Category: Bladder cancer

Tell you something good on a Monday? It’s the last day of January, tomorrow, here in the USA. For many of you it’s already the 31st. I say thank heavens this month is done. Not my favorite for a lot of reasons….but Hey!

 February is almost here and tons of great things are going to happen. Here’s my list, let’s see yours!  

February 6– my daughter’s 24th wedding anniversary, married to a near perfect man – why only near? Well I don’t want him getting too comfortable with himself ; )

February 13-my oldest and funniest sister’s birthday

February 14-oldest granddaughter turns 21, and she is the sweetest Valentine!

February 20-my daughter’s birthday, her age? I’ll never tell. That would be rude-46

Plus, it’s a short month, and payday is early, Yea!

What do you like about February?

Is this a cool cake, or what?? ; )

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It’s destiny she thought out loud

Away from them, from the crowd

There’s happiness out beyond

Reaching as if a frond

Of a sheltered plant in the dark

Trying to find light’s spark

Here I go to reach my dream

I need to try or it will seem

I’ll always sit in someone’s shadow

Never realizing my own glow.

https://allaboutwritingandmore.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/daily-picture-prompt-52/

Howdy Pardners! 🤠😎 Just greeting you from Wyoming where the wind never stops blowing and today it’s sunny and 50F degrees.  However, my apartment is chilly, hands cold, so that’s my excuse for any typos…..

The Share Your World created by ceenphotography is a great way to get to know your blog friends, so please join in!

Answers to Cee’s questions this week:
1.  One of the most incredible natural venues I loved seeing every time we traveled west in Colorado was the view of Colorado’s “fourteeners”on I-70W just coming over the crest to see Floyd’s Hill below.  There is a buffalo sanctuary on the side of the road, and this picture does not capture the wide view you get in person.

2.  I had three older sisters, separated by five, five, and six years.  We’re all still keeping in touch even though they are in Vermont and New York.

3.  If I were a shoe, I would be one worn by flamenco dancers.  Black, shiny, sturdy, having rhythm and making a lot of noise!

4.  This is a tough one, because growing up in New England, you didn’t have access to strange.  We ate plain, and I mean plain!  Meat, vegetables, potatoes, fruit.  Whatever our land provided, yes, I am that old.  Once a week the Hostess bread man came in his truck and my delight was a package of the chocolate cupcakes with the cream inside.  I saved the dime from my grandpa for them.  Later, much later, in Houston, our neighbors next door were young and very friendly.  I was invited  for lunch and tried Indian cuisine which was very good, but spicy!

I am sincerely grateful for my grandson coming to take down the Christmas tree and he even cleaned and swept afterward. Someone raised him right!  This week I look forward to some warmer temperatures.

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Please dandelion

Do not blow in the soft breeze

Stay golden and safe

Upon the spiky dark green 

Leaves and roots holding you chaste.

https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-134-blowplease/

In nineteen hundred eighty-three

Fell on the ice hurting my knee

After years of jobs where I was standing

The pain in my knee was very demanding.

Later on in two thousand-five

The time had finally arrived

The pain was bad, no longer latent

Ended up with a knee replacement.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/replacement/

I could write something, but sharing a favorite song from “Where the Heart is” instead:

https://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/ju-jo-Jan-blue/

 
I need this automatic, instant food machine next door, and a roll of nickels!

A Horn & Hardart postcard explaining how food was served in an automat (c. 1930s)

“Originally, the machines in U.S. automats took only nickels.[3] In the original format, a cashier sat in a change booth[citation needed] in the center of the restaurant, behind a wide marble counter with five to eight rounded depressions. The diner would insert the required number of coins in a machine and then lift a window, hinged at the top, and remove the meal, usually wrapped in waxed paper. The machines were replenished from the kitchen behind. All or most New York automats had a cafeteria-style steam table where patrons could slide a tray along rails and choose foods, which were ladled from tureens.” 

“Long before McDonald’s, Burger King or KFC, there was Horn & Hardart. The company’s coin-operated Automats were wonders of speed and efficiency, and Horn & Hardart quickly grew to become the world’s largest restaurant chain and the founding father of a fast food nation. A century after Horn & Hardart Automats first arrived in Manhattan, we take a look back at these giant vending machines.

“New Method of Lunching,” cried out the advertisement to readers of the July 2, 1912, edition of The New York Times. “Try It! You’ll Like It!!” the ad promised.

Curious—and hungry—readers who followed the culinary entreaties and stepped inside the Horn & Hardart Company’s “Automat Lunch Room” in Times Square for its grand opening a century ago found a high-tech, self-service wonder. A gigantic, coin-operated vending machine with row upon row of windowed compartments, resembling glass-fronted post office boxes, housed dozens of menu items. After window shopping, customers could drop a nickel into a coin slot, turn a knob, lift up the door and help themselves to their food.”

“Not all foodies of the early 20th century celebrated the rise of the Automat. “The number of cheap quick-fire food hells is appalling,” bemoaned James Huneker in The New York Times in 1914. “Eating and drinking are rapidly entering the category of the lost fine arts,” he lamented. “The young folk nowadays are not epicures… They are in too much of a hurry to dance or to ride, to sit long at table and dine with discrimination.”***

***Remind you of parents talking about electronic devices these days?😂

(This info from Google)

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After fighting here on this writing site

I feel like it would be so right

To visit this place up above

And try to relax and feel the love

I’m missing from the tech gurus

For answering questions about how to use

The writer here or the gray box below

For spacing, I just can’t seem to know.

Every day it’s a fight so I copy and paste

Even then my spacing is laid to waste

And it all starts at the top of the page

With the lines that won’t engage 

In a justified manner

What the heck is the matter?

https://allaboutwritingandmore.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/prompt-1984-visual-prompt-of-the-week-meditation-gazebo/

Yellow sun, I only saw glimpses of you

I slept in since the night’s wind was loud

Early guests seemed like a crowd

Seemed like more since my mood was blue

They arrived in a rush to take down my tree

But for this job demanded a fee

Granddaughter one came home for PT

Wanted more RK cookies from me.

It wasn’t much of a demand

When the boys two and three gave me a hand.

I was even amazed at their cleaning job

Didn’t even stop to rest or hobnob

So now my tree is out in the trash

Poor thing, I feel it was very rash

To dump it there so alone

When inside I loved it so

Years ago when kids were small

Put the tree outside to be used by all

The birds as a feeder while it lasted

With peanut butter and suet on pinecones pasted

Then all of us watched in delight

As the birds feeding was a nice sight.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/yellow/

It’s no mystery

About our history
We’ve conquered, we’ve failed,
We’ve even hailed
Leaders that go awry
Use their power to spy
And then wonder why
We ever picked that guy.
History does tend to repeat
And anyone claiming the high seat
Should learn from the others
Not be like their brothers
Have new ideas and some innovations
Stop congress from those long paid vacations
I know some of you disagree
But this is America, don’t you see
We should all voice opinions
To save all of us minions
The poor, the weak, and the downhearted
After all that’s how this country started!

https://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2017/29/01/jo-jo-Jan-29th/