Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... June, 2009

May 31, 2009 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

[Lady Jag]

We gather in tune
to enjoy the last Caturday in June.

[fewz]

I’m going to try this using Splenda in place of the sugar so my wife can eat some.

[jaycee]

I cancelled that font and color and it showed up. AVG has put a toolbar on my computer just a few minutes ago. What in the world is that all about?

[JustAmy]

Happy Caturday, Conor.
Hope you are having a good Saturday.
Thank you bringing those adorable kittens here again today.
They seem ready to join in the fun.

Have a Blessed Weekend.

[jaycee]

Fewz, I got that in an email this morning and it irritated me so I posted it. I don’t doubt he said it but I would love to know if it could be on YouTube?

After all, he has visited all (57) states in the United States...you heard that one, didn’t you? That used to be on YouTube!

[jaycee]

You can get stick margarine. My mother used to always use Parkay stick margarine and she was a grand cook!

[MEG33]

I had butter in the freezer and tossed it after I had had it overlong.I may hold off until I go to the store again...and get butter. Going to put it on the list right now.
I must get off the computer and “move it”...and it’s almost my bedtime!

[Lady Jag]

[yorkie]

I have read that if you use Splenda for baking, the only change you may want to make, is ten minutes before baking is complete, lightly brush with butter - so the top gets crispy and brown. Good Luck!

Now, about that link you sent me on the Eurasian Lynx - that is exactally what I saw in my yard! (Only problem is - they are not in North America!) Now what?

[JustAmy]

Okay .... I'm gone for awhile.
This day is driving me over the wall!

My browser shut down earlier ..... now the power went off for about 5 minutes.
Every window had to be shut down so again I lost the post that I was working on.

I will take some down time to contact my email provider.
I've not been receiving any mail ... not even spam. :)
Time to try to get that resolved.

Happy Caturday everyone.
Have a Blessed weekend.

[fewz]

That same E-mail was around in 2004 saying the same thing about both Bush and Kerry. Probably a hoax, darn it.

[fewz]

There are huge snakes that are not native to North America in the Everglades that were pets before they got too big and were released by their owners.

A Eurasian Lynx could have gotten here the same way.

[MEG33]

;o)
Goodnight all.

[yorkie]

That is what a friend told me, when I showed her the picture. She said it (or one of it’s relatives) could have been smuggled into the country.

Thank you showing me that there is a possibility that there is an animal here that looks like a bobcat, yet is twice as big.

[Lady Jag]

[jaycee]

Awww! You took the air out of my balloon! We never know what to believe anymore but generally we can find it on Snopes! I didn’t check it out ‘cause it sounded so real coming from O. Naptime again! LOL!

[Lady Jag]

[ConorMacNessa]

Death Be Not Proud

by John Donne
(1572-1631)

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[ConorMacNessa]

by John Donne
(1572-1631)

HOLY SONNETS.

XIV.

Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[ConorMacNessa]

From Meditation XVII

by John Donne
(1572-1631)

No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor
of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind,
and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls;
it tolls for thee.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!