Raven's Challenge

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The Walking Man

Saying for the Day

Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. ~Lemony Snicket

Picture of the day
(From the Archives)

Robert'sShow me Picture challenge

( Show me yourself)

Well here I am as I look ten hours every night and sometimes three or four hours during the day. I am the man in the plastic mask. But that mask keeps me alive and lets me sleep. It feeds in oxygen and it breaths for me. My little dragon keeps me company.

Melli wanted me to do Raven’s challenge on the right day so here it is. The words in red are from the ten word challenge the one’s in green from the five.

I am very upset this morning.I feel like I just put my hand on a cactus. I have come to the conclusion that no matter how problematic it might seem we are destroying the language. Things are not what the words say they are.
For example I know of a ten world list that had only nine words. Now that isn’t right.
I went to a wedding where the flower girl had no flowers . She should be called a no flower girl.
Each kid at the orphanage was given an ice cream cone that was filled with yogurt. Those aren’t ice cream cones they’re yogurt cones.
We have milk with no fat. That’s not milk that’s white protein water.
We took the meat that nobody loved Spam and turned it into unwanted E-mail.
We have Country Music with city lyrics? How horrible is that?
In our politics words long ago ceased to have any meaning at all.
People should splurge and get a dictionary.
Do I have to draw you a diagram to show you where this is going.
Soon a drag race will be men in dresses racing each other.
We will have artificial poppy seed made of apple bits.
Even John Denver who is dead and probably swinging from a star isn’t safe. There are still John Denver concerts and even a Broadway musical with his name.
Perhaps I should look for that old Finnish teaching tape. Or have they messed up that language as well?

A poem with the five words

When I really really need,
Some good old fashioned poppy seed
To keep me swinging from a star
I get directions from my car
Never used in a drag race
My GPS it does encase
It will diagram the way
To get some seed this very day
Where John Denver used to go
When he was living here below

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal
As problematic as it may seem it was not to the sound of angel wings that Willie, the town drunk.awoke this morning, but to the sound of winged demons and the smell of a thousand outhouses. Not that he ever awoke to the smell of flower girl bouquets. But this morning he found himself in an outhouse back of the Fly Inn. Poor Willie his life would make great lyrics for a country song. He was born in an orphanage that was so poor he never saw an ice cream cone and the only meat he got was Spam. Lying in the outhouse he could still smell the Spam. As his head threatened to leave his body he thought I should have listened to my sister. He had earned fifty dollars yesterday cutting grass, but he didn’t splurge on good food like milk or bread . No! he went to the Fly Inn and spent it all. He vaguely remembered somebody fighting with somebody over politics. But he knew it wasn’t him. How he got to the outhouse he didn’t know.But his head felt like it had a very pointy cactus growing in it.
His sister Aili will be so disappointed with him. She had spent all those evenings with him playing canasta until the Fly Inn closed just to keep him sober. She and the beautiful pink shirt he got from St. Vincent DePaul were the only good things in his life. He loved that shirt and only wore it to visit Aili. Thinking of how sad Aili would be caused his head to hurt even more.
Bonnie McGregor stopped in to Nancy’s yesterday . She was so excited she just had to share with somebody. It seems they had set the twins up in their own room with one of those electric monitoring devices so they could hear them if they needed them. But by ten o’clock they were sound asleep. She and Russel were alone for the first time since she got pregnant. It was like a second honeymoon. You know with exploding fireworks and flashing lights and all those things . Who says old people can’t have fun. Russel has to be the perfect husband.
Nancy had to smile because she knew that Joan was telling people that she saw Russel coming out of Aili Sorry’s right at the time he was having fun with Bonnie. Unless he could be in two places at one time that isn’t very likely.
Willie stopped in to Nancy’s this morning. She gave him a few cups of coffee even though he didn’t have any money. He looked and smelled terrible.It was obvious he was off the wagon again. Pigeon Falls had its town drunk back. Every little town needs a town drunk.

Wrap Up
My grandkids and their father came in last night which was a surprise. So I got a late start on the computer. They went off to the Quarry in the rain and had a good time. Betty and Pennie went to a retreat at the Church. I did some blogging and read a bit( a new book). Now my grandkids are returning so I will close up until tomorrow. I will soon need a breathing treatment.
GBYA
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