Theme: Saturday Silkie
Words: 68
Blocks: 29
Welcome
to October's Saturday Silkie....this one seemed to have a 50/50 split
between very clever, and very obscure. A deceiving grid that looks like
a mid-week themed, but still offering a few ornery spots. Two
14-letter crossings:
19. Power source : NUCLEAR REACTOR - Here on Long Island, we have a fully constructed unit in Shoreham on the north shore - but it's non-operational,
because too many people feared we'd all be trapped in a melt-down; me
personally, I think it's unlikely....besides, we already have the Montauk Monster
46. Shades-wearing drummer : ENERGIZER BUNNY - Way too annoying for me - I'll take the Geico gecko over this corporate mascot any day.
LOTS
of names and places today, too, and if that frustrates you, then this
one was a bear - but then again, were there just enough perps to make a
WAG? There's a " * " next to the proper names today.
Onward~!
ACROSS:
1. Island witchcraft : OBEAH - never heard of this -the Wiki
6. On The Border restaurant offering : TACO - had it in, took it out, put it back in
10*. Fabian, for one : POPE
14*. "La donna è mobile" composer : VERDI
15. Harmonics : OVERTONES - for me, a harmonic is that high-pitched "whistle" that you get from touching the guitar strings in just the right way; this song has an outro solo that it based on "pinch" harmonics where you use the pick thumb to 'pinch' the string for that extra overtone
17. Storyteller's admission : I LIED
18. Symbolic honor : RED CARPET
21. Ab __: absent : ESSE
22. Statistical calculations : MEANS
23. High order : FIAT
25. "__ 'nuff!" : SHO' - slang for "Sure Enough"
26. Practice grounder, say : FUNGO
- well, a total learning moment for me, since I con- sidered this a
"FUN GO", but looked it up in the dictionary - and it's exactly what the
clue says; (in practice sessions) a ball tossed into the air by the
batter and struck as it comes down. Baseball watchers might know this;
me, I just watched one game this year - the one where the Yankees got
SWEPT
28. How a lot of bad decisions are made : IN HASTE
30. Sift : FILTER
31. Nails down : ICES
32. __ sci : POLI - Political Science
33*. The River Foyle runs through it : ULSTER - map, near Londonderry
36*. Gulf of Guinea island : SÃO TOMÉ - map
39. Energy acronym : NI-CAD - Nickel Cadmium, as in batteries
40. Rolls and binds : FURLS
41. Derisive call : YAH
43*. "Diplomacy for the Next Century" author : EBAN
44. Mosey : AMBLE
45. Maintenance : CARE
49*. Pittsburgh Steelers' founder : ART ROONEY
50. Dangerous, probably : ARMED
51. Argentite, e.g. : SILVER ORE
- the "ite" gave me a hint that we're looking for an ore of some sort,
but I am disappointed that I didn't try Silver off the top, since I know
the symbol for the element is "Ag", from the Latin for silver, Argentum
52. Type of crown : TIARA
53*. Host of the 24th Academy Awards : KAYE - we're at the 85th next year, so I knew we had to go back a ways - what was the best film that year?
54*. '90s Mariners star : A-ROD - "Nuff said"
55. Equine : HORSY
- Well, I put in horse, and then the "Y" had to be right from HEY DAY,
so I thought maybe this was totally wrong; now I am wondering if a "?"
is missing
DOWN:
1. Sheep : OVINES - nailed it
2*. "Animal House" actor : BELUSHI - "I'm a zit~!!!"
3*. Swedish jazz trumpeter Rolf : ERICSON
4*. 2008 Best New Artist Grammy winner : ADELE
5. Tepee material : HIDE - animal hide, that is - more here
6. Cloudbursts : TORRENTS
7. Run : AVERAGE - "run of the mill" kind of average
8*. Five-time 1970s Gold Glove winner César : CEDENO - HEY~! C.C., can you tell us about C.C.??? (From C.C.: Seen might know him. I have no memeory of this guy. This pose reminds me of Billy Ripken's error card.)
9. Sea predators : ORCAS
10. Stock pile? : PORTFOLIO - good one
11. Relevant : ON POINT
12. Nobility : PEERAGE
13. Cape May hrs. : EST - Eastern Standard Time - oh yeah, here
16. Tic follower : TAC - and TOE
20. Court jester, e.g. : AMUSER
24. __ paper : TAR - yeah, I know this stuff
26. Stood up to : FACED
27. Inclines : TILTS
29. Mentioned something sensitive : HIT A NERVE
30. Good counterfeit, say : FOOLER - had FoRGer to start, but that required an "-er"
32. Discussed : PARLEYED
33. Article in Le Monde? : UNE
34. Its flag resembles the U.S. flag but with only one star : LIBERIA
35. Barely sufficiently : SCANTLY - I prefer "Scant-I-ly"
36. Arctic : SUB-ZERO
37*. Where kyat are spent : MYANMAR
38. Tax targets : EARNERS
40. Key of Brahms's Piano Sonata No. 3 : F MINOR - of course, I had the -M---R parts already, so there was not much more to do than wait....
42. Golden age : HEYDAY
44. Old marketplace : AGORA - Greek market
45. Flea market pickup : CURIO
- our host is a huge Flea Market fan - found some excellent NY Rangers
cards for me (oh how I reminisce about the days of hockey); I prefer
yard sales
47. Shad output : ROE
48. __ mat : BATH - yesterday it was YOGA
49. Pop the question : ASK
HeY~!!! The Ramp at the church is finally finished, got paid yesterday. I have this image here; I have not gotten around to filling in the blog. More to come ~!
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteMan! This one definitely abused me. CEDENO/FUNGO were right out of my wheelhouse, although I did manage to guess the intersecting O. ART ROONEY? Rolf ERICSON? Who dat? There was a pope named FABIAN? YAH is a derisive call?
Lots and lots of tricky clues that I'm proud to say I eventually got. Couldn't get the job done in the end, though, since I didn't get the "tada" and couldn't find my mistake(s). Turns out that the Brahms sonata is in F MINOR, not C and rolls and binds are FURLS, not CURLS. I'd cry foul, but I guess this is a Saturday after all...
Fungo is done with a special bat (its long and thin more like a pole that a bat per-se.) it is not just grounders but it is a game to help baseball players improve their fielding.
ReplyDeleteOh -- and with regard to 32A, I seem to recall another puzzle we had with the same clue but the answer was POLY instead of POLI. At the time, I complained that it was inaccurate, so it's nice to see the correct version appear this time...
ReplyDeleteDid better on this than yesterday's puzzle. Took way too long, but finally finished it with one error-missed the O on the end of CEDENO and FUNGO. OBEAH reminded me of this Meet Joe Black movie clip and OVERTONES this group who sang in the movie, Invictus .
ReplyDeleteYour ramp looks great Splynter! And thanks for the Saturday write up.
Nicely done Barry Silk!
Learned a new word with Fungo. My son helped me with all the geographic obscurity like Sao Tome and Myannmar using the kyat.
ReplyDeleteOnly issue I had was using the clue "run" for average. I know "run of the mill" means average, but just "run" --an obscure stretch at best which was filled in by perps and knowing average is a word, but still couldn't believe it was right until getting to the blog.
Good morning Saturday soldiers! We who have already DNFed salute you.
ReplyDeleteMy experience was very similar to Barry G's except where we guessed wrong. I got FURLS correctly, but WAGged CEDENA rather than CEDENO. FUNGA/FUNGO -- neither one made sense to me.
I also learned that FABIAN was a POPE, not a teen IDOL. And I had the same qualms as Splynter about HORSY, but it had to be. I also prefer Splynter's SCANTILY to SCANTLY.
It was a good workout for a Saturday. Thanks, Barry Silk.
Hi Y'all, I keep trying Silk's, expecting better and getting the same result. Does that make me crazy? I always need Splynter's help. Thanks man! Good sturdy-looking ramp.
ReplyDeleteI filled in the NW block without a falter and confidently put in REACTOR. Got TACO, OVERTONES, AVERAGE & ORCAS but could not come up with POPE or RED CARPET to save me. I'm not a RC fan. Caesar who?
But hey, I WAGd FUNGO. Didn't know NICAD.
I'm from hay country so I "bales" instead of FURLS.
Some atlas search gave me all the geography fills, but except for EBAN, I did NOT get the names in the bottom half--including that rascally rabbit. Had many of the letters but was wanting a human name.
Well, today I'll just feel blessed to get what I got.
Adele was the grammy winner in 2009, amy winehouse won in 2008.error?
ReplyDeleteHello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteWhat D Otto said.
Fungo is just not in my personal lexicon. Neither is Obeah. But it's Saturday, and Silk, so I just have to expect a thrashing.
Morning Splynter - now that you're done with that beefy ramp, come up here and fix my deck, willya?
I find Silk's puzzles nothing like the cloth. clearly the name and offerings are a misnomer. . Not smooth at all. I try mightily and am consistently frustrated. Saturday's was no exception. I found a number of clues quite a stretch. I labor on but nothing google and you can't fill in. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteDoes only missing only four cells getcha anything? I didn’t think so. Long day yesterday with 7 year old granddaughter’s field trip where we were out in lousy weather for 3 hours in Lincoln and then watched 16 year old granddaughter get winning ace VB serve 6 hours later in Omaha.
ReplyDeleteMusings
-Lovely, maddening puzzle from Mr. Silk where top was done like a Tuesday and then bottom said, “Not so fast my friend!” All very doable but SCANTLY, PARLEYED and SAO TOME?
-Uncertainty about NUCLEAR power and unreliability of green energy is the quandary of the search for affordable energy today.
-OJ was going to say I LIED? YAH!
-Good FUNGO hitters could hit grounders and fly balls for warm-ups and also hit a ball straight up or backwards for the catcher to practice catching. It’s an art.
-The Yanks were swept without Jeter and with AROD. His last AB this year was a weak ground ball. Typical.
-I made a decision IN HASTE last week that is still distressing me!
-I wanted BALES for rolling and binding in the worst way
-OVINA, NE was so named because of huge sheep ranches that were once there
-BELUSHI, Candy and Farley – all brilliant talents whose excesses took them too soon
-The debates show how pols want to avoid staying ON POINT when opponent HITS A NERVE
-I always get Arby’s horsEy sauce
-Good lookin’ ramp Splynter! Keep the skateboarders off there!
After first pass: 6 Words across, 9 words down. At 1.5 hrs, had entire top half complete except 10A and 23A, and then took another 9 minutes to get POPE and FIAT.
ReplyDeleteHad some gimmes in the bottom with ART ROONEY, ASK, ROE, AGORA, KAYE, and -MINOR. Finally SILVER ORE appeared and that was the breakthrough to the finish. The V gave me NERVE, and I already had the HI so HIT A became obvious. Then NICAD, then SCANTLY, and then ENERGIZER BUNNY fell. Original guess for US like flag was LIBERIA, and now it was proved.
East of ULSTER I was still having problems in the Gulf of Guinea, and spending my KYAT. But ...BUNNY, TIARA and HORSe gave me CURIO down and then CARE across, so just needed the EA for EARNERS. Then my dumb bunny moment. Oh yea, MYNAMAR in southeast Asia. MIRAMAR is in southeast Florida.
40A Rolls and Binds - Wanted FARMS, since I had F-R-S, but FURLS was it. Make hay while the sun shines
Lots of favorites. Excellent challenge Barry. Took me over 2 hours to get 'er done. Time to go read Splynter's write up and see what everyone else thought.
Good morning Splynter, C.C. et al.
ReplyDeleteGreat comments, Splynter. Thanks for clearing up the FUNGO debacle ! And the first thing I thought of when I saw the new ramp was "I bet the skateboarders in the neighborhood are going to love that!" H.G. - "great minds..."
The top filled almost completely in record time. But the bottom gave me fits with words like SCANTLY, HORSEY and those names - SAO TOME, EBAN, ART ROONEY, KAYE, AROD, LIBERIA, MYANMAR...
I had two blanks in the end: the "M" crossing SAO TO_E and _YANMAR, and the last "O" crossing FUNG_ and CEDEN_. I finally dredged up MYANMAR from the deep recesses, but just could not come up with that O. Go figure, they were both baseball related!!!
Arrrgh...try again tomorrow!
Equine is an adjective, so the answer had to be "horsy," although I usually see that spelled with an e before the y, as in "Miss Jane Hathaway has a horsey face."
ReplyDeleteAnon@9:07: It would appear so.
ReplyDeleteA horse walks into a bar. The bartender says: "Why the long face?"
ReplyDelete"More hay Trigger?"----"No thanks Roy. I'm stuffed."
The puzzle? Beat me severely about the head and shoulders.
Terrific Saturday puzzle. No crap.
ReplyDeleteIt's extremely rare to find a man who knows about cars but nothing about sports.
ReplyDeleteHi again~!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments; the ramp is within locked property gates, so I am not concerned about the skateboards....
And I WAG'd ADELE, since I don't care much for the music; I would not know there was an error in the clue.
Dudley, I am on my way - some time in spring, OK~?
Splynter
Good afternoon:
ReplyDeleteThis one almost made me cry uncle but with patience and perserverance (aka Irish stubbornness)' I finished w/o help. Agree on run as a clue for average-out of context. As I tune commercials out, had no idea of the energizer bunny; I, too, was looking for a human name.
Congrats, Mr. Silk, for bruising our brains, and thanks to Splynter for a great expo. Nice job on the ramp, S.
I'm a little foggy this morning; I think a cold is rapidly approaching
Have a great Saturday.
Interesting, very challenging puzzle, Barry. I enjoyed your write-up, Splynter. That is some ramp! No wonder it took a long time to build. As property manager at my church, I would love a great volunteer like you.
ReplyDeleteAs others have said the top was surprisingly easy and the bottom was very difficult. OBEAH was my first entry, learned from novels. I was amazed that I knew FUNGO with just a few perps, probably also from novels, but I didn't know it needed a special bat. I couldn't imagine a drummer named BUNNY. Finally ENERGIZER dawned and opened up the SW. It helped me accept SCANTLY, which I had rejected. I was looking for an energy corp. instead of a NICAD battery. I agree equine is an adjective. HORSY can be spelled as HORSEY, too, but I think HORSY is more common. Horsey can be baby-talk for horse.
Splynter, nice looking ramp. No * next to proper names. Thanks for the write up and links. Nothing like a little ZZ Top in the morning. The sports clue answers of CEDENO, FUNGO, ICES, AROD and ART ROONEY weren't a problem here. Lifelong sports fan. Big Steeler fan. Raised near Pittsburgh. Their web site is my home page on one of my computers.
ReplyDeleteDidn't mean to imply in my earlier post that it took me 1.5 hours just to get the top. That was including the fills I had in the bottom and working out and rejecting many possibilities.
At 30D Good Counterfeit, thought at first glance may be FOrgER, but it wasn't Counterfeiter. Earlier, 31A could have been ACES (I had the --ES) if the clue was Nails, but it was Nails down, and ICES means to put the game away, as in beyond reach. My last fill was changing HORSE to HORSY to make HEYDAY, and MYANMAR did make 41A YAH a derisive call. Didn't get YAH as a derisive call, but just looked it up in the dictionary. I guess it's like "Yea, yea, yea, whatever you say, you're always right." Just never heard it before.
ANON @ 10:57. Don't think I can agree with your stock classification. Just thinking back to high school, and the various cliques (and sometimes derogatory labels) that kids of like minded interests were grouped into. Like jocks, nerds, preppies, farmers, motor heads or gear heads, zipper heads and the ilk. I knew and still know guys that are really into cars, but couldn't care less about sports.
I did a little more than 2/3 of the puzzle at 4 AM. I wakened at 7:40 this morning, later than usual, and returned to pick at it several times, resisting the urge to Google or red letter. Each time I returned I immediately got a few answers I had not seen before. I have always believed that if you give it time, the brain subconsciously processes information that you have fed it. Persistence paid off in a win. After rising so late, this lovely Saturday is flitting away. I have so much to do. Maybe tomorrow I will go for a ride to the Delaware Water Gap in the Poconos where leaf peeping should be spectacular.
ReplyDeleteThe 2009 Grammy Awards were held in February, and I believe they recognized artists from the previous year. So Adele was awarded "Best New Artist" for 2008.
ReplyDeleteWell, since I've resigned myself to having to cheat on Fridays and Saturdays, I feel a little less frustrated. Had the same problems as many of you, including putting IDOL for FABIAN, one of my teenage crushes. Nice write-up, Splynter.
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend, everybody
Hello, weekend warriors! Thanks, Splynter, for filling in the gaps. Great ramp, BTW.
ReplyDeleteYowza! I eventually eased into Barry Silk's wave length at the top and having looked at the long list of POPEs knew Fabian was one and had wondered about its inevitable appearance in a puzzle.
When I sashayed to the bottom, was slowed down and filled one painful letter at a time then finally I could see the patters in my picket fence, as ClearAyes liked to say.
But sadly a DNF because the crossing of FUNGO and CEDENO was too much even to WAG and I failed to change FOOLED to FOOLER. But I feel good about finishing most of it in under an hour!
Thanks, Barry.
You all have yourselves a superb Saturday! Book club meeting for me and I'm taking the last of the tamales as soon it will be time to make more.
For the 1st time I completed a Saturday puzzzle using only Google and had about 80% without that.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I can hold up my head with you fellow blogggers.
I noticed that the 1952 Oscars Show was on my 16th birthday. Uhoh, now you know how ald I am.
Splynter: Great write-up & links.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the ramp picture.
Hmmm, BELUSHI, FUNGO, ART ROONEY and A-ROD were my gimmies today.
The rest ... a DNF Ink-Blot !!!
Done-in by Barry Silk again.
I never seem to be on his wave-length.
At least there is the Sun setting somewhere.
Cheers !!!
Ouch. Finished only with wiki and google help, and must note that Eban's book is wrong. Should be Diplomacy for a NEW Future.
ReplyDeleteHello everybody. Splynter, I would SOOO hire you!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't finish the puzzle without looking many things up, and even so I FIW. Had BALES in for 40A, which proved to be wrong, and it gradually morphed into BURLS. I left it like that, not taking that extra step to go through the first 8 letters of the alphabet to see if another letter was better.
Funny. I put in TACO, took it out, and put it back in, too. RAG paper became TAR paper. And fo course HORSE had to be changed to HORSY. We used to derisively talk about the "horsy set" (rich people) when I was but a lad.
At least I got SILVER ORE right off the bat.
I have never, ever, seen a politician stay ON POINT, at least not when they are opening their mouths.
I like cars but know nothing about sports.
Best wishes to you all.
Anon @12:48
ReplyDeleteDo a google search before you say something is wrong.
Abba EBAN wrote "Diplomacy for the Next Century" in 1998.
Good afternoon everyone. Splynter, that's a veritable boardwalk.
ReplyDeleteA Saturday Silkie. What could be nicer? Daunting at first but slowly worked my way upwards. Eventually got it all. On 1a, looked up witchcraft in cw dictionary - nothing that would fit. Looked up voodoo and came up with OBEAH. Learned how to spell HEYDAY with an 'e'. Most of Barry's long fills like NUCLEAR REACTION and ENERGIZER BUNNY are usually easy enough. Somehow reached into my brain to get FUNGO. Always a pleasure with Barry; like fine wine; drunk slowly and savored.
Almost gave up as I had only one fill the first time through. Wound up finishing without help but did have curl instead of furl.
ReplyDeleteI am one of perhaps many who likes cars but I am clueless as to sports. I manage to get some sports clues only because we see ARod, Alou, etc in puzzles.
I hope everybody's Saturday is going well. I got FUNGO but I always thought that involved hitting practice fly balls to the outfielders. I'm guessing fungo bats would be illegal to use as a regular bat but I wonder why? What would be the advantage/disadvantage? I really didn't like YAH clued as a derisive call but I can't think of a better clue.
ReplyDeleteSplynter, what is the timing of the overtones in your link? I can think of lots of beautiful links of them being used in a classical guitar piece. They were hard for me but made a really nice change of pace in a song. I'll find a link if you like.
I like sports and cars and classical guitar music and puzzles and Sofia Vergara and ...?
Here is one of my favorite people, Neil deGrasse Tyson, holding forth on UFOs. It's always good to get an intelligent person's point of view.
ReplyDeleteUFOs
Yah! I had curls instead of furls. I remember as a teenager laboriously wrapping hair around a prickly roller, affixing it with bobby pins, and sleeping like that all night. Kind of like having bound feet.
ReplyDeleteSaturday puzzles are certainly hard. I had bunts instead of fungo, and I have seen that work in puzzles before. Why can't I remember it? Maybe because of sleeping on rollers so many times. Destroyed some brain cells.
Bill G. UFO clip is right on. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi again~!
ReplyDeleteBill G., I am not sure what you mean by the "timing" of the overtones; to me, they have no 'time', other than a duration; in that particular ZZ Top clip, they are all over the place in the end. I have this link to another "tapped" overtones solo, done by EVH with his picking hand at 9:40 - true "overtones" as he taps at musical intervals over the fretted root notes - very difficult, I might add.
Splynter
"The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for records released in the previous year."
ReplyDeleteMy head hurts, what does it all mean?
Thought I would get SOME of the Sat. Silkie.
ReplyDeleteRolf Ericson in a crossword!! DH played with this great jazz trumpet player many times.
Harmonics!! Zing...
OVERTONES!
like this
Good example at 2:06
Screeching halt after that.
Oh, well.
Great ramp, Mr. Splynter!!
Somebody stole my paper this morning, I walked up to the local gas station and a train had stopped on the tracks blocking the way, drove to Kroger, bought a paper and then this puzzle was very hard but I fought my way through it. Cesar Cedeno played for the Houston Astros and he was a very good player, not great, but very good - what they call a 5-tools guy - he hit for average, power, could run, field and throw. I always think of a fungo bat as being used to hit fly balls for outfield practice. Oh well, good times.
ReplyDeleteNeil deGrasse Tyson is an amazing guy. Not only is he smart as heck, he can explain things outstandingly clearly. I admire him a lot.
ReplyDeleteWith all the recent losses and reversals among my friends in real life and here on the blog, I am confronted again with my mortality and its meaning for the future of my disabled son. I have been struggling for 20 years with the same case worker in the Department of Developmental Disabilities who was our only gate keeper and my only interface with all NJ services for disabled persons. She talked and talked but offered nothing definitive that I could act on or use. I stopped calling. I soldiered on all these years independently, stubborn German that I am. LOL.
ReplyDeleteRecently I have been getting frantic that I may die or develop Alzheimer’s or another disability without adequate provision for Alan. When I phoned I found that we were transferred to another social services department without being told .Then they transferred us back to DDD. Fortunately in the transfer we received a new case worker, at last. She is great and has offered me in one meeting more opportunities and information than I have received in 20 years. There seems to be plenty of help available, now and in the future. I am greatly relieved.
Yellowrocks, I am happy for you. It is, unfortunately, all too typical for "public servants" to provide little or no useful service. I'm glad you now have somebody assigned to you who is not only willing, but also able (adequately trained), to give you concrete and truly useful help.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, Yellowrocks, what a difficult time you've had. I'm so sorry to hear it, but also relieved that you've finally been assigned a case worker who can actually help you. I'll keep my fingers crossed that you find some good solutions for your son's future care.
ReplyDeleteWell, as difficult as it is, i will try to follow YRs' post. (YR, you have friends, if we can help, pls let us know!)
ReplyDeleteWell, you know me,,, i took one look at this days Saturday Silkie, & decided to go fishing instead! (i had to write this days, because the dang blog spellchecker will not let me write todays!)
Anyway, i am glad i read the write up, & the blog, because it blew my mind! I have been playing guitar for 40+ years (without a lesson) & today was blown away that i did not know there was a harmonic at the 4th fret! (Splynter, yr 15A link led me to other links. & i've been trippin' ever since...)
(you have to be a musician to appreciate this!)
Anywho, it led me to the "squeals", i had no idea you could create (supersonic) harmonics with the right hand! (this is really freakin me out!)
TTP, Round baling hay, i have seen those things many a time. I had no idea they were machine poop!
(oh, go back & watch the video clip, it's machine poop i tell ya!)
Splynter, again, Eddie Van Halen,,,, never saw that live clip of eruption,,, awesome!
Pas De Chat, Violin harmonics!!!
Ow Wow, i wish they taught me that in High School music class!!!
Freakin awesome.
Oh well, i hope to be able to do the puzzle in bed tonite, now that i have read the blog. (hey, it's a good memory exercise!)
YR, I'm so happy for the improvement in your situation. Best wishes for you and Alan .
ReplyDeleteAll of this talk about harmonics got me to searching through YouTube for a decent video of one of my favorite classical guitar songs; Canco del Lladre, a Catalonian folk song arranged by Llobet. It has great harmonics starting at 0:27 and lots more at the ending starting at 1:05. I hope you enjoy the song. Canco del Lladre.
Lucina, I wonder if a few of your tamales would survive the trip to California by mail? Homemade tamales, yum!
ReplyDeleteTTP, I really enjoyed that hay baling clip. It seems to have taken a long time before cylindrical hay bales were thought of. Once you see them, it makes good sense.
BillG
ReplyDeleteIf you are serious about the tamales, we can certainly try to overnight them. There will be fresh ones in the next few weeks and we can talk about it at that time.
YR
I am so glad you have found a good case worker.
Good night all.
ReplyDeleteBusy day, and thus no time for the write up, which I always enjoy. You do it so well, splynter.
Yellow Rocks, what a time you have! And you carry on as if all is well. I admire you, and hope you and Alan do well with your new case worker. Best wishes to you both.
I got all of 11 correctly today. Wow.
Cheers
Bill G, round bales have been around a long time but they were smaller then. Windhover and I had a discussion about them back in '09. Link It starts with a comment at 1:23 by Irish Jim and ends at 10:10. Amazingly, the photo links are still good.
ReplyDeleteYR - Happy to hear that things are improving for you and that you now have an advocate for your concerns about the future.
ReplyDeleteGetting ready to download Sunday's LA Times cw.
Argyle, I did go back and read the old posts you suggested. Interesting to be able to find enough about round hay bales to talk about. Even more interesting is to see some old familiar names like Tarrajo, Jeannie and others that we don't see anymore. Also, the bickering and the snarky anons. Good times.
ReplyDeleteI would call NiCad an abbreviation, not an acronym.
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