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Ollie Update––He’s Back!

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For the first time, Ollie didn’t show up for dinner tonight. I’ve looked everywhere he could be. I don’t think he ever left my property and he is not here. His sister has been yowling for past half hour or so. I am so sad. Afraid he is gone for good. I don’t think he ever went up the hill or into the street so he must be on my property unless some wild animal or dog got him. So so sad.

This is Ollie when he first showed up at my door with his three sisters. He was runt of the litter.

Here he is with his sisters, Kukla and Fran, after they’d all been fed for a few weeks. Roo is barely on view…just her ears.

Ollie is the one in the middle–no longer runt of the litter–– and Roo is above him, Kukla in front. Fran is missing in this pic.

And….guess who just showed up an hour later? After his mom had at least 3 anxiety attacks?

WHAT A RELIEF!!!!! I SWEAR, HE HAS NEVER ONCE IN THE 8 YEARS HE’S BEEN LIVING HERE EVER MISSED A MEAL!!!!

 

Double Shadow for Squares Challenge

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I lover this double shadow of the same object..Once on the wall so it looks like she is carrying the frame, the other on the frame itself which shows the head and hand of the sculpture hanging between the camera and wall.

For The Squares Challenge: Shadow

Reblog of Poem Published in 2019 Mistakenly Attributed to Dr. Seuss with Note from the Real Author

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Just today, Nov 4, 2025, I received this message from “Handy Barker” concerning this poem he wrote, which was quoted as a Dr. Seuss poem everywhere I could find it, or I would have attributed it to him. Here is the note I received from him, which I am publishing along with my apology:

Again, sorry, Handy…

Halloween, for Bushboy’s Last on the Card

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For Last on the Card

One is Company, Two’s a Crowd, for SOCS

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One is Company, Two’s a Crowd

I have no need for company. I’ll make it on my own.
Most anything that two can do, I can do alone.
I am no Santa Claus who needs assistance of an elf.
All tasks that need doing, I can do myself.
I never interrupt my sleep by calling on the phone.
I never argue with the choices I have made alone.
The company I give myself is by far the best.
As my best friend, I have to say I outshine all the rest!

 

The prompt for SOCS is “Company.”

Pull Up A Seat Challenge

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It was a treat when long-time friends Berta and Jesus pulled up a seat at my house for coffee and a chat.  On his way out, Jesus couldn’t resist pulling up one more seat and my cat Kukla chose a more reclining position next to him. Zoe chose not to leave her cushy seat-turned-bed to join us.

For the Pull Up A Seat Challenge

I Just Have to Share This Article by Elizabeth Fitzsimons. It is A Must-Read!!!!!

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After you have read Elizabeth’s essay by clicking on the link above,  read her mother, Jan Wilburg’s WP blog HERE.  She certainly raised her daughter right!!!!

“The Edge” for The Weekly Writing Prompt

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The Weekly Writing Prompt is “Edge”

Hidden Treasure for dVerse Poets

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Hidden Treasure

We are the ones that dwell within,
and what we keep hidden from each other
forms the mystery that keeps us coming back for more.
Like the relish that enhances the main course.
Like the dessert at the end of the meal,
not the real nourishment, but rather
a reward for putting up with the day-to-day
ragtag repetitions, irritations, boredoms
of knowing each other so well.
The loyalties, down to the heart honesties,
those passions held in common, those trials shared
are the meals we feed each other day-by-day.
But what person does not need, as well,
the thrill of the unopened package,
the darkness hidden under the stairs?

“Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes to see” – Sam Neill, Event Horizon (1997)
“We are the ones that dwell within” – The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
“Thrill me” – Night of the Creeps (1986) These are the three lines I chose for dVerse Poets

  Above are the three sentences I chose for the dVerse Poets promt. Let’ see which won out.

Wind, Friend and Foe for Rebecca’s Poetry Challenge

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The hurricanes that cause devastation on the coast merely whip our palms, turn off electricity and knock down tree limbs, but more often, the wind is our friend. It swells our sails, keeps flags, balloons and birds aloft and furnishes the electricity that it sometimes, in its excesses, switches off again.

Hurricane or breeze,
the wind does what it pleases—
both our friend and foe.

 

Rebecca’s Poetry Challenge, we are to write a Haibun on the subject of wind.