A friend posted a reminder to people not to enter the Facebook Prize draws. Truth is a lot of them are scams, like some of the fun quiz posts.
Next time you fill in one of the fun quizes try to remember if any of the answers are the security questions for your on-line accounts.
I was looking through my diary the other day and I came across a reminder of a free prize draw I had entered. It was a valid one – it came as a freebie with my car insurance. A few weeks from now I will know if I have won. A free luxury cruise!! It really is amazing how your perception can change in such a short time. Not such a great prize today.
But even if I win, I live alone. So if I go on a luxury cruise it will be against the law for me to take anybody with me. It really has me wondering even more about the future. I wonder how many of the people developing guidance are single.
I remember an old film showing Southern Irish courting with a cart and horse – the man on one side and the woman on the other (back to back), with the cart driven by the chaperone. I think it is called a jaunting cart (as in to go for a jaunt). I wonder if that will be the future of dating.
But lets face it – dating is going to be one of the main ways for the virus to spread, not work. I wonder how long it will take the old married men of the government to realise that.
Today was a good day – I managed to find time to fit another three rows of decking, and the rest is all cut to size ready to go. Might just finish this week if the weather holds good.
And the toothache has resolved itself – it seems it might have been a shard of a tooth that was working through the gum following an extraction. It came through today and the pain is gone.
My American road trip today starts in the Grand Canyon and takes in the double scenic area of the painted desert and the Petrified forest – ending in Holbrook.
I started with a short walk down the path into the Grand Canyon. I had walked all the way down 15 years earlier (and back in a day). I hate heights, but I worked hard at controlling the fear.
As I drove on toward the Petrified forest I spotted a herd of cattle being driven through a forest by some cowboys.
It also seemed to be the right time for cactus flowers. Some of them were stunning.
The first part of the double park to enter is the Petrified Forest. This part of the desert has petrified wood all over the ground. Really interesting to see. But be ready for your car to be searched for rocks as you exit.
Half way through there is an area with a lot of petroglyphs – a sort of cave painting on a cliff.
Route 66 used to pass through this park, and they have place the remains of an old car at the point where it passed the park road.
The rest of the double park is made up of the Painted Desert. This is a series of sand hills with a wide variety of colours.
The park entrance is in the south and exits to the north with the interstate running through the middle. It was a quick drive from there to Holbrook, ready for my artistic architecture visit the next day that would prove a little more difficult than expected.