"T Stands For Teddy On Porch" - Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

Those are photos of Teddy that I took during our trip to Boothe Memorial Park a few weeks ago.

I needed a ticket into this week's T-gathering, so here is Teddy with another magazine image showing drinks. Teddy said it's hard to see with the flash reflection on the page, but the people in the chairs on the Rhode Island beach are holding drinks.

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The weather was nice this past week, but Connecticut has now joined other states with a health warning about mosquitoes carrying Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), because a second person has died from it here. They're saying to avoid being out from dusk to dawn, but I was bitten by a mosquito during the day last week, so they seem to be out all of the time. :-(

In other local news, there have been two reports of a mountain lion roaming around Monroe, CT, but there hasn't been any confirmation of it. A few weeks ago I had mentioned a South Dakota mountain lion that made it all the way east to Connecticut, only to be struck and killed on one of our highways, back in June 2011. Let's hope if this is another big cat, it doesn't meet the same fate.

I made an Autumn tag and postcard.

I made some postcards: Queen of Hearts and Queen of Fortune Tellers.

In the category of "small world", I took a photograph of Fayerweather Island Lighthouse from Saint Mary's By The Sea in Bridgeport, CT, and it turns out Elizabeth had seen that same view from that same vantage point when she visited friends there in the past.

I took a lot of photos: Great Blue Heron, Yellow Flowers, Sun Reflection, Rock Ledge, Trail In Woods, Green Foliage Reflections, Streamside, Frog, Wood Bridge and Beaver Dam, Path In Woods, Yellow Flowers, Woodland Scenes, Blue Flowers.

I also went to Poliak Pond for the first time, where the foliage is beginning to change colors. Teddy accompanied me there, but chose to stay in the car. One has to cross railroad tracks to get into the Poliak Pond preserve, with the caveat of, "This is a legal private crossing, but there are no gates and no warning lights. Please be careful." Teddy said if I made it in and out again alive, without getting run over, he would accompany me the next time I go there. The trail was overgrown, and I almost turned back, but I'm glad I persevered, because the view from the dam was lovely. I want to return here again as the leaves continue to change color.

Now that it is October, I have "officially" kicked off my month of Halloween themes. I don't actually have enough things to post every day, so it's a grandiose idea that won't come to fruition. My first post shows my Halloween Yard Decor, and my second post is a Halloween Skull ATC that I made.

Last week I forgot to mention that on Friday, 9/20/2019, I saw the ISS (International Space Station) fly overhead around 8pm. It was thrilling to see it, but I didn't get any clear photos of it. It was going by too fast, at about 17K+ mph (27K+ kph). Because of hearing that the ISS would be visible that night, I added a few links to my blog for it, including ISS observation.

Great short video from ISS: All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS

Over the weekend, we watched the following:

miscellaneous: Hereafter (2010) (DVD) and Fatal Attraction (1987) (DVD).

sci-fi: The 5th Wave (2016) (DVD) and Godzilla (2014) (DVD).

horror: Slender Man (2018) (DVD), Winchester (2018) (DVD), and Friend Request (2016) (DVD).