Food & Fun in 2015

January:       A jovial jubilee with celebration in the air
                     Start the year with Jackrabbit stew, if you dare.
February:     A fabulous festival, now don't get the jitters
                     We'll have some fudge and fruit fritters.
March:          A merry month of marvelous mirth
                     With milk and meatballs from the
                      land of your birth.
April:            An amazing assembly alementation
                     Apples and almonds produce salivation.
May:             A mysterious mass of a mob of people
                     Eating macaroni and muffins below the steeple..
June:             A joyous jambalaya under the sun
                      Let's have jams and juice and Jamaican rum.
July:              A joking jabberwocky-filled jamboree
                      Who's bringing the jam and jelly beans?
August:          An amorous alliance, who's counting the cost?
                       Bring the almonds and applesauce.
September:     A sagacious symposium run by the boss
                       He wants sauerkraut, salsa and squash
October:         An obligatory observance is in the loop.
                       This calls for ostrich eggs and oxtail soup.
November:     The neighbors nuptials have a redneck theme
                       With bowls of nachos, neck bones and nectarines.
December:      A daring demographic dazzles the crowd
                       Serving duck and dumplings and dessert - Oh wow!

Achy Little Piggies

                    There was a time I suppose
                    When I had pretty little toes --
                    Those stubby nubbins at the end of the feet
                    That let you dance to your special beat.
                    They knew their place and they kept it
                    Till they started acting decrepit

                         There came a time deep in the night
                         I slept, my eyes shut tight
                         But those little traitors (to call their right name)
                         Put all decency to shame.
                         For stabs of pain in my big toe
                         And swelling red skin did quickly show

                    Peace was gone now from my slumber
                    Those little piggies had my number.
                    To touch the sheet would make me shout
                    You know the rest - I had gout.
                    A vicious disorder I declare
                    It makes me squawk:  This just ain't fair!!!



Have you suffered some disorder you had to deal with?  Plesase share.

Springtime Living

May has arrived a little more slowly than normal this year, but it does indeed appear to now be fully in its element.  Which triggers thoughts of outdoor life in Arkansas this time of year.  With your indulgence I herewith present a little ditty to express my feelings about some of our life forms.


                             OUTDOOR CRITTERS

     Outdoor critters have habits I despise and detest
     No matter how cute each is like all the rest.
     Without a please or thank you, apology or thought,
     They treat me as if I'm a meal they have bought.

          And it makes me wonder as I walk in the fields
          Do they ever get anything, besides me, in a meal?
          Do they also dine on crackers and tea
          While making a meal on poor little me?

     Or am I preferred plain without sauce or spice?
     Perhaps by myself I am twice as nice.
     Well, I can only say without thought or question,
     I help they all suffer acute indigestion.


(Enjoy your time outdoors, but watch where you're walking.)