Monthly Archives: July 2024

Still Life with Flowers and Cat, For FOTD, July 7, 2024

For Cee’s FOTD

“The Approach” For the Sunday Whirl Wordle, 662

The Approach

The edges of my wishes wrap around my mind
over expectations of another kind
curling over “To Do” lists, jerking at their edges,
causing piled paper work to fall off bookshelf ledges,
breathing life into that void—that gap left in the middle
of all those daily tiresome tasks to leave some room to fiddle.
To look at curling banks of clouds that sail across a sky
so vast that I can’t count them, so I don’t even try.

Everything in life need not be a tiresome task.
Every day presents a time when I take time to bask
for at least a moment, or ten or twenty more,
in other natural treasures that lie outside my door.
Life seems to be speeding by, rushing toward its brink—
once stretched out before me, but soon over in a blink.
Ever conscious of those acts that I will leave behind me,
I wonder what life choices in the end will have defined me.

 

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 662 the words are: jerk void breath gap vast blinked curling sky wish wrap edge ever

“I Really Want a Puppy” Brand New Book Hot off the Presses!!!

 

 

Click HERE to order my newest children’s book I Really Want a Puppy that has a QR Code that sings the words of the entire book as you turn the pages to look at the photos!!

What’s a boy to do when all his friends have puppies but he doesn’t? This book’s hero finds a novel way to get around his mom’s reluctance to adopt a dog. This is the third rhymed picture book written by Judy Dykstra-Brown and beautifully illustrated by Isidro Xilonzóchitl, but this one not only tells and shows you the story, it also sings the words of the book to the reader by means of a QR code on the front cover! Drum beats indicate to nonreaders when it’s time to turn the page to see the next illustration. Younger kids love to “learn to read” by singing along with the words to the song while following the words in the book. Older kids just love the story and illustrations.

Use your cellphone to take a photo of the  QR code above on the cover to hear the entire book. (It takes you to Youtube and then you need to click to turn the sound on.)

Click HERE to see sample pages and to order.  Just $15 during an introductory period and please remember to leave your review on the site and to let me know how you like it as well.

(In Mexico, available from the author  at jubob2@hotmail.com or at Diane Pearl’s Gallery.)

Tabachine, for FOTD July 6, 2024

 

For Cee’s FOTD

For Water Water Everywhere #220, July 5, 2024

 

Click on photos to enlarge.

For Water Water Everywhere prompt

“Kitty See, Kitty Do” for Stumbled Upon

How many times have you stumbled upon a photo you absolutely love that doesn’t fit under any prompt classification? It happened to me today and try as I might, I couldn’t find any prompt to use it with, so I’ve decided to establish another prompt, “Stumbled Upon.”  There is no set timeline or date for the prompt. I just invite you to use it when needed.. When, looking for photos for another prompt, you stumble upon an absolute long-forgotten favorite, send it on down and link to this post. 

Years ago, someone dumped a box with four tiny kittens in it by my garage door. You can see them all  HERE if you weren’t following me back then.  Needless to say, that day I acquired 4 darling, inquisitive and very active new boarders. My old cat, incensed, moved out, only to come inside again months later when the kittens were inoculated, neutered and safe to be let out of the house. Then she moved back in, but kept her distance.  They, however, claimed the entire house as their own and especially loved the shelves and drawers of the guest bathroom, that they could explore at will, since there was a wide enough space between these shelves and the wall to allow them access to all the drawers, which became their hide-and-seek playgorund as well as an excellent spot for a snooze away from it all. I love the contrast between the live kitten and the sculpture made by a blind artist in Oaxaca.

 

Honeysuckle, For FOTD July 5, 2024

 

For Cee’s FOTD

For Fibbing Friday, July 5, 2024

Here are the words we were given to decode for this Fibbing Friday:

  1.   Betrump: Who be the biggest asshole in the world?
  2.   Cony-catch: What my dog accomplished when my little sister dropped her ice cream.
  3.   Crapulous: My descriptive word for every bazaar or second-hand shop I pass.
  4.   Dowsabel: The label on an item of clothing that does not have to be dry cleaned.
  5.   Ear-rent: What you pay your psychologist .
  6.   Flexanimous:  The unconscious weight-lifting masculine side of a woman’s psyche, 
  7.   Gazophylacium: The largest gas station in the world.
  8.   Grum: How an angry but sad bear feels.
  9.   Huggermugger: Like a kissing bandit, but this one is afraid of catching Covid. 
  10.   Lucubrate: What Mrs. Malaprop does to her face each night to ward off wrinkles.

Birthday Bouquet for FOTD, July 4, 2024

 

Pasiano and Patti with the gorgeous big birthday bouquet they brought me yesterday for my birthday..

Yolanda and family also showed up on my birthday morning with this lovely necklace and bracelet. Lucky me.

Here is Yolanda’s family on another occasion. I didn’t get a photo of them this time!

For FOTD

Hibiscus after Rain, for FOTD July 3, 2024

For FOTD