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Haiku with One Deep Breath #2 -- One Line Poems
04/01/07

First a note ... If you expected to arrive here and read about Casey and the Magnolia Cafe, something went all sideways and so you can find it on another post of mine: here.

This week the prompt over at One Deep Breath was about writing one line poems. What? A one line poem?

Well, I'd love to explain it to you in detail but besides the fact that I am again posting my poem at the very last second. I'm also striving to accomplish this in about 15 min ... and I'm trying to fix a post gone awry.

go on over to One Deep Breath and read through the references.

My one liner is in keeping with my Texas Spring Fever:

Texas unique thunder storms across rolling prairie hills.
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Last comment made by Marcia (MeeAugraphie) ~ 04/10/07
Magnolia's Cafe, Patterson NY
03/30/07

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Sleeping with Bread -- Springy Short Stack
03/28/07


My Sleeping with Bread refused to be deep and thoughtful this week. I actually wrote it Monday afternoon at the cafe but between obsessing over my baby and being overwhelmed by the blogosphere ... well here we are ... again ... Wednesday.

Blessings:
  • Hints of Spring

  • More birds

  • Little gray squirrels

  • Deer visitations

  • New Friends

  • The New Computer arrived safe and sound! Happy Dance!

Missing:
I started down that slippery slope of homesickness when I was reading my National Geographic Adventure Magazine and noticed an advertisement for TravelTex.com. They proudly proclaim:
Who am I to argue? So I checked them out. It's a fairly decent site actually. The screen saver download was disappointing since they don't use images that are actually large enough for my monitor.

But! I found out that I can control a camera in Texas from New York. It's rather fun. But be patient with it. The camera really does receive every request you make. Every left and right and every zoom. Alright, if you want to play with the camera, click to get in line. Literally. You're looking for a button that says "Get in Line."

Oh and you should also know that by mid-May, I know I'd be ready to come back to my "Southern Fringes of Upstate NY!" Or maybe somewhere even cooler. So obviously I just have a small case of Texas Spring Fever.

The Sleeping with Bread meme is propagated by Mary of Life, the Universe and Everything. It gives us a chance to stop and consider God's blessings and a chance to evaluate what is giving us pause or grief.
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Last comment made by Sarah O ~ 04/07/07
A Modern Child's Handprint
03/28/07

I'm the first to admit that I thought my child's hand print in tempera paint or clay was just too cute. But do you know what happens to those over the years? I'm not going to spell it out for you. I will tell you that it just gets messy -- and other things that could make you cry.

Enter stage center (yes, use the lift and include dry ice effects), one highly creative, exceedingly modern dad -- Mike Leonen. Mike is an award winning writer. He won his awards in journalism. Now he stays home to give time to his sons, write a hysterical blog, and explore his skills in the visual arts. Let me show you his latest ...

Mike Leonen: Something about Parenting

Posted with Mike Leonen's permission.
Please do not use this image without Mike Leonen's consent.

If you have a child, a grandchild, a niece, a nephew, a close friend with a child, ... the possibilities are endless ... you can completely understand the importance of this piece of art work. And I'm sure you can completely understand how much better digital survives compared to clay or tempera!

Mike is offering to create your unique image starting at the most insane price of $18. Trust me when I say this: I would never create it for you for $18 and you know how much I love my readers. MOREOVER, He his giving you the rights to print and reprint the digital file he creates for you. This is a generous licensing agreement. Many artists control the printing process -- and charge dearly for it. So I highly suggest that you get over to Mike's Something about Parenting blog and take advantage of him his incredible offer before he comes to his senses. And while you're there, add Mike to your RSS feed reader.

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Last comment made by Kim ~ 03/29/07
Now! This is what I call Tracking!
03/28/07

A moment by moment update on it's location.



Now ... Poughkeepsie is about 28 miles +/- from me. I'm up. I'm dressed. I'm even going to open my front door today. (OK. You've got me. The door's really gonna be open because the weather is being soooo wonderfully warm. And yes I'm almost always up and dressed by now. Still ... it all fits in nicely with being ultra prepared in case the UPS delivery route makes a sudden deviation straight to my house.)

So, you know, why couldn't UPS at least told me when the package crossed state lines? They don't have to actually rescan each box in a "truck" (aka plane). They could just do a batch update.

I still maintain that UPS can't do that because then they'd have to admit that it's not really the transportation that delays delivery ... it's really about prioritizing. Don't they think we're mature enough to chose a priority vs a methodology?

FedEx Overnight is totally based on priority. Works out pretty well in my mind.

Ok well ... I'm usually on the near tail-end of the deliveries with UPS ... so today I shall be entertaining myself with blogging and cleaning house.

I still have a few things left over from last week that I want to talk about.

Late Monday afternoon I went down to the cafe to just enjoy some time with my thoughts away from a keyboard. I got a few bloggable ideas.

Yesterday I bumped into two things. One, is the very epitome of why I hang out with moms and dads. The other is one reason why I don't miss the tech world. And it explains why I am so strict with my blog.

I'm going to do all the light-weight stuff first because I'm afraid that the last item is going to take up most of a day to compose something mostly coherent.
"Baby" Update
03/27/07

Finally!!



That's about 72 miles away. Now, there's no telling when it will get here tomorrow.

Arrgggg!

Okay I think I might should tell ya'll some of the rest of the story.

Back ... wwway back ... before MailBoxes etc was a household name ... back when the franchise was maybe four or five years old, I worked in one of the stores.

It was fascinating. People thought the counter was the bar and I was the bartender. They'd walk in and put their packages down and then fill me in on alllllllllllll the drama surrounding this package -- and if I was really lucky, they'd also include their life story.

One thing we did on a regular basis was call the customer service people to track down a package. It was just a regular love-fest. Not.

So fast forward about fifteen years and what did my Daughter V do for about 1.5 yrs? She worked at a FedEx/Kinko's. She did everything I did at MBE in a whole new modern way.

Guess what ... nothing's really changed as far as people go. One small advantage she had: She could at least try to track a package by looking it up online. 'Cause that love-fest thing with customer service ... that didn't change either.

And we're both laughing about my frustration about the (lack of) tracking re my baby. Just because you know how the system works doesn't take away anxiety.

Next stage: Will it be in one working piece if it does actually make it to my door?

After all ... to quote my former employer ... "They say there's not a war on but I'd never know it by the shape these boxes arrive in."
Where IS my NEW Baby?!
03/26/07

Ok ... so ... a few of you may have noticed that ...

  • I have a daughter who lives in Portland.

  • She's seriously thinking of popping down to Dallas, TX for a long weekend in April.

  • Nothing hugely urgent -- just her haircut is six months old and there's this once-a-year nationally-top-ranked art show ...

  • This kind of chatter use to be reserved for the likes of the Kennedys and the Rockefellers.

So obviously air travel has come a very long way. VERY! We live in a new world. Really.

So but for some reason ... UPS wants us all to believe that they still actually put all of those "ground shipments" into their little brown trucks and actually Drive them across country ... from say ... Colorado to New York.

Personally I don't believe this. I have proof, too.



This is a screen shot of the tracking of my NEW computer from Colorado to New York. First, as we've established ... I don't think it's in a little brown truck somewhere. Nope. Because if it were ... they could at least have the decency to stop and scan the box and transmit it's new location ... like ... is it safe to assume that it's made it across the flatlands of Kansas ... or did the driver take the scenic route through the southern edge of Kansas? No. They can't stop and scan the package and let me know if it could be in, oh say, Indiana, visiting my friend Laurie. No. They can't tell me any of this.

Why? (well aside from the very high unlikelihood that my friend would know a UPS driver who would know that she's my friend and that that box is my new baby ...) ... They cannot scan the box and give me a location update because the box is not in a truck. Shipping it by truck from Colorado to New York would be hugely inefficient. It would NOT fit into the new world.

So ... you see ... obviously ... there's a plot.
  • It boarded an airplane.

  • My new computer is sitting down in NYC right this minute in a warehouse.

  • They can't scan it and provide me with an update on it's current location because then I would expect delivery today.

  • This is all about their convenience.

Look, don't expect logical from me. They aren't telling me where my new baby is. For four six days all I've known is that it's left it's originating city in Colorado ... well really do I even know that? What exactly does "Departure Scan" really mean?

My nerves are wearing thin.
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Last comment made by Mike ~ 03/27/07
The Wikipedia Time Machine Meme
03/25/07

Well, I think we can pretty well establish that I have a proven record of struggling to remain inside the boundaries of any meme's original scope and intent. Mary of Life, Universe and Everything tagged me for a fairly harmless looking little meme. The idea is ...

1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday Month and day only.
2. List 3 Events that occurred that day.
3. List 2 important Birth days.
4. List 1 Death.
5. List a Holiday or Observance. (if any)
6. Tag 5 other bloggers.
I came close to staying within the boundaries. As to #6, I'm tired from all the exploring I did when I fell head over heals into this little exercise. It was amusing, informative, and ... a little disheartening to discover that only movie stars and musicians were born after say 1945-ish. Oh, yeah, right, as I was saying ... I'm worn out from goofing off with this ... so ya'll talk amongst yourselves, compare notes, and tag someone else to do the meme. Then come back and let me know "who, what, when, where ...." If you want, you can even throw in "why."

For my birthday: July 3

EventsBirths
  • 1567 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (d.1635)[Loved to do small things on his birthday ... like establish cities in out of the way places ... like Canada.]
  • 1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d.1815) "... was a Boston-born American artist of the colonial period, famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial New England, particularly men and women of the middle class. His portraits were innovative in that they tended to portray their subjects with artifacts that were indicative of their lives." [Yeah ... but when the going got tough ... he took off for England.]
  • 1958 - Aaron Tippin, American [country] singer [I do not mind sharing my bday with him.]
Death
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b.1675) "As a
mathematician, his most noted contribution is his proposal for the use of the symbol π (the Greek letter pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He became a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley. In 1712, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was later its Vice-President." [The man knew how to collect friends! Can you imagine bumping into the three of them at the local coffee shop?]

Holiday / Observance
July 3 is the official first day of the Dog Days of Summer. And my mom will be the first to vouch for the truth of this statement. She does not have fond memories of dealing with a first new baby in the heat.


For my mother's birthday: March 23

EventsBirths
  • 1699 - John Bartram, American botanist (d.1777)
  • 1924 - Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d.1980)
  • 1941 - Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author [My kids will remember The Read-Aloud Handbook and now out is The New Read-Aloud Handbook. I can say without hesitation Jim Trelease's book contributed to my children's great love of books. It is a HUGE MUST GET BOOK if you have children ... or grandchildren ... or know children ... or know anyone who has children ...]
Death
1982 - Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient (b.1921)

Holidays
I was totally dissatisfied with the holidays listed on Wikipedia so, with very little effort, I discovered that March 23 is both "Liberty Day" (in honor of the 1775 speech by Mr. Henry) and it is "Near Miss Day." You can read "Did the Earth almost get hit by an asteroid on March 23, 1989?" at The Astronomy Cafe
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Last comment made by Darren ~ 03/26/07
Women are Fantastic Friday #3 -- Donna "One More Day"
03/24/07

The Women are Fantastic Friday meme is curated by Sophie, of A Hole in the Fence. It gives us a chance to tell about the women in our lives who are encouraging us to have a "We Can Do It" attitude. Today I am telling the story of "Donna" and how she lived "one more day" for over ten years.

When I met Donna, it had been going on for eight years. She and I got to know each other one spring in Texas on a lake. They bought a little piece of property right outside the campground. Then she left to spend the summer away from the heat in the north.

Donna and her husband returned in the fall. And the brief respite from the year before was done. Her first visit with her doctor confirmed the worst. She had yet another brain tumor. So she began her ninth year since the first tumor with yet another round of meds and chemo and other forms of torture.

The church around the corner from the campground prayed her through just as they had year after year. They also prayed for Donna's daughters and always managed to send them some support as well.

Donna's daughters were missionaries in Africa. Their hearts were there with the people and their husbands and children. Donna's daughters worried over their mom and Donna worried over her daughters and grandchildren. But none of their prayers requested an easier way -- just another day.

In an amazing grace, the tumor receded. Donna and her husband managed another summer northern migration and found a driver to bring them back for the fall and winter and early spring in Texas.

When Donna returned, it was fairly clear. Tumors again. We were slowly losing Donna in her mind. Some days she was clear. Some days she was angry. Some days she was distant. And the little church around the corner prayed her through. And she was granted another day and one more visit with one of her daughters.

We left and went our ways. But we heard this and we heard that. Donna improved, she waned. She stuck it out. I know she reached the ten year anniversary in her battle and that she got to spend time with her other daughter and her family when they had some "leave time."

And then ... I lost track ... so you know how in my imagination my first grade teacher is still living -- on the coast of Washington, on an island, watching the seasons change? Well, I have an imagined story for Donna as well.

One day she and her husband found a little place where the summers weren't too hot and the winters weren't too cold. They stopped migrating to avoid the extremes. Donna had her mother's furniture removed from storage and sent to her. Donna's grandchildren came back to the states and lived with them and went to a nearby college.
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Last comment made by Lulu ~ 03/27/07
Haiku with One Deep Breath #1
03/24/07

The moods of poetry came and go with me. So at daisy's suggestion I am taking advantage of the mood while it's with me.

This is the very last moment for the prompt: Breath/Breathing

Spring's first morning breath
watching deer pond -- one, two, three
and then, four, five! Grace!


From my Picasa Web Album: deer


(I've managed to put two images into the album so far. I want to add a few more during the week ... so feel free to ck back ... and ask for the rest if I still haven't put them up.)

The first morning of spring they showed up after being MIA all winter ... while I was just watching the pond and enjoying my coffee. I just about fell over everything that was between me and my camera.

Shelbie dog could smell them and she was busy sniffing the air and sniffing all around the door.

Of course, the images capture none of our excitement really and only one of the deer wasn't camera shy.

Tomorrow (Sunday) you can pick up the haiku prompt for this week from Susan and Jennifer at One Deep Breath.
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Last comment made by DaughterV ~ 03/24/07
A Book Reading Meme
03/24/07

Terri of Tip of the Iceberg invited me to play with this meme. I'm going to do it this way ... If you like the meme ... go for it. I'd love to know what you do with it.

Directions: "Look at the list below: Bold the books you've read; Italicize the books you want to read; and leave the formatting alone for the ones you aren't interested in."

Personally, I had fun with it ... and, of course, I put my own twist on it. Enjoy!

(oops forgot to actually publish this last night!)

1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) -- Plus about five in the original series.
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) -- Read it while I had a stomach virus ... gave me bad dreams.
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) -- plus Little Men, Jo's Boys, Eight Cousin's, and Rose in Bloom.
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) -- Actually listened to book on tape.
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Hmm seems I'm not much into the books listed here. ... Let's try this ...

Dorthy Sayers
  • Clouds of Witness
  • Strong Poison
  • Have His Carcase
  • Murder Must Advertise (1933)
  • The Nine Tailors (1934)
  • Gaudy Night (1935)
  • Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
  • The Mind of the Maker (1941)
C S Lewis
  • Prince Caspian (1951)
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
  • The Silver Chair (1953)
  • The Horse and His Boy (1954)
  • The Magician's Nephew (1955)
  • The Last Battle (1956)
  • Till We Have Faces (1956)
  • Surprised by Joy
  • Mere Christianity
  • A Grief Observed
Shakespeare (without scholastic demands & tortures)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • As You Like It
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Sonnets from the Portuguese
  • Aurora Leigh And Other Poems
Sir Author Conan Doyle
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892)
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904)
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Last comment made by Darren ~ 03/26/07
Thursday Thirteen #12
03/23/07

As you will discover over the next few days ... I'm kind of sort of homesick ... as in I'd love to go back to North and East Texas for a little Spring visit.

If anyone is in the vicinity of the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival on April 19-22, please check out these thirteen artists for me. I have thirteen photographers to put up next week for you to check out.

If you are not going to be in the vicinity, you should check these artists out anyway. Many have web sites listed where you can go purchase their items without attending (like me!).

If you aren't familiar with the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival, it is a juried event that has national and international artists competing for the opportunity to show (sell). Here, let me just do some Texas style bragging...
Mark your calendar now for the 2007 show, scheduled for April 19 - 22, 2007 here in beautiful Fort Worth, TX. Also, note the Harris List has just released their rankings for 2006, and we're proud to once again rank as the #1 Fine Art and Fine Craft Fair in Texas, #5 in the midwest and #9 in the country! Also, the Art Fair SourceBook has just announced their rankings, and have rated us #10 in the country. Finally, for the first time, we have been listed in the Top Show List of the Harris List of the Nation's Best Arts and Craft Shows, ranking #7 Fine Arts and Craft Show in the Nation.
(Retrieved from a Google cache or their home page earlier in the year. --Thank You Google!)

So ... without further ado I present


Thirteen Artists I Want to See at
The Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival

Louise Valentine & Brian Provencher
Booth: 608; Category: Fiber

Joseph Becker
Booth: 437; Category: Glass

Ken Hanson & Ingrid Hanson
Booth: 724; Category: Glass

Stephen Sebastian
Booth: 330; Category: Graphics and Printmaking
Booth: 328; Category: Painting

Mary Mark & David L Johnson
Booth: 0(?); Category: Graphics and Printmaking

Nancilee Woodyard
Booth: 406; Category: Jewelry

Victoria Varga & Daniel Brouder
Booth: 610; Category: Jewelry

Douglas Wunder
Booth: 803; Category: Jewelry

Rick Van Ness & Rebekka Van Ness
Booth: 320; Category: Mixed Media

Jill Flinn
Booth: 426; Category: Mixed Media

Annette Schiffmann
Booth: 459; Category: Mixed Media

Bell Barr & Frank Barr
Booth: 806; Category: Mixed Media

Lewis Tardy
Booth: 719; Category: Sculpture

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What I mean is ... Please spell it out for us all that you are participating in Thursday Thirteen and leave your link.

And don't be bashful if it's already Friday or Saturday ... leave me a note anyway and I'll come visit ... especially since I do most of my Thursday Thirteen visiting on Friday since many of you post to your blog and my blog after I'm asleep for the day anyway :~)

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