“Off Notes” For Fibbing Friday, Mar 8, 2024

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My sister Betty started a family tradition by playing a saxophone later handed down to my sister Patti, then me, then my niece Cintra!!  It must now be at least 75 years old. I wonder where it is now!  I dedicate this piece to Patti and Cintra, who are together now in Arizona.

For Fibbing Friday, the challenge is a supposed musical interlude:

1. What is a French horn?  A former Parisian lady of the night who went to school and became a nurse.  (French ho RN) I came back and read this a week later and couldn’t figure it out, either, so thought I’d give a clue.)

2. What is a cornet? A very small callus on a toe caused by too much time spent in the marching band.

3. What is a clarinet?   ‘S  a  cream pastry with chocolate frosting served in a small mesh  takeout bag.

4. What is a snare drum?  ‘S an Eardrum pronounced in a southern accent.

5. What is a viola?  An unpleasant one night stand.

6. What is a double bass?  A set of conjoined fish.

7. What is the difference between a Concert, Upright or Grand? The first is a musical presentation. The second is a musical position and the third a musical pretension.

8. What is campanology?  An impossibility, because there is really nothing to compare to the truly flamboyant!! 

9. What is a trombone? It is what the llp bone is connected to.

10. What is timpani? A type of drum made out of a tin frying pan.

Doggie Wisdom

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(Passed on to me by a friend.  Thanks, Joan!)

“Please Be Seated!” for Travel With Intent, Mar 7, 2024

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For Travel With Intent: Seating

Mock Scabious for Cee’s FOTD, Mar 7, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

I love this jaunty little hat decoration!!! Taken in Montenegro in 2019.

For Wednesday Quotes #163: The Inspiring World of Animals

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Getting Acquainted
I give up trying to instill any order in this post. Another duck sneaked in.
Neighbors snapped this photo, then called to advise me that Frida had visitors.

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Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”–George Eliot

For Wednesday Quotes #163–The inspiring world of animals.

Bird of Paradise: For FOTD Mar 6, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

Echeveria Bloom: FOTD Mar 5, 2024

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For Cee’s FOTD

Birds of Paradise: FOTD Mar 4, 2024

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My friend Blue has been in four hospitals in two months and very close to death twice, but she made it and is now in a managed care home for a few months before she goes home again. I visited her today and saw this lovely vase which was a gift filled with lovely flowers which were another gift.  Ironically, the facility they chose for her to recuperate in is called Blue House!!! Seems fated…

For Cee’s FOTD

Numbers Game #11, Mar 4, 2024

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Why would a restaurant be named after the #1 insect calculated to make you not want to visit a restaurant?

Welcome to “The Numbers Game #11”  Today’s number is 132. 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.

And, if you want to know the full story of the Scrub Daddy photo above, here it is in four segments:

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/02/20/more-laser-yellow-for-cee/

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/03/26/the-demise-of-scrub-daddy/

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/06/14/scrub-daddy-goes-on-fiesta/

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/07/25/scrub-daddy-scores-scours-a-family/

“Stop Over”For The Sunday Whirl Wordle # 644, March 3, 2024

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Stop Over

Near sunset as the bright light fades, both minds and sky grow hazy,
and all the world shifts down a gear, relaxing into lazy.
Just one urgent swirling bee seems bent upon its tasking.
She lunges downward towards my drink, and lands there without asking.

She lowers her proboscis in order to withdraw
one drop of rum and cola that lies beaded on my straw.
A screaming gull unnerves her—sets her angel wings unfurling,
but her  frenzied efforts to lift off have set my mind to swirling.

Her movements are ungainly. She leans as though to fall.
Then clumsily, she flies away, colliding with the wall.
I question if she’s sober as she flies off upside down,
digressing over water, then careening toward the town.

It’s probable this summer day under a July sun
has fermented all her nectar and added to her fun.
Her slight detour while flying off to her abode
No doubt was her attempt to have just one more for the road!**

     **Can Bees Get Drunk?  In the summer heat, nectar can begin to ferment and create ethanol. Bees that digest this fermented nectar will experience the same effects as humans do when they consume alcohol. Also, tree sap, like that of the lime tree, can also ferment under excessive heat leading to crowds of drunk bees.        How can you tell when a bee is drunk? Studies conducted on bees have shown that alcohol consumption has a similar affect on bees as it does on humans.        When a drunken bee returns to its hive, the guard bees around the hive will identify it by its erratic motion and will not allow it to enter.