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Delicate like amethyst flowers dripping with dew
Strong as a ruby rose kissed in amber light.
Like iridescent opals; her hair danced while we strolled
together the emerald forests; from tree to tree.

Had she lived she'd be 98
I'm remembering her sapphire eyes;
they sparkled like diamonds
She was a gem, a jewel to me.

POSTED: July 31st, 2009
5:15 A.M.

Tho, the Flash 55 is NoT FiCtioN today...it's true, she was a GeM! My MoM!!! Her birthday was this past week, and I can't let the memory of her pass before the month is over, so today is the day.

Sit down....think real hard about these:

Thursday's 13 & Thursday Thunks

1] In a department window bound to attract men from the sidewalk...."Ladies' Dresses 1/2 off"
2] A commercial for Southw*st Airlines: "Grab Your Bag" ---Bags Fly Free" [Bud and I love that one. He thinks he can get me aboard their planes for free!] Definition #10 here
3] Along the road in town, there's a Vet hospital...right next door? "Tasty, Unique, Cuisine"!!
4] "DONT'T Drink and Drive"
5] "Ho-made soups"
6] On the side of the bait shop it reads: "Master Bait & Tackle"
7] A Chinese Restaurant..."Poo Ping Thai - Chinese Food"
8] "A" Street Downtown [highway sign with exit arrow]
9] A special tribute for a 50th anniversary couple...digital marquee on a billboard: "After all these years, Lisa still loves Dick!"
10] Pizza Parlor [the letter "s" fell off] ----"Mega _lice Pizza & drink $3.99"
11] At a Days Inn --sign like above - "Heated Poo_"
12] Another restaurant sign: "Tonight, All can eat you Buffet".
13] And the last one, I took while walking the beach Wednesday morning...

[it just made me laugh ---Guess the seagull had its own opinion of the sign!!]

Now, my question is - "Did you REALLY pay attention to #4?"


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Thursday Thunks took a bit of thunking, don't you think?

1. You are in an enclosed space with a group of friends. Elevator, auto, small room, etc.. You fart and it really stinks. Do you take credit for it or do you play along with the questioning of who did it? Actually, I'm now a Southern gal...we in the South don't do such things...so it's like "Who on earth could be so crass in such an enclosed area? My word, hunny chil'l, that musta been one awful 'possum stew." All said while bringing out my ironed, freshly laundered, hankie, from my white lace gloves...swooning in disgust. Okay, so I ad-libbed a little.

2. You are locked in a room sitting at a desk with just a piece of paper and a purple crayon. What do you draw? It'd be either a purple pansy or a one-eyed one horned flying purple people eater. It depends on what I had for lunch.

3. Do you ever pee in the shower? Uhhhhh, here comes the Southern charm again...NO dahling.

4. Have you bought, sold or got rid of something on Craigslist? No, but I have searched for a cheap instrument now and then. Piano that is. Get your mind out of the gutter. I think after doing the Thursday 13 above, I HAVE my mind in the gutter. Geez!!!

5. You are in a convenience store. In the line in front of you is a drunk guy trying to purchase more alcohol. The cashier tells him they cannot sell it to him because he is obviously already intoxicated. He gets belligerent. The cashier is scared. What do you do? Crime is high...I'd leave. Who knows what is REALLY in that crumpled paper bag in the drunk's pocket!!

6. While shopping for produce, do you "sample" before you buy (i.e. grapes)? Always. So, sue me.

7. You are walking down the street and there is a toddler sitting on a bench by themselves in front of a store - do you just keep walking? Yes, it's a trap! I watch movies...I know they're trying to ensnare me into some kinda wrong doing...who knows anyway, the undercover cop could be in the back room of the video store but can see the child. through his high powered scope. Nope, nope...I wouldn't touch this scene for any kinda $$!

8. Have you looked up an old friend and/or lover online? No, no need. I have access to all by keeping in contact with emails.

9. You are nearly in a car/auto accident. Do you freak out, follow the person who nearly caused it & talk to them or just keep going? Well, let's put it this way...after my heart rate would settle...I'd sure do a lot of finger jiving and talking to myself! I wouldn't be crazy enough to follow them and talk to them....who knows, like #5 above, what is in that driver's crumpled brown paper bag sliding around on his dashboard!!!








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For Outdoor Wednesday and Wordful Wednesday a little different scenario from others I've posted...a bit of outdoor economic scenes from the city---

My town is known for the beaches; the Gulf. People flock here during the hot summer months to frolick in the bay waters. Swimming, fishing, boating, camping...even birding. But, there is another part of Corpus Christi that turns out to be a BIG part of the culture and a huge source of income. That is OIL! When you drive from San Antonio Texas to Corpus Christi, using the 145 mile stretch of Interstate 37 [which begins -or ends, depending on 'how you look at it'- just one block north of the Gulf of Mexico here in town], you'll witness a huge area on the left side of the freeway....oil refineries. Gobs and Gobs of them. All of them are about 15 miles outside the hustle/bustle of city traffic and its freeways and interchanges. Just to the outside of the refineries the Nueces River flows into the Gulf...and there is a ship channel cut just between the river banks and all the refineries. This video above, I found and given credit below.


Over a long span of time, I've taken photos along the way and, I've captured these photos to share with you; a little more from the 'great outdoors', to show it's not all beaches and sand and surf. Oil is a big huge part of Texas...




[Video used: from Google Videos] And, if you viewed the 2 minute video, you can see that the refineries are very pretty at night...all aglow!






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Posted: July 29th, 2009
7:30 A.M.

TAILS - "In Five Years"

Today it's HEADS OR TAILS time [RUBY TUESDAY below this]....I'm asked to write about what life will be for me, personally, in another five years. Well, first thing comes to mind is United States Social Security Act that was formed in 1935. It was set up to benefit those who work outside the home [at the time, men only but has changed to include all workers of either gender] at an old age. A regular savings account that was drawn, in part, from your wage earnings. Now, in five years I'm eligible for a full S S benefit, right? WRONG!!! Go figure. When I began receiving a regular pay check in the early 1960's I actually looked forward to someday collecting from my hard earned savings the government took from me each week! At the age of 65!!! But---- They've changed it over the years...I now have to wait another whole year to receive full eligibility! Yep, it's been changed. According to all the mail I receive quarterly from Social Security about my wage earnings over the years and kept up to date ..each quarter the government sends me an up-to-date earnings. Big whoopty do!! When I began working outside the home and drawing a pay check, the retirement age for women was 62 and for men 65 [and I thought THAT was backwards also...afterall, women statistically live longer; it should have been the other way around...men die sooner, so THEY should have been eligible at 62, not women!] Okay, so in five years I WON'T BE RECEIVING FULL Benefit. For me, and my birth year, the SSN isn't worth diddly squat 'til I'M 66!!! Or, at least that's the law now...who knows what will happen in the next 5 years of my life------



[screenshot from Social Security Home Pages]

In fact, the S S may indeed go 'belly up' and all the money we citizens have paid in throughout our working years may no longer be there for us. So many unfair practices have evolved through the years....and we're constantly told 'It's just not there anymore'. For one reason, you wonder why?.....the government continually takes the money away from us, hands it out to those who haven't worked ONE single day in their lives...while the workers continue to be taxed. I just don't get it. But, I'm not going to lose sleep over it either.

A retired gentleman went into the social security office to apply for Social Security. After waiting in line a long time he got to the counter. The woman behind the counter asked him for his drivers??? license to verify his age. He looked in his pockets and realized he had left his wallet at home.

He told the woman that he was very sorry but he seemed to have left his wallet at home. "Will I have to go home and come back now?" he asks.

The woman says, "Unbutton your shirt."

He opens his shirt revealing lots of curly silver hair.

She says, "That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me.", and she processes his Social Security application.

When he gets home, the man excitedly tells his wife about his experience at the Social Security office.

She says, "You should have dropped your pants, you might have qualified for disability, too."

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Posted: July 28th, 2009
5:30 A.M.

Fun Monday is below this post.

Memory:

I've seen this around a lot as I peruse other blogs...Monday Memories. But now that I thought I'd do an entry for it, I can't find it anywhere today. Go figure. Maybe it has something to do with MY memory perhaps? Anyway...to go forth with the post I'll first add this then get to a memory of mine....

An elephant is drinking out of a river when he spots a turtle asleep on a log. The elephant ambles over and kicks the unsuspecting turtle clear across the river.
"Why did you do that?" asks a passing giraffe.
"Because I recognized it as the same turtle that took a nip out of my trunk 47 years ago."
"Wow, what a memory!" says the giraffe.
"Yes," says the elephant. "Turtle recall."

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Since this awful drought is so unrelenting and we get no moisture or any signs of some relief, Bud and I were talking that just maybe this area of the Texas coast could turn into another Arizona desert in time....actually the Sonoran Desert [in Arizona] was swamp millions of years ago...so I guess it's possible, but highly unlikely in my time on earth...but still... Anyway, our conversation continued and you know how it goes...one thing leads to another. Of course by reading my complete profile from the past you know we first retired to Arizona. We lived there for nearly a dozen years before moving to the Gulf Coast. As a kid I visted the OTHER side of the Grand Canyon....but again, I was a kid. I wasn't 'into' seeing the beauty of it all. In fact, I can't remember much of it...I think I was 7 ....not impressed...I wanted to be where it was FUN for someone my age...bored stiff. Okay...so then, when Bud and I retired to the Grand Canyon State...we took a weekend trip to the lodge in the Canyon from the Flagstaff side of it....and we left Tucson before sunrise....When we take long day trips, we take turns driving. After we passed through Flagstaff and turned toward the San Francisco Peaks...I took over driving. Beautiful countryside...mountainous, curvy road...pines....snow on the peak. Absolutely reminiscent of the Colorado foothills...I was enjoying it.


Then, we got to the entrance to the Grand Canyon...I continued driving...and my first sight of the canyon at the age where I could really appreciate the glory of it all...well, it remains etched in my memory for ever!!!!! But, still I have difficulty describing the inspirational scene that lay before my very eyes.....I was dreaming of the glorious scenery we had passed on the road...the golden [but sparse] aspen trees mingling with the pine...the dry but beautiful meadows...an eagle flying high up in the azure sky. But this view in front of me was more than breathtaking! It was like I couldn't breathe and yet....I couldn't help but say "Oh my God"!!! ----Over, and over..."Oh my God". At the same time...over and over again. Like I was experiencing a rebirth of my own being. Yes, it was humbling and yet so very inspirational. I will never forget the very first glimpse of the wonderful, glory of such a phenomenon. I could've stayed in the car at that very first "pullover"...forever. The shades of orange, blue, gray, purple, red and amber, all against the backdrop of the turquoise laden sky...it sticks with me. And within minutes the shadows and the time passed on to change it all...it was like I felt witnessing a new world being born in front of my very eyes! And, it was all surrounding....for miles!! To the right of me, to the left...in front of me....the scenery all ever-changing.

[this photo is the first 'scenic view pullout' where I first stopped the car]


Posted: July 27th, 2009
6:45 A.M.

Our hostess, dear Gattina, for FUN MONDAY asks to see a mess....oh trust me, I got those!! For instance, the closet in our library/computer room....here it is:

But I take pride in having organized messes....may look sloppy....but I know just where everything is. [believe that and I'll sell you some land in the Mariana trench for half the going price!] I'm sure if we tore out the kitchen sink...it'd be stuffed in a closet, or attic, too. LOL I have everything from old photo albums that truly need some attention ---loose pages, loose photos [you name it], plaster santas and other misc. santas that don't fit in my storage boxes, fiber optic witches, wrapping paper....why even our huge telescope is in this closet [tied to support it and not let it warp the lenses]. That is WHY THE DOORS REMAIN SHUT!!! Except for an occasional hostess who wants to see messy stuff.........










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SPEAKING OF MESSES:




In the news: Can you believe this? ---

~ on TWITTER

Moronic or visionary tweets aside, what about national security? In February, CQ Politics reported that Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., broke a national security embargo when he tweeted the details of a secret congressional trip to Iraq: "Just landed in Baghdad." From CQ Politics:

Not only did Hoekstra reveal the existence of the lawmakers’ trip, but included details about their itinerary in updates posted every few hours on his Twitter page.

Did we mention that Hoesktra is a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee? Hoekstra's breach also happened to occur just months after the U.S. Army issued a report warning that Twitter was a "potential terrorist tool."

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.....and what do you think of the Racial Slur from our Dear President...calling the Massachusetts' Police Department stupid when a Black man was arrested in his own home? Was he there? To see just what went down? Did he have a right to even 'butt in'...? I don't know, but for me it wasn't something that a president should have even acknowledged at the questioning during a press conference...the question asked: ---he should have gracefully bowed out and replied "No comment"....For me, he was being quite a bit a radical racist in his reply. Then to top it off...he tried to calm the media down and the uproar across the nation by saying that this is out of hand....trust me, it was, and he just put more coals on the fire with HIS statement!! As a leader of the nation, he should be unbiased in any situation like this and keep quiet...it [pardon the pun/idiom...not really intentional, but the line comes to mind]...showed his true colors! I didn't like the story one bit. There are all the questions going through my mind of "if it were a white guy and a black cop"...or what if it were actually someone intruding...or perhaps...just where the heck was the 2nd person that the passerby reported when they called the break in? Yes, I wasn't there either....I know that, but to have this media coverage---once again, glorified, I don't know what to think these days. What's happening to this country's population? And yes, I voted for our current leader...but, that doesn't mean I have to agree with his actions. And from the Mass. police report, there was a WHITE officer and a BLACK officer at the scene, and the Black officer backs up the actions of the arresting officer. Hmmmmmmmm. The story was messy to begin with if you ask me!!!! See Gattina?----------I even got a little bit of MESSY news coverage here today.

Posted Monday, July 27th, 2009
4:55 A.M.



[in part: pasted from Yah** News]

1. Who was your FIRST date? Each date with a different guy is a first!!! It's really not the 'who' that was important, it was the HOW!! It depends, really on which first date too. My first date with Hubby was stupendous. [photo link] He wined and dined me like we were millionaires. Fancy smanchy restaurant, a huge bouquet of red, long-stemmed roses, cocktails and gifts at another establishment....it was very romantic. Ya, I liked that first date so much, I married the guy three months later.

2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? We keep in touch. Bob and I exchange birthday cards and holiday cards...he was from when I was in 4th grade!

3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink? I grew up with beer drinkers. BEER when I was pro'lly around 5 or maybe 6. My 2nd older brother had a keg tap in his home....more beer. Then, I drank my first 'hard stuff'...it was a vodka gimlet. Now...rarely any alcoholic beverages for me.

4. What was your FIRST job? Other than babysiter jobs from 12 years of age [I babysat for one of my brother's kids all summer long for 4 years--got GOOD pay...enough to buy my own car!]...I then worked as receptionist [part time during school] at the CoC!!

5. What was your FIRST car? Ford....paid for with me saving my money. It was the friendliest car in the 'hood!!!! It was so out of balance, even a pebble on the road would make it bounce and wave at everyone on the streets!!!


6. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? Again, another brother....I even got to fly it! [take the controls] He had his own single engine Cessna. The where is just over the Colorado prairies....flew with him to Vegas one weekend...that was a scare...we 'ran into a huge storm coming over the Rockies, back home...in winter....he flying with just the instrument panel....talk about praying!!!!!! I was never so happy to touch down on level land at the private airport!!!! Big commercial jets....traveling. I think my first trip on a commercial jet was to Baltimore...what a riot that was...the airport when I arrived there, it was a trailer house...coming from the 'huge' Stapleton International in Denver...it was just a big laugh to me....such a small rinky dink airport in Baltimore. Way back....long time ago.

7. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? Patty Jones....no, I have absolutely no idea where she is.

8. Whose wedding did you attend the FIRST time? Paul and Gloria I think...at least that's the first one I remember.

9. Tell us about your FIRST roommate. My mom...she was the best wombie!!! Then, after I grew up a little...I shared a ROOM with my sister...I was a college drop out, and only less than an hour away...drove back and forth...then comes marriage...guess!!!

10. If you had one wish, what would it be (other than more wishes)? ...if I don't wish for anything...then, I'm never disappointed! If you really want a wish...it'd be 'mo' money.

11. What is something you would learn if you had the chance? To fly a plane....legally. In other words get my own pilot's license.

12. Did you marry the FIRST person you were in love with? No. Long story...guess my real first love was FRANK [newspaper clipping]....he was killed in action in the Viet Nam war...I'd've been a widow at the age of 20.

13. What were the first lessons you ever took and why? Catechism...but that was forced on me...if I had my druthers, I wouldn't have attended these lessons, believe me. I don't think I've ever 'taken' any lessons...I learned to play the piano on my own [and read sheet music]...I never had driving lessons [car, that is]...I just got behind the wheel and drove; I was a natural...I studied art in school....I studied and taught myself three languages other than English....but never technically paid outside tuition for lessons....I'm one of those 'self taught' people. The only lesson I could possibly come up with would be a lesson on life...and it's an never-ending lesson...I learn something every day. And the 'why' would be because I love life and what is handed me.

14. What is the first thing you do when you get home? Take my shoes off!!!!





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1. Taxman :: IRS
   
2. Material :: witness
3. Format :: setting
4. File cabinet :: metal
5. Ignore :: snub
6. Super! :: Fantastic!
7. Fireproof :: flame retardent
   
8. Blockbuster :: Video
   
9. Snooper :: Paparazzi
   
10. Good will :: Hunting
    

Posted Sunday, July 26th, 2009
4:25 A.M.
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[Photo of the Ford is borrowed from a Google Search]

With the Photo Hunt them this week, I may be considered a 'cheater' to some....According to Webster, UTENSIL is also defined as: an implement for practical use (especially in a household.} Now when I read the word 'utensil' I immediately think of something used in the kitchen mostly, perhaps in the dining room such as spoons, forks, knives, cooking implements such as spatulas, or maybe a hand held can opener. Things like that. But since Mr. Webster was kind enough to make the definition so vague, I thought I'd play a little game.

If you visit my blog much, a couple of Friday's ago, I had posted about a lamp that I found at the thrift shop when I was taking in a donation after I took a blogging break to get some much needed but neglected chores...done. I found this lamp for $3!! And it's something I've been wanting to find.....cheap...and for a craft project. Actually, a Halloween project that's been in the back of my mind for years now, but never forgotten. I just never found the perfect lamp at a good, inexpensive initial cost to me.

Now, follow me while I share some taken steps to show y'all what I did. And perhaps you can spy a few 'utensils' that would fit the category's definition above......

I see eight objects [three different kinds] in the two photos below that may be utilized to make practical use of the household implements [perhaps in a round-about way, considered crafting 'utensils']:




This concludes my Photo Hunt Utensils. Did you find them? If you want to leave now, before you go....say 'howdy' in my COMMENTS [link] to let me know you were here, visiting.




But if you're interested, I did finish the project last week. And I'll continue to post more photos below to show you the progress and the finished booger! I say booger, 'cause at times it became quite nasty. Stuff like the fringe and pom poms, etc. didn't cooperate. We had a tough battle, but I came out the victor! So, on with the show...




First, I painted shade & pedestal with Halloween colors-purple, orange and black, then, added black leather fringe.








I then painted a witch silhouette, added purple pom poms and then black lace and orange sequins...




Finished!! And all this for under $10.






Saturday, July 25th, 2009
2:05 A.M.



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UTENSILS
[by the way: 4 straight pins...a pair of scissors...and 3 paint brushes are my utensils]

A couple of weeks ago I did a show n tell with the crystal mermaid. I had stated that she's surrounded by shells and blue glass pebbles [you can see her small head in the 3rd photo]...well, on the same table I have blue glass. I love how the light of day coming from the window makes the blues and hues shine through....





A blue cut -lead crystal vase.
Imported from Austria















A blue, hand blown glass
decanter with stopper.













Hand blown blue glass vase.
From Old Mexico

............And I just purchased this new blue and purple blown glass witch's ball. The card photo at the 'top left', if you embiggen it, it will tell you their use. Altho, the witches I have in my collection are GOOD witches - they just look evil I swear....I bought it for the color and for the unusual blown glass design that is INSIDE the ball! It's very unique. This will be hanging in the same window as the other blue glass real soon!

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The mysterious man in black comes to my door. I am heavily quizzed by him regarding neighbors. He states that they've been under surveillance all this time....When he's finished with me, he pulls out his instrument
and flashes a red beam into my tired eyes...I forgot all he asked. Memory is wiped clear.

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Posted: Friday, July 24th, 2009
12:35 A.M.

As I've done the previous weeks I've memed for Thursday 13 [Thursday Thunks is below] about states in which I live/lived; this week it'll be all about 13 odd named towns in Arizona.

ARIZONA facts: Capital city - Phoenix
Population: 2009, approx:6,500,180
State Bird: Cactus Wrens [one of my favorites to watch...they waddle]
State Tree: Palo Verde [Spanish for "Green Stick"]
State Flower: Saguaro Cactus Flower [Beautiful...blooms at night!]
State Nickname: Grand Canyon State
Admitted: 48th state - 1912
Area: 113,635 sq mi.

More facts

...and here are the 13 towns/cities with odd names:



1] Monkey’s Eyebrow

There are several legends regarding the origin of this town’s name, but most people think it originated from a local crescent-shaped hill. Apparently when the grass grows tall, it looks very similar to a monkey’s eyebrow.

2] Why

Why which used to be called "the Y" because of the fork in the road where State Highways 85 and 86 meet about 130 miles west of Tucson. People ended up settling here and we finally got enough for a post office, so, when they had to name the town, they changed it from the Y to Why. And that's why Why is Why.

3] Tombstone

Tombstone is the southern Arizona frontier town made famous by Wyatt Earp and the notorious gunfight at the OK Corral. But the name actually came from Ed Schieffelin, a prospector warned by soldiers that all he would find in the mountains would be his tombstone. The stubborn Schieffelin went anyway, and when he found silver, he named the area Tombstone.

4] Snowflake

The town name has a quaint origin. Erastus Snow was the Mormon Apostle who directed the Mormon colonists from his home in St. George, Utah. He was known as Field Marshall of Arizona colonization. Snow met with William Flake on the old Stinson Ranch and the two men cleverly decided to combine their names for the new town. [Yes....for those curious, inquiring minds...it DOES snow in the desert.]

5] Arsenic Tubs

A mineral hot springs located on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Graham County. The name comes from the mineral content of the water, and from the fact that there are natural "tubs" in the rocks.

6] Two Guns

Two Guns was, in the past, the site of a major confrontation between the Navajos and the Apaches in the 19th century. Its modern history begins when the site is recognized as an easy place to cross Canyon Diablo--first, by wagon, and then later by motor cars. It was originally called "Canyon Lodge" when the National Trail Highway moved westward; when the Trail was re-named Route 66, the site's name was changed to Two Guns, because the proprietor of the facilities located there was one Henry E. Miller, who called himself "Two Gun Miller" (for reasons unknown).

7] Tortilla Flat

One settler must have been awfully hungry when he spied some buttes 40 miles east of Phoenix and thought they looked like a stack of tortillas. The area has been called Tortilla Flat ever since.

8] Burnt Water

The Navajo name is "Tó Díílidí" meaning Burnt Water. The name derives from a burned ramada [pole shade] that collapsed into the well near the trading post...the Natives gave it the name because of the ash in the water.

9] Grasshopper Junction

No historical fact of the name origin, but it's within 4 miles of Chloride[below] AND just north of Santa Claus, Arizona!!

10] Chloride

The name Chloride came from the silver chloride found in the hills among other minerals in the area. Today, silver chloride is used in photographic emulsions and antiseptic silver solutions. It has the distinction of being the oldest continually inhabited town in Arizona.

Chloride, Arizona circa: late 1800's-early 1900

11] Skull Valley

There are various stories about how Skull Valley got it's strange name. They all have to do with bleached bones being found in the area from wars between tribes or between the army and the Apaches.

12] Nothing

History tells us that the locals told travelers it "got named by a bunch of drunks." The settlement was established in 1977, located 50 miles north of Phoenix Arizona. The best part I've ever read about it is: "Nothing appears to be in a state of revival." What a hoot. Nothing? In revival? Okay, if you say so. But, how can nothing....? Oh never mind.
[reminds me of a Johnny Depp movie where the guy is named Nobody...and at the end, Nobody got hurt. LOL]

13] Dos Cabezas [pronounced DOSE CawBAYsaz]

Named for geological formations, which means "two heads" in Spanish, because of two prominent domes atop adjacent mountains in southeastern Arizona.

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These are the questions in the meme...Thursday Thunks:


1. You walk into a store and the cashier is being held up by a robber. The robber's accomplice is dead on the floor at your feet with a shotgun laying next to him. The robber does not see you, but the cashier does - what do you do? Kinda like...ummmm, panic, and LEAVE, but calling 199 [....wait...redial the correct 911 on the cellphone. I told you I was in panic form!!!.] A line from a movie comes to mind "I see dead people"...I'm not good with the dead. I have to protect myself also in this situation...run, yep. That's what I'd do.

2. We go to an ice cream shop for an ice cream cone. You say you are buying and I am going to stay in the car. You ask me what I want and I say "surprise me", what kind of ice cream cone am I going to get? Probably a special treat...a hot fudge banana split...since I'm craving one right now. It's not a cone...that's the surprise!!

3. You have a dream that your co-worker, friend or whoever is hit by a garbage truck after they back into a ladder with a black cat on it. The next day you see that person standing by a ladder with a black cat on it and there is a garbage truck driving down the road.... what do you do? I'd go back to the voodoo lady and demand my money back! She used the WRONG doll in her hex! It was supposed to be my boss, not the co-worker; friend or whoever...it was my BOSS.

4. What is the most money you've won on a lottery or scratch off ticket? Don't play!

5. A neighbor kid down the street comes to your door and offers to wash all of your windows outside for $10 - do you have him do it? There'd be no way he'd offer $10 for the job in the first place! He can't get to my windows...any of them, without tearing off all the permanent hurricane shutters. I'd send him home. That's at least a 24 hour job just getting the shutters taken off! Trust me.

6. Go to Google Images. Type in the name of the last movie you saw. Post the first picture that comes up.

[Public Enemies - it was just a 'fair' movie. Graphic ending closeup of "Dillinger"...but thing is, Hollywood once again, glorified the 'enemy'.]

7. Your local animal shelter calls you and says there are 3 dogs that need an immediate foster home for 3 days. If you do not accept, the dogs are put down that day. Do you take them in? Yes, yes, yes!!! A definite yes...times 3.

8. What is the messiest room in your home? I suppose you would disagree that I'd say a garage is a 'room'?!!! Then, if you insist, I'll 'fess up...it's THIS room I'm in...the computer office/library! The desk is clutttered with water bottles, photographs, pens, papers, cat hairs....just about everything under the sun....and speaking of sun, when it shines in the window, you can even see the dust particles floatin' 'round.

9. Have you ever been to a wedding that participated in a strange tradition that you had never heard of? No...not unless you'd say the Catholic style of kneeling and praying and kneeling and kneeling some more is strange; being Catholic myself...I know what it'd be like to someone that hasn't attended one of these services..

10. Name one sport that you just don't get. NASCAR....oh, he's gonna make a left turn, he is gonna make another left turn...and another left turn....over and over and over again. I just don't get it. The interest that is.

11. What was the last email that came into your inbox about? Bidding on Ebay that I lost....by THIS much.

12. Have you ever purchased anything from a sex shop? Extra points if you tell us what it was....I should refuse to answer this on the grounds it might incriminate me...but, since I am innocent, I can loudly proclaim a big fat NO!!!

13. Go back to that Google Images link... type in the last food item that you ate. Post the 2nd picture it comes up with.


[apple cinnamon oatmeal]

14. Got any bumper stickers on your vehicle? What are they? I'd rather be bloggin'!?!!! No, just a "Proud Parent of a United States Marine" on my car.

15. What meme question do you wish was never asked again? Anything about "EX" as in ex spouse!!!! There are a LOT of us who have had a long lasting, monogamous relationship/marriage with no desire to even think about divorcing/exes. Ever hear of a question about a HAPPY LONG Marriage? Like perhaps, what is the secret to a happy marriage?









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Posted: Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
5:00 A.M.