A Few Words to the Wise...

" A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. "
     ~ William Shakespeare 

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Project 365 - A Photo a Day..!..

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Sometimes I just like to share my own words.. 
and sometimes...  I even have a photo to go 
along with them ....

The Thief

three starveling babies
huddle together for warmth
raccoon rolls fresh egg

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-7-2012

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August Night

tangerine leather
cradled the sweet courtesan
a blue moon rises

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-31-2012

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Thanks for stopping by today.. I am sadly behind with my blog and though I know this .. I am still struggling to get all my ducks in the same row.. I welcome both comments and followers.. I hope you have a great day!
Patsy

A Nasty Dreary Day for My Birthday!

" No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."
- Robert Frost

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Project 365- A Photo Every Day...

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Magpie Tales-

Treasure

dirty red divan

what secrets could you disclose~

grizzly hobo snores

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

11-29-59

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Vacation

creation restores

the weary out-of-towners ~

cheerful locals bank

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

11-27-2011

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I Write

weary old night owl

slumbering the day away

lonely missus pens

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

11-28-2011

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Bonfire

trees almost naked

shudder in November wind

sacred smoke rings rise

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

11-24-2011

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Thanks for stopping by .. I welcome both comments and followers.. 

Have a wonderful day.. 

Patsy

Half Way Done for This Long Week...

" I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time. " ~  Margaret Atwood

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<~~ Update-

yes it is indeed a frog.. isn't he beautiful..

I have at least one side-kick that could

use a prince so I thought about kissing

him for her... but before I could manage

it he sang a rain song and hopped away...

Both Camella and Sheri were right with

their guesses..

Keep a watchful eye for my next What is it..

What is it?-  I have decided to offer another what is it game .. this one might be a tiny bit tricky..

I hope that you give it a close look and see if you can come up with a guess.. I think someone

out there will know what this it.. maybe that someone is you.. Please post a comment with your guess

of you can post if on my face-book if we are friends.. you might surprise yourself and make a great

guess.. this is something that is very common and you might have even seen one today... I know I did..

I will up-date tomorrow with a photo that shows what this  is..

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Project 365- a Photo Every Day

grassland

colorful prairie chickens strut
a dry and windy sea of grass
timber wolves howl
Savannah


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011








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reef
warm water caresses
ocean habitat rich with life
colorful creatures a beautiful rainbow
shoal

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011









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The Rooster

feathers fluttering
one young phoenix escapes me
hens scratch cracked corn

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
 8-24-2011

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Thanks for stopping by tonight.. Please do guess at the what is it.. I welcome both comments and followers!
Have a great day!
Patsy

Another Monday Comes and Goes... Blah Blah Blah!!!!!

" While much is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened."
~Thomas Hardy

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a love sickness."
~ Robert Frost

" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances."
~ Douglas Dunn
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Project 365- a Photo a Day!

Chilling at Crab Orchard Plantation...

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A Sentu-

grassland
colorful prairie chickens strut
a dry and windy sea of grass
timber wolves howl
savannah

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011



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A Sentu-


reef
warm water caresses
ocean habitat rich with life
colorful creatures a beautiful rainbow
shoal

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011

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Brothers

on the fence.. roosters
each out crowing the other
hens sunbathe nearby

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011


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Thanks for stopping by today.. I welcome both comments and followers..
Have a great day!
Patsy

Wednesday... I Saw a Haiku...

"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
~ Aristotle

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. "
 ~ Helen Keller

"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. "
 ~ Jimi Hendrix

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Project 365- a Photo Every Day!

A head of cabbage in our garden... these plants are huge! I figure at the rate they are growing I will need about twenty heads like this for the whole year..

I can almost never resist a flower shot.. and I am always grateful for surprises..



I Saw a Haiku

delicate scent draws
the eye closer to surprise
awed...  I shutter

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2011






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One Single Impression #168- Exhibition

Eye to Eye


exhibitionist
yearning.. grandstanding.. peacock
ecstasy echoes

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2011

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Monsoon
sixteen miles upstream
traffic jams in flooded streets
sticky rice fills me

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-12-2011

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Thanks for stopping by my world today.. we were cleaning and dragging furniture around all day.. Tomorrow I may strike.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great day!
Patsy

Monday.. I'm Ready For a Fresh Start!..

" I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." ~ Lucille Ball

" Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. "
~ Norman Vincent Peale

" I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. "
~ Josh Billings

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Magpie Tales #64 ~  A Haibun

Enticed

It was foolish of me to follow a stranger south of the border in search of a story ... The half-masked bandits were taking no mercy on any of us.. and though I had never expected a cake walk.. I surely didn't relish becoming just another missing American.. Straddling the scratchy back of a stubborn mule .. I fingered my secret box of matches and prayed that my children would remember me...

ancient photograph
a glimpse of innocence lost ~
forest fires smoulder

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-2-2011





Haiku Heights- innocence
Sunday Scribblings- cake
One Single Impression- border
3 Word Wednesday- foolish-mercy-relish

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Project 365- A Photo a Day!

we had a great day at the beach!                                                                      

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 May Day

cherry blossoms burst
blue feathers line a new nest
Madam pens haiku


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-2-2011

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today .. I know I have been missing for a while and I am sorry for that.. It seems like when life takes a tumble it rolls and rolls for the longest time.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great day!
Patsy

Monday- Finally We are Land-Owners..

" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "

- Dogen

" Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. "
- Gerard De Nerval

" When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. "
- William Makepeace Thackeray

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Magpie Tales-

In The Dictionary

violet posy

pressed between heartache and home

sad token of lies

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

3-14-2011

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Snowbound

elbows on table

daydreaming beauty sees naught

winter storm moves in

Written By: Patricia Sawyer

3-14-2011

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Project 365 a Photo Every day!~

It is almost time to put out the Easter decorations.. the store shelves are covered with chocolate bunnies.. marshmallow chicks .. speckled bird eggs.. and baskets with toy surprises..

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Thanks for stopping by today.. I welcome both comments and followers..

Have a great day!

Patsy

Saturday.. I Spent Most of Today Waiting for Rain.. I Did Have Visitors!

"There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.
- Thomas Robert Dewar

"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." - Langston Hughes

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Project 365- a Photo a Day! -

- Spring has almost sprung...

in my yard!

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Street Urchins

coins drop palm to palm
a lively tune she dances~
we applaud loudly

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2010


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The Picnic

puffy clouds stroll by
above the bubbling brook~
ants gather to feast

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2010

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Bug Zappers

velvety bat wings
flutter within night shadows~
Bonfires keep burning

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2010


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Winter Cabin

candle smoke spirals
a wreath around her dark curls~
snow flakes dance outside

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-18-2010

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I hope you enjoyed your visit.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a wonderful day!

Thursday.. A Beautiful Day to be Outside..

"Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure." - Charles MacArthur

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it rekindles the great."
- Roger de Rabutin

"A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key."
- Paul Valery

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Project 365- a Photo a Day! -

"Paper Whites" bloom in my sister Mary's yard..
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Alphabe-Thursday-

the letter S

Sanity Slivers

Sliding... Screaming...
"Seven Shot Scotch Slurping Song"...

Sam suddenly stopped-
standing silently still

she saw seventeen
silver salamanders sashaying-

singing sailors slipped
slithering sideways southward..

"So" she shouted
seeing something silly...

"somebody saved salt specks
simple seasoning so special.."

"Silly Sam" she said
"Stop sipping sweet sarsaparilla."

"salamanders singing .. sailors saving salt..
sometimes someone should Sleep!"


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
2-17-2011

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Sacrifice

aged thunder rumbles
alabaster heart stampedes
fiery abyss spews

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
1-17-2011

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Thanks for stopping by today.. it was almost spring like today.. an excellent day to be outside..I look forward to the spring flowers that will soon be blooming.. Already I see the flat green spikes popping up here and there around the yard.. I welcome both comments and followers..

Have a great day!

Patsy

"Cold Enough for a Fire".. I Can Almost Hear Daddy Say!

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. "
- Joyce A. Myers

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper."
- William Faulkner, 1897 - 1962

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Microfiction Monday #61 -




Rub a dub dub.. the wash board in a tub.. Little Miss Mary splashed her best dress with water while the "wash woman" was in the outhouse..

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( just a side note from someone who has had the chance to wash clothes on a washboard in a tub... though the picture is cute.. there would be no way she would be still dry.. washing clothes on a scrub board is back breaking.. hot.. and very tiring.. I actually own two well worn wash boards and each of my children have had a chance to learn to use them.. in fact I insisted that they wash their own things while we were on a camping vacation.. yes I am a mean..mean... mean woman... )


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Ceremony

selfish blunders jolt
wedding trinkets soon tarnish
apathy begins

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-1-2010

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Shielded

love a sweet buffer
hardest work a pleasant chore
poverty giggles

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-1-2010


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Burnished Bog

ghostly lily pads
brightly adrift in moonlight
alligator sleeps

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
7-1-2010


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It is bitterly cold here.. as Christmas draws nearer and nearer.. I don't have much spirit.. I think about all the ones who we will be missing this year.. some who have been gone for a long.. long time and some who have recently passed.. I have heard that they sell "spirit" in colorful bottles.. and I have been wanting a bottle tree... I wonder what "spirit" will taste like.. thanks for stopping by my blog today to share a few moments of my world... I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great day!
Patsy

A Celebration of Veterans... and a Few Words!

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." -G.K. Chesterton

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
-Elmer Davis

"But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye." -Thomas Dunn English

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Wordless Wednesday- Some of the Veterans whose lives have touched mine... Each of them different.. each of them special...

Daddy~

~ David~

Jimmy~

~ Reuben~

David- (Dave)~

~ David- (Bubba)~

~ Anthony~

~ Tana~

~ Chris~

~ Uncle Oneal~


~ Uncle Emmett~

~ Uncle Robert~


~ Uncle JC~

~ Charles- (Charlie)~

~ Uncle Charles~

~ Chris~

~ Chris~

each of them unique.. each of them a hero!.. Happy Veterans day to each of you!

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One Shot Wednesday~ week #19

Soldier's Prayer

Lord
Hold close
Your children.
Our Pains eased
By your loving touch.
Give us strength to endure.
Wisdom and courage each day.
Keep Our loved ones safe from harm.
Oh Lord, Let our Deaths be not in vain.
Lord Watch over us as the winds of war
Blow us onto paths we fear to walk alone.
We know you walk beside us every day.
Never Forsaking us as we trod.
Let us return home full of pride.
Having served Our Country.
And Our God with Honor.
Hold us safely now
within your hand.
Amen!

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
3-6-2008

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3 Word Wednesday~
gesture, immediate, treasure

Road Rage~

one finger gesture
brings immediate relief ~
Pops shock a treasure

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
11-10-2010
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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I hope you have enjoyed your visit.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a wonderful day..
Patsy

Tuesday~ A New Day.. Cooler but Bone Dry!

“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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~ nothing beats fresh corn!

Harvest-time

Honey combs swollen..sticky and sweet
Apples candied or chopped for mince meat
Raisins dried from my Daddy's grape vine
Verily I say.. it's again harvest time..
Eager for Winter and sun shortened days
Storehouses busting we bring in the strays
Tilling and tending ... the work and the grime

Toiling and teamwork.. we receive Harvest time..
Intervals of hours.. of weeks and years
Miles of work.. with blood.. sweat and tears..
Every time to a season.. every season for a time
~With our hearts full of gladness..
we celebrate Harvest Time!

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
10-26-2009

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~ we call this pair Polka and Dot...

The Chicken Yard

cackles hen to hen
feathery gossip about eggs
feisty rooster crows

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
6-5-2010


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Allergic

heady perfumes rise
sweet gardenia scents the air
helplessly I sneeze

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
6-5-2010

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~ our dog Buzz..

A Dog's Walk

around and around
nose firmly down on the ground
finally he squats


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
6-5-2010

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I apologize for being a missing person for more than a week.. This last week has been one of the worst I have ever known.. I struggle to understand how anyone can have so little regard for life that they would shoot and kill our friend.. she went to work like any other day.. but just before her shift ended she was shot and killed by a man who had stalked and harassed her for months.. I wonder if any of us are safe? She filed reports and did everything we are told to do to protect ourselves and yet she was murdered.. I am angry.. I am sad.. I struggle to stand up and move on.. please remember us all in your prayers as we try to find some good in the world that for us was knocked out of line last week by the act of a single killer.. I was proud of my son who will forever miss her and of my daughter.. who's first concern was that he not get the news from a stranger.. Our lives have been changed forever by a senseless act of violence.. I plan to say I love you more often and to try to be slow to anger with my family and friends.. after all we never know when our last minute may come..

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I will do my best to get myself together and get back to my blog.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great day!

Patsy

Three Things for Thursday!

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
~ Buddha

"My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop."
~ Winston Churchill

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
~ Robert Frost

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Tricksters

short pirate braying
one-horned horse falls apart
the tail chases ghosts

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
10-4-2010
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Skull Rack

pale naked head bones
grim remains of sacrifice
the horse heads hang low

written by: Patricia Sawyer
10-4-2010

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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thursday Thunks: Sneaking Out

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of a pumpkin pie and the number 3333.

1. When you snuck out of your house for the first time, who were you meeting and why?
-- I snuck out once before I was grown up.. I wasn't meeting any one.. I was going to fetch my cigarettes that I had to hide fast when Daddy almost caught me smoking.. On the other hand I used to dress the little ones up in crazy costumes and sneak them out and around to knock on the front door and scare My dad.. or at least he pretended to be scared.. I know once he thought my tiny sister was an old lady and he told me I should never do that again..

2. Tell us about the last time that you got your heart broken. Extra points if you publish their naked photo.-- I only wish I had that photo.. My heart has been broken so much that it is nothing now but duct tape and superglue.. I quit keeping count a long time ago so.. you don't really want to know anyway..

3. Tell us about someone you know named Bob. (Yes, we know this is a stupid question. Stupid is what we do best.) -- I know a few Bob's but the first one that came to mind was an old guy who is married to my sisters Mother-in-law.. what can I say about him?... hmm.. he is a nice old guy who builds awesome radio controlled airplanes..

4. We just found the perfect retail space. We are giving you the store. What’s its name and what do you sell?-- my store would have to be called "Patsy's Plunder" and I have a lot of junk I could sell .. including handmade baby hats.. doll clothes.. tea sets.. dolls.. shot glasses and what ever other plunder I can round up.. Maybe a quilt or two from my Mom and many other crafts and goodies..

5. Tell us about your last “friend with benefits".-- My kids and Family would say I never had one of those... I am going to let them believe that!

6. Kimber worries a lot. What was the last thing that you worried about?-- I can always find something to worry about.. money.. laundry.. was my chicken any good to eat.. I think the last thing was are my puppies eating enough..

7. Do you believe “once a cheater, always a cheater”?-- Sadly I do.. and I don't like cheating of any kind.. so don't cheat me at Old Maid or I won't play with you ever again..

8. Tell us about moving out of your parent’s home. Who did you move in with?-- I got married and moved into my own home with my first husband..we stayed together a lifetime.. he was my "baby daddy" three times over.. but I don't play old maid with him any more..

9. What was your most recent regret? -- I don't do regret very well.. I try to think things through so that I don't have to regret.. I haven't had any recently..

10. Berleen recently ranted on face book about having to got to parent-teacher conferences when your child has great grades. What was the stupidest meeting that you most recently endured? -- I always hated any kind of school meeting.. most of my time now is spent at home being a hermit..

11. Do you collect anything?-- I collect poems and quotes and recipe books and just books and dolls and tea sets and shot glasses and bottles and stuff and crochet patterns and more stuff.. yea I guess I collect anything..

12. Has anyone ever told you that you were in the wrong job?-- I have been told I should be a writer and a comedian and so many other weird things..

13. Is there something that you’d like to complete before the end of 2010? -- I have some craft things going that I would like to finish.. I pretty much take life one day at the time..
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And as a bonus because I didn't get to it last night...

3 Word Wednesday~

a septolet...


The Bouncer-

no hint
of his lust
as arms akimbo
he watches
beauties twirl

a glistening sheen
along his upper lip

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
10-7-2010

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Thanks for visiting my blog today.. I hope you have enjoyed your stop by my silly world.. I welcome both comments and followers.. Have a great day!
Patsy

Thursday... Thankful that it's Quiet!.. At Least Three Things..

"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."
~ Walter Benjamin

"Youth is the best time to be rich; and the best time to be poor."
~ Euripides

"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester."
~ Francis Quarles

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Fright~

inhumane hoarse screams
creep down my shivering spine~
urine floods my shoe

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
9-23-2010

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A Midnight Stroll

dark shadows looming
chained bulldogs snarl distantly~
glowing smoke hovers

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
9-23-2010

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November day break at the cane field..

syrup kettles boil
maple leaves blanket the ground~
grandma flips flapjacks

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
9-23-2010

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and as a Bonus because they are always fun....

Thursday Thunks: What's in a Name?

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Kimber's hair (where did she go?) and the number 333.


1. We are changing your name. You have no choice. You get to pick it, but we must approve it. You must have a good reason. OK, what is the name and reason?~ No way.. I like my name or parts of it anyway.. I already changed it a few times myself.. you can change it to .. mean old crazy lady.. if you must.. but otherwise.. Patsy suits me fine.. and after all that is a change from my real name..

2. I say Shotgun, you say?~ Run fool.. somebody is shooting at us!- that reminds me of a time when I walking the dogs and all of a sudden I heard six or seven shots and the limb fell off the tree next to me.. needless to say.. the third line of the first haiku above is how my dog walking adventure ended that night..

3. We are sending you away. Africa or Mexico? ~ am I in witness protection.. ( that might be fun.. who did I see do what.. to who.. ?)~ am I taking money with me? ... can I go see what each one looks like first?.. If I can I will.. but if not I'll go to Mexico.. I have heard that with ten dollars you can live like a king there.. and I happen to have ten dollars stashed for emergencies..


4. When you're home alone, do you still close the door when you use the restroom?~ I do because family.. as in KIDS.. have keys and they use them if I don't come to the door.. why do you care were you planning to peep?

5. Berleen told me that I have to ask a mean question. Tell us about a horrible memory.~ I remember once this mean person.. I think her name might have been Berleen.. anyway.. she tried to steal my natural identity and ship me off to Africa..or maybe it was Mexico.. she tried to confuse me by asking me a bunch of weird questions about using the bathroom and shotguns.. I shudder even now..

6. What are your plans for October? ~ I plan to make some cute jack-o-lanterns from soda bottles and light up my yard even though my neighbors think it's sinful.. I plan to rake up some leaves as they fall.. I might even blog.. I might even blog about my Jack-o-lanterns...

7. Is there anyone that you regret ever meeting ?~ No there is not.. I bet some people thought I would say there was.. but my life now is a reflection of all who have passed through it and some of them would leave great big holes if I had never met them.. so OK... maybe I regret meeting the guy that stole the towels from the hotel when I worked there.. but other than that no..

8. You have 3 months left to live, what do you do?~ I write letters to my family and friends.. I give away my dolls and some other stuff.. and I clean up this house.. then they find a cure and I live a hundred more years.. actually if I have three months to live I'd just as soon not know it.. who wants to clean house?

9. You wake up in an unfamiliar place, what is your first reaction?~ how much DID I drink?

10. Your phone rings at 4am, just before you kill this person, who do you expect it would be?~ it will be the damn sawmill.. either Dave left something on or some moron besides him left something on or they need Cooper to come to work.. and he is not answering his phone.. can you tell this happens a lot?..

11. You're having a bad day, what one thing can make your day better?~ writing usually helps..

12. You are doing a meme written by the blogosphere's shadiest character. Is there anything else that you should be doing right now? ~ I should be walking the dogs for their last time before bed.. they are waiting legs crossed and eye floating..

13. If money were not a problem.. where would you like to live? ~ Jeez you already shipped me off to Africa.. now you want ME to choose.. OK.. I choose right here.. I am at peace with-in here.. but can we buy out the neighbors and build me an ocean out back?... maybe I'll just move to an island I hear Alcatraz is empty.. or even a lighthouse that sits out in the ocean.. and sense money is no problem can I get food and drinks shipped in daily.. I'm gonna need a boat and some fancy swim wear too... snorkels and air tanks and some cute shorts for the pilots of planes flying over.. I can't look like a frump out there you know.. Dave will want the newest model of jet ski and some new fishing equipment.. I wonder if you can build a floating skateboard ramp?.. bird food will be on the list and chicken scratch too.. three floating pens should work for them.. the gardens might be a problem but hey with all the money in the world I think we can make it work.... PLEASE... get REAL.. I like it here!but I could use some money if you have any to spare...

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Thanks for stopping by tonight.. I hope you enjoyed your three things for Thursday tonight.. and hey I even gave a bonus tonight.. GO me!! I welcome comments and followers.. Have a great day!
Patsy

Wednesday..Hot and Dry.. Clyde Has Growled at Nothing All day!.. Ghosts?

"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday." ~Noel Coward

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."
~ James Daly

"Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive."
~ Richard Eberhart


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... Three Word Wednesday... demure, offend, volatile

A Hidden Truth~

behind demure mask
hides one volatile temper~
offend cautiously

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
9-15-2010

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.. Roadside Park...



... Wordless Wednesday~


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Another hot a dry day.. We have had plenty of those in a row.. they are expensive days.. you have to drink more.. and even if you don't buy bottled water you either have to pay for it or pay for the electricity to run a pump.. and of course you have to have a fan and an air conditioner.. or at least one or the other or maybe both.. yea both.. and you forgot there was a window open in the bathroom.. yes.. it's a bathroom.. gotta let smells out.. and so the cool air or even the fanned air goes out too.. it's a never ending cycle.. all of my plants want water.. I'm thinking on letting it rain here tomorrow.. set up sprinklers.. let the birds have baths.. listen to the frogs sing..



..... We are the proud parents.. (owners) of nine puppies.. they are two weeks old today.. Their parents were a gift from a friend.. I'm sure the dogs wouldn't have picked us.. but it was us or the pound.. Clyde has barked all day at nothing.. every once in a while he barks at the wall.. then tonight as we crossed the yard I saw a shadow.. actually an extra shadow.. me.. two dog shadows and hmmm.. who is the tall guy?... and then he growled.. I'd say a ghost if I believed in them.. maybe it's one getting an early start on Halloween.. but Clyde keeps growling at it even though it looks like nothing.. I think it's nothing.. Do you think it's anything?.. Maybe it's something.. No... No... I'm sure its nothing..

I hope you enjoyed your visit to my world today.. I welcome comments..
Have a wonderful day!
Patsy