Well? another day .... lots of stuff done! Heading out in the morning... taking a shower and hookin 'em.... hell or high water. In the meantime, if pie eating doesn't work to calm my sanity... I'll laugh at anything. People who wonder what it is that I'm laughing at ...makes it even funnier.
M'Mother always said... that laughing massages the liver. I'll go along with her on that... haven't a clue where she got that information from .... but she was dead serious. In fact... what made her say this is absolutely hilarious, well, to me. She was a no nonsense kind of person. I, of course, thrived on nonsense. After Dad died, she had been just lost. I stayed with her before during and after Dad's illness and death. They had been married for 52 years - she was a stay at home wife and Mother ... minister's wife.
We were at the kitchen table ... the TV was on - I had turned on cartoons. I liked the Bugs Bunny Hour and Speedy Gonzales was on.... HAHaaaa.... well? zoom zoooooom zoom SWISH zooooooom zoooooooom goes Speedy and then here comes this long lanky mouse with a droopy mustache, floppy sombrero, white two piece Mexicany shirt and britches with a colorful scarf around his neck and kinda humped over ... moving reeeeeal slow and singing ... la cu ca ra cha ... Mother was eating a hand held something or other probably a biscuit... I heard a snorty stiffly kind of chuckle ... she did her ladylike thing of putting down whatever it was and then putting her hand over her mouth and tried to stifle the laugh! (My Mother... a whole nother 27,000 posts, sigh) ... I cracked up... jeeeez that was funny --- he was Speedy's cousin and he was looking for Speedy....
Coupled with HER reaction ... I'm on the floor... she twittered and giggled s'more fueling my on the floordom ... HAHAAAAahaaa... then she says... well? 'they' say that laughter massages the liver ... and that's good.
BaWAHhhhhhhhaaaaaaa ... I'm telling ya I'm on the floor even now remembering this..,. JEEEeeeezus that was funny ... My Mother and I never shared too many laughs... so that was pretty special ;)
If anyone out there is reeeeeally bored ... Kill some flies --- don't smush 'em so they'll pose better .... Put them in the sun to dry for one hour.... Once they're dry, get a pencil and paper... and carry on ...
Packing it all up ... post when I can .... I can do iPhone but who knows what or where or why I'll be going, doing or otherwise...
Later ol blog ol buddy ol pal!
Have a safe trip, try to relax and enjoy the journey.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful time. This is soooo exciting!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your mother about laughter. It's good medicine. Maybe that why it hurts when we laugh so much... Massaging the liver...
ReplyDeleteI have seen this fly art before on the web. Art out of dead flies, hilarious. Just think of the possibilities.
By the time I post this comment you are probably well on your way with Homer. ENJOY EVERY MINUTES OF YOUR JOURNEY. Hugs, JB
MINUTES OF YOUR JOURNEY. HUGS JB
ReplyDeleteThanks y'all.... it's storming and I haven't left! drat drat drat!
ReplyDeleteYes... those flies are hilarious! I saw those over a year ago on the 'net' somewhere - can't remember and off they went to my permanent -get outta town- files... HAHaaaaa...
RATS! The storms are to continue all along the route I want to take ... northwest Arkansas and southeast Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas - seem to get the most severe weather.... especially in the springtime...
I don't know... I almost left anyway but then the thought of driving those winding backroads - in a storm? don't think so. I've been sitting here debating whether to just go ahead because it started out being a gorgeous gorgeous morning and by the time I had breakfast and was ready to shower and finish loading ... clouds then RAIN and... rats - don't mind a little rain... but lightening and storms - strong winds?!
Did I say rats!
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Sorry your departure has be delayed. It happens even at the busier airports, delays are a fact of life.
ReplyDeleteWe normally get a St Patrick's Day storm but not this year. The sun is shining and the snow is melting again. It's just beautiful outside. JB
Ahhhhh that's a pretty picture, Julia... I can just see the melting snow and the sparkles from the sun ;)
DeleteAnd delay schmalay ... haaaa... I'm just doing WHATEVER... at this age? .... whatever.
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ReplyDeleteI just massaged my liver with a glass of cold white wine.... while laughing at the fly-art. Sounds like we all have a lot of "mother-daughter" stories we could pass on... or supress forever....
ReplyDeleteWell, Hi ;) .. HAHaaaa that fly art just kills me... like I said when Julia commented ... I forget where I got that - it's been at least a year ... I put stuff I find on the 'net' in a folder and trot them out ever now and then when I need a belly laugh .. well, a massage... HAHaaaa
DeleteThe belly laughinest one is the springboard flies... jeeeeez that cracks me up.
Oh, lord ... may all of us who blog could dedicate a page or three on Mother's Day... or something... I dunno .. suppress is more what I try to do... God bless her... - she lived 96 and a half years... most of it uptight ... amazing.
Now that is something I haven't seen before--fly art! How creative! I can see that with an ingenious mind like yours, you are never never bored!
ReplyDeleteHAaaaa... well, as I just commented ... just cracks me up..... ingenious mind... hmm, well? I'll take it even though I did steal it from somewhere! HAHAaaa ... it seems to take on a mind of its own... I never know where it will show up... I'm not kidding!
DeleteGlad to see ya... The comments on your post are really interesting to read too... I think I'd like to address Patricia's comment... very interesting....
See you on the road!
ReplyDeleteI sure hope so, Roxanne... I just read Teri's post... and well... yours and Darlene and Nicole's ... I'm going to approach the desert differently... I'm such a trees, running water, mountain kinda kid... I do remember going, as I've written ... to the Grand Canyon and was blown away. Also the Buckskin Mountains and Lake Havasu ...
DeleteCan't imagine spending a time in the remote areas as you guys have.... no water? just sand and rocks.... well? gorgeous sunsets and rises .... going to be interesting.
IF I EVER GET OUTTA HERE! sheeeez