Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
There are several things to cover in this post so please forgive the haphazard flow as I navigate through them.
First, let me mention that today’s JusJoJanuary prompt is “Olive” from Kaye. Check out her blog, you might like it. As for Olives, I am not a fan. I have tried them many times but I just can’t. So, I’m using Popeye’s girlfriend as my Jot. Olive Oyl, according to WikiPedia, was created by E. C. Segar in 1919 Segar’s comics featured several of her relatives (named after other oils), including her brother, Castor Oyl, their mother, Nana Oyl after “banana oil”, their father, Cole Oyl, and Castor’s estranged wife, Cylinda Oyl; more recently, Olive’s nieces Diesel Oyl and Violet Oyl have appeared in the cartoons. Also among Olive’s family are her two uncles, Otto (Auto) Oyl and intrepid explorer Lubry Kent Oyl…When Bobby London took over the strip from 1986 to 1992, he added the sultry blonde Sutra Oyl, Olive’s cousin, and Standard Oyl, a distant relative who was an extremely wealthy corporate magnate.
Next, we move onto the 2024 Thursday Doors Badge contest. We had eight wonderful entries for this year’s contest. As administrator, I don’t vote, and I have to be honest, I’m glad because I would have found it very hard to choose. The voting occurred between midnight Sunday to 6:00 PM U.S. Eastern time on Tuesday. After removing a couple votes from people who had not participated in Thursday Doors during the year, we have a winner. The badge entry from in primo piano photos won by a wide margin. Follow that link if you want to learn 101 things about our winner. Behind this entry was a four-way tie for second place. So, as we retire our 2023 badge (above) we welcome the badge for 2024 (below). You should be able to right-click and “save image as” to save a copy for you to use. If you want to link to this image, the link is: https://nofacilities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/primo-piano-photos-tdbadge-2024.jpg
Last but not least, I have doors to share, but they aren’t new. I’m sharing some of my favorite doors from 2023. I was going to gather a lot of new doors during the three week break, but the weather in our area was not conducive to photography.
All five of my current books are now available in audio book form thanks to Amazon KDP’s Virtual Voice process. The voice is AI generated, but I can honestly say, it’s pretty darn good. The audio books are reasonably priced (all below $7 US) and, if you already own the Kindle version and want to add an audio version, you can do that for $1.99. There is a five-minute sample on the book page for each book. If you’re interested, click on any of the Dreamer’s Alliance book links below the image or on the link below for my latest book.
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