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A classic roast beef recipe using rump roast, round roast, or sirloin tip. Click the image below to see Elise Bauer's recipe at Simply Recipes

One more page
in this journal, mine.
Filled with the emotion,
trying to entwine
the feelings of others,
as I try to do,
all of the tales
you said were true.
I love you. I will
love you until,
you tell me to go
and then I will.

It is crazy, as crazy as can be,
hearing all the lies of their hypocrisy .
A picture painted; all Dems. are bad.
It's not the truth; I am sad
for all Repubs. are not the same,
just the Trump crazies, playing a mean game.
I would like to believe the chaos a sham,
coming from the mouth of a ridiculous man.
You lie, plunder and law breaker, you.
Please dear reader, please vote Blue.

My brain, is frozen tight,
so I must now, write and write.
I have my pen, clasped in hand,
as the words pour forth on demand.
Not thinking of what to write,
just let them go, a pure delight.
A spewing of words of ink to paper,
as my hand is cramping; what a caper.
I can't let go of this Pentel pen,
perhaps the ink will run out again.
Who knows more about this day,
than you the reader, as I say
to you my literary reading friend,
should I write true or just pretend.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This exciting and unfamiliar view of the Orion Nebula is a visualization based on astronomical data and movie rendering techniques. Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled frame transitions from a visible light representation based on Hubble data on the left to infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope on the right. The perspective at the center looks along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region's giant molecular cloud. Orion's valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the Trapezium star cluster. The single frame is part of a multiwavelength, three-dimensional video that lets the viewer experience an immersive, three minute flight through the Great Nebula of Orion.

When love is tender.
When love is right,
Love will last us
Through the long night.

If I say to you, it was a hymn,
Would you believe it was a him?
Stupid question, I have asked of you,
But then, I am sometimes stupid too.
We all err as most humans do,
But according to POTUS, that's not true
Of him, for he's a "stable genius."
What kind of person is so uncouth,
To be that way since his youth?

I think of you often,
but then, again,
you have always been,
the best friend.
You know who you are,
so let it be,
a friend for a wretch,
exactly like me.
I try to be humble,
not hard to do,
making it difficult
when not seeing you.
I will keep trying
at my own pace,
until such time,
I am gone from
this saddest place.

The morning is cool,
as is the night.
The afternoon sunny,
what a treasured delight.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This intergalactic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. Swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, Arp 227 consists of the two galaxies prominent right of center, the curious shell galaxy NGC 474 and its blue, spiral-armed neighbor NGC 470. The faint, wide arcs or shells of NGC 474 could have been formed by a gravitational encounter with neighbor NGC 470. Alternately the shells could be caused by a merger with a smaller galaxy producing an effect analogous to ripples across the surface of a pond. The large galaxy on the top lefthand side of the deep image, NGC 467, appears to be surrounded by faint shells too, evidence of another interacting galaxy system. Intriguing background galaxies are scattered around the field that also includes spiky foreground stars. Of course, those stars lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. The field of view spans 25 arc minutes or about 1/2 degree on the sky.

Photo by Martin Pugh

Say over and over, in your head,
I will fight and not be led,
for no matter what you may do,
I will vote you out. Vote Blue.