The Scariest House I've Ever Seen!

I've seen lots of scary houses and buildings in my lifetime,

but the scariest I ever saw was in Waikiki.

Terry and I were walking around and exploring the area near our hotel,

when a spooky house brought me to a full stop.

Straight Out of "The Birds"

Waikiki Area of Honolulu

Hawaii, USA

March 30, 2014

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A house and yard were covered with hundreds of whispering, cooing pigeons.

The sight and sounds thrust me immediately

into Alfred Hitchcock's natural horror-thriller movie "The Birds."

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My brother Roy and I saw this movie when it first came out in 1963.

We thought it was hilarious and laughed all the way through it,

much to the consternation of people sitting around us in the movie theatre.

It was inconceivable to think of seagulls behaving so badly.

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But when I saw this house on Waikiki, I was hit with a surge of terror:

all those birds eerily perched on almost every horizontal surface 

muttering, peering at me, ready to move at the slightest provocation.

I wasn't laughing now!  I was rooted to the sidewalk.

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Was Terry bothered?

Nope!  He just sauntered on by.

The only thing that worried him was the possibility of disease.

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Finally my urge to take photos overcame my urge to remain frozen on the sidewalk.

I eased out my camera and carefully began shooting.

The shutter sounded thunderous, but not one pigeon attacked.

A few fluttered, but I'm still here!

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I think someone who lived in the house had a sense of humor.

Really? 

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It's not nearly as exciting to walk past this house nowadays.

The city made the owners stop feeding the birds,

and they've all moved on:  Health hazard.

I can't resist a few memes:

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The Scariest House photos are for Rain's Thursday Art Date theme Haunted House;

and for Nicole's Friday Face Off this week, I have some faces below. 

 

It's no secret.  I've been dealing with brain fog about a year.

I've been worried about developing Alzheimer's, but it's more likely been due

to thyroid disease, multiple medications, Covid, prednisone, stress, or all of them together.

 

But my brain fog is dissipating, 🤞, and I can finally laugh about it:

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And some real faces in an old family portrait:  

Top Row: Mary Lou Raymond (cousin), Ella MacDonald (maternal grandmother), not sure (right)

Bottom Row (left to right):  my brother Roy, my sister Barb, Sara Cossaboom (maternal great grandmother)

Me (Louise),  My mother Sara MacBeath, and my sister Donnie

I will be without my computer from October 23 through November 2 and unable to post.

I'll try my best to visit around before then.

Have a great weekend! 

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

  My next post will be on 

Friday, November 4, 2022.  🤞

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A Baker's Dozen of Math Funnies

I'm sorry that I have been missing in action.

The past ten days have raced by,

as Covid has struck in multiple spots in our neighborhood,

and a shoulder injury, medical and dental appointments,

and computer woes have absorbed my time.

Time to escape into some funny math jokes to distract myself

and hopefully bring you chuckle or smile.

Hope is on the horizon.  We just have to hang tough a little longer.

Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday to all my American friends and family!

I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone.

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue


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Love Them or H8 Them!

Mathematics has been the bane of my existence.

I was great at arithmetic, and then one day I hit algebra.

I slammed into a barrier I couldn't work past for years:

How can you do math with letters?  Letters are for reading and writing.

You'd think that I would have given up on math at this point in my life.

I did once decades ago when I eked out a B in calculus,

tied my calculus text up with a ribbon, and tossed it in the trash.

But I am drawn to math's stark beauty and economy;

and if I can live long enough, I'll go back and relearn

how to solve the quadratic equation and other mathematical mysteries.  

Meanwhile when I need a laugh I sometimes treat myself to math jokes.

I don't always get the joke, but I will hunt down

what I don't understand until I get it or sort of get it.

And let me tell you, when I taught math to my second and third graders,

I made sure they grasped the math concepts I was teaching,

and we came at them from every possible direction I could think of

and with every hands-on, concrete manipulative I could find.

Here are some of the best jokes and math funnies I came across today. 

You'll either love them or H8 them!

I hope they give you a chuckle or a laugh!

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A Sine from God

For my brother Roy:  

Some people say the glass is half full. 

Some people say the glass is half empty.

Engineers say the glass is twice as big as necessary.

Don't tell my kiddos, but I had to double check factorials when I saw this joke,

just to make sure I was remembering correctly.

Factorials on the Loose

The factorial function (symbol: !)

says to multiply all whole numbers from our chosen number down to 1.

Examples:

5! = 5 x 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 120

8! = 8 x 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 40320

1! = 1

A talking sheepdog gets all the sheep into the pen for his farmer.

He comes back and says “Okay, chief – all 40 sheep accounted for.”

The farmer says, “But I’ve counted them and I’ve only got 36!”

The sheepdog replies, “I know, but I rounded them up.” 

I have more, but I'll save them for another day.

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue


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