Friends, Sidebar Buttons | Posted by Jannie on 27 September 2010 @ 7:37 AM
People ask,
“Jannie, why do you make those sidebar buttons, anyway?!”
And I answer…
“Why plant flowers when so many already grow?
Why write songs, paint, sketch, sculpt, or weave words into poems and stories when so much art already exists?
Why keep dancing and laughing and flinging our kilts to the wind?
WHY sail these friend buttons out to sea?
Simply… because love is waiting everywhere and every day’s a celebration.
and dont werry, 
groovie babees,
I mean, don’t worry!
All buttons that roll down and drop off my sidebar will reappear in a recap post like this.
(Funstering Friends are Excellent Humans who pop in and out of this blog,
and ones who may or may not pop in, but whose sites I like.)
(The first Friends recap was here.)
(Yes I’m getting better at the buttons, thank you for noticing.)
🙂
AND…
in stunning conclusion to this sidebar button post, here are a couple recent self-portrait attempts to show you how clean I got my spare ribs pan one day.
Posted with love, from and by Jannie
xoxoxo
Friends, Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 23 September 2010 @ 5:55 AM
… I hear teaspoons clinking,
smell apple pie baking,
see lupines blazing on an ocean hill.
I think of a caring hand
on a feverish forehead,
chicken soup on a tray.
But mostly I think of
pine shavings
floating into drifts
at the feet of
happy angels
whittling
wondrously whimsied wood
into the wisest of wishes.
(An FFF-55 for the G-Man)
Happy Barbara Swafford Appreciation Day!
Barbara is a kind soul who teaches how to blog better.
She is so giving, I want to give too!
To YOU!!
Today!!!
No matter where in the world you are!!!!
7 commenters on this post, chosen by random comment number, will receive…
hand-written letters from me on these Mary Powell 5×7 Bermuda notecards…
and these Jill Amos Raine Bermuda notecards…
All 7 notecards are made of cotton paper.
I’ll use these envelopes…
these return address labels…
and these stamps…
AND…
in the not-too-distant future I will have a giveaway for 6 of my song Cds…
and another giveaway for these 6 poetry books…
(But THIS POST is for the 7 letters only.)
(If you don’t want a letter but still wish to comment below, be sure to say “No letter, thanks.”)
Winners announced next week!
Posted with love by Jannie, who is preparing to head into the woods very soon for 3 days, with a tent, 17 wieners, 21 donuts and 15 beers.
[And COFFEE — thank you, Katherine for that all-important reminder in your comment below!!]
See you soon!
xoxoxo
Photography | Posted by Jannie on 20 September 2010 @ 8:48 PM
You’ll say “No way, Jannie! That tree beside you in the top picture is the SAME one as below!??”
And I’ll gulp more wine and say, “Yes, my peep, yes indeed, that’s the SAME tree. I planted it in 1994.”
(Different doggie, tho. Sweety the weiner is now 5.5 years old.)
And you’ll say, “Holy cow, Jannie! You still have your same foot?”
And I’ll say “Yes, I still have both my feet. And all else. (Pretty-much.)”
And you’ll say, “Show me you in the tree drinking wine again, Jannie! Please! Please!!”
And I’ll say “Sure! Here you go!”
And you’ll be dazzled beyond compare.
And I’ll smile and post yet another picture, this time of Kitty in the tree when he was just 4 months old, and already fancied himself a badass hunter!
(Kitty is now 3.5 years old.)
And still loves that tree.
And I love the tree.
And it loves me.
And I love you.
And I’ll sip more wine and publish this after 1 more picture of Kelly up there when she was wee…
And you’ll say, “Show me MORE tree, Jannie! Please, please!”
And I’ll say “All in due time, my peep, all in due time.
‘Cause I have like, 5000 pictures to show you.
And 75,000 more to take. (At least.)”
Okay, okay ONE more pic — but that’s it!
7 photos of the tree.
Lucky lucky 7.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Blogging | Posted by Jannie on 18 September 2010 @ 3:14 PM
1. Cowboy(check)
2. UT Football. Sorry G-Man, but I AM living in Longhorn Land. At least we’ll always have this … 🙂
3. Tennis (check)
4. Hockey
5. Baseball
5.5 All other sports
6. Policeman
7. Judge
8. Doctor
9. Dentist
10. Vampire
11. Ghost
12. Fireman
13. The Tin Man
14. Parachuting
15. W Building Blocks
16. At Computer
17. Farmer
18. Einstein
19. Punk Rocker (check)
20. Bling-y (Joey will like that one!)
21. Butler
22. Karrit Gardener (check)
23. Carpenter
24. Waterskiier
25. Leprechaun
26. Cupid
27. Astronaut
28. Train Engineer
29. Bee Keeper
30. Happy Peasant Musician
31. Pirate? (A nice pirate, a swash-buckling caring sort)
32. Batman
33. Superman
34. Spiderman
35. The guys in Kiss
36. House Painter
37. Picnic (check)
38. Architect
39. The Great Pumpkin 🙂
40. Mariachi
41. Hawaiin (check)
42. Surfer
42.1 Windsurfer
42.2 Snow Mobiling
43. Angel
44. Sun (check) (well, sunflower — close enough.)
45. Violinist
46. Trumpeter
47. Trombonist
48. Drummer
49. Kelly’s 9th Birthday (check)
50. Christmas (Yes, I’ll probably have dozens over the years!)
50.1 Other Celebratory Holidays, various faiths.
50.2 Martial Arts
51. Easter Bunny (see 50.1)
52. Photographer
53. Birch bark canoe / Native American Headdress (I mentioned my mind wanders, eh?)
53.1 Speaking of “eh”… my home and native land, where I’ll be spending at least a month next summer!!(check)
53.2 and this great land I live in… (check)
53.3 Cinco de Mayo!
53.4 — All other nations’ festivities, including that crazy college thing they do in Japan — dodging 2,000 lb logs rolling down a hill. You’ve seen that on tv, right??
54. Viking
55. Nun
56. Priest
57. Monk
58. The Pope
59. Alpine Yodeler
59.1 Kelp knitter
60. Bullfighter? Nah, not too crazy on that, or on boxing.
(But I don’t mind seeing a bunch of dumb-asses try to out-run huge logs down muddy slopes.)
60.1 Wrestling!
60.2 Turtle race referee
60.3 referee in general
60.4 Umpire!
60.5 Bicyclist
60.6 All other modes of transport, BB at the helm.
61. Robin Hood
62. Daniel Boone
63. Lemonade stand
64. Cake Baker (check)
65. Chef
66. Barbecuing
67. Mechanic
68. Nurse
69. Airline Pilot
70. Lumberjack (check)
71. Magician
72. Soccer (wait, I mentioned all other sports, right??)
73. Organic hops harvester
74. Camping
75. Baking Cookies
76. Autumn leaves (check, as of today)
77. Snow frolic
77.1 Ice skating
77.2 Shepherd boy
78. Artist (check)
79. Eating and drinking various stuffs (check! Here’s my fave so far)
80. playing keyboard (check) (That’s actually MY Casio, the one Kelly uses. I took the photo and Shopped the background out!)
(skinny jazmeene the skwirrell I found on the Net. She lost some tail fluff in the great Filbert Fiasco.)
81. Teacher
81.1 Moses (See 81!!) 🙂
81.2 Bedtime (never seen until this post, check)
82. All other musical instruments!!
83. Fishing (check, check and check.) Here’s one from back when BB was still a disembodied guy in the air.
84. Princess Leia
84. Miner
85. Tailor
86. Tinker 🙂
87. Sailor! (check!)
87.1 Candlestick maker
87.2 Nostradamus
87.3 Charlie Chaplin
87.4 Other famous peeps, dead and / or alive, ones who made good contrubutions to society.
87.5 Such as, Edison.
88. With Kite (check)
89. Swimming / Snorkeling (check)
89. All other kinds of baked goodies!
90. Ornithologist. (check)
91. Cutting grass
92. Downhill Skiing
93. Egyptian
94. Hippie
95. Disco Dancer
96. Acrobat
97. Caveman
98. Brick-layer
99. Insurance Salesman
99.1 TV weather man
(Please forgive any duplicates, I am blogging with speed today .)
Any other BB ideas you can think of? If you leave an idea I like and use in the coming decades, I’ll create a fan-fared link to you for it, whoo-hoo!!!
Thanks!
xoxoo
P.S. Don’t forget on Sept 23rd I’m launching a give-away post here for 5 modern poetry books, 5 of these… AND… 7 peeps will win hand-written letters from me on pretty stationery mailed with some of these actual stamps… Give-away open WORLD-WIDE!!!
(Winners to be decided by a random comment number plan still incubating in me.)
P.P.S. My Daily Photo page above will hopefully soon be live and kicking too — please stay tuned. My blog and friend base is growing, and I’m happy about that!
Thanks so much!
Love Jannie
xoxoxoxoxo
Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 16 September 2010 @ 7:00 PM
The money’s already spoken for,
of course (as money often is)
— blog upgrades, Amazing Camera,
laptop for someone, donuts, beer,
stretch pants with nary a hole in the rear.
Hark, what treasure through yonder
eBay window doth beckon and thrill,
but no gold ever matching
the green leaves of trees
and the Sweet Pea’s knees.
That was a Friday Flash Fiction 55 for the G-Man.
(That was me drinking wine in the tree recently.)
(That was the Sweet Pea in the tree when she was wee.)
A very fine tree, planted it myself in 1994.
But I digress. The point is…
G-Man and his Friday Flash Fiction 55 are fun — and free!
Let him know you’ve posted a 55, and all your dreams will come true!!
from Jannie.
xoxoxxo
