The Day of the Week, the Time of one's Life. It's the TToT (but you probably guessed that)

 

Question: Are you a New Reader?

(Follow-up Question): Are you enjoying this bloghop?

(Final Question... we promise): If you'd like to participate in this bloghop but are having trouble getting, you know, started? We will front you one totally valid, not-bad-among-the-other-nine Grat for inclusion in your inaugural TToT posting.

No tricks or strings or anything bad(ish). Just typee-type-type, publish and link. 

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1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) technology cum work-required photation: the Grat about this photo of an attic in one of my properties? Glad you asked! We did a 'scary' Six this week, hoping to produce the appropriate emotional response, i.e. scary house. It was actually a number of years ago, when I a had a number of old, vacant houses to inspect every week, that the concept of scary old house came up. We are brought up as children to have a respect, if not fear haunted houses. Mostly because, in theory, they might be home to ghosts and/or other inimical beings. So I would have fun (on these inspections with a 'What if there's a spirit or monster in this property?' Alas, the innocence of childhood. The true horror to be encountered in a putative haunted house, for an adult (and, we include ourselfs, for the purpose of the narrative) is far worse than banshees and werewolves, it is so mundane. Approaching the stairs in the photo, hearing a sound and catching our toe on the insulation (white stuff)... that is the scary thing. To lie paralyzed at the bottom of the stairs in a vacant house, real horror.

This is a Grat on this week's list because: a) we enjoyed writing about childhood and 2) We didn't trip on the insulation

 

5) putative first post by the Doctrine to this here bloghop here. June 7 1913

6) Return of a wandering hostinae, Readers surely took note of Kristi's return at the beginning of the week this week. Welcome Back. (New Readers: she is one of the original Hostinae chosen by Hallowed-be-The-Founderina's-Name...) back in, the records are... imprecise, lets call it 1967 just to err on the side of caution.

7) the Six Sentence Story blohop.

8) the Unicorn Challenge  Picked' 'corn of the week:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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On this, the 8th Friday of the first month of the New(ish) Year! The TToT!

 So, lets get right down to...(damn! gots my first music vid)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine Long grat this week (see Grat #8)

4) gainful(ish) employment... well, technically, self-employment, i.e. real estate sales and marketing. It permits (and, kinda requires) certain activity ever week. Past lists have featured photos of the properties currently in inventory. This week will be no exception.

5) a lack of snow (no hubris in that statement... simple gratitude for weather conditions), that said, while seasonable cold, the ground is frozen, but visible. grat!

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Feature:  'La Machine'. by Violet Lentz

8) ok Reader Advisory: the fact that you don't have to be a clark to read, enjoy and otherwise participate Doctrine posts notwithstanding, here's a quick little Grat that is right on the edge of acceptable coherency in writing, you know what we mean, esai?* In any event, the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for self-improving oneself. Especially, if not 'only', for clarks. The reason is, it appears that a necessary precursor to growing and development involves the emotional aspect (of being a person). In clarks, there is a relatively high level of 'hands off that shit', at least when it comes to us dealing with...well, ourselves. Short story extended: had an encounter this weekend with an online friend that resulted in a better sense not only of ourselfs, but our capacity to interact with the world around us (and the people who makes it up). All due to time spent with this here personality theory here. For the non-predominant clarklike Readers: a reaction to something that in pre-Doctrine days could have been negative, became a positive(ish) lol process. Nothing remarkable, nothing that 'real' people don't encounter and develop in... like childhood days. But, speaking only for ourselves, clark here. lol Thanks! unidentified person in non-comprehensible interaction!

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3  (A clarklike twist to a very rogerian view of clubs, groups, gatherings and common effort, aka 'the Herd'. Unfortunately, the innate (and near-uncontrollable drive to subversion in clarks pretty much negates any of the natural attractiveness that our Herd Member (rogerian) brethren have in copious amount. oh well.)

* ha ha a little rhetoric joke

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oh yeah, a title! (but we did remember the link-thing!)

 1) thanks to Mimi for the remindering of putting the linkz at the bottom

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

This is the Doctrine's weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Hey! Here's a thought... are you typing from a location other than Oceania (North America(ish)... that is)? Welll, have we an offer for you! Link your post.  (n.b. well, given this is the Wakefield Doctrine, if you're not sure how to, then just ask in a comment). If you do, we promise to share one of the few jokes that everyone says should not be considered nearly as hilarious as we do... (too much build-up? ....yeah. not a joke so much, more a bon mot you know, 13-year-old clever,)¹

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. 'Six clumsy sentences...'  by Keith

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) The current lack of snow. While winter cold, the starchy-white soiled sheet of January snow that makes winters so inherently inimical, the brown of frozen dirt is, some how, less bully-ing.

7)  work (and documentary photo) check back later, aiigght?

8) Everyday oddities of the 'real' world. (weird? ok, daylight creepy...er. how about uncanny yeah lets go with that)  Here we have a photo of a church in rural Rhode Island. Though on the small side, look at the photo and chase down the small, wth? nibbling at your sense of normal, natural world of churches:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

1. current hostinae ( Mimi, Dyanne, Kristi, Lisa, Denise, Misky not eligible to participate. As they would likely suffer a conflict of interest. ("He said what?!?! And represented it as humor?!?!! After the talk we had when he accepted the role of ... we should have know!")
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Saturday Morning Post -Ten Things of Thankful bloghop

 Welcome. 

Being a 'list' format for a gratitude themed bloghop, allow us to cut 'n paste some content from our parallel post published in WP.

We will add/delete items as the mood moves us and, perhaps, wax philosophical on the nature and benefits of 'tude.

Here's a Grat for 1 & 2 (related to Grat #5)

our stationary Stairmaster^r

Who says you have to pay a gym membership fee? 

Hey! Lets start with the persistent Grat #10 i.e. Secret Rule 1.3

What the hell. What's the deal. Why should a New Reader (and/or New Participant) care? Well, there are rules and standards in every social interaction involving more than one person. And these are usually made apparent to all. And then there are examples (illustrations? manifestations? yeah! that's it) ...wherein a good set of ground rules are expressed in contemporaneous terms... hence SR 1.3 which is an example of the guide to writing (for the TToT) that are contained in the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules).

ask anybody! ;p

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) I like big boats*

5) the work I have chosen. (see #4 above) I have a listing that I must inspect every week. And, on the way there, the highway passes the Port of Providence and there are usually a number of boats and tankers and such to be admired from afar.

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  'Are We Playing?' by Chris

7) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. 'Honeysuckle and Provolone'  by Nancy

8) something, something

9) the first full week of 'No longer Winter'... it's like, damn! The didn't set until, like sometime towards the evening!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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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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