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  Smoke Rings Welcome to  Saturday: 9 . What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme! Saturday 9: Smoke Rings (1933)      Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it  here .      1) In this song, Donald Mills of the Mills Brothers encourages us to "puff, puff, puff" our cares away. When did you most recently smoke a cigarette?  Never.  My mother was a smoker and I hated it.   2) In the 1930s, when this week's song was recorded, an estimated 40% of American adults smoked cigarettes. By the early 1960s, that number reached a high of 42%. According to the CDC, th...

Shadow has such a hard life. There are multiple bowls of water in the house, and a water fountain, but they both want the same bowl … Can’t you feel Duchess’s death glare? Chasing each other … Paws off the table! Sitting on my suitcase … Hearth kitty  Box kitties

 The skies over Bermuda #skywatchfriday

 

 There’s so much to do on the ship at night!  There’s a show in the main theater, a show in the ice rink (yes, the ice rink), and lots of music and dancing in various bars and other small venues.  Every night has a theme and dress code.  First night was “resort casual”.  Second night was “DressYour Best” a/k/a formal night.  We had the excursion the third night, so we skipped the theme — 70’s night (we lived through the 70’s, we didn’t need to revisit the era).  Fourth night was initially supposed to be Latin White Night, but about a week before the cruise they changed it to Halloween.  And the last night was tropical night. Here we are on formal night. We even met the captain. And then … Halloween  Aren’t we a cute couple? Yeah, we had a good time … We saw every show in the main theater as well as the ice show. The ship has a permanent cast of singers and dancers as well as a house band, but there are also headliners who travel from ship to ...