Author Archives: Alice
By George! How to Visit Scotland
George IV became king when he was already older, and set in his ways. The difference from his Regency? Not much. . . If His Majesties problems with his Cabinet were annoying, at least they were predictable. There was something equally predictable regarding His Majesty, although he would never admit it. He easily grew bored with his girlfriends. Yes, Lady Conyngham was on her way out and she was most distraught over the situation. This made little difference to the […]
37/365 Fan Palm
Wild, eh? For a while I though people were pruning the trees to make them flat. Nope. they grow that way.
CARS Program
Today is the last day in which you can take advantage of the government cash-for-junkers buy back program. Unless they extend it again. The combination of a burned out motor, the CARS program, and the price of gas had me looking at vehicles in a way I hadn’t before. Where before it was all wishful thinking, now it got serious. I needed a car. Not just any car. Not a car based on my tastes and preferences. Going by that […]
36/365 Jaguar
They had a sign up telling you not to stick your fingers through the fences. Just as I was thinking who would be dumb enough to try it, some local kids came along and did. Uh…. yeaaaahhh.
fwd: An Italian Mother
Mom comes to visit her son Anthony for dinner . . . who lives with a female roommate Maria . During the course of the meal, his mother couldn’t Help but notice how pretty Anthony’s roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious. Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Anthony and his roommate […]
Orange Date Bars
1 c flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 c butter 1/2 c brown sugar 1 egg 1 tsp shredded orange peel 1/4 c milk 1/4 c orange juice 1/2 c snipped pitted dates 1/2 c chopped walnuts sprinkle of powdered sugar Combine dry ingredients. Beat butter for a few seconds. Add brown sugar. Beat till fluffy. Add rest of wet ingredients, then combine dry. Add dates and nuts at the end. Spread in 11x7x1 1/2 inch […]
Discovery
Jack: Huh? What’s that? Jack: Darling?! What’s this you’ve got on the table? Jill: Don’t look at me. I’ve never seen anything like it. Jack: Does it seem like it’s moving to you? Jill: Yeah, like that scene in Jurassic Park where the T-rex is walking up and the glass in the cup holder gets waves. Jack: Oh, no. No, no, no, it’s nothing like that. Jill: but Jack: Nothing doing. Don’t even think it. Come back next week for […]
Suzie’s House 127: Tickets
“So, you going to do it?” Ben watched Gene dump all his old notebooks into a garbage can the school left in the hall for everyone cleaning out their lockers. He couldn’t help think it was a waste to throw away so many blank pages. He could use those pages for his writing. “Do what?” he asked Gene.
33/365 The Hills in Belize
Yesterday you saw what the hills near me look like. Check out the ones in Belize. Quite the difference, eh?
“The Dragons Did it.”
Click on picture to go to hub. Smoke curling around the crispy remains of an eggplant, gold glinting from under a pile of Raven feathers, a quill shredded to PUNishing proportions, wry comments and toothy grins, who could be responsible? Clawed footprints and the whisk marks of wings. All fingers point the same direction. Fandango is running amok again. This was inspired by the comment left on last week’s FF55 – both my own and others.
32/365
This one is in the Bitterroot in Western Montana from a couple of weeks ago. You can’t really tell in the picture, but the smoke from the forest fires is making everything hazy.
13 Stray Thoughts
I have a couple of Thursday Thirteen posts in progress, but nothing is ready, so I’m going to bunt. Straight off the top of my head, thirteen sentences. 1. I’m thirsty. 2. I’m trying to get some kind of window on my blog over on Facebook. 3. So far it’s been mostly in one ear and out the other. 4. But I can do this. 5. Ahhhhh, that water is goooood. 6. Who know tap water could be so tasty? […]
