This and That: A Blog

 Animals on the Farm is this week's theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt .  "Interior of Stable" by  Moreland c. 1908-1914 Ohio Farmlife Tillamook , Oregon Dairy Cows Pets are the Animals for next week.

  That sound you hear is drum rolls across Blogger-Land as authors reveal their 2026 April Blogging from A to Z theme!   http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/2026/03/theme-reveal-blog-hop-atozchallenge.html My theme is The A to Z of Artwork.  The artwork comes from my collection.  Most are thrifted or at least secondhand, in fact 21/26 are.  The A to Z is either the artist title of the work, or what I call it.  I think X pushes it a little, not a title, but the image of X.   That's for this blog.  On my poetry blog, The Versesmith , I will be sharing the same art along with a poem beginning with the letter of the day. So, an A to Z work of art with an A to Z poetry form relating to the art.  So, make plans for April and pick a theme!  Make a post about it and link it on the theme reveal page linked above.   A sneak peek of one of my letters.  Can you guess what it will be? print by  Sakai Hōitsu, title given ...

 It's  been very thin pickings for some time now at both St. Vincent de Paul and all the Goodwill Stores.  They're building a new one in town, in an inconvenient place for me.  I guess it's a good one if you go to one of the Walmarts or Lowes often, but I'm not near that area much.  They are also building a new one to replace the one closest to me (currently in the same complex as one of my regular grocery stores).  That's a shame, I would usually stop in when I shopped for groceries.  It will be a special trip driving the long way home.  At any rate, with the quality of the items lately, it might not matter if I go or not.  Grand openings are packed so I doubt I'll go to either.  I went to the grand opening of the one at the other end of town, and that was just after a remodel and there was a long line to get in. Back to what I have been able to thrift. The Goodwill Bins did have quite a bit of artwork and frames a few weeks ago.  ...

  F is the letter of the week for Sunday Stamps . F rigate Bird  Montserrat 1970 (the bird theme began that year, and ended in 1974) F rigate Birds always fascinated me as a child.  I had a series of animal books and wore out the F rigate Bird page.  I have never seen one "inflated," but have seen them in flight in Puerto Rico.  Huge,  their wingspans are 7-8 feet! They looked like  pterodactyls! F ox, another of the semi-postal benefiting the Moscow Zoo.  Soviet Union 1988 F lamingo USA 1992 Come back next Sunday to see what G animals I found for Sunday Stamps.

  Something a little different this week for Shadow Shot Sunday, which is why Mister Linky is first in case you want to link a shadow and not read a post!  No shadows themselves this week, but shadow puppets!  Shadow puppets from the original The Muppet Show on display at the  Center for Puppetry Arts  in Atlanta, Georgia, where my son took these photos earlier this winter. Plenty of shadowy areas here!  Here they are in action in 1978. A few of the animals she swallowed.  You can see some have lost appendages and are torn.  They were rod controlled.

Thursday Postcard Hunt 's March theme is Animals.  This first week starts us off with Animals in the Wild.  Antelope Ground Squirrel Bull Elk Javelina  Next week will be Animals on the Farm.