K is FOR...

K is for ...

...KERFUFFLE!

Yes, it is a real word.  I came it across a couple of days ago in my favorite news magazine WORLD , (WORLDmag   [add the usual ending if you want to access their website] ). I looked at it several times  thinking, Is that a real word?  It wasn't in my regular dictionary but I found it on Wikkipedia. Here's how to use it:

"There was such a kerfuffle in our house when we had to change our word processor from Microsoft Word 2003 to Microsoft Word10."  


Definition:  commotion, disorder or agitation

Those who have read some of my previous blogs will know how much I  hate changes on my computer.  Just when I think I know how to use something properly, along comes the latest version!

K is also for KIN

I don't have a lot of kinfolk.  My sister and I have 5 cousins.  She is over in the UK visiting them right now.


This was taken at my father's funeral in 1983, when someone realized that all the cousins except one were present and so a photograph of us all was appropriate.  I'm so glad this photo was taken. It's the nearest thing to a family photo that we have.

Our five cousins starting from the back row, are Peter, Alan, skip to the next male in the row: Graham and then my brother Michael. The row in front of them shows the three female cousins, Patricia, me, (skip one, Pete's wife I think) and Elizabeth.  All the others are wives and children of the cousins.

There are eight cousins, all on my mother's side. My father was an only child.

 ....And just so it is appropriate for our letter 'K' day',  it was my sister, Kay who

was missing.    She was unable to come over to the UK from Canada for the funeral.

Sadly none of us knew then that my brother at  age 48 would die from pancreatic cancer just six months later.

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From the sublime to the ridiculous -- it's CATS again (Sorry, I will abstain from cats on my blog for a couple of months, I promise). So....

K is for Kauai 'Kat'
I couldn't miss this because it is really unique.  We usually spend Thanksgiving on Kauai and we have dinner at a very fine establishment called GAYLORDS. They have a cat there and of course I always take a photo. You will have to take my word for it that these pictures were indeed taken in the very same place, at almost the same hour, for three years in a row.   

2007

2008

2009

We didn't go to Kauai last year, 2010, so we missed this photo op.  However, we are going again this year and if the cat is still there, another photo will be taken!

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