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This is the night sky from Lake Bacalar in Buenavista, Quintana Roo, on Dec. 22, 2025. We got up at 5 to drive through the jungle to the lake to try to view the Ursid Meteor Shower which was supposed to be most active in the hours before dawn. Home at 6:45, chilly and damp from lying out on the wet wooden deck over the water to get free of the surrounding jungle. I saw 6 or 7 meteors in the more than an hour we were there. Xill thinks she saw 13. Most of the action was supposed to take place around the Little Dipper which was not viewable. This is the Big Dipper, which was still in the very dark part of the sky. The lower part of the sky was lightened…probably by the lights of Tulum 2 hours away.
Our viewing spot, in daylight.
For Cellpic Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025
Welcome to “The Numbers Game #104”. Today’s number is 226 (posted by Forgottenman for Judy). To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post 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. Here are my contributions to the album.
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Hello again, folks. Forgottenman still here feeding Judy’s blog a bit while she toils away in Quintana Roo. Here’s a poem she did 8 years ago on this date. I’m happy to share it again. Happy reading & happy solstice!
Hello again, folks. Forgottenman still here feeding Judy’s blog a bit while she toils away in Quintana Roo. Here’s a poem she did 10 years ago on this date. I’m happy to share it again. Happy reading!
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The SOCS prompt is: batter/better/bitter/butter and although I know it
breaks the rules, I can’t resist reciting an old childhood tongue-twister:
Betty Botter bought a bit of bitter butter.
“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter.
I can’t put it in my batter,
for if I put it in my batter,
it will make my batter bitter,
but if I buy some better butter,
it will make my batter better!”
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
and made her batter better.
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Here are my responses to Pensitivity’s Fibbing Friday.
1. Why was January chosen to be the first month of the year? All the other names for months were taken.
2. Why does the Chinese New Year not start until February? It takes longer for the New Year to get to that side of the world.
3. What’s the point of eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day? Hunger.
4. Why do we make New Year’s resolutions? So we have the pleasure of breaking them.
5. What will Santa Claus be doing now that Christmas is over? He’ll be eating black-eyed peas.
6. According to tradition, in the Twelve Days of Christmas, the 1st day is Christmas, itself. So what is the 12th day known as? The last day of Christmas.
7. Why are so many of the gifts listed in the song, The 12 Days of Christmas, birds? There was a special on them at the pet store.
8. What earthly event marks when an angel gets its wings? Popeyes sells its BBQ Wings at a discount price.
9. What happens on the Winter Solstice? The Winter Solstice.
10. How did the tradition of the Yule log originate? A really good salesman/con artist didn’t have a gift for the Xmas party host so just grabbed up a log as he passed through the woods and convinced them that this was a sacred tradition. Word spread.
Hello again, folks. Forgottenman still here feeding Judy’s blog a bit while she toils away in Quintana Roo. Here’s a poem she did 10 years ago on this date. I’m happy to share it again. Happy reading!
Hello again, folks. Forgottenman still here feeding Judy’s blog a bit while she toils away in Quintana Roo. Here’s a poem she did 5 years ago on this date. I’m happy to share it again. Happy reading!
(Edit: Oops, I meant to schedule this for after midnight, so let’s say it’s from 5 years ago mas o menos.)
Good evening, folks. Forgottenman here again feeding Judy’s blog a bit. I gave her a link to this video, and she asked me to post it here. (I’m posting it to my blog after midnight. Trying to post there daily now, and I’ve already posted 2 today.)
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