I Love to Learn New Things...

"Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath." ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." ~ William Shakespeare

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
~ Scott Adams

Earlier this week I had a new visitor to my Blog.. He left me a comment that said I had engaged him.. I was of course thrilled with that.. I was thinking that was a good thing?.. then he invited me to his blog and I do love going on blog visits so I hurried right on over to check him out... It was there that I learned a new thing.. a new to me thing at least.. he had American Sentence poems on his blog.. I had never.. ever seen one that I remember.. never heard of them.. never wrote one myself.. that was not going to do... I liked them.. I wanted to write one.. I wanted to know more about them.. I googled and read and googled some more.. I thought many of the ones I found to be very profound and meaningful.. Most people compare them to a haiku though I think they would be more like senryu.. because of their often satirical nature.. Finally I felt that I had googled enough.. I tried to write a few of my own.. I might not be good at it yet.. these may be terrible when judged by some that were found when I googled them.. But these are mine.. and my first ones at that.. I even looked and looked for something to illustrate them with.. I hope you enjoy my first try at something new.. Mine are not as grand as his.. so I do hope you will visit his blog.. Thanks for a bump in a new direction Sepiru Chris...

~ "Direction" ~ Life spins me in so many directions.. I need a compass to find myself! 7/31/2010

.. ( and yes smarty pants..you know who you are... I do know the difference in a compass and a GPS device.. but mine has a compass in it..!)

~ "Lunch" ~ My stomach in fowl condition.. I could only eat soup and quackers.. 7/30/2010

~ "at 4 am" ~ The roosters are crowing in chorus... spurring the morning sun to rise... 7/31/2010

~ " High and Dry at the Courthouse ".. ~ Judged to be no longer useful~ a fountain thirsts in the courtyard... 7/31/2010

I hope you have enjoyed my American sentence poems.. or maybe I should only claim a try at them.. I know they aren't the best but they are what my Daddy would call "quick work".. something new.. a honest try.. They are fun.. You might enjoy writing one of them yourself.. I love learning new things.. and though these may not be perfect.. I think they see me off to a good start.. Do you know of a poetry form that I haven't tried yet.. send it along in a comment and I will surely give it a shot.. Thanks for stopping by my blog! Have a wonderful day!

Patsy

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links for today's Posts!!

Camera-Critters ~#121

Photo-hunt #224- Public

Wordless~

Weekend Wordsmith~ #161 ~ Direction

A Stormy Saturday Afternoon...

"A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once." ~ Phillis Diller

"Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing." ~ Irving Stone

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." ~ Langston Hughes


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Saturday July 17- 2010... PhotoHunt 222: Triangle

Triangles frame my head in this African style throne in the Albuquerque, New Mexico.. Zoo.. a favorite spot for Photo's.. as entire families arrange them selves on the Giant seat!

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Welcome to Saturday: 9. What they have committed to their readers is that they will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated.. random.. They encourage us to visit other people's posts and leave comments. They say that they hate rules and love memes.. With that in mind.. here are today's questions..


Saturday 9: &-17-2010: Love Hurts!

1. Tell us about the last time that you got hurt in the arena of love.~ Love hurts even when someone doesn't mean too.. I try to love almost everyone. so I am bound to get hurt feelings now and again. I usually give a fool the benefit of doubt and don't kill him or her the first go around...

2. Have you ever been part of the wedding party, other than your own?
~ I have never been a bride's maid but twice a bride.. Now on the other hand Dave and I once went to a wedding where we partied like crazy for almost two days..

3. Let's say you find yourself in Hell after you die. Think about everyone you've known in your life. Who would be the one person that would least likely to surprise you by being in Hell with you? ~ I know so many people that in my own humble opinion most likely went that way.. this question is one I can't answer without hurting feelings someway.. But let me clearly state that I personally have NO PLANS to be meeting anyone at all in hell...

4. What brings you good luck?~ good planning beats good luck most of the time.. I do have a lucky rock somewhere though.. I keep loosing it..

5. Do you have a photo blog? If so, feel free to share the link with us! ~ I have this blog and one on MY space.. I do put photo's on this one but I don't think I'd call it a photo blog..

6. What is your biggest source of news? (Internet? Newspaper? Television? Radio? The Daily Show? Other?) ~ That is easy.. I watch weather on TV sometimes but most of what I hear or see is On-line.. I have never watched television very much..

7. What's the hottest you've ever been in your life? ~ It has been terribly hot this summer.. and if you're talking about some other kind of hot .. well I ate all those peppers that time and that was HOT.. Dave and I went swimming at midnight in the hot tub in 1994.. WOW that was really hot..

8. If you had to choose a theme song for your blog, which would would you choose and why?~ I don't think I'd choose one at all.. I do sometimes hum Kum Bah Yah while I'm writing though..

9. Who was the last person you had an online conversation with that you've never met or talked to on your phone? ~ some dude name Chris messaged me on Face-book to ask me if I played a fish tank game.. I said no and he said "Damn!".. I tried to speak to him to say I would play if he asked me nice and he had already blocked me from speaking to him.. Before that.. it was a Wonderful friend that I met In a chat room.. we laughed and joked.. his wife is still my friend... Sadly Josh and his daughter both lost their lives to a drunk driver..

This is my first time doing Saturday-9.. let me know if you like it..
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Camera Critters!.. #119

.. I like to call this guy the Blue Ballooo.. I love birds and would have gladly helped him escape from his owner.... Though he was a big hit.. he doesn't appear to be enjoying all of the attention..

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Thanks to everyone who stopped by to visit me today.. I'm rarely here on Saturday.. Feel free to comment.. have a great week-end!

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

Some Saturday Stuff..

"You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten."
~ Earl Wilson

"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."
~ Earl Nightingale

"I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil."
~ William Faulkner

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- Wordless asks us to post pictures that tell a story without words.. I love the photo below of my middle son skateboarding..

- The Photohunt word for today is Balanced- have you ever tried to balance on a rolling skateboard? How about flying through the air on one?

- The lensday word for this week was excitement.. having spent a lot of time at the various skate parks in our area.. I have seen a lot of skater excitement.. they are excited to try new ramps or jumps and even more excited to actually land something new..

I was always excited to watch the young men accomplish a new trick.. I miss hauling them all over the country to skate.. A cooler of cold drinks.. a picnic of sandwiches and chips.. some toys for Mason and a book and camera for me and we were off..

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~ This week for Camera Critters I am sharing some of my own animals..

~ Lucy~ a ringed neck dove.. she and her Husband Joe serenade us while we feed the fowl every day.. we love to hear them Cooing..

~ Janet~ a polish top hat hen.. yes she has some weird feathery hair on her head.. but she is a sweetheart and gentle too.. plus she lays me a warm fresh egg every day!

~ and this guy... we bought him from a man that swore this was a hen... Of course it is hard to tell when they are very young.. we tossed him into the growing up pen where most young roosters will practice their crow and let us know not to add them to the harem of an old rooster.. they will practice holding the young hens down and chase each other around in the pen.. This fellow grew up silently and we really took him to be a hen.. we had a few young roosters who had already started crowing and doing their sideways.. I need a hen dance.. scratching the ground and fluffing out their feathers as they sidestepped and made a clucking sound.. so we chose a rooster for this guy... needless to say as soon as he saw his new "husband" he jumped up on a stick and crowed his head off.. I had named him Delila.. I don't think that name works for a rooster.. do you?? If you have a suggestion for this guy a new name leave me a comment... He needs a name.. he is a beautiful rooster... I will choose a name for him from those offered in comments.. and I will post it on here.. Have a great night!

Patsy

update~ we were offered two names.. Ricky and Delta.. we have decided on calling this guy Ricky.. we both liked the name Delta and will be naming our next rooster Delta.. Have a great day!

Patsy

Camera Critters..

"The camera looks into your soul." ~ Joe Pantoliano

"Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business."~ Chubby Checker

“When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson”~ Will Rogers

Camera Critters #80

RULES~~~Welcome to the Camera-Critters meme. We hope that everyone enjoys this meme which is all about photos of animals/critters.......... So make your post, link back to the Camera critters site, visit other Camera-Critters captures, and have fun!

Today's critter is my newest little rooster.. We bought him at a livestock auction a couple of weeks ago.. We were amazed at how nice and calm he was in his little cage.. in fact the pair of ring neck doves we also bought were also being very calm despite the rough way they were being handled.. Neither of the four critters we purchased was fluttering or moving around.. When we got home we weren't able to simply lift them from their cages.. pulling back the hay from around their feet we were shocked to find that their feet and tale feathers were glued to the cage bottoms.. No wonder they were so well behaved and sat perfect in their tiny cages.. It's a good thing I only had a seller number and not a name.. I was not happy about my critters being glued.. anyone buying chickens or birds there would be aware that critters squawk and wallow.. But all is well with them now.. no more glue and they are all doing fine..This little fellow has been given the name of SPORT.. the pictures don't do him justice.. he is a beauty.. he is also very tame.. I love my critters... Have a wonderful day!

Patsy