Late morning. You and Carol have been cleaning the upstairs.
She is sweeping presently (you dusted, cleaned, sorted and trashed all your
automobile magazines earlier) and you are taking a short break.
1058
hours. The bedroom floor is swept and I cleaned a couple of carpet stains. The
bed has a pile of stuff on top. Next Wednesday we get a new queen bed (from the
Original Mattress Factory), our first in at least twenty years. The twin bed in
Kim’s old room also gets a new mattress and box springs. When we were in Brazil
we had Danish Modern in our bedroom. It had a large beautiful piece of wood on
legs about ten inches high and then a mattress, no box springs. It was quite
comfortable. We have slept on the en vogue foam mattresses but prefer the old
style orthopedic ultra firm mattresses and box springs we bought when married
in 1967. Cleaning is always a pain until you actually begin, then it’s not so
bad. I have the bathroom and kitchen floors to do but I’ll probably wait until
tomorrow morning, at least for the kitchen.
When time permits we can begin on Grandma 3.
Why don’t we check the word total. – Amorella
If you are that curious check your notes. –
Amorella
That’s
what the number of words is in the original Braided Dreams. I’ll have to come
up with something that focuses on ‘Circumstance’ or ‘Thought’?
“Circumstance”.
– Amorella
I
hadn’t changed the chapter title page on the working drafts. I really don’t
remember all this material.
Mid-afternoon
and you are in Blue Ash on the parking lot of Keystone Plaza on Kenwood Road in
the shade. You just split a Marx Bagel tuna fish deluxe on a raisin and
cinnamon bagel plus each had oatmeal raisin cookie for dessert while watching
the cars roll by. – Amorella
It’s
a fine, fine September day and not a white whale on the horizon.
You are sitting in a Honda, boy, not the
Pequod. – Amorella
Carol
is on page 389 of Coben’s book and you began work on Grandma 3 and decided to
read more about Lake Champlain.
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Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain
(French: lac Champlain) is a natural, freshwater lake in North America,
located mainly within the borders of the United States (states of Vermont and
New York) but partially situated across the Canada – United States border in
the Canadian province of Quebec.
The New York portion of the Champlain Valley
includes the eastern portions of Clinton County and Essex County. Most of this
area is part of the Adirondack Park. There are recreational opportunities in
the park and along the relatively undeveloped coastline of Lake Champlain. The
cities of Plattsburgh and Burlington are to the north and the village of
Ticonderoga in the southern part of the region. The Quebec portion is located
in the regional county municipalities of Le Haut-Richelieu and
Brome-Missisquoi.
Geology
The Champlain Valley is among the
northernmost valleys considered part of the Great Appalachian Valley, reaching
from Quebec to Alabama. The Champlain Valley is a physiographic section of the
larger Saint Lawrence Valley, physiographic division.
It is one of numerous large lakes in an arc
from Labrador through the northern United States and into the Northwest
Territories of Canada. Although it is smaller than the Great Lakes of Ontario,
Erie, Huron, Superior and Michigan, Lake Champlain is a large body of fresh
water. Approximately 1,269 km2 in area, the lake is roughly 201 km long, and 23
km across at its widest point. The maximum depth is approximately 400 ft. The
lake varies seasonally from about 95 100 above mean sea level.
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Champlain Sea
The Champlain Sea was a temporary
inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, a paratropical subsea or epeiric sea created by
the retreating glaciers during the close of the last ice age.
The mass of ice from the continental ice
sheets had depressed the rock beneath it over millennia, causing it to rebound
once the ice melted. This process is gradual and known as isostatic rebound.
While the rock was still depressed, the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa River
valleys, as well as modern Lake Champlain, were below sea level and flooded
once the ice no longer prevented the ocean from flowing into the region.
The sea lasted from about 13,000 years ago to
about 10,000 years ago and was continuously shrinking during that time, since
the rebounding continent was slowly rising above sea level. At its peak, the
sea extended inland as far south as Lake Champlain and somewhat farther west
than the site of Ottawa, Ontario. The remaining glaciers fed the sea during
that time, making it more brackish than typical seawater. It is estimated that
the sea was as much as 150 m above the level of today's Saint Lawrence and
Ottawa Rivers.
Modern evidence of the sea can be seen in the
form of whale fossils, (belugas, fin whales and bowhead whales) and marine
shells that have been found near the cities of Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal,
Quebec, the existence of ancient shorelines in the former coastal regions, and
the presence of Leda clay deposits dotting the region. From the Petawawa
fault zone at Mount Pakenham, Ontario, the viewable ancient coastline to
the northeast is roughly 40 km away and is known today as the Eardley
Escarpment. The Eardley Escarpment is known locally as the Gatineau Hills; part
of the Mattawa fault at the South-Eastern edge of the Ottawa-Bonnechere
Graben, in the province of Quebec. The Gatineau Hills are situated at the
Foothills of the Laurentian Mountains.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia Offline
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I
think I should mention something about the setting, as it is Qwinta’s
circumstance some 8,000 years ago. (1548)
By all means. We can find this useful for
the native of that time period. – Amorella
2139
hours. We watched “Broadchurch” (one more episode) and then the news. I drove
to Pet Smart for a new litter box and litter, returned home and I couldn’t find
my wallet (money and cards with a securing rubber band). I told Carol and
checked the car, the garage, then returned to Pet Smart. The manager said he would
tell employees to look for it as it was not turned in. I looked in the lot
where I had parked the car and found nothing. As I headed home I was trying to
remember where I had put my credit card numbers, etc. to call this evening.
Once home I began a recheck and found nothing, then I went to put my phone on
its charger and there it was beside the charger. For the life of me I can’t
remember setting it down or even going over to the charger as I was showing
Carol the new litter box. I am thankful, but my lack of memory bothers me.
You did not once blame me for not helping
you remember. I find that remarkable. – Amorella
Why?
Losing a wallet has nothing to do with writing. It never occurred to me to ask
you.
Post. We’ll work tomorrow if time permits. -
Amorella
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