Thursday, June 23, 2022

The Loose Pages Weekly Link Round-Up

 


Denis is adjusting to life in the rehab facility. He quickly learned to carefully read what he was being handed to sign. (He got conned out of a bath by taking someone's word for what he was signing.) They've had to adjust his pain medication, and the biggest event of the past week has been having the staples removed from his incision. The poor man's probably felt like Frankenstein's monster.
 
The toughest part of this whole thing for me has been not being able to go see him. I'm right in the middle of arranging someone to go there to cut his hair and bring him a care package from home. In addition, I've been lining up things that need to be done/delivered/set up here at the house so everything is ready for him when he gets home.
 
Are you wondering about the "loose pages" title of this post? I thought you might. When Denis told me that he'd had his staples removed,  I asked him if any of his pages had come loose. His reply? "They blew away a long time ago."
 
I'll leave you with a photo I took of a visitor here to Casa Kittling. He's a male hooded oriole and quite the handsome fellow. I think I'll show you his missus next week.
 

 
 Enjoy the links!

 
►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄
 
►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄
 
►Channeling My Inner Elly May Clampett◄
  • Watch an elephant, once dubbed the "world's loneliest" have summertime fun at a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary.
  • NOAA warns of an "aggressive" dolphin causing "concerns for human safety" off the Texas coast.
  • Male mice are terrified of bananas. Here's why.
  • Although cute as pets, goldfish are highly invasive once in the wild.
  • Listen as millions of Monarch butterflies make one of the rarest sounds on earth.
  • Why don't we have giant animals anymore?
  • Dogs sniff out Covid-19 with surprising accuracy.
  • In a book I look forward to reading, the lost story of Lexington, the record-breaking Thoroughbred, races back to life.
  • Scientists moved hummingbirds to high elevations to see how climate change might affect them.
 
►Movies & TV◄
 
►The Wanderer◄
 
►Fascinating Folk◄
 
►I ♥ Lists◄

That's all for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure.

Stay healthy. Stay cool. And don't forget to curl up with a good book!

12 comments:

  1. Glad Denis is better and that you are preparing for him to return home. I'll return to read the links, but I see some I will read right away.on British mysteries, dogs, and more. Lovely oriole. Definitely some nice aspects of living where one has trees, sun, sky. I've had to chase pigeons making a racket off my bedroom window sill, the one with the a/c on it. They love to congregate around it. Fabian Nicieza was at the PP and I can't wait to watch that.

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    1. I have to admit that I am not a fan of pigeons. We used to have a falcon fly through every spring. He would stop here for lunch where he would dine on a Big Mac (what I called the pigeon he caught).

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  2. I'm really glad Denis is making progress, and I love it that he has a sense of humor about it all. I think that's so important. Hopefully he'll keep doing well and be home soon. Thanks for that lovely 'photo. I always like to see which birds visit around here, too. I'll be back after I check out that Bronze Age city. I feel terrible about the drought, but those archaeological finds must be amazing.

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    1. And they keep finding more as the drought around the world worsens. I'm not living in the best of places for that... *sigh*

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  3. Love the oriole picture! I'm currently reading Sulari Gentill's book and will finish it today, so I get to experience one of her "endings." I enjoyed reading Ian Rankin's thoughts and would enjoy reading another Rebus if he'd just get on with it! I've read most of those "books that follow a character over the years" and have enjoyed every one that I've read. Best wishes to Denis and to you. I hope he is able to return home soon.

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    1. His physical therapy has finally begun with a vengeance, and Denis is determined to work hard. I've got to get a move on with these improvements I'm making!

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  4. Lovely picture! Hope all goes well with Denis and his recovery. Good luck with getting everything set up at home for him.

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    1. I'm finding that "delivery and set-up" will be... interesting.

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  5. Love your connection between staples and pages! Still praying for continuing improvement for both of you.

    It's great to be able to see the casket associated with the famous (or infamous) Casket Letters. I don't think I've ever heard about the object itself; the pictures of the details are lovely. Now I'm going to check out most of the other links, too.

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    1. I really enjoyed that link, too, because-- like you-- I was familiar with the Casket Letters but had never gotten a chance to see the Casket.

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  6. Sorry, Cathy, to see that Denis is going through all of this, but happy to see that he will be home relatively soon. Having long ago lost a few of my own pages, I think that your post title is just about perfect. :-)

    I'm loving your links, as I always do, and my TBR list is growing too quickly as a nice result, so thanks. BTW, I have a grandson who began a full-time job as a park ranger in Yellowstone in mid-May. He barely had his feet on the ground before they were underwater. Things there are just a little better now with two entrances open and visitors allowed into the park based upon even/odd last numbers on their license plates...at least that's the way it was last week.

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    1. I think I'd stay out of there instead of clogging up the few open roads just to be a looky loo. There are plenty of other places to see in that general area that weren't hit by tremendous flooding.

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