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A scene from a Medevil Faire somewhere in time

 

 

Some things to spend some time with when time is all you have–hopefully

1.
Mini Loom Weaving Kit
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Weave your own cell phone pouch, handbag or scarf! The possibilities are endless with this mini weaving loom kit. Kit includes 1 wooden thread rack, 2 needles, 2 weaving shuttles, 20 colored beads, 2 weaving combs, white wool yarn, colored wool yarn, 1 longitudinal line and weaving guide. Assembled weaving loom measures 9″ x 6-3/4″. Recommended for ages 10+.

 

2.

Bottled Frustration

Gifts For Kids & Brainteaser Puzzle

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    Buy 2 or more and save $2.00 per item
    A careful examination and study of this puzzle’s parts and configurations may reveal what has to be done to free the marble from its bottled captivity. Once you know what has to be done, the trick is doing it! Measures 3″ x 8″ x 1-1/2″. Solution included.

 

There are many more puzzles, books games etc

 

go here and take a look:  https://www.bitsandpieces.com/?p=0990876&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyPbzBRDsARIsAFh15JZVTQJe43TblYCBhRKOiz2tzjx8CX6XhPyuF1z40tfVinj_6BaKzioaArscEALw_wcB

 

and in case you ever locate any again

 

 

 

The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities. -Charles Dickens
Laughter is timeless, imagination had no age, and dreams are forever. -Walt Disney
John M. Durante Longboat Key Park
A Wilderness on Longboat Key, FL
No they haven’t opened the parks again….but now during your enforced
down time is a great time to plan for those future trips.
This park is wedged between restaurants along Gulf of Mexico Drive
5550 Gulf of Mexico Drive
iJoan M. Durante Park
The park is named for the late wife of James Durante who in the early 80s donated the land in honor of his wife.
The park is 32 acres with paths, boardwalks and many senic views of Sarasota Bay (theres more than a mile of these trails) and they transvere salt marsh, hammock and mangroves and are punctuated with gazebos where you can rest from your wanderings.  It joins Quick Point Nature Preserve  https://www.longboatkey.org/town-government/departments/parks-and-recreation/quick-point-nature-preserve 
Both parks are great for viewing the local wading birds.
Longboat Key, FL: John M. Durante Park
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. -Jonathan Swift
 
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. -Albert Einstein 
two of the cottages we encounter on the Hampstead Walk.
Flask Walk and Well Walk
Named after the Flask Pub   https://www.theflaskhampstead.co.uk/ .  Here, in the 18th c Hampstead   https://www.british-
 was a spa complete with therapeutic water which was put into flasks to be sold and came from the Nearby Well Walk     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLhn99BWIFU
which stands very near the old well site   https://thewellshampstead.history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp15-33
which use to be a hostelry famous for ilicit lover’s trysts.
Famous Residents
John Constable (#400 Wells Walk )
D.H. Lawrence
J.B. Priestley
John Keats
Flask ends at High Street where it is narrow and lined by old shops beyond the pub with its outside Victorian tiled panels, it broadens into a row of Regency houses where at one time Kingsley Amis used to live.  https://www.nyrb.com/collections/kingsley-amis
Row Houses, Flask Walk, Hampstead
You’re entirely bonkers, but I’ll tell you a secret, all the best people are. -Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it. -Bram Stoker, Dracula
German prisoner of war (POW) repairing a tire at a Miami Beach military garage
German prisoner of war (POW) repairing a tire at a Miami Beach military garage
(Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami News Collection)
During World War II about 378,000 German and Italian prisoners were sent to prisoner of war (POW) camps in the USA, with its military bases, warm climate, and agricuture and lumbering activity Florida was an ideal location for POW camps, and 10,000 German prisoners were eventually incarcerratred in the state.
Camp Blanding was one of the two major camps for housing German prisoners  with 7,500 prisoners at Blanding and 20 side camps starting in 1942.     https://militarybases.com/florida/camp-blanding/
Camp Blanding Museum and Memorial Park
State Road 16
11 miles east Starke
In a WWII -era barracks building
Operated Florida National Guard
Dedicated to history of the camp (1990)
Learn the role of the camp See WWII Allied and Axis infantry weaponry
Photographs and documents from thr period
Grounds contain numerous WWII-era vehicles inclding Tanks, half tack and M16 Half Truck
Memorial Park
Contains Regimental Memorial
Monuments to all major Army units that trained at the camp.  also to include Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars.
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. -C.S. Lewis

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.” -J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Explore:
EDINBURGH ROYAL MILE
The Outlook Tower/Camera Obsura
An Aladdin’s cave filled with unbelievable effects, hands-on illusions, tricks, puzzles and the best rooftop views of the city — delighting visitors since 1853.
Check it out:
Floor 2:
Victorian roof top chamber.  Rooftop views of the tower
Founded 1850’s–Mari Theresa Short
Optic replaced 1947
6 floors up—No elevator

Camera Obscura and World of Illusions is a major tourist attraction in the Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the Castlehill section of the Royal Mile next to Edinburgh Castle. Stock Photo - 68860799

“Outside, on the bough of a tree, sat the living nightingale. She had heard of the emperor’s illness, and was therefore come to sing to him of hope and trust. And as she sung, the shadows grew paler and paler.” -Hans Christian Andersen, “The Nightingale”
“Imperfections we all have, but we also have compensations.” -Hans Christian Andersen, “The Teapot”
Weird Florida: Your Travel Guide to Florida's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
Did you know that Florida has Fringe Tourism:  Check it out at http://www.floridafringetourism.com/
and one of the sites they tell you about is down the St. Johns River from Sanford, near where Seminole and Lake Counties meets—a stand of cypress trees called “Round Cypress” and these have a creature according to this site
that’s not endangered, but is scary–the Demon—of Round Cypress
You can even buy clocks at Cypress 6 featuring the Demon https://society6.com/product/the-demon-of-round-cypress_wall-clock
 There’s also another book which isn’t on line but has this story on p 84

Strange Florida: The Unexplained and Unusual Paperback – December 1, 1997

by Charlie Carlson  (Author)

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