Category: Holidays – holidaze
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The Thirty-Five Year Adventure
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Greetings, Salutations and Hi There to all of my dear fans, friends, fiends, foes and relatives, In the humid summer heat of a Wisconsin summer in early July, 1979, a newly-turned-eighteen year old young man was chatting up a sixteen year old young lady while waiting for her friend to…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2015 O
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Blogging A – Z Challenge “O for a muse of fire…” O is for Talk Like Shakespeare Day April 23rd is Talk Like Shakespeare Day as well as English Language Day. I have always been a big fan of both. I began reading Shakespeare in Junior High. I didn’t try…
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Remember
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It started out as “Decoration Day” on May 30, not “The last Monday in May.” It was a day when you went to the grave of a loved one who had fallen in battle. You went to the cemetery and saw the little Flags every where and put flowers on…
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National Hero Week or Nurse’s Week May 6 thru May 12
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Florence Nightengale May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910 When Florence was 24 years old, she had a “calling” from God. She wrote in her journal, “God spoke to me and called me to His service.” Florence decided her calling was to help the sick and the poor by becoming a nurse. You can read more about Florence…
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Be It Hereby Resolved
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Before I start this, I just want to say “thanks” to everyone that comes here. You guys are really the best. I appreciate EVERY comment and thank you for taking your time to share them. If you are a blogger yourself you probably know how much it means have comments. I don’t always have…
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Brief Update
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I haven’t been around the blogsphere visiting because I didn’t even get on the computer on Sunday…I should say I didn’t get on the Internet. Since I got the game I wanted, Civilization IV (link might be a long load for dial-ups, I am not sure) I have been playing…
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Parlor Magic
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I enjoy sleight-of-hand/illusion/trickery or what is sometimes called “parlor magic.” I love to watch a GOOD illusionist, a magician’s magician, who can make me say, “Whoa! That’s cool. Where DID that rabbit come from.” Oh, I know there are now websites that can tell you how everything was done, but…