Friday, July 10, 2009

It was raining yesterday

Emmy and me
I am not used to this weather, yet. I am enjoying the cool, when the rains do cool things down. My neighbor's gardens are aglow with greens and color. Down here, even the sides of the highway have irises and daylillies and alas, though my grass is green, all of my perennials have bitten the dust. Not a green thumb in the bunch, I am afraid. My neighbors have sent over some huge tomatoes and zuchinnis. Sharon had about 8-10 humongous ones to give me; of which we intend to break into the last one tonight. They were "delish" I do have a few potted plants, just outside. I don't even remember what I put in them. Shame on me. I wanted to take advantage of these weather patterns, but I just have not gotten the hang of the early planting yet.
I was off from work yesterday and I will work today and Saturday and it seems that the summer is flying by. Most of the day was spent trying to fill out those infernal college FAFSA and other things for Emily. I was again pulling my hair out about it. August first is the deadline and we are pressing on. We will get there.
Camp is next week and the children who are going are very excited.

Where are those "dillrumpled" tax returns? Oh my, Oh my! Which comes first the chicken or the egg? Somehow all seems to come together erelong. It is just, very dischevelled in the interim.

I have several projects in the works and am attempting to do too many things at one time. I take my breaks at work to walk and enjoy the beautious scenery, down here. It is amazing how clearly one thinks when there are not 6 mind highjackers taking turns hijacking the thought processes. Maybe 7!:)
Well, at least, my peach and pear trees are thriving. And, my one chosen precious accomplishment, my butterfly bush. I chose her and planted her myself, our first year here and she has grown with us. Here she is in the snow of last winter. She made it through the snow:)
I just love her to death. She shades my porch and grows and grows and attracts every flying creature for miles and miles around. She has absolutely no fruitful purpose, but to look beautiful and attract butterflies. She does her job, enriching my life, immensely. I love her. When Ezra was little, we used to play catch the butterfly games, but now he is way too old for such frivolities. Children grow old and away from you, but Mrs. Butterfly bush is right there, beautifying my life.
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Title- The Studious One!

Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse

Of biscuits and syrup

Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.

Widdle Emmie in outer space school

Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.

Midnight at the OASIS

Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville

My little Emmie

ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!

My Father and I 1989

My Father and I 1989

to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A VISIT TO PAPA











Are you going to Mary Immaculate?

Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Remember me to the one who lived there,



He once was a true love of mine,



Tell him to buy me an acre of land,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,

Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,

Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,



Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.



Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



After your done 50 pushups



and jog down the West Side Highway,



Then he’ll be a true love of mine…

(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)





He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.