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Another Feast Day is upon me.  Midsummer or the Summer Solstice is the most powerful day of the year for the Sun God.  It is a Fire feast so bonfires will be lit. Incense: Sage, mint, basil, Saint John's Wort, sunflower, LavenderDecorations: Dried herbs, potpourri, seashells, summer flowers, and fruits.Colours: blue, green, and yellow Element: Fire Midsummer Incense Sage, mint, basil,...

 First, you know what an earworm is? It's that damn commercial jingle, or segment of a song, quotes. Things like that just rolls around and around in your head seemingly forever. My mother who I was pretty close to had them all the time but she would just sing it or say it and all the time in the kitchen. Which is where she was most of the time anyway. On any given day I would hear the same...

I finished my last blog with the Periscope Shears and the lookout platform built.  I’ve been rather busy adding quite a bit of detail to this part of the superstructure.  Unfortunately, I didn’t take a lot of pictures (read none) to show the progress.  But I will show each of the details I’ve added now.  Reference photo is at the bottom. I’ll start with the SJ Radar mast.  In the...

#OTD In 1933, Nazi Germany staged a daylong national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses http://apne.ws/ZcmZsiE  Who knew today is the 85 anniversary of the BDS movement? I wonder if there is some sort of ceremony on American university campuses to commemorate the event? Walking in the footsteps of monsters! (they could call it) It is really not that difficult to trace this toxic ideology...

We got this about 2 weeks ago and it was delivered a week ago. We're slowing getting the things we need for it like sheets, memory foam, dry goods, towels, etc. We probably won't get to take it out for a few weeks because of the vacation plans we made before we bought the camper. But I'm going to sit down with my "sister" and talk to her about the campsites she and her husband go and make...

  “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” ― Anne Frank  I am going to spend today looking inside of myself to find my potential.

Why Do We Need A Publisher? NewsTalker’s underlying platform provides native support for three types of articles:  Blog, Discussion and Group Discussion.   Blogs are for authors (or columnists) to produce and publish original content.   Discussions, in contrast, are less formal.   A discussion can be original content or it can be a seed.   A seed is an article whose original content was...

MockingBird DaY This morning, there were sounds of many voices heard outside my window. I thought, "Who could it be, now?" I gazed over at the security cameras. There was the neighborhood mockingbird up and at 'em prancing house-left along my home - spitting out mellow sounds and rhymes in a throaty soliloquy to no bird in particular.  I watched as this lady bird bounced and sprang up on...

Okay, I know the Fairwater isn’t the first step in the assembly instructions for the Revell model kit.  But I’m a Submariner.  And we are referred to as Pirates.  So I treat instructions like the Pirate Code:  they’re more like guidelines than actual rules! At any rate, it’s easier to get the fairwater built first before installing it on the model.  Besides, this is the area that will...

  “A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.” ― Pearl Bailey  As I think about this I see the truth in the quote.  If you do not want to go forward then what is there to live for?  If you do share yourself (love) others then again what is there to live for?  I consider myself...

As I’ve said before, Revell did a great job of modeling the Gato class from the early years of the war.  But many of the fleet boats went through major changes over the few short years they were in service.  It is not uncommon to see different configurations of the boats in pictures taken no more than 6 months apart.  Much of the conversions were due to technology advances, as well as...

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