Saturday, June 29, 2024

Where are they…?!?

 $1M Powerball/Mega Millions winners

Powerball

  • 2-25: Plano
  • 7-19: Forney
  • 10-04: Forney / Lake Worth
  • 10-07: Mansfield

Mega Millions

  • 3-24: Dallas
  • 7-25: Anna
  • 9-26: The Colony

Other Texas Lottery jackpot winners

  • 4-22: Colleyville -- 5200 Colleyville Blvd. (Lottery Now) $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot 
  • 5-17: Mansfield -- 2881 Highway 157 N. (One World Grocery) $7.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot
  • 6-17: Weatherford -- 102 E. I-20 (Tiger Mart) $8 million Lotto Texas jackpot
  • 8-17: Dallas -- 7650 Campbell Road (7-Eleven) $17 million Lotto Texas jackpot
  • 8-30: Pearland -- 11003 Shadow Creek Parkway (Kroger) $6.25 million Lottto Texas jackpot
  • 10-12: Garland -- 509 W. Avenue D (Old Town Store) $1.125 million Texas Two Step jackpot 

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Saturday, June 22, 2024

More Trees Please

 A note about trees…

During the heated days of summer, a request, More Trees Please!

When I go into stores for supplies and/or goodies, my car bakes in the wonderful sun, and it’s a double-edged sword. 

    The city decided in its infinite wisdom to plant lots and lots and LOTS of trees, and it’s awesome πŸŒ³ 

   Yes, the birds in the trees are pleasant and keep the parking areas clean, good design plans for that. 

    The trees get fed our CO2 carbon dioxide and, in exchange, work tirelessly to scrub the air day and night. This keeps the air clean and the sky clear, which lets even more sun thru! This is an easy fix, more trees! More shade, more clean air, it’s a win-win Win :-) 

    As a side note, get-away cars can hide from helicopters which was amusing to see once because the helicopter lost the getaway car in the mini manicured forests  πŸŒ³ πŸŒ³ πŸŒ³ πŸŒ³ 

   When the getaway car emerged from the trees, the air was so clean and clear, they could see the car license plate details with their eyes!  

      

                         


   More trees please   πŸ™   

  


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Saturday, June 15, 2024

It’s that time of year :-/

To be honest, in junior high school (yes, it was called junior high back then) I collected signatures to end clubbing of baby seals in Canada for their beautiful white fur. 

More recently, I collected signatures electronically to end the Yulin dog and cat meat "festival" in China. 

To this day, they are apparently still clubbing baby seals for their fur in Canada, and they’ve added some sort of strawberries to the dog-meat in China. 

Maybe signatures can help with rescues; 

-‘Please ask China to ban this cruel "festival" and put an end to the dog and cat meat trade for good! 

https://hsus.ms/325/28efhz   

-Lauren@HSUS’- 


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Saturday, June 8, 2024

At the mercy of…

 

  The Weather..! 

I love a good cozy rainstorm, thunder, lightning, the works, even sleet/hail can be fun, 

but not for driving! 

I dream of constructing a classic snowman, carrot for the nose, πŸ₯•, pieces of coal for the eyes, a pipe and a scarf, 

but not for driving! 

Sunbathing by the pool, on a beach, on a roof during a heatwave is luscious, 

but not for driving! 

Wind is okay, just okay. 

A Perfect Day? 

Spring, cool, no sweat, a warm sunny day, or real light overcast with no rain, every driver on the road is courteous, aware of their surroundings, no one is late to anywhere, everyone is well-fed and happy. 

I’ve had a few of these days and hope to again!  

Drive Safe. Thanku.   πŸš—


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Friday, May 31, 2024

RRII

 

                                         From online; 



   


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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Saturday, May 25, 2024

A Roadrunner!

 Can u see him? 

Lower right side on the grass by the water’s edge. 






Here he is, caught in mid-flight/walk; 




And here he is in his element, on the road taking off, they really are fast!  

They run so level that you’d swear they were standing still, but the minute u try to adjust the lens on the camera, he had just ran several yards! 





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Friday, May 17, 2024

Good news or bad news first?

 I’ll post this 1st to get it over with; 

   The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival is an annual festival held in Yulin, Guangxi, China, during the summer solstice in which festival goers eat dog meat and lychees. 

Apparently lychees are like strawberries.  I don’t want to judge and I can’t. 

I used to sign petitions every year to stop the Yulin dog meat festival because they steal pets and no one stops them and the gov’t can’t. I can’t find petitions for 2024. Feel free to post link here if u find one and sign it, thanks! 

Good news is that I found a rescue, by sight. I saw a beautiful tiger there who glanced at me as I rolled down the window to say hello. He went right back to his cat-nap and I drove on because how do u communicate with a tiger for pete’s sake..? 

   I found their website;

https://www.carerescuetexas.com/meet-the-animals/overview.html 

I’m not sure what type of rescue it is, but it was easy to find with beautiful open grounds.  

                           

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Saturday, May 11, 2024

MORE Spring Colors! And a fun rescue…

 I can’t help it, I see these colors popping thru the brilliant green as I try to pass them by and can’t, so I stop to share them here. Oh, and I included a pic of a giant rock because, well, just because! :-) 

  

 

There he is! There are these tiny bright yellow butterflies all over the place! Everywhere! And yet they refuse to hold still for a photograph. They are small enuf that when u can capture a pic, they don’t show up or look like tiny yellow smudges :-/ 
I finally caught one. He’s in the top right corner perched on a pink flower cluster.  
Sorry for the massive download but these are only half of the best pics I captured…



 

Supposedly the above is a Musk Thistle. All those thousands of white flower clusters are Wild Carrot (?) 





 

The pink clusters above are either Mourning Brides or Gypsy Roses. 





 

Above are Pink Ladies. I see these randomly. They don’t congregate around signs or trees where water might gather, neither hill nor dale nor nice neat rows, just totally random clusters of about a dozen or so of these flowers 🌸 here or there or where u least expect them, so odd! 


 
More ‘Wild Carrot’ flowers. 



Don’t the above flowers look like Cleopatra from the Addams Family? ☺️ 












And last but not least, a rescue I follow on YouTube called One Happy Ass Farm! 
A donkey Rescue? Okay. They don’t seem to re-home them or raise them for export or anything, just rescues that they care for all their lives. 
Of course, they come across abandoned dogs and cats, rescue them reluctantly and try to re-home them. 
I haven’t visited there and not sure where they are located, I just follow their updates and shorts. The lady narrator and her husband are fun and engaging. 











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