Author: rugby843

Time flies, it’s already the second day of the new year.🤩. In the corner of my kitchen is a gift I received for Christmas. It is red, my favorite, very cute, but useless. I tried the “nostalgic hot dog cooker” and was so disappointed. I grew up with hotdogs and toasted buns. Not the fat, hard to separate ones available today, but the kind Dan over at No facilities eats at his local restaurant. I cannot find them here except in a restaurant an hour away and of course I don’t drive.

Thus, the welcomed gift! I found it burned the buns that stuck inside the machine that crumbled on retrieval, and the hot dogs were lukewarm at best.😳 😫. This is an example of you can’t judge a book by its cover, dang it.🤨

Happy dogless new year!

https://lindaghill.com/2021/01/01/the-friday-reminder-for-socs-jusjojan-2021-daily-prompt-jan-2nd/

I don’t usually watch clips from Saturday Night Live, or ball drops, but when I do. . .this clip is hilarious. Anderson Cooper is out of control😂

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Complete article worth reading: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/trivia

Steve McQueen, you are missed😪

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It was the sixties, big hair, big hats, big cars, big city, big bullies, big heartthrobs, aka Steve McQueen, and my favorite: big car chases😁 And that Mustang♥️

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“What, were you expecting a cauldron?” I looked back to see her following me. She was dressed all in black, trailing a black cat, and that hat! As she passed by, even the trees flattened out, just like her hat.

I turned because an eerie feeling of something behind me was giving me the creeps. A lovely stroll in the country, the sun shining, when this chilly feeling started to crawl up my spine. As I turned, the clouds turned black and the atmosphere turned brown and faded. She only said that one sentence, but kept trailing me.

I quickened my pace, hoping the air would return clear and sunny, and I would hear the birds singing as before. I glanced back again and she just kept walking towards me. I tell you walking, but it really seemed like floating as no low movement was detected. The cat’s legs, however were moving, and I was glad to see that.

I looked to see a glimmer of sunlight far ahead, and hurried a bit more. Surely I had done nothing to receive such an unwelcome guest. The glimmer started to fade and I started running, glancing back and hoping not to see the “witch” getting closer. It seemed I was making headway, so kept on.

The last thing I remember was my last glance back and feeling relieved as she was gone. I turned my head back around, coming face to face with the specter. My heart stopped. What had I done to deserve such a fate?

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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/first-line-friday-january-1st-2020/

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“Sometimes you have to do something crazy in order to stay sane. This is what I’m telling myself, because I’m on the fire escape, blindfolded, feeling my way up to the roof. Before tonight I would have said I could do this in my sleep. Em and I have climbed out my window and gone to the roof a thousand times. But the blindfold changes everything. I adjust my grip on the railing. Inch forward on the rough iron strips from one side of steps to the next.”

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“A Flicker in the Clarity” by Amy McNamara is a young adult selection. It was given to me by my 14 year old granddaughter. I started reading and couldn’t put it down. I researched the author and found this might be a sequel to her 2012 book, “Lovely, Dark and Deep”.

http://www.wanderingwords.co.uk/

2021

We’ve just begun

Hope to have a good run

Better than last one!

😄👍🏻🤓

https://lindaghill.com/2020/12/31/just-jot-it-january-2021-the-rules/

MLMM Tale Weaver 153 – Perspective

It’s a new year, and maybe a time for a new look, a new perspective. The dragonfly, a symbol of change throughout the world, is depicted here. If you look very closely, you will see the detail in sections of the body, the different colors, the two sets of amazing wings that can each move independently, with added ability to fly at speeds of 18 miles per hour, a sensory radar built in to determine their prey’s direction, making them able to intercept with accuracy. They also have endurance, as one species flew 11,000 miles over the ocean gaining the title of the world’s longest insect migration. They can fly sideways, backwards and hover.

“A study of 12 dragonfly species has found that each one has no fewer than 11, and some a whopping 30, different visual opsins.”

Their ability and agileness makes them often referred to as the “stealth bomber” of the insect world.

For more information, check out mmn.com the Mother Nature Network.

I titled this “tale” Perspective because when you observe something, or someone, even as quick as a beautiful dragonfly, you really have no idea what they’re about.

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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/tale-weaver-153-the-new-year-4th-january-2018/

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Fandango’s Flashback Friday — January 1

Auld lang syne

What a whine

With your old year line

We don’t want those memories

All the deaths not necessary

While in his ivory tower

Sits a culprit who never cowers

No apologies to families

He just smiles and lies with ease

A face I’d like to never see

Planted in each news feed

Tolls of the new year’s bell

Too many sad tales to tell

They ring in hope, we all say that

Watching our country’s old fat cat

Father time you’re much too late

As graves pile up at horrid rates

Followers of this dictator

Will all be sorry later.

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