Friday, September 04, 2020

A Nothing to See Here Weekly Link Round-Up

 

 

There really is nothing to see here. We're waiting for the delivery of our exercise equipment. I've polished the dining room floor in anticipation. The center one of my three monitors has gone belly up, and I'm waiting on delivery of a new one. (Because once I went to three monitors, I realized that I'd never willingly go back to one... or even two.) Denis is learning that he's more than capable of pool filter repair. I'm scanning photos and artwork. 

Yawn.

So I'll show you another t-shirt and be on my merry way out to the link corral. Head 'em up! Moooove 'em out!


►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄


►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄


►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄
  • A record-breaking 60,000 flamingos flocked to southern France.
  • The secret behind a new insect repellent's potent punch is found in grapefruit.
  • A sole-searching, shoe-swiping fox was caught in Germany.
  • Monkeys' attraction to burned grasslands may offer clues to human ancestors' mastery of fire.
  • A gregarious pet goose gleefully greets her human whenever he returns and yells "Daddy's home!"
  • The statue of Sallie Ann Jarrett (a dog) at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  • A pair of lazy gray wolves howl while lying down.
  • An octopus plays a determined game of tug of war with a freediver's GoPro.


►Fascinating Folk◄


►The Happy Wanderer◄


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

14 comments:

  1. You know, Cathy, it can be good to have those less-frantic, 'nothing new here' times. I hope you'll enjoy your exercise equipment once you get it. And that t-shirt is fantastic! Now, I'm headed to Westminster Abbey - that sounds fascinating!

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    1. It does, doesn't it? And those "nothing new here" weeks *can* be nice...if you don't have a seemingly endless procession of them.

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  2. Off to check on some of these links!

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  3. Good luck with your exercise equipment when it arrives. We're actually having rain today - I almost don't know what that wet stuff is. Ha! I found the article interesting that related how crime writers might deal with the COVID pandemic. I suspect that most authors will perhaps eventually use parts of it, but who knows how things will play out? Have a good weekend!

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  4. Love that T-shirt. I'd reword it to say "before the pandemic and books."
    Thanks for the links. Always so much fun every Friday to read them.
    But they always add to the TBR mountain.
    FYI: Just watched a video of Barbara, Carl Hiaasen and JOhn Sandford. Laughed for an hour.

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    1. I haven't watched that one yet. Good to hear you enjoyed it.

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  5. Hiaasen and Sandford have hilarious stories about southern Florida, pythons and the crazed humans who go to National Reptile conventions, as well as various doings at events by the wealthy.

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    1. I've seen Sandford and he can really spin good yarns. I'm looking forward to Hiaasen (Denis loves his books), but am a bit swamped with things right now, so it's going to take awhile for me to watch the video.

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  6. Great shirt!

    Re: authors and the pandemic - that article doesn't include Michael Connelly, but he has said that he shifted the time of the setting for the newly-published Fair Warning back to the end of 2019. It was originally intended to be in the present of the publication date (i.e., as current as possible), but clearly that did not work out.

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    1. Yes, I read about that, too. Val McDermid (another favorite of mine)has a book out in October called Still Life which ends just as the lockdown is about to begin. I'm wondering if she's going to deal with the pandemic in the next book or skip over it entirely.

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  7. I like Val McDermid, but only certain books. Not the violent ones, or the more violent ones.

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    1. This is the latest in her Karen Pirie series, which isn't as violent as her Tony Hill series. I enjoy Pirie. I don't enjoy Hill.

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