Here's this week's heap of haikus:

With hands o’er hearts and
eyes on the flag, a bugle
plays a mournful “Taps”.

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Here's this week's heap of haikus:

When you have a lot
that's on your mind, let your day
begin quietly.

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I make my own dish washer detergent for pennies compared to the products that are offered for sale. It is an easy recipe and the ingredients are at your local store.  I make it once or twice a month so I have the recipe taped on the storage container.  In this case a recycled trail mix container.

It opened today.  The last time it bloomed was 15 years ago.

This is the time of year for Phalaenopsis type orchids to bloom.  This type of orchids are the most common and easy to grow.  The blooms can last up to 6 weeks and are the favorite for a showy house plant.  They originate from South East Asia and Northern Australia. I have several on my front porch that is putting on a show this year. They make a great gift plant instead of cut flowers because they last so long. 

Hi, my name is barefooted and I'm a politiholic.

(Hi, barefooted!)

It's been ages since my last confession but I've been meaning to ... what? Oh, that's a relief, you really don't need to hear all my sins. Some of them would curl your toes. Anyway, where was I? Right. Well, I suppose I should start at the beginning of my sordid descent into political hell ...

Here's this week's heap of haiku:
 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

Ha, ha, ha, it's Spring!
The lap-dogs of Winter are
in retreat! Hoo-ray!!

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I have been better off in this life having had the opportunity to read some of the works of Cervantes.

Former national security analyst in the Bush Administration found dead in Miller's Falls, N.Y.

That headline was to turn my early retirement from the FBI lab in Quantico into an unwanted assignment to track down and capture the U.S. back-channel Saudi envoy who through a combination of the new Bush's Administration's frat-house judgment and bureaucratic incompetence had managed, in the late days of August, 2001, to alert Osama Bin Laden to imminent armed drone attacks on his camp in Afghanistan.

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

With pointy ears and
impeccable logic, he
lived long and prospered.

(Leonard Nimoy RIP)

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