Saturday Fragments with "The Stand"

It's one of those Saturday mornings where I wonder where the time has gone, even though I know it's not actually late.  Let me collect a few fragments from the past few days:

--Last week, we explored a Halloween channel, but I quickly realized there wasn't much I wanted to watch.  What I really wanted to watch was the 2020 version of Stephen King's The Stand.  I didn't want to pay to stream it, so I requested the DVD from the library.  We watched the first two episodes last night, and I was impressed.

--I thought I had watched part of the first episode before, but as we watched it, none of it felt familiar to me.

--This morning, I found a podcast from 2021 that has a discussion both of the 2 versions of the book and the 2020 series.  At first I was confused because the site I was on gave an August 2025 broadcast version.  I did some digging and found the original website where one can watch the podcast, which is an aspect of podcasts which I usually don't use.

--I've spent the last week thinking about a book-length collection of poems.  I had thought that I might never return to that type of project.  But lately, I thought of using my 2019 manuscript (I wrote about its assembly in this blog post) as a base, adding poems that have been published/written since I assembled it.  The idea intrigues me, and this term, I have time to pull it together for a few contest submissions to presses I want to support.

--On my way home yesterday, I stopped at my favorite apple orchard, Coston Farms.  I bought my favorite apple variety, the Mutsu.  But I wanted another one for contrast, so I got the Pink Lady, which was my grandmother's favorite later in her life.  Earlier in her life, she went with Rome or Macintosh, along with Red and Yellow Delicious--she wasn't an apple snob at all.  I am a bit more of a snob, although I'll be happy with a bag of Red Delicious apples, if they're on sale.

--I also stopped at the Village Bakery, in its Fletcher location.  They had day old bread on sale, and I thought I had won the lottery.  Sure, I bake my own bread, but I didn't have any for yesterday's vision I had of bread and cheese and apples on the back deck.

--It was not as lovely last evening as it would have been earlier in the week.  It was chillier and cloudier.  But today may be better, and I still have all of the elements for a good snack/light meal.