Hunt Participants and Monday Morning Question...

Photo Scavenger Hunt #93

The subject this week is:  "broken, torn, or run-down"

I wanted to thank Krissy for allowing me to run her Photo Scavenger Hunt and Monday Morning Question the past few weeks while she has been doing a higher task.  Krissy, thank you!  I hope I made you proud!!  Krissy is asking a Monday Morning Question this morning in her journal and will be posting a subject for this week's Photo Hunt later on today so please visit her!  Thanks so much to everyone who continued to participate in my journal!  This week's photos were particularly poignant.  Please visit them if you can!  The participating journals are:

     Photo Trek
     Nancyluvspix
     My Photo Journey
     Ye Olde English Posy
     Holiday Photos
     Linda's World
    
Don't forget to visit Krissy's journal for next week's Hunt subject!  Have a lovely day, everyone and keep shooting! xox

 

Tags: Monday Morning Question, Photo Scavenger Hunt, photography

"Wordplay" and kitties!...

     
     "It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert,
      gentle, discriminating, little friends, who give us just enough
      of their regard and compliance to make us hunger for more."
                                                                               - Agnes Repplier

Good Saturday morning, everyone!!  Well how are you doing?  Yes, you !!  I wanted to thank all my journal peers for my VIVI nomination in the Best Entertainment category.  What a pleasant surprise to get a positive affirmation from my peers!  I humbly accept the nomination and wish all of the fellow nominees in these Awards good luck!!  Oh, and Krissy, congratulations on your nominations!!  She got five!  You DO deserve yours!!  Krissy got nominated for Journal of The Year!  That's my sissy!

Baby is almost two.  Wow, he is growing up quickly.  Baby and Honey still aren't friends.  I thought that they would be friends by now.  Nope.  Baby still stalks Honey.  Honey DOES NOT want to be friends with Baby.  Honey is six now.  She is the most gentle cat in the world and oh-so-sweet.  Baby is a moose - a dog.  He doesn't know he is a cat.  Something very interesting happened a couple of nights ago.  It had me smiling so wide.  Honey was hidden somewhere in the bedroom.  Baby came chirping, looking for her.  He does this a lot.  Baby has adopted the Maine Coon chirp from Honey(she is one-half Maine Coon).  Honey leapt from her hiding place in the closet onto Baby.  Honey then backed out of the room into the living room and waited for Baby to hide.  A game ensued... Baby hid.  Honey went looking for him.  When she couldn't find him he pounced out onto her.  They did this for about eight rounds.  A game of hide-and-seek!  It was the coolest thing I had ever seen!!  Not only were they cooperating, they were having fun!!  I laughed and laughed!!  The first time they have had organized play.  I am hoping not the last.

                                       

Time for "Wordplay"!  Since most if not all of us blog and many of us consider ourselves writers, I thought this might be a good question to ask for "Wordplay".  If you were given the chance to successfully write and publish any book, what would it be about and what would the title be?

I think that I would write something semi-autobiographical.  I would try and fill up the pages with humor and wit and inspiration.  That is kind of vague.  I do have some of a book in my head, but it isn't tied together yet.  As for the title, I am not sure either.  That is a hard one.  I have to think about that and get back to you.  I would love to write a children's book and illustrate it, too, someday.   What about you?  Let us know in the comments section.  If you want to answer this in your own journal, please come back and leave the URL to your entry in the comments section so that we can read your entry.  Thanks!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend! xox

Tags: Wordplay with Val, VIVI Awards, cats

Scavenger Hunt #93 subject...

    
       


Photo Scavenger Hunt #93 will be due on Sunday. October 22, at 11:00 PM EST.


The subject this week is:  "broken, torn, or run-down"

Please place links to your entry submissions in the comments section, including the full entry URL.  If you have any questions, please email me.  Interpret the subject any way you would like and have fun!!  Thanks for playing!

Tags: Photo Scavenger Hunt, photography

Photo Scavenger Hunt #92 Participants...

Photo Scavenger Hunt #92

The subject this week is: "Trees, leaves, and anything
                                                changing!"


The entries were stunning again this week!  I apologize to the participants for being a day late posting this.  I had way too many appointments yesterday.  Thanks to the following journals that participated!:

     My Photo Journey
     Footprints in the Sand
     Photo Trek
     Holiday Photos
     Gina's Space
     Ye Olde English Posy

...and Mark from Mark's Daily Journal had a late posting from last week here.

Thanks, everyone!

Tags: Photo Scavenger Hunt, photography

Monday Morning Question!

      


What is your favorite chore to  do?  Least favorite?

The idea for this question comes from Merry, who, apparently, LIKES to do a lot of chores.  LOL  Why, Merry, why??  LOL  Thanks, Merry!

My answer:  I think that I don't mind dusting.  I can't say I like it.  LOL  It is kind of neat to see things a bit dusty and then see them neat and shiny.  My list of least favorite chores is rather long.  I don't like to do anything that makes me stand still because it really hurts my muscles.  I don't like doing dishes and laundry and I never iron.  If something needs ironing it almost never gets worn.  What about you?


This may be the last week I have Monday Morning Question, so thanks so much Krissy for allowing me to take care of these games for you!!  It's been an honor and
a good time!  Hopefully, with better health for John and time allowed, Krissy can take her games back!  I will be announcing this week's Hunt subject.  Stay tuned!

Tags: Monday Morning Question

"Wordplay"!...

   
           "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language,
            of language, and for language. "  
                                                                - Gaston Bachelard


                                  

Good morning, my journal pals!!  It's Saturday morning and time for "Wordplay"!   Names are intriguing to me.  When I named my children I wanted them to have a common enough name so they wouldn't be teased, but not too common, so it would be distinct.  While visiting this site, I found out that my daughter was the only one in the country with her  name!!  Cool, Chelsea!!  Also, her son, Josiah, has only 2 other people with his first and last name!

According to the site How Many of Me, there are almost 300,000,000 people in the U.S.  I'm not sure when this census was taken, so maybe it has passed this number already.  The site claims there are 88,799 different last names and 5,163 different first names in common use in this country. 

There are 172 people with my name.  That doesn't surprise me too much because my last name is pretty common and I went to school with quite a few Valeries.

Visit the site and let me know how many of YOU there are!  You DO NOT have to tell me your last name, or even your first name, just how many of you there are.  Mind you, this only works in the U.S.  For those of you outside of the U.S., see if there is anyone with your name in our country and let us know how many!!

I had a lot of fun with this one!  If you want to, after you let us know how many of YOU there are, you can let us know how many of your mate and kids there are and leave a story in the comments section how your kid(s) were named!  Thanks for playing!!  Have a good weekend and don't forget that VIVI nominations begin tomorrow at midnight!  Have a lovely weekend, everyone!  xox

Tags: Wordplay with Val

VIVI nominations begin tomorrow!...

                                
                                         

This is a reminder to everyone that official nominations for the VIVIS Awards begin tonight at midnight P.S.T. and end midnight, Tuesday.  There will be only three days of voting!  If you want your nominations to count click this link - 2006 VIVI Award Journal and put them on your alerts, or visit them after midnight tonight to find out what you need to do!!  You are only allowed one vote per category, you can leave some blank, and you can vote for the same journal for more than one category.  All of your questions will be explained in this journal.  Let's make this FUN!!

                                       

 

Tags: VIVI Awards