. There's a link to it on my blog page.Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-5392409502593807512013-07-15T01:29:52.126+02:002013-07-15T01:29:52.126+02:00Cyril, the phantom squirrel, caught on fuzzy film!...Cyril, the phantom squirrel, caught on fuzzy film! Delightful!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-69430540420288241862013-07-14T22:06:06.277+02:002013-07-14T22:06:06.277+02:00Seems to be the weekend for furry cuteness. Make ...Seems to be the weekend for furry cuteness. Make sure to visit Crow soon. <br /><br /><br />Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-86018228399869032442013-07-14T22:02:21.424+02:002013-07-14T22:02:21.424+02:00Thanks chaps.
Robbie, that really is a most intri...Thanks chaps.<br /><br />Robbie, that really is a most intriguing idea, and prompts many thoughts and questions which might deserve a post in themselves, about quite what the experience of reading is and what one would actually retain from it. I suppose to some extent audio-books serve a similar function. And yet it seems to me it would be bit like choosing the wool and the pattern then giving my knitting to someone else to do; I'd have the knitted article at the end, possibly better made than I could do it, but it wouldn't be quite the same as having executed the sometimes monotonous and repetitive, often long-winded, work of actually making it.<br /><br />Tom - so glad you were able to see him at last and prove I wasn't making it up! (And going out and cracking and eating the nuts myself...)<br /><br />ML - thanks! It's hot here now, I spend quite a bit of the time I'm outdoors under the sumac tree, with a bit of watering activity in the evenings. More garden stuff later I expect.<br /><br />Natalie - I feel I've been a rather reluctant and stingy blogger of late, without much excuse. But I've more inclination now to just share nice stuff as and when and not worry too much!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-32889599895690000792013-07-14T20:01:57.832+02:002013-07-14T20:01:57.832+02:00An abundance of joys all at once, and we get to sh...An abundance of joys all at once, and we get to share them - what could be better?<br />It takes real generosity to break away from enjoying the gifts we receive from the universe and inviting others to partake - thanks, Lucy!Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-89612859352556647552013-07-14T18:51:42.619+02:002013-07-14T18:51:42.619+02:00As another gardener with never ending weeds and wa...As another gardener with never ending weeds and watering to be done, books are not read as quickly as they should nor is the studio seeing my presence. Why? the heat slows body and brain.<br /><br />How I love your story telling - the gifts of joy indeed - the marvellous and funny illustration - and the cheeky squirrel - a sweet way to start my Sunday morning!marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-59295428257216420672013-07-14T17:00:10.971+02:002013-07-14T17:00:10.971+02:00And apart from putting out the nuts, I can only st...And apart from putting out the nuts, I can only stand by with a silly smile of wonder on my face.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-82861328667626309592013-07-14T13:27:25.356+02:002013-07-14T13:27:25.356+02:00Pulling weeds is now someone else's business; ...Pulling weeds is now someone else's business; we are enhancing the local economy by paying for a gardener. But suppose one could pay someone to read The Golden Bowl and - somehow - it became one's own legitimate achievement? That the sensations, experience, knowledge and frustrations were all miraculously transferred to one's own cerebellum without the necessity of turning the pages. And that having done this and found one could live comfortably with this unusual form of literary fraud, one could enter into negotiations to regain the time spent unenjoyably reading The Awkward Age. How I would lick my lips.<br /><br />And you could resolve that Damoclean Sword that has hung over your head for some time regarding the David Lodge book, and read instead (properly) the far more instructive La Lectrice which, I am astonished to find, is written by a fella (Raymond Jean) and not a woman.<br /><br />Visit Box Elder and discover all kinds of new fantasies.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com