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Some more fun topics for Mama Kat’s<\/a> Writer’s Challenge<\/a> this week!<\/p>\n

1.) What’s cooking in YOUR crockpot?
(inspired by Joss from My Irish Twins<\/a>)<\/p>\n

2.) Find your one very favorite picture of Summer and write a poem about it.
(inspired by me)<\/p>\n

3.) Pay tribute to a favorite blogger! (And while you’re at it link up and enter to win an adorable pettiskirt. I want it.)
(inspired by Kacey and Fran from Mayhem And Moxie<\/a>)<\/p>\n

4.) When I look in the mirror…
(inspired by Liz from Loving Mom 2 Boys<\/a>)<\/p>\n

5.) The top ten things I’d rather be doing than having sex with David Letterman
(inspired by Happy Hour Sue from Happy Meals & Happy Hour<\/a>)<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With a hey-nony-nony and a hi-dee-ho, it off to the races we go. (Nothing like a misquote of Jeeves to give a lively start!)<\/p>\n

#1 – – Nothing at the moment, but sometime in the near future there will be a pot of bean soup simmering away. Nothing like a mixture of beans and spices and\u00c2\u00a0 tomatoes, simmering for hours, to make a cold house feel like a warm home. I think I even have a ham bone in the freezer I can throw in for that extra bit of flavor.<\/p>\n

#2 — When I first read this, I had a lively debate with myself over why Mama Kat wanted us to dig up a picture of Summer from Le Musings Of Moi<\/a> and then write a poem about it. Then I realized it was a bit like that canonical grammar book title – Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation. I suspect that Mama really meant to use summer as in the season rather than the proper noun Summer as I first thought. In any case, my mental confusion is probably more amusing that any\u00c2\u00a0 poem I might crank out.<\/p>\n

#3 — This is one where taste comes to the fore. I am an uber fan of Matt Springer and his blog Built on Facts<\/a>. Matt is a graduate student in physics at Texas A&M and writes great reality and mathematics based vignettes for the lay and student audience. (My description sounds really boring, but the actual writing is anything but boring.)<\/i> My favorite part of his blog is the Sunday Function every week. You should really visit to see if it tickles your blog reading funny bone.<\/p>\n

#4 — When I look in the mirror I hear my mirror screaming out for me to clean its dirty face. Once I am able to tune the mirror and the streaks out, what I see is a function of the time of day and mood of the moment. If I have my glasses on so that I can actually see anything at all, then I generally see the me I see in my mind’s eye but with gray hair and less of a hairline than I remember inside my head. Unfortunately, comparison to pictures from yesteryear shows that I never did look like Robert Redford in his heyday. Heck, even in my younger days I would have been lucky to pass as Bob “the bear” Hite from Canned Heat. A bit like this;<\/p>\n

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Bob “the bear” Hite<\/i><\/div>\n
1943-1981<\/i><\/div>\n

#5 — As a heterosexual male, I think that *anything*<\/i> would be better than contemplating sex with Mr. Letterman. That said, here is my quick list:<\/p>\n