Annie wants to come along
When I came in to finish packing for a trip to the states a few years ago, i found that Annie had decided she’d like to come along so she had packed himself. I wonder if that is her passport or mine showing in the upper lid pouch?
For RDP, the prompt word is “Pack”
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #80” Today’s number is 201. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title. This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album.
Click on photos to enlarge.
Yikes! I have 19,000 more 201 photos in my media file!!!! I’ll spare you the rest.
For Cellpic Sunday
The Day Cracked Open Like an Egg
The rain falls
fresh as cucumbers
on cobblestones and tiles,
the dust of summer
washed from crevasses
and curves of stone and clay.
The air is cleansed
of the scent of primavera,
jacaranda
and flamboyan trees
and the whole world
breathes easily again.
Clouds dried up
by sunlight,
the silent birds
are flushed
from their covering leaves
and open in chorus
to the booming crack
of cohetes, splitting the air
in celebration
of Saint John the Baptist
who has baptized all
this day.
The prompt for SOCS is “Something that opens.”
In a bottle of Mescal labelled “Alacran.”
If you haven’t read my “Most Original Gift” blog, go HERE and read it first.
I decided to research whether people actually drank the mezcal that is bottled with scorpions (and in my case a snake as well) and I just read this:
The scorpions are added live, and they release the venom into the mezcal as they die. It is used medically to relieve a cough or used topically for muscle pain.
For this week’s Fibbing Friday, it’s all a con……….
Definitions or descriptions for these please!
1. Conservative: An adjective describing someone consumed by a goal to work in a prison.
2. Conspire: The sweat of a prisoner on a chain gang.
3. Condense: A prisoner who just doesn’t “get” it.
4. Context: Books donated to a prison library.
5. Contemplate: A “how to” book on crime written by an inmate .
6. Consider: The spouse of someone in prison.
7. Condo: A list of rules for prison inmates
8. Contour: A guided tour of a prison. I actually took one when I was a student teacher!!
9. Consent: Someone found guilty of a crime and hustled off to prison.
10. Consul: Religion found while serving in prison.
Becky and her friend Patrick added a special dimension to my surprise birthday party yesterday. Here is one of Becky’s original songs she sang for the occasion. It’s titled “I’m a Songwriter,” and she certainly is. A song singer as well. She has sung several of mine!!! Thanks, Becky. HERE is the link to Patrick De Gabriel’s song.
My friend Becky McGuigan brought her friend Patrick to my surprise birthday party and they both entertained us with their original songs. I gave Patrick one of my poems that everyone thinks should be made into a song and he’s hopefully going to provide music for it and perhaps even sing it. Below his photo you can click on a youtube rendition of the one of the songs he sang for us. I’m going to link Becky singing her original song as well. Here is her link.
Click on link below to hear Patrick singing his song
For my birthday, Brad took me to a wonderful new restaurant. When I walked in, who happened to be there but my friend Aurora, who was having lunch with the mayor’s wife and another friend. This was coincidence but a nice addition to the day. Then later another friend came in and sat at an adjoining table. It had been at least 10 years since we had seen each other. She reminded me of her name and asked me to remind her of mine. We never did figure out how we knew each other but both remembered we’d once seen each other often. This happens more and more frequently. It wasn’t until I got home and looked her up on Facebook that I discovered she was celebrating her birthday today as well!
Unfortunately, I was having such a good time that I forgot to take any photos except for the beautiful garden, the lovely center arrangement and this appetizer, which was delicious. Our meals were wonderful, but strangely enough, Brad promptly asked for the bill before dessert. He said he was sorry, but he had other plans, so he drove me home, walked me into the house, opened the door and. . . 
Click on the below photos to see captions.
Go HERE to see my first birthday surprise, HERE to see and hear Patrick singing his song, and HERE to see and hear Becky singing her song.
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