The Stars at Night are Big and Bright

The Stars at Night are Big and Bright...and boring.  Lauren and I went stargazing in Arizona with about twenty others who had nothing better to do.  
Two amateur astronomers brought big, hulking telescopes for which Galileo might have bartered his three offspring. Believe me, these 'scopes were WELL loved babies.  The two guys excitedly programmed them to see each astral treat with TV-like remote controls. (Cheaters). We expected to see the fiery bits of carbon up close and personal. No. Instead, they still looked like a bunch of little pinpricks--just lots more of them. I politely asked the astronomer geeks how they got so into this. (And they were REALLY into it).  Both had become obsessed at about age ten causing me to conjecture that stellar addiction MUST occur before puberty or not at all. I recalled how badly I had wanted a telescope at that age.  Oh, how fortunate that letter to Santa never made it to the star-studded North Pole.
©10/2012  Jana B Patrick

Thanksgiving Guest

Our front door is all glass and you can imagine my surprise when I turned around the corner and saw a GIANT, fat turkey standing at the front door.  No, I didn't take a picture, (drat)  instead I called our catatonic, perennially somnolent little doggie to the door to see what he would do. He actually barked.  He scared the turkey a total of about five feet away.  Tom turkey and friends hung out in the yard awhile discussing how to get inside.  They had heard of previous generations being the Guests of Honor at November gatherings and wanted a piece of the action.  As far as I was concerned, they were not welcome unless they came frozen, featherless, headless and dead.
©11/2012  Jana B Patrick

Happy Thanksgiving.  Gobble, gobble.

Dizzy! I'm So Dizzy, My Head is Spinnin'

I think that someone gave the USA a frontal lobotomy when we were napping. Perhaps it was a Groupon deal. Both hemispheres of our collective brains seem polar and permanently divided. Both sides of the gray matter are spinning at vortex speed creating doubt and subterfuge about the actions or perceived actions of it's mirror image. Both sides need psychiatric help. With a co-pay of just $938 billion, help is SOON available from Big Brother! Unfortunately, the lobotomy makes reading the 2300 page health care program with accompanying 13,000 pages of regulations a bit tricky. 

©11/13/2012  Jana B. Patrick,  http://janasrandomwriting.blogspot.com/

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

"Peeeee-yew!"

I went hiking up on the Continental Divide in Colorado this past weekend with my daughter, Lauren, and her dog, Spartacus.  It was cold, windy and trying.  I think ALL of the above highlighted words describe aspects of this year's elections...
Sparticus has a new backpack and was able to carry his own sh!t off the trail.  I would be willing to use tax dollars to supply politicians with much larger versions of these.
©11/06/2012  Jana B. Patrick,  
http://janasrandomwriting.blogspot.com/