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    A Happy, Humid Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 05/29/2015 - 4:47pm |

     

     Here's this week's heap of haikus:

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    double haiku:

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    APPLESAUCE RAISIN SQUARES WITH BROWN BUTTER FROSTING

    By trkingmomoe on Mon, 05/25/2015 - 11:56pm |

    I have had this recipe since high school and it came from McCall’s magazine.  For a long time I used the clipping from the magazine until I started transferring my recipes to 4″ x 6″ cards and I added that it came from McCall’s.  The magazine has been out of publication now for over a decade.  But in its hay day it offered great recipes that anyone could make.

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    Another Getaway Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 05/22/2015 - 5:07pm |

     

    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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    A Friendly Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:49pm |


    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

     

     


    double haiku:

     

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    A Friday Afternoon in Bloom at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 05/08/2015 - 5:29pm |


    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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    A Surrealistic Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 05/01/2015 - 2:52pm |

     

     

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

     

    White House State Dinner
    Obama recites haiku ...
    Where was my invite?

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    Homemade Dishwasher Soap - Inexpensive, Good for the Environment and Sparkling Clean Dishes

    By trkingmomoe on Sat, 04/25/2015 - 11:51pm |

    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.

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    Cattleya Orchid "Springtime"

    By trkingmomoe on Mon, 04/20/2015 - 7:59pm |

     

     

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

    Hillary eats food and drinks too!

    By ocean-kat on Sat, 04/18/2015 - 6:00pm |

    I've been reading a lot about Hillary's trip to Chipotle and some have criticized this as a foolish focus on the irrelevant. I disagree, though I do think most of the writers are missing the real meaning and nuance of the story.

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    Orchids Are In Bloom

    By trkingmomoe on Sat, 04/18/2015 - 12:59am |

    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. 

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    A Late Blooming Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 2:41pm |

     


     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

     


    Desire often hides
    behind the structures of our lives
    seeking permission.

     

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    Confessions Of A Politiholic

    By barefooted on Fri, 04/10/2015 - 3:37pm |

    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 ...

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    How to Make High Efficiency Liquid Laundry Soap for Pennies.

    By trkingmomoe on Sun, 03/29/2015 - 6:37am |

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fels-Naptha#/media/File:Naptha_cookbook.jpg

    When I was really young in the early 1950's I remember helping my mom make laundry soap out of Fels-Napha bar soap, Octagon bar soap or Ivory bar soap. Octagon is no longer being made. For baby diapers she would use Ivory bar soap. She would make it up in a bucket every couple of months. She would grate it and cook it and mix it up in a bucket of water. I never thought to ask her about it later in life. It was just something that was history along with her Maytag Ringer Washer. I can still smell that soap in my mind.

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    A Smoke-clearing Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 03/27/2015 - 6:10pm |

     

    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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    A Sun-settled Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 03/20/2015 - 4:50pm |

     

     

    This week, I thought I'd try something a little different; a theme posting. 

    Not all, but most of the haikus and photos this week are sunset related.

    (All photos courtesy of Kristina Rebelo unless otherwise noted.)

     

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    CERVANTES

    By Richard Day on Thu, 03/19/2015 - 2:46pm |

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

    Ted Dryser found dead.

    By Oxy Mora on Sun, 03/08/2015 - 4:21pm |

     

    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.

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    An Updated Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 5:23pm |


     


    Here's this week's heap of haikus:


     
     

     

    The whites of her eyes
    were red with weeping, the blues
    were never bluer.

     

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    A Phlegm-filled Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 1:08pm |

     

     

    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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    The Warmth of Another Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 02/20/2015 - 2:18pm |


     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:


     

     

    Tell me your secrets
    and my heart will be yours.  True
    love will last forever.

     

     


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    Shades of Fifty Truckers

    By Oxy Mora on Wed, 02/18/2015 - 3:08pm |

     

    Printed paperback books had re-emerged in companionship with the introduction of "mommy porn", the first fruit of the splinter-demographic-porn-fiction movement---which now encompassed "plumber porn", "farmer porn" and, thanks to Ena Faye Wilkins, "trucker porn".

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