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The summary for "Gentle Spectrums" is here! Come and say how you are doing, or read about it. :) https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/1...

At times like this, we don't force ourselves to visit out, or have people in and be cheerful for a holiday about being thrilled with how life is going. Birthdays and Jesus's birthday are different. We did have homegrown food and acknowledge the day and the thought. When Conan is back we will be grateful forevermore.

I replied, thanking you for continuing to think of Conan and explained in detail that you don't need to update all your books.

We have an update in MY KIND OF MYSTERY! With a permanent review page, I leave it for you to visit all year and don't need to announce new links. However I do like to check in and urge on chatting, so I have finally made that post.

Whether you're in MY KIND OF MYSTERY or not, you might like to check in because the mystery logo is open for all group members to solve All correct answers earn an extra name in the bowl for the year-end prize draw, which is for all four groups! Thus, it is fair that everyone guesses which mystery book provided the bright, colourful logo.

I will work on update posts for ETHEREAL, GENTLE SPECTRUMS, and CELTIC COASTS as well. However you can go ahead with the common aspects, like the logo-solving and confirming your wish to be in the draw. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/1...

I'm out of patience with Marion Chesney Beaton but *will* give Agatha Raisin a try, to see if her dialogue and characters are less annoying. I own so many of them and the Hamish MacBeth ones are for sale without reading more than the first and having to put away the second after one page! As for Scotland, it was too special and gorgeous for 3 days and I would love to see more, as well as Ireland and Wales.

Either you have not had time for Goodreads or your power has been out as long as you hoped to avoid. I'm sorry about that but was glad you told us you were all safe and well. I'm curious if you took Kibbles to your Aunt's house. I wonder if the other two cats were brought into their people's house.

Ron & I were looking at the TV and saw more hurriances near the Caribbean, which we hope don't harrass Florida or any other populated land again, including Purerto Rico. We pray for all of you who have any fear of being near storms.

My morning glories have grown in warm weather long enough to be blooming every day now! Pink, dark pink, and our longtime blue! I have never reached the blooming of our moonflowers but that vine is climbing nicely and I think is farther along than ever. We'd like to avoid frost a little longer but we are ahead in picking vulnerable produce this time. Love, Carolyn and family.

I'll say it again for September 7th: happy seventh birthday to our kitties! We wished Conan were here for that but if he is having a vacation outdoors as we understand him to be, he did have a good one too. We spoiled Angel and Petal, tooks pictures of them outside our house, doing as they please too. I need pictures posed with them, which is our record-keeping tradition. Every birthday of ours or theirs, posing with our kitties ensures that we keep having recent pictures of us with them.

A little more briefly than Conan was away, my friend's Granddaughter was missing her boy cat. About a month after, they found a body in their town and buried that sweetheart. Recently, their cat came home!!!! I see this as a wondrous sign to the good! Even if you think there is reason to think the worst, prayers can be answered and miracles can happen! So please don't think I don't appreciate every ounce of your hearts reaching out to our Conan's safety, health, and guidance right back to us.

His house was nearby and safer? You packed tons of books and brought Kibbles? Does he have power? Anyway, I doubt you needed the barbeque idea from me for heating water and food, if you live in a place with annual tornadoes or hurricanes.

Where did you, Gage, and the kitties spend the storm? Is your parents' home a mobile? I'm glad you're replanting your tree. Get to it fast and water it right away. I am so happy you could tell me you were safe and your property and home are pretty good. May your power come on soon and I know you are well and reading real books! No need to power up real objects. They just are what they are. xoxoxox!

That backyard Cottonwood I love so much at our family house, has a few branches successfully growing at my home! My experiment worked! It wasn't going anywhere because it was massive. It has a triple-trunk! It would only drop branches from storms. The Russian Olive in the front had a wonderful, horizontal branch I sat on as a child. I realize you didn't get the punch line of my 1987 story because I forgot a part. What was weird about it being uprooted is that only a few steps away, a flowerpot was untouched on our doorstep!

I thought random touching-downt might make tornadoes less dangerous but you say they are worse. Am I wrong about them not touching down as much as hurricanes, or the wind power? Did you have tornadoes or the Irma hurricane? Thanks for telling me mobiles can have shingles and that Florida has no basements. I wonder where you waited out the storm. Would a mobile be okay?

Where were you safe to wait out a hurricane? House or trailor?

It sounds like you can safely request officially that Kibbles be yours. You can make all decisions on his behalf and feel 100% free that he's your boy. It would be nice to know which name he started with (not that he minded you changing it), when his birthday is, age, what his story was. You would have a right to his file if they say okay. Did he wait out the storm with you? He's definitely yours.

The four babies and their Mom who quickly became the loves of my life, born in our house September 7, seven years ago? Happy birthday to them! :) I had to fight a shelter to keep them. This started out as a foster but as soon as they were born, I told my contact person "There is a fit here. I can keep them all together and can stay where they are happy". But I was a mess because she took two months to reply and phoned when they were due for booster shots, just before *my* birthday! I hated not being able to declare for sure that they were mine. No one could make me hand them into the shelter system but I wanted the question mark taken care of.

My brother & his wife's cat was from a shelter originally. But those people either lost him or set him loose and their phone number was disconnected. Certainly going through worry with Conan, I would try tooth & nail to reunite people with pets but something about it indicated there was no desire to make new contact information available. However my sister-in-law worried all his life (he was only one) that someone would want him back and never asked for a copy of his file, for his exact birthday. I recalled it is April 2003 and gave him a great card and gifts last year. His health has been failing for a while. I would spoil him, if he gets a fifteenth birthday.

Don't let your Kibbles be a question mark. Worst case scenario, if they said "no", even with the explanation that Kibbles is choosing you, they aren't giving him an indoor home to go to. Just frigging take him at that point but see if you can solve it officially. During that conversation, or asking their son, find out what his name is and anything else you can. You could probably request a copy of his file, or verbal information anyway.

Erin, thank you for writing to us as soon as a way was available! It doesn't seem that our group really gets read, which is unfortunately because my Wordpress blog has not wanted to open lately, at my slow internet speed. However I am thrilled to hear how you are by e-mail or any way possible. Thank you for sharing some of your communication resource with us!

A few questions: when did you get a second kitten or cat? That's a huge announcement. :) I was glad to share our kittens' birthday September 7 before there were storms, even though Conan wasn't here for this one. I spoiled his sisters and took a lot of great photos of Angel & Petal. I need to get a photo with them, as per tradition. Warm weather and rain still this week but their brother can only be closer to coming home.

Do you have a trailor or house? You said "shingles". Is a trailor something one could stay in? You're supposed to seek a basement. It must be terrifying to know it's flying over you? I think the lowest dangerous wind storm is tornado. They are bad enough and we're gratefuly they only occur once maybe, in 30 years and they are choosy. I wonder if that's why they're considered less dangerous than hurricanes, cyclones (a synonym?), typhoons, psunamies (synonym), as well as lower power. I think tornadoes can miss a bunch of stuff. Maybe hurricanes are the same, dipping here and there. Maybe that's why a lot of people are safe. I hope they don't damage everything in an area.

In 1987 a small tornado passed through Winnipeg. I don't remember it so it must have been very brief or at night. I remember worrying about funnal clouds at the cottage as a teenager, so I know to look for an oddly-coloured sky. Green. That's it. The 1987 city one uprooted our childhood Russian Olive tree in the front, much smaller than our probably 1000 year-old Cottonwood in the back. It's hard to imagine places where it's possible to get these storms more often. How frightening was it to be in it? Oh, those people with the roof that came off! No wonder you are grateful to replaces screens and shingles.

Not to focus on things you can't help but FEMA sounds awful, unless their reticence is about funding areas that are worse. "Not enough claims" made me angry, reminding me of neighbours not solving noise problems around here, as if one family didn't matter and they needed additional people to make them believe the problems ought to be corrected. If just YOU need financial supplements to your property insurance, it is valid.

I'm glad your workplace can charge batteries and USB things and allow you to tell us how you are. We imagined you and your whole pet family would be safe but it's good to know you have water with that power outage. Do you own a propane barbeque? We thought if we were without power for longer than a couple of hours, we could cook on that. Cold baths are no fun and I gather rain water during three seasons, so that we could flush down the toilet occasionally and of course bathe. Usually I fill the tub, set aside clean water for other things, and hope the power is back before taking a cold plunge. The Florida heat might be one reason not to mind a cold bath just now. Read on, my friend and I am so happy to hear from you! Yes, of course Ron & I thought of you right away! Love, Carolyn.

I've been having a conversation about the northern Manitoba forest fires being out after a brief scare and praying the threats in British Columbia and Alberta are overcome. I wished healing for Texans who endured flooding. Kristianne, I believe you are near there. Perhaps you could tell us how things are in Texas. I don't know whether or not the power and internet work there.

I lately request banding together in prayer so that Florida stands against a storm that has hit the islands and the west coast this week-end. In that state we are fond of peers like Bonnie Shore and I am friends with our own Erin Williams. She last wrote that losing power was likely for central Florida, which thankfully isn't likely to be damaged or evacuated and that she was once without power for eight days.

I have just heard that 5.7 million Floridians are without power and imagine Erin's city is among them. However the dismaying story CNN just quoted about an estimate in weeks "to restore power to everyone", must pertain to the badly hit places, like the islands. We want those folks back home and functioning much sooner than that but here's hoping the wait is much shorter everywhere possible. Erin, we'll be glad to hear from you when you have a report. All of our Love, your peers at Gentle Spectrums and Goodreads.

Wow! I find it inconvenient for an hour, perhaps because it occurs every year (in October). High autumn winds. Other times Manitoba Hydro wants to repair our region during business hours without notice and of course I'm home daily. I don't imagine you have a generator any more than we do. I would be okay with that, as a writer and reader of real books. However our well and plumbing runs by electricity. Gotta bathe every morning before I don clotnes! I feel physically cold and grossed out if I don't. I don't care if it has to be a creek.

I didn't think you were in the hurricane zone but had to check on you and any other Floridian friends I know, Erin dear. I guess those unaffected help those who need a hand after the storm. You wonder why people live on coasts. The best I can figure out is it's too beautiful not to try. Please keep us posted from inside your state. Does much of Florida lose electricity or internet connectivity during storms?

I wish he had been back for their birthday September 7 but Conan should be home when the weather cools. I know those prayers have been keeping our dear boy safe and will bring him to our door, likely this month.

Further north in Manitoba and around Kelowna, B.C., there were forest fires but I'm relieved to hear the Manitoba ones are out and diminished. No one lost a home either, so the people who had to evacuate by boat to get to a small airport must be highly relieved. I hope Texas is recovering from floods. I know a storm is near the Florida Keys today. May everyone around there brace themselves and be safe throughought it. We're keeping an eye on the news and stand with those folks and all animals this week-end, praying there isn't too much fear as you wait. Wild animals are probably already on the move. Prepare, get out if need be, and know they'll power through as Floridians always do.

After support, praying, in-person legwork, telepathy with Conan, and everything we could think of; I hope this kitty we regard as a son is home soon. Today is that big day in mine & Ron's life called "The Kittens' Birthday"! I can't believe Conan isn't here for this but we'll make it up when he's home and include him in today's wishes of course. I'm going to spoil his sisters, Angel and Petal! This 7th our kittens are seven! Happy seventh birthday to my dearest, precious Angel, Petal, Conan, and Love! We adore you! Momma Carolyn, Ron, your Mother Marigold, McCartney, and Spirit.

It is from all over, past Florida and perhaps fair numbers! That is a good thought, these loving vibes surging and emanating from the Earth everywhere, for people or critters who can see them. :) The small store nearest us is likeliest to yield a spotter, if Conan is seen by people. Our neighbours are sure to shop there, from a wide region bordering the forest right here, where Conan must be. This is the picture's best position. It is at the older, larger store further away, post office / gas station, and a campground two miles from us.

Loveable owners opened it in the spring, animal people like us, who are readers. Supportive, warm: we intend to befriend them. :) The lady remarked yesterday several people around our home noticed the picture on their bulletin board and said they would keep an eye out for Conan. It makes me glad we're covering bases as well as we hoped. We heard the picture in the larger store was getting noticed too, from a farther range than we imagined.

It is always fun to look forward to discussing Barbara Michaels with you. After several animal writings, some refreshing my animal communication development, others depressing me, I feel happier to be back into a groove with fiction and humourous offerings. From on-hand and especially among that great day of used book-shopping on Thursday, there is a lot I can't wait to read and my pace picked up. As I await the relief of Conan being home, I am enjoying the days better. Xoxoxoxo.

Thank you! I have wondered which congregations or groups in which you spread the word and loved the thought that people were adding to the power of the prayer from Florida and your connections are probably elsewhere too. I have no doubt God has our message and we'll see when it comes to fruition. I stopped at various places a little farther from home with our car today and called him. I thought even if I didn't hear him, he might hear me and be reminded we are looking for him. Whether he's been having fun for a month or not, I am sure it feels good to hear from us. If we didn't stop at a spot from which he could hear us, I was glad to try something. Just waiting seems mediocre and it's nice to renew efforts from time to time.

Hi Erin! It's all right. As long as you eventually link at "My Kind Of Mystery" blog page (even if it's after Christmas). Meanwhile, what a creative way to organize in our group, the categories of your mystery kick! I am enjoying it! You tempt me with a few titles I don't already own; as if I need to add to my happily waiting thousands. ;> "Bright Ideas Bookstore" looks neat. I had great success with an out-of-town used book shopping trip too, in which some were authors I've wanted more of but most were new gems I can't wait to try!

I own several of Casey Daniels but took a long pause after the first. I was lukewarm about it but had a feeling it had special potential. Something about it made me expect an improved, fun ride in the others. I have been savouring Barbara Michaels in order of those I own. "Greygallows" is next: finally another colour for "Gentle Spectrums" and unrelated, my birth year! :)