Life On The Planet

Poetry on the Planet

Rocks In My Dryer is having a poetry contest. Here is my entry...

Do you really believe I can think
with dishes piled high in the sink?
Write a poem I am told,
but there's laundry to fold
and white clothes to turn into pinks.

Tomorrow I'll have time to write,
but the contest is ending tonight!
If I don't clean the house
I'll feel like a louse.
(But winning would be a delight!)

I s'pose I could write just one
silly poem full of giggles and fun.
But now I don't know
what to write, and so
I'll go get the house work done.

Go and enter!

Hannah Montana, Board Games & Cheatin' Australians

After long hours of consideration, and because I don't know how to use the stinking record button on my computer, I have decided to spare you my renditions of every Hannah Montana song I was forced to sing Karaoke style last Friday night by those sadistic girls in my scout troop. (Be grateful. Be Very, Very Grateful.)

While the scouts where pretending to sleep the adults played board games. The first game is one I was not familiar with. You need to get it. I mean, you need to get it if you don't already have it. I doubt you need two. How silly! The game is called Transamerica.

There is also Trans Europa. Trans America was a lot of fun and very easy to play. Basically, you build track (railroad) across the U.S. to connect your cities. You get to lay two tracks every turn, unless you're Aussie Kim, and then you put down three... or four... or however many you think you can get away with. (Cheating on games has a new name in these parts. It's called "pulling a Kim.") Not that Aussie Kim would ever intentionally put down an extra piece of track. No, I'm certain it was an accident.

Speaking of Kim and the games she plays, how's this for home field advantage. Kim, my co-leader, Shelley, and I had finished a game of Trans America and she pulls out a card game. It's a trivia game about AUSTRALIA.

I wonder who won that one?

Next on the agenda, study Australian Geography and the migrational patterns of Australian water birds. She's going down.