Tamara's Blog

I'll Believe It When I See It

Hey, this is just a quick post to let you know that I'm jumping back into this blogging thang. For my faithful readers (you're still here, right?), you can expect the same random assortment of this-&-that:

• Kewl Web 2.0 tools - C'mon, if I didn't talk about this stuff, you'd think something was wrong
• Great videos - I have a few that I'm sure will make you wanna dance
• Things I'm reading/watching - Not everything, though - who's got that kind of time?
• Shout-outs to the wonderful people in my life - The list is long...
• Interesting things in and out of the missional church - Wow, what a time we live in!
• Etc.

I figured out this next month's list of topics to write about. I'm ready. Are you? Let's do this thang! Okay? Yea, uh-huh.

Popular Posts and Pictures

Statistics can be fun. Right, I know, they can also be manipulated to tell whatever story you want to tell - but I'm not talking about those statistics. I'm talking about my blog statistics. I thought I'd take a quick commercial break and show you which posts and pictures are the most popular on this blog (so far). You may be surprised. Enjoy!

Most Popular Posts

• Chelsea Clinton and the Marine 
• Mrs. Curtis' First Airplane Ride 
• Shawn and Ron's Second Life 
• Announcing a New Organization and a New Domain 
• Photos Just In: Camp Victory (aka Saddam's Former Palace) 
• My Oh My! Ee-Chee-Roe! 
• Blowing the Dust Off This Blog (cough, cough) 
• RealAmericanStories.com: Where We Tell the Story 
• Have You Ever Heard a Raccoon Scream?

Most Popular Pictures

From Photos Just In: Camp Victory (aka Saddam's Former Palace):

 

 

 

 

 

From My Oh My! Ee-Chee-Roe!:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From About You: Jill Dyche:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Book Talk: Eats, Shoots & Leaves:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From The United Countries of Baseball:

Saturday Morning Items

It's been a great week. Two of my posts - My Oh My! Ee-Chee-Roe and About You: Nicco were big hits. Thanks!

Guest Author. Next week, I will be the guest author on Henriet's Blog. I wrote about Henriet in February. She is on vacation and asked me to step in. Please check it out and jump into the discussion. She's more chatty on her blog. :)

Kewl Photos & Videos. I moved the post about "Kewl Photos & Videos" at the top my blog to the right sidebar. Now you will always see the titles of my latest additions. I'm telling you - it's good, mindless entertainment. This picture is a fine example of what you will find: it's a Wrigley Field birthday cake!

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Have a wonderful weekend! Catch you next week - on this blog AND on Henriet's blog!

So You Think You're Smart?

Yea, sometimes I do too. So you might enjoy this little quiz my sister forwarded to me. It's for people who know everything. There are no trick questions - just 9 straight questions with 9 straight answers (below). Ready? Set. Go! Oh, and good luck!

Quiz Questions

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Quiz Answers

1. Boxing
2. Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
3. Asparagus and rhubarb
4. Strawberry
5. It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
6. Dwarf, dwell, dwindle
7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses
8. Lettuce
9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, and stilts