To pack for a weekend
With children requires
Much more than a tankful
Of gas and good tires.
You have to remember
Their PJ’s and clothes,
Their brushes for teeth
And for hair, I suppose.
Shampoo, soap and toothpaste
And lotion for itches,
The books they are reading,
The iPads and Switches.
Perhaps a stuffed creature
Or doll that’s a fave
And surely some snacks
Of the type they would crave.
When all is assembled
(And yes, it’s a lot!),
You climb in the car, wond’ring
What you forgot.
Thanksgiving 2020
Miracle Man Thoughts
November 21, 2020
It’s easy to be thankful when times are great,
as God calms storms in our lives each day.
I’ve learned to accept what He puts on my plate,
for HE is the potter, I’m but moldable clay.
But it isn’t always easy being thankful,
while clinging to a knot at the end of a rope.
I pray each day that God gives me a tankful,
so I can press on with HIS message of hope.
During morning quiet time my mind I reset,
giving thanks for my life not being a bust.
Thanking Jesus for settling my sin debt,
giving HIM thanks for it’s “in God we trust”.
“An optimist is someone who starts a new diet
on Thanksgiving Day”
Irv Kupcinet
QUAIL ARMY SONG
I don’t know but I’ve been told
No quail born ever gets old
It’s plain that we gotta fight
For each and ev’ry God-given right
To be quails and not hors d’oeuvres
It’s simply what we all deserve
We want quail houses with double glazing
Is that so very amazing?
And quail babies and quail mortgages;
And not to end up as quail sausages;
To pick up our old-age quail pension,
And not even have to mention
Ignominiously turning up
In a French mustard dip,
Like uncle Bert who met an early death
As pate on a singing soldier’s breath :
“47 Chevy and a tankful of gas,*
Quail liver pate kinds tastes like grass”.
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*Plagiarised from HEARTBREAK RIDGE movie
(From my collection of Bird Poetry and Other Pretensious Crap"
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