I’m having my 80-foot tall hickory tree taken down today, so I’ll be “supervising”.
While it’s still healthy, it largely overhangs the roof and is starting to drop branches. Plus I’m tired of dealing with all the hickory nuts. They’re the reason that part of the lawn has turned to weeds.
But Nike will miss watching & chatting to all his squirrel friends!
After a year of being COVID-cooped up at home, many of us feel like butterflies emerging from our cocoons and spreading our wings again. At long last we’re putting away our daily ensembles of sweatpants and pajama bottoms so we could at least be presentable (and comfortable) at Zoom meetings or Skype chats with friends and family.
Dr. La Verne Ford Wimberly of Tulsa, OK at first thought that the lockdown would only be a matter of a few weeks. She did not want to get out of the habit of dressing in her Sunday finest for church. So the 82-year-old retired teacher, Principal and Superintendent decided from the very get-go that she was NOT going to let COVID interfere with her deeply held spiritual routine of celebrating Sundays in high fashion.
While it’s true that her Metropolitan Baptist Church in Tulsa moved their services to the virtual realm, Dr. Wimberly continued her tradition of combining Faith and Fashion even if she had to do it at home.
Dr. Wimberly explains: “I just decided at that point, I was just going to get dressed as if I was going to church, so I would not get in the habit of just slouching around.”
When weeks stretched to months, she decided it’d be fun to share her adventure by posting her weekly selfies in her gorgeous chapeaus and finery on Facebook. And she’s kept that routine for 52 Sundays in a row!
Time to have your socks knocked off with some of her outfits.
But soon she felt her friends and fellow parishioners were paying too much attention to her millinery finery and clothes, so she started adding Bible verses and devotional messages to her posts. This is her latest post from last Sunday:
Dr. Wimberly: “I wanted not only to keep myself motivated, but I wanted to help keep others motivated as well, to inspire them, encourage them, and kind of eradicate some types and forms of depression, isolation, fear and despair.”
Amazingly, to date she has not repeated a single outfit. Dr. Wimberly admits that when she began work in 1963 as a teacher back in Chicago, she decided she would buy only quality clothes that would stand the test of time.
Dr. Wimberly also keeps a calendar journal of what she’s worn to avoid repeats. But when interviewed she admits she hadn’t made her April calendar yet – so we’ll just have to wait and see what she wears for Easter.
But in the meantime – more amazing outfits!
Even if you don’t celebrate Easter, I suspect most of you will enjoy listening to Bing Crosby croon a seasonal tune:
No matter what you think of Tucker Carlson, we can all agree that his facial expressions run the gamut of emotions from A to B.
I thought that since he’s now the leading prevaricator for Fox “news” he could add a second one – but I was wrong!
Whenever I’ve see a photo of Tucker he always has the expression a dog makes when you try to explain quantum physics to him.
So it made perfect sense in Fox world to feature a live Picture-in-Picture of Carlson’s “panoply” of reactions during Pres. Biden’s recent address to the nation on the anniversary of the COVID lockdown.
The Twitterverse started mocking Fox’s decision, and soon it was clear to even Fox that it was a huge mistake. So they started running chyrons trying to convince viewers to stick around because Tucker was actually going to lie again say something shortly.
Sadly, they ran out of chyrons and started recycling them:
You would think that Fox and Tucker would have learned their lesson from a previous incident …
But obviously they did not.
Oh, well – it’s always fun to make fun of Tucker.
I forgot to mention yesterday that I’ll be spending Friday w/ my cardiology buddies. So it will be a “Saturday Smile” instead.
As a U of Illinois alum, I have to admit that (sadly) it’s not all that common for my Fighting Illini to get to the top tier of sporting events.
But this year they did!
Since they’re seeded #1 in their bracket, I’ve been glued to watching the NCAA March Madness Finals. You have to go back to 2005 before they even made it to the Championship game (they lost to North Carolina).
So I hope you’ll bear with my absence from “Friday Fun” posts for the next couple weeks until my Fighting Illini are crowned NCAA Champs!
Well, it will be a LONG time before I use photos in a GIF that really require captions for clarity.
It wasn’t that terribly hard to find out how and teach myself, but the process is slow, tedious and boring!
When I learned that Pres. Biden was going to address the nation last Thursday, marking the one-year anniversary of our lockdown, I decided I would do a “photo essay” type of post.
But since it’s been a top story for over a year, I wanted to try to find some photos we haven’t all seen dozens of times – which was a challenge.
And then I wasn’t sure how to categorize them into sections since they obviously all had an underlying common thread. So there’s some overlap between the different GIFs.
No doubt a common impact of COVID here and around the world is that it’s made our lives much more insular and lonelier.
Of course it’s had a profound impact on the medical community
And its repercussions on individuals, families, friends, institutions and government will cause ripples for years and years to come.
I will close with a photo I’m sure we’ve all probably seen, but if I had to pick just one iconic photo representative our lives in the time of COVID, it’d be this:
I didn’t change horses in midstream, nor did I technically bite off more than I can chew – at least originally.
But when I had it done, I decided I really should go back and add captions to the 30 or so slides for it to make better sense.
So it was back to the drawing board to teach myself how to add captions and still create a GIF w/ them.
Should be ready by tomorrow.
For my penitence, here’s a Tweet of the our new Attorney General, Merrick Garland, arriving at the DOJ yesterday to a standing ovation.
So nice to have adults back in charge again!
WATCH: Merrick Garland is welcomed back to the Justice Department with applause as he begins his first day as attorney general https://t.co/O0WHnkmALQ pic.twitter.com/Gx6Gsi0uHh
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) March 11, 2021
We are all well aware that Donnie literally thinks of himself as a God – “I Am the Chosen One.”
And that he loves being idolized – quite literally – by his Trumpkins.
So it was no surprise to see a golden calf statue of Donnie being wheeled down the hall at CPAC.
#CPAC #AmericaUncancelled pic.twitter.com/mVqBuF2blY
— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) February 26, 2021
But many of us have probably not seen the purloined video of CPAC Trumpkins reacting to their golden idol.
Live from #CPAC2021 pic.twitter.com/lJayaE3opK
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) February 27, 2021
Good news keeps on coming: More than 300 seditionists have been charged with a Federal crime for their insurrection at our Capitol.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-riot-arrests-2021-03-05/
https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1
And FBI Director Wray firmly put the kibosh on the ridiculous right-wing conspiracy that is was all done by Antifa.
And we can all enjoy Andy Borowitz’ take on why it didn’t involve Antifa:
I’ll admit I have a fairly warped sense of humor, so it’s no wonder that this COVID-related cartoon struck me as funny:
NOTE: Not to get too pedantic, but I’m aware that Van Gogh actually mutilated his left ear. But since he drew his self-portraits using a mirror, they’re reversed – and so it looks like it’s his right ear..
Now that winter is coming to an end and March Madness is right around the corner, how about closing with a video from Canada of a unique slam dunk … on ice skates!