I was feeling a little bit better today
So my wife put me to work
On some tasks around the house
And in the yard
Hence I didn’t do much blogging today
Nor reading, liking, or commenting
Maybe tomorrow I’ll tell my wife
I’ve had a relapse of my cold
Judy Dykstra-Brown has come up with a weekly prompt that she calls “The Numbers Game.” This week’s number is 142. To play along, we need to go to our media/photo file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos we find under that number and include a link to our blog back to Judy’s Numbers Game blog of the week.
Here’s my collection of photos based upon “142.” All of the photos below have appeared in my blog posts. Some are photos posted by other bloggers as photo prompts. Some are screenshots or photos that I took. A few may have been generated by AI art apps, but most are photos I grabbed from free photo sources like Pixabay, Pexels, Pinterest, Unsplash, or Google photos.
Click on any photo to enlarge.
Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World each week. Here are her questions for this week.
1. Have you ever lied about your age?
Not since I was a teenager (17) and made myself a fake ID that had me at 21 so that I could buy beer and alcohol.
2. Is there any time in your life you would like to relive?
I think I’d rather reflect back on (relive) my life through my memories. The reality of reliving a part of my life probably wouldn’t be as pleasant as the memories of it.
3. Do you own any antiques?
Not any more, but when we lived in a Victorian styles home build in 1898 back in Massachusetts (pictured below), our house was full of antiques.
My wife and I would regularly go to antique stores and fairs to shop for furniture and lights and other stuff for our house. I would buy antique light fixtures on eBay and rewire them and hang them. We also used to get replicas of antiques when we could find real antiques, but at least 60% of everything we owned in that house were genuine antiques. When we finally sold the house in 2013 after moving to San Francisco into a contemporary condo, we hired an auction house in Massachusetts to auction off all of our antiques that we had in that Victorian home.
4. Would you like to know some of the history of places you’ve visited?
Whenever we went on a family vacation, I would study up on our destination and the stopping points along the way so that I could make sure I had enough knowledge about the places and their histories to share with my kids. I thought that would give them a better understanding and appreciation for the places we visited.
Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “strong.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, ÿplease manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
In case you missed it, here’s the Sunday Doonesbury comic strip from Garry Trudeau.
This strip did, indeed tickle me. But it also saddens me. It made me wonder if there are families across the country who are struggling financially but who have fallen victim to Trump’s MAGA-mania and are cutting corners in their own households in order to contribute to Donald Trump’s defense fund.
Well, as P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” And Donald Trump is certainly as much of a showman as P.T. Barnum ever was.
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