Haiku of the day

No nap
Screaming, fussing and inconsolable
I'm exhausted

Teeth!

These suckers are sharp, too! I was finally able to snap some pictures of the "teeth". I was tickling him and he was giggling like crazy

Baby Booties

Here are some pics of my latest project. I made a few rejects and even these weren't easy to make the same size. I tried following a couple of patterns, but a some of the instructions were strange and I didn't have the exact hook or yarn.... so I made up my own pattern. They will be sent off to Sarah's Olivia soon. I will be sewing some booties tomorrow, so maybe I'll hold off on mailing them out right away. Drake and Clayton may get a pair, too, if they look manly enough.

Haiku of the day

sandwich maker
tired and don't want to
salad too

Haiku

Baby booties
Own pattern goes wrong
Don't match


Hungry caterpillar
Ate all kinds of junk
Stomach ache

(as you can tell, I'm not great at these, but it's fun)

Haiku

Always hungry
Can't eat in front of him
Here's some lasagna

Haikus

I forgot to add my entry last night:

Hydroseed
Sprayed in the middle of winter
Pretty stupid



Today's:

Zoo lights
Nice night for animals
Families

Christmas Family

Here's a pic of the Thomas family wearing the dorky hats I made. (I like them, but the rest of the crew wasn't so thrilled.) I used a pretty simple pattern from Martha Stewart.

Haiku

Here's my second poem. We'll see if I can keep this us every day.

Awakening gusts
Threatening the house
Or the neighbor's tree

A Haiku a Day

I decided I wanted to try to write a Haiku a day. It's more complicated than three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, as some people assume.

From Wikipedia: In contrast to English verse which is typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units (morae), known as "on". The word on is often translated as "syllable", but there are subtle differences between an "on" and an English-language "syllable". Traditional haiku consist of 17 on, in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on respectively.

The word onji (音字; "sound symbol") is sometimes used in referring to Japanese sound units in English^[5] although this word is archaic and no longer current in Japanese.^[6] In Japanese, the onkana character count (closely enough that moji (or "character symbol") is also sometimes used^[6] as the count unit). corresponds very closely to the

One on is counted for a short syllable, an additional one for an elongated vowel, diphthong, or doubled consonant, and one for an "n" at the end of a syllable. Thus, the word "haibun", though two syllables in English, is counted as four on in Japanese (ha-i-bu-n).

Most writers of literary haiku in English use about ten to fourteen syllables, with no formal pattern.

I have been reading in a book about Haiku and they suggest that English language Haiku can mimic the Japanese Haiku by having an accented pattern of 2, 3, 2.

So......... here goes.

Squinting eyes
Six toothed grin
We laugh