Determined not to ask one more time for Yolanda to find something for me, I combed the house for my driving glasses for at least 5 minutes. Finally, I asked her to please be on the lookout for them, at which point, she pointed to my head! (The glasses attached to my nose and ears are my reading glasses.)
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.
(Passed on to me by a friend. Thanks, Joan!)
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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.
For Cee’s FOTD
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
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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/
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