Ground Hog Day and a Blue Moon
Next week brings Groundhog Day on Friday, February 2 and a lunar eclipse at 6 am on January 31, which is also a blue moon as it is the second full moon of January. We have another blue moon coming in March.
Christmas Shopping in November
Already watching Thanksgiving and Christmas movies. I started off with Charlie Brown's Thanksgving and also watched the best of Saturday Night Live's Best Thanksgiving sketches.
New Ornament
I had a hard time spending that much money on ornaments, but it is so cool, I'm glad I did!
Reindeer Flu
This was written one Christmas while ill with the flu. After the past couple of years, it would be nice to hear about the regular old flu. May this bring a good chuckle to you and may you all have a very Merry/Happy Christmas!
2021
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!"
Parade
Haiku on the parade I went to today on September 9, 2023 for Dairy Days in Platteville, Wisconsin.
East
China nights
Mike's Commandments
The Ten Commandments has been on TV before Palm Sunday for as long as I can remember. My favorite scenes are when Moses is being threatened with stoning when the slaves find out they have to make their bricks without straw and later when he throws the stone tablets with the ten commandments on them and he says, "Those who will not live by the law, shall die by the law!"
Oscar
I try to watch The Ten Commandments and Schindler's List every year around Lent. "Whoever saves one life, save the world entire."
2020 vision
Happy New 2021 dear poets!
Vacation to Maine
I have managed to keep myself busy, but next time I'm flying, the road traffic was too much.
Planets and other stuff
Christmas is over for another year and I got more than I thought I would get.
Last Thanksgiving?
I have to wait and see if we have a Christmas get together. My sister and her kids have boycotted my Mom and Shane and want nothing to do with them. It's a shame because there were 24 people that came over for Christmas back in 2018, 2019 the total was 5.
Thanks Santa
Santa was a big part of my childhood and still is a part of my Christmas celebration. The best depiction of him is in the cartoon Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.
Snow
I love snow, it's so pretty!
Christmas Cards
I try to write something in each one to let them know what I have done this last year. Missing my dead dad, dealing with my mom's dementia and he eventual placement in a nursing home, two movies out, a hockey game tonight, and going to the Mall of America, and the coronavirus.
Holloween Jack
about Holloween here in the Philippines.
Frozen Nights
its like a riddle.
Veterans
I will be voting third party because I don't see either party supporting our veterans with the respect they deserve.
No Place For The Holidays
My mom went in a nursing home, so my favorite three holidays will have no family in them, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, because her house got sold this summer. This is a parody of There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays.
You Are Never Alone!
I composed my latest masterpiece while in the depths of depression. Engulfed in my pain and suffering. Because poets and stuff are made to suffer and feel pain. Otherwise, i am doing fine! Tonight i plan to take out the old binocs and go hang out in a dark parking lot not far from the hotel so i can look at the drunk girls thru their opened curtains, in various stages of undress. Thank you.
Good Drive On Good Friday
I am thankful for these four days off so I can do some fun things.
Thanksgiving Day
Dealing with my family is tough, no one else showed up as they are fed up too.
Christmas Tree Ornament
These are my first ornaments that have sound. I get one every year. In 2012 when I was out of work I found a picture ornament in the trash. I have an ornament from a student when I taught for two years. Some I got at an auction of my parents stuff, they date from the 60s. I have two I made in school around the second grade in 1976.
2024 New Year's Wish
Just came to be as New Yrs Eve 2023 was within reach..and sent it to my all too few nearest and dearest so I can pass on some cheer and as much positivity ...
Money I've Spent on Christmas
Just thinking back to all the Christmas presents I have bought. My favorite ones were for my nephews because I could get creative and have fun with it. I got a game one year where you pull boogers and try to keep the brain from popping out of the head.
A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas
A new poem as has been requested. :-D I'd had this one in the pipeline for quite a while as it was re-told to me recently by a local cowboy who emphatically swore up and down that this actually happened to him out West. . This is my interpretation (which I shared with him and he absolutely loves by the way) and now with you, Dear Reader.
What I Got For Christmas
I have gotten many gifts over the years. I wore my sister's gift of a Galena Golf Club shirt on Christmas since she and her whole family didn't show up for Christmas. It would have added 19 people to the celebration. It was just me and a friend, my mom and brother, and my nephew who wouldn't join us as his dad was mad at him for not getting a job for over five years now.
Planes Trains and Automobiles Retold
This is by far the most popular Thanksgiving movie ever, and really funny.
ALF
I have been watching Chirstmas shows and movies since November 1. I watched Planes Trains and Automobiles first for Thanksgiving.
Egg Dye
I just found out about the easy peel eggs cooking method about two years ago on a youtube clip.
Easter 2024
Scribbled this one to share with the few I usually greet during holidays and might as well post it here as well... for others to enjoy...
Work
The last two lines are from the song which spent it's second week at number one on the billboard charts.
Las Vegas
This is something I have wanted to do since I can remember as a teenager, so I just did it and I feel good about that, and I got paddled at Heart Attack Grill too!
April Fools
April Fools was this past Monday, most of the time I don't pull any jokes on people, just afraid of the payback I guess.
Pet Semetary
Pet Semetary is one of my favorite Halloween movies, South Park did a parody of this movie which is from the book by Stephen King
Being Dead Ain't Easy
Watching a lot of zombie movies and basing this on Return of the Living Dead where the zombies have to eat brains in order to stop feeling pain.
Deprogramming the days of dismay
My disdain for programming. Calendars are just one part of it. Our Native elder's believed e v e r y day to be sacred. Every day is a day to honor, respect, & show love for both parents (not just 1 day of the year; our parents didn't feed us, clothe us, etc. only 1 day of the year). So how is it that after you we leave the nest, we're only expected to show them love and reverence ONE effing day!? Bullsh*t! Definitely want nothing to do with a day that celebrates the massacre of the Pequot tribe (take a wild guess what holiday that is). Aaaaaand I'm not even going to bother listing everything that I've researched on Xmas. ROFL ---- I fast on this day also. Although if you're curious, you may wanna research what the colors red/crimson against the green symbolizes. So aye, traditions and things . . .I prefer to know the origins of anything I celebrate. See the thing about History, is it's typically the story of the victor, not the remnant left over's of massacre trying to pick up the pieces after. Once I've discovered the true origins of something (the energy behind it) if it's founded on the duress of others, that forever alters my perception of that holiday. So I can't fake the funk on "programming". Just feels better all the way around for every day to be sacred, because then the primary focus is gratitude for having another day. Alive is good reason to celebrate, isn't it?
Stuff To Do In October
I miss dressing up as a sleestak from Land of the Lost or Dracula and running from house to house to get candy. My favorite as a kid was the minirolls of Life Savers.
Upon the Air of Halloween
Some ruminations on Halloween.
The Day Before Halloween
I went to main street in Platteville and wrote this as the trick or treaters were getting their candy. The Hulk, a goblin, and a cheerleader just went by.
Eating Thanksgiving Food
I am getting a turkey and a ham at work in about a week, I'll have to save the wishbone. I know that neither Indian or native american is the proper term, but I can't remember what they were called in Massachusetts. I also noticed the butter I buy no longer has an Indian woman on it.
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