Let me preface this by saying that in my humble opinion, the commercials listed below are the most annoying so far in 2025. Also, based on our age, there are only five commercials that are marketed to us, senior citizen group, Life Insurance, Medicare, Social Security and a certain Cellular company. The rest of the commercials out there pertain to a much younger group.

For me, the most annoying commercials are:

The fast-food commercial with the well-known doorbell at the start of the commercial. Samson, our English Mastiff loses his mind, runs to the door and barks loudly with death to the interloper forever.

The payment commercial with a certain actor that can’t carry a tune at all.

The vaccine commercial and has a loud flat line screech that goes on for at least thirty to forty-five seconds.

The potato chip commercial with flying mustaches.

The “buy” gold commercial geared towards “average” people assuming we would be wealthy and beautiful if we buy gold.

There are many more, but these are the top most annoying commercials to me.

On our walk this morning just as the sun was rising, we were treated to another day of wildfire smoke from the wildfires in Canada. It is amazing how far the smoke travels and that the smoke stays pretty thick thousands of miles away to the Midwest.

One of the side effects of the smoke haze is an absolutely beautiful sunrise. I took these pictures with my phone on our walk. Another side effect is that we were able to wake up most of the dogs in the neighborhood too, while stopping and taking pictures. I am sure that all of our neighbors just love us on an early Sunday morning.

The last one turned out really cool.