This Bud's for YOU

April Photo Hunter subjects:

7th ~ Awesome
14th ~ Sturdy
21st ~ Reflect
28th ~ Texture

May Photo Hunter Subjects
5th * Zap
12th * Scoop
19th * Magical
26th * Creative

Most consider reflect as in something mirrored. Quite a while ago, through a subscription, a small decal came through the mail to 'protect' birds from flying into a window. You don't know how many times, when we lived in Tucson AZ, doves would fly into our patio door because all the trees [and sky], in the yard, would reflect off the glass, confusing the birds. Many died, some were just stunned. Still, it was sad. Then, I put up some streamers to sway gently in the breeze. That seemed to help. Anyway, when I received this in the mail, I made use of it on the front door glass. A human being, when walking up to it, barely notices it. But, from what I read with the little pamphlet that came with the decal, birds can see it from a great distance, keeping them from flying into the glass and what reflects off of it... ---





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Here is another 'take' on the challenge:

re·flect
verb
to think, ponder, or meditate:

Also, when you use the term reflect in another sense, it could be that you're actually sharing [as in mirroring] what you have seen before as in: re·flect - to give back or show an image of". Hence my reflections from my viewfinder!! ----


This week, the challenge for photo hunters is 'reflect'....I'm taking a whole different alley here...I'm reflecting on days of yore. In fact the days when we were still working and had family of our own; still at home. About 60 miles or so from where we lived, way North, almost to the Wyoming's southern border along Interstate 25, there is a brewery. A brewery for Anhauser Busch...Budweiser Beer. Of course we made a trip up there a few times to tour the brewery and meander in and out of the stables for the Clydesdale horses that are so famed for this product. At one time when we were up there visiting friends in a neighboring town just south of the brewery, the beer company had their mascots on display along with the famous red carriage and all the beautiful silver tack. I posted an image from that day before...there is 'reflection' in the silver tack....of the sun shining. The images of the stables from our tour of long ago and the 'parade' of Clydesdales post is HERE [link will open in a new page]. Of course those horses were Colorado's own....this past week, I had a chance to reflect and remember them...this time tho, the ones visiting South Texas were from Missouri...all the way from Saint Louis!!! We watched them prepare for a parade.






PRINCE


CHARLIE & NEIGHBOR


CURLY


FIRE

...and the one laying down on the job


BUD!!! ...of course.
[the horses' names were above their stall: actual names!!]




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WEEKEND FUNNIES

Disclaimer: I am not one to condone heavy drinking of alcoholic beverages...
but I can still remain with an open mind, and laugh at these.
I just copy and paste....none is my work.
No offense taken please.



24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
--Stephen Wright

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in
beer.
--Dave Barry

* Remember "I" before "E," except in Budweiser.



BEER ANECDOTES:

It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" - or what we know today as the "honeymoon".

Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where we get the phrase "rule of thumb".

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. when they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle", is the phrase inspired by this practice.

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Due to increasing products liability litigation, American beer brewers have accepted the FDA's suggestion that the following warning labels be placed immediately on all beer containers:



WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe that ex-lovers are really dying for you to telephone them at 4 in the morning.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to smash your head in.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay things like thish.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the boss what you REALLY THINK while photocopying your butt at the office Christmas party.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell ever happened to your pants (panties) anyway.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to roll over in the morning and see something really scary (whose species and/or name you can't remember).

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burn on the forehead.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, more handsome, and smarter than some really, really, really big biker guy named "Big Al."

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may make you think you can logically converse with other members of the opposite sex without spitting.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe you are invisible.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause an influx in the time-space continuum, whereby small (and sometimes large) gaps of time may seem to literally disappear.

WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may actually CAUSE pregnancy

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After so many beers you've consumed, next thing to do is pray...

A prayer

Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk, (I will be drunk),
At home as it is in the pub.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not to incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer, The bitter, The lager.
Barmen.


Today's source: Beer Jokes