— My Alphabe-Thursday, Xenogamy — "X" — Things in a Row — Two Questions —

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Posted in respect for Aphabe- Thursday's Letter "X"

 

Question: What do you get when you cross a sunflower with a moonbeam?

Answer: A very short yellow sunbeam  sunset.

"X" is for Xenogamy. Xenogamy defined: "The term xenogamy (along with geitonogamy & autogamy) was first suggested by Kerner in 1876.^[2] Cross-pollination involves the transfer of pollen grains from the flower of one plant to the stigma of the flower of another plant. It is also called Xenogamy (Gk.xenos=strange, gamos=marriage)." [from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenogamy

KP and BP's other grandfather John (BIL Billy's father) develops his own variety of hybrid roses by using selective cross pollination.  Some he has patented.  All of his roses in his garden are beautiful.

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My Sunset picture:  It was a pretty sunset over the lake with pink sky and red sun. But my camera (a Sony Cyber-shot DSC W560) red eye fixer 'fixed it'. There was such a pretty red sun that should have been in the middle of this picture when I took it from inside our friend's house at her breakfast room table.

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Pumpkin Things in a Row I found at the Waitrose Supermarket, Finchley Road, London.  Mrs. Jim bought one of the small pumpkins for £.99 to make the jack-o-lantern in the picture below.  We have been using it as a center piece on the dining table now for a week.

The middle picture was the candy row dedicated to Halloween and the one on the right was a fireworks for sale display shelf.  I haven't heard many fireworks on Halloween night.  I think they are more for Guy Fawkes Day celebrating.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night]

This is supposed to be for a November 5 holiday but friends have invited us to celebrate with their bonfire Saturday night.  There might be fireworks then too.

 

Here are KP and BP helping with more of my birthday celebrating.  This was after trick or treating was finished.  KP got a lot of candy from the kind neighbors who love for the children to come.  For us after our children left the roost our favorite Halloween thing to do was to see the costumes and to watch them ask for and give a thank you for the candy they got from us. 

KP helped Mrs. Jim make and frost this cake.  There were no birthday candles in Karen's flat so KP and I decided we could do a little make believe using this pink highlighter marker.  You should have seen it being lit and them watching me to blow out the candle.  It all worked very well.

 

See more of my birthday celebrating here.

Trivia:  The favorite candy folks like to give out is Tootsie Roll candies.  The most unliked candy the kids get is Tootsie Roll candies. 

 

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Now for my Thursday Two Questions.

I really enjoyed your responses to my Wagon post of last week

My Two Questions for this week (you can answer just one if you wish):
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1. Do your children or grandchildren help you with cooking and baking projects?  If so, what all do you have them do?
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2. What all transpired around your home for Halloween?  Do you celebrate Guy Fawkes Day?.

Bonus Question: What is your favorite "X" word?.

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— I posted the above for Alphabe-Thursday 'X' assignments with Miss Jenny at the head of the class. You can find her by clicking right here.

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—My post is also for Pat's Thursday Things in a Row.
 

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—My Thursday Two Questions post is for Amanda