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J. Kathleen Cheney ([personal profile] j_cheney) wrote2009-04-13 11:46 am
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Amazing Things...

...I saw while running errands this morning.

-A very pregnant mare at one of the farms up on Danforth.

-Easter Lilies on sale for 1$ each. Score!

-This collection of MD gifts at B&N.
(I have no need for any of them, but they are gorgeous. There were also tea pots and coffee cups that are apparently not available on-line. ::senseless drooling::)

-Overcast skies and damp ground, just what our firefighters need. ;o)
(My seedlings approve of the above also.)

Oh yeah....
Real live copies of Writers of the Future 24 at Books-a-Million in North OKC.
This is the first time I've ever seen copies anywhere. B&N didn't have any (nor do Target or Walmart, for that matter) but I was pleased to see that they actually exist.

Of course, my phone battery was too dead to take a picture...
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[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Shocking, huh?

[identity profile] displacedtexan.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
They do exist - they really, really do!!

[identity profile] camillealexa.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)

Real live copies of Writers of the Future 24 at Books-a-Million in North OKC.

At last, right?

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know why they took so long to filter to Oklahoma....oh wait, never mind. ;o)

[identity profile] stillnotbored.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't need any of the things in that Barnes and Noble collection either, but that's not going to stop me from lusting after them. *g*

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
;o) The teapot is especially lovely. ::sighs::

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, if you hadn't taken a picture of the B&N stuff, you could've taken one of the WOTF's, and then you'd have proof. As it is, well, any bird watcher will tell you that you need two independent identifications to confirm a sighting in the wild.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone in Detroit saw one. They're like yeti, occasionally sighted, but extremely rare.

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Someone in Detroit saw one. They're like yeti, occasionally sighted, but extremely rare."

And there's never a confirming identifier around when you need one.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
No pictures = no evidence

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2009-04-14 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That, alas, is the rule.

Well, except the bald eagle I saw last week. I was with my sister, and she saw it, too.

Annoyingly, when I saw a peregrine falcon some years back (perched on a lightpost in a K-mart parking lot) my mother assayed that she was unsure. Later, I showed her the picture in Audubon, including the bit about "the only falcon with feathered spurs..." and she admitted that perhaps I had been correct.

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2009-04-15 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
We do birds here in a big way.

[identity profile] melissajm.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It's alive! ;D

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
barely...

[identity profile] sonyamsipes.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for copies!

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but with no photo, no one will believe. I'm like one of those people who's spotted Nessie...

[identity profile] justin-pilon.livejournal.com 2009-04-14 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Seems like a long time since WOTF23! I'm gonna ask my sister to pick up a copy. Not sure they're in Canada yet though.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2009-04-14 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck finding one ;o)