So is “Haying” the title of another of Bob’s poems (note the extraordinary familiarity, there)? I’ll have to look it up. See, I might not be so literary after all….

I like your “rolling people” and “cold hills.” Very funny! I have been in New England a time or two lately, and I have to say that the people there aren’t the warmest, but I have seen no one rolling, per se…. (is that the right spelling of “per se”? ) But rolling might be one of those arbitrary, unpredictable things. They might all be rolling, but just at various and odd times, and you might never catch any one of them at it….

You are blogging beautifully, by the way. My understanding of “blog” is less “blab” or “blah” and more like an abbreviation for “web-log”. So I am keeping a “log” on the web, and you are reading- and responding- to it.

As far as whether or not I am blogging correctly well, I have absolutely no idea, but I am having a wonderful time!

Now, if I could just get my system fixed, I would download a few more photos and have at least two more postings for you all. Sigh. Bill will be home soon, and we’ll work it all out.

Since I am new to the world of blogs, I am not sure I’m blogging correctly. Are there rules? Can one blog incorrectly? Is blog like blab or blah, blah, blah? I’ve enjoyed reading Rebecca’s writing. She is the most literary person many of us know.

I will check in again and blog or blab–in my case.

So glad to have you commenting here. Yes, I highly, highly, highly recommend this book. All of my children are really enjoying it. It is simply told, and yet has such depth to it. I am intending to use it in teaching William some introductory elements of literature. I think your children would really enjoy it.

As for continuing comments on this particular book (is that what you mean?), well I imagine that will follow. I can hardly help myself.

As for continuing conversation on my willy-nilly if not reckless redemption of things, well, that is an age-old dialogue (how long have we been friends?) and I have no doubt that it will continue, if you are willing. 🙂

Yes, I need to read _Because of Winn Dixie_, don’t I? and I have no idea how to help you with the italics thingy. I have an italics option when posting, but not when commenting. For all I know there is a way, but I don’t know what it is, and I am not the Queen of Resourcefulness. Beth, can you help us out here? (Beth being, of course, the Queen…. It’s so helpful to know the queen. And, of course, I am married to the King of Resourcefulnes. That helps, too. Except when he’s in Pittsburgh.)

Oh my WORD!! I’m so glad you liked it. Yay!

(How does one get italics in this editor, anyway?!)