It's 8:00, do you have your bearnigs yet?

[thinkum]

Fred and I like to frequent the Book Swap Shed at our municipal recycling center -- you never know what odd items are going to turn up. A couple of weeks ago, I came across a 1944 edition of The Newspaper Institute of America Handbook for Writers; it's in rotten shape, but I thought it might have some bearing on the Letters Project given my

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[ropo]

I'm worried about Lance Writer. Why does he need to be freed??

[thinkum]

OMG, I was so busy feeling amused about the bearnigs that I never even noticed poor Lance Writer, languishing somewhere between pages 397 and 409!

[pameladean]

THAT's why I have so much trouble getting stuff done! I have lost my bearnigs!

P.

[thinkum]

I suspect there's a global shortage of bearnigs, based on how messed up our world is at present!

(BTW, I wish I'd brought my camera and/or binocs to work today, as there's some sort of tree -- arborday.org's tree identifier is telling me that it's some sort of Ash -- outside my office window that's absolutely loaded with little red fruits, and the birds have just been going nuts over it.)

[pameladean]

Almost certainly Mountain Ash, also known as Rowan. A very, very fine tree all around.

P.

[thinkum]

I don't think I knew that that's what a Rowan tree was -- somehow, that makes my view out the window even nicer. :-)