Overheard in the Home for Retired Musicians
Though I’m stymied by your crepitus, your embouchure’s divine.
If you don’t have your own tune, would you harmonize with mine?
Your tonality is breathtaking, your rhythm right on beat.
Your syncopation’s perfect. I fear I can’t compete.
As we play, our joints keep time. My knees snap, crackle, pop.
If our music were to lead to love, you’d have to be on top!
For MVB: Heard
Look closely. Yes, that is me with a python around my neck, circa 1973.
Alas, not in Africa as in question #3, but in Sri Lanka! That is not its head in my mouth,
but rather the snake-charmer’s musical pipe. The snake’s head is coiled around it,
its body hanging around my neck. Hard to see as we are dressed similarly.
For Fibbing Friday the challenges are:
1. What is a juggernaut? Everything except a jugger.
2. What is an HGV? An Home and Garden Magazine placed face-down on the table.
3. What is an off roader? An African Snake.
4. What is a 4 X 4? A double double-date.
5. What is a turbine? A crossroads in a city area.
6. Where will you find an octave? In an aquarium. It is the anatomical spot where one arm meets another on an octopus.
7. What is a dovetail joint? Well, obviously, it’s the spot where a dove’s tail joins with its body!!! Also, a place where doves hang out for a bit of refreshment after flying around all day.
8. What is a messerschmitt? Oh, it is one of the Schmitt boys confessing to the headmaster who is asking who drew the rude picture of the teacher on the blackboard. (Me, Sir–Schmitt!)
9. What is a tangerine? A Gerine that has been working out in the sun all summer.
10. What is a mattock? On a timekeeper’s watch, the sound that occurs right after a tick during a wrestling match as he times the seconds an opponent’s shoulders have been pinned to the mat.
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For Cee’s FOTD
I was without my camera when I first saw a leaf on this tree that had two holes in it and had to get a photo of it. Unfortunately, when I returned with my camera, I searched the whole tree over and couldn’t find it again. It was not a total loss, however as I also love this photo with just one hole in the leaf that looks like a fish. Leaves are fair game, right, Cee?
For Cee’s FOTD
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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #12” Today’s number is 133. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.
This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.
I just had a look at photos I took yesterday when my friend Lety and I went to La Vita Bella for comida. I have not touched this photo and it was on all the usual settings..Click to enlarge it and look closely. How could this possibly happen?
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 