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Jul13

SOCS – can

Posted on July 13, 2024 by ghostmmnc

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SOCS – can

For Linda’s challenge:

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS July 13, 2024

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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “can.” Use it as a noun or a verb. Enjoy!

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Here’s the one I wrote before, in 2018.

Can I think of something using the word ‘can’? I’m sure I can.

Does anyone remember that old TV game show called, “Name That Tune”. I used to watch it all the time. I don’t know all the things that factored into the game, such as how the game was played, or how people won money, but the part I liked was seeing them try to name a tune in very few notes. The two contestants would bid against each other and say, “I can name that tune in three notes.” Then the other person would say, “I can name that tune in two notes.” Then the first one would challenge by saying, “Name that tune.”

Those songs the house band played were pretty old, though, but I knew a few of them. What I like to do now, is challenge myself with naming a song really fast. I mostly listen to the oldies station on the radio, so most songs are those I’ve heard a bunch of times, so it’s kind of easy. I hear the opening music, and sometimes, even before anyone starts singing, I can name the song, and who sang it. It’s fun to try.

Now, on to another subject for the word ‘can’.

My mom & grandma used to preserve vegetables, by canning them. They weren’t into freezing any, but canning would happen every summer. I remember how good it all was, and it came in handy later on to open a jar of home canned food.

I never did any of it myself, because it seemed like a lot of trouble, what with the pots of boiling water, pressure cooker, timing things just right, sterilizing the canning jars, sealing them. It was a lot of work. I did like going out to a field to pick black-eyed peas, corn, and beans, though. Then we’d all gather round to snap, and shuck. All the while, talking and drinking either iced-tea or hot coffee, and talking about all kinds of things. Good memories!

I can not think of a way to end this with the word can. 🙂

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Is there anything else I ‘can’ add to what I wrote before?

I can think of some other words with ‘can’ in there, like can’t, or candy, or how about this one. Pecan!

I know how I say it – Puh -con. But some people say it – Pee-can. To me that just sounds nasty – like you’re gonna pee in a can. Sorry!

Candy is always good!

How about the phrase ‘you have a can-do attitude’, meaning you know how to go about getting things done and want to do it.

Anyway, there’s lots of these kind of words, but I’m not going to list them all here. You can if you want to. 🙂

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

Jul12

Random Post From 2018 + More Stuff

Posted on July 12, 2024 by ghostmmnc

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Random Post From 2018 + More Stuff

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Sometimes I want to post something here because it’s weird to only have one flower post. I usually have lots. But sometimes I get mostly all caught up with challenges, with reading your blogs, emails, comments and answering, and leaving some for you, too. I still have plenty of time to do some more. Maybe you get tired of seeing my posts. Sometimes there are quite a few it seems.

Oh well, here’s the one from 2018 about random thoughts.

Random Post # I can’t remember

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One – There’s a balancing point, it seems for me, between having way too many emails and blogs to be read, and being all caught up, with nothing new to read. I still don’t know which is the best.

Two – Some parts of a day pass really fast, but other parts of the day go by so slowly. Why is that?

Three – Three is still the magic number.

Four – Every day we ask what’s for lunch, what’s for supper, and nothing sounds good…ever.

Five – Do TV ad marketers really think that playing the same imbecilic ads multiple times will drum up business?

Six – Clumsy should be my middle name.

Seven – Just looking at my email notices, and the oldest one I’ve never deleted is from May, 15, 2014. It was a reminder that my Tumblr site was a year old. I haven’t looked at it in all these years. Does anyone still use Tumblr? I couldn’t really figure it out. Is it a dinosaur of the internet?

***Now I have these lines on here, and don’t know how to delete them.

Now back to today: There were some weird lines I couldn’t figure out where they came from. But they are gone now.

1. I went to my eye doctor appointment Monday. All was good, but I need new prescriptions for my glasses. It will be about 2 weeks when I get them. I keep my frames, because I like them.

2. I spent some time looking for a song. I hear it in my mind, but not sure of the words. Had no idea the name or the artist who sang it. It was from 1976! I’ve found it before, but I keep loosing it. Finally found it. It is “Love Is Alive” by Gary Wright. I remember we had a green 2 door car with black vinyl top, I was expecting my first child, I was listening to it in the car one time when I had to stop in the Kmart parking lot and throw up. Then I had some lemon drops candies. hahaha

3. Every few years I get to wanting to find a couple of books I read long ago. I cannot find them, and it bugs me so much. I’ve asked here on the blog if anyone knows them, but no one does. I know I didn’t make them up! Same for another song I can’t find.

Here’s what I know about them: …

Book – a sci/fy kind maybe – has some weird animal dog? called a Padog.

Book – “Point of No Return” – about a couple of military groups in Japan in the winter time – they had a horrible time in the weather.

Book – “The Green Room” or “In the Green Room” – I know there was a green room = it was the holding room when you first get to heaven, while you learn how heaven works, and what you are expected to do there.

Song – Heard this lots on the grocery store music that plays while you’re shopping. Sort of techno? Couldn’t understand any of the words, but one – a drawn out ooookkkkaaayyy…

That’s all.

Here’s that song, “Love Is Alive”