I have been very busy working on inserting photos into our almost-finished manuscript that will eventually be a history of West Danville. We turned in the final chapter last night, and our editor is pressing us to finish up. It is exciting to be in the final stages of pulling this together.

Photos are very important and we have to provide captions on each for the editor, as well as the total text of the book. I'm working on the photos now, and with the assistance of Patty and Dot, I hope we'll have everything done within a week or two. Whoopee!

So that's what has  been occupying most of my time recently.

I was watching the morning news on CBS yesterday while having my breakfast and there was a very short interview with a woman who thinks it is demeaning to call animals  our "pets." She believes we should  refer to them as "companions."  Now that strikes me as just plain silly since I don't credit most pets with reasoning abilities to be offended by whatever name they are called, but out of curiosity I went on line and found out that animal rights advocates do not distinguish between animals and humans, and believe that humans don't have a right even to have dogs and cats as pets (or companions). On some level, I understand that, but without humans there would be a lot of lonely, hungry, wandering dogs and cats in the world. That these animals attach to humans readily suggests to me that they are dependent on humans and therefore having them as "pets" or "companions" is beneficial to those animals - in most cases. 

However, I have other concerns this morning and those pictures are not going to insert themselves into that manuscript. I have a lot to do between now and our next meeting on  Monday afternoon!