13: Message in a Bottle
1. Message seen on my Akismet WordPress spam filter: “What the heck is ham doing on my blog? I’m a vegetarian,” which made me wonder what computer ham is, maybe spam that’s conceited?
2. Good tea and good beer are like twins that I love equally for completely different reasons.
3. They’re like bookends, like the sun and moon, and ocean and bay are like bookends on the hometown peninsula I grew up on.
4. The word tea is in treat
5. I was out in the garden picking overgrown green beans today when the teakettle inside started to whistle. A little while later I noticed it was silent, like a crying baby who finally gives up. I ran inside, but it was too late. It’s the second teakettle I’ve killed in the last two weeks.
6. Doing my mother’s recycling at the grocery store last week was like hitting the one arm bandits in Las Vegas. I had to reach up and push each can in a machine slot while collecting reject cans and tickets below. I must have hit the jackpot; I made $5.
7. My mother thought I’d be dying to go home after 2 weeks of caring for her. I told her that I’d be ready to go home after two weeks even if I was in Aruba.
8. THIS is what I did for nightlife while at my mom’s in Hull, Mass.
9. Seeing THIS on the beach was a first for me.
10. 1st comes the heartbeat … then the search for the nectar … in the Garden of Eden … on an island called Mother … Next comes the first cry … and the need to be rocked …
11. Keeping time with the poem eternal … I got my start in rocking cradles … I got my start in amniotic fluid …on a planet in orbit … in a primordial sea! ~ Excerpts from Rock and Roll: The Early Influences 1995 first read at The Teahouse Jam.
12. In the last two weeks I’ve gotten the following strangely misspelled searches that have landed people on my blog: bloose leaf notes, rooseleaf note, note loose-leaf. loose leafn otes, and cute loose leaf.
13. Oil is spilling into the gulf as we speak. It’s worse than standing by while a loved one bleeds to death.
More playing Thirteen Thursday HERE.
June 30th, 2010 11:42 pm
Number 12…whatever brings ’em too ya, right? LOL Hope you have a good Thursday, Colleen!
July 1st, 2010 4:39 am
Nice! I should try doing a Thursday thirteen, but my blog schedule is a bit erratic lol.
July 1st, 2010 6:25 am
Happy TT, Colleen! The situation in the gulf is a nightmare without end. Absolutely horrifying.
July 1st, 2010 7:18 am
When will it stop…….the bleeding that is.
Have a good day!
July 1st, 2010 8:56 am
The oil spill breaks my heart. I know I’m being selfish, but I hope it doesn’t come up the East Coast and ruin my favorite beach, Ocean City, Md.
July 1st, 2010 9:39 am
Love the poem, Rock and Roll, and memories of the Teahouse Jam. #13, well expressed! Welcome home.
July 1st, 2010 10:21 am
I’m so frustrated by the DAMN OIL SPILL! GRRRRrrrrr!!!
Your videos were lovely, thanks for sharing!
July 1st, 2010 11:14 am
So glad that your visit with your mom is going well. Lovely area to visit if you have to stay.
July 1st, 2010 11:38 am
My mother regularly melted tea pots until she began heating her water in the microwave.
#13 is just too sad to think about.
July 1st, 2010 1:44 pm
Oh I’m sure that beach was hard to take. Thanks for sharing. Happy T13!
July 1st, 2010 2:27 pm
The oil spill is most frustrating.
RE: tea. I love tea. Tea is great. It is way too hot to enjoy right now, though. I think I need to take a cue from my neighbors and make some sun tea.
July 1st, 2010 5:21 pm
As always, Colleen..a GREAT TT.
Loved those two videos of your Beach visits there….That first one is so very beautiful…!
July 2nd, 2010 6:08 am
I have never seen stand up surfing either. Kind of cool. My family lives in FL. I grew up on the sugar-white sands of Pensacola Beach and it saddens me to think it will never be the same.
July 3rd, 2010 3:36 pm
good to hear about a good tri pto mums 🙂
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