Suitcase Packed & Raring To Go (020/366)

Jeff: Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase and come back three times?
Lisa: He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.

Rear Window, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, perf, Alfred Hitchcock director, Paramount Pictures, 1954.

TIME:  6:34 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  StellaDella’s Suitcase

SD was supposed to go with her friend Mikayla to an overnight at Mikayla’s church.  She was so excited about this.  I swear that’s all I’ve been hearing about for the past couple of days.  The anticipation built and built until she was just about to burst.  When I arrived home from work, she was all packed and ready to go.  About 30 minutes before we were to leave, the phone rang with the bad news that the event had been cancelled do to the icy road conditions we have.  SD was devastated, until she received the invitation to spend the night at Mikayla’s house instead.  It’s her first “official” sleep-over at a friends house.  All is right with the world once again.

A T-Rex Named Sue (016/365)

"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."

Henry Miller (American, Author, 1891-1980)

TIME: 7:02 PM
PLACE: Science Center
SUBJECT: Tyrannosaurus Sue

Sue is the largest T-rex specimen ever discovered and the best preserved. She is 42 feet long and 12 foot high at the hips. Her skull is 5 feet in length. They estimate she weighed 7 tons (6.4 metric tons) when alive. Sue's fossilized bones weigh more than 3,000 pounds. Sue lived 67-65 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous Period. She was discovered in the Hell Creek Formation of Western S. Dakota on August 12, 1990.

This was a very hard place for me to take a decent picture. It was crowded, the lighting stank and people kept getting in the way - the nerve! Didn't they know I had to get a picture for my blog for today? Don't they know it's all about me, me, me. me, me? Sheesh, people, get a clue!

Popeye (010/365)

  

"I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam."

Popeye the Sailor Man

TIME: 8:58 pm
PLACE: Elzie C. Segar Memorial Park, Chester, IL
SUBJECT: Popeye Statue

HandsomeHusband had a get-together for one of his organizations and the whole family was able to go for the fun. It was in Chester, Illinois, "Home of Popeye". According to Chester's website, this bronze statue is 6-foot tall and weighs 900 lbs. The park, next to the Chester Bridge, honors Popeye's creator, Elzie Segar.