The Adventures of Garrett Squared: Thursday's Things In A Row...Penny Smashing...

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Thursday's Things In A Row...Penny Smashing...

Welcome to Thursday's Things In A Row started by Pat at A View From the Edge.

As you just read in my last Vacation blog, I love to smash pennies! So, for today's row I give you...

Smashed Pennies from our trip to Branson!!!!

From left to right, Showboat Branson Belle, Log Cabin at Silver Dollar City, Marvel Cave at Silver Dollar City and Silver Dollar City

Thanks for dropping by and for more rows, check out Pat's blog at A View From The Edge...but BEWARE...

Once you start looking at the rows, you will see rows EVERYWHERE you go and be HOOKED!!!!! Bwaaaahhahahahah...

10 comments:

PatOctober 6, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Hey - those are SO cool! I love them!
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labbie1October 6, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Thanks Pat! Thanks for stopping by!
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Kathy GOctober 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Thanks to your posts, I AM seeing things in a row!
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labbie1October 6, 2011 at 9:47 PM
Kathy G--Bwaaahahahaha--welcome to the row side--started by Pat up there! :) Fun isn't it???
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AnonymousOctober 6, 2011 at 10:13 PM
way cool :)
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labbie1October 7, 2011 at 8:59 AM
Thanks David! :)
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DesertHenOctober 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM
We use to do the penny smashing when on trips with our kids! I actually came across a few a month or so back! Perfect row shot!
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SquirrelQueenOctober 9, 2011 at 2:08 AM
Oh wow! That is a really cool things in a row. You're making me want to smash a few.
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GailOctober 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM
How did I miss this???

I am an avid penny smasher, too.

Great rows!
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labbie1October 11, 2011 at 6:16 AM
DesertHen--Really? Isn't that great? Where are the pennies you found from?

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SquirrelQueen--After showing them to my neighbor He told me that he knows where I can get them smashed for free as he pointed to the train tracks! I did that as a kid too--don't tell mom! Yikes. LOL

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Gail--Isn't it fun to watch them go through the machine? And when you find the older ones, you get to crank the handle to smash them. :)
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The Mockingjay

It is with great sadness that I say goodbye to the characters of this Trilogy.

This 3rd and last book in The Hunger Games Trilogy was not remotely what I thought it would be. While the first two books were books about horrific competition and massive loss it was also about the indomitable will to live and thrive of the human spirit.

I thought that this book would be much as the other two. Our heros are tested and then survive to live happily ever after.

But, this book is much deeper and probably much more realistic than that. The thin skinned President Snowden in his extreme anger makes it clear that Katniss, her family and even her village are not going to be allowed to live in the peace that we anticipated after the first two books. To the end that President Snowden wants to see Katniss and everyone who follows her and her courage destroyed, we are drawn deeply into a story of battle both internal and external, love and loss and the dramatic results of a long lived, hard fought war while unsure of who is friend and who is foe.

The end of this book was a loss in many respects. The loss of a group of people to whom I was drawn and the loss of a way of life for those characters. While the war was won, the battles took their toll on all of the characters that we have come to know and love and their lives are forever changed by the end of this book and trilogy.

Catching Fire

This 2nd book in The Hunger Games Trilogy was even better than number one!

I read it in about a day and a half.

I simply could NOT put it down!

The main thrust of this book is the Quell games. Every 25 years the districts must take part in not one but two games to celebrate the domination of the Capitol.

If I go further than that with explanation, I will probably ruin #1 for you, so let's just say that the Mockingjay has a part in this and that the families of Peeta and Katniss as well as Gale are well represented.

The ending leaves us hungry for more at the edge of an abiss...

Now, on to book 3.

PS--Don't start this series without purchasing all three books because you will surely kick yourself if you can't go right to the next book!

The Hunger Games

Book 1 of the Trilogy:
GREAT READ! This was recommended to me by my hair stylist while I was in Missouri. I purchased it for my Kindle, but subsequently passed it up for other reads. My mistake! What an engaging book! Following Katniss and Peeta as well as the other characters in a richly written narrative of the Hunger Games which are a fight to the death each year of children chosen from each of the 12 poor downtrodden districts of the country of Penam for the enjoyment of the spoiled, protected class of people in the "Capital". Gripping and twisting right to the end! I liked it so much that the second I finished I felt like I couldn't let go of the characters and zipped right on to the second volume of the trilogy! RECOMMEND HIGHLY!

Pumpkin Roll

Pumpkin Roll by Josi S. Kilpack~~This book was recommended by another blogger who made it sound so good that I I just had to check t out. I purchased my copy for Kindle and really enjoyed it! The author writes a very fine mystery without using vulgarity or objectionable content which is refreshing. This book was a fun one for the autumn season when our thoughts turn to pumpkins, spices and a nip in the air.

The neighbor is rumored to be a witch and with several other colorful characters of dubious nature, we have a fun Halloween culinary novel.

The nice twist at the end of the story gives an interesting wrap-up to make this book a good light read.

In addition, the recipes sounded so good that I had to copy some of them down and try them--including the Pumpkin Roll of the book title. A good read and good recipes! What's better than that?

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Thursday's Things In A Row...Penny Smashing...

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