TUNE: What Child Is This?
Mary rode on a donkey’s back
Towards cats & mice in the stable
While sheep & dogs heard the angels sing
In the hills beyond Bethlehem’s stable
Camels carried the three wise kings
Cows looked on at the wondrous birth
All the animals there to see
The babe, the babe in the manager!

(For Eleanor who suggested it)
Tune: O Christmas Tree
O Tinsel
O Tinsel
How lovely is that silver
It hangs from branches down to me
It can be swatted off the tree
If eaten up – does not digest!
O Tinselbutt – you know the rest!
O Tinsel
O Tinsel
Both dogs & cats adore it
But it is dangerous to us
(Decorative poop is not a plus!)
To [...]

That’s Aunt Sarah on the right whom I think about every Halloween as I dawn my green warty nose with the purple glasses and eyebrows. These two sisters came West from Kentucky with their mother in a covered wagon and evidently had a high old time with the rest of the train. [...]

Specifically, this is about getting in and out with your food selections without doing bodily harm to yourself or others. Okay, I’ll admit grocery shopping is my LEAST favorite household chore. Even ironing comes way higher, dishwashing, dusting but preserve me from the market.

That said, I go Every Single Solitary Morning. To [...]

Ordered these two towards the end of April after receiving a catalogue. I do buy online, always before with good results. These smooth-skirted dresses looked marvelous in the catalogue. I figured polished cotton, probably. But they turned out to be India Cloth with that old eighties crinkly-look fabric that nobody can wear unless [...]

Dick & I happily represented our Community Credit Union at the northend community harvest festival at the end of June. The number of tables is growing, offering home-baking, jams, jellies and produce as well as crafts and opportunities such as kid’s camp.

As it was raining, we were in the gym though [...]

I have Dan Lancondeur’s name to credit him with this lovely verse which sits here on my little corner of Canada. Yesterday everyone who came by was hoping the verses would start again soon.

This other was from a renku website. More later.

1) Good friends visit
June & Eleanor Chithalen down to work with the Musical Instrument Lending Library & plan for The Joe Show
2) Big comfy chair (whether or not Monty Python thinks they’re torture

(When the weather outside is ‘entertaining!) A new CHAIR!
3) Birthdays of my husband & son

This is one side of the card I made [...]

So I’ve lost a tooth on the bottom front, which means I only have 12 left while the average mouth has 34. I’m about to see a dentist (yes, I know, I know, procrastinating). So will I have trouble? Do these new dentures usually fit? I plan to google this, of course but we [...]