Frankie and Slim

Frankie and Slim
Happy New Year

Sunday, December 18, 2022

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR...

 I am taking a break until 2023.  May your holiday celebrations sparkle with precious moments of laughter, love, and goodwill. I wish you a year full of contentment and joy.




Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Friday, December 09, 2022

WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY - 12-10-2022

The prompts will be here this month, provided by Elephant's Child.

This week's prompts are:

Candles, Everyone, Nine, Days, Heart 

and/or

Aunt, Strike, Bullet, Ballet,Missed 

HAUNTED SHOOTING MATCH by Granny Annie

They lit the CANDLES and every BULLET missed.  EVERYONE laughed as NINE shots were fired and there was not a single STRIKE.  The flames danced like an undisturbed BALLET dancer. Our AUNT was aghast at the number of shots that were MISSED.  She pressed her hand to her HEART and exclaimed that this had to be the devil's DAYS.

 

Thursday, December 08, 2022

DID YOU KNOW...

 DID YOU KNOW...

Cowboys Didn't Actually Wear Cowboy Hats


 Those big Stetsons that everyone associates with cowboys like John Wayne, Billy the Kid, or Wyatt Earp? Yeah. Cowboys didn't wear those. In fact, the hat of choice for the 19th century cowboys was actually a bowler hat. Go figure.

Monday, December 05, 2022

Friday, December 02, 2022

WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY - 11-30-2022 on FRIDAY 12-02-2022

This month, the prompts are being provided by messymimi'smeanderings.


This week's prompts are:


bargain

outlook

belief

margin

differ

wagon


and/or


outlet

glasses

modest

letter

social

lift

 

NO THANK YOU by Granny Annie

 

Ellie was only eight years old.  It was her belief that the gift was a great bargain.  Their next door neighbor  had given her a wagon full of turnips.  He had just pulled them out of his garden.  Ellie knew her mother would be thrilled with this modest gift. Sadly the child's outlook had been wrong.  It did differ from her mother's response.


"Do you even know what turnips are?" her mother demanded peering over her glasses at Ellie.  "Why would you accept such a gift without even knowing what you were bringing home?  I will cook some of these for your dinner tonight and you can eat them all!"


Late in the night Ellie slipped out of her house. It wasn't easy to lift the remainder of the  gift over the man's fence. Ellie had included a social letter to the neighbor.  She put it with the load of turnips she was returning.  It read, "Thank you but no more turnips please".

Thursday, December 01, 2022

DID YOU KNOW...

Did We Mishear Neil Armstrong’s Famous First Words on the Moon?

On July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface of the Moon.

As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written into history books for generations to come: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.”

Or at least that’s how the media reported his words.

But Armstrong insisted that he actually said, “That’s one small step for a man.” In fact, in the official transcript of the Moon landing mission, NASA transcribes the quote as “that’s one small step for (a) man.”