"T Stands For Teddy, Tea, and Spooky Trails Book" – 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:

Teddy will be serving double duty as my main image plus as my "T-Day ticket" for my T-Day posts.

As many of you might know, ghosts, haunted locations, etc. are a favorite subject of mine. I have never experienced anything supernatural, but I enjoy searching for it during my Haunted Explorations of (allegedly) Haunted Places.

I received the non-fiction book Spooky Trails and Tall Tales Connecticut: Hiking the State's Legends, Hauntings, and History by Stephen Gencarella, as a Christmas gift this year. (He also has a similar book for Massachusetts).

He combines historical facts and tales with the actual locations where one can go hiking. He presents the information in a fun way, and made me chuckle a few times as I read this book. Many of the haunted stories seemed to be created (or revived) to boost tourism in the state in those places, in the early decades of the 1900s, which was interesting to learn.

I'm hoping to get to some of the places he mentioned as hiking outings with Team T, this Spring. Although Connecticut is one of the smallest states in the US, some of the locations are somewhat far from where I am, so they would have to be planned as day trips. Teddy is already saying the ghosts are real in all of these places, and we need to go find them! I told Teddy he should write his own book, titled Teddy Tall Tales. ;-)

"Tea Party" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art theme was "Tea Party."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.28

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"White Cat" - Postcard

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Name: Catturd ™

Description: White cat wearing black glasses

Don't let this artist's rendition cute and cuddly portrait fool you: this Cat Of Interest (COI, pronounced coy) is clever.

As a direct result of Catturd's unauthorized "network disruption efforts" that only our Partners like Facebook, etc. are allowed to do, it appears that the "Justice for J6" rally is at risk of being cancelled, due to his D³ tactic of making "False Flag" innuendos about it. The US Government spent a lot of time and tax payer money in preparation for this event.

We have observed a pattern of Catturd deploying the D³ tactic (disrupt, degrade, and destroy, aka D³) to cut short, and sometimes even cancel, certain "events" that were gaining traction in the US news cycle.

While we can neither confirm nor deny that the "Cliché Cleetus Incident" was a False Flag, we do acknowledge the fact that once Catturd successfully got "False Flag" trending on social media that day, the incident came to an abrupt end with "Cleetus" surrendering.

Due to Catturd's inexplicable popularity, our standard character assassination smear tactics won't work on him.

We would like to meet with Catturd, at a neutral litter box of his choosing, to have a "friendly discussion" to find out how, moving forward, we can convince him to stop thwarting us. We will be bringing catnip, kitty litter, and cash, and hope we can come to some mutually acceptable agreement.

Cordially,
[redacted Government agency name]

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Changing sides as the losses begin.

Jon Anderson - Cage of Freedom


I know who you are
I know where you're coming from

Call Me - Blondie (from The Conjuring)

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My piece is a "cartoon" in the same vein as Charlie Hebdo cartoons. (Their "cartoon" offended me, but apparently some thought it was "funny" so, I too, can make cartoons that others might find offensive.) My satirical words in this post and my art piece are also free speech that is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (Well, it used to be, prior to the ascension of the US Government Ministry of Truth dictating to Social Media Platforms which of their users need to be banned for "misinformation" as defined by the Government.)

I created this using GIMP 2.10.24.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Vintage Kitchen" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Vintage Kitchen."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"T Stands For Tuesday Tea" - Postcard

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I actually made this back in February, to use as a T Day ticket, but held it in reserve until now. In June, I made a similar postcard using the same images.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Tea Time" - Tag

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This week's Tag Tuesday challenge was "Anything goes."

This is my third entry for the challenge.

I made this using the same images as this postcard.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Tea Time" - Postcard

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This week's Take a Word challenge was "Butterflies."

This is also my ticket into Bleubeard and Elizabeth's T Stands For challenge found here. My actual entry for that is here.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Boston Tea Party" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Tea."

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"T Stands For Tuesday Tea" - Postcard

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I made a tea themed art piece as my ticket into Bleubeard and Elizabeth's T Stands For challenge found here. My actual entry for this week is here.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.10.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Colonial Kitchen - Photograph

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This is 1 of 3 posts of  photographs that I took at the Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden in Woodbury, CT during Connecticut Open House Day.

"Tea Cup" - Postcard

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I made a tea cup themed art piece as my ticket into Bleubeard and Elizabeth's T Stands For challenge found here. My actual entry for this week is here.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.8.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Tea" - Postcard

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This week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge was "Tea."

The plain backside can be seen here.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.20.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)