I'll Call It Like I See It (with humorous tendencies)

by sheila morris

The Joke’s on Us

  • Cinnamon Rolls, POTUS and the Holidays


     

    003The days grow short when you reach November…and even shorter now that we have kicked daylight savings to the curb. I’ve never been a fan of short days and long nights, but then I am not in charge of time…or seasons…or really much of anything else when you get right down to it.

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    Today on this splendid Sunday morning down the street from our home in Casa de Canterbury where Canterbury Rd. intersects with Devonshire Rd. the colorful autumn leaves begin to appear and will soon overtake the green leaves of summer. November officially signals summer in the South is at an end and also means my personal race with time passages is now closer to 71 than it is to 70. 

    Halloween is behind us. We will now travel at warp speed through the Thanksgiving holidays this month, propelling ourselves to the frantic retail madness that is the Christmas season, racing through the last football games toward the Bowl Games and Super Bowl – and congratulating ourselves for making it to another New Year in 2017 with the celebrations in Times Square in New York City and around the globe. OMG. I’m already exhausted.

    And before all that, we’ll elect a new POTUS.

     I think I’ll have a cinnamon roll on that thought.

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    Anything to keep my mind off the elections on Tuesday.

    Yummy, yummy, yummy.

     

     

  • Calling All Cousins!


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    So Pretty and I have always been interested in our family trees, and this year I decided to give us our DNA tests as a Christmas present to each other. I can never pick any gift for Pretty because whatever I pick she already bought for herself years ago, and that makes me struggle to come up with something creative for special occasions. DNA idea was brilliant, I thought.

    I’ve been dealing with ordering the kits, supervising and returning sample collections and registering at the appropriate sites to activate. Whew. Quite the ordeal.

    Hooray, one of our results came in this week: mine. I have been thoroughly entertained with the pie chart and other info. Seriously. Thoroughly entertained. I can roam through the site for hours looking for relatives.

    Now I am searching for the 710 cousins who are Out There Somewhere…Calling All Cousins…let’s catch up.

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    Oh, as for Pretty, well, her sample didn’t pass the sample test – so she has to do another one. Sigh. So much for creativity

  • One Woman Tries to Break Glass Ceiling While Another One Tries to Repair It


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    Hillary Clinton is trying to crack the ultimate Glass Ceiling by becoming the most powerful woman on earth as President of the United States.

    This afternoon our neighbor across the street was replacing their roof with a new one, and one of the hard-working roofers was a woman.

    You go, girls.

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  • Trick or Treat? Pumpkin in Action!


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    Heard while sitting on the porch and handing out candy to scores of costumed children at Casa de Canterbury during tonight’s neighborhood twilight Trick or Treat marathon:

    “Don’t go to that house – they’re gay,” said a father to his children. And they turned away.

    I told Pretty that, even after our 40 years of activism, my feelings were still hurt.

    “Unkindness always hurts,” Pretty said.

  • Hang on Spooky, Spooky, Hang on!


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    Happy Halloween to all our friends in cyberspace – this was a surprise pumpkin left on our front porch by two very creative Hillary and Halloween supporters, Kati and Sheila Go ( as opposed to Sheila Slo). Thanks to them for the fun – our candle will be glowing for our trick-or-treaters tonight!

    8 days to Election – what can I say except relief is on the way.