This stream of consciousness is due to Linda G Hill, hehe. Come jump in and float with us!
Man, I can’t believe that I still had to take it easy today. Yep, another nap day. I did get some done on the sock, but did nothing on the hat. That one seemed to hurt my arms so I backed off.
Wow, I wish my stream was moving! I guess I shouldn’t have waited until nearly midnight. There are some really cool things happening but I don’t want to jinx them by saying too much before they actually do happen. One I think I can claim is that one of my Hat Hugger friends is going to start helping me with my German. She only spoke German as a child so school was a nightmare for her. And she is moving her mother in to live with her and her mother speaks German even better, so I dread and look forward to learning the vocal language. I feel pretty good about reading it and doing the exercises on Doulingo but I know my mouth barely does English so I will have to force that social anxiety even farther. It was fun to visit her little homestead and hear her talk about her Pferd and Enten und Hühner und Hunde. It must confusing for folks who learn English when they hear the Queen’s English and those from New York and those in the south and we, who think we have no accent, in the Pacific area. Because when I took German in college, the teacher said things one way, and then to hear the speaker on Duolingo, and my new friend’s accent, the difference is so far that it is hard to understand. Apparently, her’s is of the northern area of Germany.
The prompt is Man by the way. I thought I would use it more than just that first word. My man is still healing from his broken shoulder and still working on physical therapy on his other shoulder, so we try to find the humor and not kill each other when we have the barometric pressures adding to our discomfort. At least it is warmer now. But the rains still mess with the roller coaster BP.
Do you remember how we were taught that if a child or animal are very emotional you lower your voice to help calm them? Well, when Kali first moved here she would be shaking so I would get very close to her ears and tell her secrets like how much I loved her and how good a dog she was. She listened so intently and often adjusts herself so that her ear is right next to my mouth so I can tell her more secrets. It is so cute! Somehow I have to get a picture of that. I also like to give her little kisses right there near her ear. She listens so intently that she starts sounding like she whispering secrets back. So much adorability in one small pooch!
Okay, the stream has hit a damn. Kali gets the last bark:
Man and woMan’s best friend!
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Darswords 
Kali is super cute, and something about her tells me she’s very receptive to hearing secrets! Kisses due at the time of telling, of course!
I really like the part about German and accents. For instance, when your high school French teacher spends all her summers in Basque Country, and your college French teacher lived in Paris proper, and your immersion professor taught in Vienne, you go to Quebec and people wonder what the heck kinda French you’re speaking. LOL Accents are SO telling!
So Kali has been telling her secrets? LOL!
I guess with your having lived in the south and are now in the north that you get a lot of that. My dad and I went to visit my aunt in Missouri. I was amazed at how much my aunt and other relatives who had spent most of my life in Southern California, had very distinct accents. The funny part was by the end of the week I didn’t hear accents anymore. I didn’t know if I had actually incorporated the accent in my own talking or if my ears had gotten used to it.
Kali is so cute! All the best with learning German. It seems some people really have a knack with languages – I’m one of the ones who has to study hard. 😛
You’ve had to learn sign language and how to deal with issues most of us know little or nothing about. All I have of sign language is finger spelling and ‘Thank you.’ You are amazing to me! 🙂
It’s been and still is a slog, believe me. Luckily Alex dumbs it down for me. 😛
But thank you. 🙂 You’re too kind.