INTERESTING POETRY

The Pleasures of Hating
by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

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I hate Mozart.
Hate him with that healthy pleasure
one feels when exasperation has crescendoed,
when lungs, heart, throat,
and voice explode at once: I hate that!—
there's bliss in this, rapture.
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My shrink tried to disabuse me,
convinced I use Amadeusas a prop:
Think further, your father perhaps?
I won't go back,
think of the shrink
with a powdered wig, pinched lips, mole:
a transference, he'd say, a relapse: so be it.
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I hate broccoli, chain saws, patchouli, bra—
clasps that draw dents in your back, roadblocks,
men in black kneesocks, sandals and shorts—
I love hating that.

Loathe stickers on tomatoes, jerky, deconstruction,
nazis, doilies. I delight in detesting.
And love loving so much after that.
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(Never gave this much thought to things I hate. But this is interesting. Brocolli is to burn in hell right now - anyone who takes coumadin will understand. I like jerky, and think men with white cotton socks and sandles and shorts look pretty funny. Maybe because I've never seen Joe in a pair of shorts, except swim trunks. Actually funnier are men in a suit with white cotton socks.)

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Thursday March 12 2009

Stubby

14x17 Pencil Drawing by Lynn Thomas

This was one of our colts.

He was pretty but never amounted to much for

some reason and ended up with founder. We sold him to

a man in Riverton who would keep him in all the time

and feed him right for his condition.

So here we are on Thursday's blog. And nothing interesting is happening to write about. Joe went out of the garage to coffee. Then back in. Then out about 30 minutes later to get his haircut. Then back. Then out again to go to Rendezvous Pointe, where he needed to see the hearing aid lady Brandi again for his other hearing aid. He had lunch while he was there. I was going along but when I went to change clothes I decided I didn't really feel like going down there. They were having New York deli hot dogs with sauerkraut today and that just didn't sound so great. So I stayed home to continue catching up on the blog.

It's very sunny today and sometimes the neighbors flag is standing out erect in the wind and sometimes it's limp.

Betty called this morning and we got to visit for a while. Except for one of her sprinklers breaking, it sounds like everything's o.k. down there. Her daffodils are blooming and a few others are beginning to burst forth in color.

Charm wrote an amazing poem for SCAG last Saturday and gave me a copy of it yesterday. I'd share it but would have to scan it - and don't think this new printer has OTR.

Wednesday March 11 2009

This is Beverly's husband, my son-in-law Brent.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENT
The card is in the mail.

Clear last night with a gorgeous full moon. Today got up late again. Tried to take a look at email, but there was no interenet connection again. Sandy who works at the phone company called about the new idea to get a building for art functions and classes that Paul Jensen has, and she said that the internet was down. Apparently Centurytel is working on updating equipment and this is causing the internet to be off and on. What an annoyance. Judi said they were going to reimburse people for their trouble, I just need to call them. Mine was off all day today, and I wasn't in the mood to be on the 800 number about it again.

So I didn't have much time to get myself dressed and head out to Bonnie's for lunch to be there by 11. She fixed us really yummy clam chowder and homemade wheat bread. She grinds her own wheat and it is so good. Afterwards we took the dogs on a walk nearby up the Silver Creek Cemetery Road - no traffic there. Thank you for the lunch and nice visit, Bonnie!

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Bonnie's Clam Chowder

Silver Creek Cemetery Road - west - upper, east - lower

Then I headed over to Dr. Susie's for the dogs checkup, shots, worming and cleaning their glands. She told me that the lump Sparky has had behind his shoulder is a layer of fat under a layer of muscle. That was good news. And that disgusting thing near his tail I'd been calling a grub is a sebaceous oil gland, and what comes out of it is like fat. Also still disgusting, but not as bad as I'd been imagining all this time. She said it's nothing and not to worry about either thing. Sparky is still a little too fat. He always tells me he's just fluffy. Susie said to Sparky, "Lynn just takes such good care of you". It's more like he manages one way or another to get all the treats and dinner that he wants from one or the other of us. Raven weighs almost 90 pounds now. She should soon be old enough that she won't be growing much longer. She's too big for me to lift for sure. They got good checkups, and we got the several medicines Sparky takes replenished. His eyes still need the ointment and the drops. She said his eyesight wasn't very good now.

Dr. Susie, Raven, Dinell, Sparky

On the way home I finally went in to the Heritage shop to see about them putting a new zipper in to that down coat. Sue said they have a good seamstress who will do it and do a nice job. So I need to wash the coat again and take it back.

In the other half of her store she has a selection of women's clothing, and had a sale on so I spent some time going through everything and picked out about six things that came to just over $100 - and one of the sweaters was originally $140. So I got some pretty good buys. Got a slip and a brown skirt to wear to church. Didn't find anything to match the skirt though. That's the way my shopping always turns out. I'm sure I'll have something that will work.

For some reason I got into a whirlwind organizing the freezer, and it's lots better now to be able to find things in there. I'm closer to the goal of getting all the old meat from the ranch used up before buying more. Fixed us garlic shrimp with fresh mushrooms, brown rice and peas for dinner. And was ready for bed about 7 p.m. - same as usual - naps and watching old movies in between. TCM is featuring Ronald Reagan this month. Realized he was already married to Jane Wyman the year I was born.

After reading my haiku some days back, Bonnie googled haiku and wrote the nicest poem - her first ever haiku. Hope she doesn't mind that I shared it with you here.

big sky clear and blue
cold wind whips and bites at ears
voids the spring promise

Tuesday March 10 2009

Really Really Old Painting of

Cowboy horseback in storm.

Copied for a study from a Charles Belden Photo

16x20 Oil by Lynn Thomas

Up fairly early, but the alarm didn't go off - found it's inadvertently set for tonight - sadly that's due to my poor grasp of techno smarts. So started off about an hour later than I intended. Got all the last minute things done, and the soda bread in the oven about the time Charm arrived. It's her turn to host the Tuesday lunch, and since none of us can get in to her house at Boulder Lake, she loaded all her luncheon onto the snow machine sled and hauled it out to her car - 8 miles?, unloaded sled into car, unloaded from car into my house. She prepared us wonderful Hawaiian chicken, rice pilaf, green pea salad, and mini bing cherry cheesecakes.

Attending were Ruth, Wanda, Melita, Charm and I. Joe joined in on lunch in his recliner. Everyone did good work mainly on pieces in progress. I got the cow moose drawn into last week's pastel and still need to put the calf in. We had our usual nice time.

They reminded me that March is my month to host the large Mixed Media group, so real soon I need to get out the 25 invitations. Not sure whether to have it here or at Rendezvous Pointe. A chance for more procrastinating!! Remember I set up last month's meeting and that turned out to be the day we unexpectedly left for the trip to Vegas on the plane. Charm took over for me that day.

So..... everything got tidied up by 4:30 p.m. or so, and I heated up Joe some leftover veg. soup for his dinner. About 6:40 Bonnie and Amy were here to pick me up to go the a party at the church - The Birthday of Relief Society. They served a dinner, and there was quite a large group of women attending. They had some games and fun things to do. One was to get acquainted with someone you didn't know, and I really enjoyed meeting ..... (bonnie will remind me of her name!) It started with "A" and I've been through all the "A" names I can think of, no luck with the memory. Home before 9 and had a very nice time. ANGELA!! Bonnie says Angela.

It was a overcast day, with the sun trying to peek out every so often and some show showers. Still cold and breezy.

Monday March 9 2009

Trinket and Rosebud

18x20 Oil Painting

by Lynn Thomas

Ginger and Sox

18x24 Oil Painting

by Lynn Thomas

[Just a note to let you know everything's fine. Staying busy - I got behind on the blog and then the internet went out again all day yesterday - in Kallispell they said - had to reset that this morning (Thursday). ]

Anyway Monday nothing special happened. I got up late again and cleaned the whole house. Our small Tuesday painting group will be meeting here in the morning. As always, it's lucky people come over once in a while so the place get's cleaned up. Went down to the clinic for a protime test and did the grocery shopping. Fixed us a simple supper since it was getting late by then. And after dinner got the wet and dry bowls measured out to bake two more loaves of Irish soda bread in the morning to have warm with coffee - just will need to set the oven, stir wet into dry, get the batter in the pan and bake. Late getting to bed.

Sunday March 8 2009

Bonnie Configuring the Atomic Clock the Other Day

(All the atomic clocks we'd bought updated the daylight savings time perfectly, so that was nice. And can't believe it's 5 p.m. already.) Up before 5 dst because Bonnie invited me to go to church with them today and I didn't want to be late. It was still so dark! Changed clothes three times trying to find something o.k. to wear. Found I had no slip for one or the other of my two skirts, no stockings, no dressy shoes that matched that would be good on the ice. So wore wool pants with a turtleneck and red blazer with boots. Looks like shopping for some clothes is in order. Sacrament Meeting started at 9 a.m. Even having nearly four hours to be ready, still kept her standing while I gathered up all my stuff and took pills. We stayed for Sunday School and Relief Society's lesson. I enjoyed it very much, and knew quite a few people. It was fun seeing so many I'd not seen for years, and others who are neighbors or friends. Afterwards Bonnie and Craig stopped in to say hi to Joe and then went on home. Their daughter-in-law Amy was at church but Cheyenne stayed home to babysit the two boys, one who isn't feeling very well.

Joe had gone out to the ranch early this morning to feed the cats, because there's supposed to be a storm coming in, so tomorrow might be nasty. As usual not sure how much it will amount to, but the wind is blowing again. Joe unloaded the snowmacine at the mailbox this time and snowmachined in to the ranch. He gave Sparky a ride, but Raven ran along. Sparky is about 12 or 13 now, and running a mile in the snow would be hard on him.

This afternoon I made some vegetable beef soup in the crock pot for dinner and we'll have some biscuits with it and fresh veggies and dip. It took longer to prepare than I thought it should. But also got the fridge cleaned out. Made a huge mess, so had to clean up the kitchen and filled up the dishwasher.

Just a while ago I stuck the photo card into the laptop and pictures came out just like they did on the old camera. Thanks to Sally, and also Cheyenne, who said I didn't need to download the camera software. It was with trepidation I stuck the card in for the first time. The photos go clear back to our last couple of days in Vegas and the trip home. So I have a big job editing and sizing them to get some on the blog now. I'm just so bummed out that I lost so many pictures of the trip on the old camera - all the ones of Red Rock Canyon disappeared in a flash. But guess that's life. So I'll let you know when I get some pictures with the older blogs.

Things that are not right with the house just keep popping up. I had it noticed earlier, but tried to clean the utility sink yesterday and the builders had something in there that has stained it and won't come off, though I tried scrubbing it again. The little toilet off the utility room has no nice covers over the bolts that hold it to the floor. It's like they just were in such a hurry that they never went back and really finished things nicely, or more likely just didn't care.

Betty called yesterday and we had our weekly chat. Takes us nearly an hour to catch up each time. Have a couple bills to pay later.

Saturday March 7 2009

Lacy Aspen Branches

Still pretty chilly and icy out. We’re supposed to get a storm. And colder.. but it’s not here yet. Another day without a cloud in the sky, beautiful until you step out the door and the wind is blowing at 20 degrees. Uggg! Unless it quits no walk for me, and the dogs will just have to den up. I took them around the block yesterday afternoon and they had a ball. They went without their leashes and minded me actually better than usual. I don’t let them go into the neighbor’s yards, so they are getting used to being called back at those places. Was proud of them each time I said they couldn't go into a yard, they came right back out. Good Girls!! They can run where they want otherwise. Of course they want to investigate all the smells. The road is clear enough that I can mostly walk on pavement at the moment. I use my hiking stick to hopefully help from slipping on the icy patches. The berms alongside the road are still often up to my shoulder.

Then made two loaves of Irish Soda Bread with light raisins and it turned out really good. It was a very simple and easy recipe, my favorite kind. Joe says it’s good and had two pieces after dinner. I toasted mine for breakfast. It was yummy.

I ordered the Taking Chance movie from Amazon and it will be mailed 5/21. Guess you can also order from HBO, but it was a few $$ more. I also ordered Australia and it is on the way. Everyone said it was so good. Hope it’s worth the money. I won’t be able to watch it until I go back to the ranch where the DVD player is.

Today is the writer's group meeting over in Big Piney. I decided not to go again. But I hope they all have a good time. Joe's got his sports on. Not sure what I'll find to do. Maybe make some popcorn. For Raven. I bet she'd like a cold pepsi with ice in it too.

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Working on a new poem. I'll probably edit it with some other ideas I have, or make them into two verses - this one does have the 17 syllables, not quite in the right format though ..... oops, not it doesn't either have the 17 syllables. Why do I have such trouble with numbers, even counting to seventeen. Shouldn't that be easy??? Well, I'm disappointed that no one noticed and let me know about it. :
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Haiku by Lynn -
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Lacy aspen branches
Stretch to embrace lake,
mountain and sky beyond.

I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.