"Summer Olympics" - Synchronized Swimmers!!!

Not too Wordless this week, I need to explain myself a bit...I couldn't resist taking this photo. It's of four American Avocets in a fresh water pond [not so 'fresh' looking tho...kinda skanky and full of algae growth!]. It's like The Three Stooges plus one. The Stooges are definitely in synch. Wait...maybe we could call them In Sync. Wonder what their song is like? LOL Perhaps soon to be on top of the charts?!!! Taken on the newly opened nature preserve in Port Aransas Texas on Mustang Island. Note: Yes, there IS a 2nd watermark going across the birds.

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I can't believe I forgot to participate in this meme last week...I just totally forgot it. And to that, I must apologize to our hostess, Joyce; you're NOT forgettable...

1. The Summer Olympics begin next week and London is playing host. If you had the chance to go in person which (non-Olympic) London site would you most like to visit? I find the history of Jack the Ripper very interesting...I also don't believe that some historians are correct in the 'new found' assumptions as to who he was. But, none-the-less, I'd like to see first hand The White Chapel District.

2. What is something in your life right now that feels like an Olympic event? I was doing a bit of a gymnastic act yesterday with yard work...I was cleaning out the rose bush box of weeds and had to balance on the landscape timbers to reach to the very back side of it all. And I think I scored pretty well....I cleared the weeds, and didn't falter on my balance once.

3. What's your favorite supper to prepare and serve when it's too hot to cook? Sandwiches, chips, and salad. Sometimes, if I have boiled eggs in the 'fridge or ham leftovers...I make a large chef salad and call it dinner.

4. July 18th is National Get Out of the Doghouse Day...when was the last time you were 'in the doghouse'? Eons ago. And no doubt I did something my father didn't approve of and I was reprimanded. I'm usually my own boss now...Bud loves me unconditionally.

5. What television advertisement do you find particularly irritating or inappropriate? You may not answer with 'all of them'. I know some of you were thinking about it. I can't answer this 'cause for the last 6 months or better we have no TV [no cable]. What we watch now is commercial free DVD tv program episodes or DVD movies.

6. Share one piece of interesting news from the year you were born. I was born during the blizzard of '48 and '49.....the county cleared the country road [farm] for my mother to get to the hospital. Otherwise I would have been born at home.

Here is what I posted about my birth on my blog, a couple of years ago: This is my HEAVY for the week. The photo was taken on February 9th, 1949. The Day I Was Born. The county snowplows cleared the country roads so mom could get to the hospital to deliver. No, really that is true....my family was blessed with good country folk ready to lend a helping hand, and the county officials kept the snow drifts off the country roads into town for her!! In the photo [foreground], two of my uncles and the one with the shovel is my dad who left the hospital after I was born, to help clear the snow in the yard/walkways, off roof-tops and around the barns, etc.; with the help of many neighbors. Heavy snowfall, heavy scooping, but that morning, then - not so heavy mom! LOL [my dad's height was 5'10" ...] It's reported online here that before the blizzard of 1948 - 1949 ended, parts of my home state received over 100 inches of snow and drifts as high as 30 feet.

7. What's the best part of your average day?My kitties talking to me. YES...they both talk with me. Doing something with Bud [get your mind from the gutter]....and, reading.

8. Insert your own random thought here. Speaking of Olympics, I don't think I've ever sat down and watched the Summer Olympics, ever. And the Winter Olympics isn't something that I have to see either. The couples skating I like to watch their gracefulness as a pair. And one last 'thought' here.........I wish it would RAIN!!!

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