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Guys, I hope your weekend is really really superly awesome-great.

Kelly and I are off to Houston very early Saturday to a gymnastics meet. If she does well enough there she will go on to State finals in Dallas next month. It’s all quite exciting. And fun! [Edit on Sunday morning… they took the top 10 girls for State — and Kelly came in 11th. She is First Alternate, tho. If one of the girls cannot compete for whatever reason, Kelly will take her place.

At any rate, she’s has an AWESOME first season!!  A newbie who did very very well.]

See you later! I’m off to eBay land now.

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Let’s Not Work Today (Or Any Day)

let’s laze in bed
scrapbooking our
coffee into faerie rings
we’ll dance around
all day and half-past
the marshmallow moon.

let’s sack race down
a curtain of sun to the
land of never-ending
cake baked by butterflies
with sunrise stained-glass
church window wings.

let’s RSVP to the starfish
by text that, yes — we shall
soon waltz at the wedding
of ocean and sky.

and when we’re older,
let’s grand jete up the
aisles of old photographs
smiling at us from baskets
and boxes and cedar chests
on the shelves of our hearts.

~~ end of poem for dVerse Poetry’s Open Link Tuesday.

Photos taken Saturday at my pal Suzie’s.

She designed and made those starfish from cardboard herself!

Still can’t believe I’m this lucky she’s my friend.

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Sometimes You Watch Them

Sometimes you watch them

from an umbrella or a window

or a harbor castle’s keep.

Whatever a keep is.

Something that holds

things in I guess.

But there’s no holding in

kids or flowers with hearts

and minds of their own.

Sometimes a poem that starts

about children playing in morning rain

after a birthday slumber party

ends in a grand revelation

that this year your impatiens

must’ve roamed off to Rome.

But… you sweep the

walkway for this post,

Postie’s on the way,

and even with Rome roamers,

you know everything’s still good.

Really so very wonderfully good.

With love to all you AWESOME-sweet ones.

Have fun out cavorting in the wild-flowered poetry meadows. See you there soon!

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Yes, I watered them all summer!

(The kids AND the flowers!!)

Probably just need to upgrade my soil.

If I Wrote A Poem Today

it would be about two

pairs of golf shoes soon to

dance away on eBay,

a Chocolate Sun

spray tanner dreaming of

honeymoons in Hawaii,

and the joy of labels printed

at home today on my brand -new

pre-owned Canon!!!! And…

about a kitten who peed twice

in a dishwasher, then weeks later

boldly returned to the scene.

__________________

(luckily no peeing this time.)

I’d show you a mother like daughter,

________________________

I’d show you a mother like child,

how she makes me laugh and I make

her laugh with unexpected snacks.

(Yes, that’s a marshmallow on a toothpick!)

___________________________

I’d show you a sister like brother

and remind you friend to friend, love

keeps on going forever and ever.

Yes, if I were to write

a poem today all that and

more would be in it, but

______________

I’m not writing poems

today — I’m eBaying, as

you can plainly see…

🙂

________________

and dreaming a dream

within a dream where we are

always children laughing.

___________________

~~ end of poem

One for the dVerse Poetry gang.

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P.S. All photos from yesterday, except the one of the packages this morning.

12 Random Things I’ve Said Out Loud To Myself Lately

1. Oh my god, I’m exercising.

2. Yay, I got eight bucks – not five!!!

3. There’s something weird about these pickles.

4. Oh, I wish I had a pair of stretchy shorts.

5. Why is my computer being so naughty?

6. Hey, who stole my flip-flop? (One of 4 little cats for sure. Luckily I did recover said foot rigging.)

7. Gosh, how can my armpit hair grow that much in one day?

8. I’m not gonna let it rain on my eBay parade!

9.  Lord, please give me the strength to figure out the Baby Bjorn. (One Jim bought at a yard sale for me to sell.)

10. Where’d my good bra get to this time?

11. Okay, I’ve eaten entirely way too many cookies.

12. I need to cut my finger nails. (Said about 2 hours ago as I attempted the open E-Chord on my lovely guitar.)

13: editing this in Sunday afternoon… WOW, them’s some yellow flowers!!!

Pretty daisies Jim bought me yesterday.

And yes, I suppose my next post could include some “after” shots of a manicure. Good idea, thanks!!

🙂

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But wait — a bonus photo: taken about 5 mins after I brought the daisies in from the back-deck photo shoot.

The only thing I staged below was moving the 5 books on top from the spot marked “Here” to their stunning position you see…

And Friends — don’t forget! Funsterment Central is keeping up with the Free Daily Photo. Don’t be shy to partake.

We still don’t have comments on those, but one day we shall — God and the WordPress Sprites willing.

🙂

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