Janet's Smiles

I’ve done posts about myself before so I’m trying to think of new things, or at least a new way of looking at them.  Working from the top left down: 

1) I am a hopeless romantic and believe in knights in shining armor, BUT, I also believe that I can be Queen and not just a princess waiting for rescue.

2)  I’ve had the “Bill Loves Jan” sign for over 30 years and it sticks on the dashboard of all my cars.

3) We went on a helicopter ride and had a picnic overlooking the Grand Canyon for our anniversary a few years ago.  We stayed in the Excalibur Hotel which looks like a castle (see #1).

4)  I am a creator and absolutely love working in my new backyard studio.

5) I am a Pisces and I love the ocean.  I don’t get there as much as I’d like and that has to change. 

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The prompt for today’s #Augustbreak2019 is “hope.”  The prompt for #SLS is “Songs with somebody famous in it.”

I’ve chosen the song “I Knew You When” by Bob Seger.  While the lyrics don’t specifically mention his name, Mr. Seger has said it is his tribute to the late Glenn Frey who was a good friend of his.  The lyrics include the word Hope.

In fact, the whole album is dedicated to Glenn.  There is a slight reference to #45 in the song “Busload of Faith” where he sings, “You can’t depend on the president, unless there’s real estate you want to buy.”  Funny, but sad at the same time.

I had hoped that we could see Bob Seger one more time before he retires but sadly his visit in our area coincides with the golf tournament my husband participates in every September and it just won’t work out.  I’ll just have to remember the other times we saw him.

The video:

Hope is a hard thing to take a picture of but every time I look at the full moon I think about my dreams for the future and hope that the Universe is listening.

Full moon coming again next week – get ready to share your hopes!

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Where I am most of the time is working from home so my outfit is my PJs and I’m pretty sure I don’t want that out there in the Internet for all to see.  Here is one of my latest outfits that I can share:

My dog walking outfit, fanny pack with treats, leash with poop bags and a sparkly cap because that’s how I roll.

          

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Since I just took a picture of the ground yesterday for curves, I needed to do something different for today’s prompt.  Here’s my take on it:

 Birthday, Anniversary, New Baby, Sympathy…even some early Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Check them out on the Etsy site.

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Interesting that I have walked down this street (my own block) almost twice a day for the past four months when I take Benny for his daily constitutional and never noticed the curved bricks in this driveway until today when I was thinking about the August Break prompt of “curved.” 

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This is a difficult one.  I didn’t just want to take a selfie since I do that all the time so it took me a while to come up with something.  Then I remembered that my girls and I went to the Backstreet Boys concert on Sunday and it was for their new album, DNA.  That makes me think of humans so here you go:

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This is one of my most favorite prompts because I end up adding so many books to my “want to read” list.  I don’t know about you but I can’t read more than one book at a time and generally I prefer the actual book to a Kindle or Nook version.  However, one of my blogging friends is an author who has been churning out mysteries quite rapidly and if I bought the actual book each time I’d be broke!

James J. Cudney is the author of whom I speak and right now I am reading the fourth book in his Braxton Campus Mystery series, Mistaken Identity Crisis on my iPad.

 
All the mysteries are set around Braxton College and Kellan, the sleuth, has his hands busy not only with solving the crimes but also with his young daughter and the rest of his family.  The characters in the series are quirky and fun.  I’ve yet to be able to figure out “who done it” before the end of the book.

Jay has written two other books, not in the series, his first novel, Watching Glass Shatter is a great book about a family of five brothers whose father dies suddenly and leaves his wife a cryptic message about one of the boys.  Jay has said there will be some sort of sequel or follow up to this book as well and I’m looking forward to that.

The other book, Father Figure, is also about a family intrigue but this time is is girls, born decades apart, who don’t know that they share a parallel history.

I’d highly recommend any and all of these books if you are looking for a new source.

So far so good with keeping up with August Break.  We have no big plans for the month so I should have time to keep going.  Still time to join in!

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Today’s prompt is buttons.  I think I have a few:

How about you?  Got buttons? 

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You are going to get two posts from me today because I can’t connect the prompts from Song Lyric Sunday and August Break.  Hope you don’t mind.

First up is Song Lyric Sunday as curated by Jim Adams.  I decided to go with a pretty old show, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.  It was on from 1969 to 1972 and was a cute show about a young boy, Brandon Cruz, trying to find a wife for his widowed dad, Bill Bixby.  There were a lot of up and coming actors on the show and it was a feel good kind of program.  Each episode started with a conversation like this: 

The song was written by Harry Nilsson and while I’m not a big fan of his, the song fits perfectly.

The lyrics are short:

Bill Bixby went on to play David Banner (the Hulk) and sadly died at age 59 from prostate cancer.  He also had a brief show, The Magician, and was on My Favorite Martian with the late Ray Walston.  Personally, I always thought Mr. Bixby was a handsome guy so I enjoyed watching him on all the shows. 

And there’s your #SLS.  Make sure to pop over and see the other participants in today’s song fest. 

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Is this not an astronomical number of power lines?

Short post late today.  Spent the day with my mom who turned 96 years old and my sister.  Had a fun day 🙂 

Covering the Day 3 Lines prompt for The August Break and the Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt of Astronomical. 

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