BEFORE I DIE,I WANT TO............

SEE SOMETHING NEW EACH DAY
EVERY DAY IS A NEW DAY.  I SAW THE ATLANTIC OCEAN WITH LOTS OF FISHERMEN TODAY.  BUT I'VE SEEN THAT BEFORE.  IT'S GREAT TO GO TO THE SEA.  IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO LIVE BY THE SEA.  YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH.  THAT'S WHY I HEADED TO THE OCEAN ON A WARM DECEMBER DAY IN MY CONVERTIBLE MIATA WITH THE TOP DOWN AND THE RADIO BLASTING IN MY EARS.
WHEN I GOT BACK TO TITUSVILLE THERE WAS A TRAFFIC JAM ON WASHINGTON STREET.  SURE ENOUGH SOMETHING NEW HAPPENED RIGHT BY THE SEEDY PINK MOTEL CALLED THREE OAKS(THERE ARE NO OAKS THERE ANYMORE).  A FIRE ENGINE,AMBULANCE,POLICE CAR AND BORDER PATROL VAN WERE PARKED ON THE STREET BY THE MOTEL.  A SLIM VERY DARK SKINNED NUDE FROM THE WAIST UP MAN WAS BEING ARRESTED.   SOME WOMEN WERE THERE TOO FROM  JAMAICA OR AFRICA OR SOMEWHERE.  WE ARE FAR FROM THE BORDER ALTHOUGH FLORIDA IS A PENINSULA SO THE OCEAN IS OUR BORDER I GUESS.  UNLESS THEY CAME OVER THE GEORGIA BORDER.  IF SO I SAY DEPORT THEM BACK TO THAT STATE AND PUT UP  A FENCE. 
                          THE ARTIST PAINTING A PORTRAIT OF THE BEATLES IS THE NEW THING I  CAME UPON AT MENAUHANT  BEACH IN FALMOUTH,MASSACHUSETTS THIS SUMMER.   THE ARTIST LIKES TO DO PLEIN AIR PAINTINGS.
SO THAT'S ALL FOLKS. 

MY BOUGAINVILLEA

MY BACKYARD

                              FINALLY MY BOUGAINVILLEA IS BLOOMING.  I'VE HAD IT FOR FOUR YEARS.  I USED TO HAVE IT IN THE FRONT NEAR THE WATERING SYSTEM BUT IT TOOK OVER THE WHOLE ENTRANCE GARDEN WITH PRICKERS AND VINES ALL OVER.  SO I DUG IT UP AND PUT IT IN A POT IN THE BACK BY THE GIANT OAK TREE ON THE SIXTH GREEN.  THE ROOTS HAVE DUG INTO THE SOIL THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF THE POT.  THERE WAS A LOT OF RAIN THIS SUMMER PLUS I GAVE IT SOME MIRACLE GRO AND SUDDENLY SOME RED BLOSSOMS APPEARED. 
                               THERE ARE ONLY THREE RED BLOSSOMS BUT IT'S A START.  BLOOM ON MACDUFF FOR OUR CAUSE IS TOUGH.  

FIFTH HOUSE OF PLAY

A PLAYER

                                       PLAY-THAT'S WHAT MY HOROSCOPE SAYS.  BE CREATIVE.  SKIP RESPONSIBILITIES.
                                   PLAY
                                   PLAY BALL
                                    ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND WE JUST PLAY OUR PART
                                           TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
                                                THROUGH THE PETTY PACE OF LIFE
                                                     LIFE IS JUST A  POOR PLAYER WHO STRUTS AND FRETS HIS
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                      HOUR ON THE STAGE AND THEN IS HEARD NO MORE
                                                        IT IS A FOOLISH TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT
                                                           FULL OF SOUND AND FURY
                                               SO PLAY
                                                     THE PLAY IS THE THING
                                                             PLAY ON
                                                                  OUT
                                                                    OUT

PLAYFULL

                                                    BRIEF CANDLE

THE BLIMP IS BACK

                                  THE AFTERGLOW OF THANKSGIVING DINNER,AN ATLAS ROCKET BLAST OFF FROM ACROSS THE INDIAN RIVER AND THE SPACE COAST 42ND ART SHOW ONE BLOCK FROM COCOA BEACH'S WAVES MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO ACCEPT THAT A PLASTIC GOODYEAR BLIMP MOBILE IS HANGING AGAIN ON MY DECK OBSCURING THE GOLF VIEW THAT I PAID $260.000 A FEW YEARS TO HAVE FROM MY BACK BEDROOM WINDOW.  I REMOVED IT LAST WEEK AND PUT IT IN THE FRONT ENTRANCE WALKWAY BUT MY MANIPULATIVE SELF-INVOLVED HUSBAND BROUGHT IT BACK.  I GUESS NEXT WILL BE A PORTRAIT OF VINCENT VAN GOGH AS HE CONTEMPLATES CUTTING OFF HIS EAR WHICH I REMOVED FROM THE MISTRESS BEDROOM.  YES MISTRESS-I PAID FOR IT WITH MY HARD EARNED CASH.  YOU'D NEVER KNOW.  IT'S ALL YANKEES AND GOLF WITH BARELY ONE OF MY INTERESTS.  ACTUALLY I LIKE VAN GOGH BUT NOT WHEN HE LOOKS CRAZED AND IS ABOUT TO CUT OFF HIS EAR. 

ROLLING ON THE RIVER IN TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA

IS THAT ALL THERE IS?

I ONLY WISH THAT I COULD SEE A BLIMP MOBILE AS LOVELY AS A TREE

                                 SO YOU CAN A TAKE A MAN OUT OF HIS MISERY BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE MISERY OUT OF THE MAN.   WHAT'S TO LOSE LAUTREC?

FORE

LET'S TRY FOR AN EAGLE ON THE PAR 3

NICE PUTT-LOOKS LIKE YOU MADE A BIRDIE ON THIS PAR 4

THE FOURSOME-THEY ALWAYS WALK

                      A FOURSOME WAS ON THE SIXTH GREEN TODAY.  THEY WERE QUITE UNIQUE.  EACH OF THEM WAS TALL AND THIN.  THEY ALL HAD A RED PATCH AROUND THE EYES.  THEY FINISHED THEIR STINT ON THE 6TH GREEN BUT ODDLY THEY DIDN'T HEAD FOR THE PAR 3 SEVENTH INSTEAD THEY HEADED BACK TO THE POND ON THE SIXTH FAIRWAY.  I GUESS THEY LOST A LITTLE WHITE THING THERE.  IN THEIR CASE,IT MUST HAVE BEEN AN EGG NOT A BALL.
                     THIS FOURSOME ON THE GOLF COURSE DON'T USE CARTS.  THEY WALK AROUND THE COURSE.  ONCE IN A WHILE THEY LET OUT A SQUAWK AND FLY AROUND.  USUALLY THAT'S WHEN THE GOLF COURSE MOWERS OR BLOWERS START TO BELLOW.  ALL RIGHT THE TRUTH IS OUT.  NO MORE BEATING AROUND THE BUSH.  THERE WERE FOUR BIRDIES ON THE SIXTH GREEN,NO EAGLES AND NO BOGIES WHICH IS PAR FOR THE COURSE.  THESE TALL THIN ALMOST SCRAWNY ON THEIR TOOTHPICK LEGS, RED EYE PATCH AND LONG BEAK WERE SAND HILL CRANES SEARCHING FOR GRUBS IN THE SAND HILLS OF THIS CENTRAL FLORIDA GOLF COURSE.

THE SIXTH GREEN

                     THE TWO KIDS ARE GETTING BIG.  THEY ARE ALMOST AS TALL AS MOM AND DAD.  SOON THEY'LL HAVE TO FIND THEIR OWN GOLF COURSE OR PARK TO FORAGE IN.  FORE!

GOOD FORTUNE COOKIES

                          THE CHINESE BELIEVE THAT A TREE IN FRONT OF YOUR FRONT DOOOR BLOCKS GOOD FORTUNE FROM ENTERING YOUR HOUSE.   I HAVE A TREE THAT BLOCKS MY VIEW FROM MY FORNT PORCH PATIO OF TWO LAKES AND THREE GOLF HOLES.  I HAVE TO APPLY TO THE TOWNHOUSE COMMITTEE TO GET IT CUT DOWN BECAUSE IT'S IN THE FRONT.  THEN I HAVE TO REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER TREE.  IT ACTUALLY IS NOT AT MY DOOR.  A BOTTLE BRUSH TREE IS OPPOSITE MY FRONT DOOR.  I LOVE IT.  IT  REMINDS ME OF MY SATELLITE BEACH CONDO WHERE BILL'S FAATHER HAD PLANTED A BOTTLEBRUSH TREE ON THE CANAL.  IT HAS NUMEROUS RED BOTTLE BRUSH  LIKE FLOWERS.
                              THE TREE IN FRONT OF MY TOWNHOUSE IS ALWAYS IN GREEN LEAVES.   THEY MUST BE TRIMMED INTO A LOLLIPOP TREE TWICE A YEAR AT $5O + A CUT.  I HATE LOLLIPOP TREES.  I DID NOT EVEN REALIZE THAT THEY EXISTED.  I THOUGHT ONLY CHILDREN PAINTED THEM.  ART TEACHERS DETEST THEM AS UNNATURAL.  WELL YES VIRGINIA AND ALL ART TEACHERS LOLLIPOP TREES DO EXIST.  THEY ARE ALL OVER MY NEIGHBORHOOD.  THIS ONE IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE IS MAJOR IRKSOME.  I HAD TWO CUT DOWN IN MY FRONT ENTRANCE PATIO THAT WERE TALL AND SCRAGGILY.  THEY WERE HITTING THE ROOF.  SO I GUESS THE PREVIOUS OWNER HAD GIVEN UP TRIMMING THEM.  MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR HAD MINE TRIMMED THIS SUMMER.  IT'S ON MY PROPERTY.  WHY HE DID IT, I DON'T KNOW.  HE NEVER GOT THE GARDENER TO CLEAR MY FRONT WALK OF BLOWN OVERGROWN PLANTS.  ANYWAY I PAID HIM BACK $50.  HIS HOUSE JUST SOLD FOR $100,000 LESS THAN I PAID FOR MY HOUSE NEXT DOOR IN DECEMBER 2008.  HE SAYS HE'LL GET MORE THAN THE APPRAISAL, SO HE'S HAPPY TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THE STAIRCASES,EXHAUST FUMES, TOWNHOUSE BOARDS, GARDENING RULES AND LACK OF PRIVACY AND SECURITY ON A GOLF COURSE WHERE PEOPLE GO IN AND OUT ALL DAY 6FT. FROM YOUR BACK DOOR.  ALL THE NEWER NEIGHBORHOODS HERE ARE PRIVATE STREETS WITH NO TRESPASSERS ALLOWED.  THE GOLF COURSE OWNER HAS A GATE IN FRONT OF HIS STREET'S ENTRANCE.  WHY WE DON'T HAVE A GATE AT NIGHT ON THIS GOLF PATH IS BEYOND ME.
                      I HAVE A GIGANTIC TREE IN FRONT OF MY FRONT DOOR IN CAPE COD. I LOVE THAT TREE.   IT PROVIDES SHADE FOR THE ENTIRE FRONT YARD OF MY HOUSE.  UNFORTUNATELY  THE WINTER MOTHS IN THE SUMMER TURNED THE LEAVES INTO SWISS CHEESE.  ACTUALLY THAT HELPS MY GRASS GROW.

MY FAVORITE TREE-ISA TWIN ONE IN BEEBE WOODS,  IT'S AN AMERICAN BEECH WHERE EVERYONE CARVES THEIR INITIALS OR MARY LOVES BILL MESSAGES IN A HEART

                          THIS IS AMERICA.   I FEEL A TREE KEEPS YOUR GOOD LUCK IN.   A TREE PROTECTS YOU FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD.  IT PROVIDES HOMES AND FOOD FOR ANIMALS.  THE ONLY ONES I OBJECT TO ARE THE ONES THAT BLOCK YOUR VIEW AND HAVE TO BE TRIMMED INTO LOLLIPOP TREES TWICE A YEAR.

BE PATIENT

ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY

                                  MY GARDEN LOOKS GREAT.  BILL GOT THEM TO FIX THE WATERING SYSTEM.  PREVIOUSLY IT WAS HITTING TOP OF MY SEGO PALM TREE AND NOT THE FLOWERS IN THE BACK.  I WOKE UP ONE NIGHT AT 2 AM AND SAW IT ALL MALFUNCTIONNING.  IN THE FRONT THE SPRINKLER HEAD WAS SHUT OFF BY MY BOTTLEBRUSH TREE AND FLOWER GARDEN.  MOST OF THE OTHERS IN MY GARDEN PATIO WERE BARELY WORKING.  TWO GARDENEIAS DIED IN THE FRONT BECAUSE THE SPRINKLER ONLY HITS THE GRASS AND NOT THE PLANTS.  ONE GARDENIA IS ON ITS LST LEGS AND PROBABLY DEAD.  FINALLY AFTER THREE YEARS MY MAINTENANCE WOMAN PATTY HAS REPAIRED THE CHIPPED STEPS IN MY FROONT ENTRANCE STAIRS.  SO BE PATIENT.  WE ARE GETTING THERE PETIT A PETIT COMME NOUS DISONS EN FRANCAIS.
                                      PETIT A PETIT L'OISEAU FAIT SON NID.    MA MAISON EST MON NID.  IT'S A NESTING INSTINCT.  I'VE ALSO GOTTEN MANY GOLFERS TO PARK AWAY FROM MY BACK DOOR ON THE SIXTH HOLE EXCEPT THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON BOYS.  THEY PARK RIGHT ALONG SIDE MY PATIO TABLE AND GARDEN.  OFTEN THEY BLOCK THE CART PATH.  I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE MEMBERS OR A LEAGUE OF KENNEDY SPACE CENTER WORKERS. 
                                        SO ALL IS PICKING UP.  THE WEATHER IS FRESH AND COOL.  I WALKED FROM THE RIVER TO HOME YESTERDAY WITH A STOP AT THE MALL FOR ART SUPPLIES.  I HAD USED MY LAST CANVAS TO PAINT A COPY OF AL RAO'S ORANGE FLORIDA LANDSCAPE.  I'LL DO A BLUE,PURPLE,GREEN AND PINK ONE SOON. 
                                          WE HAD A $1.99 BREAKFAST AT THE ITALIAN FISHERMAN RESTAURANT NEAR US. THEY ARE FOURTH GENERATION RESTAURANT OWNERS DESCENDED FROM A NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT OWNER.  THE FAMILY HAS HAD SEVERAL RESTAURANTS AROUND BREVARD COUNTY.   THE GRITS WERE GREAT.  WE WERE CELEBRATING 11/11/11. BEFORE DINNER I BIKED AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.  WE WENT TO PAUL'S SMOKEHOUSE AT SUNSET  ON THE RIVER FOR ROCK SHRIMP AND COCOANUT SHRIMP EACH AND THE MOONRISE.  IT TOOK A WHILE TO EMERGE FROM THE DARK HAZE OVER MERRITT ISLAND.  BUT SOON IT WAS BIG AND ORANGE OVER THE MOON RIVER.

                                           SO 11/11/11 TRANSPIRED PEACEFULLY ON THE MOON RIVER FOR YOU FOR ME AS ANDY WILLIAMS WOULD SING.  A ROCKET WILL BLAST OFF FOR MARS OVER THAT RIVER ON NOVEMBER 25TH.  THAT'S IN 13 DAYS.  THANKSGIVING IS IN 12 DAYS.  WE ARE GOING TO OUR SISTER-IN-LAW'S IN SATELLITE BEACH.  UNCLE JOHN IS FLYING DOWN FROM MARYKNOLL,NEW YORK.  HE'S 84 AND BORN ON THE SAME DAY AS QUEEN ELIZABETH.

WAR BIRD MUSEUM IN TITUSVILLE,FL

                                           TODAY WE ARE GOING TO FREE  DAY FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY AT THE BREVARD ZOO IN VIERA.  TOMORROW WE GO TO THE FREE DAY FOR VETERANS AT THE WARBIRD MUSEUM IN TITUSVILLE.