No point rushing into it. In four or five months it will be fall; I’ll just have to do it all over again.
Tag Archives: humor
Isolation
Self-isolating with a good book and bit of throat sanitizer.
Health Care According to Bentley, my 4-year-old neighbor
How to fix a Boo-boo: Rub some dirt on it … and have a cookie.
End of Days
Beware brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors everywhere. The End is surely near – we are down to our last clove of garlic … although we do have an adequate supply of toilet paper.
Balanced Incongruity
First Thing
Pre-Historic … Maybe Not
The aftermath of a late night snack.
It’s a Chair
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It’s a chair for Christ’s sake,
although, not one
the Carpenter
Himself
would have made.
Overweight Casual
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Neighborhood
Thick fog muffled outdoor sounds in the late night. No one heard the wrecker pull in and park behind the Mercedes sedan. The operator worked quickly, quietly. He jacked up the car, removed the mag alloy wheels, set the car down on cement blocks, and silently drove away.
The following day, a neighbor came home for lunch; saw the expensive, violated car sitting on blocks, knocked on his neighbors door and wondered whether anyone noticed the theft of their neighbors wheels. “What kind of neighborhood are we living in that something like this could happen?” It was near noon. He knocked on the owner’s door. She was shocked, but not entirely surprised to see her car sitting as it was.
Several months earlier, she financed the expensive wheels and tires, but failed to make payments. After many unsuccessful attempts to collect, the finance company repossessed their property.
The car owner shrugged her shoulders, “I didn’t make my payments, so they came and got ‘em. I’m getting them back, I just have to go down and make a payment.”
Dark nights still bring in thick fog, the atmosphere is still eerily quiet, and there is no vigilante group to keep watch for furtive thieves. The Mercedes owner has her wheels back and all is as it should be in the Deep South neighborhood.
Wilted African Violet
Too long the African Violet had been waiting for just a bit of fresh water; finally, the spirits of houseplants came to claim it.
Social Comment
Even old people do it. Texting! Seated so close to each other, you would think they could just talk.
Morning Juxtapositions in the RV Park
Photo captured with a new cell phone and processed in Photoshop CS5.
Choice
It was a sweet feminine voice that insisted I make a choice, either walk through the church doors or burn in the depths of hell.
I thought, “Only two choices? Of the world’s ‘Great Religions’ my two choices are the plain vanilla denomination or hell.” Isn’t that some sort of rhetorical fallacy – only two choices? I’m sure there must be more.
I asked, “Why the simple white clapboard, non-denominational, nondescript church? What about one of the magnificent Gothic cathedrals? Perhaps I could visit a golden domed synagogue, or try an ancient Moorish mosque. Then again, I kind of liked the colorful Japanese Temples with the spinning prayer cylinders.”
She said, “Choose! Either this church where they are waiting for you or roast right here where demons will spend a thousand eternities devouring your soul.”
I said in my most assertive voice, “I much prefer my own church, ‘The Blessed Mother of the Sabbath Morning Sleep-In.’ By the way, you have a lovely voice”
She said, “Choose!”
I said, “How about we go uptown to the bar where they have 19 different craft brews on tap…I’ll buy. We can have a reasonable conversation and work this out in a more congenial setting.”
She said, “Choose!”
At that point, it occurred to me, “This little white church must have a back door.”
Open-Minded
While scones are typically fashioned in a triangular shape, I ask that you keep an open mind and try to appreciate the aesthetics of these four-cornered, golden beauties. Shape notwithstanding, they were very tasty.
The Ultimate Stoics
After the extinction of humankind, when the rise and fall of robots had completed its cycle and before the next phase of sentient beings, dark forests showed the universe the wisdom of their own ethics.
Day-To-Day Photography 