Yesterday I picked up my twenty-year-old daughter in Chelmsford, Ma at noon.
We enjoyed a lovely drove to Ogunquit, catching up nonstop about the summer past.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
This picture shows a new leaf of the P. setiferum cultivar 'Cristato Pinnulum', about 30 cm (12 in) in height. Photograph credit: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Yesterday I picked up my twenty-year-old daughter in Chelmsford, Ma at noon.
We enjoyed a lovely drove to Ogunquit, catching up nonstop about the summer past.
We parked for $25.00 and walked out along the Marginal Way, getting some fried calamari to nosh along the way.
Weather was sunny and 68*, perfect for the walk.
This is us on the walk:
At the end of the walk we stopped for coffee and dessert at an Italian café and then headed for the return walk to the $25.00 parking lot to retrieve our car.
Then came a forty-mintue drive up Rte 1 to Kennebunk and the White Barn Inn No Bushes in sight.
The ambience, service, and food were excellent,; the prices predictably high.
We drove home to Boston, arriving nine hours from our meetup.
Spectacular.
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Publication Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Name: Parrot in the Freezer
Length: 2.33
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Chuckle of the day:
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
True love lasts forever.
At the World Cup Final.
A man makes his way to his seat right next to the pitch and notices that the seat next to him is empty.
He leans over and asks his neighbor if someone will be sitting there.
‘No,’ she says, ‘The seat is empty.’
“Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Final and not use it?”
“Well actually the seat belongs to me. I was supposed to come with my husband but he passed away. This is the first World Cup Final we haven’t been to together since we got married.”
“Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. That’s terrible. And you couldn’t find someone else, a friend, a relative to take his seat?”
“No,’ she says. ‘They’re all at the funeral.’
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Thanks to all for the plethora of ideas forwarded re: subject matter for the videos.
Web Meister responds: In the coming videos I’ll focus on stories or ideas that are personal to me.
Thanks to all.
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Today’s Thumbnails
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Lead picture:
Polystichum setiferum, also known as the soft shield-fern, is an evergreen or semi-evergreen fern native to southern and western Europe.
The Latin specific epithet, setiferum, means 'with bristles'.
The species is frequently cultivated as an ornamental plant for use in gardens.
In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year that are always green.
This is true even if the plant retains its foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season.
A silver fir shoot showing three successive years of retained leaves.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Thanks to all showing their continual support by emailing ideas to us.
Thanks to Howard for his latest ideas for the videos.
And to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Tuesday, the twenty-seventh day of August, 2019
I love pressed ferns.
I carry a half dozen with me at all times.
For good luck.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.