Story Time From Random Words

although there IS a handful of change inside the drawer

Since Lady Blue did not leave words I took her last sentence and a story will soon follow......lol

ALTHOUGH this is late night THERE IS A reason to write this little bit of a story. You see there will be a CHANGE coming OF which I must report. Grabbing a HANDFUL of cookies let me get a cup of coffee and we will start this tale of CHANGE.
INSIDE THE DRAWER of the desk there are important papers kept there and soon there will be another important paper which is called a marriage license to be gotten from a little trip to soon be taken to Las Vegas. Gonna get married very soon and a new important paper will join the others in the desk DRAWER. To be continued......

Bible, heart, love, Mister and Missus, Hilton, Thanksgiving, Day

​oops I knew I forgot somethin'..lol

The story continues for the amusement of the Blond who can't seem to sleep.....got to entertain myself somehow as don't have live TV just boxed movies and DVD's that I have already seen....so on with the story

Bible, heart, love, Mister and Missus, Hilton, Thanksgiving, Day

Flying out of Tampa International Airport.......there was excitement in the air as our travelers had a mission to accomplish.....Mission Marriage.....with BIBLE packed along with other sharing materials our couple jets out toward Las Vegas where the marriage will take place on THANKSGIVING DAY....at least they hope so as it has been one challenging time trying to find someone to marry them on that day.....really? People take time off to be with their families and eat a Big Holiday Meal? What's up with that?

With HEARTs full of LOVE the couple arrive at the HILTON and immediately prepare for the wedding......They can hardly wait to be announced MISTER AND MISSUS Tourist........to be continued.......


Mad, Rush, Preacher, Justice of The Peace, Anyone, License, Chapel, Hotel, Help

Mad, Rush, Preacher, Justice of The Peace, Anyone, License, Chapel, Hotel, Help

HELP me I feel like I am loosing it! came the cry as the MAD RUSH was on to find a PREACHER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, just ANYONE who could marry our couple who had flown off to Las Vegas to be married. They had gone online to try and pre-register for the wedding LICENSE but the program was not compatible with their computer so they had to fly out 2 days earlier just to get the LICENSE. At the HOTEL they were pleading for HELP in finding that special someone to perform the marriage and the icing on top of the cake of problems was the wedding CHAPEL was closed on Thanksgiving Day which was the day chosen to get married...My Oh My what will our couple do?..... to be continued


Madden, time share, shows, dinner, perfect, black, suit, red, rose, rings.

Madden, time share, shows, dinner, perfect, black, suit, red, rose, rings.

Many phone calls later a Minister a Pastor O'neil MADDEN agreed to meet our couple at the hotel where they would be staying and marry them the Blond was less anxious now having gotten that bit of business out of the way. Laying out the clothing to get ready there was the BLACK dress with sparkle on the top and a nice looking SUIT that he had been bought special for the occasion. The RINGS were in a safe place and the last detail was to go get one RED ROSE for her to hold and one RED ROSE to put on his jacket it was a nice finishing touch for the couple.

They would have to remember to go to the TIME SHARE meeting before the trip was over as it was how such a deal had been gotten on the resort hotel they were staying at and after the tour they would get DINNER AND SHOW tickets and see some sights that the Las Vegas strip offered........to be continued


Camera, Hoover Dam, the strip, can I get a witness?, Mr. & Mrs., reality, Flamingo.

last-minute dress purchase, hair style, wedding rings, maid of honor, married at last

LAST-MINUTE DRESS PURCHASE was all she could think of as she waited by the mail box wanting the dress to arrive in time to hit the air jetting out to Las Vegas. Thank God the dress arrived on time and was a beautiful midnight blue with sparkled beads on the top and on the sleeves of the jacket.

Asking about a hair salon but giving up the idea since who would really want to fix hair on Thanksgiving day? The Blond went to the nearest Walgreens to purchase some HAIR STYLE items. A fancy barrette, glitter bobby pins and a curling iron she rushed to curl her straight blond hair and placing the glittering barrette in just the right place with long blond curls she was happy with her hair and now ready to get married.

The Minister was just a tad bit late making the bride and groom just a little nervous but Pastor Madden finally arrived and asked the Hilton Maid outside the room to come and be the MAID OF HONOR and witness this wedding of our Tourist couple in true Las Vegas Style....

WEDDING RINGS on their fingers they were pronounced Husband and Wife and a Kiss sealed the deal and our Tourist couple were MARRIED AT LAST.....

New words for random story....

Muffin, coffee, newspaper, job, cleaning, laundry, Christmas tree, holidays, a new year.

It was raining and snowing outside, as Lady Blue sat at her computer and contemplated whether to drink iced coffee or hot coffee today, she lamented that she didn't have a MUFFIN to go with her coffee, so she settled for a strawberry-creme roll instead. Reading the local NEWSPAPER online, she had a JOB to do: the dreaded LAUNDRY!! She pondered when to do laundry, since today it was freezing rain and Lady Blue wasn't gonna slippy-slide to the laundromat. She had yet to get a small fiber-optic Christmas tree, and the holidays were coming up so soon!! She could not believe how quickly this year had flown by. She was not looking forward to the new year quite yet..



*the above story is true..except for reading the paper online..lol


christmas cards, money, family, reluctance, new year, glutton lady blue

christmas cards, money, family, reluctance, new year, glutton lady blue

Returning married from Las Vegas Mrs. Tourist also known as The Blond....started a frantic writing schedule to get the Christmas cards out in the mail. The money she won from her mini gambling stent of $70.00 would pay for the postage of said cards. She had reluctance when gambling fearing she would loose money so she had allotted herself $20.00 to play with and that was it! She was in a hurry to get the cards in the mail to family and friends she even talked her online friend Lady Blue into giving up an address to mail a card to her also. Mrs. Tourist and Mr. Tourist wanted to wish their friend Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cards done and in the mail Mrs. Tourist turned her thoughts and actions to the food side of the holidays and hoped she would not become too much of a glutton during the feasting.....The Blond will do much better in the new year and eat much healthier.....so that by 2016 there will be a lighter 60 year old.....Yes this is a great resolution.....




Fun, sun, laughter, rogue, Alaska, iceberg, road trip, cruise ship

FUN was the top thing on the Blonds list of things to do today as she drove the ROGUE in the SUNshine toward the beach. LAUGHTER could be heard as she boarded the CRUISE SHIP that was headed to ALASKA as the Blond had always wanted to see an ICEBERG and really wanted to see one before they all melted due to global warming that everyone was talking about. On the ROADTRIP home the Blond was going to drive along the coast and see the new beach areas since so many ICEBERGs had melted causing the sea level to rise.

Vermont, red covered bridge, maple syrup, waffles, Lynx, Lady Blue, blue convertible, mountain

Dabbling in the real estate market can be very rewarding and yet with the success I had at one time the rewards of being a very successful entrepreneur were overridden by the jealousies that arose from those around me. I have always played the game fair and square and quite honestly the few times I ended up in jail had nothing to do with any illegal activities on my part and indeed while others gloated at my predicaments I felt no malice towards them as I spent my time during incarceration in peaceful meditation formulating plans to get on with life once released.

When you are successful even those closest to you can turn on you and someone you thought was a playful little kitten can become lynx like, sneaking around waiting to pounce on you when you least expect it. While you are cruising down the road of success in your big blue roadster convertible even your spouse can be lying in wait like some Lady Blue Lacrosse player ready to give you a good shellacking. It really huts when someone you love takes things way too seriously and when good fortune follows you they become determined to bring you down.

My advice to others who might start lowly. Ya its nice to dream big, but owning A Park Place Penthouse is not all its cracked up to be. If ya roll the dice and buy Vermont remain humble and envisage red covered bridges, waffles and maple syrup and friendship cause its a lonely when you get to the top.



poker, sardines, freedom, tan, aspirin, gummy bears, diary, forgery.

I had this marvelous calculator years ago that could do square roots and ... well you know, do all the mathematical computations and I felt it could solve any conundrum that a young fellow with a high school education behind him might run into while swinging a hammer while working on a railroad gang. Why that calculator even had a calendar in case my educated brain lost track of the days or months or years. Well I never forgot what year it was back then.. Perhaps I was a bit smug one day when I sat down at the table with my dad to figure out how much of assorted materials he needed to build a shop on the farm. You see my dad only had a grade 4 education and he was a cowboy at one time and would canter around the range on his horse swigging water from his canteen and counting cows I guess. He always had a stub of a pencil and a small notepad in his pocket and that was what he had the day when we sat down at the table, while I had the super calculator and despite a callous on a finger or two I figured on figuring out the task at hand with ease. Yep when the chips are down there's nothing like having an education and a calculator. I had that calculator humming with rows and rows of numbers forming and when I had something figured out like how many pounds of nails we needed I would jot it down on a piece of paper. My dad had a list developing as well but I saw nary a column of computations on his paper.

We finished figuring at the same time. Well I was a minute or two slower which took some of the smugness out of me. We compared computations and the results were the same which took a little more smugness out of me. It bothered me a mite that my dad did so well, so quickly, without having to shorten the length of his stub of a pencil any while I was thinking my batteries might be getting a might low. I asked him how he did his figuring and he replied without being cute or smart (I think) : That's what you can do when you know your times table up to 24.

marbles, dyed, choo choo train, flabbergasted, celery, roust, ka-ching, feeble.

Very good you are a marvelous writer.....the younger folks don't seem to get the fun of this thread - creative writing....maybe they have spent too much time in front of TV's and computers and don't know how to write? Not sure, but have enjoyed your stories thus far..... What is or was your occupation if I might ask?

Aw shucks. Thanks for the compliment but I must blame Miss McMurdock, my grade 10 literature teacher, for conspiring to implant her fondness for English literature upon her students. Unfortunately I was afflicted in some manner. As for occupations present and past I am currently retired so to speak. Over the years I have swung a mean spike hammer, operated various types of heavy equipment, occupied a bed, couch and bathtub (back problems) worked as a museum interpreter for a government museum, house mommed, security guarded, and wandered lonely as a cloud o'er vales and hills in my spare time.





Drat! I was getting that old feeling back again. The fear of the sound of fluttering wings, the hair on the back of my neck was prickling and if I wasn't in a row boat I would have tried to flee away which would have been a bit daft for the object of my fear was a giant green darner dragonfly perched upon my shoulder mindlessly, in non dainty fashion, devouring some bug for it's dinner and I could hear it chewing andI could see bits and piece of the bug falling like dander and I was starting to shudder. If only I had had a little more gumption when I was little I could have snuck some dynamite, even if it was damp, our of my dad's storage shed and blown the chicken coop to smithereens. Goodbye killer bantam rooster. Goodbye fear of chickens, goodbye fear of dragonfly fluttering wings, ditto goodbye fear of anything with wings.


flagrant, bearded, constellation, limit, spot, avenue, tractor, fins, off.

flagrant, bearded, constellation, limit, spot, avenue, tractor, fins, off.

The Blond had her LIMIT on FLAGRANT, BEARDED, CONSTELLATION loving men....... Yes the FINS were OFF and she was ready to swim her way to peace of mind..... Relaxing in the water she mused about seeing the TRACTOR on the AVENUE earlier in the day wondering what farmer John was thinking driving down PARK AVENUE in NY City? Finishing her swim she made herself a cup of decaf coffee with cinnamon and sat down in the easy chair putting her feet up......yes this was her favorite SPOT to be at the end of the day......Forget men and the trouble they cause......but then if she did that.....life would be so boring......Tomorrow is another day she thought that maybe she would give them another chance.

Evening, Everest, egg, elated, elevator, enlist, envelope, ended.

Evening, Everest, egg, elated, elevator, enlist, envelope, ended.

EVENING was fast approaching on Friday the 13th of February the horrid calamity day before the LOVE day called Valentine's ......EVEREST thought he had checked his list twice on the gift he had selected for his sweetheart. He had ENLISTed the help of a singing quartet singing Let Me Call You Sweetheart as he stood outside her door holding the ENVELOPE that held the biggest Valentine he could find. He checked everything again he had the Godiva chocolates, the red roses, the engagement ring and the quartet........yes everything was there as he certainly didn't want to appear as though he had EGG on his face when she opened her front door. Yes, he was ready.....

He rang the doorbell and Elle opened her front door surprised by so many men standing on the other side but her smile was radiant when she saw EVEREST standing there with all the goodies for her. She thanked him for the beautiful roses and put them on her entry table just inside the door and then took the candy placing it beside the roses. The quartet began to sing as EVEREST went down on one knee and opened the ring box with a dazzling diamond sparkling as he said he could not live the rest of his life unless Elle was living it with him and then he said will you please be my wife?

Elle thought it was so sweet all the trouble he had gone to that she put her arms around his neck saying Yes, I will marry you and then gave him a big kiss to seal the deal. He was so ELATED as the headed toward the ELEVATOR to head out to dinner and the evening ENDED with dancing under the moonlight at their favorite restaurant. The date had been set they wanted an unusual day to be married so they picked February 29, 2016 and the planning began as the music played and they danced into the evening in each others arms.

Fun, fast, finished, fine, fake, fan, farm, fist, fame.

Way back when, when I was a kid and a student of the elementary, things were different. One of the differences were things. There were not a lot of things that a kid had and I was a farm kid so I had fewer things then a town kid except for chores and there was a heap more chores on a farm then on a town lot. The boy kids spare time fun use to revolve around the school yard for the most part and was usually spent playing some sport when enough boys got together. The girl kids on the other hand use to spend a lot of spare time marking up the sidewalks or other horizontal cemented areas and commence to hoping around or they'd be rope skipping and reciting poetry. For the most part everything was fine with the girls hopping like kangaroos and the boys dashing about as fast they could chasing a soccer ball. or football or whacking a baseball and accepting the fame that came with hitting a home run or filling with terror when you broke a window.

Cops and robbers. Bang, bang. Got you. Naw you missed. For some reason, on occasion the boy kids would play cops and robbers while the girl kids kept on hopping but sometimes they'd have fake tea parties.
There were no rules to the game of cops and robbers that we played. Half the boys were cops and the other half were robbers. The robbers never robbed nobody but were always being shot at by the cops. If you got shot you were dead unless you could count up to 100 and then you were off and running away from the cops or chasing the robbers again. The weapon of choice for the novice was the old finger six shooter. If you were a farm kid you might carve up a piece of wood to look like a six shooter and if you were a town kid you might have a six shooter cap gun. The problem was that the person being shot at was pretty good at jumping out of the way of imaginary bullets not that there were any arguments and one day this problem was solved when one of the town boys used a new weapon. I forget the boys name but his gun was called Tommy and it went ack ack ack ack ack, spewing out bullets at an unbelievable rate. Then another day some boy clenches his fist together and bites it and pretend throws something and he says boom. That kind of finished us playing cops and robbers cause the game was getting pretty dangerous and who knows what kind of things the boys who had televisions at home would come up with next.

abacus, boat, canopy, dirge, eager, frost, gracious, harp, indigo.