Monday Photo Shoot: ICE CREAM

The sun's been hot, it's the lazy days of August, and nothing helps to beat the heat than some ice-cold ice cream. With that in mind, this week's Photo Shoot Topic:

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Cool down with a photo that in some way involves ice cream. Other frozen treats such as Popsicles, frozen yogurt, ice milk and sherbet are also entirely acceptable. If it's sweet and it's frozen, it qualifies.

Also remember that although it's the Monday Photo Shoot, you can get pictures in until Thursday noon.

I had to go back to July of 2003 for this shot of three granddaughters sitting on the porch eating popsicles.  Actually, it appears the two older girls had already eaten their popsicles and were left with nothing but sticks.

I can certainly tell it was taken with my old camera; the shot isn't nearly as clear as it would be with my Canon Powershot.

Anyway, if you'd like to join in with the Monday Photo Shoot, hunt up a picture, put it in your journal, and leave the link to that particular entry at John Scalzi's journal.

The 2,996 Project

This September 11th, the fifth anniversary of that terrible day on which 2,996 people were killed in the terrorist attacks, I'll be participating in The 2,996 Project. The idea is quite simple: bloggers are being asked to sign up to receive information about one of the victims. On 9/11/06, they'll write a post about that person.  The goal, of course, is to have someone blogging about every single 9/11 victim.

I'll be blogging about Lt. Christopher P. Sullivan this coming September 11.  He was 38 years old when he died in the World Trade Center.

There are still many names left, if you'll like to join in on this tribute.

Another from Patrick

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:
Name seven cities you'd like to live in that you have not already lived in before.

Either answer the question in a comment in Patrick's Weekender, or answer it in your journal and include the link in a comment HERE. (To be considered "first to play," a link must be to the specific entry in which you answered the question.)

1.  Salida, Colorado

2.  Ouray, Colorado

3.  Colorado Springs, Colorado (should Cliff preceed me in death, if I'm still able-bodied at the time, this is where I'll be living once the farm is sold)

4.  Pagosa Springs, Colorado

5.  Grand Junction, Colorado

6.  Alamosa, Colorado

7.  Gunnison, Colorado

Patrick's Saturday Six

Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment at Patrick's Weekender, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal at Patrick's Weekender so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. How many different time zones have you lived in?   Only this one, central.  Which one would you most like to live in?  I've always wanted to live in Colorado... what's that... Mountain standard time? 

2. What is the current setting of your home's thermostat? Not applicable here, since we don't have air conditioning.  Do you adjust it up or down based on the time of day, or leave it at one setting at all times?  We do have a small window unit in the bedroom.  Normally we turn it off when Cliff gets up, but lately, with highs over 100, we turn it to a higher temperature setting (in other words, warmer) but leave it on, and that way the dog and I have a refuge at times, when the going gets too rough.

3. Go to your bedroom closet (or the closet in which you keep the majority of your clothes. Take a quick glance: what color do you see the most of? Blue  Is this color your favorite color?  yes  If not, why do you have more of it than your favorite color?  Actually I didn't realize it was my favorite color until I stepped back a few years ago and noticed that half my clothes were blue!

4. Take the quiz: What kind of house are you?   Take the quiz:
What Kind of House Are You?

Apartement House
You're an excellent multi-tasker, though at times you feel as through you are pulled in a dozen directions at once. Take things easy for a while and try to simplify your life. Maybe subdivide.

Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook!

5. Imagine your dream house: how many stories would your ultimate home have?  Oh, I've imagined my dream house so many times!  One story, a full basement, two bedrooms, a study... wait, that's more than you wanted to know, isn't it?

6. Ripped from the Headlines: An underage teenager decides he does not want to undergo a particularly rough regimen of chemotherapy to treat his cancer. With his parents' blessing, he decides to pursue an alternate treatment to be supervised by a clinic that is outside of the country. Should a court intervene and force the teen to undergo the "traditional" treatment? I'm not sure.  How much does the prognosis for successful treatment with the chemotherapy affect your judgment?  A lot.

a must-read journal

This lady recently discovered she has breast cancer, and is now gathering her resources to fight the uninvited guest in her body.  She has a flair for writing, seasoned with a wonderful sense of humor.  Go cheer her on, won't you?  The journal is "I Shaved My Legs For This?".

What a day!!!!

When Cliff and I took our morning walk, I suggested that if he had a motorcycle ride in mind, we'd best take it early.  The forecast was for terrible heat.

He finally decided we'd ride for just a couple of hours, until it got too hot.

I had a question for his sister, Charlene, and suggested he call her.  He did that, and casually mentioned that we were going for a ride.

She decided to abandon her plan of cleaning house, and asked if we'd come by their house.  They'd ride with us (for a couple of hours).

There's a huge western store south of here that has an unbelievable inventory of boots, so we stopped there.  Cliff and I tried to decide which motorcycle boots we'd buy when we can afford it.  And he bought some gloves with the fingers cut off, just because Pat has some like that, and looks so cool wearing them.

We ended up in Sedalia (the town where my granddaughters and I will spend three days next week at the fair).  Pat needed to replace a light on his motorcycle, so our first stop there was at the Harley dealer.  Harley riders always seem to need some new part or  other.  Then we had to figure out where to eat.

Cliff wanted steak, so Pat asked one of the salesmen at the Harley place if he had any suggestions as to where we could find a good steak.

Little Big Horn Steak House, he said. 

Hmmm, I recall what happened at Little Big Horn.  Do we really want to eat there?

We did, and the steak was great!  (Cliff and I split a 14-ounce steak.)

On the way home, we spent some time at the Baltimore Bend vineyard and winery, browsing through all their T-shirts and novelties.  Then we headed home.  We knew it was hot, but were surprised to see that the sign on the B&L Bank at Lexington read 101 degrees.

Arriving home, I heated up the left-over turkey frame soup while we planned a couple of  adventures for this fall.

It's fun being a sixty-two-year-old kid.

By the way... that "couple of  hours" turned into six.  Oh well.

Good morning!

Someone asked to see a picture of "the point".  The awesome thing about it, really, is the view.  You can look in the distance and see for miles and miles on the other side of the Missouri River.

I do hope, if there's to be a wedding there next year, that we'll get some timely rains.