WAUKESHA SEWER RACCOON NEWS: KD Cat and the Xmas parade; Flowers; Military Secrets, A. Gopnik

The Waukesha Xmas parade is supposed to be coming!!!!

said KD, our new Odd Fellows Cat.

No parade quite yet. Excited people have been waiting for an hour down on the street.

But an early peddlar's cart is at least Something to watch!

Can I have me one of those lit-up FORCE wands? Some peanuts? Dashing trinkets?

Can I, huh, CAN I?

P-l-e-e-e-e-a-s-e!

O-K!

NOW it starts.......

Individuals have their own windows.

LOOK!

The 1st Congregational UCC parade float! A blur.

Float riders wave up at us.

We wave back!

LOOK NOW!

The RE/MAX balloon basket blasts it's fiery air.

In background, the long-vacant former Black Trumpet restaurant's

windows are ~ 'blackened' ~

It was a fine parade, and Officer Bruce's business association's promises were kept.

Even the stilt-walkers were evident, just like they said.

It was a long to-do overall

but just like all good things

it came to an end,

leading our 8 month old cat

to exclaim:

"Is...is....is that all there is?

Is that all there is to a Xmas parade?

Is that all there is?"

If that's all there is my friend,

Then, let's............:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M

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Peggy Lee might have been a pessimist at times

but we tend to look on the brighter side.

This extravagant show of flower-openings

convinces this diarist that there is

a Divine Creator,

Supreme Architect of the Universe,

Illustrator of incredible un-random beauty........

WATCH This is 2.5 minutes of blooming flowers, maybe 30 or more.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/27920977?title=0&%3bbyline=0&%3bportrait=0href=

'La vida des los flores'

from Bob Heeschen

Special Agent, 113th CIC Corps, Ret'd.
St. Paul MN

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ee cummings from Norb Blei, Ellison Bay WI

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

–e.e. cummings

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Ledge-walker

Bird-watcher

http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2012/09/not-so-petty-sandy-damatos-chinese.html

KD Cat performs final exercise before the launching
of today's 11/24/12 Raccoon:

Bell thumb-tacked to table is swung to get KD's attention. She prowls
in the back shadows of the pass-through, forbidden territory by Dee
but Dee is not around;