Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
shh… (hey! down in front!) pardon me… is anyone sitting there…
Liz, the Foundress of this community, wisely framed the parameters of this exercise in gratitude with the simple charge of: look back (a day, a week, a year) and share with the other participants your Ten Things of Thankful. Yes she said Ten Things…. which can be any….well, thing! So, I thought lets have a video list.
Now that I think of it, I believe I did a Ten Videos of… post back in the first Summer of the TToT! ‘The old shall always be novel, provided the mind fails‘. as the famous old saying goes.
Anyway. I’ll go for Ten Vids of Thankful, but I only have three or four at the moment.
1) the (implied) encouragement to use whatever mode, manner or style of expression I might choose to best find the things for which I am grateful for, thanks to L. Lewis (sorry, still no relation) and my co-hostinae.
2) living (and working) in a coastal community allowing easy (and therefore) frequent access to the ocean. Video 1
3) Speaking of work… Video 2
4) Did someone mention Una? A constant of my TToT lists, surely I must have a vid I haven’t shared (recently)…. Video 3
5) the Wakefield Doctrine, of course! Video 4
6) ‘Almira‘ Actually, to be a bit more appropriate, better I say, ‘I’m grateful for the opportunity to find myself engaged in the fairly daunting, quite satisfying and altogether intimidating, (if I think about in a certain way), task of completing the tale of Almira Gulch and Her Life. At least as it was before, (and, 2 years after), the time in her life that we all are familar with, at the very real cost of her being totally mis-portrayed, aka the movie, the Wizard of Oz.’ (This week’s Chapter 14: we find out the horrific aftereffects of the terrible violence in the United Worker Hall on a cold December evening in Lawrence Massachusetts. In the process we are introduced, a bit more formally, to one Sterling (spoiler alert!) Gulch. Interesting fellow.)
7) the blogs and the blogosphere… the opportunity for a do-over of high school, without the psycho-socio handicap, (self-inflicted or otherwise), and …and! minus the acne, hormonal aphasia, self-inflicted dreams of over-compensation for faults, (that weren’t mine), short-comings, (that no one but me cared about) and the normal wear-and-tear of adolescence.
8) open to request (for videos)
9) Phyllis, of course
10) SR 1.3
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Coat and una…a good day
Supposed to be the coast and una…a good day
yeah… them dogs do loves the beach!
Just watched the other vids…lookit you not looking like an English teacher!!! I agree with May…cool fireplace! The first one.
lol I know! I think my baby blanket was a Harris tweed
Is Una a Border Collie?
http://www.carinsgratitude.com/2016/07/wedding.html
actually Una is a chodsky pes, aka Bohemian Shepherd
a very intelligent and good-natured dog
This was a fun post! I myself am a big fan of the ocean. Don’t see enough of it, but still.
The size of that fireplace —wow! A bit of a fixer-upper one might say, but that does not deter me once I have fallen in love with a feature like that.
the house was (according to Town Records) built in 1792. When new it would have been ‘mostly fireplace’…lol a center chimney colonial is was all about the fireplaces. the kitchen would have been around the huge fireplace, and it would have been used for cooking, of course. The other two rooms on the first floor had fireplaces, mostly for heat.
BEACH! Ohhhh beach. Definitely absolutely.
And. The self-imposed thoughts which thunk the things which no-one else noticed anyway, but which had SUCH impact…glad the Blogosphere lifts them. I’ve benefitted…
It *would* be cool to discover I was somehow related to T.H. White.
gross (the spider reference) (lol)
there are no bad times at the beach (even as a teenager)
Ah, love that sound of waves rolling in. Alsop, that video of you inspecting the old house, reminded me of those scary movies, with the old house, and someone wanders through and notices strange things happening. But, back to reality, and thanks for taking me along on a bit of a real estate agent. Photos in these TToT posts are all well and good, but I appreciate the videos when anyone takes the time to do them. I haven’t quite got the video/YouTube thing figured out yet. Starting with a podcast, but I’ll get there one day.
…when I get bored, I’ll try to do that (imagine the scary house scenario) but I only get depressed because, at a certain age it’s clear that the things to fear are not nearly as spectacular as ghosts and werewolves and vampires… actually, this very house house illustrates what I mean… the last time I was in it, I was in a hurry and I had my hat on and I was on the phone and I walked (full speed) into that low doorway (at 4:04 on the video). I almost fell down on the ground, such was the force of the impact, lol I felt the impact right down my backbone. And that’s the horror of the not-young… Frankenstein and Dracula totally swept aside by the thought of getting a concussion, falling down stairs (in an old house) etc. One more insight into the falsity of the romance of the young… damn sounds like an element to the time travel story I’ll right, after I finish ‘Almira’… which is what I’m supposed to be working on right now!
look forward to your podcast thing!
Glad to be a part of “take your reader to work” day! I enjoy seeing homes. 1792–wow! I don’t really see that on the west coast. I was impressed that the upstairs wiring seemed updated–or at least, not knob and tube!
Wish you had been brokering the house John and I now live in. It had been a foreclosure, and when we moved in, there was evidence that someone had been squatting in it. We found fast food wrappers in the shower (!) and a left-behind toothbrush. (Yuck!) I’m sure your clients appreciate you keeping at eye out on their property.
no, even for around here, 1792 is getting way back there… think about what it must have been like, most people spent the majority of their lives in an area not more than 5 miles across. Funny about the upstairs, someone, at sometime apparently thought to finish the attic, never finished. Can’t see it, but the ceiling is about 5′ 8″ lol
Being near water is always something to be thankful for. I can’t imagine being happy where people drive hours to get to water.
yeah… too much pressure for it to be good. (although I can’t think of a time that I’ve been at the beach/shore/ocean and not glad I went
The sound of waves and a glorious hearth…ahhh. Together? Perhaps bliss.
totally agree (those two things)