Haiku Monday: Muesli Moon Musings

Sweet October moon:
golden astral apricot
hangs just out of reach

Auntie Swanny making her special-blend Golden Apricot Moon Muesli for Mr : 4 cups of rolled oats, 1/2 cup oat bran, 1 cup of slivered almonds, 1/4 cup sunflower seeds, 1/4 cup pumpkin seed, 1/4 cup broken walnuts, 1/2 cup raisins, 1/2 cup slivered dried apricots, 1/4 cup tart dried cherries, 1/4 cup currants, 1/4 cup dried blueberries, 1 teaspoon Vietnamese cinnamon, 1 teaspoon dried orange peel, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg. Mix in large roasting pan and spray with canola oil. Bake in 350 oven for 10 minutes, mix and spray lightly again. Return to oven for 10 more minutes, mix and spray, and return for last 10 minutes. Cool and put up in clean glass jars or in airtight tins.  

Trickertreat Blues Y'All

From "The Trickertreat Blues" by Reverend Zeno M. Shellbark

Taterhead Junior describing the size of the Zagnut bar he got last year to a rapt audience.

I ain't got nothin',
Ain't got nothin'
Nothin' but The Trickertreat Blues

I ain't got nothin',
I got nothin' in my bucket
Nothin' but the Trickertreat Blues

Taterheads come a knockin'
and the candy corn is rockin' kind of blues

Oh, I ain't got nothin'
I ain't got nothin'
But sugar, sweet sweet sugar, on my brain

So I'm askin' you right now, mama, 

I'm tellin' you right now
I just want to be your sweet lovin' Malted Milk Ball and chain

And I'll say it again

Oh, yeah, I ain't got nothin,
But a bucket full of money

Got nothin' but the Trickertreat Blues

'Cause without my Bit O Honey
I got nothin' for my money 

Nothin' at all

And I need me my honey

Sweet and warm on my bones

Yeah, the ghosties come on a knockin' and the Tootsie Rolls are rockin'
All night long
I got the Trickertreat Blues

Wrap me in your Red Vines, mama, 

Say yeah, oh yeah, 

and
I'll be your Sugar Daddy

Your Sugar Daddy all night long
Chase away

Chase away those Trickertreat Blues

When my baby comes a knockin' 

we get those jellybeans a-rockin'
No more blues
No more Trickertreat Blues

Another Hat Haiku

A truly fabulous 

hat bedazzles the eye and

glorifies the soul

Clovis deFleury modeling a floral specimen of Catalpa speciosa collected in the College Park area of Winchester, KY. Although regarded as an ungainly and messy tree in the formal landscape, the indigenous Northern catalpa nevertheless provides a cheerful and extravagant beauty on many a vacant lot and abandoned homestead in southern Appalachia. And, apparently, makes a lovely hat if your skull is less than an inch in diameter.

A Little Hat Haiku

accept the bees in 

your bonnet for they may yield

honey in your cup 

Mme. Onriette "Hank" deFleury with a bee in her bonnet but no tea in her cup.

The Physics and Preferences of Toast

Thick-sliced or thin? Peach

preserves or apricot? In 

love it matters not.

by Mr. & Mrs. Léon (nee Eugénie Amelie Allumez-le-Four) deFleury

Pink Chick Lit

Misspent afternoon:
Jane Eyre, pie and apple jack
Pink catastrophe

Great-Great Grandmother Finds the Noise of a Vacuum Cleaner Most Distasteful on a Sunday Morning

Snow melting leads to 

spring cleaning which may disturb 

the family portraits

Great-Great Grandmother, Mr. Teesgarten, and Patuju would like to drink their Bolivian coffee and read in peace on Sunday mornings.

Clovis Finds Himself Less than Impressed at the Annual L'Herbe Bleu Tour of Homes for the Impossibly Wealthy and Overbred

Downton Abbey my

FOOT, said Clovis. I want my

money back right now.

Just Wear a Really Fabulous Hat and Carry a Pink Chicken. No One Will Notice Anything Else.

if your eyes go all

unstrung, that don't mean you can't 

still get your Vogue on

Auntie Hank, Auntie Al, and Auntie Peter, Big Sally, and Sistah Pink dressed up to go holiday shopping. Big Sally, at nearly two feet tall, is the tallest of all the Puppen, or Proper Folk. Proper Folk, often referred to as "Little People" by ill-educated human beings, tend to be less than six inches tall on average, and are generally no taller than twice that. Big Sally, however is charming, kind-hearted, and nice to have around to when you can't find the library stepladder.

The Only Real Reason to Let a Feral Fashion Doll Have a Birthday Party

pink cupcake icing

Crisco melting on my tongue 

who needs opium

No real food or toys were harmed in making of this Haiku Thursday's photograph, but everyone did get a plastic Hostess cupcake as a souvenir, and got to paint their lips pink with Dollar Tree Strawberry Gelato  lip gloss.

...And Dagmar Was Never Seen Again

ignore any strange

thing that calls your name when you

are the last one in line

- Dr. Washington Fenimore Fourre-Tout

Upon Being Asked About the Headless Aspect of Her Great-Aunt Clementine deFleury's Portrait

a fabulous frock

amends many another

insufficiency

-Sylvie de Fleury Fourre-tout, PhD, CdeP

Truly, the deFleurys have their priorities in order. Their motto is, after all, vitum venustus, petasi venustulus, which can be translated thusly: 'live a beautiful life and wear charming little hats."

This unusual early photographic work is the first known documented deFleury portrait of Nilla, the family chicken. MiMere Sylvie is considered la famillie Ouessant's very first charmeuse de poule and cryptocrepundologist.

Why Tourist Dolls Are Often Found Comatose

Glued-on underwear

a diet of pink gin and 

day-old petits fours

-Clovis deFleury

Clovis was torn between worrying about this poor little tourist doll and wondering where she'd gotten that fabulous hat.