Family, Just Good Stuff | Posted by Jannie on 21 April 2012 @ 12:30 AM
the good man
carried the unicorn
while the wife and
child cavorted on
the rides and such.
Well… the child was
doing the cavorting,
while the wife was
experiencing sheer
terror on that boat
pendulum torture
thing she’d forgotten
how much she HATES.
The wife was
mostly okay on
the Tilt-a-whirl
and ferris wheel
but quite done-in
by the Scorcher* the
second time ’round.
You’ve just read a “Saturday Flash Fiction 64.”
🙂
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🙂
G-Man’s on a bit of a hiatus, god bless his sweet bloggin’ soul.
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*The Scorcher I’ve also seen called The Sizzler and The Scrambler.
Toodle-ooo, you beautiful peeps!
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Family | Posted by Jannie on 8 February 2012 @ 5:55 AM
Happy Birthday, Darling Jim. You’re still as cute as ever.
Love, Jannie
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Adding this photo after the first comment came in…
Thanks for adopting the parakeets!!
And for all the other good decisions you’ve made for these 21.5 years since our first date.
Decisions made from love.
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Family, Nova Scotia | Posted by Jannie on 30 September 2011 @ 8:00 PM
I just remembered I once had a red velvet blazer
I usually wore with a skyblue calico long ruffled skirt
and an off-white semi-fancy key-hole tee shirt.
Lord only knows what I had on my feet.
Actually, very smart leather sandals until it snowed.
I was 14, and the recent 4-H public-speaking champ
in my age division, snagging Provincials in Fredericton
for my spiel on how CB radios had transformed the world.
Next I leapt up to Maritime level where
I spent a whirlwind whole 4 days in Halifax,
a metropolis of then probably 100,000!!
(I lived 15 miles outside a town of 15,000.)
In Halifax I got to stay in a 3-story hotel!!!
with 50 other public-speaking teen hopefuls.
There I discovered the magic of a disco ball,
the bliss of hard meringue and learned from
the bread-baking demonstration twins how to
properly eat soup, as taught to them by nuns.
Proud to say I’ve been holding and dipping my
spoon correctly for over 33 years now, thanks to
the bread twins so cute in matching kerchiefs!
The twins won in their demo division,
beating out my hometown Johnny Branch
with his blood-squirting first-aid dummy.
I remember each time a camera
flashed during the twins’ performance
they’d smile, as if possibly their grins
would appear retroactively on film.
Funny, the things you remember.
Anyway, back to my red velvet blazer.
It came from some hand-me-down grab-bag,
and I wore it at the competition in Halifax.
I remember other things from that trip too.
Like, Sheila from P.E.I. puking on the spider
and “Bat Out Of Hell” being THE album.
I could probably tell you more, like how on
the drive home I pretended I wasn’t really
hungry when we stopped for lunch, ordering
only a small fry and water because I was too
proud or too ashamed (or both) to admit I
only had $1.75 spending money left, but no.
I’ll divulge no more of this today, my friend.
I will say my “Breaker-breaker good buddy,
we got a skatin’ rink east of the hole in the wall…”
speech did not win the Maritime competition.
I came in 3rd of 3, losing to a boy who spoke
about the Sable Island ponies, and the grand
winner, who effused from her heart about how
she loved books. Wonder where she is and what
she remembers about Halifax, August 1978.
~~~ end of wanderment..
My niece this past summer in My Hometown…
And her brother, back the lane from Mom & Dad’s red barn and red-roofed house…
As I’ve mentioned, my Irish forepeeps were deeded that land around 1830.
And Nephew on the beach this summer at Mom and Dad’s cottage, about 7 miles from their farm house…
They are both SO cute, and precious. I was not able to get home this summer, but I WILL next.
(Snagged those 3 pix off my sis’ FB page.)
P.S. There are 3 Canadian Maritime provinces…
1. New Brunswick — capital city Fredericton
2. Nova Scotia — capital city Halifax
3. Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) — capital city Charlottetown
End of post!!
Jannie
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one with an awesome Friday Flash 55 shirt…
a dear auntie to Kelly…
an excellent Rooftop Yodeler…
every inch the sailor…
and every inch of love and fun I could imagine.
Wait — no fiction! I DO have a sister who is all that and beautifully much more!
Love you, Rosie!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday on the 8th!!
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Well, golly gee, that was 55 words. Is there a G-Man of Friday Flash Fiction in the house???
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