WHEW!

 

I asked ChatGPT to put oarlocks on this boat, and it put several oarlocks all around the gunwale.  The second try, it put oarlocks in the front and rear.  The third try, it put the two oarlocks on one side.  I gave up trying.

But all this is good:  We never have to worry about a robot stealing our boat.

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CURIOFY YOUR FRIENDS

 If you like the Butter Rum Cartoon, send or give this picture to your friends.  They'll be curious, and we'll have company.

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UNIVERSAL LIVING ROSARY ASSOCIATION

 Micki and I are members and have been praying the Living Rosary for years.

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SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

From somewhere Micki and I got a copy of a movie called "Swallows and Amazons."  It looked like a kids movie and so we put it off until bored enough to watch it, and WOW!  It pulled both of us back to the adventures of childhood - adventures we lived or dreamed about.  It was fun!  We got to know and live with the Swallows (Walker children):  John (Captain), Susan (Mate), Titty (Able-Seaman), and Roger (Ship's Boy); and the Amazons (Blackett children):  Nancy and Peggy, who claim Wild Cat Island.

We wanted more, and found that the movie was based on a 12-book series, written in the 1930s and 40s by English author and journalist, Arthur Ransome (1884-1967).  The series is very popular in England, with the adventures mostly taking place in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads, but I don't think it's very well known in the U.S., unfortunately.

And so of course I collected all 12, the entire series, and read them all.  It was a different experience.  Not as fast moving as most children's series, it imbeds a whole new world into your heart.  Ransome's writing is detailed, sometimes even how-to, and puts you right there.  In writing about the series here, I feel like reading it all over again.  

1    Swallows and Amazons    (1930)

2    Swallowdale    (1931)

3    Peter Duck    (1932)

4    Winter Holiday    (1933)

5    Coot Club    (1934)

6    Pigeon Post    (1936)

7    We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea    (1937)

8    Secret Water    (1939)

9    The Big Six    (1940)

10   Missee Lee    (1941)

11   The Picts and the Martyrs    (1943)

12   Great Northern?    (1947)

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YOU CAN'T LOSE, READING A BOOK BY CLYDE BRION DAVIS

 

It started with QUICK News Weekly, the 1949-1953 magazine Wally Cox told us about that I liked so much that I've since collected all 209 issues.  While perusing QUICK, I came upon a review of the book, The Age of Indiscretion, by Clyde Brion Davis.  Sounded good so of course I bought it.  I enjoyed his writing so much that I went ahead and bought all of Davis' books, except for Nebraska Coast, one I'm still looking for but am convinced it no longer exists.  Davis worked as a journalist, and wrote mostly fiction with some non-fiction mixed in.

If you've gotten out of the habit of reading, I'd almost promise you that a book by Clyde Brion Davis will pull you back in.  I've read and enjoyed them all, and am proud to have them in the Lund Library.

The Anointed / Adventure  (1937/1946)

The Great American Novel  (1938) 

Northend Wildcats  (1938) 

Nebraska Coast  (1939) 

The Arkansas  (1940) 

Sullivan  (1940) 

Follow the Leader  (1942) 

The Rebellion of Leo McGuire  (1944)

The Stars Incline  (1946) 

Jeremy Bell  (1947)  

Temper the Wind  (1948) 

The Age of Indiscretion  (1950)

Playtime is Over  (1950)

North Woods Whammy  (1951) 

Thudbury  (1952)

Eyes of Boyhood  (1953) 

The Newcomer  (1954)

Something for Nothing  (1955)

Illinois  (1956)

Unholy Uproar  (1957) 

The Big Pink Kite  (1960) 

Shadow of a Day / Shadow of a Tiger  (1963) 

Here's a letter I found in one of them:

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