I am tripping more than you are. Battling razzberries

[the mingo]

... and here's your rubber duck ...

[the mingo]

Hey Doll where you at?

I ain't getting my thrill here, let me tell ya.

[SadLuckDame]

Love that new picture of the duckie. (I thought it looked ghosty)
I'm just hanging out with my daughter today. She wanted me to read a book by Roald Dahl and she was going to read one, then we are writing up quiz questions to see how well we collected on the memory.

I read Esio Trot. And she is so amazing she read four books in the time it took me to read one and take a nap.

[SadLuckDame]

I passed with a 100% from eight questions and she earned 100% too on her four essays, lol. It was fun, all her idea too. Dang, I did make great kiddos, but on their own they've made great strides.

She said, "And we're not doing a quiz on Moby Dick either." Noway does she wanna read it, ha ha. But, I bet someday she will.

What are you up to, anything fun cooking on the stove tonight?
Or are ya watching a movie...

[the mingo]

didn't get up 'til almost noon - the plan today is to switch bedrooms - from upstairs to down so we can drop a blanket over the entrance to the stairs and not have to heat the upstairs for the winter. That should help a bit. And it will get me off my ass for a couple of hours. I'll write more later, gotta get busy.
later, Doll

[SadLuckDame]

That will make for an interesting day.
You could have a lot of fun with it. I'm putting organic raw honey on my face and I feel mmm.

[the mingo]

Got the room switch done. It was nuts there for awhile. I read your dream this morning - you didn't mention if the iguana had honey on his face Reptiles are not a primitive life form - they are highly attuned to their environments. Your dream iguana seems to be highly attuned to laps.

[SadLuckDame]

Does that mean I'm highly attuned to laps then?
How did you decorate your new room, mingo.

[the mingo]

Ain't done any decorating yet - just got the room cleaned up and the bed moved and it was neat going to sleep in it last night cause the bedroom upstairs has white painted walls and the one down here has paneled walls so that the lamps make a much more muted glow ... goin' to move some paintings around soon and i have that big aquarium freed up since the iguana died so thinkin' of making a kind of dry garden in it with sand and stones and driftwood and a small plastic blue Indian warrior I found on the lake shore some time ago... i'll gather the sand from the roadside but can't do it today cause it's raining & the sand is soaking wet ...
working on the painting i told you about some time ago, i couldn't quite remember what i was going to call it but i think i have a reasonable facsimile - "Darcy, looking back, dreams of the tree that grows on the hill in her throat" - i been messing with it in small ways here and there over the past couple of months but it's need to get into this world must be growing cause it's been on my mind more lately ...
enough to get me to move on it anyways -

[SadLuckDame]

Mingo, I didn't realize you'd meant he'd died the last time we were talking of him.
This makes me so sad.
Do you want mine, I'd give him to you for free.
Not that I like him much, but mainly just to give you him and you'd be able to watch him watch you and wonder if he'd moved yet.

Do you know how he had died?
"Darcy, looking back, dreams of the tree that grows on the hill in her throat" ...yes to this. yes!

Sweet dreams and talk to ya in the A.M.

[the mingo]

yeah, poor otis dead and gone ... Nancy said he got too cold during one of our nights and died from it. She woke up in the morning and found him stiff as a nail in his water dish. I never saw the body - she had it all taken care of by the time I got up that day. I don't want another one but thx for your offer.

I don't know if your dream means you like laps - or maybe it just means i wouldn't go near that question with a 10 foot lizard.

[the mingo]

And I get so into it that my eyes blaze and I start to believe I can cause a natural disaster to rain down on their head. I get that heavy.

o you crack me up, Doll.

[SadLuckDame]

ppp
Mingo, I wanna learn to make this...


I could make a paper boat and sail away in the livingroom.
I could make a paper dress and shoes, then lean over the side of the boat and dip my finger in the pond.

[the mingo]

I'd say you could dispense with the dress & the boat and just ride the swan

[SadLuckDame]

neener neener
Can you make origami?
It's gonna be my plan for the new year.