When last we left Kay Buena’s favorite doll from her first childhood, Betty Jane she had been chastised with great disdain for her meddling with the Postal Service.\u00a0 This kind of thing\u00a0tends to happen, but as we later\u00a0figured out, She really held no guilt in the interference with the Postal\u00a0Services routine.\u00a0 And although,\u00a0there are those among us with limited senses of humour about life’s daily occurrences, and those who want to hang out and complain about them and their place or situation in this world, these types need to be taken outside and made to form a line in the backyard starting right behind my person.\u00a0 Note this sartorial statement from yours truly who complained that I was not able to play the piano easily anymore.\u00a0 Well, “Big Deal”. How many people get to hang out with a cool piano like Rubin anyway?\u00a0How many people even know how to play the piano.\u00a0 Betty Jane was never much of a student of the\u00a0Fine Arts, and as she commented “it should be enough to get to stay here” and notice that “when one is\u00a0surrounded by too much to do, and not enough physical ability to get every thing done (perfectly), perhaps the best plan is to lower one”s standards”. Things could be a whole lot worse for us all.<\/p>\n
Anyway, as noted,\u00a0Betty Jane worked herself out of her box, after which she promptly stated ‘there were doll stands on sale at the discount store,so why could she not have a benign role in our lives,as after all she was just as much of a disabled dweeb\u00a0as I was?’\u00a0\u00a0(Good point,I agree) She\u00a0refused to cease and desist with her demand,\u00a0until a\u00a0stand she could lean on\u00a0was obtained for her comfort. She had more than made up for her offenses,if any, as a ‘rebel rouser’,and\u00a0so what<\/span><\/strong> if she’s an old Doll?\u00a0 Who\u00a0in Hell is “Vampire Barbie”, or the latest ‘American Idol’ Doll,\u00a0anyway? They should just wait for their 15 minutes of fame to vanish and move aside.\u00a0I must admit Betty Jane was a classic, and\u00a0she\u00a0probably deserved the\u00a0“stand” suitable for a toppling older Doll and one of those new weird Barbie-like doll’s as well.\u00a0\u00a0For all is to the better with this new set-up and\u00a0attitude in\u00a0the study now.\u00a0There are still many interesting things going on in this world and Betty Jane took to her\u00a0 new look-out on Elmo the cat’s nook, overlooking the bird-feeder with great dignity and a secret smirk on her little mouth.<\/p>\n Thanks to her perseverance and patience,we have all enjoyed watching Elmo’s outside world.\u00a0 And It is true that we still have Morning Doves<\/em> here, but the black capped vitreos<\/em> are supposedly already passed through to the South.\u00a0 Too bad that, they have been seen to get tipsy on the fermented pyracantha berries and make a mad display in the bird bath.\u00a0Always a good show\u00a0indeed. \u00a0We have had some cold nights but no freezes yet. The Star Trek Action figures have taken a hike, but we now enjoy\u00a0watching the real people outside as they frantically try to obtain physical fitness by walking, running and cycling outdoors by our curbside.\u00a0All this before the Holidays eat the year away and a new one begins!<\/p>\n We have a new mail personage. Now that Mr.Miller, our infamous mail man of 18 years superlative service in our neighborhood, has been promoted.<\/p>\n As strange as this seems: His (the new mail personage’s) replacement’s name is Mr. Miller.<\/p>\n This we take as a sign, \u00a0a good one.<\/p>\n Caroline Abbitt Sauer\u00a0 aka\u00a0 Kay Buena\u00a0 (Chief Birdwatcher, Managing Personal Assistant of things going awry in the night) 11-30-2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When last we left Kay Buena’s favorite doll from her first childhood, Betty Jane she had been chastised with great disdain for her meddling with the Postal Service.\u00a0 This kind of thing\u00a0tends to happen, but as we later\u00a0figured out, She really held no guilt in the interference with the Postal\u00a0Services routine.\u00a0 And although,\u00a0there are those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-betty-jane-chronicles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R4qt-9H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":164,"url":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/8-saywhat-ever-happened-to-betty-jane-er-the-doll\/","url_meta":{"origin":601,"position":0},"title":"16. 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