Tuesday Photo Challenge – Round Up 163

jansenphoto's avatarDutch goes the Photo!

Welcome to the 163rd round up of the Tuesday Photo Challenge!

Your ancient thoughts were fantastic! You were creative in your approaches, ranging from matinees to mountains that hundreds of millions of years old! I very much enjoyed reading all your posts, some of which reminded me of my ancient life and made me chuckle.

All of you did a great job and I appreciate all the effort you put into your contributions!!

Here are some ancient bits…

Looking across the Forum

This look across the Forum Romanum is still one of my favorite views from our visit to Rome in 2017. In one view we get to see different periods of history from ancient Roman times to 20th century Italy.

  1. Sarah starts things this week in her post in By Sarah with something rather ancient: the granite hills in Mt Buffalo National Park!
  2. Brian’s post in Bushboy’s World takes…

View original post 684 more words

Shaping Your Children: Summer Week #2

Ginny Cruz's avatarGinny Cruz

Summer means swimming!

My summers were spent at the public pool and, yes, we rode our bikes there most days. Whether you have a public pool available, your own pool or you swim in the river, these times of freedom from the stress of schedules is so much fun!

Most children begin the summer by waking up late and spending the day either in their pajamas or their swimsuits. Who doesn’t want to do that?

As a pediatric physical therapist, here’s an important tip for you—make sure your children learn how to swim and can handle themselves safely near water. It is absolutely an essential life skill, in my opinion.

Here in Florida, water is everywhere. And when I worked in our local children’s hospital I saw way too many cases of near drowning. These were children who suffered brain damage from loss of oxygen (anoxia) because they almost drowned.

View original post 148 more words

Prompts – June 9 – The Old Toolshed.

Michael's avatarMorpethroad

IMG_0146Prompt B (sentence starter): “Can I poke around?”

“Sure.”

“So what’s this?”

“That my dear is a thingame.”

“Oh what’s it for?”

“Glad you asked it’s for fixing left handed bolts on right-handed nuts.”

“Oh, you’ve got a lot of stuff.”

“Taken me years to collect it all.”

“And what do you call this?”

“Hilda.”

“Hilda?”

“Yes it looks like a wrench doesn’t it, but it works better when I call it Hilda and watch this when I caress the handle. Hear that?”

“No.”

“Listen, it’s purring.”

“Really, you can hear that?”

“Of course, you should be here when I get Ralph out.”

“Ralph?”

“My nail hammer. Wow does he like being turned on. Goes off with a real bang.”

“I see. So what is this?”

“That’s a whatsit.”

“What does it do?”

“Whatsits!”

“As in?”

“As in any time you need a good whatsit, that’s your tool.”

“Its…

View original post 131 more words