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.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. -- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
Frankie and Slim
Sunday, December 18, 2022
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Monday, December 12, 2022
Saturday, December 10, 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
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.
Tuesday, December 06, 2022
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.”