Six words Saturday

O’Mama ’s new toy is simply AMAZING.

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Six Words Saturday

Weather permitting, Monkey’s Mitzvah spot: Sea!
(Taken with my spiffmo new smartphone.)

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Let it not be bedbugs

Today I am having some difficulty focusing on my lesson plans for my college comp classes I begin teaching this week.
I’m trying not to scratch holes in my body, like I did to mosquito bites when I was a kid.
Something’s eating me at night. I’ve been getting bitten on and off for 6 weeks.
Having done [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday – Monkey’s Poem

1. Ahhh, coffee.  I stumble, bleary eyed, to darling husband who hands me a cup.  Our day wouldn’t be right without our coffee on the couch commune every morning. And when I say coffee, I mean black, strong and intense.
2. Yesterday, I faced up to something I had been avoiding – funny, things don’t just [...]

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Dating for 17 years

Seventeen years ago, Bob and I went out for Chinese food, came back to my parents’ house, watched the closing ceremonies of the summer olympics, and made out on the couch.
That was it. We were together.
It’s been a helluva ride.
In our time together, not necessarily in order or comprehensive, we got married in front of [...]

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Thursday, and all is wellish

This is what the sky looked like when we brought Shem home from the hospital last Friday, turbulent and dramatic, intense and colorful, menacing and real.  When the sun shines, Shem prefers to be outside. He is, after all, a desert dog, a Kelev C’Naani, or Canaan, and his nature is to crave the heat [...]

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OINK

So, I don’t know definitively or anything, but according to my ND friend out in WA state who works for the public health department, the symptoms I was so enjoying last week may well have been the swine flu, or H1N1. All I know is that it was one of the weirdest flus I have [...]

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Blech

For some obscure reason, I have a persistent bitter taste in my mouth.
It has nothing to do with my in-laws, who were, by coincidence, visiting when first I noticed that virtually everything I ate – no matter how tasty – was veiled in this nasty harsh taste.  Buttery and syrupy waffles? Roast lamb? Chicken? Chocolate?
Entirely [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: 2009 Garden planting edition

1. Memorial day in a few choice words: waffles, grubby clothes, plant, plant, plant, hoe, mulch, plant, plant, haul, schlep, mulch, guzzle, flop.
2. Today after a mild frost: “MERDE!” Dead zucchini plants, faltering tomato, blitzed eggplants (6 of them!), but fortunately hardy garden herbs.  I refuse to think this bodes ANYTHING for the growing season!
3. [...]

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Of Hospital Tents, Molton Lip Balm and Effusive Teachers

Yesterday was the much-anticipated living history day at the middle school, for which we were provided (undoubtedly with a smirk) weather straight of out what I am told it was like at the battle of Gettysburg: 92 degrees under blazing sun.
I have known this bunch of 8th graders for years and really love to take [...]

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