The Bow Belle

It's a random day!  I love these!  For today's randomness I chose a bee bow, one that I haven't worn in forever .  Etsy shop is CutiePatootieBow17, who is currently not selling anything. Bees!  I think our local efforts to help bees may be paying off, as I've seen a lot of 'em around Grandma's place.  We had a bumper crop of clover and dandelions this year, and Grandma's neighbors have a magnolia tree, so there's ample food for any bees that come along.  Sigh...when Grandma's crabapple tree was alive the bees came in the thousands, but that tree is gone.  The 2009 ice storm split it in two.  I spent a lot of time playing in that tree as a child, so when I heard it had been destroyed I was devastated.  There's a maple tree growing there now though, and it's a good tree.  Pretty and healthy.  It just doesn't attract bees. Buzz, RagingMoon1987

It's Water a Flower Day, though I'd advise against watering my big sunflower.  I wore this bad boy on Eclipse Day !  Etsy shop is GnosisCraftsandGifts . No solar eclipse for the Moon Girl today (or possibly ever again), but I'll remember the one on April 8th for a loooong time.  Hopefully forever. Sadly there will be no sunflowers for me today either, as I haven't got a place to grow them.  Not yet, anyway.  No one else is growing sunflowers either...hold that thought.  God's wild sunflowers are growing in a field next to one of the graveyards and they look amazing.  I love sunflowers. Hugs and sunshine, RagingMoon1987

It's Pink Flamingo Day, and I don't have a flamingo bow so I chose an old favorite. Flamingos are special to me because they remind me of a friend who died not too long ago.  She loved flamingoes and kept those goofy plastic ones in her yard.  Her husband STILL leaves 'em out, in fact!  Miss D had cervical cancer, and it unfortunately was too far gone for them to do much when she was diagnosed.  A metastasis wrapped around her aorta, and that thankfully took her quickly.  I didn't know her as well as Mama did, but we talked on Failbook about music (we both liked the Guess Who) and about pets.  She was a nice lady.  Thus is the drawback of befriending people way older than you; they eventually die off.  That's happened a lot lately.  Granted, most of the friends I've lost this year were just folks I knew from the library, so we weren't bosom buddies or anything.  But it still stings. Right, flamingoes are among my favorite birds, partiall...

Today is the anniversary of yet another violent tornado outbreak, and also World Geek Day.  I assume that Whovians fall on the geek spectrum, so out comes one of my big bows.  Etsy shop is AandMsBOWtique ; I need to tell the shop owner that this bow has received a lot of compliments. It also helps that Uncle From St. Louis is home for the weekend, and he's the only other Whovian in the family.  I'm dying to ask him what he thinks of Number Fourteen.  For me no one will top Number Eleven, but that's just my opinion. Geeks rule, RagingMoon1987

Today's bow is big and silver for World Schizophrenia Awareness Day.  Etsy shop is PurelyGirlyBows . I don't have schizophrenia and I don't know anyone with schizophrenia, but I've always been fascinated by and terrified of the disorder.  Some folks with this scourge of an illness develop atrophy of the frontal lobe, and y'all can probably guess what that does to them.  You can't recover from that.  So if you've got schizophrenia or love someone with schizophrenia, this bow's for you.  Please know that you are loved. Love, RagingMoon1987

Today is International Turtle Day.  The shop this time is MichelesBowtique . Daddy loved elephants and foxes, I love frogs, sloths, and red pandas, and my brother-in-law's animal of choice is the turtle.  I think he's thinking of the box turtles that are thick as thieves around here, but a sea turtle is what I found.  Besides, sea turtles are wicked awesome too.  However, my heart will always lie with snapping turtles.  Being from the Bootheel, I call these "snappin'" turtles or just "snappers."  Alligator snappers are endangered, but I've seen a few and I've gotten pictures.  You don't want to monkey with snappers, but they're truly beautiful in their own way.  I captured this feller in 2017 just outside Malden city limits. I think this one was your regular snapper and not an alligator snapper, but I've seen both living in our ditches.  This chap was about eighteen inches from head to tail, and he scuttled off into the grass after I ...

It's World Goth Day, among other things.  I used to wear gothic touches with my clothes. I was a hippie at heart during high school, pairing my long hair with tie-dyed shirts and Mama's love beads.  But if I was in a weird mood I'd throw in a black necklace with crosses or a few studded bracelets.  I never was fully goth, but I admired the aesthetic and had a lot of respect for any goths I met.  I still do.  Not everyone is that way, as the tragic murder of Sophie Lancaster shows.   My favorite subgenre of gothic style is pastel goth. Yep, pink can be gothic!  When I learned that I was...well, tickled pink!  I've always loved colors too much to be fully gothic myself, so when I learned that there WAS a way to work colors in I was all for it.  Now...that being said, I'm NOT a pastel goth myself.  I'm an ordinary country woman who wears what's comfortable, usually in bright colors and with two or three necklaces, plus some goofy earri...

Actually I'm not expecting strawberries to be ripe anytime soon, but today is Strawberries and Cream Day.  Etsy shop is TwinnsCraftSupplies . I'm VERY fond of strawberries, so I have several bows that pay tribute to that.  Not everyone does, and some folks are even allergic to them.  But I could eat my weight in them.  I particularly like strawberry rhubarb pie...and I haven't had it in years, LITERALLY!!!  My paternal grandmother made it once, and we cut contact with her when I was eleven so I haven't had that pie since.  As obnoxious as Grandma grew to be, she was a great cook.  Daddy always said that the poor thing didn't really get obnoxious until she got too stove up in her back to garden.  Gardening was her outlet, and she was darn good at it.  Flowers and fruits in equal measure, she grew 'em 'til she couldn't, and then she drove Daddy darn near crazy.  That was a rough time.  But I won't forget the good times, and her strawb...

In the past I've mentioned of the impossibility in finding a hair bow with a tornado theme or a train theme.  Underdog sadly proved elusive as well, but I never talked about that until now.  To that sad trifecta I'll add the candy that everyone I know either loves or can't eat, Reese's.  Today is I Love Reese's Day, among other things. Probably if I'd asked the right person I could've had a custom bow, but this orange and yellow number does the job just fine.  Etsy shop is BeccasBowsAndMoreUS . I don't know how many of y'all can eat Reese's, but Mama and I have been eating the ones with caramel a lot lately.  Never would've thunk that caramel and peanut butter would go well together, but they do. Sweet love, RagingMoon1987

For reasons I don't know, the third Friday in May is NASCAR Day.  For that I'm wearing a fitting JoJo Bow.  Specifically, Club Bow #23. NASCAR was the sport of the hour when I was growing up.  Daddy was a live-strong, die-hard Dale Earnhardt fan, while I cheered on Mark Martin and Kevin Harvick.  February 18th, 2001 was a dark day indeed for the family, as that was the day Dale Earnhardt got killed.  Head-on crashes into the walls of those tracks were always a big deal, and...well, that particular crash was a VERY big deal.  The funny thing is, Earnhardt's crash looked tame compared to this 1995 smashup done by Ken Schrader , or the 1969 crash that involved Don MacTavish.  Ken Schrader walked away from his crash smiling and without a scratch, while Don MacTavish died.  I remember Schrader's accident well; I was watching TV with Daddy because a severe thunderstorm was moving in and I wanted to monitor it.  Schrader caught too much air, and ov...

It's the one and only Liberace's birthday.  Such an occasion calls for something extra-sparkly, and since Liberace was openly gay, something rainbow as well. Mama and Grandma used to watch Liberace on TV every afternoon, and they loved every second of every performance.  Mama said his fingers would fly.  She also said that she read about the lighting technicians having a terrible time because of Liberace's uber-blingy clothes. As for me, I think the hardest I ever laughed at Jack Benny was when he performed with Liberace .  Fans of Liberace will know that he'd perform with a candelabrum on his piano, right?  When Mr. Benny traipses onto the stage and lifts his violin, it too has a candelabrum on it! Of course Jack's deadpan expression helps sell it.  It always does.  I love Jack Benny.  I will say though...when Jack does come out with that candlestick on his violin, Liberace tells him he's "overdoing it."  When Liberace says something like th...

Etsy shop is the defunct SpunkyDoo. I prefer this bow to the one I wore on September 16th , because it's soft and fits over my ponytail better. After consulting my favorite holiday website I found nothing to mention police or backing the blue, but it IS Emergency Medical Services Day and the police help them out a lot, so I guess that works.  We ought to be backing the blue every day anyway. Back the blue, RagingMoon1987

It's a hair early for me to be trotting out my patriotic bows...no, take that back.  It's NEVER too early or too late for patriotic hair bows.  On this day in 1897 "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was performed in public for the first time.  I freaking love that piece. This bow last saw daylight late last June .  It's a nice big bow, and a comfortable one, and it was a gift, so it's one of my favorites.  I just try to rotate the living snot out of all my bows, thus why this one doesn't often get worn, LOL.  Then again, it's raining here in the Bootheel today, so maybe one of my plastic bows would've been more fitting.  We've gotten a LOT of rain lately, and it's not letting up. Love, RagingMoon1987

Today is Twilight Zone Day.  I would celebrate by embarking on a marathon...but alas, I have no TV.  I do, however, have my bow from December 30th . Since I'm fond of The Twilight Zone I predict this bow will get a lot of wear, just as my Pac-Man bow has.  Truthfully a lot of my bows from DollfaceDesignss get a lot of mileage since they're comfortable, not too big, and not too small. It's also National Train Day, but I've yet to find a hair bow that's train-themed.  I show my allegiance to trains with my Chessie System badges.  LOL, I can remember seeing Chessie System rolling stock when I was little and thinking "That mark looks just like a kitty cat!"  This is what the mark looks like; it's a stylized letter C. Turns out that the C IS a kitty cat!  Chessie is her name , and in the original artwork she was your everyday tabby cat, the kind everyone has seen or owned at least once, the kind whose surname would be "Smith" or "Jones....

It isn't every day that I have two crap shoot days in one week.  For Friday and for the end of the rain I present one of my favorites .  Etsy shop is perfectprincess . Yep, Malden made it through another severe threat unscathed.  I heard that Annapolis and Des Arc (north of Malden but still in Missouri) didn't fare as well.  No one died at either community, but this round of storms was a donniebrook for a lot of people and I'm praying for those that were affected. On the backside of these storms the weather has been cooler and downright beautiful.  More rain is in the forecast for next week, and my area really doesn't need more rain, but at least tornadoes are not in the cards that I know of. Thankful love, RagingMoon1987

Hurrah for Buttons Day has come again, and with that I bring another bow from MoFunAccessories .  Interestingly, this bow is the one that I bought initially.  The bow I wore last year for Hurrah for Buttons Day came with it as a freebie. If my Etsy records are correct, then this bow, delivered on November 23rd, 2019, was the first bow I bought for myself.  That makes sense, because I'd only begun wearing hair bows in April of that year, and Mama didn't start buying them for me until shortly before my birthday that same year .  As I noted in my introductory post, we were all wearing masks in public around then, and I have a hard enuff time telling people apart without face masks.  I reasoned that some of my younger patrons might have the same trouble, so some sort of hair bauble made the best sense.  It was kinda out of the blue, my sudden fondness for hair bows, but my friends and family embraced it quickly.  I was hoping that maybe I'd start a trend ...

Unlike yesterday, I did have something planned in advance for today.  It's National Give Someone a Cupcake Day, among other things.  I wore this bow very recently , but it's so cute I'm gonna wear it again!  Etsy shop is TwinkleToesAndBowsLE . I must say, with the weather being as horrendous as it's been, I should've worn black.  The weather is predicted to be VERY bad today.  We'll see how this pans out.  Regarding cupcakes, which part do y'all think is better, the actual cake or the frosting?  I like both, but Mama and I have always been frosting fans.  And since I haven't had a decent cupcake in months, I'm signing off on this post, LOL! Frosty love, RagingMoon1987

Today is yet another crap shoot day.  I always like those, 'cause it means I can wear whatever the eff I want.  I chose this bow, which I last wore in September . It's dark and rainy today, with thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon and particularly tomorrow.  Our local meteorologists are saying my area may get a dose of what northwestern Oklahoma got last night.  The Lord's will be done, I say. Love, RagingMoon1987

Time to drag out the Sith bow again.  This one hasn't seen the light of day since LAST May 4th , which is sad.  I could wear this bow with just about anything I want.  Etsy shop is PreciousWonderland . Another year has gone by without me watching the Star Wars films.  As I've said in the past I have absolutely nothing against it, but I still couldn't tell Tattoine from Skaro...yeah, probably I could.  Skaro is crawling with Daleks and they're impossible to miss.   Sweeping change of subject, the Kentucky Derby is being held today, so my prayers are with the jockeys and the horses.  Despite what PETA might tell you, those horses get treated better than a lot of humans do.  But...accidents happen, like they did with Barbaro and Ruffian and goodness knows who else, so I always pray for the well-being of those horses. Love, RagingMoon1987

International Space Day.  Etsy shop is MoFunAccessories . I've always maintained a vague interest in space travel and study, but nothing too serious.  Mama, on the other hand, wonders how much tax money the country has spent on such shenanigans, and I have to admit she has a point.  I also have to wonder:  have we learned anything of use from our studies of space?  Have we gained anything besides pretty images of nebulae and Saturn and that?  The answer is probably yes, but I'm dumb and naive so I wouldn't know.  I could give you statistics about who all has died during our explorations of the wild blue yonder, but that's about it.  Don't read about Valentin Bondarenko unless your gut's pretty strong, by the way.  His fate was nearly identical to that of the Apollo 1 crew , but he lived for several hours in excruciating pain.  If the damn commies had been honest about Bondarenko's death then the Apollo 1 disaster might've been averted.....

Since it's International Day of Prayer, that can only mean my John 3:16 bow is appropriate. As loony as the world has become we NEED to pray!  Tornadoes, protests, and pro-palestinian horsesh!t here in the U.S., wars in Sudan, in Israel, in Russia and Ukraine, in Myanmar, it's just a hair cray-cray.  The wars in Sudan and in Myanmar appear to be civil wars, and I REALLY hate that.  No war is good, but civil wars always seem to be the cruelest. Regarding the tornadoes, April used to be the worst month for us here in the Bootheel, but lately May has been even more so.  I first noticed it in 2011 when Joplin got hit...but then that was just a bad spring, period.  God wasn't happy then either.  What I don't get was why the tornado had to plow through Joplin, and not some place where a lot of conflict was going on, but that's not my place to know, I don't s'pose.  My job is...well, to pray.  Pray for safety, pray for those that were hurt, give thanks f...

The first Wednesday in May is the Great American Grump-Out.  I chose my black satin bow for the occasion. Back in high school I didn't need an excuse to be a bitch, LOL.  On this particular Great American Grump-Out I've got the PERFECT excuse.  My bosses are coming, as are a passle of kindergarteners.  As I said yesterday, I prefer my children fricasseed.  THIS might keep 'em at bay! My new bracelet is made of rosary peas, and when properly chewed a single pea kills you slowly and painfully.  Not that I plan on feeding these to the kids...but they don't know that.  Bwa-ha-ha! Grumps, RagingMoon1987