A caption like that does, or should, make one wonder what day “today” might be.
I think it’s funny when I find myself taking something at face value that I really should have questioned. Like an undated photo off the Internet that says it was taken today.
I can’t remember the order of Mars rovers… Not even all their names… So I googled it. Curiosity is not the latest… It was launched in 2012. And there’s a newer one.
But it’s still going! This picture was taken in November, 2025, so it’s relatively new.
BTW… Once again, one of my search results led to Facebook page where skeptics congratulated each other on not falling for “all this nonsense”, and “recognizing the Arizona desert” in this photo. Uh huh.
And another to a page where people discussed how much they didn’t want to live in a bleak, cold desert like this, and how they were going to resist, when… not “if” but “when” the government tried to move us there.
I hope people are teaching their children to have some discrimination in choosing what to believe out of what they read online… But since it’s adults that are writing this crackpot stuff, I don’t have high hopes!
I tried to find out more last night, but there wasn’t much.
Painted by Laura Loe, who has a kind of down-home website where she sells her paintings… some better than others… this one is called “A Room”.
Nothing more. Not whether that’s a painting of goats or a mirror, a wagon of cleaning supplies or a coffee cart (?), or what those plates are on the chairs.
I’m not sure about the actual freezing temperature of olive oil, but it’s probably pretty solid at 10F. I keep my freezers around 0F. The herbs would not dry out, but neither would they be exactly “fresh”. As long as it’s being used in cooking it should be fine.
Five? I have wood counters…I don’t leave anything damp on them. Better would be to put rubber feet on your cutting board. (I now have my main counter covered with a silicone rubber sheet because I’m particularly clumsy – dropping things on the counter puts dings in it, and it’s wonderfully slip resistant.)
Six actually works quite well for a lot of things. I used to make banana/yogurt/peanut butter freezer treats for my dog (good for kids too!), but cleaning the blender was more than a sudsy rinse could handle–the stuff was too sticky. But if all you’ve done was a mixed drink or something, yeah, the blender is practically self-cleaning.
Arthur Munby took many pictures of working women in mid-19th-century Britain.
Not only mine workers, but house maids, milkmaids, mongers, ditch diggers…. mostly women who worked at jobs using physical strength, and posing in their patched, dirty clothes.
He was educated, and fairly well off…. not just a teacher and a poet, but a barrister. Yet he roamed the streets, interviewing and photographing these women, though in those days he had to bring them to his studio to pose.
He was thought to be something of a crusader for the rights and betterment of women engaged in rough work.
He secretly married one of them, a housemaid named Hannah, and they kept it hidden most of his life, because their relationship would be shocking in his family and social circle.
Nowadays, it’s recognized that …um… he had his own reasons for liking to take pictures of strong women with dirty feet. LOL
According to the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge MA….
“Rockwell felt this was the more successful of the pair of covers that followed a day in the life of a young boy and girl. The original painting was donated to a community group raffle where it sold for only fifty cents, the current whereabouts remain unknown.”
Fifty cents!
I wonder whether Rockwell knew that!
He was considered an “illustrator”, not a fine artist, said in a sneering tone by art critics and my 10th grade art teacher.
The originals of his Post covers, therefore, were not respectable art, beloved as they were, and sold for hundreds or thousands, not the high prices of museum pieces. But 50 cents!
Same… Except I like curry made with coconut milk or cream… But that’s cos coconut is good in curry.
Nothing that’s supposed to be made with milk and they substitute coconut milk… Or cook something in coconut oil that’s not meant to have coconut in it.
I love coconut cake and pie, and chocolates.
But I had eggs fried in coconut oil at a friend’s house a few years ago… I had to pretend they were okay when they were horrible.
For sure had a Friday the 13th. Crazy day at work. Power went out little before 3. Really can’t do anything without power. I was in the middle of ordering hearing aids. Will have to do that next week. Estimate to get power back was 2-4 hours so we did get to go home early.
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Hi, Cuteness! Penny for your thoughts.
Better make that a nickel, unless you’ve been hoarding pennies.
Hey – look! I spotted a puppy!
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He’s hard to listen to, cos to me, his sing song voice is soporiific… but I like the last line.
A caption like that does, or should, make one wonder what day “today” might be.
I think it’s funny when I find myself taking something at face value that I really should have questioned. Like an undated photo off the Internet that says it was taken today.
I can’t remember the order of Mars rovers… Not even all their names… So I googled it. Curiosity is not the latest… It was launched in 2012. And there’s a newer one.
But it’s still going! This picture was taken in November, 2025, so it’s relatively new.
BTW… Once again, one of my search results led to Facebook page where skeptics congratulated each other on not falling for “all this nonsense”, and “recognizing the Arizona desert” in this photo. Uh huh.
And another to a page where people discussed how much they didn’t want to live in a bleak, cold desert like this, and how they were going to resist, when… not “if” but “when” the government tried to move us there.
I hope people are teaching their children to have some discrimination in choosing what to believe out of what they read online… But since it’s adults that are writing this crackpot stuff, I don’t have high hopes!
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Goats? Why did it have to be goats?
Let’s hope that’s a painting instead of a mirror.
I tried to find out more last night, but there wasn’t much.
Painted by Laura Loe, who has a kind of down-home website where she sells her paintings… some better than others… this one is called “A Room”.
Nothing more. Not whether that’s a painting of goats or a mirror, a wagon of cleaning supplies or a coffee cart (?), or what those plates are on the chairs.
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Numbers 4, 5, and 6 are suspect.
Why 5 and 6?
I’m not sure about the actual freezing temperature of olive oil, but it’s probably pretty solid at 10F. I keep my freezers around 0F. The herbs would not dry out, but neither would they be exactly “fresh”. As long as it’s being used in cooking it should be fine.
Five? I have wood counters…I don’t leave anything damp on them. Better would be to put rubber feet on your cutting board. (I now have my main counter covered with a silicone rubber sheet because I’m particularly clumsy – dropping things on the counter puts dings in it, and it’s wonderfully slip resistant.)
Six actually works quite well for a lot of things. I used to make banana/yogurt/peanut butter freezer treats for my dog (good for kids too!), but cleaning the blender was more than a sudsy rinse could handle–the stuff was too sticky. But if all you’ve done was a mixed drink or something, yeah, the blender is practically self-cleaning.
I know from experience that #5 works.
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The “Daily Mail” on Pit Brow Wenches,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6379827/The-heroic-broo-wenches-scandalised-Victorian-Britain-working-trousers.html
This is worth reading.
Arthur Munby took many pictures of working women in mid-19th-century Britain.
Not only mine workers, but house maids, milkmaids, mongers, ditch diggers…. mostly women who worked at jobs using physical strength, and posing in their patched, dirty clothes.
He was educated, and fairly well off…. not just a teacher and a poet, but a barrister. Yet he roamed the streets, interviewing and photographing these women, though in those days he had to bring them to his studio to pose.
He was thought to be something of a crusader for the rights and betterment of women engaged in rough work.
He secretly married one of them, a housemaid named Hannah, and they kept it hidden most of his life, because their relationship would be shocking in his family and social circle.
Nowadays, it’s recognized that …um… he had his own reasons for liking to take pictures of strong women with dirty feet. LOL
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“…now just hold on a moment. Something isn’t adding up…”
Mama’s too tired to really care.
Mother cat might be more inclined to complain if one of the puppies tries the same switch.
I never turned down a free lunch either.
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“My name is James, Bond James.”
The best Bond.
Always.
Ian Fleming hated the casting at first, saying it wasn’t the Bond he envisioned… But he soon changed his mind, and even wrote the next books with
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Saturday Evening Post cover, May 24, 1952.
According to the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge MA….
“Rockwell felt this was the more successful of the pair of covers that followed a day in the life of a young boy and girl. The original painting was donated to a community group raffle where it sold for only fifty cents, the current whereabouts remain unknown.”
Fifty cents!
I wonder whether Rockwell knew that!
He was considered an “illustrator”, not a fine artist, said in a sneering tone by art critics and my 10th grade art teacher.
The originals of his Post covers, therefore, were not respectable art, beloved as they were, and sold for hundreds or thousands, not the high prices of museum pieces. But 50 cents!
Today his originals sell for millions.
I keep searching for the “Love” icon on the Like button…
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,,3D Coke ad, on an apartment building in Bucharest Romania
Too bad it isn’t Pepsi. Or Dr Pepper. Both are much better. 🙂
No way!
I rarely drink soft drinks, and can’t stand most of them…. but Coke over Pepsi any day.
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A link to “The Red Hell of Jupiter”
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30214/pg30214-images.html
And just HOW are they going to pull those T-shirts on over their heads?
They step into them through the neck hole. 🙂
NYC – 1910
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Eek! The world turned sideways!
Why have I never heard of this huge geological event?
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Love her expression in the end.
Throws her head back in complete exasperation… “Will I never get this idiot human to stop??!”
find 3 owls
Does a mechanized owl count?
Got em!
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The first cub in the picture, or the last cub in line, depending on how you look at it, really looks like a human in a bear suit.
“Safari”-park in Daejeon, South Korea. I took that picture in September 2016.
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These do look tempting, but I had better pass.
Virtual food has no fat, sugar or calories.
Might as well indulge.
Mmmm…coconut! Love coconut. Ironically, I seriously dislike coconut water and absolutely hate foods prepared with coconut milk.
Same… Except I like curry made with coconut milk or cream… But that’s cos coconut is good in curry.
Nothing that’s supposed to be made with milk and they substitute coconut milk… Or cook something in coconut oil that’s not meant to have coconut in it.
I love coconut cake and pie, and chocolates.
But I had eggs fried in coconut oil at a friend’s house a few years ago… I had to pretend they were okay when they were horrible.
Pre-verbal (but not pre-snarky) Cleo!
I think Cleo was born snarky.
Not necessarily in the order listed. 🙂
Speed Bump – Cooking Shows For Dogs.
Female Chaffinch (Fringilla Coelebs).
Buchfink in German.
“LBB” [little brown bird] in most of the world…
Twitter birds!
For sure had a Friday the 13th. Crazy day at work. Power went out little before 3. Really can’t do anything without power. I was in the middle of ordering hearing aids. Will have to do that next week. Estimate to get power back was 2-4 hours so we did get to go home early.