playing catch-up...

jackie, you are one swell blogger, entrusting me with yet another post that needs my response even though i am slower than a tortoise & have not followed up on the last which was bestowed a whole month ago! i am so glad you have faith in me...i can be slow, but i will eventually plod through :-)

i'll start with the most recent...a book tag...oh, how i love my books!

the rules...

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the next three sentences.

5. Tag five people.

oh this is fun! there are exactly 10 books on my desk today. i'm going with the one on top of the pile (thank your blog-reading lucky stars that it is *not* one of the books for my ethics class!)...

rick steves' venice 2008!!! (something tells me britt-arnhild & spf will appreciate the likelihood of this)

do you want to know something quite funky??...this past week i have been fine tuning our museum plans for the april trip. just guess where the bookmark was?...

yep! good ol' page 123! which contains information about one of my very favorite artists~~ tintoretto! the section containing the 3 sentences is discussing his trafugamento del corpo di san marco found in gallerie dell'accademia.

"see the wisps of baby-angel faces in the storm, blowing on the infidels. look hard, on the left hand side. meanwhile, the venetian merchants whisk away the body."

there you have it! & now i tag some unsuspecting bloggers...annie, pam, jennie-boo, lissa & karina.

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back tracking...hanging my head for being sooooooo slow...

thank you, jackie & carol for the blog love~~ rating my lil' ol' blog "E for excellent"! i'm blushin' hons!the rules for this award require passing this honor along to 10 bloggers. this may be why it has taken me so long to finally act...it is very hard to narrow this down. really, every blog i visit is excellent to me. why would i spend my time hanging out in less-than-excellent places? it's just a downer to do so. rather i have made a blog-reading choice to stick with visiting positive places...so if you don't see your blog here, it's only because i'm following the rules today!

& here are my randomly chosen 10 (except the 1st...he's not random!)...

because he is my Little Man & because his hurricane blog rocks...hurricane tracker (he is on a bit of a hiatus til hurricane season gears up, but he's still quite excellent!)

because that girl can cook & she cooks italian...finding la dolce vita

because she is one queen of adventure & her travel writing keeps me on the edge of my seat...glory ho

because her title is just too funny & her posts are filled with wit...green eggs & pam

because their current journey is one of our future goals & they are doing it so beautifully on the blog...the olive notes

because her wit just kills me & she likes to alter the language setting on GPS's too...avert your eyes

because her poetry regularly blows me away & i am so dang grateful she is posting...the common hours

because their travel posts leave me wanting more...somepinkflowers & britt-arnhild's house in the woods

and because she is the queen of she who blogs, somehow managing to corral the lot of us & keep on top of that amazingly long list in the sidebar so efficiently...blogjem

have an EXCELLENT sunday y'all!!