Share Our Garden!: Less Ambitious Books

"Johnny-Boy"

by Terry E. Wilbur

The sky is falling Johnny-Boy

The air is dark with mournful wails

You rush to rescue helpless souls

Up in the sky the death-bird sails

You still fight on to aid the weak

The powerless and feeble lie

Undaunted by their wretched fate

You charge ahead while towers die

Upon the weary men and maids

The death knell of the stone and steel

Comes down in fiery wrath and woe

Unheeding of their pleas for weal

Oh, Johnny-Boy, we loved you, lad

And though the demons won the day

Your selfless love still keeps us warm

In all the wreckage and dismay

Forever now, shall all the lads

Who even in their deaths were brave

Walk hand in hand all clothed in white

With those poor souls they strove to save."

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

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TWEET TREATS
DID YOU KNOW...?
GARDEN UPDATE
FAUNA
GARDEN GIGGLE
WHAT IN THE WORLD?
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JUST BLOOMED TODAY

AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY

TWEET TREATS

bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.

Yesterday, I stumbled across a hilarious conversation with the hashtag #LessAmbitiousBooks. The idea was to rewrite famous books with lesser titles. Try a few on your own, but I warn you, it is very addicting!

Citizen Erica Kane
A Tale of Two Suburban Retirement Communities
The Mostly Tolerable Lightness of Well, I'm Here Anyway
The Wizard of Eh
The Girl with the Temporary Tattoo
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fresno
The Princess Bridesmaid
Secretary of the Flies
Lord of the Pillbugs
Sandwich on the Rye
Somewhat Quiet on the Western Front
Alice's Adventures in Maryland
The Okay Gatsby
The Lion, The Witch and Doug
A Farewell To Legs
The Bob Ross Code
Uncle Tom's Trailer
The Diary of Uncle Frank
The Thirsty Games
The Grapes of Slight Annoyance
To Chastise A Mockingbird
Fifty Shades of Black
For Whom The Microwave Beeps
Hairy Potty and the Chamber of Secrets
Little Red Riding Lawn Mower
Jack and the Tofu Bean Curd
The Winged Monkey Clean-Up Crew of Oz
The Legend of No-Doz Hollow
The Pound Puppy of the Baskervilles
Cheaper By The Coupon
Fifty Shades of Grey Poupon
Chicken Soup for Chickens
Push: A Novel By Cubic Zirconia
Post-It Notes of a Geisha
Eat, Pray, Like
Romeo
Somewhat Quiet on the Western Front
War and Pea
Normal Expectations

I could go on and on but if you're on Twitter and you love to read, check it out yourself! You'll be hooked!

DID YOU KNOW...?

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

GARDEN UPDATE

Spitting rain a bit today and very humid. Oppressively so. Hiding inside again.

GARDEN GIGGLE

NOT SO FAMOUS SAYINGS

(as explained by elementary school students)

The grass is always greener when you leave the sprinkler on.
A rolling stone plays the guitar.
The grass is always greener when you remember to water it.
A bird in the hand is a real mess.
No news is no newspaper.
It's better to light one candle than to waste electricity.
It's always darkest just before I open my eyes.
You have nothing to fear but homework.
If you can't stand the heat, don't start the fireplace.
If you can't stand the heat, go swimming.
Never put off 'til tomorrow what you should have done yesterday.
A penny saved is nothing in the real world.
The squeaking wheel gets annoying.
We have nothing to fear but our principal.
To err is human. To eat a muskrat is not.
I think, therefore I get a headache.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and someone yells, "Shut up!"
Better to light a candle than to light an explosive.
It's always darkest before 9:30 p.m.
Early to bed and early to rise is first in the bathroom.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a blister.
There is nothing new under the bed.
The grass is always greener when you put manure on it.
Don't count your chickens -- it takes too long.

FAUNA

WHAT IN THE WORLD?

On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:

1777 Gen. George Washington and his troops met defeat at the Battle of Brandywine

1921 Fatty Arbuckle, a silent-film era performer at the height of his fame, is arrested in San Francisco for the rape and murder of aspiring actress Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle was later acquitted by a jury, but the scandal essentially put an end to his career.

1936 President FDR dedicates Hoover Dam in Colorado

1940 Hitler sends troops to Romania

1962 The Beatles record their first songs under the label TMI with 'Love Me Do' and 'P.S. I Love You.'

1971 Nikita Khrushchev dies; Donny Osmond has the #1 hit on the pop charts with 'Go Away Little Girl'

1985 Pete Rose hits into the record books

2001 The United States comes under attack by terrorists

2012 Chicago Teachers strike

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