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Because its nice to start the week with something cute and fun. And I think kiddo wants one! Happy Sunday. 😊
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Morning Gil!
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Morning!
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I have seen this before a couple of times. I never noticed, though, that it appears he keeps a close eye on the ones in the water to make sure they are all right.
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Very attentive isnt he? Morning!
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OK Gil, now you got me clicking on all the golden links – I’m gonna be here all day! Really cute doggies 🙂
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I started too then went to bed. Mornin!
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Way too cute 🙂 ! Good morning Gil 🙂 !
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Sweet start to July ! Morning!
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What an awesome quilt design! Beautifully carried out.
And can we believe today is the first Sunday in July, 2018! Time is fleeting; let’s make the most of it. Whether you have a peaceful day, a happy or fun day, or just be contented in every day activities, have a beautiful Sunday!
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Well said, Lucille! Wishing you a blessed Lord’s day!
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Thanks, sand! A little bit of the artistic sand and sea…
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Thank you! You made my day!
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You’re ever so welcome!
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Morning Lucille – hope you have a peaceful, pleasant Sunday! What a pretty pic and sentiment is so true. I love the colors 🙂
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Good morning, TOG&C! Thanks!
This painting was recently found and scientists say it fits to be a work of Leonardo da Vinci. This is because the pigment and a primer identical found are similar to what Leonardo used. Also, the image of the woman in the painting is similar to Mona Lisa, especially her smile.
See the article: “4 mysteries of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous paintings that will blow your mind!”
http://mb.ntdin.tv/en/article/english/4-mysteries-leonardo-da-vincis-famous-paintings-will-blow-mind
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Yes, That really does look like DaVinci!
Wiki has great images of his work with great magnification detail, if you’re interested in viewing it.
That article is interesting, and It’s always nice to see newer articles being produced about great art. 🙂
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Today’s quilt reflects Escher angles &shadows, one of my favorite patterns. Love the choices of colors & prints.
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It takes someone with a real talent for color to achieve what makes up that quilt. Colors that are pleasing together yet manage an overall pop, tones that suit each other. Few people are actually that good. It’s difficult and impressive when you see it done.
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🙂 Yes it does!
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The dude is aptly named, if you pronounce it Mac A Skill. I know a couple of kids, dishwashers and bussers at a restaurant near to me, who do this with their custom BMX bikes, but not nearly at this level. They are good kids, with good work ethic, so they will be someday. I told them, watch this guy, using YouTube’s ability to slow the video down, and you will advance in your skills. They will, because they respect me, and listen to me. For some reason. 😀
Like I quoted, don’t count your harvest, count the seeds you planted, at the end of the day.
MacAskill’s tires are his feet. The bike is an extension of him.
And the music in the video, and the editing, are top notch, as well.
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The music reminds me of Kate Bush.
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You have to keep trying, in order to nail it. The end of this video is a testament.
This guy isn’t really THAT good, superhero good, but he knows that one out of a hundred times he WILL nail it. And that’s where the high-fives come in.
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This video, I mean. The ending shows you the fails. And there are so many.
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Morning Wooly, hope all is going well with you! 🙂
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Thanks, Wooly! Seeing Edinburgh was like a trip back home! Sweet memories.
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This day in history…2004….Saturn probe…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3857187.stm
Saturn’s rings closeup
The “density waves” are much like ripples in water (Nasa/JPL/Space Science Institute)
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I wonder if they sparkle. They look like they should sparkle 🙂
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I am fascinated by planetary photos. Rings are among my favorites, and it was cool to see the pictures when the Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter in 1994.
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Wow! That must have been some collision to have such an impact on a planet as huge as Jupiter!
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We got a long run up b/c the astronomers knew a year in advance it would hit, then it broke up so there were a string of hits, not the “big one” they were hoping for. NASA had lots of coverage due to the Hubbell pix.
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Via AoSHQ tonight, a wonderful poem:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1172244852917461&id=592476637560955&ref=page_internal
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I preferred the boogieman story over the princess one.
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I liked both poems. I read the princess one with dread, afraid it was going to end badly. LOL
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Modern Farmer’s Guide to Guard Donkeys
https://modernfarmer.com/2014/06/modern-farmers-guide-guard-donkeys/
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I learn so many random things from my friends here! There are a couple of donkeys near here, I sometimes see them or hear their braying.
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….donkeys are instinctually aggressive toward canines, and are capable of dishing out crushing blows with both their front and hind legs as well as using their large teeth to bite raiding intruders. However, they cannot handle multiple canine attackers…. Not every donkey will make a suitable guardian for your farm. Jacks, or intact male donkeys, are generally too rough with sheep and may harm or even kill livestock…. So next time you see a donkey lazily grazing in the sun, remember, that’s no Eeyore moping around the pasture, it could very well be farm security, in which case you better watch out because you do not want to be on the receiving end of a donkey kick.
Wow! I never knew that about donkeys! The only interaction I’ve had with donkeys was when we were searching for a house to buy. I loved this one town, and there was a large ranch style house on a dead end, perfect I thought. However when we went there I kept on asking where the train was, because I wasn’t crazy about always hearing the train horn it was so loud. Well it wasn’t a train, as we went around the treed circle at the end of the street I saw miniture donkeys. I thought “how cute – they’re adorable”. Then they brayed – It was the “Train”!!!! That’s why the house was about $30,000. under priced. Didn’t buy that house.
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Newspaper columnist for the TPSI lives on the northshore, often wrote about her donkeys over the years. She seemed to like their noise.
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There is a donkey across S she the street from us. Of course since we are halfway up the ridge, across the street from us is deceptive. I love hearing it bray. It’s rare we hear him, so either we are used to him, or he’s kind of quiet.
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$30,000! With the money you saved, maybe you could have put in an eight foot high sound-proofing barrier and white noise unit. LOL!
Vid explanation: “Donkey in field next to where I fish in Cherokee, North Carolina. He will do this every time you go up to the fence.” – John Truitt
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Funny Guy! 🙂
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Many of the farms/ranches around here have them, they keep the calves, foals and small animals safe from coyotes.
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The Sunday morning piece to read with your morning coffee, from Clarice.
Is Trump the Most Fun President Ever?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/is_trump_the_most_fun_president_ever.html
If you’ve been fed up with the left’s hijacking of America, he certainly is fun — because bit by bit he’s dismantling their power, supply train, and prestige. The shaky premises upon which they’ve controlled life in America for some time is being exposed and overturned. Let me explain…
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Three cheers for Justice Thomas:
Injunctions that prohibit the Executive Branch from applying a law or policy against anyone… have become increasingly common. District courts, including the one here, have begun imposing universal injunctions without considering their authority to grant such sweeping relief. These injunctions are beginning to take a toll on the federal court system — preventing legal questions from percolating through the federal courts, encouraging forum shopping, and making every case a national emergency for the courts and for the Executive Branch.
I am skeptical that district courts have the authority to enter universal injunctions. These injunctions did not emerge until a century and a half after the founding. And they appear to be inconsistent with longstanding limits on equitable relief and the power of Article III courts. If their popularity continues, this Court must address their legality.
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🙂 I love Justice Thomas, and regularly pray for his health that he stays on the court as long into President Trump’s 2 terms ( 🙂 ) as possible. Then if he retires his replacement will be one of President Trumps last picks.
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This is interesting (extracted from Business Insider). The average age the last 11 justices retired at is 80, and their average tenure was 27 years.:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Age: 85 (5 years past average retirement)
Tenure: 24 years (3 years less than average)
Predicted departure: Last year
Stephen Breyer, Age: 79 (1 year before average retirement)
Tenure: 23 years (4 years less than average)
Predicted departure: 2021
Clarence Thomas, Age: 70 (10 years before average retirement)
Tenure: 26 years (1 year less than average)
Predicted departure: 2024
Samuel Alito, Age: 68 (12 years before average retirement)
Tenure: 12 years (15 years less than average)
Predicted departure: 2032
Sonia Sotomayor, Age: 64 (16 years before average retirement)
Tenure: 8 years (19 years less than average)
Predicted departure: 2036
John Roberts, Age: 63 (17 years before average retirement)
Tenure: 12 years (15 years less than average)
Predicted departure: 2034
Elena Kagan, Age: 58 (22 years before average retirement)
Tenure: 7 years (20 years less than average)
Predicted departure: 2039
Neil Gorsuch, Age: 50 (30 years before average retirement)
Tenure: 1 year (26 years less than average)
Predicted departure: 2046
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Yes I saw that – very interesting. People have commented on Sonia Sotomayor’s poor health. I wonder if her tirade at the court recently was her frustration not only about the ruling, but that she realizes she will have to leave and be replaced by Trump because her diabetes is so bad (2 emergency calls to her house so far this year). Also how is Ginsburg hanging on?!? If anyone has pancreatic cancer just tell them to give you whatever she gets! Honestly I don’t know why she wasn’t thrown off the court years ago when she said she did not believe in the US Constitution, and that the South African Constitution is much better (I think she actually said ours should be replaced by theirs). There should be some way to replace a judge who is severely physically/mentally incompetant, or writes and says they don’t believe in the US Constitution – but politcally doing that would be a nuke.
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I’ve always found it strange that Ginsburg and Scalia were the best of friends, often spending lunchtimes together. She and her husband and Scalia and his wife also spent considerable social time together going to the opera and visiting each other’s homes. She called him “my buddy.” Scalia was a man who could look past differences, no matter how deep. I guess he saw something in her that we who are at a distance cannot.
As you may know, the justices never meet during working hours, nor do they try to come to a consensus by discussing the pros and cons of any case. Each justice and staff work on their presentation and just hand it in to the Chief Justice. They never try to persuade each other of anything.
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Anybody checked on RBG lately to make sure she isn’t just moving through momentum?
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Weekend at Ruth’s.
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Knight of the Living Dead
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Fright in need of a bed.
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Ya know, she could retire to NYC and sub for a number of players in ‘Wicked’ or retire to Paris and live on the Left Bank.
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Or she could get a gig with John Kerry and they could play themselves in a haunted house.
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American Gothic Horror
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Replying here so the image is a little bigger. Like a pill bug in a robe a true horror story.
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Good heavens…cold binary fission is REAL!
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😂 ! I was thinking if Justice Roberts just blew on her she would fall right over.
Have you seen the video of the patriot who disarmed an antifa thug of a metal pipe and then knocked him out cold.
Sweet justice.
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I think I need some brain bleach for the picture that came to mind.
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President Trump is definitely making life more fun and at the same time helping restore our borders, increasing our wealth, giving us a more conservative judiciary, bringing God back into the national conversation, and so much more. What a great time to be alive!!!!
This guy says it best:
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Hi Sand & Sea 🙂
How wonderful! So many of a variety of people see the good even with the dying MSM harping on lies!
I believe due to millions of us praying hundreds of millions of prayers, God gave this country one.more.chance. It is up to us to each do our part, large or small to save our country’s soul.
I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; Deuteronomy 30:15
I am so glad so many are choosing to #walkaway and choose the light.
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Amazing video, amazing thread, too. It seems to me lately that the only people who are not onboard with Trump are either in the media or addicted to the media’s message.
He’s right: it’s an amazing time to be alive. Most people I know secretly love the fact that Trump is our President. Secretly, because they’re still programmed by their programs to believe that it’s shameful to support him, and America. But even they are starting to see through the media/deep-state complex, and their constant deceptions.
S&S, G&C, have a wonderful day.
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Thank you, Wooly! I hope you have a great day, too. I’m glad you liked the video. I have felt exactly way he does in it and I agree it’s mostly the media that are still trying to foist their views on us, but thankfully the American people are refusing to listen.
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“It’s a great day to be alive, I know the sun’s still shinning when I close my eyes…” __Travis Tritt
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Love Travis! Perfect song!
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Also from AT this morning:
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-generic-editorial-against-trumps.html
Brilliant satire of the media. It’s true. They don’t even know who his pick is yet, and they’ve all already written the editorials, and they look exactly like this one.
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At first I thought the article would be about the President’s general positive attitude, sense of humor and abiity to laugh at himself, (usually his hair), which is a great asset we rarely see in a politician.
As well as the excellent content, I like her style of writing, mixing “heavy” law info with humor. I especially like this example of being hoisted with your own petard:
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Clarice is a Facebook friend. She’s a retired lawyer who lives in DC. She’s older than I am – in her mid 70’s. And she’s originally from Wisconsin, and went to school at U of W.
She reminds me of a lot of the people here. Smart, and knows a lot about government and politics, but she’s also a keen cook and bread baker.
ADD: According to American Thinker, she was “once a top-notch lawyer in the pre-Eric Holder Department of Justice, where she was a powerful intellectual force in the Office of Special Investigations”.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
(Yuengling)
(Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
(Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
(Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Blueberry Scones
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Crispy edge pancakes. Yayyy! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Morning auscitizenmom!
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Good morning Aus 🙂 !
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One of my favorite breakfasts, Nyet! Thank you!
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Gasp! Blueberry Scones! – an unlimited dish of them of course, otherwise it’s going to be a fight! HAHAHA! 🙂
Have a great day Nyet!
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My daughter made blueberry scones on Friday, they were delicious 🙂 .
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Ohhh! Yum! 🙂
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a full plate of bacon? My day just keeps gettin’ better. Thanks Nyet, Good Morning. :0)
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 ! Authentic Lithuanian bacon bun and English Breakfast tea for me today. Yummo!
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Good morning, Nyet! Slipping in under the wire for your fine breakfast, a big tip for your Sunday effort….
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For our last selection in the Esher/Fadeaway series we have my favorite: “Drawing Hands” 1948 lithograph 13in x 11in
and our “fadeaway girl” shows off her graceful hands in this colorful illustration:
(Of course Dear Hubby’s 1st reaction was that her head looks like its floating away in some 1950’s horror movie style, even though I did not notice it at all until he said it! Harumph! 😉 )
And for our last painting in the series we have the most famous painting of 2 hands: The Creation of Adam (hands detail) (1511), Location: Sistine Chapel, Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti, (1475-1564), Medium: Fresco painting, Complete Painting Size: 225 in x 110 in, (God and Adam’s fingers are only about an inch apart).
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti
Have a peaceful and wonderful Sunday everyone 🙂
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I agreed with your husband. LOL
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🙂 I was so busy looking for a picture that highlighted hands to match the Escher, I didn’t really even notice her head floating around! 🙂
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The last? Come on, now!
There is no end to great Escher paintings. Thank you for reminding me, this week.
EA made a game in the late 80s for Atari and Commodore home computers, called Realm of Impossibility, based on his amazing art.
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I think how the little guys’ legs move is hilarious! Didn’t know that was based on Escher, but I can see it!
I’m glad you enjoyed Escher and the negative space art, but after 2 weeks I don’t want to get Escher burnout. There is enough to do another group in a few months. Have to have variety to keep the interest of a variety of people 😉 I’m already setting up sailing and tall ships for 4th of July week (maybe some other military art as well).
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My theme this week is sailing and Sousa marches. Should fit right in.
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I really really like the fadeaway girl, I may see if I can find a print for my home. Thanks OGC for bringing a wealth of knowledge and beauty to out group 🙂 ! Amazing and beautiful stuff here !
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I agree. I hadn’t thought about Escher for decades, and now remember. Absolutely amazing talent.
And I had never seen those empty-space(?) images before.
Maybe next week she’ll do Salvador Dali? His Christian phase was incredible.
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I haven’t seen the fadeaway either, I’m not sure who the artist is or if OGC has posted multiple artists work.
Escher is phenomenal.
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Coles Phillips (aka C. Coles Phillips) is famous for, and did most of, the “fadeaway art” highlighting the use of negative space. Many of his works were for magazine covers and advertisements. All the fadeaways except the first was by Philips. The first fadeaway illustration of the woman and clouds was by Valentine Sundberg. Sundberg also did fadeaways, (but not as many as Phillips). He also did another interesting art style I plan on showing later in the year.
As well as his individual works, I find Escher’s gradual change in style fascinating to see.
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Thank you OGC, absolutely awesome artwork 🙂 !
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You can search on “fadeaway art” or “negative space art” for more examples.
I’ll check out Salvador Dali’s Christian phase, and if it works, I’ll put it in the queue! 🙂 I only know that one great, famous religious painting of his. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Thank you. Negative Space was the phrase I was looking for. Really cool stuff you’ve been posting, G&C.
There are enough religious paintings by Dali for a few months of posts. And he was indeed a master, and that’s his late period. Thank God. I’m pretty sure we’ll meet up with him some day.
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The full-size version of this is absolute genius painting. Look at the flying crucifixion, on the right, dithered like TV scan-lines, only vertically, which is an interpretation of an earlier work of his, Christ of Saint John of the Cross.
His Last Supper is also incredible.
I’ll stop now, and leave you to find the best ones. There are many.
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You’re very welcome 🙂 I started doing art posts because I wanted to bring something uplifting to many who were stressed out due to politics, so I appreciate that it brings you joy!
I found this for $1.95 at Etsy “Stunning illustration it is 8 x 6 inches but can be printed up to 11 x 8 inches without loosing resolution. Great art to frame or use it for card making and other paper crafts. You will get a jpg file. It will be a crisp high quality printable 300 dpi image, without the watermark. It can be enlarged in a 10 % or decreased at whatever size you like.” https://www.etsy.com/listing/267411858/gorgeous-art-deco-flapper-drinking-tea?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=coles%20phillips&ref=sr_gallery-1-43
It’s actually a lot nicer than the image I found to post today! Ebay also has a lot of Coles Phillips.
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Wow ! I also love the girl reading in your link.
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TOG&C, your choices are wonderfully coordinated! Have loved the series!
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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate that 🙂
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Art and beauty point to the divine, and teach us to yearn for it.
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How very true! Many “progressive/modern” styles of architecture, art & fashion are horrid and depressing. What does that show/tell us?
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Stella, your beautiful quilt today looks like it could be a brightly colored Escher print! It really has such geometric depth!
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Quilts like this one (a modern version) are called dimensional illusions, and date back more than 100 years. A personal favorite of mine is tumbling blocks. Here are a few variations:
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Oh my gosh! That one on the bed is amazing! If I knew about these earlier I could have matched some Escher’s to them. Maybe we can do that at some time. They have such great color as well!
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You can buy that one for $1,360.
https://www.amishcountrylanes.com/Pages/hs4592.shtml
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Jaw Drop! But I guess it takes a loooong time to make!
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Look at some of them on this page. I like the “black hole”.
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I love the pastel blue, green and cream 🙂
The black and white one triggers my vertigo!!!! Interestig that I’m OK with the multi-colored ones, but the B&W triggers vertigo. I never realized that before!
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The one on the bed looks so three dimensional it would make me dizzy! Very, very cool. Your OP quilt is amazing I want to play with the “pieces” 🙂 !
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This is a pretty good analysis.
https://mailchi.mp/3ed3e7b65ea0/judicialsupremacy-748425
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Excellent Michellc. I copied the whole thing to refer back to. Great points!
Hope things are going well for you 🙂
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Thanks.
They pretty much hit it on the head what has happened in our state. It’s not been a good week for conservatives or the state, although it seems a great number of Oklahomans are too stupid to see that.
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Wow! What a cool concept!
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The other day I was in the process of figuring out how I was going to get to the Trump Rally at the Four Seasons arena in Great Falls and my phone rang. It was my nephew proclaiming that his wife was out of state, he’d hired a babysitter, and he had a ticket to the Trump Rally with my name on it. The rally is at four and we’ll be getting there about 9 in the morning. I am just a weeee bit excited.
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That’s exciting! You have a great nephew, too.
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My nephew is an amazing man who has a ‘zest for life’ and he has one of those personalities that brings out the ‘fun’ in people. He’s a joy to travel with. :0)
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And here we have a picture of Litenmaus going to the Trump rally 😉
Oh my gosh! I just saw the time – I’ve got to make lunch – played too long – Bye everyone 🙂
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Oh, my! I got so excited when I read this, you’d have thought it was me getting the ticket. How great.
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:0) IKR….I’m still kind of shell-shocked that I actually get the opportunity to see our President
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You do realize we expect pictures and a report. Right?!
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Will do my best aus..:0)
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Cheer enough for all of us!!!! Spread smiles & goowill to everyone you see there!!!
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We’ll all be watching! Have fun!
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Absolutely czarina. I will be on my best behavior :0)
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Dang skippy! Better sing like a canary!
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Woo hoo!!!!
Things you may or may not already know. (Or things I wish I knew before my first Trump rally 🙂 )
Bring a chair. The collapsable type. One you won’t mind leaving behind. People bring collapsable chairs for waiting in the long line and then leave them outside the venue. I have never seen or herd of people taking the chairs during the rally but that possibility does exists.
Wear your best comfortable shoes. There is a possibility you will be standing inside as long as you are waiting outside.
Some venues do not allow cameras other than phone cameras.
Bring an umbrella that you are willing to lose. It helps to keep you cool if it is roasting.
Take pictures for us 🙂 ! (Please!!)
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When I was a foot messenger in Boston for 10 years, umbrellas were ubiquitous trash in the streets. Umbrellas, losing scratch tickets, and half-cigars. There is no such thing as an umbrella that you aren’t willing to lose, because wind. They’re not meant to survive the wind. Best to just get wet, and dry off later. 🙂
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I don’t mind the rain, but the heat of the sun if you’re standing in line for hours is yuck-o.
I buy my umbrellas at thrift stores, lots of character and the only one I regretted losing was made in England and had a intricate silver handle with flowers on it. But I’m long over it 🙂 . My latest umbrella is made in Italy and has horses on it I think I have set a personal best record as I’ve had it a couple of years now.
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I buy huge golf umberllas, seem to manage to keep them for years. Having lived in the south most of my life I use them for shade as well as rain protection.
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I have two huge golf umbrellas – love them!
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I have one of those curved, clear umbrellas for used around my apt., like to walk the dog. It wind tended to catch the others and tear the up. But, in my car, I have 3 or 4 really cheap ones. My friend who lived here all her life suggested that because of the sudden showers we get at various times and this way you and all the passengers each have one. Those only get replaced once in a while.
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My problem is leaving umbrellas in shopping carts or just forgetting them wherever.
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That is why I buy the really cheap ones for the car. LOL However, I would advise passing on the Dollar Store. I bought one there one time and it worked fine except that the material didn’t actually stop the rain. LOL
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Yep, that was how it worked. LOL
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Too many years in the Army, I have a hard time carrying/using an umbrella. I remember when the Air Force allowed Airpersons to carry umbrellas as part of their uniform – Soldiers and Marines avoided walking too close to Airpersons in rainy weather.
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Thank you for the great advice lovely….The arena is located in the complex where our State Fair is held and parking is notoriously absent. My greatest fear is that I will have to walk a few miles before the day of waiting in line begins. (Walking is not my strong suit)
I’ll take pictures with my nephews cell phone and see if I can get them uploaded in real time…I’ll do my best. :0)
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Likely your nephew can drop you off very near the venue and then he can catch up with you after he parks the car. I almost forgot where I parked my car after a rally and it was parked about a mile away 😳!
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LOL…I have a hard time remembering where I park when I go to the grocery store….
I told my nephew that he’ll have to drop me off as close as we can get or he’d have to carry me…I’m hoping that put enough fear into him to give him an incentive. :0)
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If you have a chair, at least you can stop to rest when you need to.
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More unsolicited advice. Don’t bring a purse, just your ID, a bank or credit card and cash.
Wear comfortable clothes.
You can have water bottles while in line but not bring them into the venue, also the more you drink the more you need to pee 🙄.
This is an aside, channel 4 wanted to interview me, I was going to do it and a woman I had been talking to said, “Don’t do they are the enemy and will edit it to make you look like a lunatic.”
So I passed on the interview. Sure enough the only interviews they showed made Trump supporters look like idiots.
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Use lemon drops instead of liquids to keep your mouth fresh, or the old trick of a smooth pebble to roll around on your tongue.
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I used lemon drops when I quit smoking. Sour hard candies work great.
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I didn’t know that, I’ll try it next time. Neat!
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Here’s one option: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Folding-Seat-Cane/54423173
You can go to Walmrt.com and search for ‘seat cane’, they’ve got a few choices.
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oh that’s very nice….thx czarina
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That was from Czar – Czarina’s the one with the long hair.
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my bad…my eyes read it as if you had long hair…sorry czar. :0)
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And I have a better moustache.
Am I ever gonna hear it on this one.
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LOL..you must being feeling brave tonight…
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And a little sore…
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I have one of the British sort – one leg with a fold-out seat. It works, but your balance has to be good.
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Yeah, I was looking at that but I know I’d be on the ground in ten seconds flat.
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😀 😀 😀
I am a bit envious, but mostly really happy for you.
A woman I work with just won a few thousand dollars on a quarter slot machine. Like 20 thousand. Same high-five to you.
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Thanks Wooly. Montanans rarely get more than a 10 minute fly over by Presidents, so I’m thrilled to have this opportunity.
20 grand on a quarter slot machine….that is amazing. I agree, that woman deserves a high-five. :0).
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That’s great, litenmaus! Hope you get some pics you can share! Have fun!
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This is weird stuff:
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“There was no criminal component found at the scene when police were investigating.” 😕 You mean, other than a dead body wrapped in duct tape?
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Fundamental derangement causing the death of another human being if both are getting sexual pleasure out of the derangement is not a crime in hollywood.
Hmm..What ever happened to “the reasonable person” standard in our law. Oh yes, Hollywood can ignore it.
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When i read yesterday whst struck me is the professor taught lgbt dance theory and he immigrated from the uk where as a child he was on tv. Lots of pedo stuff can be read into that.
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Yep just like Anderson, his brother and mum sitting on a bed with some funky thing on the wall. Deranged people.
IMO those boys didn’t stand a chance.
At the age of 23 Carter Cooper died by suicide when he jumped from his mother’s 14th story terrace.
Wyatt Cooper (father of Anderson and Carter) wrote in his 1975 memoir, “It is in the family that we learn almost all we ever know of loving. In my sons’ youth, their promise, their possibilities, my stake in immortality is invested.”
Odd statement.
Odd man.
Odd fruit.
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Is this photoshopped? What is he doing? And, why is he wearing socks? 😕
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No, don’t want to know. Need eye bleach!
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Agree. {gag}
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Renounced, with apologies.
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Could be photo shopped in fact it probably is but sadly it certainly represents the man who Anderson portrays himself as.
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I watchhed a documentary about his mom, whose mother was mental as well. Gloria was the one with the suicidal son and anderson in the interview is vety suspicious of his mother saying not a word passed netween them before he jumped. She also has 2 other sons. One completely cut off all communication with the entire family decades ago. The other appears cordial but not close.
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Just be happy you’re not getting Anderson Cooper 360.
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Sickos
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I was going to post this, but I’ve been trying to stay away from the negative, and toward the positive. Remember, as you read the article at Variety on this, that the “list of the best BDSM clubs” in the link (I cannot find the link) is only the list of the ones we’re allowed to mention.
All this news is covering up cheese pizza. So to speak. There is something far, far darker under all that they are just now revealing, and it involves a whole lot of unfortunate children.
I will only mourn for the children when LA is nuked.
The Cult of the Orgasm. It’s what I call it. It’s a drug, and these people need to go farther and farther to get the same high, up to and including physical toys (chains, whips, ball-gags, and children), the more they get into this drug, just to achieve the same high they got last time.
Again, I will only mourn for the children when LA is nuked.
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The bizarre nature of some folk’s depravity is unimaginable to a normal person. It’s difficult, of course, to judge the condition of another man’s soul…and, indeed, God has warned us against that. One can’t avoid, however, wondering if he is in the nether regions right now and having to undergo pointless, useless, stupid actions for eternity. Beyond sad.
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Anthropologists aren’t all that dull – invite one over for your next party and wheeeeee…
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Lovely, Weather Channel shows lots of bad stuff north & west of your area! Flashing yellow boxes & all.
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Yep, it is head our way we’re under a severe thunderstorm warning at the moment. So far just big thunder and some heavy rain. Thanks for the heads up!
thankfully all my yard work is done 🙂 !
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We’ve got one rolling in, too.
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Rolling is what it is doing here 🙂 . I love a good thunderstorm !
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I’m not sure anything is going to become of this.
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https://www.arcangel.com/Doc/ARC/Media/TR1_WATERMARKED/f/b/3/9/AA1209724.jpg?d0
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Sorry, I forgot to take off the “?do” after jpg! I love shadow photos…
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My favorite is the one with the 2 children playing in the surf 🙂
Having the pic in B&W and with that angle of light really shows the droplets of water in the breaking wave as well as the great subject matter.
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Love it. National news tonite was whining about the French having access to a pill, buprenophrine, while we don’t. Seems buprenophrine helps heroin addicts get through withdrawal (ha ha) so they can get onto a normal life.
OOOOOOkayyyyyyy, one of the primary uses of heroin was to help opium addicts withdraw, then we went to methodone (another weak opiate) to help heroin addicts withdraw and now we’re looking at buprenophine (yet another weak opiate) to help addicts withdraw from heroin and, at times, methodone and heroin in combination. Am I starting to see a pattern here?
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Family Tree Quilts
http://co-nnect.me/family-tree-quilts/
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I love the quilting on this one.
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Yes, beautifully done. I also like the placement of the yellow/green blocks and the one red bird.
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen.
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