Magic & Miracles, Wonder & Wizardry-Potluck Poetry

Magic
Grab a wand
With a twist of the wrist-poof!
It's amazing

Miracles
Give a hand
With a smile helping someone
It's happiness


Wonder
Open your eyes
To our beautiful planet
Cherish it

Wizardry

All of us

In a blink of an eye
Can be magic

Can be miracles

Can be wonderful

Can't we?

Magpie #41 Tick Tock

Tick tock tick tock

That tireless clock

It's only demand
Is for my hand

To turn and wind

Be ever so kind

And then it will

Continue to till

The furrows of time

While I write this silly rhyme

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Bong bong bong

I skitter along

Closely on the floor

Zipping to a door

I can't get caught

My nerves are taut

With fear I shake

I don't dare make

The slightest noise

As it annoys

That damn cat

looking twice

For cute little mice

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Magpie Tales 40, 40.5 Monkey Business and Jingle Potluck

Traveling in Mexico has kind of

shortened my ability to blog.

So I am cheating a bit and using the following

for both Magpie Tales and Jingles Potluck Poetry.I hope that's okay?

First I googled Capuchine Monkeys because of Willow's photo prompt for this week's

Magpie Tale and came up with this website:

http://london.dootee.co.uk/capuchine-monkeys-for-sale-iid-73349701

How dare they????????

Capuchine babies for sale

How many dollars per tail?

Ripped from their mothers hearts

How could anyone take part?

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After I posted the above- I wanted to write something a lot more posisitve-so here's a second try for Magpie Tales and also for Jingle's Potluck Poetry:

Magpie 40.5 and Jingles Potluck Poetry- this week's theme is Moods, Feelings and Emotions

My children are little monkeys-

hanging from trees and swinging with ease-

life is so simple wanting only to please-

their thoughts are wise under those blond curls

much more valuable than a string of pearls

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When my youngest son was only 4 years old he said to me-

"Are you happy because it's a sunny day?"

With a start I heard those words and realized that I was allowing the weather to affect how I behaved. From then on I viewed each day as a gift and not a bother if it wasn't a sunny day. He helped me see how ridiculous I was to let myself get into such a bad habit. A wise child indeed.

A Kitchen in Mexico

A Kitchen in Mexico

Exquisite

Peaceful family space

Simply done

Waterfall Paradise

Yesterday we went 1 1/2 hour into the Sierra Madres where we spent an enjoyable day hiking up to the falls, playing in the falls and having a delicious picnic. All of this surrounded by countless butterflies. Here are only a few of the photos I took of our wonderful day.

Part of the falls-there were pools we could climb

into and soak our cares away...oops-we're

in Mexico and we have no cares here!

Lunch is served-yummy beef stew, tortillas,

rice, refried beans and an avacado sauce that

was superb! Our drinks were from a dried Jamaica flower
Very refreshing.

Swallowtail

Later after we were back our hotel the baby turtles
were released- those are Dave's feet....

We had a stellar day!

We love Zihuatanejo!

Good old Zihuatanejo........we come here every year

and always always have a wonderful time....

The view from our breakfast table...

My artist studio on the beach!

For more photos click here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katheworsley

Magpie 39...Roosters

I am not Chicken Little

My world isn't falling down

I am King of the Backyard

From sun up to sun down

My hens run in front of me

Turning up great bugs to eat

I am such a lucky rooster

Life here is such a treat

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Years ago we began to have backyard chickens.

Only hens and just for eggs and garden pest eradication-

plus the bonus of sheer entertainment for us watching them.

At one point we only had two hens as we had "lost"

3 hens due to racoons, neighborhood dogs and hawks.

So Russell fenced the backyard and we got some

fertile eggs from a neighbor and I slipped the eggs under our

broody hens. 21 days later the chicks began to hatch

and as fast as they would hatch the hens would kill them.

What the heck? Fortunately, I rescued one chick and the

two last eggs not hatched. It was early morning and so I

went back to bed with the injured chick and two eggs with a

slightly warm heating pad. By the time I had finished the morning

paper the remaining eggs had hatched. Russell got a small box

and we placed the three chicks under a light bulb for warmth

with their water and chick food.

They thrived and grew and as the days went by we had

to get bigger and bigger boxes to accomodate their growth.

The last box was the largest moving box that we could find.

At that point they resembled popcorn as they attempted to fly.

We figured they were big enough to graduate from living

in a box in Russell's den and it was time to go to the coop.

The hens were a bit perplexed about the teenagers showing

up, but after a bit of adjusting the pecking order all was calm.

Until the chick that had been injured grew up to be a rooster.

HAH! There was a bit of chicken justice doled out to those hens.

Eventually we sent Rocky and his harem to our friends

farm as his crowing was beginning to bother some

of our neighbors. Now we just have hens and we replace missing

hens with young hens. We still love watching our hens scratch

around in the dirt eating up the slug eggs and being so cute in

their chicken social ways. Not to mention the very delicious

eggs that they give us.

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