Tag: pony party

Light Emitting Pickle here to bring you the most recent open thread. First, a few words about Pickle Pony Parties:

Please do not recommend a Pony Party when you see one.  There will be another along in a few hours.

Dylan II

Desolation Row

Harry Chapin

Taxi

Dylan

The Times They are a A-changing

My mother has always had a flair for arts and crafts. When I was a a kid she sewed, she knitted and did crochet work. She had a loom and belonged to a weaving group. She is a veteran of craft fairs. When I wanted to earn extra money she would front me the cash to bake tons of fudge and I would sell it along side her stuff.

Her carpel tunnel nixed the sewing and crochet work. Now she makes homemade soap in wonderful scents and flavors. Whenever I visit home, I come back with a stash. She also make gorgeous quilts and she has branched into managing bees and producing small amounts of honey.

When you don’t have kids you do other things that mimic parenting. Maybe we don’t realize we do it?

In my case it was a “doggy” play date. The border collie doesn’t really like playing. She spent five years on a chain so the concept is alien to her. She is a little survivor. When Arno tries to get her to play chase she gets grumpy. La-Kenya and her “girls” came over. The dogs engaged in chaos and the humans lunched and chatted.

Weirdo that I am I love the drive home on Saturday morning. No traffic. Nobody is awake when I drive home. I have the world all to myself. People who work nights tend to live in a parallel world. Although, I put my brain and body back on days if I have more than a few days off just in order to accomplish things, I work nights by choice.

I don’t play well with others and while I can handle the stimulation and the pace, I don’t respond to the human drama very well, especially at work.

Here’s your mission, should you accept it. To help me and rusty1776 complete DocuDharma’s version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”

rusty provided the impetus for the idea and i started it with:

On the first day of Christmas, my country gave to me a president free of party affiliation . . .

then rusty added the next five days (and they are fabulous)…

This Friday I’m REALLY phoning it in….

click for fun:

Have a great weekend!!!

~73v

it’s the way you wear your hat…

According to Yahoo!News……

Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of mil lions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies….

…The study found that while abstinence-only efforts appear to have little positive impact, more comprehensive sex education programs were having “positive outcomes” including teenagers “delaying the initiation of sex, reducing the frequency of sex, reducing the number of sexual partners and increasing condom or contraceptive use.”

Ummm…..duhhhh!!