life
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You Were The Best Of Company Miss Cricket (post)
It was just about this time 9 years ago that I moved from a little 2 bedroom 3rd floor place in Hyde Park, NY with really cool 2nd and 1st floor neighbors who said Hi, seemed to genuinely listen to “How are you?” responses and kept an eye for me and we bonded because I… Continue reading
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Intro’s To A New Co-Worker & Revisiting “I Didn’t Pee” (A Cujo The Cat Song)
Was looking at my blog stats this weekend and apparently, I’m really big (relatively so) in China right now. I say relatively so because my blog is not one that sees a ton of traffic, steady light traffic sure, some new traffic and regular checkin’ in with our old pal or nemesis Frankenberry traffic yes,… Continue reading
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Backup Human Cat Dad Weekend
This weekend my Sis and the boys skipped town across the border into Canada for some birthday celebratin’ and I was left in charge as whole house cat dad in my backup human capacity. Now as far as I know they’re coming back though I am sure there are some temptations to just stay and… Continue reading
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(belated) Memorial Day Weekend: Brothers, Buc-Ees and Car Trouble
We saw the first billboard about 130 miles out. Buc-Ee’s is coming, Buc-Ee’s is coming or something like that with maybe some exclamation points (I don’t remember) and a logo of a Beaver. I said to nephew Matt “Hey, isn’t that the place you were telling me of, the one you and Nick stopped at… Continue reading
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A Letter to Mom From the Floor (poem)
In a prompt at dVerse Poets this past Thursday Laura invited us to think of letters in a poem. ////////////////////////////////////////// Letter To Mom From the Floor They flew at your insistence in a uniformed stewardess’s winged pocket I thought my letters to the far off land of your other family with scrunch faced glue tongued… Continue reading
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Bella Dreams in Catscope? (poem)
We had Laura, at the end of the week at dVerse Poets, with a prompt: MTB: Two and a Half Rhyme where she asks for us to write a 12 line (at least) poem consisting of couplets. And so, for today’s MTB prompt we are writing in two lines stanzas as rhyming couplets thus: Poetry Rules:… Continue reading
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Pre Order Your Today (poem)
On an out front sign at a garden center that I pass in my daily travels, missing an “s” as well as any item(s) in particular for this pre-order. ////////////////////////////////////////// Pre-Order Your Today A garden center sign proclaimed “Pre-Order Your Today” a missing ‘s’ offering something totally new on my way yesterday to a regular… Continue reading
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2026 is here and a post revisit – The Snow Was 17 Feet
Well, we’re all good for another holiday season, we’ve celebrated surviving 2025 (definitely considered “survival” of a year that will not be remembered well in the annals of history, actual history – hopefully we’ve been charitable and compassionate and thoughtful and truthful and dare I say, human, to counteract that … so far) we’ve added… Continue reading
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I Opened My Mouth And The Devil’s Voice Fell Out (There’s Somethin’ Goin’ Around)
Note/Warning: Overwriting fun So on a recent Monday I got up with a reluctant sigh, a more reluctant sigh than the usual as I hadn’t slept all that well all weekend, more not “all that well” than said usual, whispered (grunted) my normals to Cricket and Bella and stood up (yay, I did it again,… Continue reading
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Some Tunes ‘n That (song links compiled in one, easy convenient post)
Note: How to overwrite taking a day off. Once a month comes once a month, it’s pretty regular as once a months go, as long as calendars don’t try to fuck with me and suddenly change cats out of time on my wall … (hey wait, when the hell did that meowing tabby suddenly turn… Continue reading
