Friday: Sordid Tales

July 19, 2013

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The good news is that everyone in the world that I know is not sordid this morning. My sister-in-law suggested maybe that their great-uncle someone, or maybe it was a second cousin twice removed, I forget, might have been involved in the mafia in NY. That’s as close as it came to becoming a post. Besides I’m at the beach with my friend, Jean. We walked over 10 miles yesterday, and about 14 the day before. My feet got pretty sordid. 🙂

Bob Jones Trail006

So have a happy Friday and rest of the weekend. Feel free to comment on my not-so sordid posts, and I’ll see you on Monday. I love you all. 🙂

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44 responses to “Friday: Sordid Tales”

Leanne Cole

July 25, 2013 at 2:33 pm

OMG that is a lot of walking, I used to do that, but haven’t for a while, I should get back to walking.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 26, 2013 at 7:41 am
  
  It’s good for you, but a slow way to get exercise! Come over here, I’ll walk with you! 🙂
  
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smilingtoad

July 22, 2013 at 7:55 pm

get me hauled away rather.

Anyhow, love the post, it was exceedingly cute, and so glad you’ve been having a grand ol’ time hiking!!

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 22, 2013 at 8:47 pm
  
  One of my shortest! Jean was urging me to quit blogging and get a move on! 🙂 Daylight was burning. 🙂
  
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  1. smilingtoad
    
    July 22, 2013 at 11:11 pm
    
    Haha sounds like Sir and I on a Saturday! Glad you got out and enjoyed that delightfully briny-tanged adventure together. It sounds like it was tremendous fun indeed!
    
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    1. tchistorygal
      
      July 23, 2013 at 8:11 am
      
      It was. I like your new picture! 😀☺
      
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      1. smilingtoad
        
        July 23, 2013 at 11:36 am
        
        Thankee, been changing it quite a bit lately. I have no idea what I want it to be.
        
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      2. tchistorygal
        
        July 23, 2013 at 5:27 pm
        
        I know – ME TOO! 🙂
        
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      3. smilingtoad
        
        July 23, 2013 at 10:14 pm
        
        Some toadies have been living with me, I may do something with them and give this “brand” thing a go. I’m not sure, I’m just all over! Har har har, I love what you have been doing, lassie.
        
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      4. tchistorygal
        
        July 24, 2013 at 8:09 pm
        
        You are branding toadies???? Yikes. Does it hurt???
        
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      5. smilingtoad
        
        July 24, 2013 at 8:53 pm
        
        What a little toadie henna brand? I should think not, looks grand spiffing too! Cheers
        
        P.S.
        
        Thought you might like to have a wee glisk at a tiny poem Sir wrote, along with his own photograph. We went on our first photography meet-up this past Saturday and Sir captured some brilliant rain-dappled floarals. The one he shared in his post this evening is from within a butterfly house. You should have seen him crying out with joy as fritillary butterflies kept landing on him. It was brilliant! Enjoy, cheers,
        
        A Passionate Poetic Post
        
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      6. tchistorygal
        
        July 25, 2013 at 12:47 pm
        
        The post is lovely! I’ve never seen anything like it. What a wonderful catch! 🙂 Glad you had fun! Wish I could have been there to capture some of those gorgeous pictures, knowledge, and fun times! 🙂
        
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      7. smilingtoad
        
        July 23, 2013 at 10:16 pm
        
        I made one logo-esc brandy thing of a version of me that looks like it comes from the film “Wild Ones” to scare Sir with, but I don’t think it’s so grand to terrify blog land with it. I look quite leathery and scary in it. I love it, of course, suits me as I am a brute as I must have mentioned almost as many times as I have mentioned toadies or lime water. Right now the toadies are snapping up some late-night crickets here beside me. It is wonderful
        
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      8. tchistorygal
        
        July 24, 2013 at 8:10 pm
        
        I’m sorry, but leathery and scary – no really you! 🙂
        
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      9. smilingtoad
        
        July 24, 2013 at 8:57 pm
        
        There! I’ve put it back up just for you, you dubious….doubter! HMPH! Look at that. Why, a roguish, motor-cycle riding, trophy-toting Marlon Brando looks like a puling little wee jump-rope skipping microscopic lil’ lassie in comparison!
        
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      10. tchistorygal
        
        July 25, 2013 at 12:48 pm
        
        OK, that does look pretty scary and leathery! You win! 🙂 hahaha
        
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      11. smilingtoad
        
        July 25, 2013 at 1:40 pm
        
        ARG YUS!!! 😉
        
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      12. tchistorygal
        
        July 26, 2013 at 7:38 am
        
        🙂
        
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smilingtoad

July 22, 2013 at 7:54 pm

P.S.

There will probably be a hit out on me now…blast…or worse, he’ll start suing me…for slander…or he’ll make up some fake debt unpaid or some rubbish and get hauled away…Blast, why DO I just HAVE to go on and on as I do…oh bother…

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 22, 2013 at 8:46 pm
  
  Well I won’t spill the beans. Fortunately you didn’t drop any names! 🙂 hahaha
  
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  1. smilingtoad
    
    July 22, 2013 at 11:10 pm
    
    😀
    
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smilingtoad

July 22, 2013 at 7:50 pm

OOO you have mob ties TOO??? I have direct ties to Irish mafia in Chicago 😉 My great uncle keeps attempting to keep the thing going- he likes to break thumbs of police officers and hire hits and roar around flinging law degrees and millions about- classic. If only I could get him to wear a fedora….or pay for me to go to Oxford…he wanted my brother to go to Notre Dame and play football for them, all paid for, but a wee smiling toad was not included in this offer. I have tried to tell him I’ll play rugger for Oxford (do they have rugger there?), but I get the frog face and then he dashes off with plumes of cigar-smoke wreathing around his head, eager to dip into more “beer therapy” and get away from scary ol’ babs. (suspires) Ah whale.

P.S. I would have LOVED to have dashed along with you and Jean on your jaunt. BEAUTIFUL! Many cheers dear lass,

Autumn Jade

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 22, 2013 at 8:45 pm
  
  Yes, our jaunt was right up your ocean alley. Your uncle didn’t want to pay for you? Maybe that was a good thing. Then you would have mob ties! Yikes! My ties are too slim even for Cindy to tell them right. 🙂
  
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  1. smilingtoad
    
    July 22, 2013 at 11:09 pm
    
    Bah, I think I make a much more dastardly, delightfully disturbing mobster 😉 He is just a flimsy, puling, feathery little charlatan in comparison 😉 ….and you are quite correct. I don’t need blood money to go skipping off to Oxford with! 😉
    
    No scent of Mafioso-types whirling around on Sir’s side, of course- a lot of proper English people, there. Delicate writer-types. It is the Irish side that is so roguishly fun. So…so…stupendously sordid!
    
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the eternal traveller

July 20, 2013 at 2:20 pm

Your last comment was great…butt dust! I love it. That’s how it feels after doing a class at the gym. I hope you’re enjoying your beach mini break.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 21, 2013 at 10:14 am
  
  I did enjoy it. We walked our feet off – at least 10 miles a day, and I gained 4 pounds. God figure. Must have been the chocolate malt. Today I get serious about losing weight. Walking, weight lifting next then a little time in the pool – not exercising too much – just legs. 🙂 BMI 35 YIKES!!
  
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  1. the eternal traveller
    
    July 22, 2013 at 2:40 am
    
    Get cracking then! I did a class at the gym yesterday and another one today…feeling very virtuous now.
    
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    1. tchistorygal
      
      July 22, 2013 at 3:10 pm
      
      OK, down 1.5 pounds today after two long walks and a workout on the exercise equipment. 🙂 YEAH about 20 more! 🙂
      
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adinparadise

July 20, 2013 at 7:13 am

That’s a lot of walking, Marsha. Hope your feet have recovered from their sordidness. 🙂

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 20, 2013 at 1:31 pm
  
  I just dusted the sordid off and they are as good as new. Have you ever heard of butt dust?
  
  ‘Dear Lord,’ the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. ‘Without you, we are but dust…’ He would have continued, but at that moment my very obedient daughter, who was listening, leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, ‘Mom, what is butt dust?’
  
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  1. adinparadise
    
    July 21, 2013 at 12:36 am
    
    😆 Sweet story, Marsha.
    
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    1. tchistorygal
      
      July 21, 2013 at 10:27 am
      
      Yes, it was cute. Kids say the cutest things! 🙂
      
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viveka

July 20, 2013 at 6:52 am

I hope that you sit with your feet up today … great photo again.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 20, 2013 at 1:29 pm
  
  I’m sitting – AGAIN! 🙂
  
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ytaba36

July 20, 2013 at 1:11 am

Well, that’s it sordid for another day! 🙂

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 20, 2013 at 1:27 pm
  
  Yes, my briefest post ever! 🙂 And my friend still thought I spent WAY too much time blogging! I was panting trying to surf the internet for my blogger friends, answer my notifications, and create a new sordid blog! 🙂 Thanks for the comment! 🙂
  
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El Guapo

July 19, 2013 at 10:41 am

have a great weekend, more good strolls, and plenty of relaxing.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 20, 2013 at 1:14 pm
  
  Thanks, Guap. You too – enjoy the things you love! 🙂
  
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Rexlin Victor

July 19, 2013 at 10:37 am

Have a nice weekend!!!

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 20, 2013 at 1:14 pm
  
  Thanks Rexlin! 🙂 You too! 🙂
  
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cyclingrandma

July 19, 2013 at 9:51 am

That’s a lot of hiking! Have a great weekend.
Heat wave here supposed to ease by Sunday– I hope.

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 20, 2013 at 1:13 pm
  
  That would be nice! We are still triple digits here in the Central Valley! 🙂
  
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benzeknees

July 19, 2013 at 9:40 am

Where’s the sand? Where’s the water? The beach means sand & water to me!

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1. tchistorygal
  
  July 20, 2013 at 1:06 pm
  
  I don’t know what to say! You caught me. So here is a picture from my iPhone during this trip to the beach! 🙂 (And I gained 3 pounds during all that walking – go figure – and don’t ask what I ate! 🙂
  
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Hi, I’m Marsha Ingrao, a retired educator and wife of a retired realtor. My all-consuming hobby is blogging and it has changed my life. My friends live all over the world. In November 2020, we sold everything and retired to the mile-high desert of Prescott, AZ. We live less than five miles from the Granite Dells, four lakes, and hundreds of trails with our dog, Kalev, and two cats, Moji and Nutter Butter. Vince’s sister came with us and lives close by. Every day is a new adventure.

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