Wolf Story, snow and Cherry
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glacier_kittyWhen I was a kid, me and Ryan and mom drove to New Braunfels, Texas with our friends Julie and Madison (I'm still friends with them on Facebook!) in May 2001. On the drive we listened to a story, which I wrote a little about in my journal, which says "we just listened to a story. It was about a wolf who tries to eat a hen named rainbow and Jimmy Tractorwheel saved her. It was a good story!" I never really made the effort to find the title of it because I thought it would be too obscure to find (though I am pretty good at finding things online). At work today, I was looking up vintage books to see how much they were worth..I picked up a little red one and started flipping through it, and suddenly I saw the name "Tractorwheel," and something about a hen. I about fell over! Could that be the book we listened to?? I have my journal typed up on LJ, so I found the entry where my first journal entries were typed, and it matched the book I had exactly! No way!!! The book is called Wolf Story by Warren Chappell. I'm so glad I have paper journals and this LJ, otherwise I'd forget so many things! It's SO cool that book showed up at work..I had to excitedly tell Denise and Vicki about it haha. I'm definitely buying that copy for myself, it's special! I'll have to ask if anyone else remembers listening to that story lol
Today was the first snowfall of the season! Right as I was getting a headache Vicki was like "guess what everyone?! IT'S SNOWING!!" It wasn't a large amount, but Vicki still had to run around and play in it LOL (thankfully the headache went away by itself)
Cherry's uncle Hugh did a talk yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society, which was recorded and posted on Cherry's group page on Facebook. Hugh is Angela's sister, whom Cherry married. Pretty much the only time Cherry was happy was in Antarctica (before Scott and the others died, of course)..he hated having to manage his estates and thought being a part of the "landed gentry" was pretty boring. Even though Hugh remembers him as curmudgeonly and uncomfortable around kids, he still has good memories of Cherry. He still has the Worst Journey copies Cherry bought for Angela! He talked about how unfortunate it was that people blamed Cherry for Scott's death, the museum curator not caring about the eggs he brought back, and that after he was invalided out of WWI, someone sent him a white feather and called him a coward. WOW. I'd be grumpy too! I've said this many times, but there's nothing Cherry could have done to save Scott..he would have died in the blizzard looking for them. After the talk, a guy stood up and said his father was a member of the Dorset House Club, and he said as a "special treat" he was allowed to go over to Cherry's table and ask him questions about the expedition!! That's amazing! He said Cherry was always a gentle, kind person and was a bit too modest about his answers to the questions haha. Aww, that's the Cherry I love. <3 It's great there are still people around who knew him and his kind side! I'll always be honored he said hi to me through my phone when I was at his grave!
7. What Superpower Do You Wish You Had? Flying or talking to animals
8. What’s Special About Your Hometown? I always get confused by this question..is it where I was born, grew up, or live in now?? I don't know much about Upland, but Flower Mound had nice nature and Fairbanks also has nice nature, the Northern Lights, kind of a "laid back" attitude, etc
October
1. What Rites of Passage Have You Participated In?
2. Will Humans Live on Mars In Our Lifetime?
3. Do/Did You Ever Hang Out at the Mall?
4. Do You Unknowingly Submit to Peer Pressure?
5. Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
6. What Public Behavior Annoys You Most?
7. What Superpower Do You Wish You Had?
8. What’s Special About Your Hometown?
9. How Materialistic Are You?
10. Should the Private Lives of Famous People Be Off Limits?
11. What Are Your Opinions on Cosmetic Surgery?
12. What Habits Do You Have, and Have You Ever Tried to Change Them?
13. Does Keeping a Messy Desk Make People More Creative?
14. Does Reading a Book Count More Than Listening to One?
15. Are You a Novelty-Seeker?
16. How Strong Is Your Sense of Smell?
17. Are There Topics That Should Be Off Limits to Comedy?
18. What Animal Are You Most Like?
19. What Magazines Do You Read, and How Do You Read Them?
20. Would You Like to Live in Another Country?
21. What’s the Coolest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in a Museum?
22. Are You a Good Listener?
23. Do We Still Need Libraries?
24. How Do You Celebrate Your Birthday?
25. When Have You Failed? What Did You Learn From It?
26. What Activities Make You Feel Most Alive?
27. Where, and How, Do You Watch Movies?
28. What Is Your Favorite Street?
29. When Do You Remember Learning a New Word?
30. Is Amazon Becoming Too Powerful?
31. Will You Be Wearing a Halloween Costume This Year?
November
1. Are You Hard or Easy on Yourself?
2. What Teacher Would You Like to Thank?
3. What Health Tips Have Worked for You?
4. How Do Male and Female Roles Differ in Your Family?
5. What Are Your Longtime Interests or Passions?
6. Do You Have a Hard Time Making Decisions?
7. Were You Ever the ‘New Kid’?
8. How Much Freedom Did Your Parents Give You?
9. What Motivates You?
10. Have You Ever Posted, Emailed or Texted Something You Wish You Could Take Back?
11. What Challenges Have You Overcome?
12. What Do You Wish You Could See, Hear, Read or Experience for the First Time All Over Again?
13. Would You Quit if Your Values Did Not Match Your Employer’s?
14. Are You More Or Less Religious Than Your Parents?
15. Do You Recognize Yourself in Descriptions of ‘Generation Z’?
16. Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?
17. What Good Can Come from Disagreements?
18. Is Modern Culture Ruining Childhood?
19. What’s the Most Memorable Thing You Ever Got in the Mail?
20. How Did You Learn About Sex?
21. How Often Do You Interact With People of Another Race or Ethnicity?
22. Do You Suffer From Anxiety?
23. What Are Your Thanksgiving Traditions?
24. Will Your Family Members Disagree With Each Other About Politics This Thanksgiving?
25. What Do You Look Forward to Most – and Least – During the Holiday Season?
26. What Does Santa Claus Mean to You?
27. What Is Your Most Prized Possession?
28. What Are You Grateful For?
29. Did You Take Part in Any Post-Thanksgiving Shopping?
30. Under What Conditions Do You Do Your Best Work?
December
1. How Often Do You Leave Your ‘Comfort Zone’?
2. With Whom Would You Share Your Passwords? How About Your Debit Card and PIN?
3. What Would You Do if You Won the Lottery?
4. When in Your Life Have You Been a Leader?
5. How Should You Handle the End of a Friendship?
6. What’s the Best Advice You’ve Gotten?
7. What Is Your All-Time Favorite Piece of Clothing?
8. What Small Things Have You Seen and Taken Note Of Today?
9. How Should Parents Discipline Their Kids?
10. How Do You Get Your Nature Fix?
11. When Should You Compromise?
12. How Important Is Keeping a Clean House?
13. Does Stress Affect Your Ability to Make Good Decisions?
14. What’s the Best Gift You’ve Ever Given or Received?
15. What Annoys You?
16. If the World Was Ending, What Would You Want to Do?
17. What Role Does Procrastination Play in Your Life?
18. Have You Ever Changed Your Mind About a Hot-Button Issue?
19. What Are the Best Things You’ve Watched, Read, Heard or Played This Year?
20. Was There a Toy You Wanted as a Child but Never Got?
21. Have You Ever Given, or Received, a Perfect Gift?
22. When Is the Last Time You Did Something Nice for a Stranger?
23. Do You Ever Eavesdrop?
24. What Things Did You Create When You Were a Child?
25. What Are the Best Things in Life and Are They Free?
26. How Stoic Are You?
27. As A Child/Teen - Where Did You Think You Would Live When You Were an Adult?
28. What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?
29. If You Had Siblings - Did Your Parents Treat You Differently? If Not, Did You Wish You Had Siblings?
30. Do You Look Forward to New Year’s Eve?
31. Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions?
Today was the first snowfall of the season! Right as I was getting a headache Vicki was like "guess what everyone?! IT'S SNOWING!!" It wasn't a large amount, but Vicki still had to run around and play in it LOL (thankfully the headache went away by itself)
Cherry's uncle Hugh did a talk yesterday at the Royal Geographic Society, which was recorded and posted on Cherry's group page on Facebook. Hugh is Angela's sister, whom Cherry married. Pretty much the only time Cherry was happy was in Antarctica (before Scott and the others died, of course)..he hated having to manage his estates and thought being a part of the "landed gentry" was pretty boring. Even though Hugh remembers him as curmudgeonly and uncomfortable around kids, he still has good memories of Cherry. He still has the Worst Journey copies Cherry bought for Angela! He talked about how unfortunate it was that people blamed Cherry for Scott's death, the museum curator not caring about the eggs he brought back, and that after he was invalided out of WWI, someone sent him a white feather and called him a coward. WOW. I'd be grumpy too! I've said this many times, but there's nothing Cherry could have done to save Scott..he would have died in the blizzard looking for them. After the talk, a guy stood up and said his father was a member of the Dorset House Club, and he said as a "special treat" he was allowed to go over to Cherry's table and ask him questions about the expedition!! That's amazing! He said Cherry was always a gentle, kind person and was a bit too modest about his answers to the questions haha. Aww, that's the Cherry I love. <3 It's great there are still people around who knew him and his kind side! I'll always be honored he said hi to me through my phone when I was at his grave!
7. What Superpower Do You Wish You Had? Flying or talking to animals
8. What’s Special About Your Hometown? I always get confused by this question..is it where I was born, grew up, or live in now?? I don't know much about Upland, but Flower Mound had nice nature and Fairbanks also has nice nature, the Northern Lights, kind of a "laid back" attitude, etc
October
2. Will Humans Live on Mars In Our Lifetime?
3. Do/Did You Ever Hang Out at the Mall?
4. Do You Unknowingly Submit to Peer Pressure?
5. Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
6. What Public Behavior Annoys You Most?
7. What Superpower Do You Wish You Had?
8. What’s Special About Your Hometown?
9. How Materialistic Are You?
10. Should the Private Lives of Famous People Be Off Limits?
11. What Are Your Opinions on Cosmetic Surgery?
12. What Habits Do You Have, and Have You Ever Tried to Change Them?
13. Does Keeping a Messy Desk Make People More Creative?
14. Does Reading a Book Count More Than Listening to One?
15. Are You a Novelty-Seeker?
16. How Strong Is Your Sense of Smell?
17. Are There Topics That Should Be Off Limits to Comedy?
18. What Animal Are You Most Like?
19. What Magazines Do You Read, and How Do You Read Them?
20. Would You Like to Live in Another Country?
21. What’s the Coolest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in a Museum?
22. Are You a Good Listener?
23. Do We Still Need Libraries?
24. How Do You Celebrate Your Birthday?
25. When Have You Failed? What Did You Learn From It?
26. What Activities Make You Feel Most Alive?
27. Where, and How, Do You Watch Movies?
28. What Is Your Favorite Street?
29. When Do You Remember Learning a New Word?
30. Is Amazon Becoming Too Powerful?
31. Will You Be Wearing a Halloween Costume This Year?
November
1. Are You Hard or Easy on Yourself?
2. What Teacher Would You Like to Thank?
3. What Health Tips Have Worked for You?
4. How Do Male and Female Roles Differ in Your Family?
5. What Are Your Longtime Interests or Passions?
6. Do You Have a Hard Time Making Decisions?
7. Were You Ever the ‘New Kid’?
8. How Much Freedom Did Your Parents Give You?
9. What Motivates You?
10. Have You Ever Posted, Emailed or Texted Something You Wish You Could Take Back?
11. What Challenges Have You Overcome?
12. What Do You Wish You Could See, Hear, Read or Experience for the First Time All Over Again?
13. Would You Quit if Your Values Did Not Match Your Employer’s?
14. Are You More Or Less Religious Than Your Parents?
15. Do You Recognize Yourself in Descriptions of ‘Generation Z’?
16. Do Machines Represent a Threat to Humans?
17. What Good Can Come from Disagreements?
18. Is Modern Culture Ruining Childhood?
19. What’s the Most Memorable Thing You Ever Got in the Mail?
20. How Did You Learn About Sex?
21. How Often Do You Interact With People of Another Race or Ethnicity?
22. Do You Suffer From Anxiety?
23. What Are Your Thanksgiving Traditions?
24. Will Your Family Members Disagree With Each Other About Politics This Thanksgiving?
25. What Do You Look Forward to Most – and Least – During the Holiday Season?
26. What Does Santa Claus Mean to You?
27. What Is Your Most Prized Possession?
28. What Are You Grateful For?
29. Did You Take Part in Any Post-Thanksgiving Shopping?
30. Under What Conditions Do You Do Your Best Work?
December
1. How Often Do You Leave Your ‘Comfort Zone’?
2. With Whom Would You Share Your Passwords? How About Your Debit Card and PIN?
3. What Would You Do if You Won the Lottery?
4. When in Your Life Have You Been a Leader?
5. How Should You Handle the End of a Friendship?
6. What’s the Best Advice You’ve Gotten?
7. What Is Your All-Time Favorite Piece of Clothing?
8. What Small Things Have You Seen and Taken Note Of Today?
9. How Should Parents Discipline Their Kids?
10. How Do You Get Your Nature Fix?
11. When Should You Compromise?
12. How Important Is Keeping a Clean House?
13. Does Stress Affect Your Ability to Make Good Decisions?
14. What’s the Best Gift You’ve Ever Given or Received?
15. What Annoys You?
16. If the World Was Ending, What Would You Want to Do?
17. What Role Does Procrastination Play in Your Life?
18. Have You Ever Changed Your Mind About a Hot-Button Issue?
19. What Are the Best Things You’ve Watched, Read, Heard or Played This Year?
20. Was There a Toy You Wanted as a Child but Never Got?
21. Have You Ever Given, or Received, a Perfect Gift?
22. When Is the Last Time You Did Something Nice for a Stranger?
23. Do You Ever Eavesdrop?
24. What Things Did You Create When You Were a Child?
25. What Are the Best Things in Life and Are They Free?
26. How Stoic Are You?
27. As A Child/Teen - Where Did You Think You Would Live When You Were an Adult?
28. What Role Will Robots Play in Our Future?
29. If You Had Siblings - Did Your Parents Treat You Differently? If Not, Did You Wish You Had Siblings?
30. Do You Look Forward to New Year’s Eve?
31. Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions?
