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.

Haiku Thursday: A Good Friend Will Help You Hide the Body

No one should laugh at 

cowgirls wearing pink spandex

and packing pitchforks.

Aunt Mathilde "Yukon Tilly" Woolum. 
Tilly possesses a stout heart, an itchy pitchfork , no fashion sense, and less sense of humor.

First Run

Dry corn in the moon,

said Paw Paw. Inside, shine corn

got no room to dream.

-Paw Paw Heenkees (Coot van Aschputtel Heenkees)

Paw Paw's haiku contributed by grandson and twelfth-generation shinemaker, 

Beech Dyrsen Heenkees, waving at top right in front of the corn silo

Yes. I bought them this still. Whatever you're thinking, just don't say it.  - The Missus

Easter Parade

 new chapeaux and shoes

sprout springy buds everywhere

easter parade soon

Haiku Thursday: Lonely Cookie

the saddest story

one last Girl Scout cookie waits

beyond desire's reach