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A 2 Z – 2026

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A 2 Z – 2026

I told myself I wasn’t going to do the A 2 Z challenge in April this time. But I’ve done it every year since I started  blogging, so guess I’ll do something for it this time, too.

No theme, and  not official, but just random things for the letters. Whatever I think of on that day.

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It is almost April, and what does that mean? It means it is time for the annual A to Z Blog Challenge! This challenge is to post something every day, except Sundays, in the month of April, that follows along to the alphabet. Each day will be about something to do with the letter of the day.

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I don’t usually have a strong theme to my posts, just thinking of something on the fly, as it comes to me. I have a general idea, and do a tiny bit of planning beforehand, but most is just done stream of consciousness style. I sometimes have the ‘Mystery Box Chickens’ helping out.  I think they are ready for another A to Z Challenge. They think they are the stars of the show. What do you think? hahaha

Here they are now saying Welcome and happy A to Z!

Now for my idea for a theme. I don’t have one. It will be random things, and maybe a song/video.  Yeah, I’m going the easy route this time. And,  the ‘chickens’ might have a word or two to say. 🙂

Hope to see you here soon! Happy reading, and happy A to Z blogging!

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Thanks for visiting! Peace  ☮️

© 2017 &  2026 BS

The Numbers Game #40 – Photos from # 161

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The Numbers Game # 40 – Photos from # 161

The Numbers Game #40, Sept. 23, 2024. Please Play Along!!

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Random photos show:

  • Bluejay feather I found in the yard one day
  • Cross collection hanging above my computer desk
  • Vintage visible gas pump
  • TX flag & longhorn steer mannequin at DFW airport shop
  • Pink, aqua, and blue party plates on a shelf in the store
  • Jigsaw puzzle of old fashioned gas station
  • Purple flowers/green leaves
  • Blurry photo of a store’s floor going down the aisle
  • Found/copied photo of a saying “Today I Am Thankful For Today” (looks like a greeting card with tulips)
  • Kitchen window (turned out kind of dark) with painted rock cactus in a pot,  and toy sunflower that moves in the sunlight
  • A logo from a Halloween Challenge (pumpkin)
  • Fall leaves on the ground beneath our front yard tree
  • Clouds, sky, our shed roof in the back yard
  • My Aunt’s sunroom has sheet covered furniture, but also has the haunted coffee table!

haunted coffee table

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

Random Post From 2018 + More Stuff

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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”

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

Writer’s Workshop – Q & A

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Writer’s Workshop – Q & A

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The link below is where you find several prompt questions and other instructions

For John’s challenge:

Writer’s Workshop Prompts for July 11, 2024

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  1. Write a post inspired by the word “beat.”
  2. Write a post in exactly 9 sentences.
  3. We started the second half of 2024 last week. What do you hope to accomplish in the second half of 2024?
  4. Write a list of foods which you like but everybody else hates.
  5. Describe your latest obsession.
  6. What did you do before we had the Internet?

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😎👻🐈‍⬛🎶😸🎉

  1. I always liked a banana sliced long ways, smeared with cream cheese, and sprinkled with wheat germ.
  2. It was always so good, but everyone in the family would look at it and say ‘ewww’.
  3. Going the opposite way, there are foods the Mr. likes, and I hate … chicken gizzards, and liver loaf lunchmeat.
  4. I can’t think of any more right now
  5. Before I had internet, I did a lot more reading actual books.
  6. I didn’t have blogs to read back then.
  7. I did more crafts and hobbies, like making scrapbooks, sewing, painting, pencil puzzles, and going places.
  8. I guess as for # 5 question, after we got a computer with internet it became my obsession, because I’m on here all day long.
  9. As for # 1 and #3, no formal plans for the rest of the year, besides doing the same thing on the computer as I always do, and it’s a great way to ‘beat’ the heat in the summertime hot temperatures, being inside with the air-conditioner running.

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

The Numbers Game # 25 – From Photos # 146

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The Numbers Game # 25 – From Photos # 146

for Judy’s challenge:

The Numbers Game #25. June 10, 2024, Please Play Along!!

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Photos show:

  • Pink sparkly snail shaped ring (on a pink furry fabric)
  • My tiny plastic ghost (holding a lantern) it is about 1 1/2 inches tall
  • Two white chicken salt & pepper shakers wearing blue shawl & bonnets
  • A bunch of cats on our back porch one time, eating
  • A scrapbook page I made when I was in 4th grade
  • A tangle of necklaces – the blue butterfly from another post, and a round blue ball that chimes when it moves
  • Tall plant spikes in front of adobe building at Ft. Davis TX, Indian Lodge
  • A multicolored geometric Southwestern design fabric purse
  • A black slipper with white furry inside and a red bow
  • A jigsaw puzzle box and pieces (of cats)
  • A black bat sticker on orange paper

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

The Numbers Game # 24 – From Photos # 145

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The Numbers Game # 24 – From Photos # 145

For Judy’s challenge:

The Numbers Game #24, June 3, 2024. Come Play Along!!

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Photos show:

  • Brown & white turkey perched up on the barn rafters at my cousins place
  • My Kutani vase I got in Japan (black with pink flowers – it’s on a stand that looks like a cart with a big wheel)
  • My blue silk and embroidery kimono (flowers & hummingbirds) my husband bought me in Japan
  • A bookmark I made using zentangle like drawings around the word Peace
  • Three dark wine bottles with colorful sugar skulls painted on (at the store – I think they were a Halloween decoration mostly)
  • My orange & white little notepad shaped like a ghost with a smiling face
  • The cleared out shed at my Dad’s place
  • Random street scene in Austin TX
  • Country road by a field in East TX

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

Squares – Make Your Move

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Squares – Make Your Move

 

For Becky’s challenge:

We crossed the bridge, we won’t fade away

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There are four Squares themes, and you can use all or one, or a few of them;

Burgeoning – Move Forward – Reconstruct – Renew

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You’ll agree, I imagine, that most transportation these days need gasoline fuel to make the vehicles move forward.

I saw this very tall gas pump one day when we were at a yard sale. It wasn’t for sale, though. It’s called a ‘visible gas pump’, because you could see the gasoline that was being used, up in the glass container on top of the base.

From an online article:

By 1918, the first visible pump was introduced. The customer was able to see just how much fuel he was purchasing by the inclusion of a large glass cylinder that was hooked up to the pump.

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This is a cute video and song that even has a visible gas pump in the video.

“Gasoline and Matches”, by LeAnn Rimes, Rob Thomas, and Jeff Beck.

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020 & 2024 BS

 

The Numbers Game # 20 – From Photos # 141

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The Numbers Game # 20 – From Photos # 141

For Judy’s challenge:

The Numbers Game #20. Please Join Us!!!

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Here are the photos that showed up this time.

First photo is a mystery one I’ll tell about at the end.

  • Mystery photo
  • Small plaster or ceramic? teddy bear holding two red hearts (it was for Valentine’s day)
  • Several colorful cloth elephants and a bell made in India for good luck
  • Doves and other birds flying in to the bird feeder
  • Our local cemetery Angel statue
  • A yellow rose I had growing for a long time
  • A brown & white speckled chicken that belonged to my cousin’s farm
  • Lots of fall leaves on the ground
  • A tree and fence blown down from a storm across the street
  • Our house roof with torn up shingles from the storm
  • A grey t-shirt that has ARMY stenciled on the front
  • A lovely orange sunset with bare tree branches

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Okay now for the mystery photo …

I don’t remember taking this photo at all, and had to stare at it awhile to even get a hint of what it is. It looks like something in a white frame, with a white nubbly background.

Is it a picture of something? What? It is black and white with tinges of blue … there are drips, and blobs, and streaks, and makes no sense. And worst of all there are a few lines of three that look like claw marks!!!

Finally, I seem to recognize where this photo was taken … It is looking up at the ceiling in my bedroom closet. It is the opening to the unfinished attic space. Why? Why? Why? Would I take a picture of this. Why would those marks be on a black opening, I mean it’s dark up there! So spooky.

And you know what? In my closet on the floor & underneath the linoleum is the opening to the crawl space under the house. Nobody goes down there either.

Well the whole thing is creepy!

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS

The Numbers Game # 14 – From Photos # 135

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The Numbers Game # 14 – From Photos # 135

For Judy’s challenge:

The Numbers Game #14, March 25, 2024

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Random photos show:

  • small kalanchoe flowers of red and yellow, and a spiky cactus in various little yellow decorated containers shaped like sugar skulls
  • Neon blue, gold, & white sign (shaped like a hot air balloon), in Las Vegas for the Paris Hotel where we stayed one year
  • a street scene in Las Vegas, with buildings and palm trees featuring Caesar’s Palace where Cher was performing
  • a little black & white kitty on our front yard wooden bench, looking up into the tree with the wind chimes alongside

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2024 BS