Do I have to write about this AGAIN? Jeez…Get a life, world! Well, will this never end? Now the culture minister for Israel is attempting to tell performers what to wear onstage so as not to “offend the sensibilities of some” and if you ask me, it’s a can of worms yet again, just like telling women what to wear ANYWHERE! A...
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Well, it’s the only word I could think of that describes what we do NOT have this summer in our normally productive plot! Tomatoes splitting, zucchine stunted (even these babies have no taste at all after that first surge), black leaves coming out on the tomato plants and midget roses, puny and pathetic but struggling to put out a few blossoms...
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(Long, long ago—COVER YOUR DAUGHTER UP OR LEAVE THE PREMISES! And don’t ask for a recent pic!) Well, to be threatened to be arrested for covering oneself when mama was almost arrested years ago for NOT covering herself could be hilarious, if it were not so pathetic. In another blog I mentioned that FRANCO was in power in Spain, where mama was...
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Unfinished kitties Well, mama’s friend, Anne, sent her an article from the New York Times about visitors viewing an exhibition of unfinished works of art at the Breuer Museum in New York City and their opinions on what they saw and mama was very moved by this, especially the very astute comment by one viewer that all art is unfinished: “An artist is...
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YAY. Maple leaves, forever. Well, after the burkini debaucle, here is really good news from Canada. You’d think that the people who are trying to ban the burkini in France would have better things to do with their time. M. Hollande is not long for his office anyway and he’ll certainly not be re-elected. The wonderful news is that in central...
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Just after I put this pic in my blog, mama told me about THIS!!! HURRAH!!! But it is still not completely thrown out. These babies don’t seem to be going anywhere after having produced ONE zucchine that weighed 3 pounds! Go figure. Well, there are tomatoes and peppers and a few marigolds to attract the bees, but that’s about it. The roses are...
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(Photo from The Guadian–I simply had to use this, so thank you, Guardian) OUTRAGEOUS!!! Shame on France. Shame on the Egalite’ that France professes to have. Shame on the police. Shame on France’s leaders. I am a visitor in France. One might say, if you don’t like what we do here, leave. But there are also many French citizens...
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Mama and papa are really upset about the earthquake in Italy. So many dead and more buried and the little towns around the epicentre, devastated. All of the family are fine, however, and were not near the disaster even though not terribly far away. Very nervous-making to have everything shake in the middle of the night. No blog today, only prayers for...
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YAY! Fish for dinner. “Loulou, that is not YOUR fish, that’s OUR fish; your fish is in a packet and all chopped up nice with gravy and ready to eat. You don’t want to have to remove all the bones, do you? It took me finding a really nice waiter to teach me how to get the filets out of a bony fish, and you don’t have ANY bones in...
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Well, you remember when I took this out in the garden saying hello to our neighbour, M. Riere, and he was just beginning to prepare his soil for spring and as you see, it was a chilly day in the late winter and zilch is growing except for a few leftover little whatever they ares and so I thought I would show you what that same piece of barren turf looks...
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These ladyanthros look as if they have just done some diving–what’s not to like? And whose business is it anyway? La mer, being ‘sea’ in French. I don’t want to get too into politics here, but mama and papa and friends were discussing the burkinis on the beaches and everyone has a very strong opinion pro and con for the...
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Here’s one mama just picked out outside the supermarket. She is incorrigible and will talk to ANYONE with a funny dog. Okay, okay so show us the cutsy pootsy hat again, mama. ANY doggy can wear a hat. At least he chose one for doggies. PAPA PETTING MYA. Is he out of his mind? MYA-SITTING ON MY SCRATCHING MAT!!! A bulldog puppy. Lordy knows what...
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Wow! I’ve never won anything! Well, I am pretty excited about this. Dezi and Raena had a contest for Fly Fishing and I won a Pawlympics medal!!! Even if what I caught was not really a fish (or a fly), but I supposed you could stretch your imagination to think of it as…an eel. A very skinny eel. So THANK YOU, Dezi and Raena Belle. I am so...
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SUCCESS! After that rabbit punch, just watch my dust as I lay waste to my STRING!!! Exhausting....
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IMPERSONATOR, THIEF, THIEF! And he doesn’t even eat the whole tomato, the little s…t. Excuse my French but mama is on a tear… Well, not exactly apprehended. Have you ever tried to catch a Pi bird, much less scare one off? Lotsa luck. They will steal your jewelry right off your fingers if they could! And they do, if you leave it lying...
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Well, a good friend on Maui sent me a raspberry for my tummy and I don’t know what the heck you would want with raspberries on your stomach and all over your fur, especially RED berries! What on earth did she mean? Come to think of it, she sent another raspberry a few blogs ago when I was stretched out, but mama never delivered them to me....
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Well, you know how mama loves shadow pics and this one is of mama’s stepdaughter and son and friends traveling across the great USA on a road trip over the last few weeks. A good pic, no? I’m wondering who is out there on the end of that cliff? Anyway, the photos she has sent are just marvellous and it shows what a great country we have...
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Guess which one this is? and this… …and which one is this–garden or groove? The male squash flower…can you tell? Cherry cluster tomatoes Popeye food! Broccoli greens (Saute’ in olive oil with hot peppers and garlic and toss with pasta…num, num) Tomatoes at our local Sunday market Wood oven-baked bread. Today the seller...
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Paella in the country Well, of course paella does not grow out in the country, even a city kitty knows that, but this paella was put together by a woman who LIVES in the country outside a little town near here called Palau de Vidre (where they blow glass) and it was SERVED out in a country field on a rustic table with fresh tomatoes from the garden and way...
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Well, I’m not sure I put this in before but I don’t think I identified this dude. This is my very much thrice-removed English cousin Milt. Always sending me portraits of himself being cool. A very left-wing politico from way back but now retired and is mostly on the fence (when not at the door). So here are a few of my other family members...
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