Worlds Apart

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Although we might be
forced in worlds apart

There is no doubt
we’re together in heart

No matter the distance
between you and I

You’re in my dreams
when asleep I lie

And through the miles
my heart grows fonder

Never far from you
do my thoughts wander

I hold on waiting
for that coming day

When you, my love
come home to stay!

Teresa Marie  11/24/11

For My Fellow Irish – Via My Nephew – “The Irish Millionaire Winner”

The Irish Millionaire

The  Irish  Millionaire

Mick, from Dublin , appeared on ‘Who  Wants To Be  A Millionaire’
and towards the end of the program had  already won 500,000  euros.

“You’ve done very  well so far,”  said Chris Tarrant, the show’s presenter, 
“but  for a million euros you’ve only got  one life-line left, phone a friend.
Everything is riding on this  question.  Will you go for  it?”

“Sure,”  said Mick. “I’ll have a  go!”

“Which of the  following birds  does NOT build its own nest?

a)   Sparrow

 

 

b)   Thrush,

 

c)   Magpie,

 

 

d)   Cuckoo?”

 

“I  haven’t got a clue.” said  Mick,

”So  I’ll use my last  lifeline and phone my friend Paddy back home in Dublin   …”

 

Mick  called up his mate, and told  him the circumstances and
repeated the  question to  him.

“Hell, Mick!” cried  Paddy. 
“Dat’s  simple it’s a cuckoo.”
“Are  you sure?”
“I’m sure.”

Mick hung up the  phone and told Chris,
“I’ll go  with cuckoo as my answer.”

“Is that your final answer?”  asked  Chris.

“Dat it  is.”

There was a long,  long pause  and then the presenter screamed,
“Cuckoo is the correct answer!    Mick, you’ve won 1 million euros!”

The  next night, Mick invited Paddy  to their local pub to buy him a  drink.

“Tell me, Paddy?  How in  Heaven’s name did you  know  it  was da Cuckoo that doesn’t build its own  nest?”

 
“Because he lives in a Fookin clock!”

The Proposal – Part VIII

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By this time we had almost reached them.  When daddy saw it was us coming to help, he heaved mother farther up the capsized boat and on to its bottom so that we could pull along side to help her into ours.  Once that was accomplished, Adrian aided daddy.  Mother sat there glaring at the three of us with only a mumbled word of thanks. 

Daddy shook Adrian’s hand profusely and hugged me, then he turned to face mother saying, “This isn’t finished yet!  We have more to talk about concerning this mess when we get home!”

When we reached the shore, Adrian said that he would ride along with us until we came to the fork where his turn off was to go home if that was acceptable to father.  Daddy said that it was as he turned and glared at mother, daring her to say one objection. 

I could see that she had her teeth clamped together and the muscles in her jaw were working as she grit them, but never even looked back at daddy or Adrian.  Rather she stared straight ahead and her back was hunched in some manner of submission or resignation, one of the two.  Adrian rode on daddy’s side of the wagon and was leaning down talking to him in hushed volume.  Of course, I knew what the conversation was about and I could see mother was straining her ears to hear the words being said when all at once she let out a blood curdling scream, “Noooooo!”

Adrian shot right straight up in his saddle, daddy turned to mother with his mouth gaping opened and I stood up in the wagon to face her.  “What in the world, mother, you scared us all half to death!!  What is wrong with you?!”

I had never heard my mother stammering and at a loss for words before in my life but there she was, “I, I, ffforbidd it..  I, I…”

Daddy’s face was as red as our barn by now as he shouted, “Miriam, you had better blurt it out now as to why you are ‘ffforbidding’ this proposal from Adrian or I am going to accept it right this minute!”

Mother’s face was as white as a ghost, she was shaking so hard you would have thought that she was sitting there all wet in the dead of winter and her head kept moving back and forth.  I looked over at daddy and then up at Adrian.  He was the one gritting his teeth now.  Adrian is always such a gentle, peaceable man.  I couldn’t recollect one time in all the years that I had known him that I’d ever seen him loose his composure.

“Miriam!”, daddy’s voice thundered louder than the storm of the previous night as mother and I both jumped.

I looked back down at her just in time to see her face was whiter than snow.  Her lips were moving, trying to form the words, attempting to make the sound come out.  It seemed like an eternity had gone by when she finally said, “BECAUSE HE’S HER BROTHER!” and then fainted dead away…

Teresa Marie  11/24/11

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Why Only One?

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Why every year is
there only one day
our thanks to God
that we do say?

Why every week is
there only one day
we take time out
to kneel and pray?

Why only set aside
one hour each day
to spend with God
in some sorta way?

I do surely hope
on my judgement day
“Thanks for your time!”
to me God will say.

Teresa Marie  11/24/11

LOL – Want Another Laugh or Two?

On Thanksgiving Day
we gave kitty-cat
an ear of corn
saying “Nom-nom that!”

 

 

The anteater said
you’d better back off
that ant hill
is my feeding trough!

 

 

“Hey kitty I got an itch to scratch.
Oh yeah, that’s the right patch!”

 

The Proposal – Part VII

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“I don’t know, darling, but I wouldn’t call that a dream.  That was total nightmare!”  I was trembling at the thought.  “I haven’t told you about my evening yet, maybe you were feeling my fear and distress.  What time was it that you were sleeping and had this ‘dream’?”

Sure enough, just about the time I was sitting in the window seat crying was when he had awaken.  I went on to tell him about what had transpired last night.  Throughout my recalling of events, I heard Adrian inhale sharply a couple of times.  As his head moved back and forth, I could see the hurt and anger in his eyes.  He knew that mother was not very fond of him but had no idea that she disliked completely.

The sky was still cloudy and overcast from the storms that had rolled through and every once in a while the sun would shine between them.  I heard a clap of thunder in the distance and could only speculate what the conversation was that mother and daddy were having at that moment.  I felt a sudden foreboding with the thought.

After church, my parents were going over to the lake for a “discussion” while they were fishing.  Daddy had a little rowboat docked down there for whenever he felt like getting away.  He didn’t ever come home with all that many fish but I suppose it was the one place that he could get some peace, out on that lake.

As the clouds began to thicken, I made plans to meet Adrian tomorrow so I could tell him what the outcome was of my parents “discussion” about my future.  We kissed and said our goodbyes, then I headed down to the lake.  When I arrived, I spotted daddy’s boat and it appeared that he was standing up over mother.  I wished that I could hear what was being said but they were too far out.

All of the sudden, I saw the boat capsize!  They were going to drown if they didn’t get help so I ran as fast as I could toward the dock.  I jumped into Mr. Jurgen’s, our closest neighbor to the  south of us, boat.  Just as I was getting ready to row out there Adrian appeared and jumped in with me. 

“What are you doing here?  I thought you were going home.”

“I was,” he said, “but I changed my mind.  I decided to come down here and talk to your parents first.  I was going to ask your father for your hand right now, today.  As I arrived, I saw you running for the dock and looked out on the lake to see a boat turned over.  I figured it must be them!”

By this time we has almost reached them.  When daddy saw it was us coming to help, he heaved mother farther up the capsized boat and on to its bottom so that we could pull along side to help her into ours.  Once that was accomplished, Adrian aided daddy.  Mother sat there glaring at the three of us with only a mumbled word of thanks. 

Daddy shook Adrian’s hand profusely and hugged me, then he turned to face mother saying, “This isn’t finished yet!  We have more to talk about concerning this mess!…”

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In The Shadows

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Into shadows of
space and time
have gone many
friends of mine

Where all those
years did go
I really don’t
seem to know

On a day
of giving thanks
I have searched
my memory banks

For the ones
that I did love
times like this
them I think of

I thank God
for those He gave
whom the road
for me pave

To be the me
I am today
as my thanks
to Him I say!

Teresa Marie  11/24/11

 

Thursday Morning Animal Laughs

Lucy the Panda was
having some tea
until the waiter’s bill
she did  see

“How much?” she cried
“You’re kidding me
for this little snack?
OMG!”

 

 

Mickey the monkey
with dog does play
He grabs his tail
then runs away

Dog thinks that
he’s been forgot
until his paw
that monkey’s got!