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Exceptional Excerpts: The Belly of Paris #3 by Émile Zola
Mar12 by Dagny
There are so many wonderful passages in Le Ventre de Paris that I am joining Jonathan and posting an excerpt. This is only part of the lengthy, but interesting, description of Gavard. It appears early in the second fifth of the book. The translation, by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, is titled The Fat and the Thin, and is available free from Project Gutenberg.
As he was in the habit of visiting the Quenu-Gradelles almost daily, he determined to take up his residence nearer to them, and came to live in the Rue de la Cossonnerie. The neighbouring markets, with their noisy uproar and endless chatter, quite fascinated him; and he decided to hire a stall in the poultry pavilion, just for the purpose of amusing himself and occupying his idle hours with all the gossip. Thenceforth he lived amidst ceaselesstittle-tattle, acquainted with every little scandal in the neighbourhood, his head buzzing with the incessant yelping around him. He blissfully tasted a thousand titillating delights, having at last found his true element, and bathing in it, with the voluptuous pleasure of a carp swimming in the sunshine. Florent would sometimes go to see him at his stall.
And a few sentences later:
At last, in the middle of the alley, near the water-taps, he found Gavard ranting away in his shirt-sleeves, in front of his stall, with his arms crossed over the bib of his blue apron. He reigned there, in a gracious, condescending way, over a group of ten or twelve women. He was the only male dealer in that part of the market. He was so fond of wagging his tongue that he had quarrelled with five or six girls whom he had successively engaged to attend to his stall, and had now made up his mind to sell his goods himself, naively explaining that the silly women spent the whole blessed day in gossiping, and that it was beyond his power to manage them.
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Exceptional Excerpts: The Conquest of Plassans, by Emile Zola
Jun21 by Lisa Hill
It is my good fortune to be reading Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle just as Oxford World Classics is releasing new translations of this wonderful series of books. The Conquest of Plassans (La Conquête de Plassans) (1874) is hot off the presses, arriving here in Australia when I was just about to embark on the sixth novel in the recommended reading order, using the old Vizetelly translation on The Hated Kindle. In this Sensational Snippet from Chapter 5, you can see how the new translation by Helen Constantine has so artfully captured the malice between mother-in-law Félicité Rougon and her daughter Marthe's husband, Mouret:
Félicité kissed Marthe on the forehead as if the latter were still sixteen. She then extended her hand to Mouret. Their usual mode of conversation had a sharp edge of irony.
'Well,' she asked with a smile, 'have the police not been to arrest you yet, you old revolutionary?'
'Not yet,' he replied, also with a laugh. 'They are waiting until your husband gives them the order.'
'Oh, very funny, ' Félicité replied, her eyes blazing.
Marthe appealed to Mouret with a pleading look; he had certainly gone too far. But he was off and there was no stopping him.
'Good gracious, what can we be thinking of? Here we are receiving you in the dining room? Let's go into the drawing room.'
This was one of his usual jokes. When Félicité came calling, he assumed her affectations. It was no good Marthe saying they were fine where they were, she and her mother were obliged to follow him into the drawing room. There he took enormous pains opening the shutters, arranging the armchairs. The drawing room was never used and its windows remained closed more often than not; it was a large unused room, in which stood furniture with white covers yellowed by the damp from the garden.
'This is terrible, ' Mouret murmured, wiping the dust from an occasional table, 'Rose [their servant] leaves everything in such a state.'
And, turning to his mother-in-law, in a voice laced with irony:
'Please forgive us for receiving you like this in our poor little residence … we can't all be rich.'
from The Conquest of Plassans, by Émile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine, Oxford World Classics, 2014
Compare this with the Vizetelly version:
Félicité kissed Marthe on the forehead and then gave her hand to Mouret. She and her son-in-law generally affected a mocking tone in their conversations together.
'Well,' she said to him with a smile, 'the gendarmes haven't been for you yet then, you revolutionist?'
'No, not yet,' he replied with a responsive smile; 'they are waiting till your husband gives them the order.'
'It's very nice and polite of you to say that!' exclaimed Félicité, whose eyes were beginning to glisten.
Marthe turned a beseeching glance upon Mouret. He had gone too far; but his feelings were roused and he added:
'Good gracious! What are we thinking of to receive you in the dining-room? Let us go into the drawing-room, I beg you.'
This was one of his usual pleasantries. He affected all Félicité's fine airs whenever he received a visit from her. It was to no purpose that Marthe protested that they were very comfortable where they were; her husband insisted that she and her mother should follow him into the drawing-room. When they got there, he bustled about, opening the shutters and drawing out the chairs. The drawing-room, which was seldom entered, and the shutters of which were generally kept closed, was a great wilderness of a room, with furniture swathed in white dust-covers which were turning yellow from the proximity of the damp garden.
'It is really disgraceful!' muttered Mouret, wiping the dust from a small console; 'that wretched Rose neglects everything abominably.'
Then, turning towards his mother-in-law, he said with ill-concealed irony:
'You will excuse us for receiving you in this way in our poor dwelling. We cannot all be wealthy.'
Zola, Emile (2012-11-23). Complete Works of Emile Zola (Illustrated), The Conquest of Plassans, Chapter 5, Delphi Classics. Kindle Edition
It makes a big difference, doesn't it?
Title: The Conquest of Plassans
Translated by Helen Constantine
Publisher: Oxford World Classics, 2014
Source: Review copy courtesy of Oxford University Press
Direct from Oxford University Press and good bookshops everywhere.
Cross-posted at Lisa Hill's blog as part of the Zola Project at ANZ LitLovers.
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Exceptional Excerpts: Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
Feb28 by Dagny
Thérèse Raquin was published when Zola was twenty-seven. It was his first book to be translated and published in England by the Vizetellys.
Not for the faint of heart, the first appearance was three installments in Houssaye's L'Artiste with the title Un mariage d'amour (August – October, 1867). Apparently the Morgue scene was omitted in the periodical publication. In the Preface to his translation in a 1902 edition, Edward Vizetelly wrote: ". . . he consented at the insistence of the Editor, who pointed out to him that the periodical was read by the Empress Eugenie, to draw his pen through certain passages, which were reinstated when the story was published in volume form. I may say here that in this translation, I have adopted the views of the late M. Arsene Houssaye; and, if I have allowed the appalling description of the Paris Morgue to stand, it is, first of all, because it constitutes a very important factor in the story; and moreover, it is so graphic, so true to life, as I have seen the place myself, times out of number, that notwithstanding its horror, it really would be a loss to pass it over."
There are several descriptive pages of individual bodies and the horror that Laurent feels as he sees them, but I will only quote of the Morgue's popularity as entertainment.
The Morgue is a show that anyone can afford, which poor and rich passers-by get for free The door is open, anyone can come in. There are connoisseurs who go out of their way not to miss one of these spectacles of death. When the slabs are empty, people go out disappointed, robbed, muttering under their breath. When the slabs are well filled, and when there is a fine display of human flesh, the visitors crowd in, getting a cheap thrill, horrified, joking, applauding or whistling, as in the theatre, and go away contented, announcing that the Morgue has been a success that day.
Laurent soon came to know the regulars who attended the place, a mixed, diverse group of people who came to sympathize with one another or snigger together. Some workmen would come in on their way to their jobs, with a loaf of bread and some tools under their arms; they found death amusing. . . . . Women came in great numbers: pink, young working gils with white blouses and clean skirts, who went briskly from one end of the window to the other, attentive and wide-eyed, as though looking at the display in a fashion store; there were working-class women too, haggard with doleful expressions, and well-dressed ladies, nonchalant, trailing their silk dresses.
(Thérèse Raquin, by Émile Zola, Penguin Classics, translated by Robin Buss, 2004, p 73)
Could this possibly be true? A sentence from Paris illustré en 1878 by Adolphe Joanne reads: "When the newspapers announce the discovery of some crime, curious people arrive in large numbers, making a queue from morning until evening that sometimes reaches the number of between 1,000 and 1,500 persons."
The 1902 Vizetelly edition and an edition in French are available free at Project Gutenberg.
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Exceptional Excerpts: The Kill by Émile Zola
Jan16 by Jonathan
The Kill was originally published as La Curée in 1872. It was the second volume in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series of books. The whole novel revolves around Saccard's (a.k.a. Aristide Rougon) lust for money and Maxime and Renée's lust for each other – Maxime is Saccard's son from his first wife and Renée is Saccard's second wife.
This excerpt is from the first chapter. A banquet has been held at Saccard's luxurious house and the guests are leaving. Maxime and Louise, his betrothed, have sneaked off to the hothouse which is filled with exotic plants; Renée has followed them at a distance and spies on them.
Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of the tropics. Renée was wrapped in the powerful bridals of the earth that gave birth to these dark growths, these colossal stamina; and the acrid birth-throes of this hotbed, of this forest growth, of this mass of vegetation aglow with the entrails that nourished it, surrounded her with disturbing odours. At her feet was the steaming tank, its tepid water thickened by the sap from the floating roots, enveloping her shoulders with a mantle of heavy vapours, forming a mist that warmed her skin like the touch of a hand moist with desire. Overhead she could smell the palm trees, whose tall leaves shook down their aroma. And more than the stifling heat, more than the brilliant light, more than the great dazzling flowers, like faces laughing or grimacing between the leaves, it was the odours that overwhelmed her. An indescribable perfume, potent, exciting, composed of a thousand different perfumes, hung about her; human exudation, the breath of women, the scent of hair; and breezes sweet and swooningly faint were blended with breezes coarse and pestilential, laden with poison. But amid this strange music of odours, the dominant melody that constantly returned, stifling the sweetness of the vanilla and the orchids' pungency, was the penetrating, sensual smell of flesh, the smell of lovemaking escaping in the early morning from the bedroom of newlyweds.
Renée is overcome by the odours in the hothouse, the night's excess and from watching Maxime and Louise. The chapter ends with this paragraph:
The shrub that half concealed her was a malignant plant, a Madagascan tanghin tree with wide, box-like leaves with whitish stems, whose smallest veins distilled a venomous fluid. At a moment when Louise and Maxime laughed more loudly in the reflected yellow light of the sunset in the little boudoir, Renée, her mind wandering, her mouth dry and parched, took between her lips a sprig of the tanghin tree that was level with her mouth, and sank her teeth into one of its bitter leaves.
( The Kill, by Émile Zola, Oxford University Press, translated by Brian Nelson, 2004, p39-40)
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Exceptional Excerpts: Zest for Life by Émile Zola
Zest for Life is the Elek Books version of La Joie de vivre (1884) which was published in 1955. Although not one of the best books of the series I found it an interesting read. The novel clips along at quite a leisurely pace until the reader reaches Chapter Ten – this is an astounding chapter, containing some of Zola's most powerful, descriptive writing. Please note that I give away part of the plot in what follows.
In this chapter Louise, who is eight month's pregnant, goes into labour. Her husband, Lazare, fetches the local midwife, Mme Bouland, but she discovers that the baby's arm is showing and recommends that Dr. Cazenove is called for. Eventually the doctor arrives and suggests that it will be difficult to save both mother and child. He proceeds, however and for eight pages we experience the doctor's attempt to re-align the baby and deliver it safely. The mother, who has been in constant pain for hours is unconscious at this point. I would have liked to quote the whole eight or so pages as it works so well as a whole, but instead I've picked out a small section which should give a flavour of the prose.
'We've waited too long, it's going to be difficult to get my hand in…You see, the shoulder's already engaged in the opening.'
Amidst the swollen, straining muscles, between pinkish folds of flesh, the child could be seen. But it had stopped there, unable to get past because of the narrowness of the organ. Meanwhile, however, the abdominal and lumbar muscles were still striving to expel it; even unconscious, the mother was still pushing violently, exhausting herself in labour, in the mechanical urge to be delivered; and the waves of pain still swept downwards, each accompanied by a cry in her stubborn battle against the impossible. The child's hand was hanging out of the vulva. It was a tiny black hand, its fingers opening and closing intermittently as though it were clutching at life.
'Let the leg give a little,' said Madame Bouland to Pauline. 'No need to wear her out.'
Dr. Cazenove was standing between the two knees, each held by one of the women. He turned round, puzzled at the way the light was flickering; Lazare behind him, was trembling so violently that the candle shook in his hand as though in a great gust of wind.
'My dear fellow,' said the doctor, 'put the candlestick on the bedside table. I shall see better.'
Incapable of watching any longer, the husband retreated to the further end of the room and sank into a chair. But although he had stopped watching, he still kept on seeing the little creature's pathetic hand, clinging to life, seeming to grope for help in this world into which it had led the way.
Unfortunately, if you decide to read the Vizettely translation then this whole eight or nine page section of the book is covered by the following paragraph:
There came a cruel and affecting scene. It was one of those dread hours when life and death wrestle together, when human science and skill battle to overcome and correct the errors of Nature. More than once did the Doctor pause, fearing a fatal issue. The patient's agony was terrible, but at last science triumphed, and a child was born. It was a boy.
A graphic description of a difficult childbirth was obviously not considered appropriate material for the late Victorian reading public. They could read it in French though if they wished.
(Zest for Life by Émile Zola, published by Elek Books, 1955, translated by Jean Stewart)
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Exceptional Excerpts: His Excellency Eugene Rougon, by Emile Zola, translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Jan11 by Lisa Hill
I was reading His Excellency Eugène Rougon, by Émile Zola, (No #2 in the Rougon-Macquart cycle and part of my Zola project) when I came across this passage in Chapter 9. The repression that Rougon exacts in the name of the Emperor and the lust for power at any price made me think of Stalin …
Outside, France was hushed in fear. The Emperor, in summoning Rougon to power, had been desirous of making examples. He knew the great man's iron hand, and had said to him on the morning after the attempt on his life, with all the anger of one who has just escaped assassination, 'No moderation, mind! They must be made to fear you.' He had just armed him, too, with that terrible Law of General Safety, which authorised the confinement in Algeria or the expulsion from the empire of anyone who might be convicted of a political offence. Although no single Frenchman had taken part in the crime of the Rue Le Peletier, the Republicans were about to be hunted down and transported; there was to be a general sweeping away of the ten thousand 'suspects' who had been passed over at the time of the coup d'état. There were rumours of contemplated action by the revolutionary party. The authorities were said to have made a seizure of weapons and treasonable documents. Already in the middle of March, three hundred and eighty persons had been shipped at Toulon for Algeria, and now every week a fresh contingent was sent off. The whole country trembled in the terror which like a black storm cloud rolled forth from the room with the green velvet curtains where Rougon laughed aloud while stretching his arms.
The great man had never before tasted such complete contentment. He felt well and strong, and was putting on flesh. Health had come back to him with his return to power. When he walked about the room he dug his heels into the carpet, as though he wanted his heavy tread to resound throughout France. He would have liked to shake the country by merely putting his empty glass down on the side-table or casting aside his pen. It delighted him to be a source of fear, to forge thunderbolts amidst the smiling gratification of his friends, and to crush a whole nation with his swollen parvenu fists. In one of his circulars he had written: 'It is for the good to feel confidence, and for the wicked only to tremble.' He revelled in playing this part of a divinity, damning some, and saving others. He was filled with mighty pride; his idolatry of his own strength and intelligence was becoming a real religion with him.
Among the new men who had sprung up with the Second Empire, Rougon had long been known as a partisan of strong government. His name was a synonym for stern repression, the refusal of all liberties; despotic rule, in fact. All knew therefore what they had to expect when they saw him called to office. To his intimate friends, however, Rougon unbosomed himself. He did not, he said, so much hold opinions as feel a craving for power. Power had too much attraction for him, and was too essential to his appetite for him to refuse it, whatever the conditions on which it might be offered to him.
To rule, to set his foot on the neck of the crowd, was his first and immediate ambition; the rest was merely secondary matter to which he could easily accommodate himself. The one thing which he really wanted was to be chief. It so happened, however, that the circumstances under which he was now returning to power made his success very pleasant. The Emperor had given him complete liberty of action, and he was at last in a position to realise his old dream of driving the multitude with a whip like a herd of cattle. Nothing filled him with greater satisfaction than to know that he was feared and disliked. And sometimes when his friends told him that he was a tyrant, he smiled, and said with deep meaning: 'If I should become a liberal some day, people will say that I have changed.' Rougon's very greatest joy was to stand triumphant amidst those friends of his. He forgot France and the obsequious functionaries and the crowd of petitioners who besieged his doors, to regale himself with the perpetual admiration of his ten or twelve intimate associates. His office was open to them at any hour, he allowed them to make it a home, to take possession of his chairs, and even of his desk itself; he told them that it was a pleasure to have them always about him like a pack of faithful dogs.
from His Excellency Eugène Rougon, by Émile Zola, in the Complete Works of Émile Zola (Illustrated) (Kindle Locations 64059-64091). Delphi Classics. Kindle Edition.
Instructive, n'est-ce pas?
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Exceptional Excerpts: The Belly of Paris, by Émile Zola
Jan9 by Jonathan
The Belly of Paris was originally published in 1873 as Le Ventre de Paris; it was the third novel in the Rougon-Macquart series of novels and is centred around the busy Les Halles market in the centre of Paris.
This excerpt comes from a point about three quarters the way through the novel and takes place in Madame Lecoeur's cheese storeroom. Also present is Mlle Saget and La Sarriette. Mlle Saget has found out some information about the main character, Florent. Although the reader of the novel already knows from the opening pages what this secret is I won't reveal it here as I want to concentrate largely on the descriptive and lyrical prose of this section. It is, in total, about five pages long and begins with a page long description of all the cheeses in the storeroom, the women continue gossiping as the smells of all the cheeses in the enclosed room becomes overwhelming.
I would have liked to just quote the whole section but that might have been a bit excessive. Instead I've picked out some of the more descriptive text and left out most of the dialogue and gossiping, this is because the dialogue makes more sense as part of the plot, whereas the descriptive text more easily stands alone. I've indicated where I've skipped some text with an ellipsis in square brackets. I believe that this section was known as 'The Cheese Symphony' for reasons that will soon be clear.
All around them the cheeses were stinking. On the two shelves at the back of the stall were huge blocks of butter: Brittany butter overflowing its baskets; Normandy butter wrapped in cloth, looking like models of bellies on to which a sculptor had thrown some wet rags; other blocks, already cut into and looking like high rocks full of valleys and crevices. […] But for the most part the cheeses stood in piles on the table. There, next to the one-pound packs of butter, a gigantic cantal was spread on leaves of white beet, as though split by blows from an axe; then came a golden Cheshire cheese, a gruyère like a wheel fallen from some barbarian chariot, some Dutch cheeses suggesting decapitated heads smeared in dried blood and as hard as skulls – which has earned them the name of 'death's heads'. A parmesan added its aromatic tang to the thick, dull smell of the others. […] Then came the strong-smelling cheeses: the mont-d'ors, pale yellow, with a mild sugary smell; the troyes, very thick and bruised at the edges, much stronger, smelling like a damp cellar; the camemberts, suggesting high game; the neufchâtels, the limbourgs, the marolles, the pont-l'évèques, each adding its own shrill note in a phrase that was harsh to the point of nausea; […]
A silence fell at the mention of Gavard. They all looked at each other cautiously. As they were all rather short of breath by this time, it was the camembert they could smell. This cheese, with its gamy odour, had overpowered the milder smells of the marolles and the limbourg; its power was remarkable. Every now and then, however, a slight whiff, a flute-like note, came from the parmesan, while the bries came into play with their soft, musty smell, the gentle sound, so to speak, of a damp tambourine. The livarot launched into an overwhelming reprise, and the géromé kept up the symphony with a sustained note.
( The Belly of Paris, by Émile Zola, Oxford University Press, translated by Brian Nelson, 2007, p210-216)
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Exceptional Excerpts: Germinal, by Emile Zola
Dec29 by Lisa Hill
Germinal, (1885) by Emile Zola, is the thirteenth novel in his twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, but it's the first that I have read by this great French writer. The realism of this story of a miners' strike in the 1860s in northern France is stunning.
In this Sensational Snippet, the strike has got out of control. A small contingent of soldiers are guarding Belgian scabs in the pit and the strikers are attacking them with stones and bricks. Zola – whose sympathies throughout this novel are with the miners and their cause – shows that things are never as simple as they seem afterwards in the cold light of day:
The little squad was nearly lost to sight under the hail of stones. Fortunately they landed too high and merely pitted the wall above. What was to be done? For a moment the captain considered retreating into the buildings, but the very thought of showing his back to the mob made his pale face flush – and in any case it was no longer practicable, for if they made the slightest movement they would be lynched. A brick had just broken the peak of his cap and blood was trickling down his forehead. Several of his men were wounded, and he realized that they were at the end of their tether and had reached the stage of instinctive self-defence when they would no longer obey their superiors. The sergeant had let out an oath when his shoulder had nearly been put out and his skin bruised by a heavy thud that sounded like a dolly banging the washing. The recruit had been grazed in two places, his thumb was smashed and his right knee was smarting: how much longer were they going to put up with this? One brick had bounced up and hit the veteran in the groin, and he had turned green and was raising his rifle with his thin arms. Three times the captain was on the point of ordering them to fire. He was torn with perplexity, and for some seconds an apparently endless struggle within him shook all his ideas, his sense of duty and his beliefs as a man and as a soldier. The bricks rained thicker still, and just as he was opening his mouth to shout 'Fire!' the rifles went off of their own accord; first three shots, then five, then the whole volley of a platoon and then, long afterwards, a single shot in the midst of silence.
There was a moment of stupefaction. They had really fired, and the crowd stood motionless, unable to believe it. Then piercing shrieks arose, while the bugle sounded the cease fire. And then a wild panic like the stampede of cattle before machine-guns, a frantic rush through the mud.
(Germinal, by Emile Zola, Penguin Classics, 1954 translation by L.W. Tancock, p 410-1)
Selected by Lisa Hill, 17/11/11 and cross-posted at ANZ LitLovers.
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Most readers have a few favorite authors they turn to again and again. I'm no different and somehow when I look at my stack of "to read" novels, there are a few names that always seem to move to the top of the pile. This month many of my "favorites" have new books out at the same time. And in keeping with the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday I'll add my gratitude for writers who give me many hours of pleasant enjoyment. So here are a couple of my favorites with a promise to add the others between now and Christmas. Actually either of these books would make a great Christmas gift for the reader on your holiday shopping list.
EXODUS by H.B. Moore
One of the most satisfying series based on scriptural characters in the past few years is The Moses Chronicles by H.B. Moore. The final volume in the trilogy is EXODUS, the story of the liberation of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt where they've been held in bondage for four hundred years. This is the epic clash between two powerful men; Moses, God's chosen prophet, and Ramses, pharaoh of Egypt who is considered by Egyptians to be a god.
The plagues rained down on Egypt accomplish two purposes. They not only serve to prove to Ramses and the Egyptian people that there is One mightier than the pharaoh, but they serve to convince the Hebrews that Moses is truly a prophet of God and to restore their obedience to the true God.
Ramses stubborn refusal to let the Hebrews go brings on a long period of suffering for all of the people as the Nile turns to blood, marauding insects destroy plant life, and finally the first born die. Ramses attempts to bargain for a partial release, then changes his mind. Even when the final plague devastates the Egyptians, the pharaoh sends an army to return or kill the slaves whose labors made his land an economic giant of the time. The scene that follows of the sea parting is one of the most dramatic in the Old Testament and in this retelling of the ancient account.
Moore follows closely the Old Testament story of the deliverance of the children of Israel with a few exceptions which are noted at the beginning of the book and primarily deal with time periods which were shortened to add drama to the story. The major characters in this story are younger than they probably actually were.
Though the basic story is doctrinally accurate, the conversations and many of the relationships are fictional. The overall story is well-known, but the fictional additions enhance the story and are feasible. Moses wasn't raised in a Hebrew household and was not a slave, so it is interesting to see how his relationships with Miriam, Aaron, his parents, and the Israelite community may have unfolded. There is little known about Moses's adopted mother, the Egyptian princess who found him in a basket in the river. She was likely a good person since she was clearly chosen to raise Moses and her act of kindness in saving the child says a great deal about her. Her fictionalized story adds a touch of romance and the point of view of a woman to the story.
Moore's characters are well fleshed out and fit the story. Growth is shown in the way Moses and Aaron go from nervous, but determined to face Ramses, to men of powerful faith who trust God in all things. Other characters also grow as their faith grows. The author shows tremendous ability to paint a realistic picture of the plagues, of the parting of the Red Sea, and even the vast desert land the characters must pass through to return to the land promised the Israelites more than four hundred years earlier.
Heather B. Moore, who writes scripturally based historical novels as H.B. Moore, attended Cairo American College in Egypt and the Anglican School of Jerusalem in Israel. She is also a graduate of Brigham Young University in Utah. She with her husband and children lives in Utah.
THE MOSES CHRONICLES,VOL. 3, EXODUS, published by Covenant Communications, 230 pages, soft cover $16.99. Also available on CD and for eReaders.
NOT A WORD by Stephanie Black
A suspense novel filled with one psychological twist after another, Not a Word by Stephanie Black opens with a stalker following a prominent business woman. The stalker discovers an unexpected thrill when she accidentally scares her prey. Is this the beginning to an escalation of her unsavory actions?
Psychologist Natalie Marsh and her partners are hoping a wealthy, eccentric businessman will support their efforts to open a new mental health clinic. Her best friend, recently widowed Camille, is hired by the man to help with the development of his latest project which might help Natalie's cause. Camille confides in Natalie that she thinks someone is following her, but her observations are so vague, Natalie thinks she may be suffering from stress over the loss of her husband. Another widow, a former neighbor begins making odd accusations concerning the wealthy businessman. In her efforts to help the older woman, Natalie becomes friends with the woman's stepson who has his own set of insecurities linked to being dumped just before his wedding. A new client, whose every action is controlled by her husband, is added to her client list and red flags indicate she should sever their relationship and refer her to another psychologist when the woman reveals information that points to her involvement with someone in Natalie's personal life. Added to all this is the hurt of being disinherited by her mother who left all of her considerable estate to Natalie's sister, who seems to enjoy taunting her less fortunate sister.
Natalie is surrounded by suspicions and secrets, then a murder victim is discovered in a manner that points toward one of her clients. The discovery leads to doubts concerning several accidents which may have actually been murders as well. Motives and clues point in multiple directions. And is Natalie the next intended victim?
Black has earned four Whitney awards for her mystery novels for solid reasons. She is adept at creating characters who feel real and creating plausible scenarios where any character might be the guilty party. Such is the case in Not a Word. She builds in a background that never intrudes, but provides an element of reality that suits her characters. It's not easy for mystery aficionados to guess the villain's identity early and the story's ending provides the adrenalin kick that makes her readers return for more. By the way, Not a Word has one of the most striking covers of all of her books.
Stephanie Black was born in Utah, but has lived in Arizona, Massachusetts, Ireland, and now California. She plays the violin in her community's orchestra and teaches early morning seminary. She and her husband are actively involved in the Church and in raising their family.
NOT A WORD by Stephanie Black, Published by Covenant Communications, 270 pages, soft cover $16.99. Also available for eReaders.
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ShaunaNovember 18, 2016
Over the years I have seen some of my favorites actually changed, but I now have my ?old favorites" and "new favorites". I always try new ones, but as a person that has an ereader I have got so I now started buying books that I've owned for years on that also. I'm open to suggestions and am thankful for them from people I know enjoy reading.
Nikki TrionfoNovember 17, 2016
I'm starting to get my own set of favorite LDS authors. Thanks for pointing out these two. :)

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As part of the plea deal struck by the court, Piedrahita, 55, would avoid jail if she performs community service, stays away from pets and pays $500 to Animal Welfare Society of South Florida. Under the deal, she won't be considered a convicted felon.
The conclusion of the case came more than six months after Piedrahita decided to get Toby the cat declawed, an operation that is legal when performed by a licensed veterinarian. Still, the procedure is frowned upon by many veterinarians and the animal-rights community and has been banned in some countries.
According to the Humane Society, which opposes declawing, many pet owners falsely believe the operation is akin to trimming nails. In fact, the procedure actually involves amputating the last bone of each toe. "If performed on a human being, declawing would be like cutting off each finger at the last knuckle," according to Humane Society literature.
Piedrahita wanted Toby declawed because the cat was damaging her furniture. But instead of paying the $800 for the operation with a vet, she turned to an elderly Miami man, who along with another man performed an illegal do-it-yourself declawing of the cat, prosecutors said.
Toby fell ill. For two weeks, he lingered in pain and dehydration, vomiting a green substance, the exposed bones on his front paws infected and swollen.
Piedrahita finally took Toby to a Miami animal clinic, where he died. Prosecutors also charged Geronimo Gonzalez, 72, and Jose Diaz, 56, the men believed to have performed the botched operation. Their cases are pending.
Her lawyer, Christian Dunham, insisted Piedrahita did not deserve jail time.
Prosecutors wanted at least 30 days in jail for Piedrahita.


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Just in time for the Museum für Verhütung und Schwangerschaftsabbruch's fifth anniversary in spring 2012, Susanne Riegler's documentary 'The Long Arm of the Empress' was finished. The title refers to Maria Theresa's criminal code Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana from 1768, which provided for the death penalty for abortion. Although it was already considered backward when it was set up and was already replaced after twenty years, it justified the ban on abortion and the punishment of women well into our time. It was not until 1975 that Austria managed to liberalise abortion.
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Waltham, MA- 42 North Dental, a leading Dental Support Organization in New England, finalized a partnership with Southern Connecticut Dental Group (SCDG) earlier this month. SCDG is comprised of two multi-specialty dental practices with locations in Ansonia and Southbury, CT and boasts over 60 years of caring for the community. These two practices join 10 currently supported practices in Connecticut with locations in Bloomfield, Branford, Enfield, Hamden, Manchester, Meriden, New Haven, Newington, Torrington, and Woodbridge. With the addition of Southern Connecticut Dental Group, 42 North Dental now supports 12 offices in Connecticut and 61 dental practices consisting of 17 practice brands throughout New England.
Southern Connecticut Dental Group, led by Dr. Jay Dworkin and Dr. Ira Stein, was founded in Ansonia in 1953 by Dr. Dworkin's father, Dr. Joseph Dworkin. Started as a small single doctor office, the practice grew in 1982 to include a second location in Southbury to better serve the community and provide expert dental care to the Lower Naugatuck River Valley. Dr. Dworkin is the past president of the Naugatuck Valley Dental Society and is active in the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and the Fairfield County Dental Club. Dr. Stein hold equally impressive credentials as a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and a member of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. Southern Connecticut Dental Group was named "Best Dentist" by Connecticut Magazine for 3 consecutive years in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
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Frank Castle renews his war on crime! But when a by-the-numbers drug bust takes Frank by surprise, the horrible fallout threatens to send him into the heart of darkness! The Punisher won't make that journey alone, though: A DEA agent is on his tail and attempting to get inside his head. What terrors will she find there, and will she survive the experience? Then, Frank hits the road on the trail of the horrific narcotic EMC! The brutal Condor and the psychopathic Face lie in wait, with an army - and a tank! All Frank has in his corner is a passenger - and she's a little girl?! As the explosive climax approaches, can the Punisher take over a lunatic asylum full of drug-enhanced killers - or will he end up an inmate himself?!


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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- 4K LCD TV panel shipments continue to rise, driven by forces on both the supply side and the demand side. Shipments of 4K TV panels in April 2015 exceeded 3 million units for the first time, comprising 14 percent of all TV panels shipped globally during the month, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. Of all TV panels forecast to ship in 2016, one in five is forecast to be a 4K TV panels, sometimes marketed as ultra-high definition (UHD), due to the trend toward higher resolution panels in the high-end TV segment and improved production efficiency of panel makers.
"Prices for 4K TV panels continued to decline in 2014 and early this year, causing a rise in their adoption," said Linda Lin, senior analyst, IHS Technology. "Most global TV brands have now launched 4K UHD products and are introducing more 4K models to their television offerings."
When AU Optronics (AUO) introduced the first 55-inch 4K TV panels in Taiwan in 2012, fewer than 100 units were shipped each month. That same year, Innolux introduced the first 50-inch 4K TV panels; however, due to higher manufacturing costs, shipments still totaled fewer than 10,000 units per month. In 2013, panel makers managed to improve their 4K TV panel yield rates, but shipments still made up less than 2 percent of all TV panels shipped, according to recent data from the IHS Monthly TFT LCD Shipment Database.
After panel makers instituted aggressive promotions in the Chinese TV market, using 4K resolution of 3840 pixels by 2160 pixels as a point of differentiation in the high-end TV market, 4K TV panel market share reached 8 percent. Red-green-blue-white (RGBW) 4K sub-pixel technology is now widely accepted in the Chinese TV market and has even begun to penetrate the global market.
"While panel makers in Taiwan initially developed and stimulated 4K TV panel production, South Korean panel makers are now leading the 4K TV panel market," Lin said. "In fact, LG Display and Samsung Display have risen to become the largest global manufacturers of 4K displays."
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There is a pair of ceiling-mounted fans above each row of seats in the train car. The train cars are voluminous, and the rail gauge is broad (5 foot 6 inches in India compared to 4 foot 8 1/2 inches in Canada).
Food service staff walked along the aisles, so it was not necessary to go to a dining car.
Cochin is part of a metropolitan district that includes Ernakulam, the actual destination where I disembarked.
Ernakulam, the business metropolis, and Fort Cochin, the old quarter, sit across from each other, separated by extensive waterways containing harbours and islands. Though Fort Cochin is on the tip of a peninsula that has a roundabout land connection to mainland Ernakulam, boats shuttle the many foot passengers who want to make the trip directly.
Cyclists are allowed to take their bicycles along on the ride, space permitting. I did so, and saw others doing so as well.
I found that the boat crossing made for a pleasant interlude, day or night, with views of the harbour, islands, buildings, and water. The big six-cylinder diesel engine animated the trip with its steady beat, or its rising and falling revs as the ship's engineer adroitly helped guide us toward the jetty.
On my first day in Ernakulam, my curiosity drove me to immediately take the boat to Fort Cochin. Walking after dark down to the old spice trading district, I passed a doorway in an old building. The door was ajar, and I recalled, silhouetted against distant light were large shiny metal basins and sacks.
I saw a person, outlined against the light, walk through the interior darkness.
This quiet evening scene made an impression on me, and I attempted to sketch it from memory.
Trailer for melting tar for building and repairing roads. In contrast, in Vancouver, Canada, when I see a similar trailer in front of a building, it always means that someone is installing or repairing a roof. Same process, different application.
Tar machine, side view, south of Ernakulam.
Tar machine for road work. This trailer has a hopper for melting tar for surfacing roads with asphalt. I asked, and apparently these machines are only used for road work. I recall the Canadian version, which is never used for roads, but only for melting tar for tar and gravel roofs.
Concrete moderne tower nearing completion, south of Ernakulam.
The narrow floor slabs extending out the west side have rounded corners, giving the building the appearance of fitness for motion, like a cruise ship or a locomotive. I thought the design to be reminiscent of the style that we associate with the era in which Raymond Loewy flourished.
The southern periphery of Ernakulam is open land, with fields, canals, and small buildings. This residential tower, standing tall in the countryside, marks a change in the area.
I passed by this building when I rode my bicycle to visit HIll Palace Museum in Thripunithura. I later sketched it from memory.
By the roadside and at storefront stands I often saw sugar cane presses. When a customer wants juice, the vendor feeds a fresh stick of sugar cane through the press and gathers the juice in a pot. The vendor pours the juice through a strainer into the glass. Often a single cylinder diesel engine, similar to the engine in an autorickshaw, powers the press via a belt drive.
I made other attempts to sketch such a press.
This truck carries logs. The people cross-piled the logs on the corners to stabilize the load. Ropes hold the load to the bed.
This truck carries over 100 oil barrels. The barrels are stacked five layers deep in rows of ten on each side of the truck bed. More barrels fill the space between the stacks of barrels. Ropes hold the barrels in place.
I passed near the Vyapar Bhavan Building in Ernakulam on my frequent trips to Hill Palace Museum. The façade has columns on the overhanging upper storeys, supported on two massive columns that transmit the load to the ground.
This is a conical clutch element. It is a cast iron wheel with a tapered rim, upon which are fastened patches of friction material, likely asbestos. I estimated the diameter at 38 inches.
I do not know from what giant machine this clutch element came.
I saw this cast iron item by the side of the road on one of my bicycle rides from Ernakulam to the Hill Palace Museum.
This temple donation box in Ernakulam was nicely designed, I thought. The donation box is a tall, almost boat-shaped container made from stainless steel. The shape nestles into the curve of the fence, and a canopy keeps rain out of the funnel-shaped top.
Valanjambalam Devi Temple is in Ernakulam on the corner where Chittoor Road meets SA Road.
These are traditional shapes for cooking pots in Kerala. Different shapes denote different uses. The pots can be metal or ceramic. Roadside vendors displayed stacks of these ceramic pots. The pot colour was either a vivid earthen red, or black.
The ceramic water jug is renowned for keeping water cool without refrigeration. From the descriptions that people gave me, I surmise that the clay's slight porosity allows a small amount of water to very slowly seep through and cool the jug by evaporation.
I like the forms of the pots. I would gladly have bought a couple to take home, save for the fact that I was setting out on a cycle tour and their fragility and large size would have required more special precautions than I was ready to do to ship them safely home.
This is the stone building that is the ticket booth for the ferry in Fort Cochin. A man works behind the grille, selling tickets to two lines of passengers, one line up of women and one line up of men.
The passenger ferries that shuttle back and forth between Fort Cochin and Ernakulam are a mainstay of public transportation.
The Kerala State Water Transport Department operates the ferries.
This stone building on Fort Cochin's waterfront is the ticket booth for the ferry. A man works behind the grille, selling tickets to two lines of passengers, one line-up for women and one line-up for men.
The atrium at Paulson Park Hotel contains a fantasy garden, or an indoor park.
A horse rears up in profile atop a miniature mountain. A short tunnel walkway goes through the mountain. A bridge, a pond, a gazebo, fanciful trees, and a meandering path provide entertainment for visiting children. I enjoyed seeing the park, too.
The hotel itself rises in several storeys around the atrium, and a roof that appears to have been added later caps it off.
The earlier version of the hotel is a popular design, with a courtyard instead of a covered atrium.
These sketches are attempts to remember the ornate embellishments carved into the roof joists in a traditional home that I had the honour of visiting. The house is an ettukettu, or two-courtyard house, that is centuries-old.
A gentleman was kind enough to show me his rural home neighborhood in Piravom.
Piravom, south of Ernakulam.
This is the engine well in one of the wooden passenger ferries that serve Fort Cochin and Ernakulam. The ship's captain sends signals via a string and a bell to the engineer, who works directly beside the big Ashok Leyland six-cylinder diesel engine.
The engineer moves with the smooth expertise of a master of his profession, shifting the gearbox and operating the throttle. In conjunction with the helmsman, the two of them guide the big boats across the bays and dock them precisely to the jetties.
Fort Cochin and Ernakulam.
Rampart Homestay is a small, modern, multi-storey residence that gives a pleasant view over a residential area in Fort Cochin. From the balcony I was able to see fowl in a neighbouring yard, plus houses and lanes stretching off into the greenery.
This sheltered terrace is on the roof of the second homestay where I resided in Fort Cochin. Though it was off limits, I sat outside the fence on the stairs and sketched it. I did not see anyone use the patio.
This easy chair comes in folding and non-folding variants. The long armrests also serve as leg rests, allowing the sitter to put one or both feet up on the ends. A common name is "grandfather chair".
The Malayalam name for this chair is ചാരുകസെര (charukasera).
I was delighted to be able to use such a chair during my time at Rampart Homestay in Fort Cochin.
Rampart Homestay, Fort Cochin
This Rajasthani bullock cart was on display in an antique dealer's courtyard. The cart looks entirely hand-made. The heavy timbers are curved. A post near the end of the draw bar acts as a leg to keep the cart level when it is parked. Bands of hammered sheets of metal with impressed geometric patterns encircle the draw bar. Iron fittings on the edge of the deck protect the frame timbers with caps and provide rings and hooks as attachment points for rope.
The decorations must have made the cart look magnificent when it was new.
The spice trading district in east Fort Cochin has numerous antique and curio shops. This cart, and another like it, were in one of the largest shops. The shop spans several adjacent buildings, some as large as warehouses, and includes a patio cafe that fronts on the harbour. In keeping with the scale of the premises, the merchandise for sale included furniture and architectural elements such as columns. I was shown entire rooms and sections of buildings, disassembled in northern Indian states and reassembled in the Fort Cochin showroom.
This is the Althara Bhagavathy Temple on Amman Kovil Road, Kochi.
This temple had its exterior walls divided into hundreds of square alcoves. In each alcove lay a small oil lamp that flickered in the gathering darkness at sundown. Lit oil lamps hung on three sides of the entrance porch roof. And finally, the nine-tiered oil lamp in front of the temple was also lit. The view was magnificent. Beautiful incantations by women's voices drifted out into the street.
The barest sliver of the moon hung in the evening sky.
A prominent feature of the temple building is the orange painted bands that encircle the foundation wall.
I stood under an awning across the street, trying to memorize as much of the scene as possible, and enjoying it while I was there. I thought that I would look too intrusive if I took out my sketchbook right there, jotting down notes while people came and went. I drew this sketch later from memory.
Two men moved a large, heavy sack of rice with a two-wheeled cart.
The men chatted with each other as they guided the cart through the streets of Fort Cochin. This seemed like a genial way to get the job done.
For moving heavy loads short distances, this seems better than a truck for several reasons. It's sociable; doesn't pollute; bystanders don't have to reckon with a motor vehicle; it's quiet; takes up very little space compared to a motor vehicle (besides an autorickshaw); has low equipment maintenance costs; vehicle probably doesn't require insurance; the vehicle requires no fuel of its own; people get exercise that they would not get if driving. There are possibly reasons why someone might not prefer to use such a cart: hard work, for one.
As much as motor vehicles disturb the social fabric, this cart seems to be part of the social fabric.


There's probably no better contrast in the race for supervisor in Stanislaus County's District 4 than that between Frank Damrell and his opponents Tom Berryhill and Janice Keating. Everything about Frank Damrell represents Modesto's and the county's better days, while too much about Berryhill and Keating reminds us of the calumny and corruption in the era of Trump.
Steve Ringhoff's excellent report about Tom Berryhill's violations of rules required by the Fair Political Practices Commission is a cogent reminder of the casual corruption that runs rampant in today's politics. In 2014, Berryhill paid a $40,000 fine for what amounted to a money-laundering scheme for campaign funds illegally provided by his brother.
If Tom Berryhill represents one side of our new politics, Janice Keating represents another. Styling herself a watchdog over government waste and corruption, Keating stunned colleagues on the Modesto City Council when she billed the city for expenses incurred driving from her home to council meetings—a round trip of five miles. In all, Keating billed more for expenses than any other councilmember.
But her chintziness is just one aspect of Keating's approach to public service. Another is her promotion of hate mongers like Ann Coulter and Sheriff David Clarke, both of whom were brought here by the local Republican Party. As Executive Director of the Republican Party of Stanislaus County, Keating has been an avid promoter and cheerleader for the divisiveness, xenophobia, and contempt for law represented by Coulter, Clarke, and others like them.
If we are ever to escape the dysfunction in today's government, we have to bring people together again. Frank Damrell, a quiet pragmatist respected by everyone who knows him, is uniquely suited to work with others toward real solutions to our problems without resorting to party preferences or rigid ideology.
Damrell is one of those "people-persons" who used to be regular features of downtown Modesto. When Frank Damrell sees someone he knows or meets someone new, his face lights up, his smile spreads, and his eyes twinkle. This is a man who loves people.
And while Damrell may be easy-going and friendly, he's also not afraid to work hard and often to get things done. As an aide to California State Senator Kathleen Galgiani, Damrell frequently takes on the underappreciated scut work of researching and building consensus for legislation, as well as attempting to address the complex problems of constituents in need.
Frank Damrell chose to run for supervisor in Stanislaus County because he believes in community service and has an unusual capacity to work for the good of the region. He's an easy choice for supervisor in Stanislaus County's District Four.


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On Saturday, November 11th, the ninth anniversary of the Centennial Model United Nations Conference took place, where students from all over Howard County got the chance to gather and do what Model UN students do best: solve the world's problems one delegate at a time.
Students arrived early Saturday morning to meet at Centennial High School, eager to begin their day of debating and resolving issues from around the world. Out of the nine committees that convened, discussion topics ranged from modern day human trafficking to Syrian chemical weapons. Model UN clubs from all over the county had been preparing for weeks to go the Centennial Conference, which will prepare them to going to more elite conventions. Atholton's own Model UN club will be heading to Hood College to participate in an American UN simulation on February 2nd, 2018, which will include people from all over the state instead of just countywide.
This year's turnout for the Centennial Convention was one of the largest in the school's history, with over three hundred model delegates present.This delegates have been researching over the course of the last several months, which culminated into a single document called a position paper. Then, at the Centennial Convention, the student delegates debated their findings. Every Model UN delegate submitted their research to the Centennial Model UN staff to be reviewed and hopefully nominated for an award.
Besides writing a position paper, Model UN also builds character skills that are essential for everyday life. "I think students should join Model UN not only to learn about what's going on in the world, but also to gain confidence and techniques about public speaking," said Rosada.


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Discussion in 'Chassis restoration' started by oldsmo-buick, Nov 6, 2018.
Got a pic? The original one that was on my 70 Yellow GSX did not have one.
That looks like one of the replacements that was painted silver and molded in black.
It came out of the box as shown.
Unless your going to keep your GS a static display piece, you have to make some concessions to drivability. Original shocks might be nice to look at, but honestly, can most people really tell the difference between original Pliacells and modern gas charged shocks painted gray? Same for the Polyglas tires. I want to drive my car, not roll it out onto a grass field. I see that with the Mustang Club "thoroughbred" class. Ive seen Boss 429's pushed out of trailers on the show field because they don't dare start the engines up and ruin a $5k NOS exhaust system or burn the paint on the engine. I know some people get off on that but its no fun for me.
Got a great deal on some Bilstein's a while back. Now I just need my buddy to find some time (and room at his garage) to install these and the Eaton springs I have sitting here.
Why did you mask off the shock??? The originals were painted everywhere, brackets, insulators, lower bolts etc. They almost looked like they were dipped in the paint. Just hang them and paint them.
I have original Delco spirals, Pliacells, and NOS spirals and they were all painted the same way.
The only thing not painted was the very tip of the front shocks and about 1/4" of the thread at the top.
Looks NOS to to me, GM forgot or neglected to paint the black.
Thanks for the info guys. I was expecting a email notice if someone responded to this thread, so I'm just seeing it now......So, can I assume it's a NOS grill? I will be selling it soon & I just don't want to list as NOS if it isn't. I got it in a trade and It came from a guy who sells NOS parts, so??? thank you again...I'm still not 100% though..haha.


Almost seven years ago we opened Swicked Cycles and at the same time we started our Monday night group rides.
Running a bike shop is great, but, more importantly, we wanted to ride with the community.
The Swicked Monday night ride has become a regular outing for many mountain bikers in town, but I remember in those early years how small it was some weeks.
Many Monday nights it was just me, Chenoa and one other rider, but hey, three makes a group in my mind so we kept it going. During the winters we had a few rides where the weather was so bad that it was just me and Karl riding by ourselves, but as long as someone wanted to ride, we were there to lead the group – or rider in those cases. I have to admit there were a few times where I wondered if anyone cared, but in reality I was out riding my bike so even if no one showed up I would still have gone.
When beginners started coming out it was the best. Seeing them improve their skills and fitness every week was a great experience and very motivating.
After a season or two, the rides grew quickly and before we knew it, summer nights would bring out 30-plus riders and we had to split into four groups. We were too many for Beaver Lodge and started expanding into Woods Creek for a bit more trail variety. But then winter would hit and we'd be back to just a few of us crazy enough to battle the rain and mud.
As winter approaches this year, the weather has been worse than any year I've seen. Many nights my rain gear can't even keep up. I get home after a ride and have to scrape the mud off before I can go in the garage, never mind the house. I almost expected our numbers to go from 30-plus to just me and Karl again, but our little community has surprised me in a very positive way. Not only have most of our regulars continued to ride with us, but there is a handful of beginners that started riding with us this winter.
Imagine how excited they'll be next spring when they realize we can mountain bike in the daylight on dry trails.
Last Monday we had 21 riders out to enjoy the dark, the mud and the rain, and it's late November in a year with record rainfall. I never imagined I would find so many wingnuts like myself.
Its pretty cool to be able to share our passion for riding, in all conditions, with so many.