Why this blog?

Around 25 years ago, I convinced my grandmother to write a memoir. Naturally, it was in pen on (gasp) paper. That, of course, would never do. I was blinded by new technology. I was an idiot. I convinced (read "paid") my daughter, Miriam, to type Bubbie's manuscript up on my Commodore 64. Then, to make matters worse, I edited the typescript. Then I printed it out and had it copied and bound.

Now, the actual original manuscript, what Bubbie actually wrote with her own hand, is lost forever. It's probably somewhere in the house, but that pretty much counts as lost forever.

Now, I'm at that age. My kids have not asked me to do this, but I'm doing it anyway. I'm still amused enough by technology that I don't want to do a handwritten manuscript. I also don't think I can achieve the kind of dramatic impact that Bubbie managed with a formal autobiography. So, instead, I'm doing a blog with random memories from the past and the present scattered in a disorganized way.

This blog is linked to my two other blogs.

http://henryandcarolynsecondhoneymoon.blogspot.com/ is the blog I started when I came down with cancer and pretty much stopped when Carolyn died.

http://henryfarkaswidowerblog.blogspot.com/ is the blog I started after Carolyn died; when I decided to continue blogging.

For what it's worth, there's a search engine attached to this blog right below this intro. That won't be worth much initially, but if this blog gets long and stays disorganized, then my kids and their kids will be able to use the search engine to find stuff if they're interested.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Thurmont on a Summer's Day (c)

Thurmont on a Summer's Day (c)

by Henry Farkas

Passing through Thurmont, Maryland
Visiting the goldfish farm.

Large breeder goldfish laying eggs on mats
Mats transferred to indoor tanks.

Fingerlings hatched in those concrete tanks.
Slightly bigger goldfish sent to the ponds.

It's a cycle of nature with regular size goldfish
Driven in plastic water filled bags

To BWI and shipped by air all over the country
While fish poop washes downstream from Thurmont.

The poop should be captured and used as fertilizer
And not sent directly to the Chesapeake Bay.
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