Big Bonnie

plays with her buddies

until they see the camera and pose.

The water garden is pet friendly but instead of swimming today

Bonnie just took a big drink.

Thought I had a leak but the dogs drink and swim often.

Have to add water about every three days.

Glad I can accommodate their needs and wants.

He Reminds Me Of Uncle Bill

“Somewhere in Between” by Anne Worner CC BY-SA 2.0.

For Mindlovemisery's Photo Challenge #84

Uncle Bill faced life head on and if that meant running over some people along the way, so be it.  He ran over his wife and his children and never looked back. He had a mean streak in him a mile long but a streak of kindness just as big.

He was a Union man with an extraordinary work ethic and a drinking problem which he later traded for a gambling boat addiction.  

Uncle Bill trained all his dogs to take off his socks at the end of the day.  We thought it was a neat trick but Uncle Bill covered his physical ailments as well as his mental ones.

His final years were shared with a good woman that accented his playfulness and gave him the unconditional love he had always looked for in a bottle.  Family became important again.  He loved as fiercely as he had run from love in his youth.

Even lost in Alzheimer's he knew the love of his life and when she passed Uncle Bill died too. 

The Mystery That Is Pollock

Jackson Pollock for Magpie Tales

and Poets United:  Poetry Pantry

JACKSON

As a child he was the fifth
as an adult he was a half
and a whole
that became nothing
and too much

He battled his demons
with drink and paint
for almost two years
driven by drips and swirls
he simply painted

And when it was good
he could not accept it
or was self-exalted
sabotaging himself and
the paints that made him

Drips made him famous
Drink made him dead