Monthly Archives: February 2022

No Chip Off His Block

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No Chip Off His Block

He cannot get a rise out of his insouciant daughter.
A woman on a tightrope, he cannot make her totter.
Cool as a cucumber, a lamb chop with no gristle,
teasing does not faze her. No insult makes her bristle.

He sees her as a puzzle he’s determined he will solve.
Where did she get her backbone and her strong resolve?
He’s had too many beers, but when he goes to get another,
it’s clear to everybody else she takes after her mother!

 

 

Prompt words today are gristle, mimic, insouciant, totter and tease.

Grass: FOTD 2/22/22 (Just had to do that)

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I took a number of photos of flowers today, but for some reason my favorite shot was of this clump of grass with bougainvillea behind for a splash of color.

Just in case you don’t read comments, I have to repeat Forgottenman‘s comment below in reference to my title above. My title was: FOTD 2/22/22 (Just had to do that) He says: I saw some interwebs wag note that 2/22/22 is on a 2sday.  Ha!!!

For Cee’s FOTD

Zoe Report # 9 Backyard Stills and Naptime

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Laying around with Mom is okay,
but a puppy gets restless.
Mom has this special safe area fenced off for me,
but I think I’m ready to venture out
For my first expeditions into the back yard, Mom kept my leash on me
but let me drag it around––the easier to catch me with in case I headed out for the pool.
When Zoe arrived in February, Diego proved to be a good nursemaid, stopping herwhen she got remotely close to the pool.
When I discovered the ball, I watched it
In spite of my worst fears that they’d think she was a rat or opossum, they were never once more than watchful and tender with her.
Morrie watched from the gazebo, still dubious about me as an addition to the family,
so I decided to go up and see him.
We made first contact
and then I was ready to check out my new cool Levi bed.
It works just fine.

Zoe Report 8: Communication and Dogplay

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Diego and Zoe get to know each other. Morrie looks on.

Fibbing Friday, Feb 18, 2022

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Di is hosting Fibbing Friday this week. Here are the questions and the link

1.   Who sang about the green green grass of home? Kermit the Frog.
2.   Where will you find The Wind in the Willows?  At the Chili cookoff.
3.   Who was Nora Batty? Neither Aballi’s twin sister
4.   Who was the star of Tales of the Riverbank? Paddy the Beaver
5.   Who sang ‘I’m gonna make you mine’ ? Donald Trump.
6.   What is a dowager? A Las Vegas encouragement.
7.   What do the letters LED stand for? Low Energy Disbursement.
8.   What are ‘cobbles’ ? Those miniature ears of corn that come in a little bottle.
9.   What is a shoe horn? A euphemism for a corn
10. What was once advertised as the fifth emergency service? Bad Hair Day Home Visitation and Restoration Services.

 

For Fibbing Friday

Fatal Obsession

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Fatal Obsession

My father is an ogre and rather hard-of-hearing,
but I had the silly idea I could rise above my rearing.
All my friends were human and I had a strange obsession
for screening them from tendencies I had in my possession.

The result was that I scored a beau inimitably grand—
the sort of perfect boyfriend I thought I’d never land.
Vibrant, handsome, wealthy and inordinately smart,
he was the sort of catch that would melt any ogress heart.

In short, I could barely believe that Avery was mine,
but when I brought him pridefully home with me to dine,
after the aperitifs, the soup and the tossed salad,
I noticed that my father was looking somewhat pallid.

I stepped into the kitchen to find him food more savory,
only to return to find that dad had eaten Avery!!
I cried, “How could you do this to one who’s so indelible?
“I tried to prove you wrong,” he said. “I thought you said inedible!”

 

Note: An ogre (feminine: ogress) is a legendary monster usually depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, Ogres are closely linked with giants and with human cannibals in mythology.

Prompt words for today are vibrant, indelible, inimitable, possess and pride.

Zoe VII, Mascota Massage Session

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Distracting the Masseur
Stealing the Show

Click on photos to enlarge.

For almost 10 years, perhaps more, Pepe has been coming to my house to give me a massage.Since foot surgery, my 1 1/2 hour weekly massage has turned into a leg and foot massage only. Pure heaven. That is, it was, before Zoe stole the show by scoring her own massage.

For the Odd Squares Challenge:

Squares Challenge this month, we are looking for square photographs that are;

  • Differing from the usual or not happening often (ie oddballs, the exceptions and follies)
  • Separated from its set or mate (eg odds and ends or maybe odd socks or shoes)
  • Not divisible exactly by two (ie odd numbers) or the number is unknown (ie 300 odd birds)
  • Or simply something that you find odd, afterall oddness like beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Wall flowers–– Bougainvillea: FOTD, Feb 21, 2022

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Cats always choose the exact right place to pose themselves. This is Ollie photobombing the bougainvillea. Why is it odd? First of all, because it is rare to see him without his sister, Kukla, and secondly because this is the first time he has been the one to greet me up on the wall when I return home. Usually it is Kukla. Or is it because that’s an odd number of leaves on the bougainvillea bush? Check and see.

For Cee’s FOTD
and Square Odds

Bedtime Stories: Wordle 541

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Bedtime Stories

When I hear scuffling in the ceiling and scratching in the wall,
fluttering at the windows and steps out in the hall,
Mommy says it’s mice and birds to calm my excitation,
but Daddy tells me other things that swell imagination.

There are ghost doors in the attic and temples in the sky
that creatures will spring out of to join me by and by.
My dad will weave their stories and spread them out for me.
He’ll just open up his mouth and that will set them free.

When I think of all the stories, there’s such anticipation
that I can feel my heart boom and hear its palpitation.
Nighttime is less scary with Mommy or with Nurse,
but bedtime without stories is definitely worse.

 

The prompt words are: temples fluttered ghost door spring mouth weaving stories step boom sky scuffling for Sunday Stills Wordle 541  Illustration by Marloes Hilckman on Unsplash.

Behind Bars

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Behind Bars

After one guest left my front gate slightly ajar and another absent-mindedly unlocked the front door of my house when she went up to the casita, someone entered my house during the night and stole a computer off the table right next to my sofa, where another houseguest was soundly sleeping. After that, I had bars put on all the doors and windows and I haven’t had a break-in since. Someone did crawl over my wall and into my compound and went over my other wall to enter my neighbor’s open kitchen window, however, and stole her husband’s wallet and her purse, which he dumped in my yard after extracting the cash.

And so, I’ve learned the safety of having better security than your neighbors! I keep every door and window locked, even when I am home. I can open the sliders and windows for ventilation and to see out and still be secure. And if you are wondering, no, it doesn’t feel like I’m in jail. I don’t even really notice the bars. I kept them simple on purpose, so they don’t really attract attention away from the view.

I am also careful to keep computer passwords safe and when I record them to remember them, have them in code based on personal memories which only I can figure out.  Hopefully,

As for computer security, hopefully I’ve figured out the scams and delete them without opening.

Zoe is not too fond of the bars that keep her in from stealing the cat food.

There is, however, an exception to every rule. If you’d like to see how cat burglars broke in through the bars on the bathroom window, go here:

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2019/04/24/cat-burglars-breaking-entering/

This post was in answer to: Sunday Poser: How security conscious are you?