Today is the last day of the first half of the year. It is also Canada day.
Detroit, MI and Windsor, Ontario have a joint celebration this time of year to commemorate the Canadian and American holidays of July 1 and July 4; it is called the International Freedom Festival. From Wikipedia:
The highlight of both festivals is the fireworks display in celebration of the United States’ Independence Day and Canada’s Canada Day. It is one of the largest and most spectacular firework displays in North America, lighting up the sky over Windsor and Detroit. This annual spectacle draws more than 1,000,000 to the Windsor and Detroit river fronts.
The fireworks are launched from three barges anchored in the Detroit River, and took place last Monday, June 24. Here they are.
The current fireworks sponsor is Ford Motor Co.
Stella's Place 
Stellars…
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Beautiful and peaceful, good morning Lucille 🙂 !
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Hope you had a good morning, lovely.
Have a fine rest of your day.
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Gorgeous!
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Wish I were there! Thank you, Lucille! Have a wonderful Monday.
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Thanks, sand! We’ll all use our imaginations and be there at 6:00 PM EDT…or here…
…in San Diego, CA.
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Sounds good to me!
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Families Choose Road Trips Over Airfare to Spend More Time Together – Here’s a Checklist and Some Car Games to Play
By Good News Network – Jun 30, 2019
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/families-prefer-road-trips-to-airfares-tips-for-the-car/
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Try this one: the first person says “I’m driving to (where you are going) and Im bringing an (item which starts with A)”. Next person says, “I’m driving to (where you are going) and I’m bringing an (item first person said starting with A), and a (item starting with B). Each person has to say the phrase and all the prior items then add one in alphabetical order.
I also like “My father owns a grocery store and in it he sells something that starts with (alphabet letter, or animal, veggie or mineral)”. Sort of like 21 questions, but with no limits.
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Today’s….CANADA DAY!!!!
Hello…hello…(knock knock)…anyone out there…?
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Yes it is, as mentioned above.
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I know but I had that planned all day, you just went and sorta beat me to it.
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Kind of difficult to beat me – I live less than 20 miles from Canada, and we have been reminded every day for the past week. I’m having lunch in Grosse Pointe, MI today – just across the river.
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Or…great minds travel in the same rut…errrr, track.
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Detoured past Lake St. Clair on our way to my DD’s MIL’s house. Beautiful day, beautiful water, beautiful boats, beautiful mansions overlooking the lake … Canada’s on the other side of the lake.
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Never said it wasn’t a beautiful place, just don’t like their politics. The NWV Territories are a place I’d have retired in a heartbeat were it not for Canadian politics and you-know-who’s position that temperatures below 72 are a deal breaker.
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I understand. Of course, I was in Michigan all day today. Just viewing from a distance.
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We hit our July 100 degrees here yesterday, bet it was cooler there.
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88. It got really humid in the afternoon.
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Morning lovely!
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Afternoon Sand 🙂 !
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Good morning, Lovely! One of my favorite bands!
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Good afternoon JTR, mine also 🙂 !
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You never can tell about next door. I was sitting down watching some pundits talk about the last Rat Pack of candidates telling us what’s wrong about America and I flashed back to the few minutes of it I watched before I ran out of Tums. I just got POd and scrawled off this little piece, it was done from concept to ‘post’ in about 5 minutes. I wasn’t looking for applause, just venting:
It’s a small thing but as I was watching the last Rat Pack whineathon…just a few minutes, my stomach and common sense brain-part can’t take much more, I watched the candidates complain about America.
I’m in deep Mississippi and I just got on my cell to order a couple of pizzas for my son from his local independent pizza parlor…in Denver. I can order pizzas over 1300 miles away. Now that doesn’t move most folks, we’ve become used to this, but in how many countries can you do this? I can have a x-ray done in my local small town hospital and have it read by an oncall radiologist in Australia, all in minutes. We can get medical visits, buy almost anything and have access to volumes of information that even 20 years ago was unavailable. All on the internet invented by America (Sorry, Al) with a galaxy of applications all invented by Americans.
We have an existence envied by most of the world, we’ve flooded the world with things that have made life immeasurably better for much of the world and the best the Democrats can do is complain about how horrible we all are. Screw ’em all, bring on the cultural civil war.
So far it has 35 likes and they’re still popping up. I post something I researched and footnoted on, let’s say, a Mideast issue and I get 2 ‘likes’ and a ‘your paragraphs are too long’.
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Our country is extraordinary, 🇺🇸 , in spite of the miscreant politicians who have been trying to destroy it for far too long. They are trying to remake it into a Muslim like repressive nation where celebrities and politicians are the Imams, liberalism is the religion, child sacrifice through abortion is their holy mass and depravity is their Allah.
Screw ’em all, bring on the cultural civil war.
Amen
There are still enough of us to stop them. They can’t have my country.
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10 Smiles
1) 1959 Chevy Impala with matching motor boat.
2) Fresh picked blackberries.
3) Edmonde Guydens dances at the Moulin Rouge, 1926.
4) Napoleon, before appointing a general, would ask, “Is he lucky?” By this he really meant, “Is he competent at taking calculated risks?” for much of the general’s professional skill is tested under difficult conditions and on the basis of incomplete knowledge,…. __David Chandler, The Art of Warfare on Land
I would say that President Trump is a very lucky man 🙂 .
Hat tip, Col. Ken 🙂 ! 🇺🇸
5)
6) Do not argue with an idiot . He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. __Greg King
7) Today is the first day of Wimbledon 2019.
8) Laundry day in New York, 1900.
9) Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake. __Napoleon Bonaparte
(Sound like a current world leaders philosophy ?)
10)
Ten A Time To TalkNap
By Robert Frost
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, ‘What is it?’
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
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Morning lovely! Great lists! Really enjoy the old photos. 😊
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I’m happy you like them Sand 🙂 ! Roasting here 😦 !
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It’s been like a sauna here.
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It was like an oven here. I don’t know what the humidity was, but every thermometer I looked at said 100*. Twice I felt almost ill just getting in the car. I don’t know how I am going to manage this summer.
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It’s awful, isn’t it? They used to sell these scarf-like things you dip in water and put on your neck to stay cool, you might try carrying one of those and keeping cold drinks with you all the time. I try to only go out in the mornings, use my car shade, park under trees if I can, etc. I get that sick feeling, too. It’s scary.
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Yuck. Sorry.
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Great list, lovely! Enjoyed it muchos. Thanks!
“It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
And Napoleon would definitely know. Elba and St. Helena were far from sublime.
I love harpsichords…Rie Kimura, violinist (http://riekimuraviolin.com/) and Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichordist (https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Belder-Pieter-Jan.htm) are wonderful!
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Afternoon Lucille 🙂 ! de nada ! I’m happy that you enjoy them 🙂 !
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Hi, Czarina. I have been waiting on you. I have some questions you might help me with.
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Here or off line?
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Here would be fine, I think.
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You are a nurse, right? And, I figure you have a lot of experience. Do you know anything about Medical Power of Attorneys?
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No, a speech pathologist. I know a little because I work in hospitals. Maybe Czar and I can help. Also, I can ask a social worker tomorrow when I get to work.
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Yes. My friend has the Med. Power of Att. for her other friend. Let me say, not as a criticism, but to help understand, this woman is a total liar and you never know when or if you are getting the truthful answer. Anyway, she is in diapers, won’t change them, has somebody else to do it. She says she can’t walk and never gets out of bed. Her paid caregiver is having a nervous breakdown over the whole situation. The woman smokes and says she can’t breathes………………..but keeps on smoking. Won’t leave the bed even to eat. Won’t sit up to eat. Ended up in the hospital over the weekend for breathing problems but came home yesterday. Who knows how she got out. She has left twice before without being legally released. She doesn’t bathe or even eat unless somebody comes to make her. Also, she makes doctors appts. and then says she is sick and doesn’t go. When they talk to her she can answer the questions seemingly well enough, but my friend thinks she needs to be in a home because she lies to them. Any suggestions about how she can go about helping her?
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If problem patient has a disability your friend can contact adult protective services for help not just for problem patient, but to make sure she herself is covered from blame. If problem patient has asked your friend to make medical decisions your friend should have a copy of the signed document to know the extent of the decision making. Most just say the responsibility comes into play when the patient is unable to make medical decisions, like comatose or due to a medical cause like encephalopathy, but a decision about a medical procedure is needed right away. It could also be to make an end of life decision. If problem patient is cognitively able to make reasonable decisions, understand consequences, etc., the power of attorney does not come into play, and the doctors must have the patient make the choices. Even if the patient is smoking, missing appointments, not bathing etc. A competent person can decide to name people to help and can change them at any time. Someone who is already incompetent will have to have a lawyer and go before a judge.
Most POAs are limited to one area such as medical, but for people who are truly incapicated like mentally ill, retarded or severly brain damaged, they can be for other areas. Most do not include legal, because of the problem person hurts someone, the peson named to have POA would bear the responsibility.
Friend may want to withdraw if she is uncomfortable with the situation. Contact the problem patient’s hospital social work dept.
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“Contact the hospitals social work dept.” Now, I think that will help a lot, too. My real concern is that it is really making my friend almost ill. She shouldn’t have this on her shoulders.
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Goin’ nite nite now. Thank you very much. 🙂 ❤
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Also, friend must remember that we cannot save everyone, people are autonomous and can make their own decisions unless legally deemed incompetent, and some people make decisions we think are terrible but they are just human. Even people who are mentally ill and living under bridges on handouts and in grave danger from other mentally ill people can legally decide to live that way.
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Well, now, you definitely have the crux of the problem. This is exactly what is going on. My friend is too compassionate. She took on the Med and Financial Power, and it was all drawn up and legal years ago, because she knows this woman doesn’t have anyone else. The woman’s own daughter won’t have anything to do with her. She has two cousins who hate her guts. But, what you just said is what I have tried to tell her. “Mentally ill and living under bridges” fits, in my mind. 🙄 I think you answered my questions. Thank you. The real danger in the situation is that the woman has a lot of money. She just hired the person who took care of her mother before she died (and did a piss-poor job of it) and who will probably manage to get most of the money that she could use to take care of herself. But, there really isnt anything to be done.
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You’re very welcome Czarina, so happy you enjoy the “smiles” !!
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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)
(Some of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
(Some more of Menagerie’s Jack Daniels – Shhhhhh)
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’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
Mornin’ bjosz! 🙂
Mornin’ Angelle Staria Literary Works! 🙂
Mornin’ just stevie! 🙂 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 🍸 (Chateau Pape Clement Blanc Pessac, 2014)
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!
Mini Pecan Pies
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Morning Nyet! Thank you for breakfast!
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That plate will do, along with a pecan tart. 🙂 Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Good day, Nyet! Missed breakfast as I was hanging out here in Bali…
…thus losing track of the time. So send everything on a nice platter for me to enjoy while luxuriating in the sun and wearing a huge beach hat…
(Beach Hat In The Sand Painting by Barbara Harper)
Matur suksma!
(“Thank you very much” in Balinese.)
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Afternoon Nye 🙂 !
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If there are still some left, I’ll have 2 tarts for dinner…
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Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/k_ovfefe/status/1145497040207667205
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Not sure but that looks like Flo finding out that Kim’s not going to go with Progressive…
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Did she trip or was Kim throwing her out as, even though it’s North Korea, they do have some standards?
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I wish…. Afternoon Z’s!
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There’s only room for one megacfrook politician in NK at a time.
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Good day, WeeWeed!
For that great reminder of what might have been…BUT BLESSEDLY ISN’T…you deserve white Stargazer Lilies, white pompom Hydreangeas, red Roses and hearts…
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Beautiful Luce! Good evenin’!
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Afternoon Wee ! That is terrific 😂!
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Peekin in with Monday love! Good morning Stella, WeeWeed, Citizen, Sand, Nyet, Lovely, Czar, Lucille…
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Giraffes…necking?
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Good day to you, Stevie!
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A snuggles giraffe 🙂 , how sweet ! Afternoon Stevie!
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Evening Stevie!
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Mom takes her 10 day old for a wee run!
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Wrong video!
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Beautiful.
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They are gorgeous!
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G’afternoon all.
Stella, the WP censors ate me again. Guess I will give up.
Have a GREAT Fourth.
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Sorry! I’ve out all day, so haven’t check spam. I’ll go look now.
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You weren’t in spam, so I have no idea what happened. Have a great holiday!
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Have a happy 4th Jean but don’t give up on WP!
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SHE’S AS AUTHENTIC AS A CHINESE GUCCI BAG: Kamala Harris Practiced her Orchestrated Attack on Joe Biden for Days Before Debate
by Jim Hoft – July 1, 2019
On Thursday night Kamala Harris took on former Vice President Joe Biden on his past record on segregation.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/shes-as-authentic-as-a-chinese-gucci-bag-kamala-harris-practiced-her-orchestrated-attack-on-joe-biden-for-days-before-debate/
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Watching her makes one feel slimed.
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I just started watching Tucker Carlson. If you can, I would recommend it. His people filmed more than what we saw anywhere else.
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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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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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Canadian Sunset – Andy Williams and Glen Campbell
Good night! God bless!
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Thank you, Lucille! Goodnight!
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Good night, all! Will check in sometime tomorrow. Those of you that get up before the rooster crows, have a great morning! 🙂
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Hope you had a good night, bjosz. 🙂
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