Jigsaw Puzzles

My wife loves to do jigsaw puzzles.  Here is one that she just completed last night.  You would think that it would be easy, but it wasn't.  I helped a wee bit.  Yes, I found two pieces that fit and my wife did all the rest.  Of course my two pieces were very, very important. . . yeah, sure (grin).

She has about a dozen of them, so it is one down and eleven to go.  There sure is a sense of accomplishment when a person completes putting a puzzle together.  Some people may think that it is a waste of time, but those same people sit for hours on end watching TV.  Hey, if you have free time, you should be able to spend it any legal or moral way that you want to.  Now, you all have a great day, you hear? 

Have You Ever Seen an UFO?

Have you ever seen an UFO?  I bet you have. Yes, I have.  In fact just yesterday I saw bird I couldn't identify and it flew away, so if UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, then that bird fits the description, right.  So, anything you spot in the air that you don't know what it is, will fall into that classification.  So, I would say that 99 percent of all sightings could have a rational, down to earth explanation but that one percent could really be an Unidentified Flying Object.  And that one percent could also be something from earth.  Below, is a chart of all the different types of UFOs that have been reported at one time or another:

Don't forget, you can click on pictures to enlarge them.

I had an uncle who lived next to the Allegheny River across and down river a bit from the little town of Foxburg, PA.  He had a deck that over looked the river which he sat on a lot at night.  He claims that he saw an UFO flying down the river, not more than a hundred feet above the river.  And yes, he was a sane, logical, normal person.

I also found a lot more information on this internet site:

 http://facts.randomhistory.com/ufo-facts.html

I found, on that site, where the origin of the title "flying saucers" came from:

"The modern UFO era began in 1947 when pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine disc-shaped objects flying over Mt. Rainer, Washington. A reporter labeled them “flying saucers,” and the term entered mainstream consciousness."

Now keep watching the sky, you never know what you may see, you hear?

The Blue Season.

OK, in the past I have posted a few blogs about the yellow season that we have here in East Texas.  In case you forgot, here are the links to a couple of them:

http://dizzydick.blogspot.com/2014/03/wondering-about-yellow-season.html

http://dizzydick.blogspot.com/2015/03/wondering-about-yellow-season.html

Yep, every March we get that yellow season, but today we are into the blue season.  Yep, the Texas bluebonnets are in full bloom along with the Indian paintbrush.  The bluebonnets seem to be everywhere.  Thanks to Ladybird Johnson and the highway department, our highways and byways are lined with blue.  Oh so lovely this time of year.

I was going to stop yesterday and take some pictures of a field that looked like these, but then I remembered that I didn't have my camera with me.  So, I got the above pictures off the interenet.  Now, you all have a great day and if you live in Texas, get out, take a road trip, and see the Spring beauty, you hear?

Getting Old.

Since I qualify as being old (73 is old, right?), I can talk about it.  I found these on the internet at Here.  Yes, they are funny but they are also so true:
- Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work.
- Happy hour is a nap.
- It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired.
- You don't remember being absent minded.
- Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
- It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

There are a lot more, but those above will give you an idea of getting old.

OK, how about a list games that us old folks can play?  Here is a list:

-Tag, You're it.

-Pin the toupee on the bald guy.

-Kick the bucket

-Rover, Red Rover, the Nurse says "Bend Over".

-Simon says something incoherent.

-Hide and go pee

-Musical recliners

My mother, toward the end of her life, always said that "getting old ain't for sissies".

That is a partial list and I am sure you can add to both of the above lists.  You have your choice, you can grow old peacefully or kicking and screaming.  Since I am already sitting in my rocker/recliner, I guess I am going peacefully.  Let's hope all of us have a long and prosperous life filled with love and joy, you hear?

Gone but not Forgotten.

My favorite male County Music singer passed away today.  Here is a link to a complete story:
Click HERE.

He made it to 79, and I sure hope he went out singing.  The "here after" just got a new member of their choir.

Now, you all have a great day, you hear?

Just Some Silly Questions.

I got a few questions that may seem silly to some.  I am wondering about light.  They say that the speed of light is constant at 299,792,458 meters per second or 670,616,629 miles per hour.  But then they say that it only travels that fast in a vacuum and it slows down and/or bends when it travels through other things.  So, therefore, it ain't a constant, is it?

This brings to mind another question.  What if we could travel at the speed of light, what would we see out the windshield?  Well, I would say if we are traveling faster than light, I guess we would be seeing the absence of light, dark.  This is what you would see when looking out that spaceship's windshield:

                                                   

                                                   

                                                   

                                                   

                                                   

                                                   

                                                   

                                                   

(There is not supposed to be any white lines)

I have heard fighter pilots say how quiet it gets after they break the sound barrier (761.2 mph), so doesn't it figure that if you broke the light speed barrier, you wouldn't see light?

If we want to visit other solar systems that may contain habitable planets, we would have to travel a lot faster than the speed of light because of their enormous distances, or have a large enough space craft to house families so that their great great grandchildren would get to visit those places.  I am afraid that it may be a one way trip for any who are brave enough to go.

And, to change the subject, I have a few more questions:

-How do I get off a nonstop flight?

-How do I throw away my garbage can?

-I talked about the speed of light, so what is the speed of dark?

-When day breaks, who fixes it?

-Where is Old Zealand?

-Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

-Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

I could go on and on, but will stop here.  If you want to read anymore of them, just go to the web site where I found them:

http://corsinet.com/braincandy/stupid.html

Now, you all have a great day, you hear?

Are You a Has Been Star?

Have any of you ever thought that they would like to be a star?

Or that some where in you past one or more of your relatives may have been movie or music stars?  Even if there were no stars in your past, you are made of star stuff, each and every one of you.

In fact the Earth and everything was once part of a star. . . no, not the movie kind, the kind that are twinkling overhead on a clear night.  The universe is full of huge inter-stellar dust clouds left over from the "Big Bang" and over time, some parts of these dust clouds collapsed in on themselves and created stars.  Some of these stars exploded (a super nova) to help seed the universe.  Here are some super nova pictures:

A big blue space eye watching you.....That bright spot in the center is the glowing cinder left after the star blew off its outer layers.

Now we can't be prejudiced just because I have blue eyes, so here is a brown eye looking at you from space:

And this every color one which is Nova-1987A:

For more pictures, see my older posting a few days ago.  Go to this site: OLD POST

Not only were stars formed, but our solar system and everything else that is flying around out there.  The dating of the oldest meteorites shows that they were formed 4568 million years ago.

So, as you see, we are all made of star stuff and our lineage goes back a long, long way.  All things came together to give the third planet from our sun everything it needed to support life of all kinds.  How did this life get started?  That is a topic for another blog sometime in the future.