Poetry | Posted by Jannie on 1 August 2010 @ 11:08 PM
I started writing a poem about a rabbit playing tennis
when suddenly Morgan Freeman and Charlton Heston
and Meryl Streep were taking turns reading my poem
out loud as cherry blossoms began snowing from my
hair onto what had just been my old blue sweatpants,
but were now a pair of purple satin vintage palazzos.
Then autumn leaves began swirling around what mere
moments before had been my chair but was now a gold
and mahogany bicycle sailing me through the dining room
of the Hearst Castle. I blinked and the bike changed into
a gondola being steered by The Pioneer Woman through a
field of California poppies where little mice dressed in ball
caps and togas were dancing jigs and singing “Hey Jude.”
Just when I thought the night couldn’t get any weirder, the
gondola turned back into my chair and I was flung by the
wind to the top of a pine tree overlooking a fancy French
street cafe where people were either throwing pastries at
each other or playing violins made out of recycled canoes.
I blinked again and my chair fell out of the tree and into a
tornado spinning westwards across the ocean and finally
home through my attic window. Boy, was I glad to be back
safe and sound in my little garrett, with Blue Bunny at his
laptop eating apple pie and surfing some tennis gear sites.
Quite a night, eh? I guess we all have ones like that now and then, right? Or was it all just a dream? Hmn, I do wonder.
🙂
Posted with love and such,
Jannie
xoxoxo
P.S. I have not been surfing blogs lately as much as I’d dearly love to — I’ve been putting my nose to the grindstone on songs. But know that I am thinking about you all, and missing you!!
(Washington cherry blossoms photo via Wikimedia Commons, user Bossi)
Nova Scotia | Posted by Jannie on 30 July 2010 @ 9:42 AM
Can it really be
20 years ago tonight
we first walked along
the shore road together?
Can it really be
16 years ago I ran up the hill
to take this picture of the house
that changed us forever?
Can it really be
almost 9 years ago
our little angel came crying
and laughing into this world?
Can it really be
20 years ago tonight
you became my guy and
lucky me became your girl?
Well, look at the calendar — it WAS 20 years ago tonight! Happy first-date anniversary, Baby!
Whoo-hoo — TWENTY years!!!
And dear readers… someday I’ll show you more pix of the little house in Mahone Bay we remodeled, added onto and sold. (1994 photo above shows it after additions, but before finishing touches.) [edit: we were living in Texas and doing up the house in Canada mostly from afar, with one carpenter working on it.]
xoxoxo
Poetry, The Pea | Posted by Jannie on 28 July 2010 @ 3:48 PM
What my success with HTML coding
has taught me thus far is I could probably
still be a brain surgeon or an astronaut
or an equestrienne or a master boat builder,
or a Michelangelo of childrens’ face painting.
HTML code — I am so whooping your butt!
(end of deep and enigmatic poem)
If you or someone you love is a poet, please feel free to hop on board Jingle’s Thursday Poetry Rally train. It’s a blast!
Yes, it’s still Wednesday here as I post this, but it’s Thursday in Australia.
And Australia rocks! Can’t wait for my maiden voyage there.
How ’bout you? Have any experience whooping the butt of HTML code?
Posted with love,
by Jannie
xoxoxoo
P.S. Kelly’s face was painted by a gal who does that kind of stuff for a living.
Kitchen Sink | Posted by Jannie on 26 July 2010 @ 6:35 AM
1. Painted a set of window shutters. And did a fairly nice job!
2. Sorted and Completely Organized 3 of my 27 boxes of papers and stuff.
3. Moved all my Blue Bunny headers to a new folder named (surprisingly) “BB-Headers.”
4. Moved all my background designs to a new folder named (imaginatively) “Backgrounds.”
5. Moved all BB’s props to a new folder called (surprisingly and imaginatively) “BB-Props.”
5. Thought about cleaning the fish tank.
6. Thought about mopping the floors.
7. Thought about organizing the clothes closets.
8. Did the dishes 4 whole times in the past week!!
9. Booked some studio time for next month to start laying down tracks for my new tunes.
10. Printed out the above and other photos of Austin, his sister Alyssa and a certain young girl named Kelly, and mailed them to Aunt Sue who lives in Toronto. (Guess who Jannie Sue is named for?) Auntie doesn’t do Internet, so it was a good feeling to help catch her up on her great-nieces and great-nephew.
Ahh, finally getting some things done, in addition to my new cord-and-cable-camouflaged corner, of course!
How about you? What amazing things have amazing YOU done lately??
xoxoxo
House Style | Posted by Jannie on 23 July 2010 @ 6:44 PM
Hard to believe that last week the above corner looked like this…
And hard to believe (for me anyway,) how that corner has morphed since 1997 when it looked like this…
And uncropped…
Jim built the room with his own two hands, as many of you know.
Then we remodeled it.
He built 3 closets last year, in anticipation of it one day being the master bedroom.
(I’ll show you the whole updated room when I get my better camera, the iPhone can be so finicky with lighting.)
I got lucky with the light in this photo…
(Yes, that’s the exact same photo as the first one in this post. Just saving you some scrolling time. )
🙂
(Those are Kelly’s nunchucks hanging from the closet door handles, in case you were wondering.)
(And that’s her guitar in the corner.)
Anyway…
I was SO grateful when a brainwave recently hit on how to hide that jumble of cables, modems, chargers and such. The ugly cords had been hidden behind a sofa before Jim built the closet last year. But the sofa’s too big for that spot now.
What, oh what, was a Jannie to do?
Remember last year when I felt all awesome because I’d transformed one corner of our dining room into a little oasis for myself…?
Well… life being life — in just 13 short months, my little dining room oasis had, as of last week, evolved into a bit of an unwieldly mass…
Time for a revamp anyway!
So…
I nipped the table, moved it to where the tv and Internet come into the house, put the table cloth back on, and voila — cords all hidden. Whoo-hoo!!!
I think it’s a cute little spot now.
And I think I should show you that “after” shot one-more-once. Third time’s always utterly more charming.
🙂
Kitty LOVES it, as you can see.
Next tidying project — the dining room. 20 boxes and bags of treasures there to sort — I kid thee not!
(And funny — but I’ve noticed my tidying / decorating goes much faster when I get my nose out of the computer.) 🙂
Posted with Love, by Jannie,
xoxoxo
But wait — two more life updates before I let you go…
1.) In songwriting… I’ve settled on some pretty, simple guitar work to go with my new “Sail A Child” and I’m so happy — one part of the guitar reminds me a bit of the Zepplin’s “Goin’ To California.”
1.) Our Broken Arm Girl had her follow-up X-Ray yesterday and got the go-ahead to resume gymnastics and Kung Fu! Whoo-hoo!!! Just no backyard trampolines until after January 20th when she gets her next X-Ray.
xoxoxo (again)
Oh, and I put all pix in this post as JPegs, and not PNGs, so hopefully they managed to load a bit faster for a few of you who mentioned my new big photos were taking a while to open?
Toodles!
xo
