a tale of tails, tenacity, and tedium, as told by me, usually barefoot and bellowing

Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Mag #126 The Lady In Black

Magpie Tales by Tess Kincaid is the place to flex you creative muscles.  Each week she gives us a picture prompt and encourages our imagination to go wild.


At first we think she's waiting
As she smokes her cigarette
But she is watching
For what hasn't happened yet.

One A dances to classical music
One B has lots of cats
One C is always eating
and has become quite fat.

The second floor gets better
A loving couple there
Who quite frequently
Show how much they care.

Two B apartment houses a lonely man
Who sits quietly in his chair
He smokes his pipe in one hand
In the other his gun is always there.

Upward to the third floor
the view is rather clear
This monster beats his wife at night
and no one seems to hear.

Oh, yes, the lady in black is waiting.
A gun within her purse.
A thousand times within her mind
The moment she has rehearsed.

The lady on the third floor
who daily denies the sin
The one who takes the beatings
Is the lady in black's best friend.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Saturday Centus 115 Funky!

My sister calls me “funky”
I can’t protest.
I do have strange tastes but
The chosen have passed my test.

 Alex’s art and a cobbler’s stool
Do the mantle grace.
A giraffe holds my purse
Everything has it’s place.
 A elegant fox lights my path
While lace hangs behind my bed
I’m not a psychopath
But who knows what’s in my head.
 Momma’s button bracelet on a glass dog
Guards my painting and watches the door
You think I’m finished…
Wait! There's more!
 There’s Buddha in Depression Glass
With a fringy lamp on top
The antique yellow doily
really makes it pop.


Did the best I could Jenny.  Join Saturday Centus and have some fun.



Friday, July 13, 2012

This N That And My Own Accident

No pictures, Blogger is playing games so words are taking long enough.

We got rain!!!!!!!!  Wonderful, life-giving rain.  I can already see the grass greening up.  Hope we get enough to get a good winter pasture started because we certainly will not have hay from here.

I was grateful when no one was hurt in the truck accident.  I am also grateful no one was hurt, well, not much, during the execution of my graceful accident last night.

As you have read I have been repairing and working in where it's cool...and yes, I'm keeping the chair.

I have also been painting on canvas.  My end product was strange and like no painting I've completed before. 

My plan was to paint two canvases for each side of our bed to balance with our matching lamps, chrome and glass side tables and a foo-foo lacy back drop.  Sounds horrible, right?  One canvas to represent me in some way and the other to represent Hubby.

My paint usually does better than it did this time.  It made me paint this horrible dark picture with a tornado, a cave, stormy skies, cascading water and some unidentified metal thing hovering over it all.  I puzzled over this.  I looked close and far away and still didn't really know WHY I had painted this.

Soooooo, I decided to hang it on the wall just to get the feel of it 'cause it sure wasn't feeling right on the easel.

I retrieve the drill, have a screw, screw it in, screw it out and then decide I'm not tall enough to get it right.  Here's where you can laugh and the accident begins.

I climb on the bed, can't quite reach the spot I need so I stretch my left toe to brace on the metal cross frame of the (stupid looking) cute little side table, you know, the one with glass. I hold the screw in place, start the drill and all hell breaks loose.  The glass breaks, the lamp drops to the second shelf, the painting flies through the air, I bounce off the wall and back to the bed and slide into the floor.  But, by golly, I'm still holding that drill!

I sit for a moment and think how stupid can some one be...use the right tools like a step ladder!  I notice blood, lots of glass, and my over turned table.  I'm angry at myself!  Now my tables don't match any more.

I go to the kitchen for the trash can, the broom and dust pan and a wet rag to clean up my bloody foot prints.  Picked up glass, set the lamp BESIDE the table, cleaned the floor and examined my filleted foot.  I discover I am grateful for the fillet.  It was about three inches long on the bottom of my foot.  If it had gone in instead of across the glass would have been completely through my foot.

So now, my next project is to repair the side table.  Oh, and the painting...I've decided I don't like it at all!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Thursday's Things In A Row

I thought I'd do things differently today
and show how we do it the farmer's way.
We measure our pepper just for fun
The lines on a ruler are my rows
just one.
We count our tomatoes on the vine
If it would rain, they'd be just fine.
We count our chickens as they hatch
the chickens are mixed so none match. 
We pray to the clouds as they drift away
No rain for us for months and days.

Show your rows at Pat's
She's lots of fun to visit
and that is that.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

It's Too Hot For Work Outside...

so I am tackling a few inside projects that have been waiting for winter.  I think the triple digit heat qualifies for indoor projects.
What is it, you may ask. A very unusual chair that I've had for years.  It was stored, moved, used, and stored not with kindness.  So Gorilla Glue, a rubber hammer and a lot of elbow grease was used.
I had to steal the pillows from the guys. Well, I actually didn't steal the pillows but did some trading. No recovering needed.  Lemon oil and just general clean up and this will go to the shop.

If I can part with it.  I've been giving it a test run for sturdiness and comfort.  It passed. I'm still loving it as much as I did years ago when I purchased it without cushions. You just don't see many chairs like this.
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