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Party Animals

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Cold Feet

Cold Feet

I find it hard to decide whether
I can stand these shifts in weather.

First it’s hotter, then it’s colder. 
Whichever, now that I am older,
I am entitled to complain
that I find both of them a pain!!!!

Wading: Pick a Word Challenge, Dec 30, 2022

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For the December Pick a Word Challenge I picked the word WADING

Ornamental Kale: FOTD Dec. 29, 2022


For Cee’s FOTD

Potpourri (December Shots)

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These are photos from December’s photo file that somehow never got posted. No set theme except that they’ve been sitting on my desktop for a week or more waiting to be needed.

For the Lens Artists Challenge 230 Last Chance

A Very Cheetos Christmas

Anyone who reads my blog regularly probably knows what a fan I am of Cheetos Torciditos. I have probably done more to promote them than anyone in my part of Mexico and I’ve addicted more  than a dozen friends and caused the store right next to the Racquet Club to start selling larger bags of them.  Now, if you are wondering why I am suddenly showing a bag of them on my blog, perhaps the next photo will clarify.

Two days ago a mysterious, beautifully-wrapped gift showed up under my Christmas tree.  Since it was my only gift to open and so beautiful, I still hadn’t unwrapped it until today when Sergio, my next door neighbor, came over to borrow chairs and TV trays for his party. He insisted I open it, but the wrappings are shown below.

Now, if you take a less closeup view of my bag of Cheetos, you can see that it is a very large bath towel with an image of a bag of Cheetos Tordicos on it.  It turns out that they went to a lot of work to locate it in Liverpool, where they were sold out, and finally located it on the internet. They know me so well. Not only is this my favorite food on Earth, but I have been looking in vain for a full-sized towel to use in the pool.

Thanks once again to the best neighbors ever––David and Sergio.

They threw a great party as well, where I wore my Cheetos towel as a cape, looking like some sort of Cheese Curl Avenger.  Photos to follow.

This is me, trying to show my cape but unable to figure out how without turning it around backwards. I might have figured out a better way if it hadn’t been for the sangria…Happy Boxing Day, Everyone!!!

And for more Cheetos excitement, go here: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2022/09/24/ode-to-cheetos/

For TamrahJo…Merry Christmas

 

I promised to show you my favorite foot shot, but here are a few others as well: (Click on photos to enlarge.)

(TamrahJo’s blog can be found HERE.)

 

Scrooge Holds Forth on Christmas

Scrooge Holds Forth on Christmas

It can be a bit frenetic, this yearly Yuletide season,
creating a fiasco beyond any rhyme or reason.
It carries us along on a tide of fir and holly,
demanding we be spirit-filled and reverent and jolly

until we’re nearly saturated with the Yultide spirit,
kind of sick of Christmas before we’re even near it.
All this peace and loving can be a royal pain—
pine needles barely cleared away before they’re here again.

We’re blanketed in blessings, gift-wrapped and over-gay
in an over-decorated binge-filled treacle holiday.
Oh for just one Christmas without reindeer-decked pajamas,
on a sun-filled beach somewhere—perhaps in the Bahamas!!!!

Prompts today are Yuletide, blanket, nearly, fiasco, carry and royal.

La Llorona by Sergio Casas

If you have never heard the song “La Llorona” you are in for a treat. This is Sergio Casas singing it at Lyn and John Scacelli’s Solstice Party. More photos coming up later. In the meantime, enjoy the music:

 

Salt White

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For CFFC’s Salt White prompt.