Skip to main content

Leaves Are Changing Color

    Our leaves are changing rapidly this year. Partly, I think, from the dry weather and partly from the normal fall change. The yellow leaves of poplars and the red of the sourwoods is dominant at the moment. The sourwoods can be used to make sourwood honey, by the way.
    I really should be out cutting my winter's supply of firewood. I usually cut it in the summer so it can dry out. If you don't it tends to be harder to light and burn. The chain saw vibration is not good for the nerves in your hands and I'm concerned about my ability to play music. That is as good an excuse as any for my tardiness.
    Just returned from a trip to the city. Traffic was a bummer and people were stressed. I stopped at Books-A-Ridiculous and looked at James Lee Burke's latest novel. The price? $25.99, in hardcover. The book is still there because I think that is a bit much. I've noticed the price of e-books creeping up for bestsellers. Some are up around $15 now. Marketing people like the system of gradual increases which they hope will make things more palatable.
    Hey, we just bought a Wii game system. It's pretty cool but most days I prefer to play Plants vs. Zombies on the I-Pad. I've been trying some newer games on the I-Pad. Many have a free version so you can see if you like them. There's a new trend in games on the app store. It's called "in-app purchases". This is a deal where you buy a game but you have to buy other things to get to a certain level or weapons or whatever. I find this a bit questionable and very irritating. Frankly, I won't buy a game like this, no matter how good it looks.
    Continuing on the subject of games, I think that it's pretty nice to get games for a dollar or two on the app store. If they turn out to be bad you're not out much. Also, I like to go on you-tube and watch videos of the games being played. This has saved me some money.
    One final note. I posted a couple of my free stories on Wattpad. This is a site where all the stories are free. It tends to be dominated by teenagers but they let an old dude post there also. There are some talented young people posting there. I would like to welcome those who saw my blog note on the Wattpad site and I hope you enjoy my blog.
    Adios from the green, yellow, red, retreat. CE Wills

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Game Review: NFS, Hot Pursuit

    This game was one which I refused to download for a while, even though it was on sale for 99 cents. I thought that it looked boring and narrow. Boy, was I wrong! This game totally kicks butt. It is one of those rare games that will actually give you an adrenaline rush. It is that intense. The developers, EA Games, have recently updated the app to include two main avenues of play. You can either be the cops or the racers who are trying to evade the cops. As a racer you have to deal with cops trying to hit you and make you crash, cops buzzing you with helicopters, oncoming traffic, tack strips spread across the road and roadblocks. In the cop mode you are a cop and you are trying to stop a reckless racer by any means, fair or foul. As a racer you can use nitrous oxide for increased speed, overdrive capability and oil slicks. You also can jam the cops communication with a jamming unit. Like almost all games these days, it gets harder as you go along. I prefer my games to...
Post a Comment
Read more

Four Free Games

     Hey, everyone. If free games makes the start of a new week a little better, we're in luck. Check these out on your friendly, neighborhood app store. 1) Cowboys vs. Aliens vs. Ninjas- This is a dual stick shooter, much like Mini-Gore . You are an old-west cowboy with a vast array of weapons (earned gradually). You have to move and shoot, avoiding death, as you battle Ninjas and aliens. Some aliens are quite large. Some enemies are big Sumo Wrestlers. There are sword-wielding ninjas and these aliens that yield a mini-nuclear explosion when killed. When your enemies die they leave behind little stacks of money, or skulls. You collect these items because of a strange hobby of trophy grabbing for your macabre collection. Just kidding, the items can be spent or used as the game progresses. This is a good game and I played it for a while last night. 2) The Heist - A puzzle game with a twist. As you try to open a bank vault, you must face a series of different puz...
Post a Comment
Read more

Bottle On The Doorknob

      Hey, everyone. I took a day of vacation today and really enjoyed it. We went out and bought some flowers. Flowers don't do well up here as a rule so we buy some and have a couple of big pots of assorted flowers on the deck for the summer. This year we are going to set the pots out in the yard a bit. The reason for this is the moisture and dirt in the pots seems to attract ants, scorpions and perhaps gnats. Bloody drag, what?     This weekend there seemed to be a bad odor in the house in the area of the master bedroom and the master bath. We could not isolate what the problem was. We did a number of things, including pouring vinegar and baking soda down the drains, which boils them out in rather spectacular fashion. Put a handful small amount of baking soda down them first, then pour vinegar down them. Very cool.     We finally deduced that a mouse had crawled up between the floor and sub-floor underneath the jacuzzi, after ...
Post a Comment
Read more