OMG. I think I have figured out why I haven’t been able to sleep for over 4 hours a night for months now and why I am waking up and not able to go back to sleep cuz I can’t breathe! A number of nights I’ve gone to the couch and even outside to the hammock or lounge chair. Last night I slept in guest bedroom and not only slept a full night’s sleep. but also woke up without a sore back. I believe the reason is not only the firmer mattress, but because there are no feather pillows in guest bedroom! I took feather pillows off bed in my room and removed down comforters from both beds. On Monday I’m having Pasiano switch beds in two rooms. I might check out bed upstairs as well. I hope I’m right…Could change my life.
Writing a Poem for NaPoWriMo Day 3, 2026
Writing a Poem for NaPoWriMo
I try to comply with the day’s writing task,
and so I rise early to do what they ask.
Turn on my computer to see what I should
write about because I want to be good
and follow the rules and so I start
mining my mind and surveying my heart.
What had I done by seven o’clock?
I’d let in the dog groomer, fastened the lock.
By eight I had fed all the cats and the dog
and turned to my duties: my prompts and my blog.
What had I accomplished by eight or by nine?
I’d returned to the task and and written one line
and worked on another for a short while
’til the plumber arrived with a motor and pile
of tools to put in my garbage disposal.
I talked to the gardener, made a proposal
to plant a new tree, then the housekeeper came.
If my poem went undone, I’d Yolanda to blame.
We talked for awhile, then I bent to my task
A ten minute reprieve was the most I could ask.
At ten, it was Oscar, arrived for his next
lesson in English. My poem is hexed!
I download five photos that if I am able,
I’ll use with the poem, then spring to the table.
We study the use of “what, when and who”
of “where, why,” and “how,” then the next thing we do
is read a new story about Tio Nacho.
who had an old hat that was not very macho.
He said it in English, I said it in Spanish,
but when we were finished, my poem seemed to vanish.
I finally found it hidden in “notes,”
Found all my photos. Found all my quotes.
I shoo the white kitty off of my purse,
because the plomero I must reimburse.
Then I finish this poem and close up my Mac.
That’s a typical day for this poetry hack!!!
For NaPoWriMo Day 3 we are to write a poem in which a profession or vocation is described differently than it typically is considered to be.
“Different” for the One Word Challenge
When my husband and I did arts and crafts shows, at least once during every show, someone would wander into our booth, have a good look around, and as they left, shrug their shoulders and say, “Well it’s different!” (Usually pronounced “differnt.”) It actually was an “in” joke between those displaying their art—always interpreted as the speaker not understanding and not really liking the arts and crafts. Growing up in a small town, it was not the first time I’d heard the word in its derogatory sense. Thus, this poem:
“Different”
When I finally made my way into the world so wide
I found myself exotic. Somehow transmogrified.
I liked being the foreigner, eminent in my oddity.
I found that being different was a definite commodity.
It was my prerogative to be just who I was
without creating currents in the small town buzz
of that place I had grown up in. My acts were less explosive.
My strange words now acceptable, not garnered as corrosive.
They thought my weird behavior typical of my nation—
those oddities of word choice and excesses of oration.
In finally being somewhere where “different” was not a sin,
the more different that I was, the more that I fit in!!!
For Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Anomalous. (deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected.)
Easter Fibs For Fibbing Friday
For Fibbing Friday, Apr.3, 2026, the subjects to prompt our fibs are:
1. Why do we have Easter Eggs? Because we ran out of frozen waffles.
2. What makes a Hot Cross Bun? When we leave them in the oven for too long.
3. Why do we have a bunny at Easter? Because we ate the frozen turkey for Thanksgiving.
4. In which country did the Easter Bunny originate? At Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Estate in the U.S.A.
5. How many decorative balls are conventionally on a Simnel cake? None. Each one is unique.
6. What is a can? Just one of the dancers in a can-can performance.
7. What is a can-can? The opposite of a can’t can’t.
8. What is a cantaloupe?A girl locked into an ivory tower by her father.
9. What is a canister? A storage container for one’s future to-do list.
10 . What is a candelabra? Extra support for more well-endowed candles in a candlestick.
Easter Egg Hunt for Lens Artists Challenge #391
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So here are this year’s Easter Egg Hunt photos. My neighbors Sergio and David generously offered to entertain the doggies while the kids were here to guarantee the safety of the eggs Marie Jose and Yoli helped me to hide. Of 108 eggs filled and searched for, only 8 were not found, even after I offered a 15 pesos reward for each “unfound” egg found. A frenzied, much-motivated search did not reveal these overly-hidden eggs which caused one small girl to ask if it was a joke…ha. At any rate, wish I’d gotten a photo of everyone but I was kept busy trying to insure that everyone got their share of eggs and only one of each color or pattern so everyone received exactly the same mixture of candy. Pizza and Jamaica and watermelon and corn treats were enjoyed by all and the hammocks were enjoyed as well, as you can see. This is my favorite activity of the year, along with the pinata party at Xmas. A week before this hunt, Carmen discovered an egg hidden a year ago..candy still inside..while she was trimming greenery. Hopefully the 8 remaining eggs will be found sooner than that and not by the dogs!!! Happy Easter to All.
Lifeguards on Duty, for Last on the Card, 3/31/26
for Last on the Card
Killer Clowns and Other Threats
Killer Clowns and Other Threats
Robot ghosts from outer space
are in the sky, then in your face.
They sat behind you once in school,
thinking all the world they’d fool,
but recently they have been outed,
so although formerly I doubted
action adventure’s crazy plots
of giant creatures and evil bots,
recent events most grieveable
have made such things believable.
This orange devil we’ve elected
and all the buffoons he’s collected
make killer clowns from outer space
less scary than villains we face
day by day in our own world.
So let those forces be unfurled
to fight with him both tooth and bone
so he’ll leave our innocents alone!
Hope “springs” eternal, so I’m using this farcical response to the dVerse prompt this week, no matter how farfetched!!! The hats on the guys in the UFO are supposed to read “Make Space Great Again,” but couldn’t get AI to cooperate. They came close, so have some of the ICE agents displaying their motto instead. Perhaps they have been in cahoots all along.
The Numbers Game #118. Come Play Along!!
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #118. Today’s number is 240. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type the number 240 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.
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Ajijic Pier
For Cellpic Sunday








