Good morning friends! Come in out of the cold … it’s been a while since I’ve had to say that, hasn’t it? Yep, jacket season is back, and soon you’ll be digging out those extra blankets, winter coats, long johns, scarves & mittens! Brrrrrrrrrrr. Worse yet, the holidays will soon be upon us and frankly, I wouldn’t mind if we just skipped over them all this year. But that’s a worry for another day. Now, there aren’t as many snacks today as usual, for Joyful has been helping Roger build and decorate his new tower, and Jolly … well, Jolly tells me he’s been on an important mission, but won’t give me any details. Do any of you have any idea what ol’ Jolly has been up to? Anyway … it’s the start of a new week, so grab a snack from the table and let’s try to find something to start the week off with a smile, okay?
Making mask wearing palatable
Now here is one for the bacon lovers among you – Larry, David, Larry, rawgod, and Emily, sit up and take note!
That’s right … a bacon-scented face mask! According to Hormel, the Black Label Breathable Bacon mask uses the “the latest in bacon-smell technology” to give the wearer the experience of smelling bacon anytime they don the protection accessory.
You can register to win a bacon-scented mask until October 28 here! I had to laugh at the warning on the website that cautioned against trying to eat the mask! Go on, guys … enter the contest … you know you want to!
The BIG pumpkin
Every year around this time, there is a Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off contest held in Half Moon Bay in Northern California. The prize goes to the entry having the heftiest pumpkin and is paid at $7 per pound.
This year’s grand prize winner was Travis Gienger and his pumpkin weighed a whopping … wait for it … 2,350 pounds! Wow … just think how many pumpkin pies and loaves of pumpkin bread you could make with that! But … it wouldn’t even fit in my kitchen, and I surely couldn’t lift the thing!
Travis is now $16,450 richer and now owns the title of 2020 Pumpkin King of Half Moon Bay.
Jokes, jokes, jokes!
How ‘bout a few jokes, courtesy of Reader’s Digest?
- An exercise for people who are out of shape: Begin with a five-pound potato bag in each hand. Extend your arms straight out from your sides, hold them there for a full minute, and then relax. After a few weeks, move up to ten-pound potato bags. Then try 50-pound potato bags, and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-pound potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. Once you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
- My daughter received this e-mail from a prospective student prior to the start of the semester: “Dear Professor, I won’t be able to come to any of your classes or meet for any of the tests. Is this a problem?”
- Scene: With a patient in my medical exam room Me: How old are your kids? Patient: Forty-four and 39 from my wife who passed away, and from my second wife, 15 and 13. Me: That’s quite the age difference! Patient: Well, the older ones didn’t give me any grandkids, so I made my own.
And now, the moment that you all like best … the ‘toons!
Well, I don’t suppose it would be quite right to sign off without a cute animal video, now would it? This one is guaranteed to melt your heart.
Okay, folks … I’ve got a house to clean, laundry to do, and I’ve got to try to figure out what I’m cooking for supper tonight. You guys have jobs to go to, and other important things that keep your world right-side-up. Thanks so much for spending a bit of your Monday morning with us, and please remember to share your gorgeous smiles with others you meet this week! Love ‘n hugs from Filosofa, Jolly & Joyful!
Loved the cartoons. We have the same pumpkin contest every October. Bacon scented mask? I would constantly be eating bacon!
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Awesome! Do they sell pumpkin treats and such? There used to be one about 50 miles from here, but we never got to attend, though we did go to the Applefest every year until it got so big that it wasn’t fun anymore. And what’s so wrong with constantly eating bacon??? 🥓
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The Topsfield fair has been around for a long time. It is a big county fair, with all the animals and agriculture that fairs have been doing forever. The biggest pumpkin is always popular. But, you should see young kids showing their prized animals in judging competition. Priceless! I don’t remember seeing pumpkin treats being sold, but maybe I missed it. And yes, constantly eating bacon would be a wonderful thing!
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Sounds truly delightful!!! For a time, my daughter and I lived in a little town called Gray Station, Tennessee, where there was a wonderful county fair about 2 blocks from our home! I always looked forward to that weekend in September. Good ol’ days! And yeah … crispy, oven-baked with lots of pepper … yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Yes, the good old days. And yum! 🙂
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Thanks for the sniles and laughs! I would be hungry all the time with a bacon mask!
WOWZERS on that pumpkin!! I can’t imagine!
No salad for me!
Haha on the birdie needing a car! LOL at Mr. Potato Head! He is in trouble! 😄
Hugs my friend! Now get busy with that side business you have 😉! LOL!!
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No salad for you??? Salad is healthy, my friend … lots of veggies! And, you can add yummy things like bacon, crispy fried onions, tortilla strips, boiled eggs … make it your own!
Glad you enjoyed Jolly Monday! Have a great week, Carolyn!
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Haha! I meant the kind of salad in rhe comic you posted! I do eat salad. 🙂
Hope you have a great week too! I posted another story about Miss. Jill. Don’t know what I got myself into!! LOL!
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🤦 Silly me! I wasn’t thinking! No, I won’t eat that salad either!!! Ah … I shall have to go check out your latest chapter as soon as I finish my ‘good people’ post for morning! Heh heh … I can see the year 2025, and Miss Joy Roses is still trying to disentangle herself from Betsy, Miss Jill, Tanya and the rest of the clan!
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Lived in Half Moon Bay for a half dozen years. Really enjoyed the pumpkin festival. As we lived right by downtown, it was entertaining to go down, buy a glass of wine, and then wander along checking out the arts, crafts, and food, attending some shows, and ogling the great pumpkin. Fond memories. Cheers
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I lived in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco, for about half of my first 18 years, the rest spend in NYC. Not as close as you, so I never say the pumpkin festival … but I do remember spending weekends in Carmel and the artist community there. Ahhhh … I didn’t appreciate it while I had it.
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I worked in San Mateo off El Camino Real for a few years. Yes, weekends in Carmel…or Santa Cruz, or lunch in Davenport, or a drive down to Nepenthe in Big Sur. Great times, yeah?
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They were, indeed, great times! I loved the Bay Area … not sure if I still would, as I haven’t been back there since the early 1970s and I’m sure much has changed.
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Yes, it’s much changed. I left it in 2005, but went back for business regularly for a few years. The changes just kept mounting so quickly and everything seemed so crowded after tiny Ashland, returning to the Bay area became depressing. Now I only use SFO once or twice a year. It’s enough.
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That’s sad, but predictable I suppose. I have many fond memories of my teen years spent there during the height of the ‘flower power’ movement.
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Great Monday post, Jill. Don’t even want to think of that mask.
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I’m glad you got a chuckle or two from the post … but would you not enjoy smelling bacon continually for hours on end? I think that for me, it would make me stop at the nearest Perkins and order a heapin’ helpin’ or bacon!!! 🥓
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I can see that for sure.
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Bacon scented mask? I’M IN!
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Go for it!!! I knew it would appeal to you!
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Very unhappy that I dashed off to the smelly bacon competition only to find I wasn’t allowed to enter. I might have to console myself with a bacon butty at tea time…….in about 5 minutes. Sorry you’re not allowed to enter.
I was so glad Clara got her Clarita back, very touching. Some funny cartoons tickled my funny bone,
Cwtch
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Yes, rawgod let me know first thing this morning that he couldn’t enter it, so among my bacon-lovers, that just leaves Larry and Larry who are eligible. But, rg came up with an idea, so I have entered it and if I win, well it’ll be a tossup between you, rg, and Emily! Hope you enjoyed your bacon butty at tea, and I’m glad you enjoyed Jolly Monday!
Cwtch
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A mask that might convince people who don;t like masks to wear them – gotta love it! And yes, I want one… Happy Monday!
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I knew it would appeal! Heck, it even sounds good to me! I found out this morning, though, that the contest is only open to residents of the U.S. … so … hopefully I will win one and then you, rawgod, and David can fight over which one of you gets it! Happy Monday and have a great … er … decent week, dear friend!
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A great post, Jill. I sat here and cried at the adoption video. Lovely. 🙂 — Suzanne
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I admit a tear or two when I watched that video, too! Glad you liked Jolly Monday … have a great week, my friend!
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Jill, the one about the “perfect eyesight” is my favorite. Of course, the eyesight works on looking over he husband as well. Keith
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Heh heh … good point! Glad you found something to start the week out with a chuckle!
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If rumours start to peculate that someone put a whoopee cushion on Trump’s chair in the Oval Office then you know where Jolly went.
Love those cats empathising over stressful holidays
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Uh-oh … I rather thought he was doing some secret holiday shopping, but sneaking a whoopee cushion into the Oval Office could be dangerous! Why … he could get shot! JOLLY!!!! Get down here right now!
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Ohhhh Mistah Rowger!! You said you wouldn’t mention it!!
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It’s okay, Jolly … come here … we need to talk. How do you think Joyful and I would ever manage Jolly Monday without our Jolly? You could be killed breaking into the White House … yes, it was funny, but not worth your life. Now, young Jolly, you are GROUNDED for two weeks!!! So, start searching for ‘toons for next weeks Jolly Monday, or go help Joyful in the kitchen!
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Them’s the breaks Jolly. Sorry ’bout that 🤷♂️
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Thnif. Itth okay, Uncle Woger.
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Thanks. Oh well, have fun in the kitchen and finding cartoons Jolly. It’s a worthy way of spending your time
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Me ‘n Joyful’s makin’ a special tweat for Gwammie! It’s a sprise, but it gots coffee an’ coconut ‘n hot pepper ‘n chocolate in it, ’cause she likes all dem things.
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Well done your pair Gwammie deserves a treat.
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Such a good post! And funny too!
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
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I know my policy is to never ask anyone for anything, but if some nice American who is not a bacon lover would like to enter the bacon-masxk contest for me using all their own info, I would be eternally grateful, especially if they were to win, and forward said bacon-mask to me up here in northern Canada. Hormel need never know.
Clara and Clarity were too much for words…
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Damn spelchek! CLARITA!
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I have entered the contest, but if I win a mask, I think we will have to have a contest here on Filosofa’s Word to see which of my outside-the-U.S. friends will get it, for only Larry & Larry are eligible to enter. It will become a toss-up between you, Emily and David … perhaps some of my other readers will help out and enter also.
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That would be fun. Thank you.
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