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“It’s a dragon” yelled the six year old.

“Nah, it’s a snake!” The brothers continued to argue in front of the New Artists’ Review display outside of the stately city art museum. Their parents thought they should expand their children’s minds and frequented new and unusual art exhibits, encouraging them to express their opinions.

The oldest son, tired of these so-called intelligence booster outings and harangue of banter, just wanted to meet his friends at the cafe. “It’s a piece of junk, that’s all! Why does everyone think trash is art?”

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Ethel, the younger of two widowed sisters who have been roommates since their husbands’ demise twenty years ago, and having had enough loneliness in their lives already as wives, ordered her elder not to panic. They had been watching the television and saw the view of old people lined up in drug stores to buy masks for a new virus.

Martha complained that their surroundings were dusty and needed an old fashioned spring cleaning so as not to be susceptible to any germs that might facilitate the dreaded disease. Ethel decided to start by lifting the furniture and ripping up the ancient carpet, revealing a smooth wooden floor underneath. She then handed Martha a bucket of soap, water and bleach, and the two ladies took to scrubbing.

Suddenly aware of how rejuvenating this new activity made her feel, Martha started to sing an old hymn from childhood while she worked, “Count Your Blessings”.

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There are many artists and songs I love from my childhood on, about the West. It is an entirely different experience for anyone wanting to visit and it must be my father’s roots coming through, and my sisters have a longing to live there. I am the lucky one who actually does! My father was a rancher, horse breaker, sheep herder and more in his young days in Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. Cowboy songs were sung as he played the banjo, fiddle or piano, not country, but cowboy songs. My choice is a favorite sung by Marty Robbins with his unique voice, “El Paso”.

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(Egads, I thought the Prompt was 63 words—why, where and how I have no idea! My only excuse could possibly be my 17 year old grandson and I were watching the third installment of the Hobbit movies, which I always get confused with the Lord of the Rings. Basically, I’m easily confused. ..)

Original:

It doesn’t take much to perplex this dude

His main defense is always rude

His brain functions on attitude

The truth is he’s absolutely crude.

It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks

He has the brain of Jar Jar Binks

He doesn’t think on anything much

That’s why he’s always out of touch

Never question him, he’ll double clutch

That really sums him up.

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My continuation for my 63-90 (poem):

Well it seems I’ve made another error

Reading a blogger made me awarer

That I was mistaken writing only sixty-three words

Perplexed myself, now I feel absurd.

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Now it is the required 90 words🧐🙄. My apologies, Sammi!

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The football block

Was quite a shock

As the man of huge stock

Thought he had a lock

On the opposition, but crashed on a rock

Career failed, as manager decided to mock

Jobless, his bank account landed in hock.

***

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Rare mottled super moon

What secrets can you tell us

Observing the earth

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It doesn’t take much to perplex this dude

His main defense is always rude

His brain functions on attitude

The truth is he’s absolutely crude.

It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks

He has the brain of Jar Jar Binks

He doesn’t think on anything much

That’s why he’s always out of touch

Never question him, he’ll double clutch

That really sums it up.

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A fine figure of a man, she beamed

Exactly what does that mean

Handsome, charming

Wealthy, disarming?

How he looks is important, sure

But personality is the true allure.

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HANDSOME (PRETTY) IS AS HANDSOME (PRETTY) DOES – Good deeds are more important than good looks. The proverb was first recorded by Chaucer in ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ (c. 1387). In 1766, in the preface to ‘The Vicar of Wakefield,’ Oliver Goldsmith wrote: ‘Handsome is that handsome does.

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Final push, newborn, mom, dad crying.

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For this prompt, I’m putting on a post from December 2016:

Do You Know What A Topping Out Ceremony Is?

Since trees are now in season, I thought I might write a little about the “topping out” ceremony where a fir tree is hoisted to the highest beam. Have you ever been looking up at an unfinished building and see a Christmas tree on top?  According to some sources, this rite was started as early as the eighth century in Scandinavian countries with sheaves of wheat. It became more of a custom later on in Holland. Other sources suggest that in 2700 AD, the Egyptians used a live plant to commemorate the slaves that died constructing the country’s first stone building.

In the USA, ironworkers began the tradition when finishing the skeleton of the building. The beam, nowadays usually topped by an evergreen tree and a flag, are hoisted together to the top of the building to signify the basic structure is finished.
Below is a picture of the 14-story Denver International Airport Hotel in Colorado, under construction. “Traditionally, the last structural beam is painted white and signed by as many workers as possible using paint pens. For this $544-million job, the beam was pretty densely packed with signatures,” said Mr. David Mashburn, who was on the executive design team. Because of the requirements of the city’s Green policy, the usual cut tree was replaced by a living tree. 

 
If anyone knows additional information about the origin of the topping out ceremony, please comment. I’ve always thought this was an interesting tradition.

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