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I made a Tagxedo for our church's Sunday School program we are just finishing up...Puppets in Space... The puppets are traveling to other planets, and I put words from their travels in the Tagxedo. Then I decided to try out Zazzle, where they print those Tagxedos onto items for sale.  I had a mug printed for our pastor...and it came out beautifully! I drew the space ship to use as the Tagxedo image, but there are lots to choose from on Tagxedo, of course.  You should try it with a Tagxedo you like especially well.  It makes a wonderful keepsake/gift.  The mug ends up costing just under $20 when you get the colored inside.  If you choose no coloring inside, it costs less. I placed my order late on the 22nd and it arrived yesterday, the 30th, by UPS, very well packaged.  It is excellent quality and just beautiful! No, I do not own stock in Tagxedo or Zazzle.  I just love how it came out and think you should know!

Hurry, hurricane, Pass on quickly through; I'm sitting inside With nothing to do. The rain's in buckets, The wind is howling, The lights just flickered, The cat is scowling. When the morning comes There'll be branches to clear, Puddles to wade in, And stories to hear - Tales of the night spent With Hurricane Sandy, And how that hand bailer Came in pretty handy. ©2012, Donna JT Smith Hope everyone made it through the night okay.  Lot of power outages and flooding.  The full moon has made the tide pretty high. Surf was wild today. I guess in the light of day, I'll be able to see if I can get off the island.  The water's pretty high in places, so it floods over the road off...only one way in and one way out, unless you have a boat. I hope we don't have to move any trees before we can go somewhere either.  We only had our lights go on and off a few times during the day, so I'm thinking that trees may not be an issue in the morning.  We

Thanks for hosting Poetry Friday, Linda ! Sweet Days of October My favorite time Since I was a child Were the days of October Because they were wild. Colors once hidden Now spring to the fore The leaves begin talking And rustling for "more". More coolness of days, Less sun and more night, More acorns for squirrels, More chatter and flight; In the clearest blue skies The geese form a V Flapping their wings As southward they flee. Trees once soft edged Become sparse and thin Baring their arms just When coldness sets in. Tree fingers stretch out They shiver and creak, The wind howls and sighs As it brushes my cheek. But that only makes Days that much sweeter As here on the edge of Winter we teeter. Donna JT Smith © Oct. 26, 2012 Today is my birthday (the 26th)...I feel like I'm teetering on the edge of winter...and days are sweeter.

Orthopedic boots with fake buckles & fake fur. Big stitch gray and ivory hat and scarf. I warned them. This is the second time I've gone into Cabela's in Maine and seen perfect examples of what not to wear.  This time I took pictures. I'm wondering if the person who dresses the mannequins in Cabela's is from away and thinks this is the way we dress here, so our mannequins should reflect our actual style, or if he/she is making fun of the way we dress here.  Or perhaps they are trying to make us feel good about the way we dress and are encouraging us in our fashion attempts.  I'm not sure.  Because we do dress this way here.  It's just not the fashionable way to dress.  But we know it.  We just choose to ignore fashion, siding with function and comfort most of the time.  Given the need, we could dress up... for the most part, anyway. We choose to dress this way, but please, not our mannequins.  We like our mannequins well dress

Shades of Browns and grays Deflected by Reflections Where shades of Reds and oranges Flutter to the ground Now covering The unfluttering Deceived By unnatural Reflection. And here's the correct answer: Andromeda Jazmon Sibley "I would guess it's about birds knocking into windows that reflect the autumn leaves falling, and leaves falling on the fallen birds...? " Yup.  Now read it again, and see if you can see.... Okay, this one went through so, so, so many revisions.  Wish I'd done it in Google Doc's and kept the history, just so I could easily see its morphing.  I think this is the best I can do with it.  But really, wow.  I'm so strangely impressed with its development.  I guess, actually my bravery in cutting whole lines and groups of words...cutting way back from what I started with, to leave the essence (I hope.)  I don't know if it will make sense to anyone else in its simplest form.  Can you tell me what it is about? I re