Standing Into Danger: June 2024

Friday, June 28, 2024

I Wish!

I wish this were the case!

But it's not ~ My Must Do List has buried me this week,

so I'm unable to post today.

I hope to make the rounds visiting tomorrow at least.

Have a great weekend!

I'll be back for sure for IWSG Day on Wednesday, July 3rd.

I'm linking to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date, Tom's Aloha Friday, Gillena's Lunch Break. and Nicole's Friday Face Off.

Have a laughter-filled weekend!

Till next time ~

Fundy Blue

Standing Into Danger https://selkiegrey4.blogspot.com

My next post will be

Wednesday, July 3rd. 🤞

On the Bay of Fundy
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue
All Rights Reserved

Friday, June 21, 2024

Laughter Is Good!

"Stress relief from laughter? It's no joke," says the Mayo Clinic.

Since I'm feeling stressed, I decided that I'd post some funnies this week.

After all, laughter is good for many things, including your soul.

When I was pulling a load of laundry out of my dryer yesterday,

one of my dryer balls fell on the floor.

I picked it up and started laughing, because it looked just like I felt.

The Perfect Reflection of Me!

Aurora, Colorado USA

June 18, 2024

I took it as a sign from the Universe and started searching for something to laugh at.

I found this and I cracked up, because it reminded me

of my wonderful friend Pat Hatt, his zany humor, and his menagerie of pets.

❤️ 🐾 Here's to you, Pat! 🐾 ❤️

I hope the funnies tickle your funny bone. They certainly did mine.

My only criteria for selecting them was they made me laugh when I needed to.

Here's to laughter!

This Could So Happen To ADHD Me! 😂

Oops! This is why when someone needs to get ahold of me they contact Terry!

I'm linking to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date, Tom's Aloha Friday, Gillena's Lunch Break. and Nicole's Friday Face Off.

For Rain: Spirals ~ Guaranteed to make me spiral out of control! 😂

For Tom: Aloha ~

Mural by DFace ~ 2015

This is an example of British artist DFace's signature Lichtenstein-inspired work.

The mural is located on 570 Dillingham Boulevard in Honolulu. source

For Gillena: Haiku ~

For Nicole: Baby Faces ~

Roy and Me

An early ADHD clue I should have picked up on.

I wore a harness and trailed a rope from the time I could walk until I was about four.

Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

Summer 1952

Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

Summer 1952

Have a great laughter-filled weekend!

Till next time ~

Fundy Blue

Standing Into Danger https://selkiegrey4.blogspot.com

My next post will be

Friday, June 21st. 🤞

On the Bay of Fundy
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue
All Rights Reserved

Friday, June 14, 2024

Drive

Music is nearly always playing when I write.

I use it to feel a tone or emotion for what I'm writing.

Recently I found the perfect song for languor.

An odd emotion, I'm sure.

Google's Oxford Languages defines languor as,

"the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia."source

Last Evening in Vegas ~ Definitely in a State of Languor

Terry and I at the Plaza's Carousel Bar

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 3, 2024

I rarely feel languorous.

I'm a ball of nervous energy, high strung, with an impressive startle response.

So it was amazing when I heard Joe Bonamassa's "Drive" for the first time recently.

I slipped into a state of languor, remembering other languorous times in my life.

And I played the song again and again just to hold on to that mellow emotion.

Joe Bonamassa ~ "Drive"

On my last night in Las Vegas, I was definitely wallowing in languor.

I had done all I wanted to do and more on our visit:

😁 Enjoyed the gorillas now storming Fremont Street...

Dancing with Gorillas

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

May 29, 2024

Not the Least Bit Intimidated

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

May 29, 2024

🥰 Listened to great music...

Johnny Douglas (Guitar) and Rich Embry (Vocals) ~ Alter Ego

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 1, 2024

Volume 1 Band Performing for La Vida Loca Latin Nights ~ Fabulous!

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

🥳 Cheered for the Oilers...

An Oiler's Contingent at CIRCA's Sportsbook (the World's Largest)

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

Western Conference Champs

Sportsbook CIRCA

Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

😋Overindulged in fatty, salty, and sweet food...

Stellabello Has Great Pizza!

West Sahara

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

May 29, 2024

Decisions! Decisions!

pinkbox

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 3, 2024

😅 Had some luck gambling and fun watching the casino scene...

CIRCA

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

CIRCA

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

😵‍💫 And lingered over a number of cocktails.

Mermaid ~ Mickie Finnz

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

May 31, 2024

Spicy and Potent ~ with a Water Chaser

At the Plaza's Carousel Bar

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 3, 2024

Languorous

At the Plaza's Carousel Bar

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

😎 Best of all was Good Buddy Time!

The Latest in Many Years of Conversations ~ Jon and Terry

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

May 31, 2024

Best Buddy, Best Hubby, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me!

Fremont Street

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

Here's to languor!

Here's to wasting time in mellow moments,

especially when reality is a plane ride away in a few hours! 😭

I'm linking to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date, Tom's Aloha Friday, Gillena's Lunch Break. and Nicole's Friday Face Off.

For Rain: Bicycles ~ Poised on Fremont Street

Believe in Yourself

Fremont Street Performer

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

July 24, 2019

For Tom: Aloha ~ Bicycle

Flower Power

Waikiki, Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i

February 10, 2018

For Gillena: Sunset Will Linger ~ Waikiki

Surfer

Waikiki, Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i

Date Lost - 2012 or later

For Nicole: Interesting Faces ~

Unicycle Riders ~ Honolulu Festival Parade

Waikiki, Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i

March 13, 2016

What Does a Bouncer Think on a Long Shift?

Fremont Street

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

Beautiful, Confident, and Talented

Eva (Lead Guitarist, left), Sara (Vocalist and DJ, middle), and Misha (Bass Guitarist, right)

Stays in Vegas, Fremont Street Band

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

June 2, 2024

Have a great weekend!

Till next time ~

Fundy Blue

Standing Into Danger https://selkiegrey4.blogspot.com

My next post will be

Friday, June 21st. 🤞

Here are the lyrics for "Drive" ~ composers Joe Bonamassa and James House:

Babe, you’ve been feeling poorly

I’ve been dealing with stress

Why don’t we go out tonight

Put on your favorite dress

And let’s drive

Into the night into the light

Let’s ride Put on an old blues song

Let all our troubles be gone

And drive

Feel like I’ve been a prisoner

Of my own design

I’ve been such a bad listener

But I hear you tonight

Let’s drive

Into the night, into the light

Let’s ride

Put on some old blues songs

Let all our troubles be gone

Let’s drive

30 miles from Santa Fe

Bound for San Anton’

Even though it’s dark out here

I don’t feel alone

Let’s drive

Into the night, into the light

Let’s ride

Put on an old blues song

Let all our troubles be gone

Let’s drive

Put on an old blues song

Let all our troubles be gone

Let’s drive

lyrics.com

Joe Bonamassa: "Joseph Leonard Bonamassa (born May 8, 1977) is an American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He started his career at age twelve, when he opened for B.B. King.[3] Since 2000, Bonamassa has released fifteen solo albums through his independent record label J&R Adventures, of which eleven have reached No. 1 on the Billboard Blues chart." Wikipedia

Books Read in 2024

"5 Languages of Love: The Secret to Love That Lasts" by Gary Chapman
"At Home in the World" by Joyce Maynard
"Cockroaches" by Jo Nesbo
"Death's End" by Cixin Liu
"Eruption" by Michael Crichton and James Patterson
"In Darkness" by L. Diane Wolfe
"In My Time of Dying" by Sebastian Junger
"Nothing to Fear" by Julie McFadden, RN
"The Bat" by Jo Nesbo
"The Dark Forest" by Cixin Liu
"The Frozen River" by Ariel Lawhon
"The Last to Vanish" by Megan Miranda
"The Montauk Monster" by Hunter Shea
"The Road to Character" by David Brooks
"The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
"The Twist of a Knife" by Anthony Horowitz
"The Uninhabital Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
"The Women" by Kristin Hannah
"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens
"Writing the Shadow" by Joanna Penn

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Friday, June 28, 2024

I Wish!

Friday, June 21, 2024

Laughter Is Good!

Friday, June 14, 2024

Drive