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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Ow!

Yesterday I woke up with a leg cramp. Hate that--it hurts! Usually I can feel it coming and extend my leg, stretching the calf muscle, relaxing away the cramping. But asleep, one misses the subtleties... So it messed up my dream and woke me up. I got to thinking, if a heart cramps, it would hurt like this, but worse... The worst, being, it will stop altogether, and it's hard to stretch your heart muscle, or to massage it back to functioning yourself. Today I am re-thinking my casual attitude... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Attack of the Fish Boy

I was at Petco today, returning some doggie treats that turned out to be unacceptible to the doggie. After spending some hours cleaning green veils of algae out my collection of betta tanks (that's betta, like better, not beta like baita --be one of the 5 % who get it right...) I had decided to get some algae eaters, little guys who whip around snacking on slime and stuff. Most bettas are willing to share space with fish who are not bettas. My bettas are in larger containers than the little... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Davy and The Creek

On a recent walk, we went into the woods to a creek that runs through it. Last winter I posted shots of McClane Creek in flood. It is quite different there this time of year, after a very dry summer. But that's another story... Here is Davy meeting the summer creek: Moist but victorious! Sign in to see full entry.

Sweetest Davy portrait...

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Davy the Clever

Yesterday, Davy greeted me at the door in the morning, grinning with doggy-glee. He had escaped his Elizabethan collar overnight. He had been wearing the thing since his little surgical adventure last Friday, this plastic cone that prevents a pet from doing itself damage, licking at the sutures. Since he was not doing that, I didn't put the collar back on him. Later in the evening, I showed it to him, as if it was time to put it back on. He wasn't interested in that, but thought it was an... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Photo: This works best with a really fat sausage...

I saw this and had to try it... Is this not about the silliest way to serve a hot dog? It takes a very sharp knife, and a wholesome sense of the ridiculous... Oh, and if you have cloves to give it eyes, that's cool, too. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Troosha's autumn poem brought this one to mind...

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 stirred your soft and tawny hair... Summer came and baby's laughter rang through the vine-thick upper frame, and all the lullabies I sang... while lower, latch secure, kept little wandering feet within. Oh, summers then were sweet and pure... So many summers... Sign in to see full entry.

For some reason, I got up at 5AM to clean house

It's an impulse that comes so rarely, I dare not defy it! It started as an idea of a particular photo I wanted to look up and make a copy of, which meant clearing a desk and getting to the computer that image is stored on. It's the one with Photoshop. But it has been wonky lately, about accepting memory cards via the reader hooked into the usb port. I found the image and didn't like it as much as I remembered. In fact, there is a lot of trash in those files. Have they degraded? Or were they... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

A new poem written over coffee in a bookstore

IN THE CITY In the city I remember green you can smell and breezes you can hear; Clean rain Silent mists Spider webs glistening and solitude that stretches far and wide… In the city I live with mostly greys, Harsh vivid colors slicing it in pieces; The smell of industy Burning coffee beans like tar; Howling traffic Pressing crowds, eye never meeting eye and solitude a tight defense around you… In the city time is cut in segments unforgiving resistant to the slightest alteration of The Plan: Run... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Poor puppy!

He is frustrated and aggravated today, fighting the big plastic collar they put on him yesterday to keep him from removing his sutures. Yes, he had The Operation. He came out with this plastic collar and we were informed we needed to pay for it yet... $20 for a thing that broke within the first hour he was at home. It is now held together with duct tape. Turquoise blue duct tape. We have a geek dog. He has, they tell us, fleas. Qu'el surprise! The Northwest rarely gets cold enough in winters to... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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