The Monkey Exhibit

This was written about staring up at the nighttime sky. I have done this a few times. Not much, though I do enjoy it. There is just something about insects incessantly gnawing through your skin that takes away from a great outdoors experience.
So this poem/song…I wrote is as a poem, then in [...]

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“I’m rolling up to Becky’s house on my Sunday drive
I have to laugh to myself ’cause it looks exactly like mine”
–Chris Rice “Me and Becky”
Inside the actual house, probably our favorite pastime was building blanket forts underneath the kitchen table. David [...]

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This is where I find my soul,
Out where holy men of old
first knelt in soil
and thanked You for the rain.
–Chris Rice “My Cathedral”
Those are things that David and I did in the general area of the house, but how about adventures in the very yard of the house? [...]

Let me off and wander,
Robin song and thunder,
Surrounding me with stained glass leaves
that change with every breeze.
–Chris Rice “My Cathedral”

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As I mentioned before, the stream led to a pond. Eddington pond. This pond is where I could be found, at 2 years of age, out on the very end of someone’s [...]

Sweetest days of childhood,
Playing in the deep woods,
Stomping through the creek
and feeling oh-so-much alive.
–Chris Rice “My Cathedral”
My cousin David and I spent much of our younger years outside playing. There were multiple different wooded areas around to play in, as well as a stream which eventually led to a large pond.
Near to our grandparents’ [...]

A while back I thought up the idea to explain why I was working at a people hospital when I had a Bachelor’s in Veterinary Science. Then Geof commented that he didn’t know I was going to be a supervisor in a department of the hospital. This clinched my resolve to fully (hopefully) [...]

Kari and Mike just returned from vacation to find that their toilet had leaked, causing a great mess, and their air conditioner (AC) had stopped working. Being a .net and website acquaintance, I could not help but feel sorry for their great inconvenience. I decide that I needed to take up my guitar [...]

After some silliness it is time to return to serious post. The problem is that my life is too boring to entertain anyone. Granted, to me it is fun. I enjoy reading and playing on the computer. I even like work. But these things make for boring stories. (Actually, [...]

(Adapted from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Names and actions courtesy of event that occur at the Rumor Forum.)
[spooky music; something that would make The Vampire cower. If the music were a painting, it would be Edvard Munch's The Scream.]
[music stops]
BEST KNIGHT EVER:
Coolest… forest… ever!
KNIGHTS SUPERLATIVE:
Coolest! Coolest! Coolest! Coolest! [...]

Early one morning Qwert could not sleep. He was outside whittling, as is his normal practice to combat unwanted insomnia, when a neighboring beaver ambled by. The beaver, having to make a long commute to his forestry job, looked up to greet Qwert on his way by. Upon seeing Qwert heartily engaged [...]

The trees need trimming
The plants need weeding
The roof needs new shingles, too
The gutter needs fixing
The siding, replacing
Simply to name but a few.
The garage is all dusty
The hallways are musty
The shrubbery overgrows its bounds
I must stop delaying
My landscape’s decaying
I’m off to take care of my grounds!

So, unbeknowst to me, the baton comes my way from Adriene Holland…and a blog apparently revived from the dead. I acknowledged Kari’s passing, though. I’m constantly getting myself in trouble.
This is going to be hard, not that you’ll know when looking at the finished product, but trust me, it will be hard.

Amount of [...]

My DSL is now hooked up and working!! I am posting from the comfort and convenience of my own home. …This is probably going to keep my from getting in trouble at work.
Niiiiice.
See you all around…after business hours, though.

Kari has passed the Musical Baton off to me, but some of the questions require deeper thought and me being at my computer. I’m going to hold off on answering for now. I’ll do it after my DSL is hooked up on June 9th!!!
It shouldn’t matter that I’m holding off for a week [...]