Archives: Weekly Thoughts
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Quotes for the Week – Oct 28, 2024
Food For Thought Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Thoreau Fun & Smiles There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test. Dowager Countess Violet Crawley [Maggie Smith]; Downtown Abbey Rest in peace, Maggie Smith.
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Wild Cards! Oct 28, 2024
Krazy Pic 1 Scouting (and finding) your prey is one thing. Sometimes, following through can be another. Krazy Pic 2 Winter makes it hard for suntanning. But some folks crave the sun more than others!! Cartoon of the Week This was shared some years back, but I continue to value this little-known origin of Jesus using parables to teach…
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Photo of the Week
The Old Taneycomo Bridge – Branson, MO Yes, the bridge IS still there, but you can’t get this shot anymore, since the ‘new’ bridge is now alongside (to the left) and that has changed the whole landscape. Taken in roughly 1999 or 2000. From the Ozarks Scenes and Seasons Collection.
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Quotes of the Week – Oct 14, 2024
Food For Thought Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. W. Clement Stone Fun & Smiles My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. Billy Connolly
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Wild Cards! Oct 14, 2024
Krazy Pic 1 Does the phrase “man’s best friend” come to mind? Krazy Pic 2 What do you think? Is this where the mother-in-law stores her transportation?! (Look carefully! I almost missed it!) Cartoon of the Week I hate to admit how much Pat and I identify with the Lockhorns! You gotta admit he has a…
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Photo of the Week – Sep 30, 2024
Syndey, Australia Almost certainly another back-for-an-encore photo, but it’s one of my favorite shots of Sydney, with the world famous Opera House in the background. It was actually taken from our hotel room! May 2006 From the Across the Pond Collection
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Quotes for the Week – Sep 30, 2024
Food For Thought The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. Paulo Coelho Fun & Smiles My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. Phyllis Diller
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Wild Cards! – Sep 30, 2024
Krazy Pic 1 Truth in advertising, Part B? It looks like some of us now have a clothing shop that understands us, but can we admit we need to go there? Krazy Pic 2 I think we had a KP similar to this in the past, and we know it has to be fake. Still, I’m gonna have…
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Photo of the Week – Sep 16, 2024
Bar Harbor, Maine Taken in the Fall of 2000, when a group of 10 of us visited Bar Harbor. Anxious to return one of these days. From the Maine to Alaska Collection
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Wild Cards! Sep 16, 2024
REMEMBER THE OLD “SUMMER RE-RUNS”? By the time you read this, we will be in Decorah, Iowa visiting our son and his wife, having left on Friday 13th, stopping in St. Louis for a 60th Reunion! 🙁 Preparations last week suddenly jammed the week full, and as a result, you’re stuck with this “Re-Run” of…