This and That: A Blog

 Buildings will be in our Scenery or Landscapes this week for Thursday Postcard Hunt .  Multnomah Falls, Oregon and  Multnomah Lodge c1930s Hidalgo Street, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico with Cuernavaca Cathedral in center background. c1920s Kreuzeckhaus , a lodge in the Bavarian alps, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen,  Germany. Postmark 1958 Next Thursday is the last in November, and the theme for Scenery or Landscapes is Multiview.  Day 20 NaBloPoMo  

"  Welcome to  “ The Numbers Game #99 ”.   Today’s number is 221.  To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my  Numbers Game  blog of the day." Day 19 of  NaBloPoMo

St. Vincent de Paul has been putting out their Christmas items.  If I got any you won't find out until my annual Christmas thrift posts!  Those posts include Christmas presents I thrifted.  However, while I was there I happened to run into the manager, and she was a good mood, for when I asked about the antique Christmas postcards she'd been holding back, she brought the box of them from the back for me to go through.  You'll see some of these next month for Thursday Postcard Hunt when the theme will be  Christmas.  Here's the full pile. There were even postcards made from California redwood, which are mailable! I have to add an edit here. Since I wrote this post I've been back to St. Vincent de Paul, and will have a " postcard situation " update next Tuesday.  Let's just say, it's nice to be recognized as the one who buys postcards!  Each year at St. Vincent de Paul the more ordinary Christmas ornaments are sold in little baggies with one "go...

 Not much going on today.  The weekend was spent going through a lot of tissues due to my head cold.  Not much of a cough, for which I am glad, coughs always hang on.  This was in my sinuses.   I spoke too soon, I started coughing last night.  A few days ago I cut my finger on a can lid.  It was the first time I ever experienced the vasovagal reflex.  My son was bandaging my finger and I got extremely hot, started sweating, and thought I was going to vomit.  I didn't.  I did tear my sweater off (fortunately I had on a sports bra!), and after a few minutes of nausea (hanging over the toilet  ) was able to lay down in a fan to recover.  Not fun.  Now I'm down to just a big Band-Aid® on my pinky.  And I use the brand name Band-Aid® on purpose, they are better than the others!  There are a few other things I find worth paying more for the brand name.  Scotch® tape and Crisco shortening for sure.  I mad...

  P stamps for Sunday Stamps .  P ost Office  DDR (German Democratic Republic, or East Germany) 1987 P assion Flower Uruguay 1959 P eacock  Germany 2024 P ollen of the Flame Lily (color enhanced) USA 2023 Next week is one of the tricky letters, Q !  Day 16 of NaBloPoMo

     Day 15 NaBloPoMo

November 2025's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day  The usual November suspects are blooming.  I thought with the weather being unseasonably warm there might be more,  but comparing to last year, no, the same bunch. Swam River Daisy, Wild Basil (not a basil), Borage California Poppies, Black-Eyed Susans  Abelia, Creeping Winter Savory, Prostrate Rosemary, Alyssum  Calendulas, Blanketflowers, Black-Eyed Susans  These are all in my backyard.  In the front are more blanketflowers, gaura, knautia, a few dianthus, and Autumn Tryst iris.  I have a head cold, and didn't want to go out front.  I went out back to supervise Mickey, so took these others yesterday.