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The Numbers Game # 29, July 8, 2024––Come play along!!!

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June, 2014 Mixed Media painting by JDB
Betsy Wetsy
Tapalpa
Peru
1956, Johnssen’s Dam
Because it reminds me why I couldn’t resist bringing her home from the beachside restaurant where she first curled up on my lap and won my heart.

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #29”  Today’s number is 150. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include 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.

“I Really Want a Puppy” Brand New Book Hot off the Presses!!!

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Click HERE to order my newest children’s book I Really Want a Puppy that has a QR Code that sings the words of the entire book as you turn the pages to look at the photos!!

What’s a boy to do when all his friends have puppies but he doesn’t? This book’s hero finds a novel way to get around his mom’s reluctance to adopt a dog. This is the third rhymed picture book written by Judy Dykstra-Brown and beautifully illustrated by Isidro Xilonzóchitl, but this one not only tells and shows you the story, it also sings the words of the book to the reader by means of a QR code on the front cover! Drum beats indicate to nonreaders when it’s time to turn the page to see the next illustration. Younger kids love to “learn to read” by singing along with the words to the song while following the words in the book. Older kids just love the story and illustrations.

Use your cellphone to take a photo of the  QR code above on the cover to hear the entire book. (It takes you to Youtube and then you need to click to turn the sound on.)

Click HERE to see sample pages and to order.  Just $15 during an introductory period and please remember to leave your review on the site and to let me know how you like it as well.

(In Mexico, available from the author  at jubob2@hotmail.com or at Diane Pearl’s Gallery.)

For Water Water Everywhere #220, July 5, 2024

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Finally, the gorgeous turquoise waters of Big Spring and Little Spring, which together bubble out of the rocks to join to the Current River.
Boats were nestled in among the water hyacinth.
The water ran swift and free,
He told me to sit very still and showed me how to adjust my balance a bit when the water got choppy.

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For Water Water Everywhere prompt

“Last on the Card” June 30, 2024

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And Coco coming to check out the action as well.

For Last on the Card

Here is a post from nine years ago that seems relevant after my last post:

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The Beautiful Children of Mexico

Mondays and Tuesdays for Cellpic Sunday

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On Monday and Tuesday mornings, I teach these four charming students English. They are Eduardo, Pasiano’s son, Marie Jose and Alejandra, Yolanda’s nieces and Yoli, Yolanda’s daughter. So, instead of Cellpic Sunday, I guess these are my Cellpic Monday and Tuesday shots!

Nine years ago, Alejandra was one of the kids in a summer camp we threw for kids. Now she has two kids of her own! Here’s a picture of her way back then at age 12.

And  a picture of Yoli 9 years ago:

I didn’t meet Marie Jose until a year ago, but here she is
at her confirmation celebration one year ago:

And here is Eduardo ten years ago at the age of 4, coloring on
my terrace while his dad was making my garden beautiful:

 

My life is enriched by the wonderful young people of Mexico.

 

For Cellpic Sunday

Licking out Mom’s Ice Cream Bowl!!!

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Went to a wonderful play, “The Women,” at the Bare Stage Theater, then to dinner at the Jardin in the Ajijic Plaza. Got home just in time to not quite not avoid the deluge… Was positively soaked running from garage to my kitchen door.. I mean as soaked as if I’d fallen into a swimming pool.  Kids all ready to be fed.  Kitties inside as doggies have their own snug room–the doggie domain–built just for them.  After their dinner, they got to lick out my ice cream bowl.  There are some rewards for cats even in a rain storm..

“On the Road” for Monochrome Madness

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ForMonochrome Madness.

Daffynitions for Fibbing Friday, June 28, 2024

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How would you define these words?

1. Milieu:The fifth and sixth and  words of the lyrics that begin , “Skip, skip, skip to ….

2. Inviolable: Music impossible to play on a viola.

3. Dulcimer: What surfers call an exceptionally flat and unexciting ocean surface as flat as the surface of a looking glass.

4. Condominium: What inmates call a prison block.

5. Sycophant: An insane pachyderm.

6. Elegiacal: A delectable food only rumored to be fattening.

7. Zhuzh: Kitten on the keys.

8. Obstreperous: Description of a difficult pregnant woman with a throat malady.

9. Symposium: Empathy for someone in agony over the length of a Jane Fonda exercise video pose. 

10. Neophyte: The first stages of an altercation.

For Fibbing Friday. 

Hibiscus, FOTD June 26, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD