House Style, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 27 December 2011 @ 1:58 PM
I think of Karen Carpenter sometimes
as I suppose we all do now and then as
we’re sailing under leaves of the day.
I think how she never sang an off note
yet battled with love and mirror troubles
while I – of sound body, love and mind
(well, much of my mind,)
am still learning to sing.
(But almost there now!)
I am grateful Karen sang.
And grateful for our newly rescued
parakeets I’m still getting to know and
they getting to know us Funster gang.
With Mieshka really wanting to
get to know them very very well.
“Parakeet Watcher,” I call that.
Kelly took it Christmas morning
with her new phone from Santa.
And now, I’ll sit with my good camera
from Mieshka’s sofa vantage point and
show you where our new buddies are…
Then…
get a lot closer…
I love them so much already!!!
Gonna get them a bigger cage.
And to thicken this poetic plot… many of you know Jim built this room with his own two hands, from framing to trim.
Here he was in 1995…
poem ended ~~~ several diversions back.
Yay, for dVerse Poetry Tuesday Open Link Land! Wheeeeeee-heeee.
(Top photo of leaves is a background Kelly got from some app or another.) Pretty!
Take care!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Videos | Posted by Jannie on 24 December 2011 @ 8:38 AM
Everybody, we wish you and yours a very very Merry Christmas!
xoxooxxo
Sooooo….. we were walkin’ in the hood and came upon this giant agave.
So nice, so nice. I photographed it twice.
And of course, I had to get crazy with the 3rd shot.
Now, Dearest Friends and Enablers…
I am off to package up 3 eBay auctions that sold — some of hubby’s model railroad stuff.
Yay, my auctions sold! My auctions sold!!
Then… I have photos to take of 6 more railroad things and get those listed.
Whooohooooooo, Jannie can now hire her bassist and drummer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, I’m the luckiest person I know!!
Who’s the luckiest person YOU know? And why?
xoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxooxoxo
The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 12 December 2011 @ 11:06 AM
Visit with Santa to say her only desire is an iPhone 4S — check.
Covering her iPhone prayer bases with the angels — check.
She then entered that house for a party with friends. They made cookies, ate dinner and went caroling.
Mardi’s Funster’s party for Jannie — check.
Mardi played her “fluke” and sang “Don’t Fence Me In” so beautifully for the two-steppers.
I played and sang a couple too, on my blue guitar.
Gymnastics show – check.
(Took that with my telephoto from waaaay across a huge gym.)
“The Nutcracker” — check. Great orchestra view from the cheap seats!
Gingerbread house social — check.
Pretty good start on the Christmas fun so far this year, eh!?
All this past weekend, except for the gingerbread social last Tuesday.
Oh. Posing by poinsettias on the way to get batteries for the camera for the gymnastics show — check!!
Now, my Dear Friend… back goes I to song lyrics.
See you soon!!
xoxoxoxoxoxooxxoxoxoxo
Past the warlock, the blacksmith,
ye olde ”Ale & Turkey Drumstick”
and the jousters down the lane
we chanced upon a slumbering sprite in the wood.
Later we floated
back over the corn stubble field
to some internal combustion machine
or another, to sail home into the sunset
with the wind whipping our rigging
in 6/8 time gypsy hip-shaking tambourine.
And 5 additions to this 55 words of fiction for the G-Man…
1. 3 iPhone photos from that Renaissance Fayre — back when my pix were a mere 740px wide.
2. The boots belonged to the sleeping angel girl’s brother.
3. Fun is good.
4. Love is good.
5. Ale is good.
xoxooxoxoxoxo
Okay! 6 things…
I get to go back into the recording studio next week to sing, so…
if my blog-hoppping is sparse until then…
please know that I and the music of the leaves up laughing in the trees are writing lyrics for you.
xoxoxo
