Weather: It looks like it MIGHT rain -- do it! do it! do it! There's new snow on the mountains, at least.

Wildlife: Several flocks of Golden Eye Ducks have landed in Middle Foy's Lake. Ducklings of many kinds will be waddling and swimming in about four weeks.

Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life

Media Watch: I'm reading God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson. It's a pretty opinionated historical work so far. I'm glad I didn't live in the early 1600s! Even the people Nicolson seems to LIKE come across as pretty, selfish, and mean-spirited.
This book praises the memory of William Tyndale -- three generations gone, as the King James Bible was being edited -- he wrote (or translated, as it were) the bulk of this bedrock English Bible.
Information about Tyndale: William Tyndale, Bible Translator - Christian Biography Resources
Heres a play about him: Friends of William Tyndale ... History of the English Bible

At the College: An oral reading in the Learning Center, featuring Brian Bechtold and George Cowan.
I think someone read Desiderata -- I was asked to research it -- here's Snopes' story: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Language (Desiderata Errata)
A book sale! Here's what I bought: The Universe, Isaac Asimov; The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury; Mariner IV to Mars, Willy Ley; Trozas, B. Traven; Museum Without Walls, Henry Moore in New York City; Introducing Science, Alan Isaacs; No! In Thunder, Leslie A. Fiedler; Change and Habit, Arthur Toynbee; How to Create New Ideas, Eugene Raudsepp, From the New Criticism to Deconstruction, Art Berman.

I'm going to give Isaac Asimov to Stormy Good, our technical writing teacher, and Henry Moore... to the Hockaday Museum's library. Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.