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@drevil 210103 wrote:
3/19/21 – “Freezing Saddles” 5-letter word (or longer) subanagram
On your ride tomorrow, the last day of Freezing Saddles
My bike found a comfy place to hide amongst the pine “needles.”
Thank you for the game. This was my first year of FS and this has definitely been a highlight.
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@drevil 210056 wrote:
3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it
I went directly to the local post office because stand-alone boxes away from a post office have been absent in our area for years.
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@drevil 209972 wrote:
3/17/21 – Rainbow, Leprechaun, or 4-Leaf Clover
Found a rainbow leading to a pot of gold. Also found a swan dressed as a leprechaun at the house next door.
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I’m skipping the Panda today. [emoji209] But I remember that someone (can’t remember who) was still looking for a yellow Mercedes. I spotted one for you on Four Mile Run Drive.
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@drevil 209815 wrote:
3/15/21 – Christmas Ornaments or Lights
Dancing angel complete with halo and holding up a star. Bonus Christmas wreath next to the front door.
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@drevil 209720 wrote:
3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)
Mathematician and Astronomer Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), a free African-American who helped to survey and plot the boundaries for the new Federal City in 1791. He was also able to predict a 1789 solar eclipse, among other notable recognitions.
http://americaslibrary.gov/jb/colonial/jb_colonial_banneker_1.html and http://whitehousehistory.org/benjamin-banneker
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@drevil 209673 wrote:
3/13/21 – Black Cat, Ladder, or Umbrella
Double ladders in a tree!
I also have a black cat named Pippin. Sweet kitty.
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@drevil 209611 wrote:
3/12/21 – Flower still attached to the plant and in the ground
Daffodils [emoji272] blooming on the side of the W&OD
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@drevil 209519 wrote:
3/11/21 – Face (using Pareidolia)
My face is a little silly. It’s wearing a cap that looks like its own little face with air holes for ventilation and a brim drawn in the sand to make a smile. The main face has big wide set eyes, a shadowy nose, and yellow bubblegum emerging from the corner of a stick mouth. This is how I found the face in the sand/on the toy on a playground.
Side note: Sara McFerrin (Robert “Bobby” McFerrin Jr.’s mother) was a visiting professor in voice at the University of Oklahoma for a semester while I was an undergrad. Although not a vocal major, I attended one of the many master classes she held. My goodness she had a voice!!
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@drevil 209463 wrote:
3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)
I found the carcasses of two decommissioned pay phones and didn’t want to go into a business to say, “hey, can I take a picture of your wired business phone?” So I settled for this store that sells both cell phones and cell phone service.
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@drevil 209407 wrote:
3/9/21 – “Amerigo Vespucci” Subanagram (5 letters or more)
Found some Comics and Games.
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@drevil 209337 wrote:
3/8/21 – Notable Woman (with her achievement)
Jennie Serepta Dean (1848-1913) –
Born into slavery in Loudoun County, VA, Jennie Serepta Dean attended schools in Fairfax County and Washington, D.C. after emancipation. Dean worked as a domestic servant to help her family purchase a farm in Prince William County after her father’s death and to pay for one of her sisters’ schooling. Dedicated to missionary work and racial uplift, Dean established a series of Sunday schools in the area.
In 1888 Dean began to organize support for a school that would teach skilled trades to young African Americans. Dean’s years of fundraising and planning came to fruition when the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth received its charter in October 1893. A dedication ceremony for the school’s first building, Howland Hall, took place on September 3, 1894, and featured Frederick Douglass as the keynote speaker. For many years Dean served on the school’s board of directors and executive committee, with the title of financial agent.
As a delegate to the 1896 annual convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women (later the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs), she spoke about her work at Manassas and urged the organization to get involved in establishing similar industrial schools.
Jennie Dean has had a playground, a community center, and an elementary school named in her honor. The park featured below named for Jennie Dean is located along Four Mile Run in Arlington. It is currently closed for renovations.
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@drevil 209271 wrote:
3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie
Although the website said that Girl Scouts would be selling cookies today not far from home, they were nowhere to be found. Instead I swung by the nearby Northside Social where (in the before times) my husband and I might have stopped for coffee and cookies.
Interesting story: I grew up outside Oklahoma City and my grandparents lived outside Dallas which meant lots of road trips down I35. Roughly halfway between the two in Marietta, OK, was The Cookie Shop, a bakery outlet that sold “fresh broke cookies” from local factories. One of those factories was an official baker of Girl Scout cookies for many years. We often stopped by the store — advertised on multiple billboards next to the interstate for miles in either direction and a common tourist attraction — to pick up a bag of tasty, fresh (baked that day or the day before) cookies that just happened to be “broke” and priced at a dollar per bag. Unfortunately Keebler closed the shop in 2000 after it had thrilled kids and adults alike for 46 years.
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@drevil 209198 wrote:
3/6/21 – Element Name
So many elemental examples. The one I will present here was my original target —LEAD Day School in Falls Church (an acronym for Language, Education, Arts, & Development). Other elements spotted in the wild: Helium, Platinum, Gold, Silver (https://strava.app.link/fmQO59pNpeb)
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@drevil 209138 wrote:
3/5/21 – Monster
A monstrous (impressive quantity) collection of mini-monsters (unusual animals or mythical beasts), including Godzilla, King Kong, and more than 25 dinosaurs. I honestly stopped counting the dinos. There were just so many and this picture only captures part of the fierce assembly.
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