The Blahs -- MidWeek Blues -- The birds and the grub

Please scroll down a couple for OSI.


But first an updated picture of our new grandbaby, KP.

Today she is four weeks old, this was taken yesterday by Karen.

Ain't she cute!

The birds. Why would this picture make me blue? Or make anybody blue? Well, may be it wouldn't. This just isn't my idea of escaping the harsh Midwestern winters.

The birds? We call them snow birds. They come down here in the warm when it is snowy and cold up north. They bring their own homes (make their own nests). They blend in when there isn't anything doing with 'their kind.'

The grub? Birds must eat. One reason they like it here is because of the proximity to the necessities, such as groceries, Jack-in-the-Box (plus a half dozen other fast food, NO BURGER KING) and gasoline. This shopping center is six miles east on the Interstate Highway, IH-45.

And I say 'here' because the RV trailer park is less than a mile on east from our home. It generally fills in the winter.

The Blahs? Definition # 2 : plural [perhaps influenced in meaning by blasé] : a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction

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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo here. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did..

Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.

The Blahs -- MidWeek Blues -- The birds and the grub

The birds. Why would this picture make me blue? Or make anybody blue? Well, may be it wouldn't. This just isn't my idea of escaping the harsh Midwestern winters.

The birds? We call them snow birds. They come down here in the warm when it is snowy and cold up north. They bring their own homes (make their own nests). They blend in when there isn't anything doing with 'their kind.'

The grub? Birds must eat. One reason they like it here is because of the proximity to the necessities, such as groceries and gasoline. This shopping center is six miles east on the Interstate Highway, IH-45.

And I say 'here' because the RV trailer park is less than a mile on east from our home. It generally fills in the winter.

The Blahs? Definition # 2 : plural [perhaps influenced in meaning by blasé] : a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction

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If you want to post a MidWeek Blues picture, go get directions from Rebecca by clicking on the logo here. She has a Mr. Linky and good directions . Just do what I did.
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Or do less. All she requires is a BLUE PICTURE, you don't have to write.

One Single Impression: Ocean

In the post following this is my first attempt at writing a prose poem. Prose poem writing is harder than I thought and I was not real pleased with the outcome.
Also, it sounds boastful which I may or may not change later. Changing will be hard as it tells of the Oceans and Seas I've visited. Telling this is the reason I posted it now.

Ocean Hopping
None to All in Seventy-eight Years

Water he loved when he was a boy
Boats, bits of trash sailed his watery course
Rivers he'd seen from the Route 10 bridge
Oceans he read those far away lands

His book came true when he was fifteen
Grandmother then lived in Oregon
Clams on the beach digging in the sand
Pacific there dipped his tippie toe

Travelling fellow out to see this world
Conquering the seas spending his dollar
Now past his prime three seas an ocean
Not seen nor swum those elusive four


Ocean Southern he'll do that alright
Andaman Sea, Japan, and Okhotsk ...
Slowing fast—gone—mind his final wish
His ashes please cast on seven seas

Notes: Largest oceans and seas list by size link

Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

Find more poems at One Single Impression
"Oceans" as prompt,
suggested by F.P. of Sweetest in the Gale

One Single Impression: Ocean

This is my first attempt at writing prose poems. It is harder than I thought and I need to study some more about them. I did want to post my water episodes at this time. What you see is what you get (for now). Sorry.


(Jim wading on the beach at Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands—listen to the water)
Ocean Hopping
Watery Visits of Mr. Bod and Little Pinky Toe

I don't know what it would be
not to have experienced the ocean.
As a child growing up
I could only read about it in a book.
Now I've been in most of them,
where that in means swimming,
at least my Pinkie Toe has been there.
Body too went along, some to places
where the Toe never touched or dipped.

Do you need a report from that Pinkie Toe? He's been to the Oceans Atlantic and the Pacific, the Indian and the Arctic. Missing from these Pinkie Toe traverses is the Ocean Southern. He's about to fix that. Matter of fact he would like stick the little Pinkie end right into those icy waters and onto the ice at the South Pole.

The mystical visits of Mr. Bod,
wistfully looked upon by Pinkie Toe,
and very seldom dipped by the latter,
have been to most of the seas of the world.
All the major seas such as,
Arabian Sea,
Baltic Sea,
Bering Sea,
Black Sea,
Caribbean Sea,
East China Sea,
Gulf of Mexico,
Hudson Bay,
Mediterranean Sea,
Red Sea, and
South China Sea.
Little Pinkie Toe, you will have to Google
the ones you can't remember.

Little Pinkie Toe thinks shoes are for the birds. Flip flops are the object of lustful sinning voyeurs. For sure he will holler loudly through his bunion if he misses these three; the Andaman Sea, the Sea of Japan, and the Sea of Okhotsk.

Both Pinkie Toe and funny Mr. Bod
have visited the Sea of Galilee
and the Dead Sea. Neither wanted
to dig around in the muck
at the bottom of the latter.

Bones and ashes down there lie,
burned
and
buried.

That's according to our Good Book.
Our tour guide thought they were,
was this a majority of one?

Notes: Largest oceans and seas list by size link

(In=swimming by Mr. Bod)

(In=dipping by Pinkie Toe)

(To=visiting by sail or bus or car or foot)

Copyright © 2009 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

Find more poems at One Single Impression
"Oceans" as prompt,
suggested by F.P. of Sweetest in the Gale