Sunday Trip (017/365)

TIME: 10:47 am
PLACE: Ste. Genevieve Missouri
SUBJECT: Mississippi Lime Company

PLACE: 50 8th Street, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
SUBJECT: Former Miss Elaine building (lingerie), now occupied by Missouri Moulding & Glass

PLACE: 202 La Haye St, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri (Ziegler Street side of building)
SUBJECT: Former store sign

PLACE: 481 Pine Street, St. Mary, Missouri
SUBJECT: Immaculate Conception Church

PLACE: St. Mary Antique Mall
SUBJECT: Candle holder reflecting blue tumblers behind it

PLACE: S Kings Highway, Kaskaskia Island
SUBJECT: Deadwood and bare trees in the Mississippi Channel

PLACE: My leg
SUBJECT: A small portion of the numerous burrs that attached to me
when I was taking photo above.

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The bright blue skies we enjoyed turned gray and included snow flurries on the drive home.

Controlled Burn (312/366)

TIME: 9:53 am
PLACE: Millstadt, IL
SUBJECT: Fire

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My sister and I were on our way to Millstadt when we saw a large cloud of smoke over a part of the town.

We both said that we hoped it wasn't at our brother's or at the friend's house we we going to.

As we turned on the street to our friend's home we realized it was right next door to her house.

Thankfully, it wasn't an accidental fire, but a controlled burn on the property.

We piled in her car and drove to Ste. Genevieve, MO to do some picking and antiquing.

TIME: 2:23 pm

PLACE: St. Mary's Antique Mall, St. Mary's, MO
SUBJECT: Sprinkler alarm

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I thought the sprinkler alarm outside the antique mall would be an appropriate companion photo with the one I took earlier in the morning.

What Is That Rabbit Smoking? (173/365)

TIME: 9:31 PM
PLACE: Alley
SUBJECT: Rabbit

Stella, Claudia and I were on our way home from seeing “The Incredibles 2” when I had to stop in the alley because this rabbit was in the way.

He just sat there. Didn’t even move when I honked the horn.

From this angle, it looks like he’s smoking that leaf on the ground.

Must have mellowed him out.

House On Fire (035/365)

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

TIME:  4:45 PM
PLACE: Highway 15
SUBJECT:  House on fire

It wasn’t the best day at work.
Things just weren’t going the way they should.
On the way home, I passed this house fire.
I realized my day could have been a lot worse.

Flashback (202/365)

Gloria Stivic: Robin's burning incense. I think it smells nice.
Archie Bunker: It smells like a house of Ill Refute.

All in the Family: Season 1, Episode 7. Mike's Hippie Friends Come to Visit. 23 Feb. 1971.

TIME:  8:18 PM
PLACE:  Dining room
SUBECT:  Incense

I decided to make the house smell nice with some Ramakrishnananda Hand Rolled Incense in the “Hari” Amber & Sandalwood scent.  It’s giving HH flashbacks to the Seventies. 

July 4th (185/365)

“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”

J. Horace McFarland (American, leading proponent of the "City Beautiful Movement", 1859-1948) - statement at the conference of the USA governors held in the White House, Washington D.C., in 1908

TIME:  6:22 PM
PLACE:  Front sidewalk
SUBJECT:  Smoke bomb

This is the extent of our fireworks this year…DramaQueen went to a friend’s get together on Saturday and brought home a bag of smoke bombs.  She set them all off after supper.

Smoke, No Fire (306/365)

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.

Claude McDonald (American, writer, b1925)

TIME:  12:00 PM
PLACE:  St. Luke’s Hospital
SUBJECT:  Steam pipe

Yesterday, MonkeyBoy’s football team ended up winning their game by forfeit as the opposing team did not show up to play.  So, MB’s team decided to scrimmage against each other.  HandsomeHusband said that he had never seen them hit their opponents as hard as they hit each other during that scrimmage.  MB tackled a teammate and hurt his upper left arm.  He couldn’t raise it past his shoulder and had some pain.  So this morning, I called the pediatrician and made the trek to her office.  A visit to the radiologist and two x-rays later, we got good news - there were no breaks or fractures!  He will just be sore for awhile and it should resolve itself with no further issues.

This steam pipe is visible from the parking garage that is attached to the hospital and the doctor’s offices.  After I took this, we went to Costco for a cheap lunch (you can’t beat $1.50 for a jumbo hot dog and a soda!) and the purchasing of pancake mix, a gallon of syrup, trash bags, almonds for my father, and winter coats for the rugrats.  Such excitement.