Oh, boy, horsies in our marketplace! Santa brought ponies to our little village to give rides to the young ones, but there were two big horses for adults, too. So sweet to watch, but our market place had a slight perfume of manure the next morning, haha. Mama loves the smell of horsies so it was nice for her. Earthy, I would say… And here’s...
Read MoreTuesday Tickle
So comfy in my cloud…. 🐶🐶🐶 Well, this made us SOOOO happy. Just imagine what wonderful people you would meet doing this! And we just read another uplifting story about the man who is about to finish in 2026 his years of walking around the WORLD, and he says that 99% of the people he met in all the countries he walked through were lovely, caring human...
Read MoreHaiku Monday Challenge
I froze the moment, mama. I froze the momen… Mama loves to make up haikus or sing them and she found this one hilarious: To freeze the moment / In seventeen syllables / Is very diffic John Cooper Clarke Have you ever written a haiku? Let’s share them and have some fun. Good for the brain for sure. See below ours: Here is ours today. Read it at...
Read MoreSneaky Sunday
My sneaky selfie…. I knew there were lots of lemons, mama, but it’s pretty hard to communicate properly from here, haha…. Well, now that mama can SEE without her cataracts, she sees that there are a gazillion lemons on our tree, just about ready for the neighbors in January or February and then we will have to prune a bit. She thought...
Read MoreSat Cat Update on Rasta
Here’s my Dreaming effect from Lunapics…I find Rasta a bit dreamy, haha. ***** Well, here’s the news on Rasta. That kitty looks ten times better after his flea pipette between the ears! He’s not scratching, his fur is lovely, and he’s gaining a bit of weight, which is good for his 17-year-old thin-ish bod. At least he looks...
Read MoreSaturday Selfie on Schist
Came down yesterday while the sun was warming our stepping stones… Mama loved this saying so just put it in today for us to think about. Ms Dickinson was such a wonderful writer and thinker, non? How are your holidays going? Are you happy or in the doldrums of a year ending? Have you any special foods you are making, because mama wants to...
Read MoreFillin’ Friday
Feeling holiday-ish up here… 1. The easiest one on my Christmas shopping list to buy for is __just about any grandchild, who all help by saying what they need! 2. The toughest one in my Christmas shopping list to buy for is __my honey because at this time of life, he has just about everything! 3. MAMA trie to spread Christmas cheer by __making...
Read MoreMerci, Thursday
This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. Maya Angelou And oh, what a moon last night! Mama finally put up our little tree…well, it was already up, but THEY put it in the house and mama suffocated trimmed it with old and wonderful ornament. But many of our decorations do not fit on a tiny tree, alas. Mama’s brother had a company...
Read MoreShhh….
I’m having a happy dream… (PS Tomorrow night is the last full moon of this year and the biggest it will ever look, THEY tell me. Hope for no clouds and happy moonbeams to you....
Read MoreTuesday Tickles
WHERE IS MY NAPKIN, MAMA? ***** Mama has just decided to stick with Tuesday Tickles to bring some fun into our Tuesday blog (plus it’s so convenient to know what one is doing instead of having to think something up each time haha, n’est-ce pas?) so with that in mind, here goes… Once long ago in Berkeley (!) mama had friends to...
Read MoreMonday Meditations
Well, on this chlly day I am NOT walking away from my snuggle cloud… You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from. Joan Didion Mama loved this because she loves change and chance…hey, nice names for kitties, no? Well, no! Who wants to be called Change or Chance, duh? But we do love Ovid’s saying, too: Chance is always...
Read MoreWell, here’s our Saturday shortened kitty, because mama did not do well with that pic clicker but what the heck. I look like the letter L, for Loulou, haha. Have a lovely Saturday and we’ll be back tomorrow with a Sunday selfie…. We think. Haha here’s the other half of me!...
Read MoreFilling Ins
Pondering my wish list to Santa…sort of. This is called sleep yoga by some. 🎄 🎄 🎄 1. My Christmas tree goes up on __Dec.1st. 2. I am thankful for __a little live tree we have used for 3 years, __that it is still alive (!) and __really tiny ornaments to fit itm haha_. 3. I __hope to be organized HAHA by the time December rolls around. 4. I’ll be...
Read MoreTalkin’ Turkey
While I clean up for today’s events, I will share with you our annual Turkey Video for your morning giggle. So thankful for humor in these somber days. So thankful for you and you and you and your spirit and friendship and often guidance during the rough straits we are all trying to navigate as carefully as possible. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO...
Read MoreWordless, Sort Of…
Wow, supervising those puddings was WORK! And so today, well, today we are wordless EXCEPT for this: Suzanne’s Plum Pudding 1 ½ cups dried apricots, chopped semi fine 1 cup dates or figs, chopped semi fine 1 cup dried prunes, chopped semi fine 1 cups golden raisins, sprinkled with a little brandy or rum 1 cup black raisins, sprinkled with a little...
Read MoreTuesday Tickles
LOVED Jimmy Carter’s, haha! A few giggles for your Tuesday tickles. So cold here, even my cloud is a bit frosty around the edges! Well, not my cloud exactly but someone’s… ***** No news except that mama made her plum puddings last night and today they’ll be doused with Cognac and wrapped in cheesecloth, then plastic wrap and frozen...
Read MoreMONDAY Talk
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are. 🌺🌺🌺 Ain’t that the truth sometimes? Smell the flowers… More funnies. Okay, okay, mama will stop! MAMA, cut it out!! ***** I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. I was wondering why the...
Read MoreMonday Must-Says
I’m pondering that and oui, it’s the truth especially right now! 🐈⬛🐈😸 It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. “No Name in the Street” James Baldwin Ring any bells?...
Read MoreSweet Sunday
Maybe a tummy-tickle is in order… 😻😻 😻 Well, the wind has calmed down and the Sunday open market will be open without being blown all over the place as it sometimes is, and the nice Italian couple will have all sorts of ravioli to take home and cook, and they’ll have these crisp thingies (have to get the name later today!) that are addicting...
Read MoreSaturday Matterday
I was feeling sort of shivery this morn because even up here it’s brrrr winter time! ❄️❄️❄️ Bonjour, and you know what matters to ME? That when a president calls for the EXECUTION of certain Democratic politicians he does not like, he should be tried and imprisoned for treason. But what matters most is you, dear bloggers and amazing writers and...
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