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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. And there should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work when coming back from one.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday Miss C!
Happy Friday, gwdMaine!
ReplyDeleteAll the cardboard looking ceramics on Jacques Monneraud’s site are sold so I couldn’t get a clue as to what he charges.
ReplyDeletexoxoxoBruce
Oh Miss C, so it was YOU who captured that rogue crocodile in Australia or wherever that was threatening local children? Good on ya!
ReplyDeleteI had to argue with Mr Ofgang (who wrote about the steerable one-man dirigible in the Smithsonian article). He stated that "The first heavier-than-air flight... only took place in 1903." But that's not right.
ReplyDeleteAs I said to him, I think the Wright brothers had the first controlled, powered, extended, manned flight, but I might be leaving out an adjective or two.
https://aertecsolutions.com/en/2023/12/11/the-wright-brothers-werent-the-first-or-were-they/