Ruth and Max Bloomquist in Concert at Wendy and Steve Edmond’s House

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A beautiful setting, great music. After most of the people went home, Steve lit a fire and a number of music makers who had been in the audience took turns presenting music.  Lach picked me up at 1 because me car was in the repair shop.. I finally got home again about 9:30… Long, fun day. I made the sangria.. and read a few poems.

Ruth and Max will be presenting one more concert before they leave Mexico. The next concert will be at the home of Dan and Cheryl Dower-Laff, #40 Codonices, Chapla Haciendas 2, Tuesday, February 28th at 5:00 PM. Get information and RSVP at wcw5509b@gmail.com

You can read about Ruth and Max, even listen to them, on their website HERE.

Thanks, Becky, for beautifully organizing both of these concerts!!!

 

Red Rose: FOTD Feb 25, 2023

For Cee’s FOTD

Answers to Fibbing Friday Questions, Feb 24, 2023

The assignment: Here are some familiar words but can you make up new definitions for them?

1.   Silicone–a dunce cap
2.   Fluff–a polite word for a gentle fart
3.   Loofah–Scandinavian exclamation or interjection used to express dismay over having to clean the bathroom
4.   Caddy–An eight-year-old rude man in training
5.   Pedantic–funny foot movements while dancing
6.   Tangent–A polite male tourist on a bus back from the beach who gave up his seat to an elderly woman.
7.   Muffler–The mother of a crying baby.
8.   Calamity–Aphids in the Calla lilies
9.   Archive–A cat about to assume its most threatening (and threatened) hump-backed position.
10. Fortify–a poorly-constructed (iffy) structure of defense.

 

For Fibbing Friday Image by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

Conjuring

Conjuring

You are my homing pigeon, my wise old owl and dove.
My balsam for the pains of life, a well-remembered love.
Your presence is reality. It does not deviate.
You are a special part of life I can’t eradicate.
I breathe your name into the night and it draws you here.
Equal parts of holy and risque, you hover near.
And although your presence lasts mere minutes at a time,
it is time enough to prompt this laudatory rhyme!

 

Prompt words today are risque, name, balsam, deviate, reality and pigeon.

One Perfect Rose: FOTD Feb 24, 2023

Another rose from the perfectly gorgeous bouquet given to me a few days ago.

Here’s another gorgeous shot from Cee, who sponsors the FOTD Challenge.

OMG! Please find a way to listen to this amazing production by Steve Earle!!!

This is the Audible link but I imagine it only works if you subscribe: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Moment-in-1965-When-Rock-and-Roll-Becomes-Art-Audiobook/B093CCD3JL

10,000 Blog Posts Published!!!

Hey, y’all, ForgottenMan here. I’m tickled to have just noticed that Remi/Judy just posted her 10,000th blog here!! (So, I get to start the ball rolling for the next 10,000.)
Just for fun, HERE is her very first blog, posted 10 years ago next month.

Wedding Ows

Wedding Ows

Our wedding plans are complicated by the groom’s lasciviousness
that I find incongruous to his vows of  exclusivi”us”ness.
That marriage vows will tame him I fear will prove misleading.
He’ll make his heart available  as long as it is beating
to any passing lady who looks in his direction,
a fact which as you see has not escaped his bride’s detection.
You might think I’m a martyr to forgive this faithless phony,
but I am looking forward to the future alimony!

Prompt words today are complicated, available, lasciviousness, patient, incongruous and misleading. Image by Nathan Walker on Unsplash.

Centering: FOTD. 02, 23, 2023

 

This Gerbera Daisy was just one of an incredible bouquet of flowers brought to me by new friends. You’ll see the rest later.

For Cee’s FOTD

Musical Intercession

Musical Intercession

If I delete the news from home and flip all my attention
to aspects of the world escaping major media’s mention—
consign my concentration to birdsong and the tide
that washes out world sorrows that I bear inside
and fills me with the opposite of what the news exports—
that awareness of perfection that is what nature reports—
my life becomes more peaceful as my mind is set at ease
by nature’s lullaby sung to the music of the bees.

 

Prompts today are delete, home, flip, consign, opposite, birdsong.