Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Even Though It Was Early Morning, I Knew It Had to Be Dusk...
.....She came out from behind the building on the paved road that serviced the Dumpster. It was a woman, an old woman with a walking stick, a bag, and a hat that kept me from seeing her face. She was headed toward the forest covered ridge that gives this area the feeling of being out in the country...
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Monday, May 19, 2025
Singing "Stormy Weather"...Might As Well Sing...
.....Might as well sing....nothing else one can do about it. It got rather vicious this afternoon with the wind and the rain coming from the south side of this place. It sounded like it might do some damage. I don't know if it did any damage, but it knocked out our power and made me start thinking...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
I Love Living on a Dead-end Street.
I feel like I have come full circle as my early life was lived on a street that was a steep hill, and! at the bottom of the hill it changed into a wooded area that went on and on and on. The woods was appreciated by all of us at our house and we all took full advantage of it. It made me feel poetic....
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
As Useless As A Dirty Dishrag...
.....That was a common saying of my sweet mother back in the day when she had seven children, an outhouse, a tin tub for bathing, a ringer washing machine for a family of nine, a coal furnace for heating and an icebox for food necessities, a garden to be canned, chickens for beheading for meat and...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
As It Turned Out...
Mother's Day turned out rather silent in our part of Kansas City. I got up early and of course got on my laptop to check in with Son Daniel in a hotel close to the airport. My computer was dead. It took me a while to take in the fact that my phone was also dead and there was no way I could receive...
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