Here’s last Wednesday’s picture:

And this is what it was cropped from:

Half a sand dollar

!!!UPDATED!!!: Ok, waaaaaaaay too complicated. Comment away with what you think it is, I’ll moderate the comments, MUCH easier that way!

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU COMMENT:

So while I’m not going to close the comments, I would love it if you’d email me your answers [fondofsnapeATgmailDOTcom] (you know AT = @ and DOT = . right?) instead of saying what you think this week’s photo is in the comments. This way you can still leave a comment if you wish, telling me what you think of this idea, telling me to go to hedoublehockeysticks, etc., etc.

Ok, let’s move on!

Tommie was the first to get it right: “a broken edge of a sand dollar“. She was quickly followed by:

Mrs. G., “That, my friend, is a sand dollar. Right?“.

YellowRose, “I’m going with the broken sand dollar.“.

These three cracked me up:

DebR: “It looks like some sort of jaggedy-edge bone. Did you get pissed off and break someone’s skull??? (If you did, they probably deserved it)”

Lisa: “Freaking A, woman. How in the hell am I supposed to be able to tell anything from that? A broken matzo cracker?”

Saucy: “That, my friend, is surely the wiggly bits of a very old person.”

So…

What is it?

I saw this on Heart Songs…since I haven’t done a music meme in awhile I thought I’d give it a try!

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random [ElfPod on shuffle]
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Here’s the fun part: YOU get to guess what song it is from just the one line; if you’re really good, you’ll know the artist as well! [ahahaha good luck with this one!]
Step 4: Then I get to strike through the line when someone gets it right, linking to that someone, cause I’m nice like that
Step 5: No cheating! And by cheating, I mean no looking them up on Google or any other search engine

1. This speech is my recital: It’s Tricky by Run-DMC Ren
2. Drove downtown in the rain 930 on a Tuesday night: Brian Wilson by Barenaked Ladies Ren
3. The reason why oh I can’t say
4. She’s a good girl loves her mama: Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty Dawn
5. How come he don’t come and p.l.p. with me down at the meter no more?: Chuck E’s In Love by Rickie Lee Jones – April
6. I looked at you, you stole my heart…you were all that I anticipated: Rock Steady by The Whispers DebR
7. Having trouble with the high school head, giving you the blues?: Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap) by AC/DC – April
8. The 22nd of loneliness and we’ve been through so many things
9. Nineteen ninety, Chubb Rock jumps up on the scene with a lean and a pocket full of green: Treat ‘Em Right by Chubb Rock Malcolm
10. Hey hey Julia you’re acting so peculiar: Sailing Shoes by Robert Palmer Robin
11. Did I ask for you love…did I ask for your dedication?
12. I know it’s out of fashion and a trifle uncool: Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins Julie
13. When your world is full of strange arrangements and gravity won’t pull you through…: The Look of Love by ABC Ren
14. I quit my job…ain’t go no money…seems I have to leave this town.
15. Spotcheck Billy got down on his hands and knees, he said “Hey momma, hey let me check your oil all right?”
16. Sitting at home watching Arsenio Hall: Me So Horny by 2 Live Crew Kristaloowho
17. My friends wonder why I call you all the time…what can I say…I don’t feel the need to give such secrets away.: Kiss on my List by Hall & Oates Dawn
18. Hey yo I’m still not a playa but you still a hater, elevator to the top hah, see you later, I’m gone
19. Back in my arms, girl, you ain’t got no reason for acting like a stranger to me.: Back In My Arms by Robert Palmer Charlotte
20. Hey, this is radio station W-S-K-E-E, we’re takin’ calls off the wish line, making all your wacky wishes come true: I Wish by Skee Lo Kristaloowho
21. See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight: Girls on Film by Duran Duran Ren
22. Downtown we’ll drown, we’re in our never splendor, flowers, showers, who’s got the new boy gender: I’ll Tumble for Ya by Boy George Monique
23. Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak somewhere in this town: Jail Break by Thin Lizzy – April
24. Well I woke this morning with a pain in my neck, a pain in my heart and a pain in my chest; I went to the good doctor and the good doctor said, you gotta slow down your life or you’re gonna be dead.: Complicated Life by The Kinks Monique
25. Well she’s my woman of gold and she’s not very old – a ha: Hot Love by T.Rex Julie

Yeah…good luck with this one! Elfpod must’ve been in a mood…all 80s new wave & rap with a sprinkling of the 70s…not one Zeppelin? Damn. And I had to skip over some songs that basically started out with the name of the song (”Push It”, “She’s a brick house”, etc.).

Weekly Words Challenge #32, hosted by Pickled Beef:

Two pictures of “One”

A collection of water

Two pictures of “One” AND “Water”
which ONE would you rather run into?

Friday night was the chocolate party; we had chocolate fondue with pound cake, strawberries, bananas, pineapples & rice krispie squares with cocoa nibs & Heath bar crunch bits; chocolate pizza (Nutella on pizza dough with grated bits of dark chocolate); and piece of Hershey’s new “Bliss” chocolate…yum! We followed that up with some regular pizza and a rousing games of Apples to Apples.

Saturday, I did a photo shoot up in Bedford, NH for House On The Hill Nuts, which, btw, if you’re ever in the market for some delicious spiced pecans, don’t hesitate to purchase some from Ann! They’re delicious! She’ll also be making dog treats soon; Wolf said he’d be happy to sample them

Two nuts (Michelle on the left, Monique on the right)

This is an outtake from a photo shoot; the girls were supposed to enjoying a meal that included pecans on the salad and soup and talking animatedly…but they were sitting there going…uh… what should we talk about? I told them to just say words, any words: cauliflower, vegetables, cheese, Viggo, Bon Jovi…and look at the results

Afterwards, Michelle and I went to see Baby Mama. Eh. It was ok…I did enjoy the doorman, though, he was hysterical!

Today…I did some shopping, changed our home phone service, and took Wolf for a walk. That’s about it! Caught up on my Tivo’d shows (Lost is just getting waaaaay too confusing, but I can’t stop watching it, and I’m glad that Moonlight is back, and that Mick is back to being a vampire) and cooked dinner (roasted chicken, since it was chilly out, grilled asparagus and mashed potatoes.

Also, here’s my collaboration with Julie this week:

It’s Autumn in Australia; Spring in the US and it makes for a lovely combination!

Usually, Julie’s would be on the right and mine on the left, but we liked the U shape and left well enough alone! You can see more of our work here.