Haiku for every day of December 2023

Haiku for every day of December 2023

December 1   

Boys are here to sleep

Set up the tent, sleeping bags

Mini-tacos

 

December 2   

Miles’first chess tourney

Won two lost, lost one, two stalemates

He won a ribbon!

 

December 3   

Empty Nesters brunch

potlucks let us talk and talk

sweet making new friends

 

December 4   

Jasper’s chapel talk

With his class, he was very

Comfortable up there

 

December 5

Dropped Marg off at noon

Drove to Wagoner, OK

Days Inn favorite

           

December 6   

Met Chris’ fam for wings

Slept and slept all good night long

Talked with Mary Kay

 

December 7   

Squirrels under our roof

Skittering, eat ceiling holes

We should do something!

 

December 8   

Dr. Kim just helps!

Margret completely trusts him

With body and soul

 

December 9   

Birthday lunch with Jim

At our favorite buffet

Shopping at Menards

 

December 10 

Christmas in Springfield

Evening with fireplace

Happy to be here

 

December 11 

Talk time with Susan

Margaret cooked a turkey

Happy, we sat, ate

 

 

December 12 

Dan Deem cut my meds

What doctor ever does that

OK to be wrong

 

December 13

Marc and Evie’s treat

Longhorn Smokehouse birthday meal

Sirloin was the best

 

December 14

Imo’s lunch with John

Party with Jan, Dan, Marg

Jack’s Scholastic Bowl

 

December 15 

Margret flew, I drove

Getting cold, back to Austin

Wagoner again

 

December 16

hit something on road

near Waco, tore up bumper

but I made it home

 

December 17 

Chris’ birth, 43

Live Christmas tree we planted,

To grow up with him

 

December 18

but we moved away

new owners cut down the tree

Chris still going strong

 

December 19

Filed claim for car

Estimate one thousand plus

It does not take much

 

December 20 

Halfway through rehab

Thirty minutes twice a week

My heart feels just great

 

December 21 

Johnson City lights

Magic, peace, under the trees

Surrounding silence

 

December 22 

It’s Christmas Friday

Gingerbread house and artwork

We made it ourselves!

 

December 23 

Christmas Saturday

Made quiche and cranberry fluff

Movies, wrapped presents

 

December 24 

Christmas Eve at church

Brunch in our new living room

Awesome Mesa lights

 

December 25

Wait a bit for gifts

First: our Nativity play

Last: feast and prayers          

 

December 26

Lights – Chinati Court

Each year they grow and we go

Full moon shown on us

 

 

December 27 

On Christmas Tuesday

everybody back to work

highways roaring, loud!

 

December 28

Home breakfast with George

Made appointment to fix car

Blessed to get that done

           

December 29 

Sleepover alive

DQ, chicken soup, stories

Tent, boys sound asleep

 

December 30 

Waffles and bacon

Coffee, tea and orange juice

Put the tent away

 

December 31

Got one more haiku:

Ev’ry day the sun rises

But no more this year!