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Temple, ksurah, Wiley and Tamara, one comment 4 u all. Gracias por su
visita. It's raining and I could lose my computer line at any minute....when wet it quits. Thanks for stopping and commenting.
posted by
benzinha
on July 14, 2004 at 11:57 PM
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http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ArtContestsList/156268
posted by
Tamara99
on July 12, 2004 at 7:31 PM
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I miss you! Come back and play, Abuelita!
posted by
Temple
on July 11, 2004 at 6:10 PM
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buenos noches, benzhina! I love your writing! Take a pic of your canvas
when you finish it and post it in your blog!
posted by
ksurah
on July 10, 2004 at 9:43 PM
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Well, I can't say what is making me hot today.
It wouldn't be lady like. ::: laughing ::: I am, after all, always such a lady! 
The last comment you left for me had you having a mini breakdown of sorts....I hope all is well with you, Abuelita. Things often make me think of you during the day, and I told one of my favorite aunts about you. I tell strangers about your wonderful voice and spirit and stories.
If that young girl didn't know enough to thank you, she has more trouble ahead I'm afraid. I agree that you should be careful, but when it's kids you can't just stand and watch. I would have done the same things, but then, we are kindred. The canvas sounds SO brilliant and perfect! Take a picture and scan it for us. I send you much love and cool breezes, hot mama. 
posted by
Temple
on July 7, 2004 at 6:58 PM
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Benzinha
| You baby, you made me hot today. It's time you stopped with the meddling in domestic disputes all by yourself. Dontcha know that's the most dangerous job a cop has?? Domestic disputes!! Look, I want to be able to read all your stories, so take it easy will ya? |
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posted by
WileyJohn
on July 7, 2004 at 11:38 AM
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Talion, great !! I'll go read it, but if I find it to be 'publishable',
I'll advise you to stop adding to it on Blogit, like gomedome's publisher told him....others might steal it.....I started my Abuelita Mystery series here and then stopped when he told everyone what his publisher had ordered him to do, delete blogs with his fiction......going over there now to read you.
I don't live in a huge big and mean city with closed in and people filled streets. Few people walk around here, the streets are wide and open and I'm the neighborhood busybody. Dogs bark, I hit the street, but peek out first, having learned that awhile back, not to jump out there. I try to know my neighbors and to police idiot chilren who appear to be unsupervised. A big brother beating his smaller brother......like that, trying to figure out the why before anything else, but stopping the violence with my dog on a leash, first and foremost.
Funny, my old dog can barely walk some mornings, but put fighting people in front of her and her Doberman half takes over and gets her Rottie half pulling on the leash like a wildwoman, forgetting her pain and immobility in a second. She could drag me down the street in her youth and when I was younger, now, it's more show than strength and that is good. Then, napping all afternoon after her police action.
posted by
benzinha
on July 7, 2004 at 9:31 AM
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Tamara, at least you are hot about it......many people just accept it and
rarely even acknowledge the phenomenon.
I was like that in the 80s, money running out between my fingers, feeding football and wrestling teams from the highschool every day after classes, paying for extra cable connections to entertain them, cleaning the pool constantly to keep it up to standards for the almost citywide use of it and then restaurants, restaurants!!!!
And, four teenagers turned clothes hogs. Jordache, Izod, Adidas, what were those things back then? Before that, the average American bought clothing and then, overnight, they bought labels and the labels were expensive ones.
I am so glad to not live like that anymore. It made me so anxious all the time. Best wishes to you. Hide some in a savings account, one town away from your home, hard to get to...and put something in it every month, by mail....
posted by
benzinha
on July 7, 2004 at 9:21 AM
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Dr. DriveBy, I know, I know, it wasn't easy for me to write the title of
this post, not a phrase that I use either. However, it covered all of my blog happenings and my mind was useless when I tried to title it differently. Thanks for finding it more worthwhile than you had anticipated.
posted by
benzinha
on July 7, 2004 at 9:12 AM
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Benzinha
It is cool that you would be willing to help. Too many people nowadays have learned to look the other way. I have myself in similiar situations. I finally took your advice and dove headfirst into writing what could very well be a novel. It's in the fiction section, called Desperate Times, Desperate Measures. I'd like you to read it and tell me what you think. It's purely fiction, but nothing like what I write in my A Fool's Errand blog.
posted by
Talion
on July 7, 2004 at 9:12 AM
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bridget, I meant bridgetgrail, but am still not awake this a.m.
posted by
benzinha
on July 7, 2004 at 9:06 AM
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jadedgrail, thanks for stopping by. I saved the photo into my documents and
hope to turn it into a painting someday. I do love it. I have one of my daddy standing next to little cowgirl me, hat and all, at one year of age, riding the mailbox....... I think I feel a children's book coming on......combining yours and mine, the images suggesting the story to me. Thanks.
posted by
benzinha
on July 7, 2004 at 9:04 AM
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Talion, not so 'cool' when the young fellow made my dog and I want to
jump his butt and bite it hard......
posted by
benzinha
on July 7, 2004 at 9:01 AM
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LadyK, yes, summer humidity changes everything for a week or two.
Our monsoon season is not what it was in my youth, but it arrives in July and 'promises' rain, but for the last few years, it does not fulfill its promises.
Funny how, after years without dating, I cannot even remember being concerned about not having a fellow irritating me daily. (I only found irritating fellows in between those rare jewels, called friendly lovers.) My sympathies......
posted by
benzinha
on July 7, 2004 at 9:00 AM
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Yikes!
That's a lot to be hot about!
I'm hot about being utterly broke. I'm hot that I have a bad headache at the moment. I'm hot that my friend moved back to Maui to get back together with her husband.
posted by
Jemmie211
on July 7, 2004 at 5:48 AM
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I'm hot about how much money flows through my hands, yet I cannot see to hang on to it.
posted by
Tamara99
on July 7, 2004 at 12:10 AM
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I'm Hot
This is the sort of 'naturalistic' expression I usually eschew. However, this blog reached out and mysteriously comforted me. Thank you for this palliative
FONDLY,
DR. DRIVE BY
cc:attax
posted by
attax
on July 7, 2004 at 12:01 AM
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PS
It's me, Bridgetjm - I changed my nickname!
posted by
Holy_Grail
on July 6, 2004 at 10:22 PM
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Benz
What's making me hot is coming back to this hot, humid climate after 3 days in Colorado!
I don't know if you remember or not, but a couple of months ago you told me that a story I posted about a picture of my father and me made you want to paint it. Well here it is since I can't scan it and email it to you! Sorry it's hard to see.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on July 6, 2004 at 10:21 PM
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You're too cool to hot under any circumstances.
posted by
Talion
on July 6, 2004 at 7:27 PM
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see, I thought it didn't get humid out there
Another dream dashed....
I'm hot for the oldest reason in the world: I'm not getting any.
posted by
LadyKenobi
on July 6, 2004 at 7:08 PM
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