I may not be the tidiest housekeeper. Don’t look now, but there are cobwebs in the corners. (Agh! I asked you not to look!) So I am at a loss as how to explain my devotion to a clean computer desktop. Every morning before I settle down to work, I scan the monitor for unnecessary icons and move them to the recycle bin. Here is today’s contribution:
For my cousin who was recently widowed and yesterday moved house from Midland to Ottawa. She asked for prayers of strength.
Sitting Bull – this is my friend’s bull, Sebastien. He no longer resides on the farm.
I encountered this 1937 video while researching women’s institutes in New Brunswick. This branch is from a the village Loose in the UK. And yes, the chapter is “still in business.”
So, that illustrates my Thursday. And now I will refill my coffee cup and get started with Friday! Have a great weekend, one and all.
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In hindsight, this fits with The Daily Post from a couple of days ago.
I've got to share this!
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Tags: Loose women's institute, Sitting bull, Strength, tarot
Maggie Wilson Author 
Loose Women and Sitting Bull…..and my Friday is off to a rousing start! Gotta love ya’, Maggie! Happy Friday to you!
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You go on and have yourself a great day, hear?
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What amazing diversity, love your selection. Bless your cousin; a loss and a move, huge changes deserve some prayers. Just love the Loose Women’s Institute!! You do discover some interesting things Maggie. ❤
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Thanks for the kinds thoughts toward my cousin, Barbara. As a matter of fact, she shares your name!
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I’m taken with the artwork on the strength icon. Quite lovely. Happy Friday and weekend to you, Maggie.
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I agree, Barbara. I studied Tarot some years ago and was sorely tempted to purchase several decks because the images were so wonderful.
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I love spiders in the corners! Good for controlling moths, LOL! I totally agree with a clean computer desktop. 🙂
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LOL – That’s exactly what I tell myself, too, Beth! Make yourself to home as long as you control the flying pests!
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hahahahaha! Loose Womens Institute!! Either they have a great sense of humour or simply don’t get it 🙂
Tarot? Really? Just one more thing Maggie …. 😉
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I know! It was from 1937, so I’m going with “didn’t get it.” Though knowing the women who are involved in the WI in the UK, I expect they have a few good laughs about it today.
So. Tarot, too, eh? Why am I not surprised?
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I chalk it up to our innate monkey curiosity about everything!!
I also had a friend in my late teens and early 20s who was a huge influencer in my life. She read cards and I was always fascinated about her ability to ‘see’ things.
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Great selection Maggie. Have you ever joined in on Cee’s Photography challenge called Odd ball photos?
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Ah, thanks, Iris. I did join the challenge once, and received lots of fun replies. You can see my saucy contribution here.
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Oh Yes ! …..I remember that one. It gave me quite a good laugh….and now I;m laughing all over again 🙂
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Tis the season for squash! 😀
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I wasn’t on the front row when they handed out dusters. I enjoy your posts though.
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When they handed out dusters, I don’t think I was in the building! 😉
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Haha! Very nice. I got a chuckle out of two of these – best wishes to your cousin. Ottawa is a far cry from Midland, in more ways than one.
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Thanks for the kind thoughts. It’s a hard move for my cuz to make. Her mom (my aunt) lives in Penetang; but Barb is moving to be closer to her daughters in Ottawa.
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Better spiders than other bugs like fruit flies or bed bugs!
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Absolutely! I welcome spiders. That, and I have learned not to look up.
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New tourist ad: “Loose Women’s Prison. Another reason to visit the UK.”
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[shaking head and muttering, Don, Don, Don…]
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Look. You give me a shovel and I am going to dig. I just can’t help myself.
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Duly noted, Don, duly noted. 🙂
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Loose Womens Institute is hard to believe but I’ll buy it.
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It sounds made up, doesn’t it, but it’s true! The group exists still, to this very day.
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That prayer card is beautiful. Now I want Tarot cards! And religious cards (have a couple from an antique market in paris – haven’t seen anything like them here).
Great post!
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Thanks Sammy. Amazing, eh? One can turn housekeeping into blog material!
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AND entertain your readers 🙂
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Well Maggie Mae, I think I finally found where you and I differ. My computer desktop is so cluttered with icons and files (I don’t know how to make nor retrieve new files, so everything gets saved on desktop) that there are literally “piles” of icons, one on top of one another. Do you hire out your computer cleaning services? Call yourself “The Desktop DusterBuster?”
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Hee hee, I suppose if this mining gig doesn’t pan out (and it looks like I’ll be panning for gold before I get work in this town!) I could consider your suggestion!
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Why on earth would you bin the sitting bull ? – he’s LUVERLY !!! 😀
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he is and it’s a touchy subject 😦
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Hm. I make a guess; and if it’s right, I see wotcher mean. [grin]
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Love the Loose Women’s Institute. I wanna join that one.
I am not a desktop type of person but am mad about Folders. And then I try not to look in the folders if I can help it. Out of sight, out of mind….
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Have you ever gotten an error message from Windows because you had exceeded the limit for the folders hierarchy?
Yup. Nuts for folders am I.
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Haha. Laughing at the last one! (Sexist pigs!) I say that in jest. Sort of. ;0) Hope your weekend is a good one too! I too am a) a bad desktop housekeeper and b) fanatical about cleaning it up. I pivot back and forth between the two, usually. (Right now it’s clean…heh.)
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Yeah, I hesitated to include the video because I agree with your sentiment… but get the humour. A conundrum. 🙂
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We allow a family of daddy long legs to live inside. They make great pets.
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So I hear…
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Great card. That’s my fave. Best wishes for your cousin.
And you just inspired me to write a bull story…like, literal bull.
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Inspiration? Well then, my work here is done! I look forward to the story!
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I totally want to be a member of the Loose Womens Institute! Do you think they would make me move there before they would consider me? I just don’t know if I’m up for a move across the pond. I guess I could move to Clever, Missouri and start a women’s institute there!
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Now that’s a creative solution!
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Oh there’s a TV show in the UK called loose women…..Seems that women of the loose persuasion have the choice between an institute or a TV show.
Not sure what that says but I’m putting it out there 😉
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LOL! Hi Celine – thanks for reading and commenting. I agree – not sure what that says, either! Thanks for the follow!
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I too loves yer sittin’ bull, but feels reel dum now cuz my perpiskacity was flummicksed: I didn’t gess the name of the town.
(What I want to know is, is there an equivalent men’s organization by now?)
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Well, howdy stranger. You new to these parts? No, I know. Re-new. As in on your seventh or eighth tablet, if I recall the stats. Thanks for stopping by to say “hey.”
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