Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Hey there, Garrison and Tink 💕😽 Not sure where the week has gone, but gone it is. And so here we are on another CATURDAY, the last of April. How is this possible?? Once I let the moggies out, I’ll sit for a while in your Coffee Shop before heading bedward. No better place to be ….
One for Tink 💕
Hitting 2 years with my tiny kitten, just last night noticed HOW BIG he’s become. Seems impossible. Had to look up how long a kitten grows. Yep, it can take 2 years for some.
Should be a truth in labeling that comes with them. Fascinating!
Good kitty!
Got caught. Playing the victim 😂
These days?? I get it…
“Lying” even…😎
Oy vey, Betsy, it took me a minute…
It’s a little put there, but clever I thought.
I immediately started looking for a cat on the Cat before noticing that the Cat was on its side and that there was a car under the Cat.
I know what’s that like…missing the very thing that’s in front of you because of a preconceived object.
Or as we.always said…
“Can’t see for looking.”
MY gosh YES!!! 😻
Music and company
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”
~Mark Twain
Now THAT is a BAD Kitty!!!
But in a good way 😊👍🏻
Aww! Is that, “What’s New Pussycat?” I hear?
In stereo?
Oh, Bets
Love me some Mark Twain – an American treasure.
“If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.”
He really did love cats. Look for more of his quotes in the future 😻
Maybe the bad look comes from remembering that time yarn was coming out both ends.
Don’t care where it’s going, I’m getting on!!! 😁
Mornin’ Dear Bets
That bus is headed for Los Gatos. (I’m going too!)
Morning, dear sis…saved you a seat!!
And saved this for you also…. 😉 💕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl5vli6al-I
<Popeye’s> made some great biscuits before it got sold out with death of ownership, IDK if they recovered I have not been there post their dire straits.
Biscuit making is an art, I learned from both great grandmothers, tried to convey the art to the employee responsible for breakfast but nope… stopped breakfast service after about 3 months, hard to compete with every hotel giving away free bad breakfasts with canned SoaS gravy.
Good not agree more. Have never had a better biscuit than Popeye’s in their early days in New Orleans.
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It truly is an art, Magic. Much in the touch. What a shame about your breakfasts…
Happy
Happy that he has mastered the art of not letting the bell ring.
Not hard to do when you’re in reverie 💕
Look at my murder claws!! LOOK AT THEM!!!
There is no cat owner alive who can’t relate.
Yep. Yardstick, at the ready fulltime by the stove/oven !!!
My husband fashioned an ergodynamic implement so there would be no more of this “on the hard floor owww my knees” business.
Truth…
Yes…it’s better this way 😎
Off to gwelli 💕
Very nice, Garrison. Oh my, THE BUTTERFLY !
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/why-the-a-10-s-massive-gun-sends-its-shells-back-inside-the-plane/vi-AA1WscIZ
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Saint Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza in Palestine (+ 420)
and
Saint George the Holy Great-Martyr and Trophy-Bearer (+ 303)
please pray for and protect the remaining original Christians in the Holy Land and the Levant, especially the village of Taybeh, from the Evil One and his servants.
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Paschal Troparion
Christ is risen from the dead, by death hath He trampled down death, and on those in the graves hath He bestowed life. (Thrice)
Diaries from the Japanese soldiers that faced the Marines. Insight most will not bother to with because they don’t understand that cultural psychology is a major factor in determining the outcome of battles and even wars.
Thank You Rah.
Thanks Rah,
I have been trying to grasp the absurdity of being bogged down in a massive war that you are not winning and deciding the answer is to broaden the war to fight many more countries. Japan and China and 1941.
There was an absolute belief that they would crush their new opponents. But at the same time a determination that if they didn’t, they would force the enemy to break himself upon their defenses and give up.
They had complete fore knowledge of our massive prewar Navy building plan. Yamamoto predicted that they could run amok for 6 months. Midway was June of 1942. He also predicted that after 2 years he could make no promises. By November 1943, our fleet was big enough that we could invade Tarawa. Both predictions were extremely accurate. But he was criticized for making such defeatist statements. By the Marianas, we had 15 carriers to their 9. And it quickly got worse.
And the rest of the Navy knew it as well. Achieving victory after victory and going home to protect the fleet. Leaving before the job is finished. They kept their fleet preserved as much as possible. But by the time they were ready to commit, they were massively outnumbered. But to win, they would need repeated miraculous one sided victories as we keep building new ships.
Yes, the belief that Americans were weak was ingrained. Similarly the belief that they were superior was absolute. Completely racist, worse than our racist views of them. Those two things underlay all their bad plans.
Yet the military leadership never waivered. They were like a bad backgammon player desperately trying to ‘win’ by repeatedly doubling down. At the end they were preparing a fourth of their population to attack with farm tools and were quite willing to let another 1/4 die of starvation, just so long as we would be forced to sue for peace, allowing them to keep everything they still held.
And as the video hints, their propaganda never changed. Still firmly committed to their superiority and our inferiority. Even as the poor soldiers came to realize it wasn’t so, the belief was ingrained in the leadership. Anything that questioned it was ostracized as defeatism.
And suicide was built into their plans from the start. Those ten minisubmariners at Pearl were on a suicide mission. And after Guadalcanal, all island defenses could not be supported when under attack. Hence each island defense was a suicide mission. Knowing that, they strove to learn how to make each Japanese suicide more costly to America. Eventually they devolved to flinging ships and aircraft and yes soldiers in suicide attacks. But the idea was built in to the philosophy.
Oddly enough, we confuse Bansai attacks with suicide attacks. I am glad there were different words as the documentary pointed out. A Bansai attack was a demonstration of superior military spirit to break inferior military spirits. But it was also a tactic of feudal warfare which could not work against artillery and machineguns. Even as defenses devolved to suicide attacks, Bansai became a way of showing you could be beaten, but your military spirit was still unbroken. Going out in a blaze of glory.
Going back to Pearl, there is much more. Ever since the Meiji Restoration, Japan was trying to demonstrate its superiority by winning the Empire Game of Colonialism. All of Asia and the Pacific was “theirs” to colonize, even Australia. When they doubled down, they went big. And they laid the groundwork for that in 1940 with Greater East Asian Coprosperity Sphere.
I am confused about the need to attack America. They could have taken all the European territories and had all the resources they needed. They had spent decades planning to start a war in the Pacific with an invasion of the Philippines and a fleet designed to crush our fleet when we came to the rescue. Also, you have to include the unmentionable knowledge that our navy would be too big for that by the end of 1943 in their calculation. And the Philippines were positioned perfectly to keep those resources away from Japan if we did go to war.
But I have no idea how Roosevelt could have motivated us to go to war against Japan when we weren’t attacked and he really wanted us to go to war against Hitler.
And doubling down is better than the shame of surrender.
I also find the run up to the war to be hard to fathom. Commodore Perry showed the Shogun as weak. Hence Meiji restored the rule of the Emperor. And ended the Samurai class but tried to modernize Japan by extending Samurai sensibilities to the people who used to be peasants. By 1930, the military was trying to become the next Shogun. Thus Manchuria, and China were wars started by mutiny and used to gain power for the military. But Pearl had the Emperor’s approval.
Also, there were small wars between Japan mutineers and the USSR in 1938 & 1939. If Japan had won, that part of Asia could have been the near term focus of Japan’s war. But they lost. And it disappears down the memory hole. It also helped Stalin unite with Hitler to start the war in Poland. Then when Hitler turned on Stalin, he learned that he no longer needed to defend against Japan and rushed those troops to defend Moscow. Yet at the end, the Japanese were relying on their neutrality pact with their enemy Stalin, whom they knew was going to break the pact, to negotiate for peace instead of surrender.
Much of this thinking is just too strange to accept and comprehend. So thanks. Every little bit helps
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
Remember: Sharia IS Islam.
Thursday, for the first time since my surgery I hopped on my zeroturn and mowed my own yard. Steve has been mowing it for me until now. He put my gas in my mower because all my gas cans are full and thus weigh about 40 lb.
I checked the oil, cleaned the air filter, checked the tire pressures, and then finally did something that made me feel I was doing something. It sure felt good!
I also had a low tire on thegas powered golf cart and I filled it and checked the pressure of the others, checked the oil. Then I put the charger on the battery overnight.
Soon enough I will be able to do the trim with the push mower and string trimmer and change the blades on the zero turn.
It will be late summer before I’m able to do some of the heavier work I want to get done. But my incision if fully healed now and I am comfortable wearing pants with a belt.
Glad you’ve recovered that much.
It helps to be able to return to doing things…..it helps to be able to have a sense of normalcy.
Watching others do things you normally could drove me nuts. Watching some things fall apart because I could not manage them drove me nuts.
The more you do the more you CAN do over time.
It is good you had people you can count on during your down time.
Go slow enough to fully heal and enjoy the rewards of improving.
It matters.
Hope you continue to improve.
Yea! I still have to take Steve with me when I buy the 40 lb bags of bird seed.
Gradually gaining back endurance walking and doing things. When you don’t move it, you lose it, and there is a price to pay to get it back.
Mornin’ Greg
All great points. And……sure helps to have a Steve in your life. What a blessing that you have each other, rah.
Adore mowing, especially, when laundry going, dishwasher going, something cooking in the oven.
A friend’s mom, still mowing at age 91. Darn, some girls ruin it for all of us. Had been feeling rather butch, until that revelation.
I push mow, one day. Riding mow front of property another day. Last day in cycle, riding mow back of property at pond.
Needing rain badly, first real chance this evening. Middle rural Georgia.
Huge oak limb fell this week, burn pile was already too impressivel.
WE are on day three of a five day run of potential severe weather. Thursday was fairly active as I indicated last week. Yesterday was not too bad. Either Here is the area in the cross hairs today. They most certainly need the rain down there but they sure don’t need the wind, tornadoes, and tennis ball sized hail!
Here is for Sunday:
25 April
Harry Belafonte Jr
(1927-2023)
Jamaican-American calypso singer (“Banana Boat Song”), actor (Buck & the Preacher), and human rights activist, dies of congestive heart failure at 96
Day-0
Shake Senora
25 April 2007 Bobby “Boris” Pickett, American singer-songwriter (“Monster Mash”), dies from leukemia at 69
Monster Mash
25 April 1999 Roger Troutman, American funk musician (Zapp), dies during his brother’s apparent murder-suicide at 47
Computer Love
25 April
Ginger Rogers
(1911-1995)
American vaudeville, stage and screen dancer, singer (Top Hat), and Academy Award-winning actress (Kitty Foyle; Stage Door), dies at 83
Also appearing in this clip:
22 June 1987 Fred Astaire [Austerlitz], American stage and screen tap dancer, singer (“Night And Day”; “Cheek To Cheek”; “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off”), and actor (Royal Wedding; Easter Parade; Swingtime), dies of pneumonia at 88.
Cheek To Cheek
25 April 1992 Brian MacLeod, Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist (Chilliwack), dies of cancer at 39
My Girl
25 April 1990 Dexter Gordon, American jazz tenor saxophonist Go!; The Other Side of ‘Round Midnight), and actor (‘Round Midnight), dies of kidney failure at 67
Replacment #1
for privatized
Dexter Gordon -Lady Bird (Belgium, 1964) [1/2]
25 April 1988 Carolyn Franklin, American singer-songwriter, sister of Aretha, dies of cancer at 43
42+ works currently controled by ASCAP/BMI
Ain’t No Way qued past interesting in studio making of
https://quotesgram.com/img/backwards-high-heels-quotes/4638767/
Let’s see if I can dig that image out properly that they try oh so hard to block.
Wow, MMW
I would never have matched that picture of Boris Pickett with his voice!
Here is an oldie….”a beautiful bunch of ripe banana….hide the deadly black tarantula….” nope, am now up for the day…imagining that arachnoid…..
This tune was a favorite of ours, back in the day…
I recall a better ‘tongue roll’ on the words “drink of rum”…. I have my mom’s 33 1/3 album…but its warped and I no longer have a functional phonograph….
25 April
Anders Celsius
(1701-1744)
Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale), dies at 42
Biography: Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, best known for the Centigrade temperature scale which now bears his name. He also founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741.
Celsius’ came from a family of intellects, with his father being an astronomy professor. His uncle, Olof Celsius, was a botanist and he was the grandson of Magnus Celsius, a mathematician, and Anders Spole, an astronomer.
He was also the first to connect the aurora borealis phenomenon with shifts in the magnetic field of the Earth, noticing also that variations in the movement of a compass needles corresponded with auroral activity.
That celsius caused me a lot of mathematical grief, as mathematically challenged student nurse…just saying…
I will leave the “Apothecary System”, for another day…
Could have been worse on thermometers:
I think he also did one on Celsius but this one is Fahrenheit.
This is James Burke and Connections, qued to the pertinent part
https://youtu.be/w4ujTt0gDx8?t=1252
“His Next Meal” Sumatran Tiger by Alan M Hunt
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The Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
INTERRUPTED CAT NAP – LION CUBS – Alan M Hunt
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together in My name,
I am there in the midst of them.”
LEAVE THIS ONE TO ME SIS – TIGERS – Alan M Hunt
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“It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.”
– St. André Bessette
happy “cartoons and cereal day” everyone.
for levi, and all other silent tree-branchers who are in our thoughts and prayers.
peace to all who gather here, and thank you Jesus for our joy in being together.
From Don Surber’s Highlights:
ITEM 15: “Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va.”
Shows she was overpaid.
ITEM 16: Well, it is not like Cowan killed anyone.
And now you know the rest of the story.
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/highlights-of-the-news-d8f
Siberian Summer by Alan M Hunt
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Psalm 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17 ☘️
For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
The favors of the Lord I will sing forever;
through all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness.
For you have said, “My kindness is established forever”;
in heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness.
For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
The heavens proclaim your wonders, O Lord,
and your faithfulness, in the assembly of the holy ones.
For who in the skies can rank with the Lord?
Who is like the Lord among the sons of God?
For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Blessed the people who know the joyful shout;
in the light of your countenance, O Lord, they walk.
At your name they rejoice all the day,
and through your justice they are exalted.
For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Tiger Eyes by Alan M Hunt
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Mk 16:15
Go into all the world,
and proclaim the Gospel to every creature, alleluia.
Sleepers – Tiger and Cub
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Mark 16:15-18
Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Mornin’ Mo
Mr Hunt surely does justice to such a magnificent creature.
Never too tough for a box!
that must be a big box
hello slow
howdy doody
how’s your day
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FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND ALL IN NEED OF PRAYER
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Christian Worship Instrumental for Prayer, Meditation, Reflection & Rest (Cozy Room)
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EACH DAY WE TAKE UP THE OFFENSIVE WEAPON OF THE WORD OF GOD – THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT – ONE VERSE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CONTEXT OF THE CHAPTER MESSAGE
Verse of the Day for Saturday, April 25, 2026
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“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Proverbs 17:22 (KJV)
COMMENTARY FOR PROVERBS 17:22
#22|. It is great mercy that God gives us leave to be cheerful, and cause to be cheerful, if by his grace he gives us hearts to be cheerful.
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Finding Stability in a Shaken World | Verse of the Day – April 25, 2026 (Morning Prayer)
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Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
WE ARE FIGHTING A SPIRITUAL WAR OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
MAPA = MAKE AMERICA PRAY AGAIN
YOU MAKE ME SMILE
My first thought in the morning is of God;
Asking His blessings – for me – is not odd;
What is odd and quite perplexing to me;
Is the smile on my face when I think of Thee!
What comes to mind in Morning Prayer?
With each petition – through each layer;
The joy experienced when reminded;
The truth exposed – no longer blinded!
Thank You, Lord, for opening my eyes;
For helping me see – for making me wise;
For sending me – a great gift in disguise;
Someone to respect – a friend to advise!
You touched my heart where others could not;
You accepted my help – without a thought;
You laughed at my jokes – though silly they are;
You welcomed my friendship – from near and afar!
You challenged my knowledge – and added to it;
You carefully connected the dots adrift;
You made me wonder ‘bout God and His plan;
To where it would lead – from whence it began!
You gave me a place – to pray and to love;
You prayed with me – stayed with me – above;
Together we lifted up many a friend;
And brought forth God’s blessings to that end!
How can I thank you – what more can I say;
You make me smile each and every day;
What can I do for you – to ease your mind?
How can I thank you for being so kind?
If I asked God to bless you – would that be enough?
Gee Whiz…giving back to you – is terribly tough;
What can I say when I am lost for words?
Expressly refrain from sliding backwards!
What can I do to end this quandary?
As I open my heart – and air my laundry?
So humble and sweet is your heart, my dear;
It’s nearly impossible for me, I fear!
Perhaps, I will ask Our Father above;
If He will shower you with His love;
Send comforting angels to hold you gently;
Sing you their songs – calm you contently!
Warrior angels I’ll ask God to send;
To protect you – fight for you – to the end;
May the Holy Spirit chide you each day;
With knowledge and wisdom to guide your way!
In my Evening Prayer, I think of you;
I thank God sincerely for all you do;
As I end my prayer and end my day;
You make me smile – it just won’t go away!
D01: 06/30/2013
Psalm 91. The most powerful prayer from the Bible. God’s protection, healing
#psalm91 #psalms #prayer
Pray Everyday
https://rumble.com/v57jz8d-psalm-91.the-most-powerful-prayer-from-the-bible.-gods-protection-healing-p.html
Sleep Well with Psalms. Psalm 91, Psalm 121, Psalm 3, Psalm 4, Psalm 139.
#faith #god #psalms
prayeveryday777
https://rumble.com/v57jvfg-sleep-well-with-psalms.-psalm-91-psalm-121-psalm-3-psalm-4-psalm-139.faith-.html
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HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY !!! ❤️❤️❤️
The Prince – Cheetah by Alan M Hunt
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Ginger Rogers
SWING TIME (’36): “Pick Yourself Up”
Male Clouded Leopard -by Alan M Hunt
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Ginger & Fred in “Bouncing The Blues”
The Jaguar Kinght by Alan M Hunt
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‘We’re In The Money’ – Ginger Rogers sings in English & in ‘Pig Latin’ from ‘Gold Diggers ‘