GREETINGS FRIENDS - FRIDAY VIBES ARE IN THE AIR! Yay and Hooray - end of week has found us and we get a little window of weekend time to chill and relax. Do you have any special plans other than just enjoying the weekend? Me? Nope. Weekend Spirit and Friday Vibes make me smile and totally put a pep in my step! Did ya happen to do the Amazon Prime Super Duper deals shopping this Wednesday and Thursday this week? I did. Nothing all that exciting. But exciting to me. Great deals on things like replacement filters for my little air purifier, shock/chlorine for the pool, a new pair of tennis shoes (yep, white! My sisters love to tease me about my white tennis shoes choice for many, many years - ha) and a new upright fan for the living room - old one just plum wore out. That's it - feel like I totally scored with the discounts! Presenting 5 for Friday this July 19. BEGINNING WITH: STACY'S WORLD Super cool/humor/informative column. Always! And we all walk away knowing a little couple of somethings we didn't know before! And the whole potato info in this column is greatness! Totally awesome, brilliantly written. Thanks, Stac!

ALOHA. BONJOUR. HOLA. Friday greetings!  Last Friday of June. In just 3 short days, counting today -- July arrives -- ready or not. I'm ready. July might be my favorite month. My granddaughter, Elizabeth's, birthday, my birthday, 4th of July, fresh fruit, salads, and BBQ time full throttle. What's not to love?! Super fun round-up of fun today. BEGINNING WITH: Bruce Cameron's Paternal Proclamations.  Hilarious. Raise your hand if you have 1 or 25 pieces of wonderfuls clipped to your 'fridge via magnets!  I sure do.  I call mine 'fridge art.  CARTOONS: Are a blast Laugh out Louds.

Friday greetings this last day of May 2024. May is going out - at least around here - with lots and lots and lots of rain.  Seems like a crazy amount of rain, but probably last year was similar.  Last May seems so far away.  Ha Stacy's World Will be back next Friday - fingers crossed - depending on her busy schedule.  I've had conversations with her and her upcoming columns/ideas are SO.MUCH.COOL.FUN. (!!) Today's 5 for FRIDAY is a blast! BEGINNING WITH: Amazing flower artwork and "made ya laugh" cartoons. QUICK QUESTION What's the strangest room or building I've ever been in/to? I could name several working on jobs in the film business:  A giant Masonic Scottish Rite Temple, Haunted Mansion where a doctor lived equipped with an elevator that just decided to go up and down on its own, non-working Kentucky prison from the early 1800s.   And a rental house that my sister, Jennie, and I lived at way back in the day. However, the strangest, creepiest one was in an old, working Tennessee prison where we were shooting the film "Last Dance." On a scout (meaning the entire crew was not present) we were scouting the various places in the prison we would be shooting.  The warden took us down to this room which housed "Old Sparky" -  as he referred to it.  An old, heavy wooden chair that had char marks on it + other dark spots on it and leather tie down straps for arms and ankles.  Yeah, it was a real deal electric chair.  Observation glass windows, bright lights over the chair.  There was even a bucket of water behind the chair for whatever they used that for (use your imagination - or perhaps you may remember the movie "The Green Mile"). The warden said, "Anybody want to sit in the chair?" One of the grips grinned all tough like, said, "Yeah," and he sat down. The warden nodded to someone behind the observation glass and the lights flipped on and off.  That grip flew off that chair faster than a bolt of lightning.  Scared the tar out of him. The warden laughed hard.  Guess it was one of their little pranks they play for amusement to dough-heads who volunteer to actually sit in "Old Sparky." That room was super surreal - but very real.  I'll never forget it.  Yours? FLIGHT ATTENDANTS' HUMOR

Friday greetings, Daymakers! Smile!  It's Fri-nally! I've had a great week.  Accomplished numerous small tasks around here - inside and out.  Did some weeding, cleaned out and organized a few kitchen drawers, swapped out winter clothes for summer clothes.  Those kind of things. Small but all put together are big time to me and my world.  How about you? Super fun line-up today - Beginning with Stacy's World. Me, I've never been a giant fan of dark chocolate.  Say - if I buy the bag of the tiny candy bars that offers choices of: Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Milk Chocolate with Almonds, Krackel, Mr. Good Bar and Dark Chocolate - last choice is Dark Chocolate that totally ties last with Mr. Good Bar.  HA However, now,  I'm so gonna try the dark chocolate + walnuts Stacy writes about in her column today for a little bedtime snack.  Cool tip for sure.  Move over Krackel bar - Dark chocolate bar has taken your place! And Stacy's Chai Coffee recipe is totally calling my name.  I'm the leader of the fan club of iced Chai coffee latte at the local coffee house.  But it does come with a pri$e for being a fan.  Thanks to Stacy's tip and how-to-do at home -- I'll be making it and refrigerating it or pouring it over ice A.L.L.S.U.M.M.E.R. long! 2 Winner tips in one column!  Love it. Can't wait to read what Stacy has in store for us in her next column of fun + interestings! Thanks, Stac! QUICK QUESTION Drive an ice cream truck to work or dress like a clown?  Quick answer - I'll drive the truck.