TAG
As a reference, see the comment jedijawa left on my last post---
I am not a tag player, but I can list eight easily enough:
First, I live about seven miles from where I grew up.
Second, three score and five has been a good time in my life.
Third, I have two children, both of whom are about as faithful to blogging as I am. That is, they do it rather haphazardly, in bursts, not daily.
Fourth, my wife and I celebrated our forty-first anniversary about three months ago.
Fifth, there are two cats who own me, Tommie and Scruffy. The first started out as Tommy but events quickly changed her name to Thomasina. Scruffy came by way of my daughter, whom we realized could not have kitties in her house and keep her health.
Sixth, It will take at least a week or more to get rid of all the food we prepared for Thanksgiving. That is if Hootie doesn't show up again. Then it is gone in seconds.
Seventh, I am engaged in a battle on the Herald-Dispatch forums with some folks about strip mining and mining in general and about drug abuse and the results.
And, eighth, I am a stickler for grammar and spelling. I am somewhat lackadaisical about punctuation, however.
So, that is the eight that come to mind quickly. And now you know as much as you did before I listed them, right?
To be a little more expansive, I am a sometimes writer, both prose and poetry. My prose sometimes is in the vernacular and sometimes is done with an Appalachian twang just for fun. I do not attempt to be a smartass, but sometimes come off that way. I have very strong opinions and do not mind being in the wrong, for I usually am when I try to get a point across. I will often take the unpopular side of an argument just for the hell of it, to draw my opponent out and see just how deeply their conviction is.
Everyone knows about my owl, Hootie. Except the few who think he may be real. So now I have added a second one, Lorena, his nest sharer, and she is a holy terror on him.
It started snowing this morning about three-thirty or so. Just a wet snow to begin with and sticking only to the tops of cars and trucks. It is now about ten a.m., and the trees are beginning to look a little white. Our blue spruces are beautiful with the light coating they have on them. I'd try to get a picture of them but I'd rather stay here by the fireplace and keep warm and cozy.
We had our kids in for Thanksgiving yesterday. My three year old granddaughter has never made up with me yet. And that might be painful to some folks. To me it is a challenge. Yesterday she did wave bye to me and blew me a kiss, while her six year old cousin was hanging all over me. She is coming around slowly but surely.
I wrote a book of poetry about three years ago and presented each grandchild with a copy (all six of them.) Of course the two youngest ones, the two I just mentioned, were far too young to read it, but I have hopes their parents kept the book for them for when they are a little older.
Oh, about the TAG, I am not going to email anyone. If they want to see, they can read my blog. Just as you are doing.
I am not a tag player, but I can list eight easily enough:
First, I live about seven miles from where I grew up.
Second, three score and five has been a good time in my life.
Third, I have two children, both of whom are about as faithful to blogging as I am. That is, they do it rather haphazardly, in bursts, not daily.
Fourth, my wife and I celebrated our forty-first anniversary about three months ago.
Fifth, there are two cats who own me, Tommie and Scruffy. The first started out as Tommy but events quickly changed her name to Thomasina. Scruffy came by way of my daughter, whom we realized could not have kitties in her house and keep her health.
Sixth, It will take at least a week or more to get rid of all the food we prepared for Thanksgiving. That is if Hootie doesn't show up again. Then it is gone in seconds.
Seventh, I am engaged in a battle on the Herald-Dispatch forums with some folks about strip mining and mining in general and about drug abuse and the results.
And, eighth, I am a stickler for grammar and spelling. I am somewhat lackadaisical about punctuation, however.
So, that is the eight that come to mind quickly. And now you know as much as you did before I listed them, right?
To be a little more expansive, I am a sometimes writer, both prose and poetry. My prose sometimes is in the vernacular and sometimes is done with an Appalachian twang just for fun. I do not attempt to be a smartass, but sometimes come off that way. I have very strong opinions and do not mind being in the wrong, for I usually am when I try to get a point across. I will often take the unpopular side of an argument just for the hell of it, to draw my opponent out and see just how deeply their conviction is.
Everyone knows about my owl, Hootie. Except the few who think he may be real. So now I have added a second one, Lorena, his nest sharer, and she is a holy terror on him.
It started snowing this morning about three-thirty or so. Just a wet snow to begin with and sticking only to the tops of cars and trucks. It is now about ten a.m., and the trees are beginning to look a little white. Our blue spruces are beautiful with the light coating they have on them. I'd try to get a picture of them but I'd rather stay here by the fireplace and keep warm and cozy.
We had our kids in for Thanksgiving yesterday. My three year old granddaughter has never made up with me yet. And that might be painful to some folks. To me it is a challenge. Yesterday she did wave bye to me and blew me a kiss, while her six year old cousin was hanging all over me. She is coming around slowly but surely.
I wrote a book of poetry about three years ago and presented each grandchild with a copy (all six of them.) Of course the two youngest ones, the two I just mentioned, were far too young to read it, but I have hopes their parents kept the book for them for when they are a little older.
Oh, about the TAG, I am not going to email anyone. If they want to see, they can read my blog. Just as you are doing.
posted by tanstaafl | 9:29 AM
2 Comments:
Very good Tans! I was wondering if you'd play along but didn't want ya to be left out! Very good stuff! :-)
I thought you had given up on the HD and the other nuts on it.......And yes, Shellie's is on her top shelf---up where she cannot ruin it. However I am thinking of getting it down for her to read a couple since she now reads well beyond her grade level.......
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