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Friends Aren’t Perfect

Friends Aren’t Perfect

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* My new Patrice has completed her emergence from her mail-order plastic bag cocoon….. She and I have to circle each other for awhile…size each other up…until we establish a comfortable homeostasis….. …..(those of you who know stiff new denim…know what I mean)….. She arrived in our mailbox after the recent Black Friday Sale…she came in a heavy duty manila envelope and an internal plastic bag….. She was predictably everything I wanted and expected……..

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The Metamorphosis Of Patrice

The Metamorphosis Of Patrice

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s not really like the progression from a cocoon to a butterfly….. I don’t think a well-aged Patrice could ever be confused with a lilting fluttery butterfly….. It’s not really anything as sophisticated as Kafka…or Pygmalion…or Midas….. …..nothing that high-brow or sophisticated….. But it’s a metamorphosis none the less….. The migratory patterns from one Patrice to another…while constant and inevitable…becomes painfully evident and totally unavoidable….. Patrice’s devolution has been coming on for awhile…and…

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***The Eve Of The Ween***

***The Eve Of The Ween***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I love this Holiday….. *****(Originally It Was A Carved Jack o’ Lantern Turnip)***** …..it’s an excuse to eat candy…but really…who needs an excuse to eat those bite-sized wonders?….. …..or an excuse to dress strangely…(my older daughter looked in my closet and said my wardrobe was still dated from the ’60’s and ’70’s)….. …..Don’t Touch My Fringe and Embroidered Denim or my Tie-Dye!….. And Doc Martens are time-less…. …..(a costume to some…can be someone…

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~~~Ants And Pants~~~

~~~Ants And Pants~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* More accurately….. Spiders in Patrice….. …..*****(What’s A “Patrice” Again?)*****….. I’m surprised I can write about this so soon after the event….. It still gives me terminal Willies just re-thinking it….. *****…..but no spiders were harmed in the production of this story…..***** …..(However…I did almost un-do all of my previous cardiac ablations)….. You see…I was innocently trying to clear out (by hand) excessive clumps of spider webs in the chicken coop….. The webs down…

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*Where’s the Cold Front?*

*Where’s the Cold Front?*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Another Cold Front WAS PROMISED… ~~~Tampa, FL ~~~As of 7:48 AM EDT ~~~83F° ~~~Feels like 95F° ~~~H: 85F° ~~~L: 80F° __________________________________ This was the weather report that flashed across my computer screen this morning….. Geez!  Louise!….. How can that happen…..(?) …..where you get an actual registered temperature of 83F………but it “feels like” 95F?…..(?) …..(and it DOES feel like 95F+)….. It’s like you’re wading through a micro-waved/humid bowl of chunky soup….. I had gotten…

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C.E.U.’s

C.E.U.’s

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** C.E.U.’s….. All Hail the Necessary…the Postponed…the Expensive…the Required….. ………….Continuing Educational Units…………. …..TA!…DA!….. You may know what I mean….. And those of you who are blissfully unaware….. …..I envy you….. Well…the long and the short of it is…they’re Due….. …..(you have to “collect” them by attending educational seminars…workshops…and conferences—in order to maintain your professional licenses)….. When you’ve been doing something for as long as I have…(i.e. you’re old)….. …..you see patterns…(or sometimes…complications there of)……..

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*Soporifical*

*Soporifical*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I’m exhausted….. …..tryptophan…it can really put a kink in post-feast clean-up….. *****(Thanksgiving Dinner Makes You Sleepy)***** All I wanted to do after eating…was curl-up with the dirty dishes  &  left-overs and….. ………….snoooooooze…………. Just wrap me in some aluminum foil and plastic wrap alongside the green bean casserole and the turkey carcass and let me nap….. …..stick a holiday-themed/paper napkin underneath my drools  &  snores…ignore the sweet potato skin that’s stuck to my forehead……..

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The Tradition Of The Overalls

The Tradition Of The Overalls

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …..(Overalls)….. I call mine Patrice….. She’s been a good friend to me over the years…she’s reticent…yet opinionated….. We’ve had many hours of verbal-jousting…(it worries my family and keeps my neighbors at a distance)….. …..(Overalls…over the years)….. All my Patrices are friends…some have paint splattered on them from past projects…others have identifying tears from wire/or nails/or animals…some with un-identifiable stains (that are better left that way)….. …..(Why Wear Overalls?)…. I know when it’s time…

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~~~We’ve Been Dissed~~~

~~~We’ve Been Dissed~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** ***Is “Diss” Really A Word?*** If it is…..we’ve been dissed by Danny….. ***The Conjugation Of The Verb “To Diss”*** …..by “we”…..I mean Patrice and me….. …..(***What’s A Patrice You Ask?***)….. Danny and my younger daughter are in BIG trouble….. You see…..it’s summer….. The Heat is on HI….. I’d love to have the thermostat for the air conditioner set on “frigid”….. I’d love to be on the verge of chilly while in the house…..I…

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The Perfect Pocket Holster

The Perfect Pocket Holster

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** As I mentioned in the previous post…..arthritis has settled into my life….. I think the calcification is what’s holding me together….. Gravity is having its effect…..EVERYTHING is heading south….. …..so what….. I’ll just make accommodations….. Am I going to move to a townhouse with a maintenance fee and perfect edging?….. …..I don’t think so….. Am I going to stop riding and not own horses?…..and no foals?….. …..I don’t think so….. Am I going…

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