Summer's Eve's Eve The Ten Things of Thankful 2024

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge.  Pick of the Week:

5) the Six Sentence Story  Pick of the Week:

6) Hey! Summer is but days away! By the time you read this (and/or we actually complete and publish it) Summer arrives! *

7) * (new TT0T Readers/Participants: hey, we may lack something by way of logic and sensible narratives, but we're very not new to the Grat Game. Hence the extra Grat Item to explain what you should already know: The essences of Summer is daylight. This weekend the days' supply of said light begins to increase rather than decrease, (Certe hoc longe credibilius sonat¹)

8) driveway markers in the ground this week.  good ole' fashioned New England Winter juju

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Posting on Friday? Yeah, right... Just putting the day of the week in the title don't make it so

 This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) rainy day (and being a low front, a southeast wind^{Grat 9}

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop (and this week's Supremest Six is:)

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop  (bow before the bestest less-than-250-image-prompted-story, but not until you've read the thing, ya know):

6) semi-Grat:  missed our titular goal by.this.much   (Note to Reader Recruiting Program (RRP) need to increase the percentage of adolescent humor-level audience. Sure, Beavis and Butt-Head were popular, like 25-plus years ago, but, heck, the original viewers probably have kids of the appropriate age, ya know?)  

7) modern technology and blue skies. this is approaching Capitol City (which, if you haven't read it yet, our Six Sentence Story which takes place in a police station in this very city!) 

8) something, something

9) on the eastern seaboard (of Oceania) when a storm moves up out of the tropics, if the track is right, the winds are from the south and east. almost always warm(er) temperatures. In the case this week, our sub-grat is the runoff was of sufficient quantities as to leave a track of where the low point was on the driveway. we can now cut a bit of the grass and pine needles and such away and improve drainage! Win Win!

10) Secret Rule 1.3 

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Ten Thousand Things of Thankful

 

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) Blogger Edition

This is the Wakefield Doctrine's Blogger contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Continuously running since 1934, the TToT is a grat blog without peer. Now, two editions, WP and Blogger.  Hit us up on 'the Facebook'. Hell, though we can't imagine being that open-scheduled, why not join the 'group'.

In any event, in no particular order or ranking (except, we guess the numbering thing), the people, places and things that have elicited a state of gratitude in us this past week are:

1) Our Co-hostinae: Mimi, Kristi, Dyanne, List, Denise and Misky

2) Una (and Mia)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the works of Carlos Castaneda. (Castaneda's don Juan maintains that Time (and it's slutty step-sister, Reality) are a function of recollection. We know 'now' but for our remembering it. A carousel of vacation slides flashing on the walls around us at the speed Life.)

5) Outdoor Christmas lights. Phyllis being a 'real' person enjoys seasonal outdoor lighting decoration. Fine. She asked us to put them up.

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lol With graceful resignation (the product of many years) she refers to our efforts as 'Christmas Area 51'

daytime:

nightime:

yeah, and did we mention they, like, randomly flash and ever thang?  yo. ho. yo.

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. from our contribution to an ongoing serial Six. 'An Ian Devereaux Six'

7) knots (large or small, loose or salt-encrusted) can be fun and relaxing to untie

8) knots untied (surely the most enjoyably direct philosophical insight into Life, Human Foibles and the #$(^*@& blinds))

9) the Unicorn Challenge.  Pick of the week:

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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A little late with the TToT (Blogger Edition)? Count your blessings* That there 'other TToT'? A. Train. Wreck

 Welcome to the Blogger Edition of the weekly Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Created by Lizzi R. (sometime at the turn of the century) sustained by the good intent, talent for the expression of gratitude and fortified by the patience of (fill in the blank with favorite 'Sorry, We don't Want to do This, but it's for the good of everyone' person: Job, Tantalus, Mary Magdalene et. al.)

For this week, we will identify the following as the people. places and things that elicited, inspired and otherwise jump-started our somewhat holiday-turgid spirit:

1) The responsibility of being the current host here at the TToT 

2) The Co-Hostinae: Mimi, Dyanne, Kristi, Lisa, Denise and Misky

3) the title? go over there and see what we mean 

4) health*

5) technology**

6) * & ** not to get too philosophical, but in a most mundane and practical sense, this exercise (of listing things gratatiousness) is simply directly beneficial. 

7) only like, twenty one or two days until Summer! (The day there is increasing amount of light in the day) Summer time (just a little delay

8) The Cottage (to the right) this is aka Area 51 (for a our concession to the drive to light lights... photos next week,)

9) something, something Updated Grat (per SR 1.3 chap 9, subchapter 9)  Thanks out to Astrid for the reminderation to put the linksys thing into the post... which I had totally zoned on... Thanks Astrid!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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"...join this week's Ten Things of Thankful, already in progress."

Trying, without success, to remember the situation/context of that statement/advisory standing in for a reasonable and sensible Post title of this week's TToT (Blogger Edition) post.

We know it was television. Can't recall a particular instance. Resisting the urge to search the internet, 'cause, you know, for those of us in a certain demographic, there are surprisingly few events, occurrences, activities and/or pastimes for which this statement is not appropriate.

oh well,

Hey! There's an interesting comparison, generationally-speaking! This distinction between: 'oh well' and 'whatever'

Anyone wishing to weigh in on this, have at it in the Comments below. All correct answers will be RePrinted in another Post and the author offered a seat on the Board of Hostinae.

So, lets complete the list, you know, post postum.

1) the technology to permit such a place as this, the virtual world

2) the fact and appurtenant enthusiasm on the parts of participants each week

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Six Pick. 'Finding the Right One'   by Liz

5) the Unicorn Challenge  our favorite. 'Lies'  by ceayr

6) Hypo-Grat time of year and it's six hours of daylight (unless it's rainy...then dark by 3:30) Positive* ? Less than a month left until Summer!

7)

8). something, somthing

9) minor repair to avoid major expense.  Happened to notice a failed gauge on the well's expansion tank. Nothing catastrophic yet, but in a fit of fairly non-characteristically mature thinking, brought about some  preventive maintenance and had the gauge replaced. a totally minor (30 minute fix)

10) Secret Rule 1.3¹

* the qualification for Hypo-grats is they be presented with the/a positive aspect. Any remedial instruction in the writing and application of this form needed or desired, Mimi is our go-to on these matters

1) Perhaps a little time on the force and consequence of Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). in fact, given the desire and (the) need, one may, [i]nvoke SR 1.3 when the completion of a Ten Things of Thankful is pending, certain and way imminere

so too with the convention of Numbers, (section 24 Chapter 3) 'Hey, you're good! Save that badboy for the last item, ya know?" ibid. op. cit.

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Really? Ambition and timeliness in posting are like perfume and sculpted abs... irresistible. (Advance Ad...visory on music vid-clip)

Here we are, ambitiously striving to be a good Host and publish first.

(Hey, anybody out there give a brother a hand and suggest a couple of Grats? Will totally return the favor, soon as we on our feet again. Maybe, perhaps, you'd be interested in a sear on the Board of Hostinae? We can totally make that happen.)

This is a list format grat blog. I'm grateful for inherent ease of reading in such a presentation (cha...ching! Grat One!)

1) See above.

2) Now, see here, now...cut it out!

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4)  the curious empowerment of a specific and consciously-created myth, aka superstition (quick example in Grat Seven ^{'Hey, we went long on the referential grat thing. Head down to #8})

5) the Unicorn Challenge. pick of the Week

6) the Six Sentence Story. pick of the Week. 'Introspection'  Denise

7) ProTip: sometimes people be all, 'That's a long list, suppose I can't come up with Ten things? What then?" Well, then you're a failure in life and should rip up your modem cert, ya know?" Ha ha. Look at what you made us do! We got so clever with that old-school device, 'the ProTip' schtick, that we stepped on our original witicisa, but, what-the-heck, there's a better than even chance you haven't made it this far down this post.

8) anyways... had we been more disciplined, we would have mentioned, germane to the image at the top, that we have not touched a musical instrument since hitting 'Publish' on the first Doctrine blog post. Won't take the chance. A long story but, better safe than sorry. Well lookie there! Grat #9

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Is a reflection a repetition or a rendition? This and all your other metaphysics quandaries addressed in this week's TToT!!

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. 

A remarkable continuation of the 'Kill'em with Kindness' approach to the Slings 'n Arrows Constituency, Jack's (C.S. Lewis to his dog) long-lost, putatively-illegitimate grand-niece, Lizzi R, has a demonstrably beneficial effect on the virtual world, even to this day.

This week, among the people, places and things we're grateful for are the following:

1) This Space Available

2) (this space left vacant by design)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Landscaping Update: The decision has been made to continue with the 'Let Nature take Her course' approach with the front and side Meadows. Slightly tempted to mow it all before the full-on Winter arrives. But no, we're gonna stay, 'stepped back' and see what grows, totally unimpeded by the Efforts of Man (and Phyllis and Mia)

5) moderate weather (for the season)... as the the old, crocheted-homily reminds us, 'There's a bright side to every climatological tipping point!"

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop  Six Pix of the Week: 'The Black & The Gold'  by Spira (aka the Gatekeeper (a Proprietor @ the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro ^{See Grat #9 below} )

7) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop  'Corn Pick of the Week:

8) something, something

9) the Six Sentence Café & Bistro (that blue? a link to our under-utilized free WP blog created for the purpose of enhancing the immanent reality of what amounts to a cooperative, socio-virtual metaphor. A place where those with the desire and good intent can go (and/or reference independently), in the virtual world/online that has: a consistent form, a varied constituency and unlimited potential (for story-telling, speculation, reflection and all the other fun aspects of 'fiction'). Stop by sometime. ("We're looking at you, Frank) lol (no, not a gotcha, just a friendly invite to a currently ongoing serial adventure involving the tall, thin man, Mimi, Tom, Nick, Chris, Denise and a new 'character' Rosetta Storme.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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