Young performers get ready to play the Komuz, a traditional Kyrgyz instrument, for the Nowruz celebration in central Bishkek. Celebrated by 300 million people across Central Asia, the Caucasus, and parts of the Middle East, the Persian holiday of Nowruz or “new day” symbolizes the beginning of the new year and the emergence of spring. Each country has developed its own unique customs to celebrate the holiday, which lasts for approximately two weeks. The celebration of Nowruz was officially forbidden and suppressed during the Soviet period but has become wildly popular over the last decade in Central Asia.
It still feels like a celebratory week…a lot to thank God about…and a lot still to do…but….
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Good morning Lucille 🙂 !
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Good afternoon to you, lovely!
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Wow!! Gorgeous! The little branches are so inviting, like a little nature therapy session for my table 🙂 !
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Happy Friday! Sooooo glad it here! Hope you have a great one!
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Thanks, sand! This photo is of ByronBay, Australia…
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Very nice!
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Evening Lucille, Amen too thanking the Lord.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel)
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
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 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
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) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂 (Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
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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Good morning Nyet 🙂 !
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Morning lovely!
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😊
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Morning Nyet! Happy Friday and thank you for breakfast!
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Crispy edged pancakes! Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good day, Nyet! I stayed in the States today just so I could eat breakfast with the other Stellars….
…then I plan to time travel to the 1920s with my chauffeur and poodle doggie…
…driving down to the peaceful beach, seeing as….
Thanks a lot!
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I csn just feel my feet in the warm, shallow water. Now, I’m lying down in it! Aaaaaaaah!
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Nye!,,,,,, Thank you……
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As always, my pleasure sir!
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Mornin’ kids! Annnnnnnnnnnnnd….it’s Friday!
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/1111209269217710081
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Can you imagine the frenzy going on in Camp Clinton 😁?
Good morning Wee 🙂 !
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Morning WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ S&S!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Afternoon Stella!
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Good day, WeeWeed!
Since I can’t view the vid, I’ll laugh anyway…and smile for the camera…
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You have said you can’t view Twitter videos. Why is that, specifically?
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Don’t know the intricacies of programming but suspect it has something to do with my ancient Mini Mac which can’t be updated anymore. YouTube is fine but Twitter vids plus a lot of other things aren’t compatible. Browser-wise, I use both Safari and Google Chrome and neither of them allow me to view Twitter vids.
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Afternoon Lucy!
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Evening Ms. WeeWeed !!!!!! Keep sending the rain, we need it. Pass this along to Tex, hope. All is well……
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All’s well here, Colonel Sir!! We have 2 more days of rain. How y’all?? 🙂
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well
It’s Friday
https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.L2KhpTMLOvTJG9EYBOf3OgHaE8&pid=Api
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Afternoon Joshua 🙂 !
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Hi Joshua! 😊
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Hello everyone!!
Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.
Admiral Hyman Rickover
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Hello, Joshua…you’re still in my prayers. Thanks for the great quote!
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Love that!
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When a person lets hate rule his life, he becomes like this man…
RINO Former Senator Jeff Flake Says He Would Prefer to Have a Dem Win in 2020 Over Trump
by Cassandra Fairbanks March 29, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/rino-former-senator-jeff-flake-says-he-would-prefer-to-have-a-dem-win-in-2020-over-trump/
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LOL!
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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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Amen.
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Amen.
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A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Col. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen.
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“14 Years After They Starved My Sister to Death, We Must Never Forget Terri Schiavo”
By Bobby Schindler – March 29, 2019
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/03/29/14-years-after-they-starved-my-sister-to-death-we-must-never-forget-terri-schiavo/
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