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ANIMAL CAROL OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS

Rose — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:12:06 +0000

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!

O TINSELBUTT (cat & dog carol)

Rose — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:08:48 +0000

(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 keep us safe, leave in the store
No Tinselbutt forevermore!

THE ORIGINAL WITCH MASK – WAS MY GREAT AUNT SARAH THE MODEL??

Rose — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:30:16 +0000

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. This is just my picture of a photograph so probably pretty fuzzy but perhaps you can see what it is that makes me suspicious.

Here’s the photo from a distance so you can see dresses & body posture. Witchy?
As far as I know, her nose, though long and warty, was never green.

GOING MAD IN THE SUPERMARKET

Rose — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:26:39 +0000

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 get the daily papers. Yes, even with this, subscriptions are more trouble. Don’t get me started on the pitfalls of home delivery. Sigh. I wouldn’t mind if it was just grabbing the papers and paying but Nooooo, there’s more hurdles than an Olympic track meet ahead.
First off, if you don’t hit the store prior to 7:25 AM, you’re in for a wait.
That’s the clock above the checkout on my supermarket wall. No, they don’t have self-scan though I hear moans from there too when I’m in stores that do. This store is only 2 blocks away so it’s my blogspot. At 7:25 in the morning, why are there customers shopping for their winter groceries, carts filled to the brim?? Here’s the paper kiosk, right by the checkout counters. Seems a simple matter to grab the 6 dailies and hit the lone clerk who has been up all night manning the till. Not so fast.

The clerks at this hour, have been up all night and what dandies they are. Some of the nicest and most genuine people on the planet. Tired, ready to go home, hardworking. I am especially fond of Heather, a woman of vast experience with a caring attitude who would’ve made a great nurse or member of parliament. No matter if her feet hurt (she never says), how I love getting her in the AM.

Management could easily staff a good sitcom. In fact, this particular supermarket seems to be in one, most times.All the supervisors and management speak irony as though they had invented it. Maybe dealing with people and their food all day does something particular to the psyche.

There’s Lu, who has been there forever, the elder stateswoman, who runs the lottery ticket kiosk AND the 8 items or less with wisdom and a wry sense of humour. Not an all nighter but early, especially weekend mornings, she would’ve been in her element running an efficient library where everything went smooth as fresh yogurt but still with every regard for the lumpish customer
More to come on the customers.

RETURNING MY ADDED TOUCH SUMMER DRESSES- BEAUTIFUL BUT LATE & WRONG SIZE

Rose — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:12:26 +0000

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 they’re rail thin. You can iron it out, thank heavens!
Still, the pattern is so beautiful, I decided to just exchange them for two sizes smaller. The size wasn’t their fault, although I’ve never seen a 3x run that big. The dresses arrived towards the end of the second week in July. I will have to put pockets in the smaller size when they arrive and fingers crossed it won’t be cold by then. As they took over 2 months to arrive, we’re talking September so I probably won’t truly enjoy them till next year this time.
Here they are, complete with paperwork, ready to go back. You can see the colours are bright

Here’s the parcel, on its way to the post office and then, evidently, to Ohio, though there seemed to be two different return addresses. This one had a sticky back.

And HERE’S the post office receipt, showing I sent them back air mail at $15.36 at my expense, (though I DO hope not).

Added Touch on paper and by phone seem pleasant to deal with and their return policy is 60 days which seems generous. However, I wouldn’t wear a dress I didn’t intend to keep and looked like a pup tent on me.
Sending them this e-mail with my cheery hopes to yet wear them this summer, as I am greeting customers sitting outside at a table, handing out lemonade and balloons. We shall see.
In the great scheme of the universe, this probably doesn’t loook important. But my anticipation of them lasted all throughout a cold rainy April, May and June, pinning up the picture of them to keep me going. So the reality was a bit of a let-down. Let’s hope I can post a picture with me in them before the snow comes.

KINGSTON’S COMMUNITY HARVEST FESTIVAL

Rose — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:34:44 +0000

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 the previous week the market had been in the large parking lot of the Wally Elmer Centre.

We talked to various individuals. These two, Ivan and Jody, told us after some conversation, that they intended to come down and join up.
CKWS was present along with many of our members, some running tables like the Main Street Market who brought all their locally-grown produce by bike cart:

Leadership of the Market Project include familiar faces such as Tara Kainer, a member of many volunteer organizations with credit union accounts,
and Marijana Matovic
Rose DeShaw (Dick)

FORMER PRISON WORKERS ENJOY RETIREMENT

Rose — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:50:13 +0000

2 New Renku-Haiku on a bright spring morning in May

Rose — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:24:44 +0000

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.

4 GOOD THINGS ABOUT MARCH

Rose — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:01:50 +0000

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 my husband

This is the other side of the card. I haven’t given it to him yet but hiding it while working on it has been extemely tricky in our small living space. Finally I told him I was working on a card for someone at the pool.
4) Comfy clothes that make you feel good when you wear them – this is the knitted poncho I wear over almost everything – at least, this is the fabric of several yarns – cobalt blue, reddish purple, orangey-gold and petunia pink

These are all colours I wear a LOT! Especially in a cold March. True, all of these 4 things could be about other times of the year, but they are especially welcome in March.

THINKING ABOUT FULL DENTURES

Rose — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:34:56 +0000

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 DO have dental insurance (pays half). Write and tell me what you think.