Definitely blue!!!
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And, here is a poem to go with all this blue: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2022/05/06/give-me-blue-2/
For WQ # 28: Blue
Blue––for WQ #28
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A surfboard-stealing otter is on the run
I just saw this story about sea otters in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area and had to reblog it. Before I moved to Mexico, my husband and I used to kayak in Elkhorn Slough, a small river that ran down to the ocean in the Monterey/Santa Cruz area. I had an amazing experience with sea otters in this area when I became separated from Bob. I was floating down the slough and noticed one sea otter, then two, until I was surrounded by a ring of sea otters that kept floating closer until they formed a circle around me. At least one was on her back with a baby on her stomach and suddenly they all started singing! It was the most surreal experience. They floated closer and closer and finally I broke the circle and paddled down the slough toward the ocean where Bob and friends were waiting for me. When I read this story, it all flooded back to memory.
Chris found this story about a California Otter stealing surface boards.
See entire article, video and photos.
By Holly Honderich in Washington
If you were to take a swim in the clear blue waters surrounding Santa Cruz, California, in recent days, you may have encountered an unlikely predator. Small and dark, whiskered and fluffy, she has developed a knack for theft and a taste for surfboards.Her name is 841. She is a sea otter.
For the Love of Challenges
I’ve gathered a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.
Qi (energy) hugs
Cee
Two by Two for CBWC
A Fictionary––For Fibbing Friday July 14, 2023
For Fibbing Friday this week, we were asked to use our noggins
to try to dream up daffynitions for the following words:
1. Brabble The contents of a messy underwear drawer.
2. Bedward Where we are headed after a particularly wearisome day.
3. Crapulous How one joyfully describes a long-awaited intestinal release!!!!
4. Elflock A hold practiced by diminutive wrestlers.
5. Expergefactor What Daffy Duck once called a formerly bulimic movie star
6. Groke A pronouncement of a sore-throated frog
7. Grubble The leftovers of a particularly messy dinner party
8. Lanspresado How we described Lans previous to his last down period.
9. Mumpsimus Why Mumpsi decides to leave her dull home in search of adventure?
Well, simply—because Mupsimus!
10. Rawgabbit What one eats when one has no means to cook one’s gabbit.
For Fibbing Friday
From the Air. The Approach to Billings
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Images of the skies between Dallas and Billings. I couldn’t resist sending this many to show the changes. Fascinating. This is about half of the photos I took! Love having a window seat and the lovely young woman I sat next to insisted on trading seats during the approach to Billings so I could see the view.
Feeling Blue for Sunday Stills
From my terrace
Because her delight conjured up such memories of the slide in the playground across the street from my childhood home and my own trips down it.
Deep Blue Sea
Berries in the bowl
and on the bush
Because it is the only photo of my sisters and me as adults.
Because it reflects so well the two things I love most about Mexico: the children and the artistry.
Sleeping Over At the Airport
My bed.
My neighbors
More neighbors
It is 7:20 AM and I’ve been in the Guadalajara Airport since 2 AM. My delayed flight leaves at 9 and I’ll spend another 7 hours cooling my heels in Dallas. All in all it will be 20 hours in airports and in the air and I will arrive 8 hours late and a day late at my destination since I’ll arrive too late at night for my sister to drive the hour and a half to the airport to collect me, and so I will need to spend a night in a hotel. Oh the glories of modern travel. Since my pickup was at 1 AM for the hour trip to the airport , I didn’t go to sleep at all last night and I have had one hour’s sleep on a couch in the VIP lounge which they gave me a pass to. Better than the hundreds of people sleeping on the floor in the ticketing area. Wonder what is up? Heavy rain all the way from San Juan to Guadalajara, so perhaps that has grounded planes.
Happy 80th Birthday to my Sister Patti!!!
Patti’s 7th Birthday party
Cowgirl Patti to pal Karen’s cowboy for a backyard play.
Patti’s 13th birthday costume party. She’s in her sister Betty’s prom dress at the far right.
Patti’s 21 birthday. The cake said, “Patti can Vote!” You can bet that wasn’t tops on her mind.
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Here are some other photos of us together from an earlier birthday post: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2019/07/09/happy-birthday-patti/
Drenched! July Rains….for RDP
But a rainbow soon promises
These were definitely not taken this year as the second month into what should be the rainy season, we’ve only had one rain. Looks promising now, though. If it rains, I’ll add a current photo.
