July 31, 2021

The Simon Rodia Watts Towers

July 29, 2021

Today we went to La Brea Tar Pits. They were amazing! These are from the museum next door.

July 27, 2021

Our visit to Point Vicente Lighthouse on July 26, 2021:

July 24, 2021

DU Meetup!

AndyS and Grumpy Old Guy


Another one of AndyS and Grumpy Old Guy


L to R: AndyS, Grumpy Old Guy and CaliforniaPeggy



L to R: Grumpy Old Guy, CaliforniaPeggy and AndyS

July 22, 2021

The moon tonight:

July 21, 2021

Time to Frolic

July 18, 2021

First Quarter

July 16, 2021

Here's the link for the Winner's Thread in GD! Enjoy.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215629420

July 16, 2021

***Announcing the Winners for the July Photo contest Abandoned***

First Place goes to Grumpy Old Guy for his amazing photo "Too Many Winters"






Second Place goes to Soph0571 for her wonderful photo "Bombed Out But Blooming"






Third Place goes to Grumpy Old Guy for his fantastic photo "Abandoned Hogan On the Navajo Reservation"






The Host's choice goes to Ocelot II for her amazing photo "I was a Little Teapot..."






Congrats to all our winners, and to all who entered and voted! It was a challenging theme and everyone rose to it. Grumpy Old Guy gets to choose the theme for next month's contest.

July 14, 2021

Here's a trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills...

Can you meet these 2 challenges?

We've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is with numbers. Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.
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> D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
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> 1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
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> 1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
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> 17 WA5 H4RD BU7
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> N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
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> Y0UR M1ND 1S
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> R34D1NG 17 4U70M471C4LLY
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> W17H0U7 3V3N
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> 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
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> B3 PROUD! 0NLY
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> C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
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> R3AD 7H15!
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> PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F
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> U C4N R34D 7H15.
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> To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, why not forward it on to your friends with 'yes' in the subject line? I'd like to think only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!
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> If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.
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> Can you raed this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.
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> I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it.
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