Five Minute Friday has a new home. The second meme: friday5, and it's here, too

On the Five Minute Friday meme, we write, flat out write, for five minutes.  We do this without worrying about spelling or punctuation, but just writing our hearts out.  These themes are short or long, may or may not contain pictures, may be just our words, experiences and thoughts about a single word for the week.

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This week's prompt : Tell

Your senses tell you things about the world you live in.  We don't just have five of them either.  There are more and they tell you some amazing things, like there is one that tells you when it's too hot where you are and you seek somewhere cooler.  So we can forget that gradually cooking a frog if the water is the right temperature to begin with.  The frog KNOWS!

Tell, is also something we do.  We tell each other stories and how to make things to eat, to wear and we even tell other people what they should be eating or wearing.  Tell is also descriptive for a small movement or mannerism when people are playing card games like poker.  The "Tell" is that you twist your lips, like the fashion editor in "The Devil Wears Prada".  She didn't like something, she twisted her lips.

To tell stories is a wonderufl thing, as it preserves, of did in the age of stones, the history of a people, and all of the ways they could tell if water was under the earth, or where the game was going to be when the Strawberry Moon rose.  Telling those things was important to our ancestor's survival, and ultimately to our own existence.  Well, I would tell you more but the seconds are ticking by at a telling rate!  Tell, the word is extremely good!

done!


Now for friday5
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Friday 5 for August 15: Mammalian

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your website. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Have you drunk the milk of some animal other than a cow? If so, how was it?
My mother bought goat's milk for us from a woman close by our farm who sold it, and cheeses, from her goats.  I remember going to collect it with mother.  I still like goat cheese better than most cow's milk cheeses, though I can no longer eat many cheeses.

How sensitive are you to changes in atmospheric temperature?
I can't be certain of temperature, though the narrow range of 65 to 80 degrees is where I'm happiest.  I know instinctively when the temperature rises over 81 degrees,  What I can really tell is the change in altitude by as little as 200 feet.  It's the ears that give it away, as they start aching when we leave our "mountain".  We live at the top of a mesa, so everywhere else is DOWN!

How do you feel about your body hair?
My own?  I've learned to live with it.  It was mostly invisibly blond on my arms and face, and black on my legs so that part was lucky: legs are easy to shave!  I miss the thick, dark hair on my head though.  It wasn't too bad until 6 months of illness from infection, followed by emergency surgery, and an allergic reaction to meds.  Now I have a little rope like ponytail, which makes me feel deep sympathy for those who have lost their full head of hair.  I hope some of my twiggy wig comes back, and it doesn't stay all wispy.   


What’s something you know about the moment of your birth or the events immediately before and after?
I was born at home, in my grandparent's farm house.  Right after grandma cleaned me up she put me in the drawer of a dresser- one that I still have!  

By modern standards I was a small baby at 5 pounds.  The doctor gave my mother back $50 - a considerable sum in those days - for Christmas presents for me.  He had had to drive through a snowstorm to deliver me.  He was a very good family doctor!

He was a very kind doctor to put up with me later, at five years, when I fit myself, screaming the whole while, under a rolling table like some little Highland's wild cat.  I was trying to avoid getting a shot of some kind.  But that was later..... 

What non-mammalian animal do you feel the most kinship with?
That would have to be the Bird Family.  I would like to be a water bird but other birds are nice, too.

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