Warmth

My last post (Highlighting 2014) brought me up to a total of 800 blog posts (just thought I’d share that little tidbit). This week the folks at the “DailyPost Photo Challenge Desk” are asking for Warmth… Warmth is a hot coffee by a warm fire: or a pot of hot potato soup: Warmth can be … Continue reading Warmth →



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Which Way to the “Fill the Truck”

Ok so this might not technically qualify for Cee’s “Which Way” challenge. But it is about finding my way to something so I’m gonna roll with it: As I was driving to the location of NW Firefighters “Fill the Truck” I wondered if/how I’d be able to locate them… Turns out I needn’t have worried? … Continue reading Which Way to the “Fill the Truck” →



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A Photo A Week Challenge: Close-Up

Thought I’d slide on over to Nancy’s Up Close and Personal challenge real quick. Miss Meekah My son’s braces Graying Hair Of course I had to throw these in: Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: photo a week, photos, postaday



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Share Your World 2014: Week 48

Cee has another “Share Your World” (Week 48) for us. Below are the questions along with my answers: What is your favorite toppings on pizza? I would have to say pineapple. If I could choose more I’d add mushrooms, but not necessarily together with pineapple. Whenever we get pizza in our house (which isn’t often … Continue reading Share Your World 2014: Week 48 →



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Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge

Just a couple “oddball” photos from this week: Join Cee for week 38 oddball photo challenge Did some cleaning of the toilet bowls in our house, using a foot/pumice stone, to get up hard water stain Believe me, this is an improvement. And then there’s a picture of my son’s braces, which he gets off … Continue reading Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge →



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Fast Friday

As I was driving home, after dropping of my son for his camp-out, I saw the most gorgeous view of the sunset. The sun was below the mountains (I believe), but you could see the colors in the sky. As I was looking to find a good place to (safely) stop, I could see The […]



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#throwbackthursday blogpost

Each Thursday, assuming I remember/get around to, I thought I’d go back pick an old blogpost to share with you… This week it is a poem I wrote from Nov 2011: “You Never Noticed” http://ift.tt/1xCYuoK under: ReBlogs Tagged: old post, throwback thursday



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Daily Prompt: Bad Signal

I wrote a post in response to today’s Daily Prompt challenge - Bad Signal – over at Taini Writes: I Should Have Told You….Filed under: ReBlogs Tagged: daiy prompt, postaday, short story, writing, writing challenge



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Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist

These were as close as I could find to being minimalistic: Close up of Meekah waiting for me, at the front door, to be let in: And Photo of new faucets in our newly remodeled bathroom: Filed under: Uncategorized



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Daily Prompt: Let It Be – My 2 Cents

Sometimes I think that stuff from yester-year was much better made. It seems the mentality of the day is that if it’s broke…. Don’t bother fixing it – just replace it. Perhaps as a result things just aren’t made to last. The question becomes, does this go beyond just material goods, entering our personal lives? […]



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Weekly Photo Challenge – Dreamy

This week the photo challenge given by WordPress is Dreamy I thought the color of the skies were gorgeous (Dreamy) Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: dreamy dailypost, photo challenge



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Wordless Wednesday

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Cee’s Which Way Photo Fun

Join Cee and her “Which Way” Photo Challenge Here is a photo I took of a dirt road I was riding on (bike ride) that heads towards Sombrero Peak: This one I took earlier today. Normally you can clearly see Sombrero Peak as you face the direction in which I took the picture… In this […]



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Pondering: Recess

Recess From the Latin ‘recessus’ from ‘recedere’ – go back (see recede) The word recess can have at least 2 (perhaps 3) meanings. A recess can be a dip or cavity; It can be an activity that is (or was) a part of the grade school day that took place on the playground. Incidentally, a […]



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Share Your World – Week 38

I always enjoy this challenge (and sometimes, oftentimes, the questions can be a challenge. Join Cee Neur weekly (on Sundays) for Share Your World. Here is the link for week 38 If you could be a tree or plant, what would you be? A tree. I can’t tell you why. A tree just sounds neat. […]



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Cee’s Fun Foto: Buildings

This is the picture I took of the outside of the building in which firefighters performed the 110 step climb in the 2014 annual “climb 4 the Fallen event” Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: buildings, fun foto, photo challenge, photos



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Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance

This week the photo challenge given by the folks at WordPress was “Endurance“ In the first photo my son is studying for his Bar Mitzvah. He worked hard for several months and exceeded everyone’s expectations. In the second photo he is getting ready for his first “real” cross country meet. I was told (later) that […]



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Floral Friday

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Photo A Week: Memoriam

http://ift.tt/X4Lx8t These were taken at last years “Climb 4 the Fallen” in Tucson, AZ… I am hoping/planning to go again this year: I saw this at my son’s old school: Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: memoriam, photo a week, photos



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Floral Friday

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#SundayStills: Clouds

This week Ed, from Sunday Stills, gave us an easy one: Clouds. As it turns out I’ve got several “cloud” readily available at the “touch of a finger” on my phone (my instrument of picture taking)… Due to my love of taking “Sky” pictures. I took the following the other day of the clouds covering […]



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Cee’s Fun Foto – Contrasting Colors

This week, Cee is doing Contrasting Colors for her “Fun Foto”. I thought I’d share what I’ve got (though I may be walking a thin line of following directions exactly. The first was a picture of a yellow sign that I took while out on a bike ride the other day. Against the bright blue […]



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#WordlessWednesday

These were from yesterday’s flooding As you can see there was a bit of damage. Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: photos, wordless wednesday



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#SilentSunday

Thought I’d share some photos from this mornings bike ride: This one is at the same location as above, but going other direction: Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: bike ride, photos, silent sunday



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Greeting the Dawn: A #DailyPost Prompt

This Daily Post Prompt actually comes from Friday. I had hoped I might have a photo of a sunrise to share with you but, alas, do not have ready access to such. I use to be more of a “night owl” — well actually a swing shift type would be a better description. I’ve certainly […]



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Filling In The Blanks

Here is this week’s Friday Fill-in Fun with Feeling Beachie (my answers are in Italics Living in Arizona makes me feel hot Wondering what will happen always makes me go batty Looking back I would have ohh the options for answers here are endless – gotten a degree, kept current with my EMT, taken time […]



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Floral Friday

Had to share these lovely flowers (phewww that almost came out flour) from my good friend and fellow blogger/writer Leanne over at Writing and Ruminations I ended up putting the flowers in to two vases. Above is the vase sent with the flowers (how well she knows me and my love of pink & purple). […]



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Getting To know You (Me)

“Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you”. Sorry just had the song pop into my head… Came across this via Writing Wings for You (who came across it via FlippyZipFlop) Looked like it might be a bit of fun, so thought I’d give it a go here as well… As well as […]



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Friday Fill-In Fun

Here’s this week’s Friday Fill in fun (courtesy of Feeling Beachie)… And my answers: When do you give up believing that there’s a silver lining and that everything will be okay? Why is it that people judge you on how much money you have or how well you dress? During a yelling match I feel […]



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#SundayStills

Hard to tell in the pic, but it did look a Fighter Jet when I saw. Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: cloud, Photo, sky



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Sharing My Other Blogs

Thought I’d take a quick sec, and share the other blogs that I run: Taini’s Writings – Writings, Thoughts on Writing, and (short) Book Reviews FES Tidbits – Tidbits from the World of Fire, EMS, and Safety Life Happens – Meanwhile, back at the… Family, Disability, Meekah Kitty, KitchenFiled under: about Me/Memories Tagged: about me, […]



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Word a Week: Red

Looking around my house, I wasn’t seeing a whole lot of red (well unless you count seeing red from frustration – but let’s not go there). While out the other day, running errands with hubby I saw several “red” items. A couple were through the window of our truck (which I’ve also used for the […]



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Looking Through Windows

While out running errands with hubby the other day, I thought I’d see what there was that I could grab a picture of as we were driving (not so easy when your moving) for this weeks Sunday Stills Challenge: Through Windows. These first two are also going to be used for another challenge Word a […]



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Share Your World (2014) – Week 28

Have you ever been a participant in a parade? What did you do? I’ve been in a few parades, years ago, in high school. Back then I played in the marching band for two years. One year we played in the Starlight Parade, the other we played in the Rose Parade. Both years, we played […]



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Sunday Stills: The Letter B

There really wasn’t much I could find around here to photograph and post for the letter B. I did, however, come across this beaded necklace made by an old school friend of mine. The pendant is my birthstone – peridot, which was given to me years before the necklace you see in the photo was […]



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Sky Watch Friday: July 11, 2014

Seen while out shopping & running errands. You can see the “front” (?) – dark/cloudy vs clear/sunny Filed under: photo challenges Tagged: clouds, sky, sky watch



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Friday Four Fill-In Fun

A good book or song makes me laugh/cry I love a beautiful sunset (or sunrise) When I’m stressed, I want to curl up with a good book My favorite smell in the world is There are many… Rose Oil comes to mind, as does Meguet De Bois (a perfume that I’m probably misspelling). Spearmint & […]



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#DailyPrompt: “Can’t Stand Me” (or sound of my voice).

Seems like I am constantly finding myself with do much to do that I don’t get around to the Daily Prompt… Or I have nothing to say on the subject. Finally, one I can say something on (though time is still another matter)… http://ift.tt/1q1qT6m What do you find more unbearable: watching a video of yourself, […]



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Job Searching Has Changed

Was just thinking (started yesterday) about the changes that have occurred in job searching. Use to be that one could write up one resume, print several copies (or make copies on copy machine), and hit the streets. Now each time you fill out an application you have to start from scratch each time. Of course, […]



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Fill-In Fun – Friday June 27

I am trying hard to learn how to…. Nothing comes to mind. Can’t say I’m “trying hard” on learning anything. Sure there’s things I want to learn, but none that specifically for the question. Seeing other writers makes me think that I’m fooling myself to think I could even think about putting myself anywhere near […]



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Word of #WordPress Advice

A word of advice…. NEVER NEVER NEVER (repeat times infinitum) try to work your widgets via browser on phone. All I wanted to do was peruse my widgets, but as I was attempting to do so my widgets got all screwed up so now some are in the wrong spot (and possibly some missing). Going […]



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#WWBH Blog Hop – Kick Off: June 25, 2014

Wednesdays will forever be Blog Hop Photo Reveal day in my mind… and it will always conjure up memories of incredible stories written by a creative community of writers! Today we have a fresh prompt and two fun stories from last week’s Blog Hop reveal: News and Nilla by Debb Stanton It’s a Cat, Not […]



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Weekly Photo Challenge: Between

When I first came across this week’s photo challenge, I saved it to my “writing/photo challenge” folder but with the idea that I probably wasn’t going to do anything with it since I didn’t have any ideas…. Then I saw Wandering Iris take on the challenge and realized that the picture I had taken early […]



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#Writing 101:

Today’s Writing 101 Assignment is to: “You’re told that an event that’s dear to your heart — an annual fair, festival, or conference — will be cancelled forever (or taken over by an evil organization). Write about it. For your twist, read your piece aloud, multiple times. Hone that voice of yours!” ******************************************** Melanie couldn’t […]



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#WWBH Blog Hop – Kick Off: June 18, 2014

Here we go loopty loo, here we go loopty write…. Ok so that’s not how it goes, but here goes Debb Stanton with this week’s hope, I mean hop. ************************** Well, it’s another Wednesday – another midweek – and another chance to participate in this blog hop! Curiously enough, I had typed the title as […]



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One Word Photo Challenge: White

There’s not much I could think of around the house to capture “White”, but I did find a couple items for Jennifer Well’s One Word Photo Challenge: White: Filed under: Uncategorized



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Four Fill In Fun – June 13, 2014

1. Truth is Stranger than fiction. Okay, so I didn’t come up with that, but it’s true. Just look around you. 2. Do you ever wonder if People actually do like me or just being nice. 3. When I relax I like to have a quiet spot alone because well who doesn’t?? It’s hard to […]



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Word A Week – Happy

Each week Sue, from A Word In Your Ear, reaches into her dictionary for the “word for the week”.. The challenge being for us to post a short story or poem, or a photograph telling or describing the word as it relates to each of us… This week the word is Happy. If you join […]



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Sunday Stills: Medical Things

Sorry to say, I’m a little late on this challenge as the next one should popping up in my inbox soon. The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this was my trusty “paramedic scissors” that I bought myself many years ago when taking an EMT course. Of course I could have […]



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Word A Week – Happy

Each week Sue, from A Word In Your Ear, reaches into her dictionary for the “word for the week”.. The challenge being for us to post a short story or poem, or a photograph telling or describing the word as it relates to each of us… This week the word is Happy. If you join […]



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