“Change of Tune” for Stream of Consciousness Saturday

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This is a blog I made 8 years ago but it seems so appropriate that I’m repeating it for the Stream of Consciousness prompt “Tune.” Click on the blue links to hear the song that goes with each day’s activity. Have fun.

Change of Tune

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“I” Tunes (My week in song)

(Click on underlined link to hear the song that goes with my activity.)

Tuesday: I met old friends Jim and Ellen (who moved away a year ago) at Adelita’s for ribs and a year’s worth of talk.

Wednesday: I finally met up with the Mac computer repair guy who comes from Guadalajara to pick up sick Macs for repair.  I have my fingers crossed  that they’ll be able to save the Mac Air I spilled a full Coke on.  Later, I made it to my “Not Yet Dead Poets” meeting.

Thursday: It was a “gas” when my stove broke and I couldn’t get the pilot light clicker to go off.  The repairman had just been here, but I couldn’t find his number and panicked until eventually it just wore itself out. Still, please don’t use that back left burner.  Now it sets off the clicker on the burner in front of it!!  I certainly hope nothing bad happens.

An additional thrill for the day that many of you made your own was  “The Thing“ that appeared on my garden wall.

Friday: I met my friends Betty, Liz and Larry at Viva Mexico for one of their enchiladas and a naughty tiramisu and one of their killer margaritas.  Later, I felt . . .

Saturday: It’s been so long since I’ve seen my friend Audrey,  but we spent a few hours at the new quirky cafe named Chillin’ and talked about planning a summer camp for kids in San Juan Cosala and Chapala.

The highlight of the week, of course, was the revelation of just exactly what “The Thing” was.  Laura M. beat out a few close contenders for the prize by naming my newest addition to my home the “Lurkin’ Merkin.”  Go HERE to see “The Thing” post. And  HERE is the tune that goes with it!

And that, my friends, concludes my week in song.  Please hit the links to hear the music.  —Judy

For Stream of Consciousness Saturday: Tune

They’re Back! Orange Thunbergia: FOTD Aug 25, 2023

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These innocent-looking flowers actually invade my entire yard! They grow fast and furious and cover everything. Lovely for awhile, but then they totally die back and dry out, the vines have to be pulled off to reveal all the underkill.  Pasiano recently removed them from most places but left enough in this spot for the little rascals to come back. I love them, but not their final result.

For Cee’s FOTD

Finale: For Cee’s Black and White Challenge

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For me, all of these photos depict a sort of finale.

End of the Trail
Morrie says good bye to his beach friends
Shadow
Grand Finale
End of day
Loss of a limb gives birth to new life
End of another fun two weeks of camp.
Sun’s Finale
End of a boy’s fun!
Final Resting Place
Final Rays

Click on photos to enlarge and on right arrow to advance to next photo.

 

This will be Cee’s last Black and White Challenge.  Thanks, Cee, for all the work you’ve done to maintain this and other challenges. For Cee’s CBWC

Dear Genie (A Note Affixed to a Bottle) for dVerse Poets

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Dear Genie (A Note Affixed to a Bottle)

Dear Genie  (A note Affixed to a Bottle)

Get back into the bottle. You’re doing nothing right.
The Adonis I requested just the other night
turned out to be the plumber. He got here around nine,
but the pipes he chose to work on were not any pipes of mine.
A problem with your hearing is a possibility,
so for now there’s only one more wish that I would ask of thee.
A doctor of ear, nose and throat you need to visit, please,
for when I requested money, you brought me hives of bees.
Now I’ve sufficient honey and beeswax it appears—
almost as much as I imagine you have in your ears.
As it is, each thing I wish for occasions my new fears.
So you’re confined to quarters ’til your hearing reappears!

For dVerse Poets: Bottle

Hibiscus, Aug 24, 2023

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These huge hibiscus just keep coming along. I love them and there are two or three new ones every day, just demanding attention.

For Cee’s FOTD

Morning Lines

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MORNING LINES

I start again
at the break of day
to ascertain 
what I will say.
What dreams have taught
will have its way.
I cannot throw
night thoughts away.

The W3 prompt this week was to write a poem incorporating 2 or 3 lines of Leonard Cohen’s song, Anthem. The lines I chose are: “At the break of day”and “Start again.” My poem is above. Here are Cohen’s lyrics:

Anthem’ lyrics

The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what has passed away
Or what is yet to be

Ah, the wars they will be fought again
The holy dove, she will be caught again
Bought and sold, and bought again
The dove is never free

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

To see the W3 Prompt go HERE.  To read more poems written to this prompt or to submit your own, go HERE.

Prompted, Aug 23, 2023

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So, late last night, ForgottenMan commented on the fact that I was practically blogless for the day. I commented that if he felt the need for a poem that he might furnish some prompts, which he took literally and promptly supplied. They were: effective affective (in)effective elective selective invective.

By the time he had supplied them, I was already asleep, but I awakened at 4:30 AM and after doing Wordle, Quordle, Quordle Sequence and Blossom, I accepted his challenge. Here is my feeble effort in satisfying his prompt:

Prompted

My task is totally elective
and my choice of words selective,
so I will rouse no invective
if I turn out unreflective
concerning words he found effective
but that I brand ineffective
in causing me to be reflective!!!!

Aloe Vera: FOTD Aug 23, 2023

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South Dakota….Through the Eyes of Jeff Foxworthy and Seconded by Me!!!

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If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you may live in South Dakota. If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t even work there, you may live in South Dakota. If you’ve worn shorts and a jacket at the same time, you may live in South Dakota. If you’ve had a lengthy telephone convers……ation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in South Dakota. If “vacation” means going to Sioux Falls for the weekend, you may live in South Dakota. If you measure distance in hours, you may live in South Dakota. If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in South Dakota. If you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ in the same day and back again, you may live in South Dakota. If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in South Dakota. If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both doors unlocked, you may live in South Dakota. If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in South Dakota. If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you may live in South Dakota. If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in South Dakota. If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in South Dakota. If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in South Dakota. If you find 10 degrees “a little chilly”, you may live in South Dakota. If you know how to pronounce Ipswich, Belle Fourche and Pierre you might be South Dakota. If you actually understand these jokes, repost this so all of your South Dakota friends and others can see…. Too true! LOL

 And, you might think you pronounced Pierre correctly, but unless you rhymed it with beer, you were wrong.

Thanks to my friend Jim Anshutz for sending this to me, and thanks to Cherie Ramsdell for sending it to Jim!!!

It is only coincidence that my new book on growing up in South Dakota will soon be available on Amazon. I’ll let you know when.  It’s titled The China Bulldog and Other Tales of a Small Town Girl.

Image by Alex Person on Unsplash.

Heliconia: FOTD Aug 22, 2023

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