Lazy ol' Moi

And the winner from my 3rd April blog post give a way is Deanna. Tadah you made it, errr your ID/name made it outta the hat and into the winners circle. You are one lucky Chicka! The angels are really liking you these days. So tell moi what's up with that?


Oh and this is y'alls last chance to enter my April Give A Ways, by commenting on this very post to win my 4th and final give a way for the Poem A Day month of April. The winner will be announced at my next posting 4 days from now…that would be May 1st

Okay so I’m taking the lazy way out Post for today, I’m asking that y’all visit some of my dear internets

Bricolor

Left Brain Write

A River of Stones

Be Kind

Terry Taylor

Brain Droppings

Oh, don't forget to comment so you will be entered in my Last April Give a Way! and let me know if any of my dear internets are your dear internets too.
 

Sharing

Luffa Bed - they are starting to pop UP

I want to share some of my work from this month. Yes with y’all my dear internets. I must say that I have been struggling with my writing “flowage” and junk like that. So without further a dodo here we go

From April 2 prompt Write a post card poem- short & personal

Post Card

It’s spring here
Hot, Humid
Pollen infused air
Hope you join me
Soon
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From April 6 prompt Write using the phrase “Don’t ___ (blank), ___(blank)

Don’t Stare, blink

The paint will dry
The pot will boil
The grass will grow and
The view will change
Plus your eyes won’t dry out
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Oh I know they both have to do with dry eyes. Why you do see it don’t you? Come on… the 1st one is about pollen (allergy eyes) and the 2nd one is more specific. See it! Duh, it’s not so funny if I have to splain it to y’all.

Never mind.

So did I mention that commenting on this post will get your ID, name if you will, in my 3rd drawing for the month of April. Even if you have already won you still stand a chance of winning. Well that is of course IF you comment. Yes tweeting counts extra, that’s right EXTRA and will get you (err your name) in the hat. O-lay doing a hat dance. Fair warning I’m running outta give a ways and the month is running out of days, sorta like a wrist watch that you forgot to wind. No, silly not wind as in blowing wind…but wind as in the road or the watch.

Now 1-2-3 everybody Leave your Comment NOW, no really…get ready…get set…COMMENT. Gs what ya waiting fer alread?

PS Happy Easter Weekend y'all...

Ah did ya miss it?

The Stupid Blog Party that is? It was here on April 15th-18, but now it is over and all the names have been entered into our crown and the winners have been drawn out our crown. All Participants win the right to display the Stupid Blog Party Badge on their blog

Thank you all for playing, but alas only a select few may actually win a prize…And the WINNERS ARE

First 1st Prize: Smiling With Daisy - Daisy

Second Prize: Exit Stage Right - Snaggle Tooth

3rd Prize:  Deanna's Blog - Deanna

4th Prize: Elizabeth's Ramblings - Elizabeth

Booby Prize:  Ma Vie Folle - Sheila 1 of my commenters

Consolation Prizes:

Mildred - 1 of Daisy's commenters
Lynn - 1 of Snag's commenters
Mirisa - 1 of Deanna's commenters
Ellis - 1 of Elizabeth's commenters

Please e-mail your address' to me so I may get your super & duper & spectacular prize to you. Paigevonliber (at sign) gmail dot com

Thanks again to all my dear internets…start saving your stupid stories and things now just in case we have another Stupid Blog Party around this same time next year.

btw my 3rd April give a way info will be in my next post. I love you my dear internets {hugs computer}

Thanks again to all my guest and to those that commented the postings of my guest.

Yeah Bay-B

Let’s get this Stupid Blog Party started, up in here. There’s some left over spaghetti and crackers on the table over there. Fuzzy navels on the ottoman slash coffee table in the living room, but I must caution you on possible toenail clippings clinging to the fabric. Yeah, well we all can’t be excellent housekeepers ALL the time…now can we? Okay, the bathroom is off limits, there is a port-o-let on the front lawn and y’all can use the hose IF you feel that you must wash up. Please enjoy this year’s Stupid Blog Party by visiting our other guest, chat amongst yourselves and don’t forget to tell us how happy you are to be here and how much we have impressed you with our…with our…err Stupidness.

Yes be prepared to be dazzled (not to be confused with a BedazzleR) with our little story. I don’t know about y’all but I do hope I don’t rattle on too much after all there are other guest to mingle with. Oh please be sure to try the Humus, my family won’t eat it. I see some of you brought your own snacks (lol I typed snakes at first) and drinks, now don’t be greedy share. I said SHARE!

~~I suppose if YOU want to make this a “Fancy” party feel free to dress up, otherwise attire is optional~~

Okay so y’all my dear internets remember when I told y’all about our trip to Glen Rose and the Dinosaur tracks, blah, blah blah? Well as we were passing though town I spotted an Art Museum. I know who would have thought that they had one? But they did and I drug Beloved and Baby Girl in. Hey it was FREE! Believe it or not we actually saw some pieces by some of the same artist we saw in Savannah last Thanksgiving. Anyway Beloved and Baby Girl just zipped right through. Now between me and you I don’t think they really appreciated the art at all. I however took my time meandering (a Texas word for lolly-gagging (which is a fancy word for poking along slowly)) from room to room and then all of a sudden (feign surprise please & thank you)…

I rounded a corner and spied a painting resting on an easel. I felt happiness at the sight of it. Really this grin sorta crept across my face and then bam it was a huge smile. I felt my insides all warm and tingly. Crazy, absolutely CRAZY I tell you. I felt so silly, stupid if you will, at how seeing that painting made me feel so good. No it wasn’t one of mine, however that would have been wonderful if not funny though, thanks for asking. So’s anyway I studied the face of the old gentleman and said out (after looking around to be sure no one was watching me{wink}) “My aren’t you a dear ol’ fella? My goodness I can’t believe how happy it makes me to look at you.” Yes I really did say all that. So I glanced at the information card to find out the artist and subject. OMG! I’m telling y’all OMG! The man in the painting was Commodore (last name omitted to protect our privacy)

Hole E Mole E my dear internets ... I know why I liked him so much, it was one of those “DUH STUPID!” moments ya know? Smack yourself in the forehead even…It was my Husband! My own Beloved, only NOT, ya know cause this Commodore guy was long, way long gone, but it looked like my Beloved and in fact he was an Ancestor! I know! What are the odds of this actually happening? Okay I’ll show you the Commodore, but know this, my Beloved doesn’t have this long of a beard, nor the blue eyes and he does not wear cowboy hats and he is not as old…but otherwise it’s my man. The same face shape, the same nose, eye shape, cheeks and lips and the ears…No wonder I felt so good seeing this painting. Oh and the eyebrows are so totally the same.

I know this is just so unbelievable, but it’s a true story however Stupid it may sound. Now over to y’all, my dear internets… If the Mr. Linky doesn’t work for ya please leave a direct link to your Stupid Blog Party Post. There are some prizes. Not for everyone but for 8 lucky winners whose names will be drawn at random from those dear internets that are able to participate. And don’t forget EVERYONE that plays gets to display this year’s Stupid Blog Party Badge. You have until midnight'ish April 18 to link & play. Winners will be announced April 19.

NOW-Show-ME! SHOW ME YOUR STUPIDNESS!

Are you Ready??

For some football??? No, well me neither, but I am almost ready for my 2nd  Stupid Blog Party. Consider this the reminder post and here is what we expect…

post something purdy Stupid (could be a story-real or fiction, a poem, a photo taken by you or a piece of your artwork) Post it on your blog On April 15 (or till midnight on the 18th)**

Link to Paradise Valley 2…Hell’s Mountain; use Mr. Linky to add your link here or leave us a comment telling us you posted something stupid or that you linked to our Stupid Blog Party along with a direct link to your post **

Tweet about our Stupid Blog Party including a link (duh) **

All Participants get the Stupid Blog Party Badge to proudly display on their blog.

** will get your name in our crown for random drawings for super & duper & spectacular prizes (yes there will be more than one winner) But you must participate and that means… Post something Stupid & Link to us, Link to our Stupid Blog Party, or Tweet about our Stupid Blog Party. Each thing that you do will get your name in our crown for random drawings. I know - could I possibly use the word link more often?

See these are the possible prizes you could win, but only if you participate!

2 different aprons (1st & 2nd prizes), a set of 2 hand crafted (by me) soaps (3rd prize), a dream catcher (4th prize), 1 booby prize and then there are 3 consolation prizes.  Not pictured are a couple of surpise "add ons" So you see I expect lots of participation, my dear internets. DO NOT DISAPPOINT US!

There y’all have it, my dear internets…the Official Reminder about the Stupid Blog Party Friday April 15 (you will have untill midnight'ish April 18 to enter). You don’t want to miss it…Well I hope you don’t anyways. Oh btw the winner from last post is Mark Kerstetter. Be sure to mail me (paigevonliber (at sign) gmail (dot) com) your address so I can mail you your give a way. Stay tuned for not only the Stupid Blog Party but more April give a ways.

Winner!

The winner of my first give a way is…wait let’s not be too hasty here. I mean I think I want to keep your attentions for a bit longer. Because he (Mark Kerstetter) asked for it - here is a couple of photos of the big a$$ bird book I wrote of in the last post…

Ah hum, see I told y’all it was big, please note the size of the dollar bill, an actual dollar bill mind you. I was gonna use a hundred but then y’all couldn’t see the book.
and
Since Deanna asked about the turtle incident I’ll briefly (LOL) tell ya what happened…but first cue some 3 stooges music (y’all guys like that)

Me: Baby girl when are you going to clean that turtle box? The smell is starting to smack me in the face

Baby Girl: I’ll do it now.

My thoughts~ hum what was that weird sound? O never mind. Lalalalala infinite.

Baby Girl: making sounds of grunting and doors closing and then

Me: and THEN the smell! OMG! It slid under my office door reached up and snatched the nose right off my face.

My thoughts ~ what ta hellO I can’t breathe.

Me: I Jumped up without fainting. Jerked open the door. Baby Girl standing in the hall with said stinky turtle in hand. I said, “what are you doing?” okay so I said it loudly yelled even “put Theo in the tub. OMG that smell is horrible!

Baby Girl: I tripped on my blanket and the box sorta spilled.

Me: OMG…OMG yelling now (really) “get that box outta here. OMG you didn’t get it on the bed did you?


Baby Girl: just looking at me as if I were crazy

My thoughts ~ humph!

Baby Girl: okay

So I watched her moving slower than a glacier at the North Pole…as she put the turtle in the tub, bent over to pick up the box and proceed to carry it all the way outside

Me: I was suffocating! I ran to get the fart spray as if that would stop or cover up a dead rotting body covered in turtle waste. But I tried, so hard in fact that the house looked like it was full of smoke. Baby Girl was still outside. Doing What-God only knows!

Me: OMG at the back door OMG what did it spill on?

Baby Girl: My blanket I guess.

Me: jerking up the blanket and sheets. I ran it to the door and tossed it outside. Sprayed some more. OMG

Baby Girl: I think maybe it got on my pillow. I don't know.

ME: just to show you my stamina, I was not passed out yet from the stench or the lack of oxygen or the blood rushing like a volcano in my veins. I jerked up the pillows and threw them out the door. And muttered some more OMGs and OMGs. Baby Girl just looking at me. There was some strange growling noise, but I don't know where it came from.

And eventually after 2 days (seriously) with the window open and fan pulling out the funk out the house started to smell better. Now there is no box for Theo the turtle! Nope not gonna go through the ‘have you fed / watered her? Cleaned the box? That’s right…no not turtle soup-gross, Theo now lives in Baby Girl’s bathtub. Hey when Baby Girl wants a shower she has to clean the tub, every time she uses the bath room she remembers to fed / water Theo. Too bad I didn’t think of this sooner.

Okay now for the winner from my last post give a way (drum roll please) Daisy;  yea and horray and high fives. Be sure to send me (paigevonliber (at sign) gmail (dot) com) your address so I can get your super and super give a way to you.

Oh by the way (btw) leave a comment and you will be entered in my 2nd give away and don’t forget to tweet and all that for more chances to win. Yes Daisy you can win again, but only if your enter and only if your name is drawn again

Books - Books

Everywhere you look! Tadah my first poem for National Poetry Month – April. Did ya catch it??? I’ll repeat for those of you who over looked my piece of outstanding art….

Books – Books

Everywhere you look!

Okay so not really, but it does rhyme. Did y’all know poems Do Not have to rhyme to be a poem? It’s true, they don’t. Okay back to the business of posting…

I wanted to show y’all our collection of books and their various locations throughout our home. I say "our" as in Us, y'all no myself and my Beloved, he likes books too. Okay so I didn’t take photos of the ones out in the garage in boxes…palllease there are spiders in those boxes! Be sure to read to the end where the Give ah way info is. No don’t skip my wondermous righting skills as you may miss an opera tune ah tea to snort or giggle or make sum such noise.

Okay so I’ll start in my studio…these are some different areas that have books stacked up. Not pictured is the huge bird book, it’s like 1 and half foot wide by about 3 foot long. Seriously beautiful—clearance purchase at six ducks.

And in our life’ing room. However Not pictured here is the big giant Body Atlas that sat under a chair. Ewe lala

I did not take a photo in baby girl’s room, as there was an incident with the turtle so it’s quite a mess. All writey them on to my boo d wire. Some of y’all dear internets have seen it before.

Squirrelly y’all did ent thing I would skip the most important readN room of our home! Yes dear internets this is our Lie Barry, complete wif speck tick ills.

Yeah, lol don't every 1 have a chicken and a photo of their state capitol in the bathing room. Now for the give it away information as formal lee mint chinned. Leaf a comment and your ID will be in the hat. I will name the winter form this post in my next post. So that means you have 4 days to N Ter. I know! I M soo excited two! I can nut weight to sea whose wents my furst April Give Away!

Okay leaf it in commas y’all! And done bee a feared to Follow, I love dear internets who have mah back.