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A Man with One of Those Faces

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When they were kids Barry Dodds had told him that when he'd knocked his grada's body over at the wake, it was like being buied under a dozen frozen turkeys.  Mind you, he had also told Paul that groping a woman's breast felt like squeezing a roast chicken.  Come to think of it, that kid had a werd obsession with poultry. Quick paced. Economical. Cinematic. Very, very funny.   Paul has "one of those faces", the kind of face that everybody recognizes as someone they know/knew.  He's doing his best to scam his deceased Aunt so her estate will continue to give him a very meager allowance.  He cannnot have a job.  He cannot be in trouble with the law.  He has to do 6 hours a week in volunteer work.  Mess up and all the money that remains goes to a home for wayward donkeys.  I have not actually ruined anything for you here.  This is funny, yes, but it is just a tiny bit of backstory.  You WILL still enjoy the book - and we can all ho...
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You make me feel like a natural Thursday

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Without a doubt, my mother is rolling in her grave looking at the way her yard is walking stepwise away from stability, from civilization, from uniform greenness.  What can I say? I don't like pesticides and my heart gladdens at the sight of dandelions - whether in cheerful yellow bloom or wistfull, wishfull, ephemera.  Today- Spring on Harrison - looks at the chaos I've wrought.  Smile.
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Wednesday ZOOOOOP!

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 I'm thinking if I set myself up with a plan for each day - save maybe Saturday and Sunday when I'm less likely to have time to myself - I'll be more successful with sticking with this project.  So, Wednesday Zoop - which might refer to child or a recipe.  The inspiration for this: Eric Carle's book "Today is Monday". Zupe: Christmas open house in history museum 2026.  While you might not recognize the whiskery face, the medical glove hands should be a dead giveaway.  
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Tuesday Travels

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 As my travels this year have been confined to tutoring appointments, speech therapy, and a botched up bird buy, I shall begin this series going backward in my photo roll until I hit something fun...which takes us all the back to October. Stillwater Prairie Reserve.  I needed a fall print to hang on the wall.  This is what I chose.  I like the texture of the bridge floor and the dramatic vanishing point.  The leaves invite you to walk across.  And what a blue sky!  Wish you were here.
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Another gardening win

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Last spring I experimented with growing ginger.  Once again I had a hunk of ginger that was starting to sprout - so I placed it in a moist environment and then, later, planted it.  It was not an attractive plant- splindly, ragged-  until summer came and I moved it outside where it received much more light.  Over the course of the winter, once again in our dim house, the stems dried up, the leaves fell off, the plants died.  Last week I took the pot out to the flower bed, turned it upside down, and removed the soil and roots solid.  Washing, scraping with my finer, rinsing, soaking. My harvest, above.  It is nothing if not horrific.  I'm waiting for it to skitter away into a dark corner.  Anyone hungry?
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Portrait Monday - "self-knee"

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  I look a lot hipper here than I actually am.  That torn knee?  The pants are just worn out.  After I became a mother, I had trouble keeping the knees in my jeans.  They make boy pants with padded, extra-strong knees, but not mom-jeans.  I try to pass this off as stylish- though anyone who watches as I invariably stick my toes through this hole when trying to don my pants knows better.  
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IRONY - aka Rae

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  A year ago, I bought Zupe a parakeet, Po, named for the pilot in the final trilogy of  Star War  films.  I searched and found! someone hand-raising babies and we drove across the state to the farrrr North-East corner to pick him up.  Would have been helpful if the breeder had shared that he was very, very shy.  Zupe - not shy.  Not a good combination.  So, Po has not bonded with Zupe (or me) and I have gotten a bit over his unrelenting expression of affection for his mirrors. It has moved from PG to pretty hard R around here. My solution - he needed a buddy. My thought was to get a second male bird.  I did not want babies - mostly because I was horrified at having an egg-bound female.  (I do not know that this is a common problem in the species- it is just one of my medical nightmares.  See also IMHA, blocked tomcats, HBC.)  But- since I was getting a near baby, I worried, "What if Po became aggressive to him?"  (Finn,...
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