Hamfatter is a real word and it is really in the dictionary.
It has it’s very own definition and someone took time to record it’s history.
But the funny thing about this word is that nobody is sure where it came from.
Hamfatter just popped up, shoved all of the other words off stage and made us talk about it.
I can picture the staff at Merriam Webster elbowing each other in the halls after staff meetings and giving each other the stink eye in the break-room after hotly debating the word Hamfatter before entering it into their system and giving the word Hamfatter it’s special place in the dictionary.
Think about it, this non-word still manage to make it into our vocabulary despite the fact nobody knows what it actually means or where it really came from.
Hamfatter is a devilish word, so from today on I intend on making it a part of my day to day vocabulary and using it often.
My favorite month of the year is any month that ends in ” Ber “
September
I like September because it is full of my promise- September is my Spring time.
September has cool mornings and warm-ish evenings. It turns some leaves gold and red and if you have a garden your pumpkins are full and orange and ripe. On some weekends you can still sit outside and read a book or barbecue. September is a tease and it’s sort of sassy.
What are the months like me going to bring? It asks. A little pleasure, a lot of pain?
Tell me I will insist.
Not on your billy September says every single year.
October
What can I say about October?
October is my Muse, it inspires me and when I explore cemeteries or I take my dog and my Jeep off road and I think we might be lost and it’s getting dark I don’t feel like me and Hamish are really alone because October is with us.
After all, October is with me in May, why would it not be with me on those lost roads?
Andrew Wyeth
November
Sometimes November shows up with a little snow, sometimes it shows up with a lot of rain. Sometimes the days are warm and Sunny.
November is unpredictable, its like it’s testing me, asking me- are you ready for December, Anita?
I will always answer yes.
Are you sure? It asks again.
I don’t know, I finally confess. I don’t really know.
John Atkinson Grimshaw –
December
The dark, the snow, the cold, the ghosts- I have worked all year to make it to December. I’ve earned every glorious second December has to offer.
1911-1914 “Australasian Antarctic Expedition,” Australian photographer James Hurley
I am this total loser whose best friend is her dog and just when I thought the world had it in for me, the 2024 Presidential Election showed me everyone hates everybody else and not only that- they will burn their own house down to SHOW you how much they hate you.
I’ve been kicked in the head a lot in my life, but nobody drove themselves off a cliff screaming ‘ yeehaw ‘ as they plunged to their death to show me how worthless I was to them, but you know- I kind of wish they had. My point is, maybe the people in my life didn’t hate me as much as I thought they did.
So the coolest thing I found that I have kept in these recent days is my sense of humor- I thought it was gone and the POOF it shows back up again at the darnedest time!
“Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.” –Sophocles
The thing about secrets is that the truths they enshroud always and I do mean always find a way to leak out.
Like, in my family we would tell ghost stories during the winter at family gatherings like Christmas parties or at family dinners. The common theme seemed to involve people who buried their victims in the basement and ghosts who were attracted to the water.
Years later I found out that my Great Grandmother’s childhood home had served briefly as a funeral parlor when another family owned it and indeed the mortician’s work was done in their basement. The Funeral Director died on his way to a cemetery. He had heart attack they said.
My Great Great Grandfather ( her Father ) died under mysterious circumstances. His body was found in Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada. He had been in Ottawa to attend his Mother’s funeral.
Neither of these incidents were talked about outright, but shades of them turned up in ghost stories.
These threads haunted us I suppose.
“Jemma” October 2023 Photo: A..M. Moscoso
Last week my family visited an attraction in the Dells, Wisconsin called “The Upside Down House ” The Upside Down House is the White House-
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House ” Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
And it is being guarded by big scary robots-
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
The secret wasn’t what was on the main floor- you paid the admission and you could walk right in.
What you did was to discover the secret look straight ahead ( which isn’t as easy as it sounds because you are looking up so much that when you look down you go your sense of balance goes wonky ) to find the holes in the walls, from there you had to walk through these forced entries to find the secret that was hiding in the Upside Down House.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Then you had to follow the signs, like my son did.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House ” Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
This is where things got good.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
What are they hiding in the Upside Down White House? What is the secret that has leaked out?
Why, the secrets is all about Aliens of course.
Aliens are in the basement of the White House and they are in the midst of conducting medical experiments.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
What were the Aliens trying to accomplish in their experiments? What were they trying to achieve?
That’s a secret they’ve kept in the basement of the Upside Down House and if we are lucky, it will stay down there.
Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House “ Wisconsin, Dells October 2024
