REFLECTING BACK ON OUR RECENT VENTURE TO EGYPT WHERE WE DISCOVERED THAT TRAVEL IN EGYPT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST SEEING PYRAMIDS AND MUMMIES AS EVIDENT BY THIS MIRAGE ENCOUNTERED IN THE SAHARA DESERT
Mirage Appears in Egypt’s Sahara Desert as Refracted Light Rays Create Illusion of a River of Water
Link to Fast-Paced Video, accompanied by equally speedy music, of Mirage Encountered in Egypt's Sahara Desert:
Rediscovering King Tut's Tomb in Egypt's Valley of The Kings Using the Just Released iPhone 17 Pro Max
In 1922 Howard Carver was the first human being since 1323 BC to discover and view King Tut's Tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Lighted by oil burning torches his view of the magnificently preserved color images on the walls of the tomb was limited.
Fast forward 103 years to 2025 with Apple's release of the iPhone 17 Pro Max and using its advanced low light gathering technology you can view those same images in a way the world then could not view them from the black and white photographs taken by his team.
The images of King Tut's Tomb as captured in the below linked YouTube Video Playlist by the just released iPhone 17 Pro Max with its advanced low light gathering capability are among the best possible even today.
The three videos in this Playlist of King Tut's Tomb are as follows:
Entry into the tomb descending to its depths from the valley floor.
The deep chamber in which the elaborate colored images and slab upon which King Tut's Mummy was found encased in layered coffins by Howard Carter. (Including the gold funeral mask now on display at Cairo's Museum of Antiquities, along with the gold coffins, consist of over 25 pounds of gold.)
Transitioning from the deep chamber with its elaborately decorated walls to the entrance chamber which remains uncompleted given the premature death of King Tut as a teenager.
The entrance chamber to King Tut's Tomb is where his mummy has been relocated. Viewed there are views of the mummy itself. (His is the only mummy of a Pharaoh remaining in the Valley of the Kings as the others now are housed in Cairo's Museum of Ancient Civilization.)
Link to YouTube Video Playlist of the Rediscovery of King Tut's Tomb in The Valley of the Kings:
(The three videos should play in succession. Otherwise click "Play All." )
As an added note, the above referenced slab located in the original burial chamber is in fact the stone cover of the sarcophagus in which the trio of King Tut's nesting coffins were placed.
Until 2019 at least one of those coffins with King Tut's mummy inside were displayed there in the tomb's burial chamber with the sarcophagus's cover replaced by a sheet of glass. Subsequently all three of the nesting coffins were taken to Cairo's Museum of Antiquity with only King Tut's Mummy and the stone sarcophagus remaining in the tomb. His mummy was relocated to an entrance chamber where it presently rests in an enclosed glass case while the heavy stone sarcophagus remains in place in the original burial chamber.
King Tut's funeral mask contains close to 25 pounds of gold and his inner gold coffin contains 240 pounds of gold. The two outer coffins were made of wood.
It is also worth noting that it took almost a year from the 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb to reach the burial chamber and although early grave robbers close to the time of burial apparently looted through the outer chambers the burial chamber remained hidden. When discovered by Howard Carter the outer chamber had been resealed and there remained over 5,000- priceless artifacts intact. It is believed that the early grave robbers were apprehended by guards before the guards resealed the tomb and had possibly returned the stolen items. What they didn't do though was to neatly stack the looted through items that remained jumbled up when found by Carter.
Based upon some scientific experiments it is believed there are other hidden chambers behind the walls of the burial chamber and the speculation is that they may contain the yet unfound mummy and tomb of King Tut's mother Queen Nefertiti. They remain unexplored since to breach the walls, as pictured below, would destroy the valuable images painted on them.
Re posted Photo of King Tut's Burial Chamber with the top lid of his stone sarcophagus visible:
By way of explanation, the images on the far wall of the burial chamber depict scenes of King Tut in the after life as he is greeted by various gods. The side wall depicts the 12 monkeys representing the 12 hours of night through which King Tut would pass to enter the world of the after life.
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT EGYPT'S PYRAMIDS AND MORE INCLUDING AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE EGYPTIAN POLICE AND AN ALIEN
The intent was to produce a vlog reciting Egyptian jokes with the Pyramids of Giza as a backdrop. All went well until the gimbal balancing and steadying my new iPhone 17 Pro Max decided to collapse on me. Improvising I went ahead with a hand held effort and got through part of my joke infused narrative before having to rejoin my fellow travelers for a group photo.
In the course of it all I somehow lost my sunglasses but that is another story. OK, I’ll make it short. After reporting their loss to our gun-equipped government security official who rode with us on the bus, he radioed back to his on site police comrades and they found them and had them waiting for me when we eventually circled back on our return. At first I didn’t recognize them as mine until pulling up a photo where I had been wearing them. To complete the saga I had to “file” a police report which consisted of their taking a photo of me wearing them accompanied by a photo of my ID - so now I am in the official data base of the Egyptian Police.
Below is a link to a Playlist of YouTube videos I took at the site of the Giza Pyramids. It includes the improvised vlog effort which admittedly could have benefited from a retake. In any event, for the sake of completeness here included are the Egyptian jokes that made it onto the video as well as the additional ones intended.
Here goes:
Q. Why are the pyramids in Egypt?
Because they were too heavy to take to the British Museum in London.
After purchasing the Brooklyn Bridge, I got a great offer to buy the Nile but when I returned home I found out I had been E-Gypted.
If I think I was funny telling that joke, I would have to be in de-nile.
Q. What do you call small rivers in Egypt?
Juve-niles.
There are some strange small shops here in Egypt. I guess you could say they are a little bazaar.
Q. Why are hieroglyphs so valuable?
A. Because a picture is worth a thousand words.
In Egypt you have to look out for scammers. The worst are the ones who promise a great monetary return. Unfortunately it will turn out to be a pyramid scheme.
Then there was the Egyptian comedian who was trying to make a joke about a mummy, but he couldn’t wrap it up. It turns our the mummy was stressed out because it was wound too tight.
It turns out that the jokes written on the tombs in hieroglyphics are all old ones.
Q. What is the difference between the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas?
Ages of neglect and pillaging have caused one of them to fall into disrepair. The other is in Egypt.
Q. How do ducks fly in Egypt?
They flock like an Egyptian.
OK, for some serious stuff:
There are over 100 pyramids in Egypt and most were built during a 1,000 period of time during the three millennia that Pharaohs ruled Egypt. Later Kings preferred being buried in The Valley of The Kings located in Upper Egypt which was better protected from grave robbers. Giza and neighboring Cairo are located closer to the Mediterranean in Lower Egypt. (Think southern Egypt = Upper Egypt and northern Egypt = Lower Egypt based on the flow of the Nile from upper to lower.)
It is believed that the idea of a pyramid came from the Egyptian creation story that in the creation of the earth a pyramid shaped island rose out of the sea and then the first plant grew on it. Pyramids symbolized creation as well as resurrection with an after life.
The pyramids were built by hired workers and not slaves which has been confirmed by the recent (1988) finding near the pyramids of Giza of a close to 20 acre workers village that is currently under excavation.
It took approximately 20 years to build each of the three main Giza pyramids which were built in succession. In 2,600 BC the first, and largest was built for King Khufu, the second for his son King Khafre, and the smallest for Khafre’s son King Menkaure.
All three of the main pyramids of Giza were once covered with a limestone coating that caused them to glisten in the sun. One can still see this coating at the top of the 2nd largest, King Khafre’s pyramid. Gold plating may also have also adorned the pyramids, at least in part.
Inside the middle of the pyramids at Giza there is a chamber in each connected by a tunnel where the mummified King was entombed. Earlier pyramids had their King buried below the surface of the ground under the pyramid. One can climb up and into the Great Pyramid to reach the chamber where King Khufu’s stone sarcophagus still remains. At close to 500 feet in height, the Great Pyramid was the tallest man made structure in the world for over 3,000 years. Built from over 2.3 million blocks of limestone, weighing from two to fifteen tons each, it remains as the only existing Wonder of the Ancient World.
The first large pyramid built in Egypt was the Step Pyramid of Djoser built at least 200 years earlier. It is included at the end of the below linked YouTube Playlist.
Link to YouTube Video Playlist Highlighting the Pyramids of Giza and Egypt's 1st Pyramid, The Step Pyramid:
(The videos in the Playlist should play in succession one after the other. Otherwise click "Play All.")
Maybe there is something to those "Conspiracy Theorists" Who Claim Aliens were/are there on the Giza Plateau:
The group photo at the Panorama Giza Pyramids Overlook that preceded my encounter with the Egyptian Police as described above:
Pictured left to right, the three great pyramids of Giza: King Khafre's, King Khufu's and King Menkaure's with King Khufu's in the center being the largest and known as The Great Pyramid of Giza:
The only known image of King Khufu as exhibited at The Egyptian Museum of Antiquity in Cairo along with a statue of King Khafre also on display there:
At the side of The Great Pyramid of Giza with our accompanying Gun Equipped Government Security Official present:
Looking up from the base of The Great Pyramid of Giza along with climbing it:
Parting views of the Great Pyramid of Giza, The Last Surviving Wonder of the Ancient World:
The World's Oldest Pyramid, The Step Pyramid of King Djoser built around 2,700 BC and located in Saqqara Egypt:
The Red Pyramid of Dahshur, the first smooth sided Pyramid Pyramid as seen in the distance from the Step Pyramid:
The Pyramid of King Teti built in 2,340 BC along with the entrance to it and its inside Chamber with the King's sarcophagus:
HISTORY WAS MADE IN ALASKA THIS OCTOBER 30, 2025 AS AIR FORCE ONE CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE
In a grueling five days President Trump completed flying completely around the world that began with a stop in Qatar and continued on to Malasia, Japan, South Korea and finally Anchorage Alaska before returning to Washington D.C.
The President arrived here in Anchorage Alaska just after 3:00 A.M with Air Force One touching down at Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardsen. It was the second time that Air Force One came to Alaska in less than two and a half months. In Mid August the President met with Russia's President Putin here.
History was made today as it was the first time since Air Force One Circled the Globe with a stop in Anchorage, Alaska and the first time in almost 20 years that Air Force One had circumnavigated the Globe. No President since George Bush has accomplished that feat and in fact the only other two Presidents to fly completely around the world were Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon on an earlier version of Air Force One. Only George Bush in 2006 and now Donald Trump in 2025 have accomplished that feat on VC-25A, the modified Boeing 747 that is the current Air Force One.
In this Playlist are a series of music videos taken on this historic day and the prior days here in Anchorage Alaska which follow my video of Air Force One as it came in for landing here in Alaska in August.
Link to Playlist of Music Videos from this historic day in Alaska and earlier this week preceded by Air Force One's Landing in Anchorage Alaska:
A bear got into a Bass Pro Shop and had an all you can eat fish dinner and a bath in the fish tank. The bear then went to camping section and curled up on some duck blankets and slept the night away. What a great bedtime story, unless you are a fish.
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TODAY A MOTHER MOOSE AND HER CALF DECIDED "IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD" AS THEY SETTLED DOWN ON A NEIGHBOR'S LAWN
In fthe below linked Playlist, four video shorts are set to music. We get to see the progression of a mother moose and her offspring as they make themselves at home in my welcoming Anchorage Alaska neighborhood.
1st, the protective mother moose stands guard as her "baby" kneels down making itself comfortable as Conie Francis sings, "Pretty Little Baby."
2nd, Mother Moose kneels to join her calf now peacefully resting.
3rd, A jet raises up high in the sky as the two lay low below hunkered down on this crisp autumn day while the song, "Raise Me Up" plays.
4th, the pair contentedly munch in synchrony as they come into view from the opposite angle and a whimsical tune is heard.
Link to YouTube Video Playlist of today's Welcomed to the Neighborhood Mother Moose and her Calf:
(Each of the four one-minute videos accompanied by music should play in succession. Otherwise click "Play All")
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REFLECTING BACK ON OUR RECENT VENTURE TO EGYPT WHERE WE DISCOVERED THAT TRAVEL IN EGYPT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST SEEING PYRAMIDS AND MUMMIES AS EVIDENT BY THIS MIRAGE ENCOUNTERED IN THE SAHARA DESERT
Mirage Appears in Egypt’s Sahara Desert as Refracted Light Rays Create Illusion of a River of Water
Link to Fast-Paced Video, accompanied by equally speedy music, of Mirage Encountered in Egypt's Sahara Desert:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pSp980PegtQ
Concurrently taken photos as taken on the highway through the Sahara Desert from Aswan to Abu Simbel:
Sunrise over the desert:
Still shot of the mirage with its illusion of a river of water:
Along the desert roadway:
Egypt's Impressive Reclamation Efforts to bring water from the Nile to the Sahara's desert sands to create new farmland is no mirage though:
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Rediscovering King Tut's Tomb in Egypt's Valley of The Kings Using the Just Released iPhone 17 Pro Max
In 1922 Howard Carver was the first human being since 1323 BC to discover and view King Tut's Tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Lighted by oil burning torches his view of the magnificently preserved color images on the walls of the tomb was limited.
Fast forward 103 years to 2025 with Apple's release of the iPhone 17 Pro Max and using its advanced low light gathering technology you can view those same images in a way the world then could not view them from the black and white photographs taken by his team.
The images of King Tut's Tomb as captured in the below linked YouTube Video Playlist by the just released iPhone 17 Pro Max with its advanced low light gathering capability are among the best possible even today.
The three videos in this Playlist of King Tut's Tomb are as follows:
Entry into the tomb descending to its depths from the valley floor.
The deep chamber in which the elaborate colored images and slab upon which King Tut's Mummy was found encased in layered coffins by Howard Carter. (Including the gold funeral mask now on display at Cairo's Museum of Antiquities, along with the gold coffins, consist of over 25 pounds of gold.)
Transitioning from the deep chamber with its elaborately decorated walls to the entrance chamber which remains uncompleted given the premature death of King Tut as a teenager.
The entrance chamber to King Tut's Tomb is where his mummy has been relocated. Viewed there are views of the mummy itself. (His is the only mummy of a Pharaoh remaining in the Valley of the Kings as the others now are housed in Cairo's Museum of Ancient Civilization.)
Link to YouTube Video Playlist of the Rediscovery of King Tut's Tomb in The Valley of the Kings:
(The three videos should play in succession. Otherwise click "Play All." )
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLtb5zi734BfZnDyzRI_PI6oW86E-vMEkp
Concurrently taken photos:
Treasures once in King Tut's Tomb that are presently in Egypt's Museum of Antiquity in Cairo:
A gold funeral mask similar to the one King Tut wore:
As an added note, the above referenced slab located in the original burial chamber is in fact the stone cover of the sarcophagus in which the trio of King Tut's nesting coffins were placed.
Until 2019 at least one of those coffins with King Tut's mummy inside were displayed there in the tomb's burial chamber with the sarcophagus's cover replaced by a sheet of glass. Subsequently all three of the nesting coffins were taken to Cairo's Museum of Antiquity with only King Tut's Mummy and the stone sarcophagus remaining in the tomb. His mummy was relocated to an entrance chamber where it presently rests in an enclosed glass case while the heavy stone sarcophagus remains in place in the original burial chamber.
King Tut's funeral mask contains close to 25 pounds of gold and his inner gold coffin contains 240 pounds of gold. The two outer coffins were made of wood.
It is also worth noting that it took almost a year from the 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb to reach the burial chamber and although early grave robbers close to the time of burial apparently looted through the outer chambers the burial chamber remained hidden. When discovered by Howard Carter the outer chamber had been resealed and there remained over 5,000- priceless artifacts intact. It is believed that the early grave robbers were apprehended by guards before the guards resealed the tomb and had possibly returned the stolen items. What they didn't do though was to neatly stack the looted through items that remained jumbled up when found by Carter.
Based upon some scientific experiments it is believed there are other hidden chambers behind the walls of the burial chamber and the speculation is that they may contain the yet unfound mummy and tomb of King Tut's mother Queen Nefertiti. They remain unexplored since to breach the walls, as pictured below, would destroy the valuable images painted on them.
Re posted Photo of King Tut's Burial Chamber with the top lid of his stone sarcophagus visible:
By way of explanation, the images on the far wall of the burial chamber depict scenes of King Tut in the after life as he is greeted by various gods. The side wall depicts the 12 monkeys representing the 12 hours of night through which King Tut would pass to enter the world of the after life.
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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT EGYPT'S PYRAMIDS AND MORE INCLUDING AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE EGYPTIAN POLICE AND AN ALIEN
The intent was to produce a vlog reciting Egyptian jokes with the Pyramids of Giza as a backdrop. All went well until the gimbal balancing and steadying my new iPhone 17 Pro Max decided to collapse on me. Improvising I went ahead with a hand held effort and got through part of my joke infused narrative before having to rejoin my fellow travelers for a group photo.
In the course of it all I somehow lost my sunglasses but that is another story. OK, I’ll make it short. After reporting their loss to our gun-equipped government security official who rode with us on the bus, he radioed back to his on site police comrades and they found them and had them waiting for me when we eventually circled back on our return. At first I didn’t recognize them as mine until pulling up a photo where I had been wearing them. To complete the saga I had to “file” a police report which consisted of their taking a photo of me wearing them accompanied by a photo of my ID - so now I am in the official data base of the Egyptian Police.
Below is a link to a Playlist of YouTube videos I took at the site of the Giza Pyramids. It includes the improvised vlog effort which admittedly could have benefited from a retake. In any event, for the sake of completeness here included are the Egyptian jokes that made it onto the video as well as the additional ones intended.
Here goes:
Q. Why are the pyramids in Egypt?
Because they were too heavy to take to the British Museum in London.
After purchasing the Brooklyn Bridge, I got a great offer to buy the Nile but when I returned home I found out I had been E-Gypted.
If I think I was funny telling that joke, I would have to be in de-nile.
Q. What do you call small rivers in Egypt?
Juve-niles.
There are some strange small shops here in Egypt. I guess you could say they are a little bazaar.
Q. Why are hieroglyphs so valuable?
A. Because a picture is worth a thousand words.
In Egypt you have to look out for scammers. The worst are the ones who promise a great monetary return. Unfortunately it will turn out to be a pyramid scheme.
Then there was the Egyptian comedian who was trying to make a joke about a mummy, but he couldn’t wrap it up. It turns our the mummy was stressed out because it was wound too tight.
It turns out that the jokes written on the tombs in hieroglyphics are all old ones.
Q. What is the difference between the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas?
Ages of neglect and pillaging have caused one of them to fall into disrepair. The other is in Egypt.
Q. How do ducks fly in Egypt?
They flock like an Egyptian.
OK, for some serious stuff:
There are over 100 pyramids in Egypt and most were built during a 1,000 period of time during the three millennia that Pharaohs ruled Egypt. Later Kings preferred being buried in The Valley of The Kings located in Upper Egypt which was better protected from grave robbers. Giza and neighboring Cairo are located closer to the Mediterranean in Lower Egypt. (Think southern Egypt = Upper Egypt and northern Egypt = Lower Egypt based on the flow of the Nile from upper to lower.)
It is believed that the idea of a pyramid came from the Egyptian creation story that in the creation of the earth a pyramid shaped island rose out of the sea and then the first plant grew on it. Pyramids symbolized creation as well as resurrection with an after life.
The pyramids were built by hired workers and not slaves which has been confirmed by the recent (1988) finding near the pyramids of Giza of a close to 20 acre workers village that is currently under excavation.
It took approximately 20 years to build each of the three main Giza pyramids which were built in succession. In 2,600 BC the first, and largest was built for King Khufu, the second for his son King Khafre, and the smallest for Khafre’s son King Menkaure.
All three of the main pyramids of Giza were once covered with a limestone coating that caused them to glisten in the sun. One can still see this coating at the top of the 2nd largest, King Khafre’s pyramid. Gold plating may also have also adorned the pyramids, at least in part.
Inside the middle of the pyramids at Giza there is a chamber in each connected by a tunnel where the mummified King was entombed. Earlier pyramids had their King buried below the surface of the ground under the pyramid. One can climb up and into the Great Pyramid to reach the chamber where King Khufu’s stone sarcophagus still remains. At close to 500 feet in height, the Great Pyramid was the tallest man made structure in the world for over 3,000 years. Built from over 2.3 million blocks of limestone, weighing from two to fifteen tons each, it remains as the only existing Wonder of the Ancient World.
The first large pyramid built in Egypt was the Step Pyramid of Djoser built at least 200 years earlier. It is included at the end of the below linked YouTube Playlist.
Link to YouTube Video Playlist Highlighting the Pyramids of Giza and Egypt's 1st Pyramid, The Step Pyramid:
(The videos in the Playlist should play in succession one after the other. Otherwise click "Play All.")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLtb5zi734BfbZZi7rdj6ZOnDTfKsSrMhc
Concurrently Taken Photos:
Maybe there is something to those "Conspiracy Theorists" Who Claim Aliens were/are there on the Giza Plateau:
The group photo at the Panorama Giza Pyramids Overlook that preceded my encounter with the Egyptian Police as described above:
Pictured left to right, the three great pyramids of Giza: King Khafre's, King Khufu's and King Menkaure's with King Khufu's in the center being the largest and known as The Great Pyramid of Giza:
The only known image of King Khufu as exhibited at The Egyptian Museum of Antiquity in Cairo along with a statue of King Khafre also on display there:
At the side of The Great Pyramid of Giza with our accompanying Gun Equipped Government Security Official present:
Looking up from the base of The Great Pyramid of Giza along with climbing it:
Parting views of the Great Pyramid of Giza, The Last Surviving Wonder of the Ancient World:
The World's Oldest Pyramid, The Step Pyramid of King Djoser built around 2,700 BC and located in Saqqara Egypt:
The Red Pyramid of Dahshur, the first smooth sided Pyramid Pyramid as seen in the distance from the Step Pyramid:
The Pyramid of King Teti built in 2,340 BC along with the entrance to it and its inside Chamber with the King's sarcophagus:
HISTORY WAS MADE IN ALASKA THIS OCTOBER 30, 2025 AS AIR FORCE ONE CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE
In a grueling five days President Trump completed flying completely around the world that began with a stop in Qatar and continued on to Malasia, Japan, South Korea and finally Anchorage Alaska before returning to Washington D.C.
The President arrived here in Anchorage Alaska just after 3:00 A.M with Air Force One touching down at Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardsen. It was the second time that Air Force One came to Alaska in less than two and a half months. In Mid August the President met with Russia's President Putin here.
History was made today as it was the first time since Air Force One Circled the Globe with a stop in Anchorage, Alaska and the first time in almost 20 years that Air Force One had circumnavigated the Globe. No President since George Bush has accomplished that feat and in fact the only other two Presidents to fly completely around the world were Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon on an earlier version of Air Force One. Only George Bush in 2006 and now Donald Trump in 2025 have accomplished that feat on VC-25A, the modified Boeing 747 that is the current Air Force One.
In this Playlist are a series of music videos taken on this historic day and the prior days here in Anchorage Alaska which follow my video of Air Force One as it came in for landing here in Alaska in August.
Link to Playlist of Music Videos from this historic day in Alaska and earlier this week preceded by Air Force One's Landing in Anchorage Alaska:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLtb5zi734BfaqynH3Xumgosj1ImaSV7CP
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HAPPY HALOWEEN
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A bear got into a Bass Pro Shop and had an all you can eat fish dinner and a bath in the fish tank. The bear then went to camping section and curled up on some duck blankets and slept the night away. What a great bedtime story, unless you are a fish.
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The women from THE VIEW.
Must be hickory broom sticks.
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HAPPY DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN
On Halloween- an Ocean Mirrored Pumpkin-Colored Sunset Silhouettes Alaska Volcano Spurr & Mt Susitna
Link to Music Video of Halloween's Pumpkin Sunset:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4FMS9RpQzJ0
Halloween Photos from Yesterday:
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"This week, Dictionary.com announced "6-7" (pronounced "six-seven") as its Word of the Year, putting the nonsense internet slang trend that's exploded among Gen Alpha and Gen Z – and frustrated parents and teachers – back in the spotlight."
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TODAY A MOTHER MOOSE AND HER CALF DECIDED "IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD" AS THEY SETTLED DOWN ON A NEIGHBOR'S LAWN
In fthe below linked Playlist, four video shorts are set to music. We get to see the progression of a mother moose and her offspring as they make themselves at home in my welcoming Anchorage Alaska neighborhood.
1st, the protective mother moose stands guard as her "baby" kneels down making itself comfortable as Conie Francis sings, "Pretty Little Baby."
2nd, Mother Moose kneels to join her calf now peacefully resting.
3rd, A jet raises up high in the sky as the two lay low below hunkered down on this crisp autumn day while the song, "Raise Me Up" plays.
4th, the pair contentedly munch in synchrony as they come into view from the opposite angle and a whimsical tune is heard.
Link to YouTube Video Playlist of today's Welcomed to the Neighborhood Mother Moose and her Calf:
(Each of the four one-minute videos accompanied by music should play in succession. Otherwise click "Play All")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLtb5zi734BfaSduktUsLxGbhfKF9VdEL0
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