Monthly Archives: September 2020

SPEAKING GERMAN IN TEXAS

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 SPEAKING GERMAN IN TEXAS

In Texas there is a town called New Braunfels, where there is a large German-speaking population.

One day, a local rancher driving down a country road noticed a man using his hand to drink water from the rancher’s stock pond.

The rancher rolled down the window and shouted: “Sehr angenehm! Trink das Wasser nicht. Die kuehe haben darein geschissen.”

(This means: “Glad to meet you! Don’t drink the water. The cows have shat in it.”)

The man shouted back: “I’m from New York and just down here campaigning for Trump’s Presidential run. I can’t understand you. Please speak in English.”

The rancher replied: “Use both hands.”\

Succulent Sunrise: FOTD, Sept 19, 2020

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For Cee’s FOTD.

Early Morning Ecstasy

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Early Morning Ecstasy

That surge of elation when I awaken
is because the next hours have not yet been taken.
No obligations, no duties or meetings.
I can follow my heart—pay heed to its beatings.
I follow my thoughts wherever they please.
I milk them for meaning, fingers on the keys.
Does my mind correlate with the sound of the birds,
Or are the birds harmonizing with my words?
The climate is perfect right here in my head,
computer on stomach, stretched out on my bed.

 

 

The word prompts for today are: Elation, Awaken, Climate, Correlate and milk.

The Friday Four

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Here are my answers to Rory’s Friday Four Questions for this week:

Here are Rory’s Friday Four Questions for this week:

The Friday Four
Ah questions, questions, questions – what is it about you and questions Rory?
Simple, l just like asking questions.
Some relatively simple ones today for this Friday however…
1 What three senses could you NOT live without? Discuss why…sight–because every year I live, being able to see the beauties of art and nature become more important to me, sense of hearing, to be able to converse with friends and listen to books and films, and a bit of a quandry since I know without smell there is no sense of taste, but nonetheless, I pick taste, hoping that won’t be taken into account.  The reason for taste? Chocolate, of course.
2 What is your favourite of these two and why? Pen or Pencil. Pen–a rolling writer or felt-tip pen, because I can scrawl faster with them and change my mind less.
3 What are your top 3 colours and why are they your favourites? Golden yellow, cobalt or sky blue and orange. And, the greens in nature, although I never choose green as a color to decorate with. Strange, as I love to be surrounded by the natural greens of nature. 
4 Are you able to list 10 basic smells and if so what are they?  Not sure what you mean by basic smells, but I will list my favorite ones: green olives, toasting bread, chocolate, brewing coffee, baking cookies, spaghetti sauce, petrichor, butterscotch, babies, popcorn.

Here are Rory’s Friday Four Questions for this week:

Agastopia

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Agastopia

I simply cannot reconcile that glimmer in your eyes
with any look that I’ve received from any other guys.
My friends say you’re perfidious, yet I don’t get that message.
“Danger” is an ending that your gazes do not presage.
If the frustration that I’m feeling is transmitted in my gaze,
perhaps you will decipher it while wandering its maze.
For every time you’re present, I’m a prisoner of pondering
that question in your eyes that always sets my mind to wandering
down pathways we meander, walking hand-in-hand.
So long as you are in my thoughts, my heart is in remand.
We need a kind interpreter to set our looks aright.
Perhaps there’s a happy ending for him to expedite.

 

Prompt words today are frustration, reconcile, agastopia, perfidious and message.

Agastopia: Admiration of  or a fixation on a particular part of someone’s body.

Jade Plant Blossoms: FOTD Sept 18, 2020

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For Cee’s FOTD

Emily

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Emily

An introspective traveler, my trips are of a kind
wherein I follow footsteps left there by my mind.
They are a kind of loving, these journeys that I take—
the only sort of antics that I ever make.
Outside of them, I squirrel away, hidden in my rooms,
but oh, my friends, within my mind, my next adventure looms!

 

If you are an Emily Dickinson fan, you might enjoy this other poem I wrote, inspired by one of her poems.

Photo of Emily Dickinson from the Emily Dickinson Museum. Prompt words today are footprint, introspective, loving, antics and hide.

Maguey: FOTD, Sept 17, 2020

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Click on photo to enlarge.

This Maguey has serrated leaves that I have found by experience can be dangerous, but they are so beautiful, that I keep them around anyway. And no, I never remember to wear gloves and sleeves when I work around them., and have the scars to prove it. They do flower, but not at the moment.

For Cee’s FOTD

Fasting Diet, Day 6: How good does this pizza look that I made a week ago?

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The rest of the story is that I have 16 hours to go until I can eat again! So I’m torturing myself more than you.

Here’s a closeup:

 

Verbalizing English

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I love Christine Goodnough’s story concerning the coinage of absurd verbs. Hope you do, too.

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As often happens, an article on another blog has fired my mental cylinders and — coupled together with some peeves I’ve already petted — has generated enough sparks to inspire a story.

The culpritical article in this case, is Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of List of Words You Love to Hate.All your favorite pet peeves in one location.

This has touched a nerve. My past musings, after seeing the word HEROIZE in an article, were about how some writers have such a love of making nouns into verbs, and/or mangling both. Heroize is actually an old word that’s never caught on well, but M-W’s article has given me a few new words to grind my teeth on: CONVERSATE,COMMENTATE, and INCENTIVIZE. Shriek!

Biff has done another Whatnot Wednesday prompt post again; since this post definitely fits in the “Whatnot” class, I’ll give him a nod for that…

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