Lawdy!!!!

I don't know how I did it, but I got some pics to post.  When I connected the camera to the new laptop, a newer version of "Play Memories" by Sony was installed automatically by this damn Windows10. I didn't do anything!It's more confusing than the older version I had - the files are all over the place. This is really gonna take me a while to figure out where all the folders are. BUT....at least they are on the hard drive....

Pictures will be posted as I find them - no special date order until I figure it all out! LOL!

Sunset after the last snowfall:

This is Maude's egg that I posted about the other day:

Our local little airport:

Sorry I haven't been posting much - still awfully tired and frustrated with myself for not being stronger. I have a bad cold and on top of all the rest of the nonsense going on, I burned my hand on the rack getting this out of the oven:

(Yep, it's 5 layers deep)

And here's a funny just in case you've missed 'em:

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Dang....

... if it only had a rooster instead of a boid....

Ah, well, couldn't afford it anyway!

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Today's funny :o)

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All quiet....

                                                      .... in Coopville.

Still cannot get my camera pics to the blog but at least they downloaded to the program that came with the camera. Maybe by the end of the week......

Finally figured out how to stop that touch pad thingy from messing up the sizes of pages.

That gang is fine. Betty has pulled a whopping amount of feathers from Charlie's neck. His neck is not bleeding, so I don't think minds. Yet, he will bite her when I hand out the raisin treats. He doesn't want her to have any.

Maude laid a humongous egg - it was so large it wouldn't even fit in an old 'jumbo' egg carton. Will post the pic of it when ...

Wilma got caught in the deer netting that is covering the run. She tried to fly over it but missed. Two hawks have been hanging around - they even fly over the pen and perch in the nearby trees. If she had flown out, she would have been a goner. Just a typical day around here!


'Hope everyone had a wonderful New Year!

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Happy New Year!

Wishing all...

and most importantly, a healthy one!

 May this coming year fill your home with Joy, your heart with Love & your life with Laughter.

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At the Hop

The Sisters!

Sisters Rosella, Ersi, and Mary Arvizu believed they could be the next Supremes — even before there were Supremes. They called themselves The Sisters.
Mark Guerrero, son of Chicano music legend Lalo Guerrero, tells the story:

In the mid-1960s in East L.A., The Sisters were the Eastside’s answer to Motown’s Supremes.  Like The Supremes, they were three well-dressed, classy, female vocalists who could sing extremely well.  The Sisters were actually formed several months before The Supremes burst on the national scene.  However, according to Ersi and Rosella, although they liked and were influenced by The Supremes, they were more influenced by other female vocal groups such as Martha & the Vandelas and The Ronettes.  The Sisters recorded three singles in 1965 for Bob Keane’s DelFi Records and were a fixture on the East L.A. music circuit of the era.  Ersi went on to sing with El Chicano on their second album, “Revolution,” where she provided the lead vocal to their classic recording of “Sabor a Mi.”

Friday Night Steam

We're off to Japan tonight!

 Sit back and enjoy some amazing scenery!

Published on Jul 23, 2016
Japan is a country well known for its fast and modern electric trains, especially the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway. But there are a few lines with regular steam operations. The JNR (Japanese National Railways) have given up steam operations in December 1975, and from then SL (also the Japanese abbrevation for Steam Locomotive) have been running on the Oigawa Railway. In the late 1980s, there was a boom with several more SL coming into service. But although steam trains are very popular among railfans in Japan, the sale from tickets alone is not enough to cover their costs, and so [2C2] C 62 3 in Hokkaido was not overhauled in 1995, now standing as a static display at Naebo Works in Sapporo. The seven main routes with regular steam operations are all normal railways (no museum railways with steam only as in Europe and America), and they have added the SL to generate extra traffic along their normally quite rural - although sometimes electrified - lines. Two museums have small railways inside their premises, Meiji-Mura and Umekoji, which are described below. All these lines have a gauge of 1067 mm (3'6"). Static SL can be seen quite often all over the country.
There are also very many small railways with narrow gauge (762 mm or less) in Japan with steam locomotives, mostly operating as a circle line in theme parks. One of them is the Narita Yume Bokujo Railway. More about these railways below.
Reservations: All trains listed here only have reserved seats. Reservations can be made at JR travel centers or ticket windows (midori no madoguchi) throughout the country (for Chichibu and Mooka: at JR East only). Normally reservations can be made one month before and I strongly recommend to reserve well in advance.
Days of operations: Only the Oigawa has a daily steam train. The other lines are running normally at weekends and on public holidays between the middle of March and the end of October or even November; Mooka is running throughout the year. Many lines run more often or even daily during Golden Week (29 April to 5 May) and the summer holiday season. If I know the days of operation, I have given them here; however if there are no dates given for one month, then it does not necessarly mean that there are no steam trains running in that period. Older dates are not deleted to show the pattern of operation.

Source: Bangla Natok HD