FUN TRIVIA

Can you answer these trivia questions?  I will post answers tomorrow in the comment section.  Have fun.

1. Where did headlight dimmer switches used to be located?

a. On the floor shift knob
b. On the floor, left of the clutch
c. Next to the horn

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle has holes in it. For what was it used?

a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. Large salt shaker

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?

a. Cows got cold and wouldn’t produce
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?

a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps

5. What method did women adapt to look as if they were wearing stockings when none was available due to rationing during W.W.II?

a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn’t tell whether it was coming or going?

a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?

a. Strips of dried peanut butter
b. Chocolate-licorice bars
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

8. How was Butch wax used?

a. To stiffen hair cut into a flat top so it stood up
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust

ANSWERS

ROYALS

Question Of The Week 04-01-19
Should I continue the weekly Question Of The Week? 

Are you a Royal Watcher? (English Royalty, not the ball team.)  Is Megan Markle changing the Royal Family for the better?

IN THE SOUP

Hello.  This is an attempt at a blog comeback.  Wish me well.

Today I have visited most of you as a start.  Still it is not likely that I have caught up on everything you have been up to since my last post in January.  If you have things you know of interest to tell me, write it in the comments section.

March 9, 2019, my 14th blog anniversary was passed.  Fourteen years on this blog and before that two years on my first blog. Have I actually run out of things to say?  Probably.

First on the agenda for this post is my love of soup.  Even as warm weather approaches, soup is my favorite meal.  Yesterday I prepared a huge pot of Breakfast Soup (sausage and sweet potatoes, etc.) and Cabbage Soup (only 43 calories per serving).  Next week I will fix Lima Bean soup.  Can't wait to try that.  Nothing makes the house smell better than simmering soup.

Hum?  That's all folks:-) See you later. xoxo

CANNOT RESIST SHARING

WHAT'S WRONG

It was my hope to return to my blog and my blog friends but something has happened to me.  Not only has blogging been abandoned, there is rarely interest in Facebook.  My art materials have also been discarded and no poetry has been forthcoming.  To top it all off I have been losing things.  

My TV remote disappeared and I searched for hours. Would you believe it was found accidentally  when I reached into a bag of chips.  Instead of pulling out a chip, I grabbed the remote. It was almost like finding a prize in Cracker-Jacks.

How did the TV remote end up in the chip sack?  Don't tell my children.  They already think I am ready for a nursing home.

Hopefully the right side of my brain will start working again soon.

GOLF CART BATTERIES

I had hoped to be for active in the New Year but things have been in the way.  Here is a 

Question Of The Week, 01-08-19

 even though it is a bit late.

What is the best present you have 

received lately?

HIDING OUT

Happy New Year to All!

It was my intention to visit my sister and brother-in-law today but things happen.  First it turned very cold and I could not brave the temperatures.

Second my young dog awakened me at 2AM. Frankie Doodle does not bark in the night, she whispers.  She was whispering at 2AM and I was hoping she would go back to sleep but she kept it up.  Slim was ignoring her but the light noise was driving me crazy. I got up to open the door and let Frankie out but I couldn't find her.  

Frankie was stuck under my bed.  I can only guess that when people on the lake set off fireworks at midnight to welcome the New Year it frightened her and she dived under without thinking.  She has gotten so big she could not get out.  I encouraged her and she finally made it out from under but then she wanted to play.  

Needless to say I am due a nap and will stay home and hope Frankie keeps quiet.

It looks like she is ready for a nap too.

SEASONS GREETINGS

May there be!!

Thanksgiving my kids and grandkids but...no Sailor...

Approaching Christmas with all grandkids...Even Our Sailor!

He made it home for his Birthday and Christmas:-)

My daughter's family joined me at church Christmas Eve:-)
 

May there be Peace on Earth.  See you all next year. 

 Love my Blog friends.

FRIDAY SING ALONG

Swett Nothin's

Brenda Lee

My baby whispers in my ear
Sweet nothings
He knows the things I like to hear
Sweet nothings

Things he wouldn't tell
Nobody else
Secret baby
I keep them to myself

Sweet nothings
Sweet nothings

We walk along hand in hand
Sweet nothings
Yeah we both understand
Sweet nothings

Sitting in classroom trying to read my book
My baby give me that special look
Sweet nothings
Sweet nothings

Ah sitting on my front porch
Sweet nothings
Well do I love you, of course
Sweet nothings

Mama turned on the front porch light
Saying come here darling that enough for tonight
Sweet nothings
Sweet nothings
Sweet nothings

 

Songwriters: Ronnie Self

Swett Nothin's lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

GETTING RID OF STUFF

Question Of The Week 12-17-18

What’s been on your mind most lately?

FRIDAY SING ALONG

Twilight Time

The Platters

Heavenly shades of night are falling, it's twilight time
Out of the mist your voice is calling, it's twilight time
When purple colored curtains mark the end of day
I'll hear you, my dear, at twilight time

Deepening shadows gather splendor as day is done
Fingers of night will soon surrender the setting sun
I count the moments darling till you're here with me
Together at last at twilight time

Here, in the afterglow of day, we keep our rendezvous beneath the blue
Here in the same and sweet old way, I fall in love again as I did then

Deep in the dark your kiss will thrill me like days of old
Lighting the spark of love that fills me with dreams untold
Each day I pray for evening just to be with you
Together at last at twilight time

Here, in the afterglow of day, we keep our rendezvous beneath the blue
Here in the sweet and same old way, I fall in love again as I did then

Deep in the dark your kiss will thrill me like days of old
Lighting the spark of love that fills me with dreams untold
Each day I pray for evening just to be with you
Together at last at twilight time
Together at last at twilight time

 

Songwriters: Artie Dunn / Al Nevins / Morty Nevins / Buck Ram

Twilight Time lyrics © T.R.O. Inc.

AT HOME

Question Of The Week 12-10-18

Where do you spend most of your time

 while you’re awake?

FRIDAY SING ALONG

At the Hop

Danny & the Juniors

Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah
Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah, at the hop!
Well, you can rock it you can roll it
You can slop and you can stroll it at the hop
When the record starts spinnin'
You chalypso when you chicken at the hop
Do the dance sensation that is sweepin' the nation at the hop

Ah, let's go to the hop
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop
Come on, let's go to the hop

Well, you can swing it you can groove it
You can really start to move it at the hop
Where the jockey is the smoothest
And the music is the coolest at the hop
All the cats and chicks can get their kicks at the hop

Let's go!
Ah, let's go to the hop
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop
Come on, let's go to the hop
Let's go!

Well, you can rock it you can roll it
You can slop and you can stroll it at the hop
When the record starts spinnin'
You chalypso* when you chicken at the hop
Do the dance sensation that is sweepin' the nation at the hop
Well, you can swing it you can groove it
You can really start to move it at the hop
Where the jockey is the smoothest
And the music is the coolest at the hop

 

All the cats and chicks can get their kicks at the hop

 Let's go!
Ah, let's go to the hop
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop
Come on, let's go to the hop
Let's go!

Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah
Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah, at the hop!

 

Songwriters: Ollie Jones

At the Hop lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

MY CHILDREN

Question Of The Week 12-03-18

Who would you like to please the most?