Pocahontas: Born September 17, 1596 as Matoaka, Flower-Between-Rivers, Mattaponi village of Werowocomoco. (nicknamed Pocahontas). I am on her descendancy list, so she would be my great-great grandmother, but I have not verified this yet.
I was hiking Tom Sawyer State Park, near Louisville, yesterday. Took photos of the foundation of the east wing of Lakeland Lunatic Asylum–1880 to 2000. The foundation is all that remains above ground of a hospital building once serving 3,000 patients. (more lies buried–it was too expensive to completely demolish)
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Meow like a Pirate Day.
Arrgh. Meow, meow, meow. Arrgh.
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Who lives in a pirate ship over the sea?
The old seadog
Who is peg legged and drunk as can be?
The old seadog
Saturday, September 19, 2020
The Seven Seas (me thinks, me map has vanished)
Avast Mateys,
Arrgh. Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Oh ye landlubbers what ignores me warnings will rue the day of their birth. Me lads will hunt ye down and yield no quarter. We have a pet Giant Squid what loves to graze on landlubbers. This year everyone has masks so me lads can sneak around quite handily. Oh yes!
Lads, spare no one! I will nab landlubbers as soon as I find me eyepatch and pegleg. And where be my pistols and my saber? Oh, someone has spiked me rum. Me head is swimming circles like a starved shark. What is that sound? A seaborn rumble? A Navy gunship? The Stars and Stripes!
Lads, hoist the sails and turn our ship around. We shall fire a broadside the Navy will long remember! Pirates never fear the U.S. Navy! We shall board their vessels and take them as prizes! Let them play “Star Spangled Banner,”—we shall sing “Sixteen men on a dead man’s chest.” Polly, come back! Lads, prepare the boarding party! Lads? Lads? Don’t hide on me!
Polly, if you fly to the Navy ship, I’ll barbecue you! Me head is tossing and turning. Oh devil rum, what have ye done to the likes of me? I can’t swim a lick! Curses, I still have to deal with them what ignore Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Now be done with it!
The Old Seadog
http://talklikeapirate.com/wordpress/
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August 18 is National Cheeseburger Day. Today you may do the cheeseburger crawl, starting with breakfast through midnight snacks, visiting burger places. Kaelin’s Restaurant in Louisville claims the original cheeseburger though others make the claim. (enough about that, time for me to head to my favorite burger slingers)
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Photo is of Anita Hite, descendant of Isaac Hite, founder of Cave Springs Plantation. This was the Hite Mansion. The plantation became Lakeland Asylum (the mansion a nurse dormitory). now Tom Sawyer State Park. House burned in 1940s. The location is directly over Cave Spring and is now an archery range.
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Beware of Venusian attacks! Researchers have detected phosphine gas PH3 in the upper atmosphere of Venus. On earth it is only produced by microbes and human industrial activity. Either Venus has microbes or it has unique chemical activity. On to Venus!
[Editor’s note: Info from Scientific American. Last photo from Mr. Suddeth’s tortured imagination]
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The lady is Anita Hite, descendant of Isaac Hite, founder of Cave Spring Plantation AKA Hite Plantation that later became Lakeland Asylum, Anchorage, Kentucky. She is also in front of Cave Springs–now called Sauerkraut Cave. She is also standing on what was the Hite Plantation Mansion, in 1928 a dormitory for nurses. (burned down 1940s)
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Bubba and Squirt’s Mayan Adventure
Sherry Ellis
An ancient Mayan civilization!
That’s what Bubba and Squirt find when they travel through the mysterious vortex for another wild adventure. There they meet archeologists who are unearthing priceless artifacts. But someone is stealing them. And an encounter with the Tate Duende awakens magic within Bubba. Throw in the mysterious Alux and a new discovery and things get sticky. Will Bubba and Squirt solve the mystery, or will they be stuck forever in the jungles of Belize?
Release date – September 15, 2020
$7.95, 6×9 trade paperback, 96 pages
Juvenile Fiction – Action Adventure (JUV001000)/Legends, Myths, Fables-Caribbean & Latin American(JUV012070)/Fantasy & Magic(JUV037000)
Print ISBN 9781939844705 / EBook ISBN 9781939844712
$3.99 EBook available in all formats
Sherry Ellis is an award-winning author and professional musician who plays and teaches the violin, viola, and piano. When she is not writing or engaged in musical activities, she can be found doing household chores, hiking, or exploring the world. Ellis lives in Atlanta, Georgia. https://www.sherryellis.org/
https://www.bubbaandsquirt.org/
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Sherry Ellis’ Bubba and Squirt’s Big Dig to China won the Reader’s Favorites Silver Medal for the Children’s Grades 4-6 category.
Links:
Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083S1VQ14
ITunes – https://books.apple.com/ca/book/bubba-and-squirts-mayan-adventure/id1495108829
Barnes & Noble – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bubba-and-squirts-mayan-adventure-sherry-ellis/1136013293?ean=9781939844705
Kobo – https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bubba-and-squirt-s-mayan-adventure
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50624942-bubba-and-squirt-s-mayan-adventure
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This is from April 14, 1912—the night before the iceberg. This is a third-class menu and would’ve been the last meal for most of them. (it is better than I expected) Smoked herring for breakfast is an English thing, sautéed with onions etc. The plum pudding is actually a thick raisin pudding. Without refrigeration, supper was simple. Cabin biscuits are just flour, shortening and salt. [Eric Suddeth supplied the menu]
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