Your prompt for JusJoJan January 12, 2025, is notifications.

What is this obsession apps have for wanting to “notify” you every time something happens on them. With banners and dings inevitably interrupting other things you are tying to do like read or talk on the phone or sleep or play a game of solitaire. No thanks! Notifications off.

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 11, 2025, is it’s the little things.

The little things do make the most impact. Like grains of salt or little kittens…

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 10, 2025, is echo.

Echo. A repetition or imitation. When I think of an echo, I think of someone standing on a cliff on one side of a valley yelling across and hearing their words coming back to them. Always wondering what they would do if their words came back to them in someone else’s voice…

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 9, 2025, is shy.

NOT shy. Except around strangers, but once she knows who you are, watch out!

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 6, 2025, is pernickety.

When it comes to fire, she’s not pernickety at all!

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 6, 2025, is invigorating.

What is invigorating for some people is just weird to others. For example, taking a dive in a winter ocean I leave for others, and happily sit in my living room in front of the fire.

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 5, 2025, is frustration.

Ah, frustration, my old friend. Haunting me at work for 11 years, and every time I think things are finally going well, you and your buddies, disappointment and betrayal, come and sit in my office, nit picking at my back until I have had it. Guess I better be ready for a long visit this year…sigh…

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 4, 2025, is in front/behind.

 I wonder, is Lucy in front of Oliver or behind him?

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 3, 2025, is meander.

While Kevin and I meander about town, running errands or, more recently, checking out Christmas lights, I shoot out the passenger side window and later see if anything I got can be artfully rendered. Eye of the beholder, right? Anyway this is from one of our recent meanders…

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 2, 2025, is slingshot.

I always wanted a slingshot when I was a kid. Seemed like a cool and effective way to get rid of people who were bugging you. I read about them in old books, maybe Tom Sawyer or something like that. Didn’t David do in Goliath with one? They probably don’t sell them in stores any more cause, well, someone could get their eye shot out. Or maybe they are in the Gun aisle at WalMart…

The other cool thing I remember about the term slingshot is how Apollo 13 slingshot around the moon to get back to earth. At least that’s how I remember it from the movie.

The following picture has nothing to do with slingshots, just Lucy saying hi!