I keep looking for more things to be just a little off. The dark tones, the carrion crows in the street. Little things like the front door leading into the kitchen/dining area. There is a cat sneaking up on the crows (prolly not a good idea for kitty). The lady looking into the mirror is at an odd angle. The barge has no running lights.
Thank you. That’s exactly what they are. Here’s a link to AZ ANIMALS (birds) that gives more information about them. By AZ Animals, Indonesia is not part of their range although they do occupy Europe, Africa, and Asia.
I’ve just finished watching the 17th episode of “Quantum Leap.”
The whole series is, of course, put-your-brain-on-hold-and-enjoy, but this one is really off the wall; no pilot training, landing a 747 (lots of fun though / the writers have a sense of humour, and the cast plays right into their lines). I’m looking forward to next week’s episode.
Right now, I’m going to go back to reading “Mermaid Confidential” by Tim Dorsey; number 25 in the Serge Storm series.
Accurate Florida history recited by Storm to his stoner side-kick Coleman while they wreak mayhem throughout Florida and bring death in very imaginative ways to those Serge takes a dislike to. I just picked up number 26, “The Maltese Iguana” at the library today.
All the books are written light heartedly.
That’s weird………. I just watched the last three episodes of Quantum Leap today. It would take a really special person to succeed in those leaps. Good thing he has a little help. Interesting show.
One of our old favorites. The wife has collections of Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven we re-watch occasionally. I haven’t stumbled across a collection of Leap yet.
Seriously? I’ve ordered my complete “Quantum Leap” “collection on DVD in the UK (amazon.co.uk; living in Germany) because it wasn’t available here (only one season by one; later and ridiculously expensive) – and I don’t need the German dub.
It’s available in the USA (amazon.com) – but the same collection costs only half in Canada (amazon.ca).
Don’t really care for the new Leap so far, may have to give up on it. I just don’t think that the writing pulls you into the Suspension of Disbelief like the old one.
Part of the plot is that the body he leaps into retains some trained knowledge, just not the personality. Ben has lost some memory, so that may complicate things.
One of the things neither show addressed is the residual effect of changing history. I noticed this in the show that involved reacting with Addison’s Dad. It changed his personality, would that not have had an affect on Addison?
So the gift facial took place when you were 12? I’d say mom was being a good sport about it just letting you try. A face full of mayo sounds like a good place to end the attempt.
The attachment is what I get for extra three.
Has it disappeared on you or is it more WorddPress shenanigans?
But doing my usual digging and Googling Fakhrieh Furrha: cat with cucumbers brought up THIS NEW DELHI TELEVISION aticle/video (I’m pretty sure this is extra three / perhaps expanded a bit).
Then there’s
Britannia est insula. Europa non est insula. Italia paene est insula. Italia paeninsula est.
The beginning of the first lesson in the Latin text book.
I was bored! Latin was too much like Spanish which I’d been taking for 4 years. Asked to work ahead. Did first year in one semester. Thought I’d sit in the back of the room for the second semester and do second year. No such luck! They changed my schedule and put me in the second year class. Never did the first semester of that year.
My school didn’t start Latin until sophomore year so years 3 and 4 were already combined. By the end of the third semester, I was bored again. Asked to go ahead, but Mrs Falconer said it’s poetry (The Aeneid) and might be difficult. I took the Latin book home for the next 7 days. Came in Monday morning and plopped 23 pages, hand written, front and back, on her desk. Asked sweetly “now can I go ahead?”
I was a bit of a pill, but Latin came naturally to me. Did only 300 level classes in college – but quit after 3. The visiting professor for second semester insisted that we parse every damn word. “Read” less than 1/3 of what the class was to cover. Wouldn’t put up with it and switched my major to biology!
And now you all know a lot about me that most others don’t.
Ophthalmic tech for 4 years. Master Gardener since 1990.
Currently managing editor of Public Garden, the journal of the American Public Garden Association, since 2013 – editorial consultant for same from 2007.
Flunked French in high school, took summer school classes of Business Law and Bookkeeping, loved it and became an accountant and worked in Finance in Hospitals for 40 years!
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“I am one bada$$ dog, so you best stand aside when you see me comin’.”
OK, pine-cone breath.
That’s exactly what they want you to hear.
Wow, it’s a schipperke… like my little dog I write about sometimes, that I had for 14 years.
I also shared one, before that, too, for a few years.
You don’t see a lot of them.
..
Might look like a big dog in this photo, but they’re not much over a foot tall and weigh about 14 pounds.
They have no idea they’re small, though. They never even consider the possibility.
….
Probably my favorite dogs, but a handful. Funny, way too smart, and very active. Very active.
I did a double take when I saw the picture cos the pine cone looks like a weird mouthful of tiny teeth.
great shot!!
,
“On the Corner” By: Leonard Koscianski (oil on canvas, 42 x 26 inches)
A hometown artist to Clara, Claude and Cleo. Born Cleveland in 1952.
It’s it me or is there an ominous feel to this scene?
Strange to have a traffic light where two narrow residential streets intersect…
Strange that the boy is watching a giant TV all alone in a semi-dark room?
No, I think maybe it’s the huge blackbirds in the street.
Or my imagination.
I keep looking for more things to be just a little off. The dark tones, the carrion crows in the street. Little things like the front door leading into the kitchen/dining area. There is a cat sneaking up on the crows (prolly not a good idea for kitty). The lady looking into the mirror is at an odd angle. The barge has no running lights.
could be the traffic light is over a three way corner. too many people come barreling around that corner, nobody stops.
Or it is one of those residential streets that everyone uses as a short cut ~ so lots of traffic.
makes sense, too.
,
Supposedly somewhere in Indonesia, but I cannot find any reliable source to say it is.
I can’t even find what type of birds they are.
Try Bee Eater. They sit like that in multigenerational families.
The ones i’m thinking of are African.
Thank you. That’s exactly what they are. Here’s a link to AZ ANIMALS (birds) that gives more information about them. By AZ Animals, Indonesia is not part of their range although they do occupy Europe, Africa, and Asia.
They can eat up to 250 bees a day.
And now I have to get back to my book.
my first glance at this photo, i saw an american indian headdress.
And I saw a caterpillar. When all you have is a hammer…
If you cut the image horizontally where the branch is, it looks like some sort of beautifully colored, fuzzy caterpillar.
I saw that.
And the dog at the top, for a moment, looked like it had horrifyingly different teeth than a normal dog.
That’s what I thought it was at first.
For a second, I saw a fancy hair comb (the kind you wear in your long hair, not comb it with)…
It morphed into a brightly colored caterpillar…
Before finally…. you know…
.
One wonders if Cleo & Claude script these things out in advance.
Just a bit of rambling:
I’ve just finished watching the 17th episode of “Quantum Leap.”
The whole series is, of course, put-your-brain-on-hold-and-enjoy, but this one is really off the wall; no pilot training, landing a 747 (lots of fun though / the writers have a sense of humour, and the cast plays right into their lines). I’m looking forward to next week’s episode.
Right now, I’m going to go back to reading “Mermaid Confidential” by Tim Dorsey; number 25 in the Serge Storm series.
Accurate Florida history recited by Storm to his stoner side-kick Coleman while they wreak mayhem throughout Florida and bring death in very imaginative ways to those Serge takes a dislike to. I just picked up number 26, “The Maltese Iguana” at the library today.
All the books are written light heartedly.
That’s weird………. I just watched the last three episodes of Quantum Leap today. It would take a really special person to succeed in those leaps. Good thing he has a little help. Interesting show.
I recommend the original; it taught me much about contemporary American history.
One of our old favorites. The wife has collections of Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven we re-watch occasionally. I haven’t stumbled across a collection of Leap yet.
Seriously? I’ve ordered my complete “Quantum Leap” “collection on DVD in the UK (amazon.co.uk; living in Germany) because it wasn’t available here (only one season by one; later and ridiculously expensive) – and I don’t need the German dub.
It’s available in the USA (amazon.com) – but the same collection costs only half in Canada (amazon.ca).
Don’t really care for the new Leap so far, may have to give up on it. I just don’t think that the writing pulls you into the Suspension of Disbelief like the old one.
Part of the plot is that the body he leaps into retains some trained knowledge, just not the personality. Ben has lost some memory, so that may complicate things.
One of the things neither show addressed is the residual effect of changing history. I noticed this in the show that involved reacting with Addison’s Dad. It changed his personality, would that not have had an affect on Addison?
Plus I miss the debriefing of the persons Sam leapt into – or traded places.
Thanks for the laugh! Poor Clara! It’s hard to keep up with those two….especially when they can’t keep up with themselves.
i agree!
That is what I call a spa day. (re: 3rd extra after the strip).
The cuke is a nice touch.
You’re supposed to relax, with the slices over your eyes, for half an hour…
Or that’s what articles in “women’s magazines” said, when I was about 12.
….
They’re lucky the cat would tolerate them for a few seconds.
That’s about how long my mom lasted with them, too, when I tried, way back then, to give her a “spa” treatment for Mother’s Day.
As I recall, she let me file one nail, before she got up and washed the cream off her face….
or whatever the article told me to put on her face, which might have been mayonnaise.
So the gift facial took place when you were 12? I’d say mom was being a good sport about it just letting you try. A face full of mayo sounds like a good place to end the attempt.
The attachment is what I get for extra three.
Has it disappeared on you or is it more WorddPress shenanigans?
But doing my usual digging and Googling Fakhrieh Furrha: cat with cucumbers brought up THIS NEW DELHI TELEVISION aticle/video (I’m pretty sure this is extra three / perhaps expanded a bit).
Semper ubi sub ubi.
Schoolboy Latin joke.
(Always wear underwear… only not.)
this is the extent of my retention of the Latin I took for two years in H.S.
amo
amas
amat
amamus
amatis
amant
Ti amo.
the only thing i remembered is…..
hic
haec
hoc
Deberias haber tomado Espanol ….. like I did!
Especialmente aqui en california.
Si, si!
Chanted:
a
ae
is
am
is
ae
arum
is-as-is
It’s the only bit of rote Latin I remember.
Then there’s
Britannia est insula. Europa non est insula. Italia paene est insula. Italia paeninsula est.
The beginning of the first lesson in the Latin text book.
I was bored! Latin was too much like Spanish which I’d been taking for 4 years. Asked to work ahead. Did first year in one semester. Thought I’d sit in the back of the room for the second semester and do second year. No such luck! They changed my schedule and put me in the second year class. Never did the first semester of that year.
My school didn’t start Latin until sophomore year so years 3 and 4 were already combined. By the end of the third semester, I was bored again. Asked to go ahead, but Mrs Falconer said it’s poetry (The Aeneid) and might be difficult. I took the Latin book home for the next 7 days. Came in Monday morning and plopped 23 pages, hand written, front and back, on her desk. Asked sweetly “now can I go ahead?”
I was a bit of a pill, but Latin came naturally to me. Did only 300 level classes in college – but quit after 3. The visiting professor for second semester insisted that we parse every damn word. “Read” less than 1/3 of what the class was to cover. Wouldn’t put up with it and switched my major to biology!
And now you all know a lot about me that most others don’t.
Very interesting, you smartie! Then did you work in biology? We need the rest of the story.
Ophthalmic tech for 4 years. Master Gardener since 1990.
Currently managing editor of Public Garden, the journal of the American Public Garden Association, since 2013 – editorial consultant for same from 2007.
Never studied Latin in either HS or college. Spanish (HS), and a year of French in college.
Flunked French in high school, took summer school classes of Business Law and Bookkeeping, loved it and became an accountant and worked in Finance in Hospitals for 40 years!
lemon chiffon cake
By some calendars, it’s also “Hot Chicken Day.”