The NW corner of Christopher's lovely puzzle drove me crazy but finally yielded to persistence. Seeing a Q, X, J and Z in close proximity made me think this might be a pangram. Sure enough, it is!
My challenges were something old, something new and something blue (POUTER). Here were my issues in the starting blocks:
1. Bay of __, which includes the Cantabrian Sea: BISCAY - The Cantabarian Sea was not familiar to me but the Bay Of Biscay soon became obvious
15. Odysseus' kingdom: ITHACA - _ T H _ _ _ gave me ATHENS first
17. Cuts off contact with: GHOSTS - Uh, dude, you're so being GHOSTED!
19. Makes a long face: POUTS - _ O U _ _ gave me MOUES first
1. Rap hit heard in the 2009 biopic "Notorious": BIG POPPA - I had no idea on this song or stomach for the lyrics
6. "__, queen!": slangy celebratory words: YAS - A 1:45 explanation of this "too hip for me" meme
Now let's see what else Christopher has for us today as I start my third year as your Saturday docent:
7. Port captured in Sherman's March to the Sea: SAVANNAH - Christmas present to President Lincoln
18. Sense organ: RECEPTOR.
20. Kingston address: MON.21. Site with "Living Healthy" guides: WEB MD - Uh, you might still want to consult a doctor 😏
22. Alibis: OUTS - OJ's didn't hold up but he was still found not guilty (as opposed to innocent)
23. Two-faced god: JANUS - JANUS was the Roman god of doors, choices, beginnings and endings. The first month of the year is called January after him. Got those resolutions ready?25. Breeze (through): SAIL.
26. Family-friendly ratings: PG'S - 1996 was a strange year for Oscar. Three nominees for best picture were rated PG - Apollo 13, Il Postino and Sense and Sensibility and one was rated G - Babe.
27. Smooth operator, one would hope: SURGEON
29. "The Last Jedi" heroine: REY - Here 'ya go
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| REY played by Daisy Ridley |
30. Tight military formation: PHALANX and 34. Charge: ATTACK!!
32. Makeup kit item: Q-TIP - My ENT and audiologist emphatically say, "Keep 'em out of your ears!"
35. Monopoly pieces: HOUSES - Landing on Boardwalk with four HOUSES will run you $1,700
39. Expert: WHIZ - Some of us baseball 23. Buffs: JUNKIES remember this 1950 team that had Richie Ashburn (middle of this picture) from Tilden, NE on it41. Florida's first two-term Republican governor: JEB BUSH.
42. Black __: OPS - The one that killed Bin Laden
45. "Listen to me ... ": SEE HERE.
47. Early GE subsidiary: RCA.
48. Down times: NAPS.
50. Sound from one who's out: SNORE - My wife and my heart are glad I now use a CPAP
51. Bird's-eye view?: BEAK
52. Minor arguments: SPATS - "We had a quarrel, a lover's SPAT, I write I'm sorry but my letter keeps coming back"
54. Black Hills terr.: DAK.
55. Biathlete's need: RIFLE - Canadian Mackenzie Turner competing carrying hers
56. Apparent displacement due to perspective: PARALLAX - The stellar background can change from season to season
58. Some cells: NOKIAS - Today this vintage one would be called a brick
59. Agreeable way of seeing: EYE TO EYE.
60. Go too far: OVERDO - Don't start a vigorous exercise program on January First if you're not ready!
61. Oopsy or Funshine, e.g.: CARE BEAR - Okay
62. "Pippin" Tony winner: VEREEN.
Down:
3. Gives an earful: SHOUTS AT.
4. Groups of players: CASTS - TEAMS or 2. "... or so __": I THOUGHT.
5. What many a player does: ACTS.
7. It's a wrap: SARONG - Dorothy Lamour's signature outfit
8. Tony-winning musical that draws inspiration from "Sesame Street": AVENUE Q - "A musical with humans and foul-mouthed puppets"
9. Ford's Crown __: VIC - An alternate steed for the RCMP
10. Not many: A FEW
11. Shaving spots: NAPES - Also where our cat carried her little ones
12. Nature Valley offering: NUT BAR.
13. Breakdown of social norms: ANOMIE - Anyone else think of this?
14. Barely: HARDLY - A 13-second use of the double negative NOT HARDLY
20. Chico was the first-born one: MARX.
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| Groucho, Gummo, Minnie (mother), Zeppo, Sam (father), Chico, and Harpo. |
27. Big name in investment banking: SACHS - Too big to fail?
28. Mythical weeper: NIOBE - Aptly named
31. Bar subject: LAW.
33. Bar: PUB - A very different bar
36. Guaranteed: SURE FIRE.
37. Cadillac SUV: ESCALADE - Click arrows for a tour of a $99,230 ESCALADE
38. Agrees to, in a way: SHAKES ON.
40. Singer/actress who voices Meechee in "Smallfoot": ZENDAYA
41. Soda __: JERK.
42. How much freelance work is done: ON SPEC.
43. Tropical fruit: PAPAYA - Everything you could possibly want to know
44. More scant: SPARER
46. Charlatan: HOAXER.
49. Condition: STATE.
51. Hog owner: BIKER.
53. Disorderly sort: SLOB.
55. Gad about: ROVE.
57. Author Harper: LEE - 55 years between publication dates
58. 11, at times: Abbr.: NOV.
YAS QUEEN, what fun (I really can't pull that off can I?) Comment at will:
Christmas update: This year the grandkids had to find envelopes of cash I hid around the neighborhood using a GPS device from my physics lab on a lovely early winter's day.
FIWrong. In the NE,
ReplyDeleteSo lONG > SARONG,
oVIFAUNA > AVIFAUNA (which is what I had first, but changed to egg-layer instead of flyer),
lECErTOR > RECEPTOR (knew it was wrong, but depended on perps),
NArES > NAPES (mustache area).
In the SE,
pOKIeS > NOKIAS (as in jails),
pOV > NOV (?),
ESCALeDE > ESCALADE (spelling error).
There was a Basque by the Bay of BISCAY
Who thought Spanish rule should go away.
For rebellious HOKEY
He was thrown in the pokey,
Where now he weaves a basket a day.
Odysseus ruled in ITHACA
Altho he was quite mythica'
He SAILED around
His crew all drowned
So none returned to Ithaca.
Astronomers a star path tracks
By measuring its PARALLAX
It is done, thanks
To 'scopes in PHALANX,
And lots of arithmatic ATTACKS!
JANUS, god of every doorway,
Sees tomorrow and yesterday.
Ne'er EYE TO EYE,
His faces vie
For which will have it their way!
Do you SNORE when you take NAPS?
NOKIA phones have apps for that!
And if your shins
Get goosebump skin
Your phone can order you some SPATS!
There was a girl from SAVANNAH
Who always wore a bandana
It kept her hair fab
Just like a hijab,
And protected from AVIAN FAUNA!
{6 x A-.}
OwenKL, I enjoyed your comment. What does "6 x A-" mean?
ReplyDeleteLiked today's puzzle, particularly the placement of X, Q, Z and J as the central "corner letters." Also liked that both "Q" answers did not have "QU" in them.
Never heard of AVIFAUNA but liked that it was kind of guessable. Didn't know any CAREBEAR names or that Nature Valley makes NUTBARs, but liked that they were guessable, too.
I did not know the definition of PARALLAX, but I knew the word from the old movie, "The Parallax View."
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteHad only two spots that could've used Wite-Out this morning: ANTE/ACTS and MIRREN/VEREEN. Over-writing worked. My new supply of Wite-Out won't arrive until later today. I liked the stacked 8s in all four corners. Nicely done, Christopher. Enjoyed the tour, Husker.
JERK: In my ute I thought I was going to get to be a soda JERK. Nope, my first task on my very first day at the drug store was to dismantle the soda fountain. Rats.
Anon@6:32: Owen assigns grades to his efforts. He's giving himself an A- on each of them.
ReplyDeleteYes, this was a toughie. Had to change multiple answers but also had some pretty good guesses. I really enjoyed it.
Didn't get through the review just yet. Have been messaging with Comcast for a couple of hours. Now I need to go to their store and swap out 4 of my 5 cable boxes. Aaarrrgggghhhh !
Golfers study the green from the ball to the hole, and sometimes you will see them plumb bobbing with their putter, closing one eye and then the other. A dominant eye both helps and hurts finding the line on putts of any distance. When I miss them, I like to blame parallax error !
Well, time to pack up all these devices and get ready to go...
This was the most challenging of Mr. Adams' Saturday puzzles to date. I can't even put my finger on why. A CSO to Bill G. with ITHACA home of CORNELL wasn't it. Like HG, I struggled with Bay of __, which includes the Cantabrian Sea: BISCAY and as clued Cuts off contact with: GHOSTS . Also, while inferrable from the LATIN, AVIFAUNA doesn't trigger "regional" in my mind. I also have no memory of Neener, Neener
ReplyDeleteANOMIE was gotten from the Latin AN like in ANODE .
NIOBE is never easy and I loved watching AVENUE Q on Broadway.
Thank you, Gary and Chris/
I usually slog through the Saturday puzzle, but gave up today on the NW corner. There is tough, and then there is too tough. 1A, 15A and 1D and 2D collectively are too obscure IMO and made it a DNF for me.
ReplyDeleteLoved the clue for 27A, SURGEON!
Now SEE HERE. I can see a PHALANX of Xword solvers scratching their heads today and not seeing EYE TO EYE with the constructor. For me it was an ultimate DNF due to a wrong WAG at the cross of unknowns ANOMIE & REY; it could have been ROY or RAY.
ReplyDeleteUnheard of unknowns-ANOMIE, YAS queen, ZENDAYA (or Meechee or "Smallfoot"), GHOSTS, BIG POPPA or Notorious, AVENUE Q, Cantabarian Sea- I know where the Bay of BISCAY is; and looking at your map I notice the CELTIC Sea-never heard of that one either.
CARE BEAR and SO THERE were filled by perps. I've never heard anybody say 'neener neener'
Crown VIC- I've had two Mercedes S-class cars (one 450-SEL & one 560-SEL) and after 250,000 miles on the 560 I bought a Crown Vic twin-Mercury Marquis- in 2002. Most reliable car that I've ever owned. DW hates it but I still drive it while she drive HER Mercedes.
MON for Kingston address- great clue.
jfromvt- The NW was the toughest area, IMHO.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI thought this was very challenging but, like many tough but fair grids, there were toeholds here and there that allowed you to slowly chip away until the last letter fell into place. The fill was fresh and lively but scads of it unknown to me: Avi Fauna, Big Poppa, Care Bear, Rey, Yas, Queen, Anomie, and Vereen, as clued. My only stumbles were Sea/OPS and Roam/Rove. I liked Casts/Acts side by side, and also the Naps/Snores and Naps/Napes duos. I, also, confirmed that it was a Pangram. Interesting that Christopher worked his and Bill G's alma mater's home, Ithaca, into the puzzle, but clued it sans a Cornell reference. My learning moment was that RCA was an early subsidiary of GE.
Thanks, Christopher, for a very enjoyable and satisfying solve and thanks, HG, for the entertaining and elucidating expo. I'll bet those grandchildren look forward to your inventive and challenging gift-giving schemes as much as you do creating and orchestrating them.
Owen, the Muse is with you!
Have a great day.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteNeeded help to finish but treated it as a learning opportunity to pull me further along. Bright spots included a good guess at BISCAY and JANUS. Also knew PARALLAX and my first cell phone was a NOKIA. The Finns make good stuff. Crapped out at JUNKIES and the Q in AVENUE Q. Shoudda got Q-TIP, though. Didn't know ZENDAYA either.
Good job, Chris Adams.
PARALLAX is an important element of naval gunfire solutions
Gary - It was fun reading the Dutch explanatory caption on your visual.
The extra Christmas sugar must have supercharged the cruciverbum lobe of my brain where odd answers are stored. SUREFIRE WAGS less to completion.
ReplyDeleteThought Odysseus's kingdom was Attica... Those unfamiliar with central NY always confuse the cities Attica, Utica, and Ithaca.
GHOSTS, a new term just recently heard for the first time from a Millenial whose online GF suddenly stopped chatting with him.
The wrap I'm familiar with is SARAN but not enough letters Mon!
SEEHERE...Not a Latin scholar but thought AVI referred to birds and FAUNA to animals. How is that "regional birds?"
My son has an Escalade. You need a ladder to climb into it.
Bob Fosse's "Pippin" brought to mind Gwen VERdon which just wouldn't fit till the perps came to the rescue.
A CAREBEAR is now rare and SPARER.
The Marx family portrait left out the funniest member ...Karl
I am still away from home, so I had to do this online.
ReplyDeleteI much prefer old school pen and paper.
Got the solve after 34 minutes according to the timer.
Had to work it though, this was a toughie.
Very satisfying Saturday puzzle. Fun and doable. Yasssss!
ReplyDeleteVery tough, but got it done. Interesting and enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteI thought the bottom two thirds was not that difficult for a Saturday, but I used too many red letters for the top third. When I come to the point where I can't go anywhere for more than 10 minutes, it fakes me out and I lose confidence. There were some I should have known without help and some I thought of and dismissed. Interesting puzzle, Chris. Always a fine write-up, Gary.
ReplyDeleteFrom Google: "Many of my first-semester biology students are taken aback when they first hear me refer to fish, birds, and insects as animals (fauna). The fact is that there seems to be a stream of belief that only mammals--lions and tigers and bears and the like--are animals. The animal kingdom, however, is vast and varied." I have heard AVIFAUNA before. Also ANOMIE.
Fauna refers not to just animals, but the the animals of a particular region, habitat, or geological period. The fauna part of avifauna narrows birds down to those of a particular region.
After a week's visit, I am gathering Alan's clothing and belongings to return him to his home this afternoon. I was so good to have him home and he enjoyed the extended family at David's.
Nope. Just gave up.
ReplyDeleteDesper-otto, it's anon@6:32 again. Thank you for clarifying OwenKL's grading system! That was nice of you to do. All of OwenKL's limericks look like A's to me!
ReplyDeleteQTIP- the only thing you should put in your ear is your elbow.
ReplyDeleteSO THERE anagrams to a Bette Midler movie.
Thanks, Christopher, for a tough but fair and doable puzzle. The unknown names were gettable with perps, and there were a few learning moments too - video for “yas Queen” was hilarious. Thanks for that and all the other explanations too, Gary.
ReplyDeleteThe Odyssey is one of my favorite tales, so Ithaca was easy, but anomie and avifauna were tough.
Happy weekend!
"neener neener", yas queen, anomie, avifauna. They might be *real* words but I never heard anyone say these. Junk like this should be banned from puzzles. The whole NW was a mess.
ReplyDeleteTough puzzle, but as expected for a Saturday. Finally got it done, after much musing and correcting earlier entries. Enjoyed it! Thanks to all who made it happen... contstructor, editor, and blogger. Happy New Year to all!
ReplyDeleteI think this is a good puzzle but it stumped me. Well, actually the NE corner stumped me; I did enjoy solving the rest. The last cell I filled was the letter E in REY and ANOMIE, but not after I tried ROY and RAY first (hi Big Easy). Of the proper names I filled JEB BUSH right off the bat. I would not have known ZENDAYA at all had she not been on Dancing With the Stars a few seasons ago.
ReplyDeleteI don't know of anybody who shaves his NAPE. (The nape is the back of the neck, right?)
I loved the clues for BEAK, MON, SURGEON, and EYE TO EYE.
I very much enjoyed your verses today, Owen.
Well, I have learned about AVIFAUNA now. And where the Bay of BISCAY (not Biscayne) is.
My wife calls herself a news JUNKIE.
Correction to my comment about shaving the nape: I do recall the barber shaving my nape after giving me a haircut, back in the days when I had hair and went to barbershops.
Yep, I've got my resolutions ready. Even have them written down on paper.
Good wishes to you all.
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Christopher Adams, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Husker gary, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle beat me up pretty badly. I could not finish without help. Too many tough ones. WEB MD, JANUS, VEREEN, ZENDAYA, JUNKIES, AVENUE Q, ANOMIE
It was a good puzzle, but you had to be on a higher plane to get through it. Looking forward to Sunday's.
I did not even look at Friday's puzzle. Too busy all day.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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I am roused to write after reading of your difficult situation OwenKL. Please keep us posted on how Bren is doing.
ReplyDeleteHand up the ANOMIE/REY crossing is a bit unfair. But DW and I had just seen the new Star Wars movie on Christmas day (we can walk to the theater from our apartment). So REY was fresh in my mind. FIR. REY is a magnificent star of this finale of Star Wars.
Learning moment about BISCAY. I was thinking "Cantabrigian" when I read "Cantabrian". So I was thinking of England. (I was also a Cantabrigian in another place.)
Here I was in the BLACK HILLS of DAK
Husker Gary thank you for the many illustrations and links. Never heard of ZENDAYA but she is gorgeous. And thanks for the YAS QUEEN video.
A couple of other notes during my time away.
ReplyDeleteIN A PET (yesterday) may come from petulant rather than anything to do with animal companions.
ALBEDO (December 20) was a gimme and glad that it was for some others.
Some words that are obscure deserve more attention and this is a perfect example. As snow melts in arctic regions, there is a runaway positive feedback loop. The ALBEDO is lowered as the exposed soil and dark ocean water absorb more energy from the sun. Which in turn causes more snow to melt. Which in turn...
We were away at the MENLO PARK (December 25) in California which is where my brother lives. It was a big family gathering for his birthday.
I will end with a few photo picks of Merlie and me this past year.
Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year!
FLN: TTP, "Billy"? C'est moi. In the family, HS, college old teammate. Somewhere it became Bill and if course ... Wilbur- the last often having a descriptor, esp during my umpiring days
ReplyDeleteOops. Time for Church
I did FIR today. Though tough slogging
WC
Hand up for thinking the NW was the hardest part. I finally gave up on it and moved to the NE... not much better. Kept going clockwise around and found the south snd the midwest much easier (hi, Yellowrocks). By the time I got back north I must’ve shifted gears because it seemed easier than at first. Lots of red letters today.
ReplyDeleteI would have gone a bit faster if I hadn’t misread Cantabrian Sea as Caribbean. I gotta get some new glasses!
I still don’t understand YAS Queen.
TTP, I wish you well in your jousting with Comcast!
I still don’t understand YAS queen.
The clue for BEAK brought a smile to my by-then-frowning visage (hi, Jayce).
I still don’t understand YAS Queen.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s puzzle; I almost always find them to be my favorite of the week.
Did I mention that I still don’t understand YAS Queen?
Back to the salt mines (we’re cleaning out the garage today).
Have a great day all.
Didn't remember Odysseus's home town. Many classical place names in New York.
ReplyDeleteKingston is also in New York.
Liked LAW next to PUB.
My daughter watched CARE BEARS, but I didn't learn any of their names.
DNF. A lot of write-overs and wrong and unknown answers.
Nice puzzke! Tough but fair, love the modern slant mixed with some classics. Two pencils uo.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your service, Husker G!
ReplyDeleteI needed a coupla lookups to finish today, but it was certainly in the do-able range for a Saturday pzl.
We had a tornado here a few nights ago. I thought climate change was paying a call, but I learned that we get tornadoes in SoCal about once every 5 years. I dunno though. I don't remember any others recently. This caused some minor damage in Ventura.
No, it wasn't F4 or 5; we are not in Kansas yet.
~ OMK
I was a soda jerk and short-order cook at a local drugstore when I was 16. I also delivered prescriptions in the drugsotre’s VW bug.
ReplyDeleteAnomie, avifauna, junkies, Janus, Web MD were easy for me. Albedo, Zendaya, Rey were totally unknown. I admit I used red letters, but let's not ban words just because they are unfamiliar. I take these words as learning experiences. Solving crosswords should increase our vocabulary and fund of knowledge. One of the reasons for my researching words is that this embeds these words in my mind. It also satisfies my curiosity.
ReplyDeleteSome fill that others find common are new to me and some fill that others pan, I find very ordinary. Why ban learning?
OTOH, I do not find a lot of joy in puzzles that are a name fest. Should there be an official limit on names in one puzzle? I am not referring to this puzzle, particularly, but some these week were bears.
This is an evening to relax and do as I please, to catch up on phone calls and emails with those I love. AAH! The holidays were lovely and fun. Now it is time to decompress.
George Sisler's son hit the penultimate Homer while Eddie Miksis thought his 3rd base coach said "No!" not go and thus the Pennant was lost
ReplyDelete25 years later, Don Zimmer, an old Dodger, claimed he said "No!" and Denny Doyle heard "Go!" and the Redsox had to wait 30 more years . The year of BIG POPPi
Outstanding l'icks today Owen, peak form or is that BEAK form
"When I miss them, I like to blame parallax error"- yep, TTP, "If there's NAE 'scuses it's NAE Golf
I had a ness in the middle caused by inking BURGLAR . Not to speak of the idiotic SEE HEAR-aaarrggghhh!!!
I had to break for my meeting-that crowd never heard of neener neener either. I was toying with the idea of ACID for the make-up kit, as in nail polish remover.
Finally I looked at the ridiculous BACHS, grok'ed SURGEON , put an E on NIOBE and voila, an FIR on what I'm hearing was a consensus toughie
And.. I finally finished the pangram and xword with the Q on the TIP. Yes, don't swab the ear with a QTIP on a crowded subway .
WC
Got to post and run. This cell has lousy battery
Interesting challenge today. Of course I FIW but it was worth the effort. Thanks to all who provided the fun.
ReplyDeleteOwen, prayers from here. The ‘licks for the last week have alll been outstanding. I can’t imagine how you do it.
After a hectic Christmas week I’m decompressing by watching LSU mop the floor with OU. 63 to 20-something. Not even a good game but Joe Burrow is fun to watch. I’m also making the gumbo for New Year’s Eve. It cooks itself while I watch the game.
Hope everyone had. Good holiday...and more to come.
Wilbur Charles - big Red Sox fan here. Don Zimmer was the worst coach and manager we ever had. Should have won a few WS in the 1970’s if not for the Zim’s incompetence. But four WS in the last 15 years kind of makes up for it.
ReplyDeleteIn retrospect, this was a tough, but fair puzzle. I didn’t get the NW corner, but maybe with a little more patience I could have finished.
The NW corner was a BEAR, 'or so...' I'VE HEARD [bzzt!] Oy! [Hi jfromvt!]
ReplyDeleteChalk it up to another learning Saturday. Thanks Christopher for the puzzle. Thanks HG for the expo and answers in the North. //YAS Queen: I'da known that if I wasn't thinking "God Save the" forever!
Mmmm, Expert isn't a Wonk but a WHIZ. You don't need a cicle [sic] for a Biathlon. After I flush'd out the South, I went back North but still wouldn't give up on my fill for 2d.
Big Fat DNF
Fav: Kingston's clue MON. Jayce called out other smiles in the grid.
{B+, A, A-, B, B, A+} //@6:32 - OKL asked we grade him too. I try to stay honest [I read and grade b/f I read his self-assessment so it's 'real how it hit me.' Sometimes, OKL will make a reference to something I don't know and I have to back-grade after I'm learnt]
Picard - petulant/In A Pet; that makes sense. Thanks. I'll look that up later.
WikWak - You the garage, DW & I the Master Closet. We had too much shtuff. Goodwill got a bunch of business dress we don't need/use + some polos I've not worn since the '90s. We're getting a jump on our JANUS resolutions :-)
//some things still "spark joy" and went to storage :-)
Swamp - I knew The Sooners (Boomer!) were HARDLY going to win but the final score is embarrassing. Since my [grad school] alma mater is out, I'll root w/ my Louisiana buddies down the stretch.
Geaux Tigers!
Cheers, -T
Hi Y'all! Thank you for a challenge, Christopher! Thank you, Gary, for another enlightening commentary. Can it possibly by three years of your goodies. My how time flies when you're filling little squares daily.
ReplyDeleteI saw the first clue and consulted Mr. Google about the sea before starting. After slogging thru the snow, stubbing my toe on many unknowns (WEES), I concluded that Christopher had to be of a different generation and education level than moi. I kept perping and WAGging until it filled, however, leaving a bitter taste behind.
That picture of the Marx family left me wondering if Groucho & Gummo had a taller sire or just a better diet than pops & two shorter brothers.
Probably the bitter taste was not all Christopher's puzzle. I awoke at 1 a.m. with severe gastric distress and spent the day alternately in the bathroom and napping in the recliner because I couldn't lay flat. During all this time, rain was pouring down with almost two inches making puddles where I've never seen puddles in my yard before. My descendants all met for a Xmas party without me in another town and I didn't get to see the out-of-state contingent. They drive elsewhere tomorrow. Can't blame them for not wanting to chance that what I have is catching. Add to this four people who were once friends of mine in another era have died in the past two days. And my BFF was stuck in NOLA airport because her destination of KCI was under storm clouds. Whine! POUT! Tomorrow has got to be better.
PK - whatever ails you, the youth can muster. Why they didn't visit, even for an hour, bugs me on your behalf.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean... Mom lives in the sticks and her house is HARDLY a home (hard-scrabble she's chosen for herself). I'll stay w/ Pop when I go to IL [going at the end of Jan - Army Bro will be home from Kuwait!] but, I will spend the time to go visit Mom an hour south]
//Note: I call Mom every Sunday after I hang up w/ Pop. [Pop goes to bed early so he's 1st]
Anyway- SEE if someone can bring you some chicken soup (a Jewish deli's will bring the love) or a bit of meat-protein. When I'm sick in the tummy, Mc-yD's cheeseburgers are magic :-)
Cheers, -T
I was pleased to solve it correctly (except for a couple of letters) in a reasonable time. I was half watching the Clemson-Ohio State playoff game but, having no real preference as to which team will play my favorite, LSU, in a couple of weeks, I was find it reasonably “do-able” as I watched. (BTW, LSU is just my favorite of the four who made the playoffs. I’m a die-hard Auburn fan.)
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