Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE of Presidential recovery.
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Since Norman Rockwell was a prolific oil on canvas painter, let’s look at a few more of his works…
“Boy Looking Through Telescope” (aka “Ship Ahoy”) – (1922)
“The Connoisseur” (1961)
“Richard Nixon” (1968)
Have a lovely day!
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Good mornin’, Lucille! One of the reasons I love Rockwell paintings is that everyone is happy in them, pretty much. Coffee’s ready, ma’am.
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Good day to you, Texan! A quote from Rockwell:
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. And perhaps, therefore, this is one function of the illustrator. He can show what has become so familiar that it is no longer noticed. The illustrator thus becomes a chronicler of his time. —Norman Rockwell
He painted 323 covers for “The Saturday Evening Post.”
He chronicled his world but with optimism and hope for the good to overcome the pessimistic.
I’m sending over some coffee cups for your collection…
ENJOY!
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Thank you kindly, Lucille! I’ve got a pretty good collection of mugs already and these are a welcome addition!
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Always fun to have enough cups to provide coffee for the Stella gathering…of course, with the coffee pot collection you’re acquiring, you might have to build a whole new cabinet to hold everything.
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Morning, Lucille!
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Good day, Stella!
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Mornin’ Lucille!
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Good afternoon, Miz Wee!
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Good morning, Lucille,
Amazing juxtaposition in “The Connoisseur”. I had not seen that work before.
The portrait of Nixon is outstanding. He is rarely depicted so well.
Rockwell brought life to canvas.
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Good day, Reflection.
The Nixon portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian.
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Good morning everyone. Almost Friday!
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Good mornin’, Menage! This doc here is a good one. She’s been drug through the mud here in TX and the establishment is still trying to break her.. But she’s not wrong.
Apparently, this was started because of some comments in a hearing yesterday where it was said that “HMO’s” were doing this. They got it sorta right.
It’s coming from the insurance companies, but it’s because they all own their own pharmacy companies and this got put in place partly due to corona legislation, and partly because of other legislation that’s been in place to “encourage” vaccinations.
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Good morning Menagerie!
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Morning Stella!
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Mornin’ Menage!
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Hiya Wee!
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Good mornin’ and happy Friday eve, y’all! We have gone over 24 hours with no rain, so we are doing a little happy dance. Inside, with the curtains drawn so no one mistakes it for another sort of dance. Found one of those machines that you can make all sorts of combo coffee for your morning kickoff! Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee!
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Morning T, thanks on the coffee, and hope you guys continue to dry out. I’m just going to get myself the usual, very strong black coffee.
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Thank ya kindly, ma’am. Coffee’s gonna be on all day!
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Mornin’ Tex! Looks interesting.
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Good mornin’, Miss Stella! This looks like one you might find in any metro office building in the break room. I wouldn’t be able to figure it out, but that’s ok! 😉
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Gracias, T!
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And that’s a shame, because the need for alertness is part of the reason you made coffee.
“Good morning, Wee”.
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Mornin’ Reflection!
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Good mornin’, Miss Wee! Glad to know that I’m not alone on this journey! 😉
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Anyone else happy to see Comey’s spawn 86’d? I was. What are the odds that she just happened to get assigned to work on Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Diddy cases? If you think about it, she got convictions in the cases where the perp lived through it, but not nearly as hard as they could have. I for one, am glad she’s gone. Should have been done sooner.
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National Peach Ice Cream Day
National Lottery Day
National Tattoo Day
National Dole Whip Day – I think this is a commercial
National Get to Know Your Customers Day
National Yellow Pig Day
National Wrong Way Corrigan Day – With only a magnetic compass, Corrigan advised officials he was returning to California. According to the story, after takeoff, cloud cover prevented Corrigan from accurate navigation. When Corrigan dropped below the clouds hours later, he saw nothing but water. Then Corrigan realized his navigation was off. Despite the confusion, he continued on his journey. Surprisingly, 28 hours later, he landed in Ireland.
World Emoji Day
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Got blocked before I finished.
Yellow Pig Day was named by two students for no particular reason. The number 17 is a premium number in the arena of prime numbers. Add the first four prime numbers together, and 17 is their sum.
The average school bus weighs 17 tons with passengers inside.
Each of the following words has 17 letters: interdisciplinary telecommunication misinterpretation commercialization electrophotometer
The atomic number of chlorine is 17.
Pebble Beach has a specific road known as the 17 Mile Drive along the Monterey Peninsula in California. However, the exact length of the road is 16.78 miles.
The 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gave the citizens of the United States the right to elect their senators by popular vote. Before the states ratified the amendment on April 8, 1913, each state’s’ legislature would elect the senators to Congress.
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Good mornin’, czarina! All about the peach ice cream. They’re big in this area about this time of year.
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Mornin’ Czarina!
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The “17 Mile Drive” stretches from Pacific Grove to Carmel. This is an iconic scene…
https://independenttravelcats.com/17-mile-drive-scenic-drive-along-monterey-peninsula-pebble-beach-california/
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I have been there (a long time ago). It is very beautiful.
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Morning czarina! I love peach ice cream. I remember, when I was a kid, we had a drugstore with a soda fountain that sold Sealtest ice cream, and they had a flavor of the month. I loved it when it was time for Peach (August or September, I think it was).
What the heck is a yellow pig?
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I vote for National Get to Know Your Customers Day.
Successful small businesses are usually good at this. It’s a good way to maintain your steady customers. 😊👌
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Good day, Czarina! I join in with those who are partial to peach ice cream. Here’s some homemade…
https://freshaprilflours.com/homemade-peach-ice-cream/
As for tattoos, I see many folk who have overdone them as being on the downside of mental health.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Words of wisdom.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ Wee!
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My goodness, Wee, you really do miss your coffee…
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{snort}
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Thank you, Iowahawk, for your words of wisdom:
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LOL
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I agree!
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American humor!
On the matter of “choice”. I wonder if it’s readily available, and affordable. If it is, then there is true choice. If it’s needed, but discouraged, due to the lack of either of those, or hampered by government regulation, then I doubt the use of the word “choice”.
However, there are some individuals who do choose not to have air conditioning, There are areas of the northern U.S. which are generally cool enough so that the few weeks it might be desirable, are outweighed by the cost of equipment and maintenance.
If it’s a form of cultural, or environmental snobbery, that’s something else.
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I have lived both with and without A/C, and the in-between with window units. I’m glad I have central A/C now. I can “choose” to use it – or not.
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Yes. I have a choice here in Northern Montana. It is cool most of the time and so I can manage without the air con. I had it in my other apartment, but I couldn’t leave the windows open at night because I was on the first floor and had few windows. Here, I have the option to cool it down at night if I need to. So far we have had only a two or three too warm nights. But, air con was needed in Fla and other places down South.
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Good afternoon!
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OMG, have you ever been stuck in an elevator with eurotrash in Miami???? I have, and the stench is indescribable.
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We were hiking on a busy trail once. We started smelling what we thought was a dead animal and then realized it was the couple coming at us and the closer they got the stronger the smell. They polluted the air around them for about 10 feet. I remember thinking they were from Europe because of their dress. But, the smell was incredible.
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With odeur de outhouse to top it off…. no words. Some bitch called us “little flowers” in French (on the elevator, sure we wouldn’t understand her) – they were offended by US! But I didn’t know the words for sh*thouse t*rdblossoms in French, and “bathe already. Jeeezus” so I didn’t say a word. Nasty….
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This article discusses out-of-work, or at least soon-to-be UN/WHO employees over in Swiss Cheese land and how they’re coping! I shall drink their crocodile tears from the skull of their leaders! 😀 😀
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/16/switzerland-supports-un-bureaucrats-defunded-trump/
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My corazon, etc. 😀
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Yeah. You know. The thing! 😀
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That’s the funny thing about addiction to other people’s money. The recipients are always astonished when someone cuts off the supply.
The Swiss government saw it coming and put out the “not really welcome mat”, to the unemployed post haste.
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Mornin’ All. Another really nice day today, cool and sunny.
Got an email last night that my lease is coming to an end. I forgot it was a 9 month lease. They are discussing whether to raise the rents or not. I am checking for any available rentals in this area and find even less than what was available last fall. And, they have mostly gone up even more than before if there is something available. I sure hope they don’t get carried away if they do decide to raise the rent.
Hope you all enjoy the day.
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I hope, with costs moderating, that they keep it to a minimum, for your and other’s sake.
Housing costs have been outstripping income increases across the U.S. by a wide margin, especially when property tax increases are factored in. Renters don’t pay them directly, but landlords do, and pass them on as rent increases. If utilities are included, it’s even worse.
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Afternoon mom! I hope that any rent increase will be reasonable.
I am daily thankful that I bought a house and got a good low-interest mortgage. My monthly housing cost is pretty low, even with insurance and taxes.
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I had to take SS at 62 which really hurt me. And, of course, getting divorced at that time lost me a house with no way to replace it.
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I really sympathize. I also know that I was very lucky (or blessed by the good Lord) to get a home mortgage for the first time when I was in my fifties. I always rented up until that time. I was also blessed at the time that the landlord of the house I was renting didn’t increase my rent because I was such a good tenant. He also encouraged me to buy a house of my own, and would have loved to sell his to me.
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Maher also came under fire after her old social media posts emerged featuring her openly supporting former President Joe Biden and attacking Trump leading up to the 2020 election. She also repeated several left-leaning talking points, such as saying that property damage was “not the thing” Americans should be upset over during the George Floyd riots. – Quote from Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-head-asks-critics-show-me-story-proves-liberal-bias-amid-defunding-threats
I haven’t heard whether or not she offered her house to those throwing incendiaries.
Live in an elitist bubble and show you haven’t got a clue seems to be her m.o.
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Connie Francis Dies: ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’, ‘Stupid Cupid’ Singer Who Enjoyed Viral Comeback Was 87
https://deadline.com/2025/07/connie-francis-dead-1236460914/
Remember her from my early teen years.
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