Some Pic's and a note to myTo my subscribers

First I'd like to say to my wonderful subscribers....Sorry about the last post!!

I learned that it couldn't be read because I had the wrong color font!! If it happens to you again just know you can click on the link to Tom's Hideaway at the bottom of the feed you are receiving and you should be able to see the posting OK..

SORRY !!!

Now some pictures...



Minnie Again..She's just Photogenic and no one else lets me take as many pictures as I do of her!!


Experimental Photo...Driving Drunk



This is what it's like if you are Driving Impaired

DON'T DO IT !!

For the full effect, click on the pictures and they get larger. Minnie make a good desktop wallpaper as she is peeking around all the icons and well if you stare at the second one long enough you may be able to just skip the Martini's...

Have a great day!!

Got it in the Email

Three men - a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden and a KENTUCKY GENTLEMAN are all working together one day.

They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it.
'I will give each of you one wish, which is three wishes in total', says the Genie.

The Canadian says, 'I am a farmer and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Canada '

POOF! With the blink of the Genie's eye, the land in Canada was forever fertile for farming.

Osama was amazed, so he said, 'I want a wall around Afghanistan , Palestine , Iraq and Iran so that no infidels, Americans or Canadians
can come into our precious land.'

POOF! Again, with the blink of the Genie's eye, there was a huge wall around those countries.

The Kentuckian says, 'I am very curious.
Please tell me more about this wall.'

The Genie explains, 'Well, it's about 5,000 feet high, 5oo feet thick and completely surrounds the country. Nothing can get in or out;
it's virtually impenetrable.'

The Kentuckian sits down on his Harley , cracks a beer, lites a cigar,
smiles and says,

'Fill it with water.'

Weekly Winner, Trivia Update

The scores are in along with a lot of 1st time players and some who have tried again after being away...Thanks for playing and lets get to this weeks TOP 5 Weekly Points winners...

Player	Total Points	Overall Rank
1. kathlock	110	1
2. Soy-Boy	83	5
3. Dawtch	82	9
4.Operator9	80	3
5.Shoretown	75	20

It's the girl from Downunder AGAIN !! getting into the triple figures AGAIN !! she is on fire this month and I'm tempted to throw a whole week of baseball Trivia at her, but that wouldn't be nice !!

CONGRATS KATHLOCK !!

As far as #2 thru #5 we see 4 different players than we had last week...

Soy-Boy was number 2 and he stumbled yesterday after having a very strong week.

Our favorite player from Indiana Dawtch notched #3 .

The April 08' Champion , Operator 9 was 4th.

Finally, number 5 spot Shoretown , who has dabbled in the Trivia Challenge in the past, played 6 out of the last 7 days, and proves once again that in any given week anyone playing Tom's Trivia Challenge has a chance at being the Weekly Points Winner, a stat you will only find here at Tom's Hideaway.

Congrats to all and welcome to those 8 new or returning players that joined us in the past week including Shoretown we had Balla1, Bpoore05, Dale2006, Rain, Tresbelle16, Jayarr and prittypink1211...

This week I'm Going with 7 straight days of Fun Trivia Mix Questions...Good Luck to all !!

Old South Meeting House

On December 16, 1773, some 5000 colonists gathered at the Old South Meeting House to protest a tax and so, started a revolution with the Boston Tea Party.

Built in 1729, the Old South Meeting House was the largest building in colonial Boston, but is now towered over by the modern steel and glass buildings of today.

Boston is a beautiful city with a wonderful mix of old and new...



On a trip this past weekend I snapped a few shots of the city...

A new view of the Custom House from a park that used to be a a highway through the city until they put the highway in a tunnel with the costliest highway project ever... Big Dig

And another shot from the park , but , looking in the opposite direction, of Rowes Wharf where I left my Yacht above..I wish!!

Located across from the State House , beside the Boston Common is the Memorial to the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry which was one of the first black regiments in the US Military and fought in the Civil War and was depicted in the movie Glory starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington.

All in all my son Pat and I had a nice day strolling through the city, hope you enjoy the photos!!

Trivia Update July, Week 1

Because I lost the points stats from Sunday 06/29/08, we only have 6 days of points to determine the overall Points Leader for the week ending July 5, 2008!!

It's my mistake...but I think we can all live with it.

So...The players with the most points from Monday 6/30/08 to Saturday 7/05/08 are as follows:

Player	Total Points	Overall Rank
1. kathlock	101	1
2. Shaun	76	4
3. Sally	73	11
4.PG	70	2
5. Pixiepants	61	5

Kathlock leads the pack !!

Congrats Kath and the rest of the players that made it in the top 5 in points this week.

I'm doing AWFUL but I'm not giving in yet!!

1, 2, 3 Clones !!!

click on picture to enlarge

The Panorama function on the the new camera is kinda cool... It looks like Pat is watching himself talk to himself !!

RE Weekly Winner's...I've crunched the numbers, I know the weekly winners but I am trying out a new Scheduled Post feature in Blogger so tune in after 5 AM EST on July 7, 2008 for the Weekly Points Winner stats and see if you made the list...

New Toy and an Old Song

I got myself a New Toy today...A Fuji Finepix S1000 10 Megapixel Digital Camera with a 12x Optical Zoom...

Wooo Hooo ..

I never buy myself anything so I splurged a little on this one.

It's of course so pictures here at Tom's Hideaway are of the best possible quality !!

Here are the first 2 shots:



Anne's Orchids



Minnie, resting on Dad's Shoe.


Now there will be a lot more to follow, both here and my poor lonely Hideaway Picture Blog !! So Lets Celebrate the new camera with an appropriate song titled

New Toy !!

Oh AY OH !!

That Lene Lovich what a snappy dresser!!

Another Email Post

Got this in the mail from

"gutterguy"

one of the Stars of Tom's Trivia Challenge

Hooked on phonics...

Jake is five and just learning to read. He points to a picture in a zoo book and proudly says,

"Look Mama, this is a frickin' elephant!"

His mother is horrified, "What did you call it?''

"A frickin' elephant, Mama. It says so right under the picture!"

African Elephant