Lightning Rod Gets The Zot

The Poet's Eye ^ | Lightning Rod

[Tax-chick]

Jake likes pie, too.

[sionnsar]

Interesting.

[ColdOne]

Good Morning this Tuesday!

[Tax-chick]

Good afternoon! 67 and sunny, time to go to Walmart. AGain.

[Monkey Face]

Chapter 7,853 in the Continuing Stor-r-ry of Miss Daisy.

If all goes well, and the carburetor gets here in time, Miss Daisy will be on the road again next week. Wish me luck!

[ColdOne]

G-day! Have a safe trip! 34F here.

[ColdOne]

Of course...best of luck!

[sionnsar]

I do.

[Monkey Face]

Thanks!

:o])

[Tax-chick]

We had to get some undergarments for Tom for his backpacking trip. This was harder than it would have been for a boy not quite so Churchillian in figure.

Tom is going to do his performance piece from January for a speech competition next weekend, but he’ll need a new one for the tournament in January, because he can’t use the same piece twice at the same venue. I’m going to encourage him to choose a selection from Winston Churchill!

During his presentation, he reads a passage from Martin Gilbert’s “First World War” about the Armistice. I’m going to have him read it for my Cub Scouts on Thursday, since it’s Veteran’s Day. It’s only about 2 minutes long, but quite impressive when Tom is “in form.”

[ColdOne]

Churchill sounds good.

[Tax-chick]

I have three volumes of his colonial wars correspondence: India, Sudan, and South Africa. A nice skirmish in the dark and pouring rain in the Himalayas would be a good piece for Tom. His current blood-and-guts performance includes parts of the Iliad and “The Killer Angels,” as well as WWI.

[sionnsar]

I stepped out at lunch today — what a shock! It was cold (compared to what it has been), with a quite cold rain coming down. I guess winter has arrived.

[ColdOne]

He is going to recite this to a group you say?

[Tax-chick]

He reads it for a judge in competition. Debate tournaments usually include other public-speaking competitions, and one is Poetry and Prose Reading.

[ColdOne]

I agree, winter is here. The high will be 35F today for us.

[ColdOne]

How wonderful he does this. You must be proud! Just do not let him know you told us about.. his ......new...... “undergarments!”

[Tax-chick]

Tom has a lot of verbal facility. Maybe he’ll be a lawyer or politician or teacher. ‘Face has been here and even seen our laundry, so nothing is too private ;-).

[ColdOne]

Just teasing you! :0)

[Not A Snowbird]

You stepped out?! I’m hiding in my building. Cold wet things are falling from the sky.