unrelated fotos from old year, old month
February 19, 2024
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a few unrelated fotos from an old year, old month — August 2008 Oaxaca Mexico
“best thing that’s ever happened to our daughter”
December 19, 2023
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Got the nicest card from my mother-n-father-in-law — “Steve — Happy landing! Tim & I wanted to let you know that we think you are the best thing that’s ever happened to our daughter.” Wow. Ain’t bad, especially considering I’m 4 years older than they are, 27 years older than their daughter. It amazed me how readily they accepted me 18+ years ago.
Of course, their daughter is the best thing that’s happened to me outside my first 17 years with my parents. Lady and I both had loving funny parents. Many of my friends did not.
sin and saved
November 7, 2023
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2 songs – one of prostitutes and destroyed lives, one a gospel prayer to God – have the identical melody
Amazing Grace – Marc Cohn & The Blind Boys Of Alabama
House Of The Rising Son – The Animals
smart-ass fone
October 28, 2023
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Wife went one a 2-day road trip with one of her brothers, tries to call me and can’t get through. Somehow the Motorola fone blocked her number. This is the same fone that repeatedly by itself turns on its Do Not Disturb feature, which takes at least 3 steps to do manually. Thought these were supposed to be smart fones, not smart-ass fones.
word harvest 9.2023 = 0
October 1, 2023
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My poetry output for september 2023 = 0, nulvoid. Started a few, but haven’t finished. It’s the cancer diagnosis. You’d think it’d give me more to think about, and I spose it has, but nothing’s gelled.
Prepared worstest, got bestest.
April 28, 2023
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Prepared worstest, got bestest.
Our 2.5 year-old purchased house was built in 1880.
During recent 2nd-story water leak, we were told our main water shutoff valve is reeeelly old, leaking, and no longer dependable, causing nightmares of flooding basement while waiting Water Company coming and shutting it off at the street.
Plumber said it sometimes takes 2 days to get it turned back on after he’s done, so I filled bathtub for toilet flushing water, a bunch of kitchen vessels for drinking and cooking, and a batch of buckets just in case.
And prepared my inner HulkSmith anger to go with the not-flow.
Water guy turned off water, plumber arrived while he was doing it, asked Water Guy to linger, swapped out bad valve, had him turn water back on, and we’re in business.
Half hour plumber, $350 . . . worth it.
Anyone need vessels of water?
dog surgery, man sick
February 13, 2023
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What a morning. Our dog Marlowe is getting 2 polyps cut off his eyelid . . . and he doesn’t understand why his water is being restricted and he’s not being fed. And he’ll have to wear a headcone for 2 weeks. I was supposed to get a root canal today but woke with the flu . . . or something . . . violent cold shakes, weakness, balance loss . . . pretty sure the dentist would not want me in the chair today. Took a Covid test and I’m clean, so there’s that. Ah life, ain’t it grand.
Smith is in the Kitchen today
October 25, 2022
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Rolling Up Those Hours
My monthly feature on Medusa’s Kitchen (9 poems, 10 fotos).
“Smith is in the Kitchen today, and welcome back to him and his way-cool poetry and visuals! Steven Smith suffered a bad fall recently, with multiple injuries, and he’s having to work his way through it with not-a-little pain. Fortunately, recent arm surgery was completed with success. Hang in there, Big Guy! Joy, love, coffee and weed…” – Kathy Kieth, edited and published Medusa’s Kitchen.
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2022/10/rolling-up-those-hours.html