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For Fibbing Friday, Aug 15, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand this week is to anser these questions:

1. What is an ingot?  A hole-in-one in golf.
2. What is a pekinese? What one gains with a new pair of eyeglasses.
3. What is gumbo? Those (formerly penny) balls of gum kids used to buy from a gumbo machine. (See illustration)
4. What is crème fraiche? Che Guevara’s order at the dairy.
5. What is a patisserie? A school in how to comfort your puppy for first-time dog owners
6. What is cock-a-leekie? An incontinent male chicken
7. What is a scotch egg? Breakfast for Richard Burton
8. What is a tuning fork? A singing lesson for the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
9. What is a leprechaun? An Arab ruler with leprosy
10. What is a running flush? A broken toilet

 

Short Adventure for dVerse Poets, Aug 14, 2025

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Short Adventure

dog
woman
all
alone
computer
window
rubber
bone
eye-lock
pleading
invitation
one
thrown
bone
brings
jubilation
further
begging
is
for
naught
a
second
later
fun
forgot

 

For dVerse Poets Open Link Night

Phone History for Cellpic Sunday, Aug 10, 2025

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This photo was obviously not taken by a cellphone or digital camera, but I couldn’t resist, given John’s photo of a working payphone!!!

 

Remember when your only phone was in the kitchen and at least one other house shared your party line? This is me, circa 1952, talking on the phone to Lynnie Brost after my mom had washed my hair in the kitchen sink.

For John’s Cellpic Sunday, Aug 10, 2025

For Deb’s Which Way Challenge with Shadows

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Click on photos to enlarge.

 

For Deb’s Which Way Challenge with Shadows

Attempted Humor, For Fibbing Friday, Aug 8, 2025

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand this week is:

1. Which Monarch famously said ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.’ Well, easy.  DONALD TRUMP!!! (He lied about the heart part.)
2. What is the rarest blood type in humans? Blue Blood
3. Who wrote the novel Brave New World? Hiawatha
4. Which famous composer was deaf for much of his later life? Kurt Graunke–listen to his symphonies as proof.
5. What was the name of Rick’s nightclub in the movie Casablanca?  Fred
6. What is the world’s largest species of penguin? The PenGuinness. (It set a world record, don’t you know!)
7. Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK? Clementine Churchill. (Winston’s puppet master.)
8. Which painter cut off part of his own ear?  August Macke the Knife.
9. What is the most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers? Nonverbal Communication
10. Who were the Axis Powers of WW2? The woodcutters.

Image by Sivani Bandaru on Unsplash.

I know. My answers, for the most part, are just awful. I hope someone does better than this….

Andrea Gibson with “A Plea for Our Planet.” DO NOT MISS THIS!!! SHE IS AMAZING!!

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Andrea Gibson, Poet Laureate of Colorado.  Sadly, she passed away on July 14. This is one of the best presentations I have ever witnessed in my life. Please watch it.

Forest Shadows, for dVerse Poets, Aug 5, 2025

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Forest Shadows

A man is bending his wife—
melding their shadows with the green forest.
They do not listen
to the nearby cannon’s roar––
will not imagine
that their life together,
so new,
might
not
stretch
into
the
future.

When he looks at his pocket watch,
someday children
ringing a well-stocked table
vanish in
her imagination.

He lifts his musket to his shoulder,
trying to believe
in a future
and in it,
this memory:
two shadows
joined as one,
invisible against
the forest wall.

For dVerse Poets, the prompt is “Forest”. If you’d like to participate, go HERE.

The Numbers Game #84, Please Play Along, Aug 4, 2025

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #84”  Today’s number is 206. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post 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. Here are my contributions to the album.

Please click on photos to enlarge.

Moon-shaped rock and frog made out of sap from a rubber tree.
Morrie’s been bushwacking.
Dining out on my favorite hibiscus
I think I showed this one before, but can’t resist. I think her tongue wasn’t out in the last one.
They have weird toys around here.
I was just sitting there minding my own business when suddenly. . . .
she popped into the picture. This really happened!!
Yoli, 10 or more years ago.
Kukla, Ollie and Roo
Interloper
Morrie, inspecting his new domain.

Welcome to “The Numbers Game #84”  Today’s number is 206. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post 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. Here are my contributions to the album.

Please click on photos to enlarge.

“Spreading Wings” for What Do You See> Aug 4, 2025

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Spreading Wings

Animals’ phases allow them to dare
to turn into something more special and rare.
Tadpoles swim landwards, developing legs.
Pupae to butterflies, chickens from eggs.

Rain falls and water runs west to the sea.
We try to go with it, my sister and me.
With leaves for our sails and vine pods for our ships,
what we wish for remains behind eyelids and lips.

The gutters are swollen and culverts are full.
We harness our boats, and we push and we pull.
But still they escape––rush away on their own.
I envy their future–unfettered, unknown.

In faraway places, I thought I’d be free
to discover new parts I was fated to be;
so I went after life like a kid at a fair,
from her carousel horse, reaching out through the air.

I could not resist the chance of surprise––
to  grab the brass ring and capture the prize.
And yes, I did travel and how I did roam.
Life got faster the farther I wandered from home.

Now I’ve been through the phases from child to wife.
I’ve traveled and struggled and had a free life.
I’ve been on large vessels for months at a time,
and on most of my travels, I’ve had a good time.

If I’d known that the slow times were not going to last,
I would not have hoped for my time to go fast.
For now when the ending comes faster and faster,
The pace of my life is just courting disaster.

Though other seas beckon, my boat is well tethered.
My new dreams are tamer, my old dreams well weathered.
Now that I can go anywhere, do many things,
I wish for more time just to fold up my wings.

 

for Sadje’s What Do You See? prompt., Image by Hirzul Maulana. poem by Judy.

The Couch Potato’s Creed for Word of the Day, Aug 4, 2025

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The Couch Potato’s Creed

Though he who hesitates is lost,
impetuosity has its cost.
You should look before you leap,
because still waters might run deep.
Though early birds might get the worm,
rash actions trip up the infirm.

So all-in-all I think it’s better
if you aren’t a go-getter.
I guess the moral to this tale
is lest you lose or lest you flail,
if you’re up against the proverbial wall,
it’s best you do nothing at all!

I’ve discovered an interesting fact about Morrie.  He frequently sleeps with his eyes wide open!  In the above photo, taken at the house I rent at the beach, he’s on the couch, which I’d put a sheet on so a visiting friend could sleep there, but I snapped the below photo one morning when he had usurped my bed as well:

 

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The boy knows how to make himself comfortable.

For Word of the Day: Couch