LET'S TALK ABOUT IT - SEPTEMBER 2024

Please feel free to talk about almost anything...but please no political comments or conversations here.

Gosh, yes, it really is September. The mornings are bordering on jeans weather (instead of hot and humid shorts-only), and any grilling DH does on the weekends takes place earlier and earlier.

I also know it's September because the local farms are selling apples instead of peaches, and oh yes, DragonCon was a blast last weekend. My book buying was limited (since I still have some volumes from years past in their plastic bag), and it's always fun chatting with an author about their work and world building. Attended panels on writing crime in urban fantasy and the 75th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz movie.

Glad to be home with my feet propped up and catching up on everyone's threads!

>2 threadnsong: Welcome back...glad you had fun. Our summer was so unusually hot this year...hope it wasn't a sign that our winter is going to give us 10 feet of snow all at one time:) I love Michigan but not a fan of the winter. Guess there is no place on Earth that the residents are always happy with the weather. Our daughter lives in Arizona and their summers are, to me, brutal...it was still 106 degrees on Saturday when she called. She says it's a "dry heat". I told her to go turn her oven on to 100 degrees and stick her head in and see if it's hot...that's dry head too. I couldn't see her, but my "mother senses" said she was rolling her pretty blue eyes at me.

>3 Carol420: LOL! Yes, we all do find things to complain about weather-wise, don't we? This summer's heat in ATL was pretty brutal, though if you don't want your Michigan snow I'll be happy to have some. We haven't had a good, shut down the schools and businesses snowfall, in ages.

And yes, I am thinking your daughter was probably rolling her eyes when you suggested a 100º oven for her pretty head as a reality check for "dry heat!"

For your Information: The touchstones will go away in October. If anyone has a deep desire for them to remain...please let me know before September 25th. Otherwise, this will be for all the groups that I have any admin activity for. Around the World, Dusty's Treasure Trove, Mystery & Suspense & Mystery & Suspense Extra & Read It Track It. This will not affect The Movie Lover's 2 Group. The two co-admins on that group are totally in charge of it as far as I'm concerned. You will still be able to use them on your personal reviews or reading lists...they just won't appear on the things that I keep track of or that I post for the forementioned groups or my personal reviews.

Good call Carol. Thank you for doing the touchstones for these lists for all this time - I admire your tenacity in adding them in. And I had no idea it was so time consuming for you.

>6 threadnsong: It's not so much the time...it's that they have a mind of all their own. You have to hunt through a long list to find the one you need to begin with...not always but at least 75% of the time... since the one it wants you to have is at the very top and the one you need is somewhere in the middle. Then when I would go to add another one, I always checked to be sure that the list that was finished was correct and often times what had been correct yesterday was incorrect today and I'd have to hunt it down again because me...the perfectionist...couldn't tolerate it being wrong. I am the "Tenacity Queen". :)

>7 Carol420: Oh wow, I can see that happening on such a huge scale for these lists. I have to correct my books from time to time (who knew H.P. Lovecraft had written a book called "The White Ship" as well as Charles Spencers?), but it would be monumental for these lists.

I curtsy to your tenacity 👑

>8 threadnsong: Thank you ...some folks would call my "tenacity" plain old stubborn hard headedness:)