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

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

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...

May Florida receive rain and your plants do well. The thought of anyone in a tropical place not taking advantage of planting baffles a Canadian but indeed start by babying what you have. I sprinkle seeds everywhere there is soil. Happy Earth Day! Let's do what we can for the bees and for the Earth! I see there are still free seed sets available in Canada: BringBackTheBees.ca.

Friends and readers! How is spring emerging where you live? If you are gardeners: let's start talking!!!! :-)

I remembered well in advance what April 22 is, therefore here is an extra special hello from me: HAPPY EARTH DAY, EVERYONE! Canadians: there might still be flower free seed packages at BringBackTheBees.ca. The United States likely has a similar program. If they have run out, goodness knows Dollarama has ample seeds for only .32c each and Giant Tiger's are a similar bargain. Get growing!

One of our categories is celebrations and traditions. I wish a happy Easter and peaceful long week-end to all my people! Yours warmly, Carolyn & our cat family.

Readers: I updated the URL where I wrote an article about the need to build cell phone etiquette: because it is a new technology that has not been engrained into us for centuries like many manners we follow instinctively. I hope you read it and also pass it along. We will start somewhere. :) https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

This blurb you answered is only an example, to show where the article. It covers a lot of angles and I hope folks read it before making conclusions. :) https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

I hope you read my article because it is a very important topic that needs to be nipped in the bud. This is just to lead you there. I make time to blog so seldom, when I do it's something I really wanna share.

My article doesn't ask if folks are used to ignorant gadget behaviour but explains why it ain't cool. Really lays out a good layer of reasons. Forward it to your friend! For instance: why are they looking for messages from other people, when you have all set aside time so they can be with you? E-mails, letters, etc are supposed to be a way to be in touch when you can't be together in person; to tide over the meantime. Well.... there she is with a person in front of her and she gives her attention to the facsimile?

She defeats the purpose of the gadget: staying in touch with friends you can't see. The reason that you can't concretely tell if you should consider it rude is another symptom of something new that needs etiquette created for it to guide us. You must have manners of the true southern belle I've always heard about. :-)

Very happy to see you set up here and in the My Kind Of Mystery thread. If you are filling the review pages at the blog, that has me happy. Here, you need only cite the URL of your own blog's update page in each of these spots. People can visit the review page and your blog's list. It can simply be about conversation here. Definitely no need to update both places. Do note that earlier up in the "any topics" thread, I wished you and later Ron, a happy birthday! :-)

Has the way friends or family seem addicted to their cell phones bothered you? I got fed up enough to think about why and it dawned on me that we need an etiquette for it. A lot of etiquette is trained in us from millenia of courtesy but this is new: carrying your home office wherever you go. I believe we need to ask guests to please turn off cell phones when they come to our homes and if you aren't quite comfortable teaching the new manners in your own words: you might like sharing my article! https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2017/0...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dear, loving spouse, Ron!
With kisses from your best girl and kitties: McCartney, Spirit, Conan, Petal, Marigold, Angel, and always Lovey too.