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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.

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LISTEN FOR THE BELLS (“A Chicken Plucking Story!”)

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This is a story about Sarah who was in the fertilized egg business. She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. She kept records and any rooster not performing went into the gumbo pot and was replaced. . . .

go HERE to read the rest of Sam’s very timely story!

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This is a story about Sarah who was in the fertilized egg business. She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.

She kept records and any rooster not performing went into the gumbo pot and was replaced.

This took a lot of time, so she bought some tiny bells and attached them to her roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so she could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, she could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

Sarah’s favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen but, this morning she noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all! When she went to investigate, she saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

To Sarah’s amazement, old Butch had…

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Speaking in Tongues: NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 6,

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Our assignment was to pick a poem in a foreign language we didn’t know and to write a poem saying what we think it means.  I have done this twice for NaPoWriMo in the past 13 years so I’m going to say turnabout is fair play and do a reblog.  My excuse is that I have literally been on the phone, internet and emails for 12 hours trying to do my taxes… dealing with banks in U.S and mexico, Charles Schwab, my investment people and my sister.  Going crazy!!! A friend just pointed out I hadn’t don’t NaPoWriMo for the first time yesterday and today. Mea Culpa.  I’ve been distracted.  So, here are the first two stanzas of my poem “guessing” what the original poem in Dutch might have been saying: 

Messages in Bottles

Messages they send out to the world in bottles
(those they think up as they stir their morning cups of chocolate)
—beware their dangers.
These messengers have hands that can slap you awake,
then abandon you as they return to the problems of the privileged rich.These parasites, dosed with their vitamin B, ride roughshod over their hosts.They linger in their beautiful dreams of percentages,
profit on the hunger of the poor.
They see not your skeletons when they look in the mirror.
They do not see the hearts they have broken.
Once, surrounded by the stricken, they put their fingers in their ears
and pretended they were evangelists to the poor.
Then, their illusions shattered by going door-to-door, they slammed doors shut again.

And here is the link to the rest of my poem as well as the original poem and its real translation: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2020/04/21/speaking-in-tongues-napowwrimo-2020-day-21/

 

Reblogged For NaPoWriMo 2023, Day 6

Reblog of Linda Lee Lyberg’s Story of her Marriage Proposal

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I signed on to dVerse Poets Open Link Night post to find the prompt, but in addition, I found this wonderful post by Linda Lee Lyberg which I have to share with you…both her story of her husband’s proposal and a wonderful poem by Neruda.  I hope you enjoy both.  HERE is the link.

Funny of the Day

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I couldn’t resist sharing this one.

Six Gifts for My Sister

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For his Flashback Friday post, Fandango asked us to republish a post made on this exact date  in a past year. Mine is from 2014, the first year I posted a blog on that date.

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The Prompt: The Language of Things—You have to write a message to someone dear to you, telling that person how much he/she means to you. However — instead of words, you can only use 5-10 objects to convey your emotions.  Which objects do you choose, and what do they mean?

First of all, I have to say that this is my all-time-favorite prompt, so kudos to its creator. It is original, thought-provoking and fun.

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Six Gifts for my Sister

 Older sisters are our teachers, our critics, our cruelest enemies and our best friends. When we were younger, my sister was no exception. With age, however, some of these roles have fallen away. The others I often take for granted even though I know they are still there.

This year I will be, as I have been for most years in my life, far away from my four-year-older sister, Patti, for Christmas. Betty, my…

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What Would We Do Without Paper?

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Hats off to the advertising team that came up with this! Only 39 seconds so watch it all…the irony won’t be lost!

Is This a Joke? If So, Not A Very Funny One!!!

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I received this email today. If meant as a joke, not the least bit funny. If not a joke, scary as Hell:  I received this in an email. How can it even be legal to put such a threatening message on the Internet? SICK SICK SICK!!!!!

Reblog of M.Oniker’s “Democracy’s Death Rattle”

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Below is just the heading and opening paragraph of a post by M. Oniker that gives voice to exactly how I and many of my friends have been feeling. She gives a link to an article she is responding to, but if you follow it, please come back to this page and click on the link below it to read the rest of her essay.

Due to trying not to stress out too much, I cannot read a lot of the news in depth any more. I am no longer a news junkie. I read enough to keep aware of what is going on. For the most part, that seems like: Same song, different verse. However, two news themes have been recurring frequently, getting my attention, and they are making me tense up. Those are the crazy book censorship agendas that are spreading with wild-fire speed, not only in schools but in public libraries, and the other is the news that so-and-so is a proclaimed election denier and is running in this or that state’s primary election for some public office, and that so-and-so has won the GOP nomination. This, of course, is in addition to the news from Ukraine, environmental disasters, abortion rights, gun violence, inflation, and Will Smith hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars.

Today The Washington Post smacked me in the face with the headline that “More than 100 GOP primary winners back Trump’s false fraud claims.” . . . .(more) To read the rest of M. Oniker’s post, please click on this link: https://wtfaioa.wordpress.com/2022/06/14/politics-democracys-death-rattle/

Speak, Boy!!!!

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