13: What’s Moo with You?
1. My grandson Liam (8) and I are getting so good at Monopoly that I had to buy more house pieces on Amazon.
2. When I see TOMHANKS’ name in print I see THANKS.
3. I got curious about the word “cheapskate” so I looked up the origin of the term and learned this: “An early example appeared in the Newark Daily Advocate of Ohio in 1896 in a story about a streetcar motorman who was remonstrating with a driver of a coal wagon: “You’re a gol dinged, insignificant, pusillanimous, ragged, cheap skate of a tenth assistant barnyard corporal.” The best suggestion we have is that skate was originally a Scots contemptuous word, still known in a weakened sense in Australia and New Zealand, where it’s usually written as skite.”
4. Browsing or grazing?
5. Duel or duo?
6. The last time Liam was over, I cooked him some venison tenderloin. After eating it, he said, “Put that on the list!”
7. Dogtown Roadhouse’s third annual Thanksgiving Community Potluck was well attended, despite the pending icy weather predictions. The Dogtown team posted on Facebook that they’d provide to-go boxes of food if the weather turned, but bad weather held off … Read more about the Floyd Community Pot Luck Thanksgiving at Dogtown in this week’s Floyd Press and see the picture below of the pre-meal blessing.
8. I had some bad thoughts while carrying a pumpkin pie to dinner about whose face I could throw it in. “Wait for the whipped cream,” Joe said. “I don’t really like pumpkin pie. If it was apple I wouldn’t even be thinking this,” I answered. – From Thanksgiving Outtakes and Leftovers 2013 HERE.
9. Birds of a feather in icy weather HERE.
10. I walk faster than she does / She frets when I kill ants / that crawl near our plates / while we’re celebrating her birthday / Now I march an uncharted course / like a girl in the drill team / like I can’t be at ease in this world … Read To Walk in Her Shoes in its entirety HERE.
11. Floyd County Moonshine is a bi-annual literary journal of local flavor that features primarily regional authors, as well as new and established poets and prose writers from all over. Photography of Floyd’s rural scenery is also included in every issue, and this special all-color anniversary issue features six of my photographs, including the cover shot. See HERE.
12. The term “black Friday” sounds dark for a reason. We’re expected to go right from giving thanks to trampling over each other while shopping for stuff in a kind of mob ritual that cancels out the idea of being thankful for what we already have.
13. And now for a moment of silence.
__________Thirteen Thursday
November 21st, 2018 11:50 pm
Happy Thanksgiving. Stay warm!
#2 Guess what we see depends on a lot of variables – I see Tomahawks for years of cheering the Atlanta Braves, I suppose!
#11 Wow at your photographs, Colleen! Such beautiful landscapes.
November 22nd, 2018 1:57 am
I didn’t realize you could augment Monopoly real estate that way.
November 22nd, 2018 2:04 am
Re (#3) Word Origins: Like most folks, I’d heard “Drawing Room” a million times w/o giving it any thought until we were watching a program that had a artist character & I wondered if that was the origin (ie a room to draw in). I checked it out and…No. Instead, it’s a small room away from the main rooms; a room into which one might withDRAW for more solitary or casual or private purposes. Huh. Go figure.
It’s weird to hit a ripe old age such as mine & never have questioned such a thing until it randomly comes up in dialog and makes one wonder about its origin.
November 22nd, 2018 11:56 am
extraordinary bird photo-love seeing through your ens thanks
November 22nd, 2018 2:59 pm
I greatly appreciated the moment of silence.
November 26th, 2018 4:08 am
Browsing…duo …. and I’d like to know what else is on Liam’s list… and I can’t remember what else I meant to say. Except I enjoyed all your Thanksgiving festivities !
November 27th, 2018 6:29 pm
I prefer browsing and duo, too. So much kinder on the heart and soul 🙂