thoughtful thursday

erma bombeck:

a grandmother pretends she doesn't know who her grandchildren are on halloween!

whismical wednesday

halloween eve! we are preparing for halloween for whimsical wednesday. what will you do? help make a costume? make a homemade treat for special trick-or-treaters? buy a ton of candy for the hordes that arrive tomorrow night? carve a pumpkin? share your halloween preparations with the whimsey project!

wednesday afternoon...  
my whimsical wednesday halloween preparation activity included baking brownies and assembling treat bags. living in a rural setting, what trick or treaters i might receive are invited. in years past i have had a few visitors. this year there will be more than a dozen! i'm very ready and excited!

trivia tuesday

from triviaquestions.com:

halloween!

https://www.triviaquestionss.com/halloween-trivia-questions-with-answers/

miscellaneous monday

keep adding to your 2019 time capsule! what is a 2019 time capsule? at the beginning of the year we secured a container in which to place any item that would remind us of an experience we had that we wish to remember. on new year's eve or new year's day, we will look at the items placed in the time capsule and reminisce about our wonderful experiences in 2019.

if you have not begun to keep a 2019 time capsule, today is a great day to begin! halloween is next week, thanksgiving, christmas and other seasonal holidays are soon to arrive. these are perfect time capsule opportunities. so are birthdays, fall activities such as bonfires and festivals. no doubt you have items laying about that could be put in a container to represent experiences throughout the year. remember to include a note(s) about happy times at home with the family that isn't necessarily a special occasion but was a wonderful family time. anything one wishes to include in their 2019 time capsule is grand as each time capsule is unique to the individual.   

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book continues to be the middle east: a brief history of the last 2,000 years by bernard lewis. 

silly saturday

from bored panda:

mom loves to crochet! 

https://www.boredpanda.com/crochet-full-body-halloween-costumes-stephanie-pokorny/

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

mary oliver:

hello, sun in my face.
hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...
watch, now, how i start the day in happiness, in kindness.

whimsical wednesday

happy canning day! today is thought to be the birthday of nicolas appert (in 1750), the father of canning. appert invented the process to hermetically seal cans for food preservation. to celebrate, we are going to "can it" for whimsical wednesday! do something, anything with a regular, ordinary can found in the kitchen cupboard.  remember, as a kid, making a telephone with cans? share your can creations with the whimsey project.  

one of my young friends is having a birthday this week so i "canned" her gift!

trivia tuesday

from merriam-webster dictionary:

KNACKERED:  tired or exhausted.

miscellaneous monday

the benefits of reading daily from mental floss:  

http://mentalfloss.com/article/585137/6-benefits-reading-every-day 

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book is bernard lewis' the middle east: a brief history of the last 2,000 years. this volume is dense with information so it will take awhile!  what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project.

silly saturday

from funkidsjokes.com:

Q: how do you mend a broken pumpkin?
A: with a pumpkin patch!

Q: what is a scarecrow's favorite fruit?
A: straw-berries!

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

thoughts of dog @dog_feelings:

today. i'm going to lie on the porch. with my front paws hanging off the top stair. and when the sun breaks through the trees. i will squint and smile. and become marginally toastier.  

whimsical wednesday

we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the postcard for whimsical wednesday.  the first postcard was mailed in 1869 as a way to send a quick message.  since then, the postcard has become a significant form of communication and the catalyst for the hobbies of sending and receiving postcards and stamp collecting.  

the organization, postcrossing, facilitates the opportunity for people all around the world to enjoy communicating through the humble postcard.  the postcrossing blog offered this post:

https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2019/09/13/kosmopolit

for whimsical wednesday, send someone a postcard, any postcard. and consider joining www.postcrossing.org

here's the awesome postcard find i'll be sending to celebrate 150 years of the postcard:

trivia tuesday

from @uberfacts:

people who stutter when speaking can sing without stuttering because the brain functions differently when speaking or singing.

miscellaneous monday

national geographic presents beautiful and wild around the world:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/photography/photos-worlds-most-beautiful-places/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=twt20190704travel-resurfwildbeautiful::rid=&sf215023442=1

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. i am reading chronicle books' vincent van gogh. what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project.

silly saturday

from twentytwo words, silly things kids say or do:

https://twentytwowords.com/pictures-that-prove-kids-are-hilarious-geniuses/?utm_source=deck&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=influencer&utm_campaign=dm3

photo friday

goose tracks

thoughtful thursday

october 1, 1861, diary entry by charles darwin:

"i am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

whimsical wednesday

in months with five wednesdays, we journal for whimsical wednesday! do you keep any type of journal? if not, today is a great day to begin. what type of journal could you keep? here are the journals i keep, for examples to consider:

*a personal journal.

*a themed journal; i keep a journal about my farm.

*a memory book in which to record random memories. when i think of a memory i wish to write about, i jot down the memory to record at a later time if i can't get to it immediately.

*a notable notebook in which to record random interesting stuff such as quotes, ideas, thoughts, whatever grabs my attention.

*a daily whimsical moments notebook in which to record awesome stuff experienced throughout each day.

*art journals. 

what forms of journaling do you keep? share your practices with the whimsey project. 

trivia tuesday

from @uberfacts:

two brothers once sold a fake goya painting for 1.5 million euros only to discover that they were paid with fake money.

miscellaneous monday

from mental floss: the sweetest sesame street moment; a moment i distinctly remember viewing with my children when they were wee.  it is, indeed, sweet.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/66802/sweetest-sesame-street-moment 

solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project. our day to spend time with a book. my book is laurie lee's memoir of growing up in cotswold following world war one, cider with rosie: a boyhood in the west of england. his prose is amazing. he could write about trash day and it would be words to behold. what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project. 

silly saturday

from @qikipedia:

the list of animals not allowed to be kept in homes in russia include all animals from the hominidae family; the one which includes humans.

photo friday

thoughtful thursday

b.d. schiers:

kindness comes from love and compassion. cruelty comes from anger, fear, and hate. when you act with love and compassion you are in control. when you act out of anger, fear and hate, those emotions control you.

whimsical wednesday

it's the first wednesday of october so it's connections day for whimsical wednesday! get yourself connecting with people near and far by whatever means most appropriate for the individual you are connecting with. 

i'll be making phone calls, sending texts, writing letters and cards for people who will benefit from cheery greetings or just because to surprise them. there might even be a get together with friends. what will you do to connect with others? share your connections with the whimsey project!

trivia tuesday

from @qikipedia:

"jaup" is a scots word for a spot of water or wet mud splashed upon the clothes from wet or muddy ground.