dagblog - Comments for "An Already Thankful Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon"

I LOVE this one moat!

MrSmith1 — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:49:21 +0000

In reply to Fear waits for bad things.

I LOVE this one moat!

There IS work to do,
and we have put things off for
far too long. Let's GO!!

Fear waits for bad things.

moat — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:07:38 +0000

In reply to An Already Thankful Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

Fear waits for bad things.
Courage has no time for that.
There is work to do.

Wonderful, DD!! Your piece

MrSmith1 — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:12:33 +0000

In reply to I told you that folks would

Wonderful, DD!! Your piece inspired this:

After all these years,
I still haunt the lost and found,
looking for my life.

I still ride the train,
in hope the next station will
be where I get off..

I cross bridges knowing
I can not wash away all
the sins of my life.

I am stuck in time
living out a meager life
extracting fool's gold..

You have been missed.

trkingmomoe — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:55:14 +0000

In reply to I told you that folks would

You have been missed.

Please have a good Thanksgiving.

I told you that folks would

Richard Day — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:57:34 +0000

In reply to An Already Thankful Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

I told you that folks would like this.

I still am working out software probs.

I hand wrote this just to get back on line.

REMEMBRANCES OF THINGS PAST

He sat on the bridge

Between the East & West Banks

Across the river

He spied the place of his birth

Just twenty three years

And I had traveled two miles

Just two miles thus far

But I had no record

No mistakes on paper yet

Plenty mistakes tho

I almost jumped in

I felt a baptism might help

To be free of sin

Two degrees, so what?

I felt so goddamn lost and

My paper trail clean

I just recall the sun

Shining up on that river

As I wept for me

Selfishness is there

Selfishness causes despair

I was very lost

I just recall this

Like it was yesterday

I am still so lost

After all these years.

the end

Yes, I think that is what I

MrSmith1 — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:53:17 +0000

In reply to I should of made myself just

Yes, I think that is what I am going to do. Thanks for the tips. My grand-niece will appreciate the way my mom wrote out the cards by hand, and her sense of humor.

I should of made myself just

trkingmomoe — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:17:42 +0000

In reply to To me, the recipes aren't

I should of made myself just a little clearer. I was imagining you laying the cards on a copier to copy them as they were written. So they could see them just the way they were written. Then putting them in a binder doing a little scrap booking.

You don't have to go over board with all the stuff this lady was gluing on her recipe book. But you can have fun using what you can find from paper bags to old cards and add a few pictures that you can copy of your mother. There are lots that you can find as far as clip art on the internet. There are always old magazines that you can cut things out of.

To me, the recipes aren't

MrSmith1 — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 05:36:02 +0000

In reply to I have written many out for

To me, the recipes aren't very important, it's the way my mom wrote them out. My mom's recipes are all pretty simple, nothing fancy or even interesting about them. My mom was not a great cook, but she knew how to make enough of a variety of things to get by, and she made them in a simple way so that even finicky eaters like me would eat the meals set in front of him. I never understood how my dad could eat butternut squash or Brussels sprouts, and I remember thinking my mom was a bit odd when she said that as a young girl she used to like eating parsnips. It took me until well into adulthood before I began to eat and enjoy raw broccoli.

I have written many out for

trkingmomoe — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 20:29:10 +0000

In reply to Thanks trkingmomoe. When I

I have written many out for my grand kids. I thought it would be nice that they would have them in my handwriting. I have collected blank recipe cards from every where but they are getting hard to find. They are quite pretty with printing of kitchen things and flowers across the top of the cards. Now I buy blank 4 x 6 cards from the office supply shop to print some out.

This week I found a template in Open Office for recipe cards. They have the 3 x5 also. It is free ware. Windows 8 does not come with a word processing program so you have to add one. Open Office is free from Apache and is open source so they are always adding stuff to it. It also don't slip malware into you computer. There is a template that puts more then one on a page so you can use card stock if your printer can't handle the cards. My grandkids are not being taught to read hand writing in school they only learn to do a little printing. I find that sad. I switched to printing instead of writing them in long hand. Since I found these templates I think I may start printing them out on the computer so they can read them in the far future. They will just have a mixture of cards in their boxes.

You can copy and print the cards that your mother wrote out on paper to make a binder. Dress it up a little with scrapbooking paper and copies pictures that you have. It would make a really nice gift and I bet she would be very happy to have them. Ask family, there maybe others that they have that can be copied.

Thanks trkingmomoe. When I

MrSmith1 — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:09:43 +0000

In reply to I will fill in for you with

Thanks trkingmomoe. When I was young and going out on my own for the first time, my mom gave me a small plastic recipe box with 3 x 5 cards that she made out herself. They had recipes for the things I liked the most; my mom's chili, which she got from her mom, which I call Depression Chili because it has no chili powder. It uses paprika instead and also requires a can of undiluted Campbell's Tomato soup along with the other ingredients. She also included simple recipes that just make me laugh. For example, pork chops. The card reads: Buy pork chops, put in skillet, cook until done. My mom rated this as one star in the degree of difficulty category. I still have that recipe box sitting next to my stove, and have decided to make copies and pass the recipes on to my grand-niece, who just became engaged.