Three Things I'll Share for Thursday!

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." ~ John Wayne

"If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well."
~ Mark Twain

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." ~ Theodore Roosevelt


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It is Thursday and that usually means I share three things with you.. I could share some of my unwelcome .. boring.. most likely mean and nasty.. thoughts right now or I could just let my poetry speak for itself tonight.. I could really do both.. I guess.. I do try and put a little of myself into my writing.. You can't help it really it just flows from you right into the pen and then before you know it.. there it is.. just what you hadn't meant to say.. in black and white.. on the other hand.. don't be fooled .. I think most of us usually say exactly what we mean.. I hope that tonight.. what ever burdens you bear.. that you will find rest.. Have a great night!
Patsy

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I See

a smug sneering fiend
stares back at me from within~
I close the compact

Written by: Patricia Sawyer
5-25-2010



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Miser

poor firstborn races
poverty held safe in jars
I wallow in dimes

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-25-2010



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From the Ashes


warned you..
or at least I tried..

Won't say I told ya though..
wouldn't listen..

they don't know..
even if they knew.. they don't..

trust.. the first thing to go..
last thing to die.. trusted to the end.. you did

nothing wrong with trust.. did it myself once..
won't catch me out there again.. you trust yourself..

hush now.. freedom brings a stiff price..
you paid yours and gave some for good measure..

I say time served..
and served well from what I saw..

but you let gones stay gones.. lay down the fans..
Let the roaring flames lie still..

for down is not out.. and out is not over..
Life is hope..and hope holds on when all else has given in..

And be reminded... every phoenix that hopes to fly..
must first rise up from the ashes...

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-26-2010


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A Few Words for Wednesday!

"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen."
~Petrarch

"For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever."
~ Joan D. Vinge

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." ~ Pat Riley

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The three words of today are... precise.. gradual... abandon..

Three Word Wednesday gives us a three word combination each week to play around with.. I often write poems with the words and many times haiku.. This week the word abandon seemed to strike a chord deep within this person I know as me.. I don't know why..

I did a couple of things with the words today..

#1~ a three minute brainstorm... very little all alone but it might show up again somewhere...

~ "let me be precise on what you are asking of me".. her boldness aglow beneath the darkening sky light.. "you expect me to plan a day-trip.. complete with a catered picnic.. and then just abandon the entire riding party to your Tom Foolery.."

She caught the barest nod of the silver curls.. his wicked smile achingly potent... a gradual persuasion to even his strongest rivals...

With a stomp of her booted foot and a toss of her head.. she pulled out her day trip planner.

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#2~ an etheree....

Bought

Please

let me

be precise...

I am the chief!

your every wish

now lies within my grasp.

There will be no gradual

lessening of your temptation.

But feel free to keep this thought in mind~

I would never abandon you cheaply!

written by: Patricia Sawyer

5-26-2010

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I hope you enjoyed your visit! Have a great day!!

Patsy

A Trip to the Beach...

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
~ Anne Spencer

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me." ~ Isaac Newton

"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."

~ Cyril Connolly

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Dave started it!!.. he asked me if I would like to sneak away with him... I wanted to know where before I decided.. I mean who would want to sneak away to work or to the pie factory.. you know what I mean.. Finally he decide that for this sneak he would choose the beach..

~ I was just about to say YES!.. when Cooper asked from behind the door.."where y'all sneaking off too?" as soon as he heard the word beach he put in that him and Mary and of course maybe his friend Erin.. would all join us in our sneak.. they were quick to add that they wouldn't be really hanging with us or nothing..

~ Emily opened the door about then with a... "when ain't you hanging with them and up the butt or whatever you said.." at which point Cooper informed Emily that we were all going to the beach.. needless to say we weren't going without her and Luke and Kirsten.. I think about then is when Dave decided to call David and Jennifer.. I was getting ready to say I didn't like the ocean...or had a previous appointment..

~ but Dave pulled no punches when he gave me that sad puppy dog... wet eyed look and said.. " Ahh come on Baby.. It will be like old times.. we use to have so much fun with all the kids at the beach!"..and I was suckered...

~ I don't know for sure how old I was when I first saw the ocean.. I remember being around four or five.. running and squealing from the waves to dry my eyes on Mama's long dark hair.. maybe we didn't go before then but I think we did..

~I have always loved the beach.. I love the hot sand and the salty air... I love the waves and the crabs and the tide pools.. but most of all I love the people watching... I love what they wear or in some cases what they don't wear.. I love the wild hair styles.. I even love the wild children that run and squeal.. back and forth between the ankle wetting waves and the parent in dark shades.. laying greasy in the sun.. my own children never did that.. they were too busy making us the biggest and best castle on the whole wide world of beaches.. and finding a perfect shell and of course we couldn't leave without drawing some pictures for the next people to enjoy.. But this trip all our kids were grown.. I was worried.. what if they didn't like sandwiches and chips and cheap drinks any more.. I hadn't planned a fancy picnic.. what if they really were bored with me and Dave?

~ I worried for nothing at all.. the people there were dressed just as wildly as ever before.. there were screaming kids in all shapes and sizes running back and forth waving plastic shovels and sucking on juice boxes.. the sand was hotter than I ever remember it being and there was no shortage of greasy bodies stretched out in the sun.. The children all piled their shoes in a pile and off they went to wet their feet and ride skim boards..

~ Dave and I set out to find this particular sand dune as part of my newest hobby.. and as soon as we returned everyone flopped down on the sand and and decided to eat.. I had my usual beach lunch menu of.. "make your own" sandwiches and soda or water with chips and pickles and cookies for desert..

After some more swimming.... skimming.... and walks along the beach we headed for the lighthouse.. Emily and I stayed on the ground today..( both of us having had recent asthma attacks).. Kirstin made her very first climb up the tower.. showing no fear at the top as she pranced out onto the balcony.. David says it was his first climb too though I thought he had been up there before.. he did go out onto the balcony but was not thrilled about it.. he told me when he came down that he had discovered that he is definitely afraid of heights.. Finally we finished the day by visiting the nature center where we were able to see this loggerhead up close as Cooper

held her..

As we strolled out onto the pier where we used to buy ice cream before the long trip home.. Jennifer reminded us of the past years and the pictures we would make there.. every trip the same set.. Dave and his Kids.. me and my kids.. and just the kids..So... On the pier.. way out over the water.. wind in our hair.. and so for old time sakes we made the same pictures that we always did.. and a few new ones too..

I have to say that the day was great! The sun was hot and the air was salty and as usual the people were worth watching.. My children were funny and Cooper even attracted his own audience as he fed a sea gull Cheetos's from his hand..

~ Hmmmm.. it has been a long time since I was in the mountains.. in fact I wonder if mine or Dave's children have ever been to the mountains??.. Maybe Dave would like for me and him to sneak off again soon?.. Thanks for stopping by My World!! Have a great Night!!

Patsy

Two in One..

"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
~ A. E. Housman

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry." ~ Gustave Flaubert

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
~ T. S. Eliot

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Tonight was another Poetry Club meeting night.. I have to tell you.. I had been busy today and though I hadn't forgotten.. I was running out of time and my mind was not liking the assigned theme very much.. I wanted to kick myself since I had been the idiot that had made up the theme last meeting.. I had been lenient though and decided that the style length and pretty much everything about the poem be up to the writer.. for instance.. it could be a poem about headlines in general or a headline in particular.. you could use words from a headline.. sounds simple doesn't it?.. my mind was blank..

Then I thought about the Word Beads Game I would go over there and use their words to play around and try to set up some sentences with them.. I would get my mind on something else for a little while.. then go back to the Headlines assignment for tonight's meeting.. we weren't graded and no one would care if you came to a meeting without a poem.. but so far I haven't.. I have had the assigned poem and at least one more every meeting... I wasn't going to be happy if I couldn't come up with anything for tonight...

Word Beads always has interesting words to challenge us.. Today was no different.. I liked the words and as I sat and read them over something began to form in my mind.. I decided to combine the clubs assignment and the word beads.. what I came up with has become a two for one poem.. One poem answering two different challenges.. I hope you enjoy my Poem.. the other members clapped and clapped.. sometimes though I think they would do that even if your words were awful... They are way to kind... Please feel free to comment.. Have a wonderful night!

Patsy

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Headlines


No joy or happiness I find
as I stand before the rack..

But death and despair both are there
Bold in white and black..

She was a mathematician
her favorite word was phi

They captured and they killed her
just to see her die...

Drugs and gangs and streets at war
fill each and every page..

As far away and here at home
a righteous war we wage..

Wishes denied a dark trespasser
that hides behind a mask..

Till desire for what the others have
becomes our urgent task..

In a nanosecond I would fly
till I was far away..

In hopes to find a better place
safe to work and play..

A place where no hatred grew
where everyone was free..

Can you imagine just what on earth
our headlines then would be..

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-24-2010

Seven is Not Nearly Enough!

"Pick a box. Its contents will help you on your way." ~ Super Mario Bro 3

"You spoony bard!" ~ Final Fantasy II

" Most people think Time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. They are wrong. Sit down and I will tell you a tale like none that you have ever heard." ~ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time


Each week Sunday Seven and Patrick asks us a question and we can answer either on his comment section or on our own blog and then leaving a link in the comments.. This week google turned one of it's doodles into an interactive game board.. You could play pac man in the doodle with the arrow keys.. That was to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the video game pac man..

The question of the week is..

Name your seven all-time favorite video games.

#1~ Ms. Pac Man
#2~ Pit Falls.. the atari version and the playstation2 version
#3~ Final Fantasy~ I love them all..
#4~ Qubert
#5~Centipede
#6~ The Sims Games
#7~ Anything Mario...

Let me tell you... seven is not nearly enough... 700 would only be a start... I love video games.. I love to play them when I can.. I also love to watch the children play them.. I know you are probably thinking that I raised a bunch of couch potato video game playing fatties.. you would be wrong.. All of the children swam and skated and rode bikes.. they played sports and took part in scout activities.. they fished and climbed trees.. they had loads and loads of chores to do and were responsible for their own pets.. But when the day was done and everyone was inside and bathed and ready to relax we rarely turned the TV on.. we might watch a movie if it was something new and sometimes we might even watch an old favorite.. But almost every night for at least a little while we played video games.. we competed for the high score. I had a book where high scores were kept.. It was a big deal to get a new Highest score.. If you were lucky and I had a few bucks a new high score might even mean Ice cream for everyone! My children and the neighborhood children and cousins and friends all tried to get their name in the high score book...

I bought an Atari for Anthony the first year they came out... I remember playing it hidden in my bedroom before he even got it from Santa.. He got pacman and Ms. Pacman that year too.. I am pretty sure he also got frogger and pit falls... we thought those games were overpriced.. Little did we know what the games of the future were going to cost us..

We have had a few different game systems.. Atari then Sega and Nintendo.. then the first Playstation and the games were so great.. It was right about then that I fell in love with the Final Fantasy games.. It was like living a secret life.. I have never watched TV very much and why would anyone want to when they could decide what the little people on the screen would do?..
You could decide who they would talk to and what they would wear and which weapon they would use..

We had driving games and would race.. we had games where we could build villages and cities and rule the world.. we had Mario in every version they made and all of the Final Fantasy games as soon as they came out.. The big thing in our house right now even though I personally don't play it are the Guitar games.. Dave and Cooper both play those.. Cooper also plays something that is both online and through his game system... I only know that it requires Internet access and the ability to curse... I have heard curses in all dialects erupting from his room.. I still love the sims.. and really like all the role playing games.... I play games mostly on-line now.. What better way to start the day than with the local news.. a cup of hot coffee.. and a dose of pacman? Have a great day!
Patsy

It's Friday! I call this Week Finished!!

"There will be a rain dance Friday.. weather permitting."
~ George Carlin

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."
~ Peter De Vries

"Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings."
~ Evan Esar

Friday My Town Shoot Out gives us a challenge each week to find and share images around our town that represent a certain theme.. This weeks theme is " Trip to the Zoo"..

I have always loved the zoo.. I adore the tiny spider monkeys and the tall elegant giraffe..

Emily always loved the zebras best and would beg to go see the zig zag horsey over and over.. I am pretty sure she meant striped..

at least these were striped..

I remember as a child that Mama loved the peacocks.. this one posed pretty for me.. I love the colors and patterns formed by any birds feathers..

Mason and I enjoyed seeing these guys.. Mason enjoyed it so much that when we came home from our visiting he told his Papa that he and I had dove right in and swam with those big old bears... actually we did stand right there and watch the bears sliding on their great big icy cold water slide and talked about how much fun it would be to jump in there with them.. I was hot as the devil that day and they were loving it!

I think Maya likes every single animal... I have seen her ride this guy a couple of times though.. They might even be on a first name basis.. I really wanted to ride myself but thought they would say I was way too old.. way to fat.. way to crazy...

I used to fuss at Cooper for growling at a lioness
just like this beauty.. he still like to growl at stuff.. my birds.. Dave's fish..

This colorful locomotion carried me on a wonderful hour of rest on hot July day.. around the zoo and over to the gardens and aquarium at the Albuquerque, New Mexico Zoo..

I couldn't have a better guide than my Son's family... Maya my beautiful Grand-daughter.. Tana .. my daughter-in-law... is a great planner.. the picnic was delicious.. Mason had so much fun there... and of course the king of the Chair is Anthony..

Well at least it is the KING as long as he sits there.. Even I took a turn in the chair..

I hope you have enjoy sharing my memories of a most wonderful day!..

Have a good night!

Patsy

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ZOO

Zany Menagerie...

Oasis to the endangered

Observatory for our future..

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

5-10-2010

A Wednesday Visit to MY World! Welcome!!!

"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
~ Claude Levi-Strauss

"The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things."
~ I Ching ~1150 BC

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."
~ George Carlin

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Each week Three Word Wednesday gives writers and those who would like to be writers a mid week prompt of creativity.. three words are chosen and we attempt to write something from the chosen words.. This weeks fine words are.. dread.. grasp.. and pacify..

Beneath the Bridge

he faces each day with dread

demons holding sanity just out of his grasp

a bottle will pacify

Written by: Patricia Sawyer

5-19-2010

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Sepia Scenes #84~

My Grandmother ironed with one of these ancient smoothing irons.. she heated hers on a pot-bellied .. coal burning...stove.. It now shares space with other old treasures on a shelf in my dining room.. I never look at it without thinking of her.. I love old things.. I admit to being spoiled by all the wonders of our modern society.. Can you even imagine having to survive in a kitchen like the one pictured here?..

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Although it rarely happens.. today I was lucky enough to have a picture for Watery Wednesday that would also meet the challenge for the theme of "Clouds" offered by Lensday..

On this hot.. lazy day at the shore the water was wonderful and the clouds simply beautiful.. Puffy and white they hung in the blue sky.. changing into many things as they floated silently over head.. mesmerizing the eyes..the wonderful combination of salty air.. warm water and a beautiful sky... a sweet balm to sooth the mind and renew the spirit.. I surely need a trip to the shore!!

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What a day! As Wednesdays usually go I guess it wasn't too bad.. Expecting and needing rain for the garden... I was still selfishly glad for the sunshine.. Plumb tuckered out by my new exercise routine.. dog walking 101.. I was glad that Dave was able to get a walking path mowed for me and our newest pet.. I don't mind walking and walking and walking till he finds the most perfect spot.. but it sure is easier to walk at 1am if the ground beneath your feet is not covered with tall grass and prickly weeds.. I am indeed a lucky woman... I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog and into my simple world today.. Thanks for stopping by!.. Have a great night!
Patsy

Moody Moody Monday!

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." ~ Elisabeth Foley

"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale." ~ Zig Ziglar

Moody Monday is a photo challenge that asks us each week to post photo's on their chosen theme.. this weeks theme is Close.. Close is defined by them as follows..

•being in or having proximity in space or time
•marked by similarity in degree, action, feeling, etc.
•having the parts or elements near to one another

I have chosen a few photo's to share for my own versions of CLOSE!

CLOSE to the water.. CLOSE to the edge..

"Hey!.. doesn't CLOSE count in hand grenades and horse shoes?.."

We are CLOSE to getting ice cream.. scrunch in CLOSE together now.. You children don't get too CLOSE to the railing!..

A little too CLOSE for comfort?

CLOSE to the top!

Close to time...Close together.. My CLOSEST friend.. Come a little CLOSER!

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Today I have been CLOSE to the ditch..CLOSE to the road..CLOSE to getting rooster spurred..CLOSE to catching my dove.. CLOSE to loosing my temper... CLOSE to loosing my cool and CLOSE to choking a few people and an animal or two.. I decided not to show photo's of those CLOSE things.. Choosing instead to show happy CLOSE things.. Just for good measure I even wrote a short acrostic poem about CLOSE~ I hope you have enjoyed your visit to my blog tonight.. Remember the old saying... "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" .. Have a great night!

Patsy

Close

Crazy life crowded with pain
Loving and leaving not ever again
On the run from feelings and winning the race
Suddenly you're there.. invading my space
Echos of laughter as close as can be
~ as love everlasting closes in on me

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-17-2010

Wednesday's Photos and Words..

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
~ William Blake

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
~ Saint Basil

"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."
~ Chief Seattle

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Known simply as "The Perimeter" this tree stands a silent sentry that keeps party goers safe.. Our Lensday Challenge of today is trees.. Trees give us shade from the hot sun.. they freshen the air around them.. I have tied tires and sticks and even sacks filled with old clothes to the outstretched limbs of trees and then sat upon those things to swing for hours.. I have planted tender young trees and watched them grow and I have seen old trees struggle and finally fall.. I have even hugged a tree..

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Watery Wednesday asks us each week to share a photo that shows our admiration for Water..I love water as much as I do trees.. I hate to see people toss litter of any kind into water.. I love to stroll along the beach listening to the sound of the waves as they roll across the sand.. washing away even the footprints that would show that I was there.. Lately the beaches are often crowded and many times littered.. I ask everyone to do their part to keep our waters clean and litter free!

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A replica of a vessel from days gone by this beauty looks as if it could have sailed the seven seas.. I can almost imagine pirates with swords drawn leaping on to it's polished deck.. no pity for the simple sailors as they forced them to walk the plank.. after all pirates needed spices and silk as much as they needed rum and gold..

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Three Word Wednesday offers us these words top write something from this week.....fear, ignore, weightless

No Swimming!

weightless in water

all fear overcome by glee~

ignore not the sign

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

5-12-2010

This has been a wonderful.. even if tiring.. week.. we have planted and trimmed and hatched and accepted and give away critters.. some of us have rambled in the woods and sunk up to our parts in the muddy pits of the swamp... searching and finding and not finding...but through it all we have laughed... I hope everyone out there had a wonderful Wednesday!

Patsy

Happy Happy Limerick Day!

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard."
~ Edward Lear

"They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon."
~ Edward Lear


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Today is Limerick Day!.. Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of Writer Edward Lear (1812-1888). It also celebrates the creation of Limerick poems. Limericks were popularized by Lear in his "Book of Nonsense".

This is a day to read and enjoy silly Limerick poems. I have decided to Celebrate Limerick Day in style by writing a Limerick or two of my own. You might enjoy them more if you search the Internet for and read a few humorous Limericks by other folks.. Though mine were written at a moments notice.. I still hope they make you smile!

A Limerick is a humorous verse or poem. It is five lines long. It's name comes from the city of Limerick, Ireland. The first two lines rhyme with each other and with the fifth line. The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other but not with the other lines..


That's Nat

an ugly old woman named Nat
wore pants on her head for a hat

with her skirt upside down
she pranced through the town

while we asked of each other "What's THAT?"

Written BY Patricia Sawyer
5-12-2010


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Wet Feet

there once was a child from the city
who grew up in fear.. what a pity

she cried millions of tears
and was ignored fifty years

now in a puddle she scribbles this ditty

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-12-2010


I hope you have enjoyed my silly and hopefully funny Limericks.. Have a wonderful Night!
Patsy

Three for Thursday!

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." ~ Doug Larson

"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers." ~ Walter Hagen

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." ~ Benjamin Franklin

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#1~ a haiku ~

On the Sand

sunbathers glisten
dipped in rich coconut oil~
Seagulls fight for crumbs


written By: Patricia Sawyer
4-26-2010

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#2~ Thursday Photo Challenge!

Each Thursday you are given a challenge.. you may then go out and make a new photo or you may use one that you already have.. This weeks challenge is water..

"WATER" (Ocean, Lake, Waterfall, Ice, Rain, Wet Things,...)

A water tower.. on the oceans edge.. in a thunderstorm should pretty much cover the water challenge!...

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#~ 3 Thursday Thunks!

1. Have you ever performed the Heimlich Maneuver on someone or had it performed on you? ~ No but I have snatched a child's arm up over their head .. and yanked on it when they choked.. that was the old way... it worked too but now they say we can't do that.. they say it's abuse.. who would have thought.. don't choke around me.. I'll do the snatch and jerk on you!!

2. Do you have a red room in your home? (Either painted red or red curtains etc.) ~ I do not have a red room... I am not to fond of red.. my kids once painted most of their room and all of themselves red with fingernail polish though..

3. Have you ever felt like banging your head against the wall?~ besides right now?? yes!!

4. Reports came out this week that Michael Jackson was gay. Are you shocked, don't believe it, don't care or felt he was all along?~ I wouldn't be shocked at much that was said about any famous person.. I don't really care if he was or wasn't.. they are not really important to my life and much as I wish it was different.. I'm sure I wasn't important to his... maybe that's why I'm just finding out about the gay thing huh?.. besides he's dead why do we need to know this now?

5. What's the dumbest thing you have done after a breakup with a S/O?~ I did a lot of dumb things after my one and only divorce.. I don't think I ever had a significant other besides him.. I had a few others but they were purely insignificant! I did do a smart thing though and marry my wonderful honey man.. (that honey man thing is for spite to the kids..) I love ya Dave!

6. If Berleen and Bud are standing on the roof of a one story building and decide to throw water balloons at Kimber walking down below on the sidewalk, what color balloon hits her first?~ I'm almost sure the jar of tinkle.. that the old witch on the first floor tossed out the window.. falls faster! But if you demand a balloon color I'll say purple..

7. What are the wildest, craziest pajamas you own?~ I used to own some of those now I just crash in shorts or sometimes a gown.. I do have some old red cloth that I could wrap up in and pretend I'm in a red room or something..

8. Have you ever ridden in a sidecar on a motorcycle? ~ I have not.. I have ridden behind Dave and was once even thrown through the air across his back and landed on my feet.. I know it sounds like a lie.. but it is in fact the whole truth.. The side car sounds fun though..

9. Do/did you go party on Cinco De Mayo, and if so what color was the bartender's shirt?~ I did not go.. but I could have drank some tequila.. I like tequila.. If I had gone I'm thinking the shirt would have been black..

10. Why does a hat have a bill?~ to shade your eyes.. to write crazy sayings on.. and so people could ask this question..

11. If you were a WWE professional wrestler, what would your stage name be?! ~ wrestling is faker than fake and I would never be one... but the name crazy lady works alright..or I could use my old Trailer park name.. Miss Meany!

12. How many keys do you have on your keyring?~ lets see.. car.. house.. mama's house.. special secret box.. hidden cages.. handcuffs.. hmmm.... a few..

13. What is the oldest picture you currently have in your home? What year was it taken and who/what is the photo of? I love pictures and I have a bunch of them.. the oldest one I have is of my parents before they had children.. I'm guessing at 60 years old.. maybe a little older..

Thats my three things to share with you this Thursday.. Thanks for dropping by my blog..

I hope you have enjoyed your visit and maybe smiled or had a laugh... Please feel free to leave me comments.. Have a wonderful night..

Patsy

Caleb Gets a Harem!

"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman." ~ Giovanni Boccaccio

"The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him." ~ Jeff Foxworthy

" Caleb loves me.. I've got him eating out of my hand!" ~ Sheron

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Camera Critters challenges us every Saturday to post photos of animals.. this week I have chosen a feisty rooster named Caleb.. at least he was feisty when he lived here on my own personal little farm.. And then we had a visitor... my favorite cousin Sheron came by one sunny day last week with a buck eye tree for my little patch of woods... she had started it from a buck eye and it was almost ready to bloom.. she and I are very much alike.. we both love trees.. and animals and wind chimes and velvet beans and birds and dragon flies and telling childhood stories.. and singing.. and Roosters... we had been talking for a few days and I couldn't convince

her to take a rooster from here.. But then she met Caleb...

Caleb walked around in his cage giving her the eye as she looked him over good.. she had admired a black rooster and a white one but those were two that we had decided would stay.. the others would be stirred into some chicken soup or a pot of dumplings soon enough.. Caleb was the first chicken we hatched and Dave and I hated to see him go to the chopping block but we knew he would eventually make it there.. After all you only need a few roosters for a large number of hens and we have way too many roosters here now.. with a new batch of babies hatching every day we had already decided who would be going to the freezer.. and though we weren't happy about it Caleb was on that list...

Sheron was a little bit worried about taking him because her own chickens are as tame as puppies.. they follow her around waiting and hoping for her to turn over an old board or a wrinkled up tarp so that they can grab a bug or a worm.. she talks to them and picks them up like they were children.. But she was willing to take a chance on him... I assured her that he

would be happy at her house with her ten hens.. he would have a Harem of his own...

Dave caught him and we loaded him up and carried him to Sheron"s house.. he danced his rooster dance and flirted with all but the bossiest hen as soon as we set him free.. but Sheron had to be sure he wouldn't attack her or her sweet nephews when they came to "pick" eggs.. she went into the pen and picked up each hen and showed herself to him again and again.. she touched him just a little and though he shied away I was happy that he didn't get overly excited...

Everyday She has called to let me know how he was doing.. he has fell in love with everyone of the hens except the one bossy one that he fussed at the first day.. and then.. yesterday Sheron called me with a story that I had to check out for myself and Dave even said to bring home pictures of it so that he could believe it too.. She said that Caleb would eat from her hand..

I know Sheron is one of the most honest people I ever knew.. but Caleb eating from her hand??.. I grabbed my digital camera and headed to her house.. and sure enough the chickens were out of the pen and wandering around the yard scratching here and there for bugs and worms.. Sheron ran to the kitchen and came back with some bread.. Pinching off tiny bites.. she fed the once feisty rooster ..Caleb.. from her hand.. I guess it is safe to say that Caleb has found a new home.. Caleb has a harem of his own! He followed us all over the yard and out into the woods where we laughed and made pictures of each other next to an old milk basket that was once a hens nest.. Now grown into the tree it is a strange sight to see.. we plundered around all afternoon in those woods with her chickens scratching around our feet and running to grab any bug that moved.. I was happy that Caleb has found a new home and will be kept out of the soup pot.. I haven't laughed that much in a long time.. Even I fed the chickens a few bites of bread.. but I am not nearly as brave as Sheron.. I snatched my hand back when they got close and she just laughed at me and finally even held my hand still.. teaching me to be a little bit braver.. one tiny bite of bread at the time!!

My wonderful.. Loving.. very special cousin Sheron!
Thanks for being you!!

Have a wonderful Night!
Patsy