13 Thursday Thirteeners
1. Inez Kelley and Elise Logan of Chicks n Scratching Naughty Romance authors with a taste for vintage.
2. Emily Ryan Davis and Elise Logan of Scorched Sheets Who actually know about Motley Fool, the financial annalist. Fine, I’ll admit they are really more about hot men.
3. Colleen A writer who does the most entertaining research.
4. Country Dew A Virginian whose posts and pictures often bring local flavor to my world.
5. Anthony North A Brit with a quirky sense of fiction and an even quirkier blog.
6. Kristen Her blog is called Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker and that really fits.
7. Emily who gets a lot more exercise than I do.
8. Julia Smith who writes the Scorpius Tales.
9. Calico Crazy who is wonderfully computer savvy but whose depth of understanding of American Idol overwhelms me.
10. Hootin’ Anni who used to live in Denver and knows a lot about oil spills and redecorates her blog every month.
11. Celtic Librarian who comes up with some intriguing lists of facts.
12. jill conyers an author who is working on a list of 1,000 Awesome things.
13. Brenda whose Other World Diner is a blue, supernaturally romantic place.
And I ran out of room again. What you think? One more week of this?
Ah Maria, The Filial Son in Action
Queen Maria Theresa took the death of her husband hard, maybe harder than anyone else.
“ No human being is capable of adequately expressing the acute feelings with which the heart of a son is overwhelmed, who loses forever a father, by whom he is convinced he was loved….He was my teacher, my friend. I am now twenty-four years old. Providence has given me the cup of sorrow in my early days.”
So wrote Joseph to his mom shortly after the death of his father. To judge Joseph solely by his writing one would come away with the impression that the lad was the most loving and devoted of children. The most caring and thoughtful brother his siblings could hope for. His letters to his mother were filled with sentiments of the most lavish devotion. In action, he crossed her whenever it was convenient.
This habit was much in evidence when the issue of reforms came up. The first item on Joseph’s reform agenda was court spending. There was always a bit of that to be trimmed, so mom didn’t particularly object. Joseph being Joseph, he started with whatever he personally did not like.
He didn’t like hunting, so away went the gamekeepers and huntsmen that dad employed. He disliked “outward show and frivolous amusements.” This probably included the opera singers and dancers that his father liked to entertain in his private box at the theater. Gone. Much else was to follow.
Win a Copy of Hungry for More
Imagine there’s this gypsy who looses her Spirit Voice in front of million while on Oprah. Imagine she goes hunting for that match-making spirit voice in a fancy French style restaurant where a hunky chef is more than willing to suck her into his way of life. This is a very independent gypsy who is determined to avoid entanglements while she finds the wayward voice and gets back to a scamming way of life. Imagine the chef needs her as inspiration for his innovative cooking. Throw in a gypsy waitress and the teenage son, and you have Hungry for More by Diana Holquist.
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Room for Two
Two men on a hill.
“I am the king! You must die.
“No, no. The king is I!”
The next morning a woman found two bodies on top of a hill.
“Tsk. He’d have lived if he were me.”
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I thought about calling this one “Room for Two if One’s a Queen” but thought that might give it a different connotation.
Beauty Queen
Jill’s Mother: What is that you have up there? Jill, Honey, I know you asked me not to help you clean but in my opinion you need me.
Jill’s Mother: Well, I’ll just climb up here and take care of that.
Jack: You’re all sparkly. Ma’am, I do believe I’ve never seen you looking better.
Jill’s Mother: Humph! The best thing about me is my sparkling personalty. Now quit humming that tune and show me where I can take a bath.
Today’s theme is sparkly
Previously in Jack and Jill: In Memorial
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Suzie’s House 167: How to Catch a Bird
“Tracy, bring in the bird feeder will you? It must be about out by now.”
Like most of the calamities in Tracy’s life, it started out that simply.
When her aunt asked a favor, Tracy didn’t grumble. She simply rolled off the couch onto the floor then inched her way to her feet. It wasn’t like she really needed to see yet another re-run of Ed, Edd, n Eddy
“TV is the bane of my existence. It’s the opacate of the masses. It’s like cigarettes for the mind,” she said to an empty room. She clicked off the TV and headed for the back porch.
Man Slut
“So. How’s it hanging?” The perpetual bachelor looked around. Cozy house, wife, kids.
“Hanging? You haven’t changed in all this time, have you,” his friends said.
“Got that right. Different girl every night. Great crib. I got it all.”
“Really?” The guy patted his wife’s hands as she gave him a hug and grinned at one of his kids.
“Yeah. I got it all.” He said it, but he didn’t sound so sure.
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