Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) Silver Anniversary post! Fifty years of observing and noting the steady progression of animals, weather events, barbecues, hilarious second-date mishaps, all written in as wide a variety of styles as there are participants. (Full Disclosure: practicing the fascinating literary device of ‘the unreliable Narrator. We didn’t actually have a second-date mishap).
For this week, the Wakefield Doctrine cites:
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) the Wakefield Doctrine sine qua, y’all, sine qua non
4) serial stories: the Whitechapel Interlude, the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and the Six Sentence Café & Bistro
5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
6) It, (this morning’s coyote), (what? oh, yeah, this is a hypograt reference from Item 9 below. If you want things to pretend to have a certain logical progression, you’d best jump down there… unless, of course, you’re a regular Reader), was like a fox, except more in a hurry, with a lot less looking around for something cute to kill and take home to the kits. This coyote simply trotted along the path on the far-side of the fence, (photo at top), and we only had time to think, ‘Damn, if we were a Millennial we’d have that thing filmed, edited and trolling for views on Instagram by now.” But we’re not. But we do enjoy this digital refrigerator door (‘Hey, Mom! I drawed a coyotee and a huminbird… put it up on the ‘frigerator’!)
7) Yard-work: good exercise and, being ‘large scale’, the reward is a satisfaction derived from altering the general environment. ‘Hey that whole section of the woods looks different!” Unfortunately, I don’t have the frame of mind that produces those excellent ‘Before and ‘After’ photos. (Hint: that would be rogerian). Thing about clarks, we simply know that there is a ‘here’ and a ‘there’, a ‘now’ and a ‘then’; not unlikely to forget one and doomed to endure the other. … lol
8) something, something
9) Wildlife: in the 69 minutes I’ve spent here, this morning, in front of my electrical computer, I’ve observed: three loudly-red birds that looked like they’d just flown through Ketchup Falls (on the mighty Finger Paint River), a Hummingbird that paused in front of the window (top of this post) like a special effects animal for an Uncle Remus video, assorted rabbits and squirrels, (the Doctrine is everywhere: there are grey squirrels and there are red squirrels; the latter are half the size of the former, and will, if competing for access to buried food, fight-to-the-death anything short of a 150cc Toro, double-blade ‘Lawn Ranger’ and, finally, a coyote. (See Grat 6 for accompanying Hypo Grat)
10) Secret Rule 1.3 “…heck, technically, you could fill in any of postfivial Items with the experience of making progress on the list… but, you’d better wait until Grat 10″ (BoSR/SBoR 1980-2022 ibid, op. cit. ten-four)
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I liked your description of a robin looking like it has been dipped in Ketchup.
Thank you.
If your robins go through Ketchup Falls, i wonder where our blue jays get their intense blue.
Just so you know, the refrigerator at the Bistro is stainless and has plenty of room for magnets and lots of those drawings, if you feel the need to contribute to the decor.
Thank you, M.
Nick’s our graphic art guy… (funny story about artistic drive and the less-than-confident-new-writer… remind me to tell you some time)
Your description of the three loudly-red birds in #9 made me wonder how you even imagine such a scene that brings such delight to your readers, but I am glad you do.
I wonder what the coyote was tracking. We rarely actually see one on our property, but that doesn’t mean they don’t pass through now and then. We know they live in this part of the valley.
No problem*
He/she seemed intent and focused. Not quite trotting but definitely on a mission
*the single most annoying appropriation by people of a certain, not young demographic… they insist it means ‘You’re welcome.”
The two of you definitely get the wildlife saying “howdy” but a coyote, even in you locale, seems a bit out of place.
Good picture of Phyllis and Una. I can see the smile on Phyllis’s face :)
tru dat
Una…!
Clark, It cannot be a proper SSC&B refrigerator without what Mimi said.
Maybe wildlife got tired of our magnificent planetary footprint and are out to party before the Great Reset…
More Power to them, yo.
Red squirrels and gray squirrels don’t live in the same place. Read it somewhere, and so far, I can’t disagree. There are black squirrels on the campus of University of Maryland. Saw them when my son went to nationals for National History Day over 10 years ago.
A hummingbird keeps looking in the kitchen window at me. The previous owners fed them outside that window. We’ve been in the house almost 24 years and have never fed them. Go figure.
yeah, even with my phone on my desk (and a fairly predictable schedule) I’ve yet to get a photo (all I need is to be a number of years younger…lol)