C. (Comment, never msg).’s Comments (group member since Jan 30, 2014)

C. (Comment, never msg).’s comments from the Gentle SPECTRUMS group.

It sounds like this explosion took place outside the concert and it was people exiting that were harmed or affected. Manchester police suspect a suicide bomber. Good grief: in our world, accidents and illnesses we can't prevent are hurdles enough. We cannot and will not tolerate people causing any harm to anyone!!!!

Everyone watching the finale of "The Voice" now heard something serious happened at the end of an Ariane Grande concert in northern England tonight. It is so recent, no one seems to know yet but explosions were heard and some people are injured or even deceased. All they say is "explosions" so we don't know if it is a malfunction, an accident, or an attack. Whatever it is, let's pray for all of those scared, hurt, and lost people tonight including Ariana and her crew. What a terrible outcome for a night of joy and they need all of our hearts right now to know we are with them and will get them through this. People of Manchester, we are awaiting your news with hope!

To my mother, and Marigold, the mother of four of our precious kitties, in remembrance of my Grandmothers, and to all of you: HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! Even to me too, as a very mothering and loving kitty Momma. :-)

Our ruby-throated hummingbirds aren't here yet. We have all the branches they need and maintain a food supply in flowers and a feeder all season. One thing that article let me know is needing to clean off fungus after three days. We don't want their tongues to swell and hamper eating.

Here is one of my most off the wall subjects! It matches the Gentle Spectrums challenge category, "History": books written in or depicting 50 year ago: 1967. What sparked it was labouring over "The Roman Hat Mystery" for eight days. When I finished today, not being able to stand the writing was the main impetus for issuing one star. However I was astonished to find people shrugging off racism! My article, a calm and congenial conversation to which I invite everyone's opinion, is about how I think people mistake outmoded expressions, where harm was not meant, with prejudism: thinking someone was lowly.

One woman wrote that we aren't reflecting history properly if we give a low grade in reaction to prejudism. Well, my second point is an important one: I don't believe racism has ever reflected all people, in any point in time! It is a personalized attitude. We are not penalizing a book's era, if we give a low grade to something we abhored. I'll leave you to my examples. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

At this time only a few comment on any of my things, which I probably put eager energy into just as much as anyone else. I hope people appreciate how many comments they get every time they write a blog post especially! Therefore I definitely would visit those special people who give my writings and sharing the light of day. You have anything you want me to see, especially getting to know you as a friend; you lead me to it! For instance, were I to meet you at the Goodreads convention; I wouldn't know how you looked! It's all adorable fairy thumbnails. Hehehe.

I'm on it! I have been to the state but learned about the never-ending marvels of San Franciso many years later and must see it. Anytime you have updated something book-related at your blog or personal, this is what our group is for! I hope the others do the same. Add books to the group reading list, photographs, links, start topics.... What's mine is yours.

Yes, meeting Corey Hart (the first time!) really was a dream come true. I loved him since 1985 (didn't everyone)? Waiting until 1996 felt like a lifetime at that age. I waited from 1985 to 2010 to see A-ha in concert and had to fly to Toronto for that! No meeting Morton Harket and the boys but I freaked when them and then Morton took the Massey Hall stage. Brother Timmy and wife accompanied Ron & I. There *is* an even more jaw-dropping follow-up story about "his royal Coreyness", as I jokingly call him.

Speaking of writing and pronouncing my tough but only six-letter name; I had a feeling you were going 'rydell'! I hope you aren't thinking 'Caroline' (rhyming with 'wine') too. Of course you know you write it CAROLYN. It rhymes with 'gin'. Pretty much "Carol" + the sound "lyn" (but only one L).

I paused this to remove a woodtick. So much for laying in the grass with Spirit and Conan, the day after it was -0C at night. Those things don't freeze, only hibernate and are back, for half the summer!

I read the Florida articles Erin referenced just above. It's terrible Florida is in dangerous drought, however rare or different from everywhere else in their country. It does affect more citizens indirectly. Before Canadian fruit-growers are ready, we obtain a lot of fruit and probably vegetables from Florida. I can certainly imagine the fear of forest fires. Our home is a forest! We never want a serious situation any more than for anyone else. Bless the people, their belongings, homes, and forest animals.

The May 9, landscape article is pessimistic and differs from the other two. On May 5, they expected no rain "for two more weeks". This one made the drought sound endless. May the better outcome prevail. I followed a hummingbird article and enjoyed that one.

By the way, what the heck is Best Buy for, if it stopped selling computer things! It is supposed to be an all-purpose electronics and entertainment warehouse. I am here to gather your Florida URLs to store in an easy place. Of course please direct me to personal things at your blog, like what I write, that depict you and your home!

Great memories about meeting a childhood hero, to whom I should explain, I wrote to every year for years. Me and my card-giving! Every May 31, his birthday, I would play all his albums and in school days, I would sport one of his concert t-shirts or at least a few of his rock pins. I didn't mind the kind of ribbing that comes from people taking notice of your favourite things. Hehe!

Therefore there was a long history of him seeing the name "RIEDEL', which most non German-speaking people find difficult to pronounce and spell. (I before E is said the same way as Justin Bieber. Rhymes with needle, accent on the first syllable the same way). All through school and business, I heard "rydell" until I told people differently. Still they mispelled the e before the i.

Well anyway, there I was at Blockbuster video in Osborne Village that momentous 1996 day. As Jim Carey said in the movie "Ace Ventura": "This was my Graceland"! I went up to the table, with my Mom, while several friends trying to sneak pictures because we weren't supposed to pose with him. I was proud of the rare record I had to show him, which he really gazed at to see where it was printed! His 1992 album, "Attitude & Virtue" and we know from today's blog article that records were rare by that year! It was also discontinued even though I love it so I hoped to touch him that way too. When I said "Here is a letter for you, since we won't have much time to talk", he saw my name and return address and he all of a sudden said: "Oh! I know you! You have written to me for years! Thank you for that"! or something similar. :)

That night was his concert and although I had fantastic third or fourth row seats with my parents and a couple of friends: I made it past security to the stage with the other big fans. Does everybody know how audience members will reach out if an artist gets near and maybe the artist will shake hands with you? I wasn't doing that. I don't think anyone was. So imagine my shock and forever thrill that RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS SONG, the great Corey Hart recognizes me, comes forward, and TAKES ME HAND!!!! He smiled and the look I read was "I read your letter. Thank you so much. I want to acknowledge that I know and appreciate you". :-) Ah, what a day!

You have a lot of great places to play it. :) My article is done! One includes an idea of how MANY records I collected since I was a teenager. Another is a small glimpse of my home city, Winnipeg. It is perfect for this article. I took it in 1996, because Corey Hart was so poplular again that year (one of my heroes), that he was on billboards! I met him that year too at a Blockbuster video meet & greet.

Videotapes can be more stable than DVDs & blu-rays. It was only one wrinkle versus jumping a whole chapter. But there is a reason and solution for blu-rays that we discovered. Another article for another time! Here is today's. And yes, I think even if many of us play with MP3 and Ipods frequently and even Kindle-readers; it definitely does not mean they are in support of our cities losing real formats and bricks and mortar stores. Somebody has to send that message, so here we are. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

Thank you for these articles for all of our Goodreads peers to look at, Erin. Our prayers for your people and wildlife. When you take a look at my new friend's comment at that "April Magic" post, it seems she lives in a special and rural place and probably has a well like we do, which is unlimited.

I will be sure to check with you again when I've begun reading those. Anywhere I have friends in the world living through difficulties, my heart and healing energy are with them. Even when I hear of difficulties where I know no one too but I especially think of friends we know in areas overcoming challenges. I did indeed hear that California had finally become rainy, at least last month. They had so many fires, it was time they got drenched. Now for Florida!

For the second year, one of our topics is music or musicians. Having album copies doesn't seem as important right this minute as physical books, because I don't have a higher quality record player and our cassette decks no longer work. However collecting music in hand is important to me too and I was sorry that HMV music stores closed all across Canada. Future Shop is gone, who used to have a fantastic selection, Best Buy cut their music department and Ron noticed, on birthday shopping trips for me, hardly have the blu-rays & DVDs that they did. There might be one supplier of new releases in Winnipeg, otherwise we'll have to hope used shops have a good selection.

Even though the plug was pulled, I told employees on my final two shopping trips to HMV, that I am among those who love having a place to buy real copies of music. One shrugged because their jobs were already on their way out. Most thanked me for saying my family is not among those demographics feeling our world doesn't need music stores. For new music, since Wal-Mart's selection is so tiny, this leaves Amazon Canada. I will post a full article about this at my blog today, including a pricing uproar I discovered at Amazon.ca last night. Please look me up at RIEDEL Fascination.

There are trees all around me you would enjoy. God's contributions, to which Ron & I add our abundance of gardens and flowers! If you visit my April post again, you'll find I was also treated to a new friend of mine enjoying the wintry pictures of my home too. I should show how green it is now! I wasn't sure which part of Florida your town/city was in but you said today at Goodreads, central Florida. Well, she's central too and is somewhere where there is no drought! Her comment is at my post. She too is in tons of trees, which has to be more temperate.

I guess one doesn't have to be far for weather to be different. People around our nation's capital, Ottawa, Ontario are flooding and Toronto might have high water too. However we have only rained twice this spring. I wish we could share weather with those who need dryness or rain. Southern Manitoba is all right though. We are marshland by nature and have been moist enough for about three years running; always heavy snowfall and enough rain outside that season. So our ground is still wet enough that we're all right without anymore, until our gardens are planted. As soon as we give God the thumbs-up, the rain seems to come down; often the day our last garden is sowed!

This one is as typical as it gets.... New York detectives and police force of 1929! But since Ellery Queen is a pioneer I'm giving him a try. And you might recall my habit of collecting a ton of books, in my "completionist" mindset, well before I begin trying them out! I am for instance seeing that I can't stand the Hamish Macbeth series of Marion Chesney Beaton. I love Scotland, have BEEN to Scotland.

I told Sue would probably like the officer and detecting parts themselves. But there is a lot of crap to slog through before those clue-solving parts: people arguing, snobs of high classes, useless descriptions.... These do not sound like a mystery for 100 pages in my brief experience. I tried the second book and with so many unlikeable people, again and arguing and snobbery.... it irks me too much for me to make it to the loveable detective and his creative solving. I *will* give Marion Chesney Beaton's other, Agatha Raisin, series a try. Anyway what I'm sharing is that over a few years, I have gathered 30+ of these books; even first editions! It seems this is a rare case in which I will sell them before reading them. Lorraine Bartlett's bookshop series too.

I wondered about people's least favourites. My top two favourites aren't a surprise! First place: hands-down is paranormal or atmospheric mystery. Second place, also hands-down before all other kinds: mysterious mysteries; not crime-based! I am always happy to read these two kinds but keep myself from going through them quickly. I'm a "save the best thing on your plate for last" person.

I am indeed going through Agatha Christie in order but have not done more than one per year. Her plots are complex but I love her excellent writing! Also in common with you is that I enjoy several cozies, standard adult suspense that's more serious, and even some horror. Yes, mood plays a part but one also has to like the author or series. I know who the good cozy authors are and steer clera from the plastic / sanitized creations, as you once called it. Nor do I like horror or standard adult thrillers to be gross or too disturbing. Picky I guess! Anyway I think juggle-reading will get me through Ellery Queen's first novel until I reach exciting action. There's so much more I'd rather read but I think I can appreciate "The Roman Hat Mystery" if I persevere.

Does anyone have a least favourite kind of mystery? Typical American detective or police crime is mine! Right now, caused by too descriptive writing along with it: Ellery Queen's "The Roman Hat Murder" is slow. I should be far ahead in it but twice, my cats were so cute under the covers with me that I fell asleep before reading. Last night I managed several pages. My spouse is in the paint industry and I often think of "working off a spoiled batch" in situations like this. You can't dump a pail of chemicals so you use a little in good batches until the discarded paint is depleted.

I'll give this novel one more good dent tonight (I can't by day because I have flower baskets to plant). Then if it still drags, I had better start some other book that is more engrossing. I'll do a few pages of Ellery Queen until it's done but not hamper this year's overall reading progress, because I will have a superior book bolsering me along. People call this "juggle reading".

Yes, I was thrilled to find your note where I hoped to and replied this hour. Hope to have Sue's wonderful words recorded at my blog too. I am so happy you like the pictures of my home, on an unusual day! And this logo for Gentle Spectrums 2017 too. If I showed everyone pictures of our yards now, people from the south wouldn't believe how fast the landscaped changed.

So nice to hear back! I hope everyone records these lovely reactions at my blog. Goodreads threads drift away but blog comments stay, rewards for my writing and photographs I can access anytime. I feel happy about giving soothing and even inspiring tableaux to a Floridian and always imagined Utah to be beautiful.

We hardly rain until our planting is done (need fresh soil, this week). I'm doing my 25 hanging baskets and three flowerboxes indoors while we wait. When we're done our fourth garden (we tried several spots on our property and maintain them all): that's when the rain gushes; exactly what we need to begin growing. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

Everyone: it seems you missed this, including subscribers at my blog: so here we go again! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0... I always hope for feedback to whatever I share. But when one gives people a look at one's home; one can imagine I am especially eager to hear what you think! We are all green now but we had a white blanket of odd weather that I enjoyed.

See the banner at the top of this group page this year, as well as the 2017 logo for "Gentle Spectrums"? The banner is a strip of it. Well, I would love to hear how people like that too. It is my photo this time! Happy spring and happy gardening, Carolyn.

I won't begin planting this week, unless it's indoors. I thought all of you would like to see why, in my post about Manitoba's magical weather today! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...