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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Squirrel thrill ride

All night, it shook the house, tossed around the big recycle and trash containers--one was across the street this morning, the other reclining 20 feet from where it was last seen, upright--and threw from my deck a window-box planter, full of dirt. I found it lying in the gutter in front of a car. Not a monster squirrel wreaking all this havoc, no: the wind. Weather report on the radio this morning mentioned "gusting to 60mph." Just before dawn this morning I looked out at the trees in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

reprise reprised

This is my Valentine's Day Poem, one that some of you have seen before. Love’s Not Always Pink Love’s not always pink-- It’s what you feel and live not what you think. Sometimes it’s what you give or are allowed to take or nothing you can have for someone else’s sake. Love’s not always song-- its voice not always heard or clear and strong. Sometimes it’s just absurd and makes no kind of sense Or it speaks without a word, has neither rhyme nor tense. Love’s not always glee-- It has its moods and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Another show

Last night I went to the final dress rehearsal of SPRING AWAKENING, the latest production that Charlie is in. The show is a rock musical based on a German play first written in 1891, and banned there because of it's uncompromising content of society's dysfuncitonal conventions around child-rearing, adolescent sexuality, suicide, homosexuality, and abortion. From what Charlie had told me, I went for him, but not expecting to enjoy the show itself. The show itself was amazing! The kids in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Beautiful morning

Some people don't get up for mornings. I don't mind sleeping in, myself, but when waking comes early, as it did today before 6, there are compensations. Looking out at the leading edge of dawn, high in the tree behind the house was brilliant Venus, the only spark in the sky as the stars faded into daylight. A little later, opening the front curtains, there was Pike's Peak, once again glowing bright pink under a sky of grey-blue and pink. In my teens, I got up and dressed and went out to the top... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Cookin' again...!

I made a Thai style soup today. Started with chicken broth, added cream of chicken with wild rice soup, coconut milk, and a stack of vegies: shredded carrots, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, shitake and standard mushrooms, leek, fresh basil--lots!--and lime juice. Then I added just a dollop of Chinese hoisin sauce. A little sriracha sauce spices it up a bit, too. I'm thinking how good it would be with a few prawns in... Yum! Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Talking with Game of Thrones guy

Today at the theater there was a presentation with one of the producers and writers of the HBO series GAME OF THRONES, Bryan Cogman. He is the husband of one of the stars who has just finished a run of THE WEIR, which I am sad to say, I did not see. If you have never heard of GAME OF THRONES, nor seen it, nor read the books, then none of this will mean much to you. I have read all the ones George RR Martin has written so far, and will read the next eagerly. The guy can write, and creates... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Ironically, the hot water in my ensuite bathroom, is frozen. So today I went downstairs to the 'guest bathroom' and had a nice hot shower. A thunderous, pounding wonderful shower! I may use that one from now on: I love a good, enthusiastic, un-wimpy showerhead, that knows how to deliver the goods! There is a big blue fern in there now, too, that will surely appreciate the humidity! It is again very cold today, though the forecast for the next several days shows increasing warmth. It will no... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Ever wonder what ChiffChaff looks like...?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olegchernyshov/12325332983/ (This isn't my photo, found it on flickr.) Sign in to see full entry.

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Another poem...

It was inspired by a painting of a farmhouse Dutch door, the kind that you can open whole, or just the top or just the bottom. I've always loved Dutch doors! As I wrote this one, I didn't know until the last stanza whether it would be a happy or sad ending. HOMESTEAD: The Dutch Door It was spring and everything was new-- Life and love and everything, and everything we planted grew! The door you'd made was open wide the scent of new wood on the air that brought the warmth of spring inside and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 3, 2014

According to the weather forecast...

It's supposed to be snowing today. And every day for the rest of the week. Well, there will need to be some clouds, first. The sky at 9AM is bright and unbroken blue, the sun is messing with the snow we already have, dropping it off the ridiculous Mansard and quasi-Mansard roofs someone a few years ago was high architectural style in Colorado Springs neighborhoods. Madame has not shown her nose yet--lately, when she has, it has been cute with snow crumbs: without actual wet water in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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