Monthly Archives: September 2024

Happy Friday the 13th, 2024 Fibbing Friday!!!

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For Fibbing Friday, Sept.13, 2024 the prompts are:

1. If flower seeds give us flowers and tomato seeds give us tomatoes, what does bird seed give us? An Antarctic explorer.
2. How do you make a cat flap? Put  him out the window of an airplane in flight and hold on tight!
3. Why is Friday 13th considered unlucky? The number 13 is unlucky because there were 13 people at the Last Supper and the reason Friday is unlucky is because your bad luck from it being the 13th  is going to cause you to miss the weekend.
4. When is the Witching Hour? Right after the I Ching Hour. 
5. Are familiars always cats? Yes, but then so are strangers.
6. Where did McDonald’s originate? The Edinburgh Trump Tower.
7. What was the first thing Sleeping Beauty said when roused from sleep by her prince? So what happened to the frog?
8. What’s the difference between a sink and a basin?  kba
9. Why does the wind howl? Because it has been whipped around too many corners.
10. Why do we say swinging the lead?  Because we are celebrating  getting the lead out and getting on with it.

New Hibiscus Beauty, For FOTD, Sept 13, 2024

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This is the first opened bloom on my newest hibiscus, purchased to replace my 23 year old one that was killed when a pipe burst, flooding its roots with boiling hot water.  R.I.P. old friend, and hello, new one. The bud was closed when I purchased it so I had no idea how beautiful it would be. It is still in its pot in the garage, waiting to be planted tomorrow and when I came out this afternoon, it had opened fully. What a treasure!!! (You can see my car in the background.)

For Cee’s FOTD, Sept 13, 2024

Point by Point #1: Reasons why you might want to reconsider if you are voting for Trump

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Opinion Today

September 12, 2024
Author Headshot By Eliza Barclay

Climate Editor, Opinion

It may be a subtle point in a wild election cycle, but in fact, the contributing writer Robinson Meyer argued in a guest essay published Wednesday, Trump bears significant responsibility for China’s ascension in hybrid and electric vehicles (as well as other industries including solar, wind and battery production) and for G.M. and Ford’s struggles to keep up. “America has fallen behind China in large part because Trump killed our climate policies,” Meyer writes.

And it’s not just automakers that are lagging China. We are now facing, as Meyer puts it, “chronic trade and security concerns” because we don’t yet have a viable battery industry to support our military in future crises. The way America can create that industry is first by developing a viable electric vehicle sector. Harris seems to understand that, but Trump appears poised to weaken or suspend all of the policies and subsidies that are currently helping American-made electric vehicles along. “With him once again in the Oval Office, America would be at risk of falling even further behind,” Meyer writes.

Read the guest essay:

Neighbors, For Cee’s FOTD

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This Black-Eyed-Susan Thunbergia loves to go visiting. It has travelled all the way from the wall in front of my house to a few feet away from the back wall to give this tradescantia a hug.

For Cee’s FOTD

Floating for dVerse Poets

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Floating

The tide comes in each morning,
bringing us new gifts;
transforming everything to sand
it sifts and sifts and sifts.

The frigate birds sail over all:
the headland and the town.
I don’t know what they’re looking for.
They never venture down.

A string of pelicans fly north.
Seconds later, they fly south.
I guess the reason is not one
has fish within its mouth.

The beach cat sits here looking
out to the open sea,
willing all the fisherman
to “Bring a fish to me!”

The tide comes within feet of me
when it is at its height.
Tucked away here, in the shade,
I do not feel its bite.

When tide goes out, I go with it
to float beyond its curl.
It does not know if I am fish
or shell or boat or girl.

For dVerse Poets: The Sea

Wednesday Weirdness.

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You will not be disappointed if you go to THIS  website and listen to the unique concert presented.  Then come back and tell me what you think!  Do listen to it all the way through. It keeps increasing in intensity.  And thanks, Bluebird, for sharing it.

Seven Times Seven

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Seven for Dinner
Seven Stabbers
Seven Climbers
Seven Handmade Pillows
Seven Susans
Seven Blooms

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For Becky’s Seven Squares

Bougainvillea, FOTD, Sept 10, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

For CFFC, Horizontal Lines

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For CFFC, Horizontal Lines

Canna, For Cee’s FOTD, Sept 9, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD
https://ceenphotography.com/2024/09/09/fotd-september-9-2024-mums/