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Oddities and Beauty in Nature. #17
Hi everyone and Happy Monday! Well, here we are with another photo of something that is both odd and beautiful, and definitely part of nature. I have talked about mushrooms a lot and will continue to talk about them in the new year. But for now, here is one that I haven’t mentioned and it certainly is odd looking for a mushroom.
This is the Decorated Pholiota.
I have mentioned other pholiota species before, there are several of them and all are beautiful besides being a bit odd looking. I hope you enjoy it. Have a great week everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin. ©2025 Steve McLeod.
Muffin’s Funnies! #48
Hi, hi to everyone! 😻❄️ I back again with more fun funnies for everyone to enjoy. So, today, we just get started with them…
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CHRISTMAS COOKIE RULES
1. If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.
2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.
3. If a friend comes over while you’re making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend’s first cookie is calorie free (rule #1), yours is also. It would be rude to let your friend sample alone and, being the friend that you are, that makes your cookie calorie free.
4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking around will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.
6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. Red ones have three and green ones have five – one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!
7. Cookies eaten while watching “Miracle on 34th Street” have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one’s personal fuel.
8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.
9. Any cookies consumed from someone else’s plate have no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to their plate. We all know how calories like to CLING!
10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed have no calories because cookies used for medicinal purposes NEVER have calories. It’s a rule!
So, go out and enjoy those Christmas Cookies – we only get them this time of year! Same rules apply for New Year’s cookies!
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CATS’ FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS
1. Up on the Mousetop
2. Joy to the Curled
3. I Saw Mommy Hiss at Santa Claus
4. Jingle Balls
5. Wreck the Halls
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That all for today everyone, have nicest week, I be back on New Year’s Eve, whatever that is.
Muffin. 😽❄️ ©2025 Muffin McLeod.
