NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 18 --

  

Mr. Air Conditioning Man 

I don't fix 'em if they ain't broke he said 

And he reached up to turn his headlight on 

Peering into the guts of the machine 

Wryly, he glumly said, "yours is a mess  

Your doohickey by the small dingle bash  

expired.   The larger one it is just fine 

You're a Lucky Lass, may I call you that 

I've got one of those right out in my truck 

You can wait for me or follow me out 

Quite heavy, you can help me carry it 

And we can talk going there get to know  

Get to know each other better, maybe . . .  "

If it's same with you I'll get another 

Another quote might help me understand 

But if not okay please leave anyway 

Now please go, my husband is on his way 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - For the Photo Prompt I am linked with Shay,  a.k.a. Fireblossom, at the Sunday Muse #156,    http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/04/sunday-muse-156.html?m=1 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 18, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-7/ 

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 17 -- Moon Howling

 

Come Howl with Me 

The Moon is full tonight 

Watch it in the east as 

it rises big and bright 

Over the horizon 

Just as twilight begins 

Howling time begins when 

Comes the hour of Midnight 

The foxes and the wolves 

Give us a sendoff clue 

When it's just right for you  

Auool, auool, auool, auool 

My howling will never cease 

Howling until wolves do stop 

Followed by the foxes, 

Coyotes and dogs everywhere 

Do I grow fangs at midnight 

On their necks women to bite 

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 - Poem and bottom Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - Upper Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2006, see link below to read. 

I'm linked with Magaly  Guerrero in the Writer's Pantry #66,   https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1 

 - I am also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 17, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-7/ -- from instruction prompt there, “Today, I’d like to challenge you to stop fighting the moon. Lean in. Accept the moon. The moon just wants what’s best for you and your poems. So yes – write a poem that is about, or that involves, the moon.“

 - The Lone Wolf has been in our family, since when I don't know, before I was born.  My sister, Lois (read of her), was always afraid of that wolf.  I have it now and just finished taking it's picture for you. 

 - My first Moon Howling blog post and with the above photo I wrote in , Tuscany, Italy, back in 2006.    https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2006/10/its-fair-to-howl-tonight-howl-with-me.html?m=1 and more of Tuscany,   https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=tuscany

   We had a five week holiday in Southern Europe.  Two weeks in Sicily, one week at the Amalfi coast and surrounding including Naples, another week in Province, France, and our last week in Tuscany.  

   The Sicily and Amalfi visit was with a tour company, the last two weeks we had a rental car from Milan and back to fly home. 

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 16 -- Let's Eat

Add Water; Soup for Supper 

 

Soup for supper

Mines a fixer-upper 

Start with the basics 

Gotta suit shrimp fanatics 

Add jumbo shrimp 

Frozen peas mustn't skimp 

Dash of chili 

It'll be right for me 

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 - Poem and Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 16,    https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-8/ 

 - a Skeltonic verse, read about this form at the Day 16 NaPoWriMo link above

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NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 15 -- Grandpa and Me; a little bit

Uncles, Grandpa, and Grandma

. From left to right: My Dad, Uncle Lester, Uncle Howard, Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Chester in 1940s photo taken at Grandpa's farm. The car was Dad's blue 1938 Ford Tudor Deluxe.

When I was growing up

When I was growing up, who of the family was I like 

Not my father for sure, mean to me and going his own way 

Mom and my grandmothers were the best 

perhaps I should have been like them 

But without desire my grandfather it turned out to be 

He chewed tobacco and dipped his snuff 

Never smoked that I knew 

He would take me for rides that my dad would 

never do, except for one time that I remember  

He talked to me like a kid, most remembered 

to me was his approach to a stop sign one day

He wasn't a poet, but out of the blue one day 

he recited "S T O P, stop take of panties" 

at a Stop Sign 

That may have been what the kids in his day 

were saying, but I never heard it again in my day

I will always remember his corny joke and sayings

In that I am just like he was 

Grandpa cussed and swore, I did that for a time, 

easy on the swearing as I cringe when I hear

taking the Lord's name in vane, 

today's "O M G" irks me each time I hear. 

Grandpa liked his beer, so did I way before I was 21 

Grandpa drove crazy, drove his tractor up a tree 

I like him, like to joke a little bit, 

telling jokes and quotes that may not be funny

I always said that I was grandpa's favorite 

Another cousin and I were the closest in many ways 

And it took a calm and loving wife to slow me down

(Somewhat) 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am participating in the National Poem Writing Month.  So far I have missed yesterday (you can kiss me on a Monday but never on a Sunday--old song) but will write two for one day soon.  See them at Labels: NaPoWriMo 2021.

 - Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov  2011 (http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2011/06/meet-cousins-six-word-saturday.html and http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2010/10/flashback-friday-15-my-boyhood-family.html , 

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo (National Poem Writing Month) Day 15, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-7/ , we were asked to write of a family member's traits and habits that we acquired, father in mind.  You have seen that "father" didn't work for me. 

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 14 - They're Back

Our little friends 

Our little friends are back 

They announced their arrival 

to their nest vacant since last fall 

Under the eaves between 

our front porch and the garage 

Mama announced their presence 

Clucking to me 

like she'd laid an egg  

while I was in the drive 

getting the Sunday paper 

Our sixth year living here 

Each year they've come  

To raise a new family 

Another generation

And in the fall they'll leave 

Again to winter in

Mexico where its warmer 

Little love birds have returned 

I'd like to think that these doves are 

the the ones here last year 

Their long flight across the Gulf 

They flew by instinct 

Across the waters to us 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo Copyright, Jimmiehov, 2019, Previously used for Birds, Fish, and their Sharing,  (http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2019/03/birds-fish-and-their-sharing-poem.html )

 - I'm linked with Rommy for the Weekly Scribbles #65,    https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/04/weekly-scribblings-65-bird-is-word.html?m=1 

 - And also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 14, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-8/ 

 - I am participating in the National Poem Writing Month.  So far I have missed yesterday (you can kiss me on a Monday but never on a Sunday--old song) but will write two for one day soon.  See them at Labels: NaPoWriMo 2021.

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 13 - News, News (fake News)

 Farmer Kid's Chronicle

Cooking and eating with Dr. Jim  

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Feature:  Three Minute Roasting Ears  

Today's meal will be easy, just have the ingredients in your shopping cart next time at the grocery store. 

Now I will tell you how to make that corn, three minutes!!  

.Three minute roasting ears

. Take one ear of corn and break in half or thirds. Place them standing upright on paper towel in the microwave oven Put microwave on High for three minutes.  No more boiling water!! 

That's it. Butter and salt and pepper while still hot. 

Add a minute or two for each additional ear.

This works really good for kids, singles and old folks. .

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The menu for the day: 

 

Roast beef on whole wheat bread with sliced onions and mustard, roasted corn on the cob, low fat cottage cheese, and a mixed drink (orange/pineapple mixed with Diet Sprite, half and half). 

Dr. Jim 'cooked' this 760 calorie lunch in ten minutes. Mrs. Jim had the same.

Ingredients:

Corn on the cob -- Number ears you wish to eat (in the produce dept.) 

Roast Beef, sliced -- 4 ounces per sandwich (in the deli dept. or near the hot dogs) 

Low fat cottage cheese -- 8 ounce carton (in the dairy dept.) 

Drink -- Something cold, suit yourself (ice tea, pop, juice, a mixture like mine)

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Until Next Time 

Eat and Drink Healthy 

Dr. Jim 

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 - Poem and Photos Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021 and 2006, All Rights Reserved (2006 Photo, http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2006/08/jim-bunch-eats-again-complete-with.html )  (More of the Jim Bunch 'cooking' here, https://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search?q=cooking )

 - I am linked with NaPoWriMo Day 13, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirteen-7/

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 12 - A Late Night Rendezvous

 

Aircabs* get you there fast 

My ride was uneventful 

until the giant flying goose 

 caught with us.  He 

grabbed our Aircab in his 

beak and tucked it beneath 

 his tail. 

He flew us fast and in a 

furious manner.  Not much 

 traffic on that night.  His 

way was paved by a bribe, 

the guy flying the GooseNeck  

would not be disturbed. 

When we arrived the truck 

 was already there, "candy" 

 and other cargo for us and 

 the Goose driver.  

We took the candy, smokes, 

and something really good for 

me.  It was a 1908 copy of  the 

"New American Encyclopedia of 

Social and Commercial Information." 

  

The book will open doors 

into a new world where 

I never could go. 

It has an article, 

"The Violin Self-Taught", 

which will give me a new 

skill and a new career. 

Then I will seek out 

the big cities with 

symphony orchestras at which 

I  can use my talents.  

An enjoyable life then will 

be affordable for me. 

And best of all my candy 

and smokes will be handy there.  

Which means no more 

nighttime stealthy rendezvous. 

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 - Poem and Photos Copyright,  Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - The top photo shows three of the toy truck, cars, and traveling devices that I keep in line to race on my dresser top.  The bottom photo is of a card for purchase at our older Walmart store.

 - I am linked to NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 12 for the writing prompt and for registration of my writing there,   https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twelve-9/ 

 - * Notes: 

   1)  The prompt was to find an interesting word in the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction from which I used the word, "Aircab", first used in 1934.  That is about the vintage of my yellow and black Toy Taxi.  

   2)  Also I should use one word from , but my cell phone, an older Galaxy 8 did not have enough memory to hold the needed upload.  So, since I have a 1908 copy of  the "New  American Encyclopedia of Social and Commercial Information" I used the article, "The Violin Self-Taught" starting on page 808.    

   3)  Mrs. Jim has a spare violin, if the arthritis in my hands can let me work it I may give the article a try.  I have taken two semesters of college Class Piano so some things may come back to me.

NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 11 - Sunday Muse - Flying

    Fly Fly 

When I get big I'm going to fly 

I'll buy myself an airplane to fly 

Then fly myself way up in the sky 

I'll fly myself so far far away 

I'll leave this place and never come back 

Don't cry for me I'll not cry for you 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - Photo prompt above for which I'm linked with Fireblossem and Carrie Van Horn at the Sunday Muse #155,  http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2021/04/sunday-muse-155.html?m=1 

 - I'm also linked with NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 11, https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-9/