Easily Astonished

The Farmer’s Wife (or Montana Mary if you prefer) is easily astonished. As am I. I grew up on a farm eight miles from a town of a thousand people. I can’t believe I can email pictures to people in New Zealand . . .

Easily Astonished

Some things blow my mind.

 Do you realize that all music…ALL music…is made up of only 11 tones?  Mozart had the same things to work with as Paul McCartney as Willie Nelson as my daughter. Think about all the songs and tunes through time and culture….all of it from 11 tones.
Telephones…
I know it has something to do with impulses through the wire, but seriously, do you ever stop to think of how many zillion impulses are being sent and not scrambled? AND that it still sounds like your voice when it gets to the other end! Cell phones are easier for me to comprehend than regular old wall phones . . .
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  1. I chuckled when I reached the end about the phones on a string. If your brain wasn’t so sharp, you would not wonder about some of these phenomenon! You are correct that some of these things are amazing. My youngest grandson can look at something and draw it just like the picture. (Robert,Sr probably could have done that, too, if he had been still long enough.)

    I look at products we have and wonder how are these created. Just a pack of macaroni…how is it made, bagged, and sealed to send to the grocery store? Cell phones, TV from across the ocean, etc. bounces off a satellite, but I can’t figure out how they got the satellites in orbit or figured out that this could be done.

    Bernadine

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