Eric Alders Monday Photo Prompt 10-29-12

Photo by Eric Alder of Bifocalunivision

Delicious water 

Precious water spilling over 

Conserve with care

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Who needs an umbrella?

Lusty abandon

Rain never washed away our passion

I remember

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Image provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpietales

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Sorry Tess.....we cannot make it....

Our RSVP

No Willow Manor Ball for us as we're off

to sunny and warm Zihuatanejo...adios!

Have fun everyone!

Yep- flying steerage as always....

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Eric Alders Monday Photo Prompt 10-22-2012

photo by Eric Alder of Bifocalunivision

                 

BODACIOUS

        ORANGE

                           OGRES !!!

Every Monday Eric Alder posts one of his fine photos
and invites all of us to write whatever strikes us-
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Magpie Tales The Great Seal

Image provided by Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales

 

A dollar changes hands often in a day

Some hands will swiftly pay to play

Others gently finger and carefully pay

Not knowing what might happen later in the day  

All the while when that dollar is spent

None of us truly realize what it represents

An Approval of a New Order of the Ages

A foundation for a country to be built in stages

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Eric Alder's Monday Photo Prompt 10-15-2012

Photo by Eric Alder of Bifocalunivision

Hah!

The boss has left the office

Turn on the snappy tunes

Get your loafers off yer desk

No need to be so cautious!

Our evening shift is finally done

No more program errors to fix

Let those happy feet be dancin'

The long weekend has begun!

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MIdnight Smackrel - Magpie #139

Midnight Snack, 1984, by Curtis Wilson Cost

Silently stepping down the back stairs

Carefully on the side of the treads

No little squeaks to awaken the bears 

Let alone my brothers-those sleepy heads 

I loved those quiet times by myself

Just me and the sleeping house

I'd curl up with cookies and a book

Happy and content as a little mouse.

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Eric Alders Monday Photo Prompt 10-8-2012

 Photo by Eric Alder of Bifocalunivision

Pepsi Coke Vernors

They're all the same

Full of syrupy sugar

Corn's the game

Get the kids hooked

They should be ashamed

Thirty-two cheap ounces

And no one's to blame?

Meanwhile at the pump

We're just the same

Guzzling corn

Called by another name.

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MagpieTales #138

Sick Woman by Jan Steen

You are working too hard the doctor said

It's no wonder you have such a pain in your head

No more countless cups of coffee for you

And staying up all night- well that's completely through

You may think that the lute is a fine career

But you would be better off working for Vermeer

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who provides a new image as a writing challenge for us

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A Story of Childhood and Parenting

Pyromania
Growing up with three brothers introduced me to
 the perils of boys with matches.
One brother who shall remain nameless almost burned our house down.
So.....years later when I had two young sons and discovered the
youngest (who was about 3 years old at the time) playing with matches
I immediately sat down with him and explained the dangers of fire.
I thought I had made it very clear and I put the matches up very high.
A few days later my monkey son managed to climb up very high to get
to the matches and I caught him once again playing with matches.
"Holy smokes- how am I going to get him to not do this?"
I asked him what his favorite toy was and he told me it was
the Fischer Price School Bus.
I told him to bring it downstairs to the living room.
I prepared a fire in the fireplace and told him that since he
thought it was fun to play with fire I would show him exactly
how awful fire can be. I then told him to put the bus in the fireplace
and handed him the matches and told him to light the fire.
Right at that very moment his older brother came home from school
and said "My Bus!!!"
The fire was never lit and my 3 year old never to my knowledge
ever again played with fire.  As I write this I wonder was I an awful
mother or just a very frightened single mom?
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