Marian Allen's Blog, page 109
June 19, 2021
Tipper And The Naughties #Caturday #TipperAndChickie
Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? I played a trick on Momma. It was so funny! I betended that I didn’t have any legs at all. This move is called “doing a loaf”, but I did it specially good. Momma thought it was…
June 18, 2021
Bad News, Good News #Fridays4Future #ClimateStrikeOnline
If I had a million wishes, they would all be for everybody to work against climate change / global warming — and for the work to be enough to repair the damage. But I don’t have a million wishes, and this is one of the…
June 17, 2021
FriendDoors, #Maysville 2 #ThursdayDoors
Here are two more pictures from the business trip #4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, took during which she stayed in Maysville, Kentucky. There are only two because there are three pictures of one and the other picture contains multitudes. Of doors. This balcony, though!…
June 16, 2021
One Big Grin #1LinerWeds
My Kentucky country relatives used figurative language so colorful and specific, it amounted to poetry. I mean, yeah, “a toothy grin” paints a picture, but there’s nothing striking about the image. Ah, but my Kentucky country relatives never used “a toothy grin” to describe a…
June 15, 2021
Grilled Veg Again #Vegan
I got some nice veg at the farmers market, so this happened. That’s a long, skinny eggplant, a halved pattypan squash, and a cabbage wedge. The cabbage wedge could have been thicker, although the crispy bits were nicely crispy, not burny crispy. I rubbed these…
June 14, 2021
Hooray For The Pooh! #MondayRecommends #Nails
Saturday, I posted about foxes. Yesterday, I posted about wopses. So, naturally, my mind went to A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh, specifically to this poem: The Three Foxes by A. A. Milne Once upon a time there were three little foxesWho didn’t wear…
June 13, 2021
June 12, 2021
Chickie And Friends #Caturday #TipperAndChickie
HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! Guess what Mommy did! She bought me my very own sink! It’s getting crowded outside. Tipper and I are glad to be indoors where there’s plenty of room. And then…. And THEN…. These guys came out from under the back…
June 11, 2021
Monetizing What, Now? #Fridays4Future #ClimateStrikeOnline
I subscribe to Callaway Climate Insights, because of course I do. I don’t have much money to invest (read: hardly any), but I want what I do have to be used for good, not e-vil. And the greening of blue investments is really starting to…
June 10, 2021
Bucket List, #Maysville #ThursdayDoors
#4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, stayed in Maysville, Kentucky while on a project for Corn Island Archeology, and brought me back some door pictures, like a good girl or, as she used to say when she was wee, a goo’ goo-uh. Maysville is now…
