Nonsense stuff

By Cora

The Alphabet (Cora Woodruff )

A Bear Came Down Eating Fries

Good Horse I Just Kill Lions

Maybe Nobody Offers Perfectly Queenly Robes

Smile To Utterly Visualize Wicked Xylophones

Your Zip-line


Here is one of my favorite nonsense recipes from Edward Lear:

Nonsense Cookery (Edward Lear)

Amblongus Pie

take 4 pounds (say 4 1/2 pounds) of fresh amblongusess, and put them into a small pipkin .
cover them with water and boil them for 8 hours incessantly, after which add 2 pints of new milk and proceed to boil for 4 hours more.
when you have ascertained that the amblongusess are quite soft, take them out and place them in a wide pan, taking care to shake them well previously.
grate some nutmeg over the surface, and cover them carefully with powdered gingerbread, curry powder, and a sufficient quantity of cayanne papper.
remove the pan into the next room and place it on the floor.
bring it back again, and let it simmer for three-quarters of an hour.
shake the pan violently till all the amblongusess have become a pale purple color.
then having prepared the paste, insert the whole carefully , adding at the same time a small pigeon, 2 slices of beef, 4 cauliflowers, and any number oysters.
watch patiently till the crust begins to rise, and add a pinch of salt from time to time.
serve up in a clean dish, and throw the whole out the window as fast as possible.

BooBoo (not the dog)

Oops. Mega Pictures. I need some more lessons. I used compose this time and there was no options.

Boo and Abby

Here are the pictures of the dog haircuts as I promised a while back.  I learned how to post a picture.  The haircut was a couple of weeks ago.  They had lion cuts in the winter, but no pictures.  Now they were getting a regular summer cut and it was still cold.  Abby shivered all the time so she has Boo's t-shirt on.  Her t-shirt would not stay on.  Abby was so knotted up from her lion cut that I had to shave her head and ears, too.  Now she looks like a puppy, or a terrier or anything but a poodle.  Hop you like the pix.

Dalek

For all the Dr. Who fans out there, this is my Dalek.  I made it in my preschool when we learned about robots.  The star is it's shooter, and the pipe cleaner the plunger-like thing.  I love Dr. Who and the Daleks.
Otto

Pictures of Alia

Here are some of the pictures that we have over the years. Cute as a button!

ALIA--IT'S YOUR DAY!!!!

(:Happy birthday Alia.:) What a great day to be five. Let me tell a story about Alia. On May 31, 2006 her mother and father left early for the hospital because this was the day she was going to be born by appointment. No guessing the day, it was already set. Grandma Kempe and Grandma Hall were left at home to take care of Kobin and Jessica. We left in the morning to do a little shopping and stopped to eat at Burger King in Sikeston while we waited for that phone call. As we finished lunch the call came. Alia was here!! and she was doing fine!! We jumped into the car and drove to Cape Girardeau to see her.

What a darling little girl. She was so pink and pretty and wrapped up tight in a blanket in her mother's arms. It was so fun for each of us to hold her and rock her and say, "Hi, Alia. Welcome to the family."

In a few days Alia came home to live. She was so tiny and cute. She slept all day and sometimes she slept at night, too. Mommy was very tired and sore because she had surgery so for a few nights she slept in the big lounge chair and one or another grandma slept in the big waterbed so we could get up when she woke up to eat and give her to Mommy. That way Daddy could sleep so he could go to work. Then we would change her diaper and rock her if she didn't go back to sleep.

It was so much fun to have this sweet baby girl in the family. We all love her and wish her the very best, happiest birthday in the world

Alia in Springtime

We took this photo a few days ago. Everyone at church said she looked like a princess. Of course, she loved that!