Monthly Archives: November 2021

Helpers Needed to Organize Studio and Garage!!!

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Black onyx and white enamel pin found in my grandmother’s drawer and given to me by her, along with assorted finds..collected to be assembled into a retablo

I’m sure you want to see all this clutter close up. To do so, click on photos and arrows!! Does anyone need a never-used reverse osmosis system?

Helpers Needed to Organize Studio and Garage!!!

Rummage, rummage, mutter, mutter,
being buried by my clutter.
Do you know some agile sorters
who can straighten out my quarters?
I need helpers on the ball
who can divide and sort it all.
And before I ossify,
I’ll sit here and just bossify!!!

 

I really do have an organization scheme for my art studio, but this couple of years of frenetic activity there during Covid and to get ready for my November show have made me pull things out of storage–and once things are put back into their accustomed space, I somehow need to find more space there . And, need to get the lamps rewired and out of there!

My garage looks organized, but I have teaching files in there from 1971-1981 (when I quit teaching) and my Dad’s ranch records and tax returns from the 1950’s through 1974, when he passed away. Also, every letter anyone has ever sent me and every note passed to me in high school, along with class notes from college classes. How can I throw them away? What if the minute I do, I need them? All  of those fruit crates need to be broken down into slats to wait for Covid to ease so I can use them in art projects with the kids.  Too much, too many. I know.

 

Prompt words today are clutter, recommend, agile, ossify and ball.

“Fore!!!” Fibbing Friday, Nov 19, 2021

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These are this week’s questions for Fibbing Friday: 

  1. What is an Arnold Palmer?  A golf groupie who can’t keep her hands to herself.
  2. What is a niblick?  An avid writer who is so intent on the tale that she is composing that she forgets that she’s writing with a pen and not a pencil. Licking the pen doesn’t have the same result.
  3. What is a mashie? A potato. The one being mashed.
  4. What’s the difference between a hook and a slice?  One is a pirate and the other is a piece of pizza. The two are not often compared.
  5. What name is given to a single hole score of three under par? An insufficiently stocked vaccination clinic.
  6. What’s a bogey?  Lauren BaCall’s pet name for Humphrey Bogart. Also her pet name for a baloney sandwich.
  7. What’s the difference between a regular golf course and an executive golf course? The dress code.
  8. What unique award is given to the winner of the Masters Tournament? A copy of The Joy of Sex.
  9. Why do golf balls have dimples? No one knows. That’s why golfers scream “For?” before they swing at the ball.
  10. What is the 19th hole? The penultimate dimple on a golf ball.

For Fibbing Friday

Zinnia: FOTD Nov 20, 2021

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If Zinnias were horses, this one would be described as “Rode hard and put away wet!”

For Cee’s FOTD

Talking Turkey

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Talking Turkey

(A Thanksgiving Invitation Guaranteed to Encourage Friends to Insist
on Having Thanksgiving at Their House This Year!)

Feeling grungy, out-of-tempo, out-of-sorts and kinda mean.
Need a new Thanksgiving turkey, ‘cuz last year’s is turning green.
Can’t avouch for what would happen if I tried to serve it now,
but perhaps I’ll scrape the mold off and try to serve it anyhow?

Come to think, it’s penicillin, so how  dangerous can it be?
It might just be beneficial, so let’s try it and we can see.
I’ll whip up some new potatoes, open cans of cranberries.
Don’t forget to bring the pies. I await your RSVP’s!!!!

Prompts today are grunge, tempo, turkey, avouch and green.

Tree Hibiscus: FOTD Nov 19, 2021

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Some of the flowers on this tree were this vivid coral color. others were yellow with brown centers.

Here is proof of that:

For Cee’s FOTD

In the Mirror

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In the Mirror

Her rag doll image
rejects the girls room twitters,
counts to five and says hello
to the new girl she sees 
in the mirror who doesn’t care.

 

The dVerse Poets prompt is to write a Wayra poem. The elements of the Wayra are:
1. a pentastich, a poem in 5 lines.
2. syllabic, 5-7-7-6-8
3. unrhymed.
A further request is to use onomatopoeia.

Since I’m addicted to writing to prompts, I am randomly choosing prompt words for myself as well: by letting my eyes fall randomly on words on this page or my desktop. Here are the prompt words: twitter, count, image, hello, rag, rejects.

Gazania: FOTD Nov 18, 2021

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For Cee’s FOTD

When Next (If Ever) We Meet

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My cousin Kirk’s trip to Mexico to visit me prior to Christmas has been cancelled thanks to the surge in deaths caused by the new Covid strain, and I want to thank all you non-maskers who made this disappointment possible. This poem is to him. It is a promise of what is to come, I hope, in the not-too-far-future!

 

When Next (If Ever) We Meet

It will be a holiday way beyond describing—
talking and exploring and swimming and imbibing.

There’ll be a palisade of nachos that we’ll have to scale,
but no turnips and no liver, no spinach and no kale!

We’ll be kids again and do everything we crave—
no need to mind anyone and no need to behave.

No duties to attend to or tasks that escalate,
no pesky obligations that secretly we hate.

When we finally get together, fun will be our only task.
There’s just one rule to follow—we gotta wear a mask!!!

 

The prompts for this poem were: palisade, imbibe, crave, escalate and hate.

Eternal Is

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Sacred Heart

Eternal is a mist that doesn’t lift.
It is a wish, a sigh, a dream, a promise made,
a promise kept. A goal for some, for others
a dark cloud that will not lift.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow,
what we make of this life
makes eternity.
We can blame it on no other.
Gods do not make eternity
but only furnish directions
often misinterpreted
or lost to time.
Look within
to find it,
for it is neither there
nor there.

 

For: Tuesday Writing Prompt: Eternal 7: 06

and https://godoggocafe.com/2021/11/16/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-tuesday-16-2021/

Nostalgic Revisit

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Above is the photo Cee asked us to pick a topic from. I could not resist linking to the below post from years ago that looks like it could have been taken in the same place that Cee’s was. I took these photos at Anne of Green Gable’s house on Prince Edward Island. If you’ve seen them before, hope you enjoy seeing them again:

Sweet Little Pain

For CMMC, Pick a Topic from My Photo.