Pictures for the Letters E and R

These are the last two letters of our challenge that I have not posted pictures for. Let me see what I can come up with........Okay for the letter 'R' I am using the word "Rooftops". These are a couple of pictures of the roofs of some houses in Greece.

 

 

 

For the letter 'E' I am using the word "Entertainment". My son-in-law Corey has a band that plays at some of the local clubs. They call themselves Caerbannog. If you are familiar with Monty Python and some of those movies, you might recognize the name. The name has something to do with the rabbit in the Holy Grail movie (I think).

That does it for me. Everyone take care. xxxx

Challenge Continued

So, getting back to nicknames. I have always had a nickname for most of my grandsons. I call Zachary, my son's boy, Monkey Doodle. He was always hopping around so, he reminded me of a monkey. Now that he is older though, we usually call him Zachman! He looks like a little warrior in his karate gear. Here is a recent picture of him all decked out in his karate protective, fighting garb.

I call Henry Doodlebug. He is such a cute and entertaining little fellow that the name just stuck. He makes kissy faces and wrinkles his little nose up so you just want to grab him and give him big hugs and kisses. He really is a little ham at times. Spencer, well you have all seen plenty of pictures of him and you know what a chubby baby he is, so he is my Chunky Munkey!

Well, I am now the letter V. I couldn't think of anything that started with a V that would be interesting until I ran across this picture of Johnny Depp. I think that he is so 'VERY' good looking! We played a game once about who we would choose as our 'Hollywood husband' and he was my choice. So, what do you think?

For the letter 'N' I chose some pictures my friend took at the beach as night was falling. The one is a great picture of the moon.

Take care everyone. I am enjoying reading your posts about nicknames and seeing your pictures. xxx

More Nicknames and a Photos for I and L

I'm taking up with some more nicknames. I had two nicknames for my daughter. Her name is Stacey and I used to call her Stacey Lacey. Another appropriate nickname for her was "Pig Pen" like the character from the comic strip "Peanuts". That little guy would leave a trail everywhere he went. She was pretty much like that as well.  I used to have to watch her when she was cleaning her room because she would just throw everything in the closet or under the bed. It's funny because she now is super neat.

My son's name is Donald. The only nickname I ever used for him was "Donald Duck" like the Disney character. He shortened his name to Don now but I still call him Donald. That's never going to change. I'll talk about other nicknames in another post.

My picture for the letter "I" is one of the birthday cake my daughter made for Erik's birthday last month. So my "I" stands for "inventive". She is very clever with cake decorating, etc. This was a take of the game "Minecraft" that Erik likes to play. She made all of the characters on the cake.

"L" is for "laughter" so here  is a collage of the kids laughing.

My last picture for "L" is of Spencer 's little bottom "lip" sticking out like he is going to cry. I was told that wasn't the case though, he was just making faces at his mommy.

Let's Reflect Challenge - September

Our challenge from Anne is as follows:

Let's continue our little trip through the word LINING. Today we reached the letter N and the word I chose will probably surprise you. I selected it because it's a fun word, mostly very affectionate and caring and also it will give us an occasion to learn a bit more about each other again. Our word this month is : 

NICKNAME

According to our Friend Google:

Nickname  : A familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name.

So maybe you are going to be brave and tell us your nickname or the one you had when you were young, or may be you will do so for your partner, your kids, your pets, or something that belongs to you, like your car, or a piece of garment, or your first toy . . . the choice is yours.

In addition Anne added this side challenge:

If you have a bit more spare time and would like a photo challenge, here we are: This week, take photos of things or people whose names only start with one of the letters we already used in this challenge : S, I, L, V, E, R or N. There are 7 letters for 7 days. You can do in any order you want.

I have never really had a nickname. I always wanted some neat or cute one though! I have a girlfriend whose nickname is 'Pookie". I'm not sure how she got it but I suspect it was her dad because he used to call me 'jurce' when we were kids. That was as close to a real nickname as I ever got I guess.

Hubby had several nicknames growing up but I think the one that stuck the longest is 'BOA' having had something to do a certain body part we won't mention. Can you guess that this nickname came from a bunch of guys he played football with in high school? It was a joke of course!

My name is Joyce but I go by JoyJoy on my blog as it is the nickname I gave myself for that purpose. It would hard to come up with anything else with my short name. I have always hated my name and wish I had been given something a little more exotic like Veronica or Jasmine. Oh well, I guess after 62 years I have gotten used to it. I will pass along some of my other families' nicknames later in the week.

As for the pictures of the letters already used in our challenges, here is mine for the letter "S". The first is my daughter Stacey when she was about 13 months old. I found this as I have been going through my old pictures.

This one is of a sunrise a friend caught on his way to work on Friday. While he is not a professional photographer by trade, he spends most of his time taking some of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen of wild birds.

That's it for today. I will post again tomorrow! Take care everyone. xxx

Another View

Just popping in to post another view. Everyone always has such beautiful pictures of where they live while I feel I am very limited, but I did manage to catch some of the birds around the golf course along with the changing sky. We had a storm rolling in. The bottom right bird is a sand crane. The top left is a Stork I believe, with some Ibis hanging around.

That's it for today. Take care everyone. xxxx

September Views

Warm September brings the fruit
             sportsmen then begin to shoot......


Well, September is definitely warm here. We are expected to have temperatures in the mid 90's all week. I don't know anyone who hunts so I don't have anything to say about that. Yesterday was Labor Day (the first Monday in September). Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women and to mark the end of summer. It has been a national holiday here in the US and Canada since 1894. A lot of people used to consider it the last big day for cookouts and going to the beach before school started for the year (which was always the day after Labor Day). Now here in Florida, it starts the around the second week of August, so that old tradition isn't so famous anymore. People still flock to the beach but it just doesn't seem the same anymore. We went over to some friends for a cookout. They have a pool so the kids were happy but it was HOT! Here is a picture of Spencer hanging out at the pool trying to stay cool. He doesn't like the pool (Henry loves it). Spencer is my little chunky monkey!

My view is of Henry wearing his mommy's crocs. She used to do the same thing when she was his age with my shoes though they were usually either my high heels or my hiking boots. She also would not have a bottom half on most of the time as she was famous for pulling her diapers off.

He is such a little ham and so much like his mother was at that age that I laugh at her all of the time and say, 'now you know what I went through'. LOL

I will try to post some other pictures of the outdoors if I get a chance. I cannot say we are headed towards Autumn (we usually say Fall) weather yet.

Take care everyone! xxxx

End of Photos

Sorry, I got behind again. I will post a few more pictures in color and black and white then move on to our next challenge. This is Erik and Reidar's first day of school this year.

To be fair here are pictures of Zachary's first day as well (color and black and white).

So I guess that is all for this challenge. I will catch up on your posts as well. xxxx