What would I do without buckets:to haul fresh water for fish and plants;to drain old water in tank changes;to catch drips from leaking plant room roof;to mop floors; to build muscles?

Anxious People*I attended my first ever book club.Title took creativity to find in a format readable by thesetired old eyes. FB event said 3 would be attending;I walked into a room of 30.Not my cup of tea. An hour laterI walked out into a carnival night,encouraged by quantity in a townthat usually turns up only…

I learned from Big Rich and Joshat Ohio Fish Rescue that there’s a fixfor bully fish in their many varied tanks.They relocate the bully to a tankwith much bigger fish. I wonderif it would work for humans? It seems as if I already wrote about this but my memory isn’t positive?

Lost my sense of smell awhile ago.My extremities are going numb.My hearing could use an aid,and yes, so could my vision.Taste remains intact; I lean to fat.As most senses shrink, 6th expands.I’m becoming an insightful lump.Once the shell fades to naught,does my twinkle of consciousnesszoom away to play as stardust?

Mowing back field perimeter stylegrass shoots outward from itmaking ever-shrinking corralfor field ecosystems that holdzillions of small prey insects andlarger predators. I saw a set of toad nesting dolls, a quarter-sized black spider,and a finger-sized praying mantis.Squadrons of dragonfly usuallyescort and hunt flurried escapees,but as of yet today not a one. I wondered if the…