Big Sky Country

This may not be Montana (but then again, it could be Montana) but this definitely seems like Big Sky Country.

Nice, but....not particularly interesting.   But, freshly scanned for your consideration.

Covid-19 Bonus story : Medical Fetish Site Donates Entire Stock of Scrubs After Being Contacted by 'Desperate' Health Officials.

Bonus 2 - Practise social distancing - or else.

And when its wings envelop you, give in to it,

Love Excerpt from the Prophet by Khalil Gibran

From the batch of slides I scanned yesterday.

«Lorsque l'amour vous fait signe, suivez-le,Quoique ses voies soient rudes et escarpées.Et lorsque ses ailes vous enveloppent, cédez-lui,Quoique l'épée cachée parmi ses plumes puisse vous blesser.

Bonus Aviation - Jet blast from American Eagle CRJ turns over aircraft and demolishes hangar while conducting engine runs at San Luis Obispo Airport, California.

Bonus - Non Poetry.  After those lovely words about love, we have this from The_Trump.

From the always interesting TYWKIWDBI.  Well worth a dive down that rabbit-hole.

Picnic at Antelope Valley

This lockdown means that I have fewer excuses to avoid looking out the old scanner, and scanning some more of the backlog of slides. If I do 100 per day, then... gulp.

This slide, in a large box-full, with a posting date of June 2011, is labelled "Antelope Valley 4-16-83", so the blog title seems appropriate.

Today I learned that Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural Reserve exists, and yes, does seem to be the location of this slide.

Corona Bonus - The surprisingly interesting story of the N95 face mask, which has featured in many many images from the current pandemic.

Bonus History - Spanish Flu, 1918. Family Portrait with Cat

Dudes at the Lake

Yes, there was a time before the Covid-19 Lock down (it was only a week ago), but there are great recollections of a time back when a family could head up to the lake for some boating and fishing.  In the above case, it was October 1961.  Nice.

Bonus 1 - Thor Bjørklund invented The Cheese Slice

Bonus 2 - Percentages and Pie Charts.   This is not how they work.

Friday is Fishing Day !

Covid-19 Lockdown, be damned !

Friday is the day to think about heading out of port and fishing for fishees.

Looks like a stylish hat will be essential.

Bonus 1 - Basically, preparation for a Saturday Night Fish Fry.

Bonus 2 - Coronavirus - Now is not the time for blame, but...a-ha !

Another day of WFH

Day Twelvety of working from home...and the novelty is wearing off.

So,why not exercise your mind, and see what you can deduce about this man, and how he is normally employed.


Clearly, there is a facial resemblance of L Ron Hubbard of those wacky old, Scientologists ... tho' this may be a relation rather than LRH himself.   But what of the items in the background.  Why would someone have a bowl of Sump Oil on top of their clothes dryer?

Sherlock Holmes would have deduced the facts in seconds, but...you have 15 minutes.


Bonus - Quality Entertainment

This is Me, Working From Home.

In response to very nearly one request, this is a selfie of me, working from home due to the current CoronaVirus lockdown.

As you can see, the facial fuzz has gone, and my usual "Work-Day = Tie-Day" outfit has been abandoned. Just be grateful that I didn't photograph "Naked Thursday".

More selfies in the future. Feel free to post your own WFH Selfies in the comments.

Bonus Humour

Ride On Duck !

Coronavirus Lockdown continues, and even the playgrounds are out of bounds.  This rocker, from the fifties I suspect, will be long gone, but...what a disturbing design.

Bonus - The COVID-19 Lockdown is affecting all areas...

More

Loadsadosh

In the current COVID-19 world, this may well be the last emergency reserves for the world economy.

Bonus -

Happy Mother's Day

No, not my mom in the slide above, but someone's mom.

In these interesting times, A special shout out to the Mums who looked after us, and kept is clean and healthy.  I salute you.

Bonus - Stockpiling

Cat Meets Cow .... Cow Meets Cat

I bet that they had so much to talk about.

Bonus - The kids asked what was for dinner and I told them "Scraps". They started crying. Spoiled brats, it's really hard to get food at the moment thanks to the panic buying.
And it was a stupid name for a dog anyway.

Bonus 2 - Pangolin Bleps

The Christmas Angela

Yes, it's March, and I'm posting Christmas Slides.

So Bite Me.    My Blog,My Choices :-)



Corona-Resistance Bonus : Covid-19 can't spoil spring romances.

Bonus - Making Small Improvements.

Practicing Social Separation

In these Covid-19 Panic Days, do as Old Man Colville does - practice Social Distancing.
Always stay a sensible distance from everyone else.

• Have two drinks close at hand - don't get dehydrated.
• Possible have a joint on the go.

Good Man.

Corona-humour Bonus - Toilet Paper Hoarding - Another View

Bonus - NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovel

The Man In The White Tuxedo

He probably thinks he's a rival to James Bond, but 007 would never be as outre as to wear a white Dinner Jacket, let alonce refer to it as a Tuxedo.

Euch !

Corona-Bonus - Fish and Swans Return to Venice’s Canals as Italy’s Lockdown Leaves the Water Uncannily Pristine

Corona-Fun - I'm working from home now and I have to improvise a bit.

Meditation in the Forest

Another Covid-19 day of panic - and today, I started working from home.

It was so tempting to just head off into the woods to just sit and think. But, I'm too professional (?) for that.

Corona-Bonus - US sales of guns and ammunition soar amid coronavirus panic buying.  Not a surprise, really.

Corona-Fun - Worth a try?

Welcome Skaters

Happier Times :-)

You may wonder the relevance of R S R O A.... well, Roller Skating Rink Owners of America.  From  Golden Age of Roller Skating

Corona-Bonus -
UK's sewage system in danger of gridlock from toilet paper substitutes.

Corona-Idiocy - Nunes urges Americans to 'stop panicking': 'It's a great time to just go out' if you're healthy   Maybe Donald J Trump is not such an outlier in the idiocy stakes.

Blah, Blah, Blah ... Coronavirus.

Seems like every website, blog and forum that I visit is obsessed by Covid-19, so I was wondering if I should follow the herd and tailor this post towards the world-wide pandemic..

Nope.  I'm going to resist that urge today.   Maybe tomorrow.

So, today it's a mom feeding her kid. I guess this was before "Breast Is Best". It may appear that I've 'shopped away a ciggie from her scrawny hands, but no. That's just how she is.

Bonus - Interesting The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming.

Bonus 2 -

Skipper and Wonderloaf

It may sound like an edgy comedy webcast, in the vein of Rick and Morty, but it's actually a summary of two things in this above slide.



Bonus - Murder Of The Nonagon Fuzz.  This make me happy.

Beach Casting

I very nearly skipped past this slide, thinking "Blurred and Out-Of-Focus".

However, it does give the photograph a wonderful artistic, painterl, vibe.  And I like that.

Bonus -

The "Ommmm" Baby

Baby Robin seems to have mastered the art of meditation.

Omm, indeed.

Bonus - Was the Millennium Dome really so bad?

Bonus 2 - Sarah Palin stuns TV viewers by rapping Baby Got Back dressed as a bear

The world has gone mad....

The Finnish Bride and Groom

Written on this slide was

Helsinki Wedding at Underground Church Jan 87

...and who am I to disagree.

I always find it odd when I encounter single slides (like this one) in the midst of a horde of unrelated slides (in this case, most of the rest were Golden Gate Bridge and lava fields.)

I wonder to my self - did they really only take one icture of the wedding?

Bonus - Yes, Helsinki Underground church

Bonus 2 - The world may be reeling from Covid-19, but some brave folks are still attempting the impossible.

France, Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Holds Largest-Ever Gathering of People Dressed as Smurfs, for Some Reason

At Play In The Garden of Goulden

Yesterday's slide was fairly dull, so I really had to dig deep for a suitable Tedious Tuesday slide.

This one, fits the bill. It's from a set chronicling a family's day out at Goulden Manor, in July 1975.

I suspect that should be Gaulden Manor, but I blame the photographer.

Bonus - I suspect that many of you have seen videos of cats on robotic vacuums (or even Grumpy Cat on a Roomba).   However, there's something about this one that's .... different.

Daffodil Season

Spring is coming.  My rhubarb is well above ground, and the daffs are beginning to bloom.

So, this slide seems timely.

Bonus - RIP Max Von Sydow.

Behind the scenes of "The Exorcist"

Bonus - Great Headline.Burning calories: pig starts farm fire by excreting pedometer

Anna Maria's Foggy Oyster Bar

Same Bar, Different Weather.

It's not always sunny in Florida.

Bonus -  Kevin The Duck - He's not like the other ducks.

Bonus 2 -

Anna Maria Oyster Bar

Saw this slide, and immediately thought of my sister who is holidaying in the Maldives.

Too Damned Hot for my liking.

( Anna Maria's still seems to be in business, but the current locations look a lot less inviting than this.)

Bonus

The Jackson Bridge - Possible Again

From the same set as the previous two slides..so I'm tempted to say that this is the the family of the photographer, inside of the Jackson Bridge.

But I could be wrong.

Bonus - The Final Words of Death Row Prisoners

The Jackson Bridge - Again

After yesterday's slide brought an avalanche of very nearly one comment, it seems only natural to post a second image of the Jackson Bridge in Indiana.

And here it.

Will there be another slide tomorrow? 

Tune in on Friday and find out !

Bonus

The Jackson Bridge

Not one of the Bridges of Madison County, but a covered bridge in Indiana.
Info

The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered wooden bridges typically have a lifespan of only 20 years because of the effects of rain and sun, but a covered bridge could last 100 years.

Bonus -

Interesting / Not Interesting

This is one of those Dichotomy slides.

Interesting: From the sequence of slides, honest hard-working locals ("Yokels") gather to see a school of fish (Carp?  Bream?) in a feeding frenzy.  Definitely interesting.

Not Interesting - Muddy water with something at  the surface. Not very interesting.

Bonus - Music Revenue History.

No, Not Coronavirus Clothing.

Nope.

Despite the current coronavirus outbreak, we are not seeing CoVid 19 memorabilia.

And this is not protective clothing.

This is just an old slide re-titled for some cheap news referencing.

Bonus - Tho' I did laugh at this.

Little Nicky's Birthday

Today's the day that we celebrate Little Nicky's birthday, with a reminder of a previous wild and crazy party featuring Nick.  This was the infamous party with the "Chocolate Pudding" incident. And a legal gagging order will prevent me saying any more.

Bonus - Boing
Bonus -

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