Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Welcome, all. The Scoobies are lazy on this hot August day, but I told them there was a nap-time story in it for them if they helped with this installment of Dan Antion‘s “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). Dan asked the multi-part question, Where, What, and When do you read? Where? … More Whatnot Wednesday: Where, What, When We Read #CFFC
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Welcome, all. The Scoobies (Daphne and Velma) are on hand again to help with Dan Antion‘s color challenge. This week, Dan said any of the Box of 8 colors with white for “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). The Scoobies picked blue as the color to go with white. So, we’re on … More Blue and White #CFFC, & The Story of the Story-1: A Hot August Night
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Welcome, all. The Scoobies are here again, bringing their particular brand of fun to help you over the midweek hump. Dan Antion gave us a challenge to use pairs from the old “Crayola Crayons Box of 8,” for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC). Always a mystery-solving duo, the Scoobies and spent … More Whatnot Wednesday: The Scoobies and Color Pairs #CFFC
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Hello, all. The Scoobies are ready to ponder and play and generally help you over the midweek hump. Dan Antion gave us the Crayola Crayons color purple for “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). The Scoobies and I have been looking around the house for “purples” in all their lovely shades and … More Whatnot Wednesday: the Scoobies & the Color Purple #CFFC
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Hello, everyone. The Scoobies are on hand, bringing cheer to help you over the midweek hump. Dan Antion gave us the Crayola Crayons color orange for “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). The Scoobies and I spent the day looking around the house for our favorite “oranges,” but we had to use … More Whatnot Wednesday: The Scoobies & the Color Orange #CFFC
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Welcome, all. The Scoobies have another color quest from Dan Antion. This time he gave everyone the Crayola Crayons color black for “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). When I lived in Washington, DC, everywhere I looked it seemed that I saw nothing but people dressed in black. Seriously, tan was a … More Whatnot Wednesday: The Scoobies & the Color Black #CFFC
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Welcome, all. Despite the WP jackassery, I managed to get a version of the draft I was writing of this post last week. It’s wonky looking, and they added a bunch of blank “boxes,” and the text looks scrunched-up… But the Scoobies didn’t want their photo session to be wasted. That … More Whatnot Wednesday: The Scoobies & the Color Brown #CFFC
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Hello, everyone. I expect that I’m not the only one having trouble getting over this midweek hump. Dan Antion gave us the Crayola Crayons color blue for “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). I could also do the “One-line Wednesday” thing and use the titular question of the song below, “Am I … More Whatnot Wednesday: #CFFC Color Blue
Wednesday, June 17, 2026 Update: Do Not Give Your Cats Tea! Someone was going to try and give their cats green tea. Of course, I made it clear that I was showing green boxes of tea, not green tea, but just the same… Wednesday, June 17, 2026 Velma (L): Hey Daphne… where’d that green paneling come … More Whatnot Wednesday: The Scoobies & Favorite Greens #CFFC
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 Welcome, all. The Scoobies are on hand, bringing cheer to help you over the midweek hump. Dan Antion posted so many beautiful examples of yellow for his “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC) that, with some encouragement from Daphne and Velma, I decided to participate. The Scoobies and I spent the day … More Whatnot Wednesday: The Scoobies & Favorite Yellows #CFFC
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Hello, everyone. The Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) prompt that Dan Antion issued on Monday was for “View from Something on (not over) Water.” So, today I’m visiting another of my books because I featured a watery setting — A Peril in the Bayou. While it is the second book in … More Whatnot Wednesday: #CFFC View from the Water
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 Velma: Hang onto your string, Daphne. Did she say free books? Velma: I don’t see any books. Maybe they’re under the sofa… Hello, everyone. The Scoobies and I welcome you to Whatnot Wednesday. Dan Antion, the moderator of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC), posted this week’s prompt — workstations. I realize this … More Whatnot Wednesday: Authors at Work, #CFFC, & Free Classic Novels
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Welcome, my chuckaboos! If you weren’t here last week, back in the Steam and Victorian Eras, “Chuckaboo” was slang for dear friend. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) and the prompt is Gizmos and Gadgets. Dan Antion, the host, posted a lot of modern-day tools. The tools I’m featuring go back a … More Whatnot Wednesday: Who’s the Tool of Tools? #CFFC
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 Hello, everyone. Today I’m visiting another of my books that includes inventions and/or inventors. The steampunk-fantasy novel, “The Alchemist and the Woman in Trousers: A Cornelis Drebbel Adventure was written spontaneously, when readers of my blog gave me sets of “three random things” to fuel the tale, back in 2015. Readers … More Whatnot Wednesday: Fantasy Tools, #CFFC, & a Story
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 Daphne (foreground): Is Yummy Human talking about us? This is a Whatnot post, isn’t it? Velma: No and yes. You heard her say POSY… that’s not anything to do with cats. And it’s not about a crinkum-crankum either. Daphne: Wha— Velma: Don’t ask. I can’t talk about it here. It’s bawdy … More Whatnot Wednesday: Steampunk & Real Steampunkery, #CFFC
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Daphne: Yummy Human, don’t you think you should brush me before you go to bed. Maybe if you do, I’ll be so subdued that I won’t wake you up at 3AM… Velma: No, Yummy Human, tell us a bedtime story. Daphne can brush herself. I want to know about the foldable … More Whatnot Wednesdays: Atom-Punk Tech, #CFFC Photo Challenge, & the Scoobies
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Daphne: Yummy Human, doesn’t all this seem awfully…. random? Yes, Daphne. That’s what makes it a “Whatnot Wednesday” post. Daphne: I get that, but this is a whole lot of random… Why don’t you brush me instead. I promise not to give you any love bites. (Not many anyhow. You’re yummy, … More Whatnot Wednesday: the Scoobies, #CFFC, & a Reading
November 17, 2025 Hello, everyone. Welcome to Whatnot Wednesday. I hope your week has been good so far. On Monday, Dan Antion posted that this is his one-year anniversary as moderator of “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” (CFFC). Kudos, Dan. The topic for this week was “Winter, Summer or both.” I’m limiting my post to “Winter” … More Whatnot Wednesday & CFFC Winter
Monday, December 8, 2025 This week, Dan Antion, host of the Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC), gave the prompt “Autumn or Spring — or Both.” To me the “Both” part spoke of contrast, and I’ve always found the contrast of flowers in snow to be magical. It reminded me of something I put in the … More A Bloomin’ Snippet for #CFFC
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Whatnot & the Scoobies I was going to do a Wednesday Writing post, then the “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” was suggested because its topic was libraries, and my libraries have doorways… I’d say this is definitely a Whatnot post! So… Velma, do you want to be a blog star today? Now, … More Whatnot Wednesday Libraries: #CFFC, Writing, #ThursdayDoors
October 22, 2025 Hello, everyone. Welcome to Whatnot Wednesday. I hope your week has been good so far. It wouldn’t be a “Whatnot” without the Scoobies. Although, those two cats are being lazy today. This year, Daphne has taken to occupying the hammock that’s beside my desk-chair whenever I work at the computer. That’s her … More Whatnot Wednesday & CFFC Vintage Food Market Photos
September 9, 2025 Hello, everyone. I had expected to be reblogging the fourth in my series about Writing with the Senses (Taste), but something must have gone wrong at the other side. So, I’m revising the post I had started, and turning it into a Whatnot. That said, I’m sorry if it’s a little disjointed … More Whatnot Wednesday: #Kosmosky Steel Tongue Drums??? and CFFC Challenge: Hobby
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