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Weird sun effect on a cloudy day. #skywatchfriday

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1. Last time you moved house? Something you've learned in moving house? I won't talk about the most recent.  Let me tell you about the worst.  It was when my older daughter was still a baby, before younger daughter was born.  The three of us were living in a one-bedroom apartment.  We found a two-bedroom apartment four blocks away.  We rented a truck and got a group of friends together, the same friends who'd helped us move into the one-bedroom before Jen was born.   It was supposed to take a few hours.  We were still moving furniture at 4 AM, when we called it a night and decided to move the rest of the stuff the next day.  When we moved out of that apartment a few years later, we hired a moving company. 2. Move mountains, move along, make a wrong move, moved to tears, get a move on, move up, move over, move out of the way, move the deck chairs on the Titanic, move it!...pick one and tell us how it fits your recent circumstances. Moved t...

And it's a "your choice" week! I've been in a bit of a strange mood lately, so today's playlist might be a bit weird. Start it off with some Green Day: And some Queen: Aerosmith: Foreigner: Tears for Fears Finish off with Kansas

The Love Boat 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: The Love Boat (1977)   Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . 1) The  Love Boat  ran from 1977 to 1987. It was in the Top 10 for seven of those 10 seasons. Are you familiar with the show? Were you a fan?  I was a huge fan for most of the run, but I stopped watching after Lauren Tewes left the show. 2) Every week, viewers followed  The Pacific Princess  as she set sail to a glamorous destination. Have you ever taken a cruise? If so, where did you go?   We took s...

I have always been a fan of the game show Jeopardy!   I remember watching it with the original host, Art Fleming, and I remember feeling excited when the show was revived in the 1980's with Alex Trebek as host.  Well, thanks to coronavirus, the show is not currently producing new episodes.  to fill in the gap, the producers are pulling out episodes from the vault. On Monday they aired the very first episode from 1984, and on Tuesday they aired the second episode.  It's interesting to see what has changed and what has remained the same.  But what made me laugh -- when the contestants were introduced to the audience, there was a male contestant whose profession was "registered nurse" and a female contestant who was identified as a carpenter, and Trebek was sure that the man was a carpenter and the woman was a nurse.  Even in 1984 that was a bit sexist, wasn't it? Last night there was a report on the news that  Ellen's Stardust Diner   might be...

Someone likes the window view... Cat?  What cat?  I don't see a cat...

1.  Do you think the pandemic has had any kind of positive impact on your mental health? Explain. Not one bit.  Truly, it's been a struggle.  I haven't seen the inside of my house since March -- I live with my mother and my sisters,  I am "temporarily" staying with my boyfriend Drew to protect my 87-year-old mom from the virus.   Drew, who was so sick from Covid 19 for three weeks in March and April, and is still not 100%.   I am constantly worrying about my older daughter Jen, who is considered "essential" and has been on the job all during the pandemic, and she lives with her boyfriend, a health care worker.  I am worried about my younger daughter Becca, who was in Barcelona when the travel ban was announced and had to scramble to get home, and who has been alone in her apartment for most of the pandemic.  And oh, yeah, I started a new job on March 23, the day the company sent everyone home to work remotely, so I have never met mos...

Yes,  Major League Baseball has finally returned to NYC. Baseball returned Saturday night in Queens.  The Mets hosted the Yankees at Citi Field for an exhibition game.  It was good to see Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen in the SNY broadcast booth. (SNY is the cable network that carries the Mets games.)  Or rather, booths — Cohen socially distanced by sitting in a different booth than Darling and Hernandez.  It was good to see the teams take the field.    It was weird to see the coaches and umpires wearing masks.  It was weird to see the empty stands, and cardboard cutouts of fans in the seats behind home plate.  It was weird to hear the fake crowd noises. Clint Frazier played nine innings of baseball while wearing a mask.  Even hit a home run.  No excuses, folks. Interesting fact.  The players are being given prepackaged meals, which they are eating in the Delta Club.  That’s usually a bar/restaurant for fans; ...

And we are directed to post songs about the moon. So let's get started with some CCR. Add a little Neil Young. A little King Harvest. A little Van Morrison A little Cat Stevens/Yusef Let's go old school now, first with Tony Bennett And for the last one, Frank Sinatra:    

More from Facebook Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog " Funny the World ". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves! More questions from Facebook 1. What's your favorite movie from your childhood and why? I loved everything about it.  That it was set in a medieval kingdom.  the villain turned herself into a dragon.  That Aurora had three fairy godmothers, Cinderella had only one. That Aurora and Phillip fell in love without knowing that they were in an arranged marriage.  And the dress! 2. What is home to you? 3. Do you get emotionally invested in stories? (I'm asking about movies, books, tv shows, whatever medium you like your stories in.) Oh yes, definitely. 4. What is the most physical damage you've ev...

Flipper 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: Flipper (1964)   Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . 1)  Flipper  ran for three seasons, from 1964 to 1967. Are you familiar with the show? Were you a fan? Yes of course! 2) Brothers Sandy and Bud consider a bottle-nosed dolphin, named Flipper, their pet. Do you currently share your home with any animals? Duchess is my baby. 3) Bud and Sandy's dad was Chief Warden Porter Ricks of the fictional Coral Key Marine Preserve. In reality, the show was filmed in Miami and Key Biscayne. When...