Theme: KEEPS AN EYE ON (55. Looks after, as suggested by the last word of 20-, 29- and 46-Across) - Synonym theme.
20. Protection for extremities during slicing and dicing: FINGER GUARDS.
29. Old-style timepieces attached to vests: POCKET WATCHES.
46. 15-season CBS drama about the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit: CRIMINAL MINDS.
Boomer here.
I
have a pocket WATCH which I never use. I do have a wristwatch but I
only wear it in Las Vegas so I can make sure when it's time to take C.C.
to the buffet. It GUARDS against losing too much $$ or my MIND.
Across:
1. Evidence of fire: SMOKE. My last one was a menthol, sometime around 2001.
6. Phone call enders: BYES. "Bye, bye Miss American Pie" (Don McClean).
10. Recedes to the sea: EBBS. Flows the wrong way.
14. Piglike rhino relative: TAPIR.
15. Move like The Blob: OOZE.
16. Strong wind: GALE. As in Gale Storm??
17. "__ you clever!": AREN'T. I try to be clever, I Ain't sure.
18. Folklore meanie: OGRE.
19. Stan on the sax: GETZ. Well known but a little before my time.
23. Long-standing dispute: FEUD. I used to watch "Family Feud". I liked Richard Dawson and John O'Hurley, but I am not a big fan of Steve Harvey.
24. Go public with: AIR. I have been going a few yards AIRing out a Titleist.
25. Brewery kilns: OASTS.
33. GI chow: MRE. Well, I used to have adjectives for GI food but MRE was not one of them.
34. Many a retired racehorse: SIRE. I am still wondering if the Kentucky Derby will take place.
35. The "O" in OAS: Abbr.: ORG.
36. Least distant: CLOSEST. A few holes in our golf league are marked with a prize for CLOSEST to the hole. So far I have not cashed.
40. Coming into being: NASCENT.
42. Rude dude: CAD. Kind of made me think of CADDIES. I spent some time watching the Travelers tournament this past weekend.
43. Travel document: VISA. Also a card that can get people in trouble.
45. Tropical "constrictor": BOA. Bank Of America will issue the above mentioned cards.
50. Become frantic: PANIC. Just push the PANIC button and all will settle down.
51. Meadowland: LEA. "LEAn on me, when you're not strong"
52. Uses a shovel: DIGS.
59. "The Thin Man" dog: ASTA.
I don't have too say "I'm too young" very often but I never saw the
movie. I did see the TV episodes. I think Peter Lawford was "The Thin
Man" in the late fifties and I remember ASTA.
62. Lacrosse targets: NETS. Also hockey pucks and basketballs.
63. Specialized vocab: LINGO.
64. Null and __: VOID. You may want to AVOID being VOID.
65. Like much testimony: ORAL.
66. Word with circle or city: INNER. Don't forget tube.
67. Kibbles 'n Bits competitor: ALPO. No dogs in our home. No ALPO Either.
68. Agile: SPRY.
69. Colorful marble: AGATE. Also had steelies, shooters, and peeries in the bag.
Down:
1. Employee group: STAFF.
2. Curie with two Nobels: MARIE.
3. Speak candidly: OPEN UP. "Not by the hair on my Chinny Chinny Chin."
4. Regal realms: KINGDOMS.
5. Art Deco master: ERTE.
6. __-woogie: BOOGIE. "He's the BOOGIE, Woogie bugle boy of company B"
7. Dannon products: YOGURTS. I cannot remember if I ever tried it.
8. Pound who was a friend of T.S. Eliot: EZRA. He's was a poet, but if you don't know it, maybe his feet show it. They're Long Fellows.
9. Tea leaves reader: SEER. C.C. enjoys a cup of tea, but she never reads the leaves. Too depressing.
10. Spider's hatching pouch: EGG SAC.
11. Main squeeze, in slang: BAE.
12. Lunch menu letters: BLT. Very delicious and wholesome food. Just fry the fat out of the bacon.
13. Utters, in slang: SEZ.
21. Earns lots of, as dough: RAKES IN. I don't know about the dough. We just use the rake on garden weeds, and leaves in the fall.
22. Spoils, as a grandchild: DOTES ON.
26. Clog or loafer: SHOE. Golf shoes are great. They used to have metal spikes but now mine have plastic grippers on the soles.
27. Fork-tailed shorebird: TERN.
28. Army NCO: SSGT. This is G.I. pay Grade E-6. I only made it to E-5. I think you need to serve longer than two years to get to E-6.
30. Narrow opening in a cliff: CREVICE.
31. Take the title: WIN. The only current pro sport to watch now is golf. Seems every week a different player WINs the title.
32. High-spirited horse: ARABIAN.
36. Sputnik letters: CCCP. Speaking of which, I have heard that the U.S. Air Force is detecting Russian planes near Alaska recently.
37. "__ Croft: Tomb Raider": LARA.
37. "__ Croft: Tomb Raider": LARA.
38. Top Norse god: ODIN. If you are a SON of ODIN you probably have no problem with this puzzle.
39. Flight safety org.: TSA.
These guys (and ladies) are mostly standing around in the airport these
days. Last February, it took C.C. and I nearly an hour to get to the
gate.
41. Toting clubs for a golfer: CADDYING. This was my employment from age 14 to about 17. It was a great job and I got to play a nice golf course every Monday.
44. MLB's Hank Aaron, e.g., in 21 seasons: ALL-STAR. Hammerin' Hank was incredible!!
47. Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, with "The": MIKADO. HMS Pinafore, Pirates on Penzance. I used to be able to sing some of their stuff.
48. Pitifully small: MEASLY.
49. "Burnt" crayon color: SIENNA. I am not sure if CRAYOLA makes this color anymore.
53. "__ it, Rover!": "Fetch!": GO GET.
54. Keep a mate awake, perhaps: SNORE. I stayed awake all last night and I did not SNORE at all.
56. Grandson of Adam: ENOS.
A biblical name. I am old enough to remember Enos "Country" Slaughter
who played for several MLB teams. I only remember the St. Louis
Cardinals.
57. One in handcuffs, for short: PERP.
58. Kazan with an honorary Oscar: ELIA.
59. Actress Gardner: AVA. She was one of Frank Sinatra's 30 wives.
60. Sun, in Sonora: SOL.
61. Bit of advice: TIP. My advice is you may want to stay out of restaurants for awhile, but if you cannot resist, leave a TIP.
Boomer
Note from C.C.:
Big milestone for Barry G, who turns 50 years old today. Barry used to be very active on our blog. Hope all's well with you and your family, Barry! Hope the in-laws are all safe and sound.
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| July 2, 2016 |
49 comments:
Good morning Cornerites.
Thank you Gail Grabowski & Bruce Venzke for your enjoyable Monday CW.
Carol has gone AWOL so I FIRed it in 23:29 min.
Thank you Boomer for your excellent review.
Ðave
Good job Dave 2, and HBDTY and many more Barry G.
A fun tour Boomer, but I am sure you must know this 1963 hit THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA .
Also, by fan voting, Crayola chose to continue selling BURNT SIENNA
Happy Monday all
MRE. LIU says "Meal Ready (to) Eat". In my day it was C-Rats with the horrendous Ham and Lima. Easily traded to my Southern buddy, Larry.
Re. Travelers. Dustin had to put his cape back on but the secondary drama of the guy needing "Tie for third"* to get a temporary card became the main interest.
I say AGATE because my Boston accent causes ripples of laughter at my pronunciation of "Marble". Not to speak of "Horseradish".
The first "Curse of the Bambino" was ENOS Slaughter's scoring from first in a single to beat the Redsox in '46**
Once I got past Hippo and Madam for TAPIR and MARIE I was off to the races.
Thank Boomer and G&B. Hbd Barry, I hardly got to know ya
WC
*If three tied for third he was out. One did tie him but he got his card. I think I napped through Dustin's back nine.
** If there was a curse it was Yawkey screaming to get the "blacks" off the field during a phony tryout in '45 that included Jackie Robinson
Nice to see ASTA again; one the first on my crosswordese list. “Ems”, “ens”, and “ort” are some of my favs. I was offered a promotion to E5 in order to be assigned to Germany after a year in Thailand. The problem was that I was a bit of a short-timer and was required to sign a non-binding intent to re-up. I had to appear on Villanova’s campus a few days after my termination date in order to start the fall semester. Knowing the Army’s propensity for SNAFUs, I decided to stay in Fort Dix, which enabled my future wife to visit me on weekends. Good choice in all ways.
Good morning!
Ashes? Nope. Ember? Nope. Oh, SMOKE. It's not a good omen when 1a involves stumbling. Turned out OK, though. Failed to read the complete reveal clue, but got the theme anyway. Thanx, GG, BV and Boomer.
NASCENT: Can't remember seeing that in a cw before, surely not on a Monday.
SSGT: E5 for me, too, Boomer. Made it there in less than 18 months, but would have had to "ship over" to reach E6. Personnelmen are supposed to wheedle and cajole and offer advancement to get you to ship over. My shipover lecture consisted of, "You don't want to stay in do you? All right, then."
POCKET WATCH: I wear a wristwatch. Sure, I could check my phone, but then I'd have to take it out of my pocket, turn it on, and wait for it to wake up.
Happy birthday, Barry G.
I enjoyed this puzzle. I needed the reveal to find the theme.
Usually the horse is ARAB, today we have ARABIAN. In most of the novels I read it is shortened to Arab.
I believe Stan Getz had four Grammys in the 60's. He continued to record up until he died in 1991 when he won his last Grammy. I like his music. Lemon, thanks for the sample.
Happy birthday, Barry. I liked your posts. You often were the first to post here. I hope you and your family are well and happy. Please stop in when you can.
FLN, I believe "not in my wheelhouse" is a better observation than "the clue is iffy." Remember YMMV. I speak of CLOMPING down the stairs. I say MAKE A HASH OF. There are many abbrev. in x-words. We see LA RAMS all the time in the LAT. DR. MR. MRS. SRTA. NY and all the other states are very common here. I have seen PROEM before. It is a more formal way of saying preface or preamble.
I am a big Gilbert and Sullivan fan.
Since there is no place to go I tend to put many tasks off until later. It makes me lazy. I work best under deadlines and schedules. I had better get my act together and spend the day catching up.
Good morning everyone.
FLN - Lucina, I use a Mac and the link describes how I form a tilde on the n - ñ. If you use a PC, maybe someone else can chime in with what works for them.
Very easy puzzle today. Only pause with 69a- - aggie or AGATE? Burnt SIENNA took care of that. No erasures or lookups.
Lucina, for ~, I have Windows on a PC, so while holding down ALT I type 126 on my number pad, release and press enter.
4:24 to finish. Interesting to see lacrosse mentioned.
Have a good week everyone.
Good Morning.
Happy Birthday, Barry G. Do stop in if you can.
Thanks Gail and Bruce for a fine start for my return to CW-ing after a bit of a hiatus. Pretty smooth. I had the same trouble with ashes and embers before SMOKE. Yes, D-O, trouble on a Monday when the 1A start looked like big trouble for me too. I did have trouble parsing the theme reveal. KEEP SANE YEON???? Huh? Ah? AN EYE ON!!
Great tour again, Boomer. I agree with Lemonade: I think you are forgetting that tall and tan and young and lovely gal from Ipanema. Ahh. Getz was a great saxophonist. FINGER GUARDS gave me pause. Knives are not the most dangerous part of mia cucina; I need silicon wrist guards to protect me from my oven racks!! I only use pot holders, not mitts since I don't feel as much control with them.
We had a great time with our grandson from Dallas and consequently saw and socially distanced with the rest of the family here. Nothing exciting this trip, but he knew that and just wanted to hang out with us. Lots of board games, Jeopardy, puzzles, and best of all family gatherings with no screens and lots of terrific conversation. He even saw his Great Gramma through the window at assisted living for her 97th birthday on the way to O'Hare. They were both very excited to see each other. I always make him a scrap book of his trips. This was is called CoVisit 20!
Have a very sunny day today.
Good Morning
It’s always a treat to see Gail and Bruce’s byline. I had no problems but a couple of entries were a tad above normal Monday difficulty, IMO. The reveal was a surprise as the theme was well hidden, at least for me. I liked the proximity of Asta and Alpo and the symmetry of Ezra, Enos, Erie, and Elia. CSO to all of us at Perp!
Thanks, Gail and Bruce, for a pleasant start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for the witty review. I get a kick out of your humorous musings.
Happy Birthday, Barry G. Hope the Big 50 is a special day. 🎂🎉🎊 Hope all is well with the family.
I have an appointment later today to have the stitches removed from my hand. Judging by appearances, I think I’m in for some “ouch” moments. I have ordered a medical alert device which should be welcome news to my doctor and, hopefully, negate a prolonged lecture about falls, broken hips, etc.
Have a great day.
Ezra, Enos, Erte, and Elia. Darn autocorrect!
Musings
-For good or ill, today everyone has a forum to AIR their opinions
-What did you first enter for a retired race horse at S _ _ _ ?
-We had eight educators sitting in with two parents for a conference. Everyone was throwing around teacher LINGO and then I just said what the real issue was and the dad said, “THANK YOU!”
-The Khumbu Icefall is a crevasse (in ice) not CREVICE (in rock) that is the most dangerous part of summiting Everest
-The average CADDY at Pebble Beach makes $81,000 per year from salary and big TIPS. That ain’t MEASLEY!
-DW will not travel unless she has someone to KEEP AN EYE on our kitty
-HBD Barry!
Nice and easy Monday. The upper left was last as I had to noodle on -API- to get TAPIR since ERTE was unknown to me.
Also I spelled CREVICE with an A at first as I kept 'hearing' CREVASSE. I just looked it up to see the difference. Aha-a Crevasse is in ice or a glacier, and a Crevice is in rock.
As an old sci-fi fan, I'll always remember Ava Gardner in "On the Beach" (1959)
Good morning, folks. Thank you Gail Grabowski & Bruce Venzke, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for a fine review.
Happy Birthday, Barry G., from Melrose, and many more. We miss you. Stop in.
Got up late last night and fired up the crossword. Got it done easily and I became tired enough to lay back down. Worked.
Liked the theme. Easy Peasy.
Did not really know what nascent meant. Now I do.
Our old friend ASTA.
I love YOGURT. Plain.
BLT is my favorite sandwich. Yummmmmm.
Anyhow, I am off. Stuff to do until I get tired. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Hello Anon @8:16. I thought for sure you would break the four minute barrier today. Aside from ashes to smoke to start off, this seemed like a TV Guide xword. A good confidence booster to begin the week, not to mention the Dow so far this morning.
Hola!
Easy Monday puzzle, thank you, Gail and Bruce!
I started with EMBER, then thought of ASHES but SMOKE prevailed.
OASTS is one word I know purely through crosswords.
Yesterday it was Rossi and today we have CRIMINAL MINDS.
I wonder if ASTA ate ALPO? Maybe it wasn't available at that time.
To enter Russia, the VISA cost $200, all other countries offered them free or for a much smaller amount.
In the book, Charlotte's Web, Charlotte reveals that she lays 500 eggs in her EGGSAC.
Today, in fact very shortly, I have to leave and drive the 60 miles for a haircut.
It's worth it!
I'm wishing you all a bright and sunny day!
TAPIR/ERTE and MIKADO/ASTA gave me a bit of trouble but I FIR. I don't know if those count as Naticks at all or whether I just have some blind spots (probably the latter!).
Very enjoyable Monday puzzle. Reviewing the theme answers helped me fill in the big reveal. I appreciate how this group KEEPS AN EYE ON each other, and in that spirit, wish luck to Irish Miss with her stitches. My mom has made a medical alert device part of her daily routine, which is better than lying on the floor unable to reach the phone -- or unconscious -- after a fall. That only happened once, but we don't want a repeat. And of course, no more whole watermelon deliveries for IM!
Marvelous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Gail and Bruce, and Boomer.
I started out well with SMOKE, because I immediately thought of "Where there's SMOKE, there's fire!). Finished in good time and saw the theme, but then arrived here to discover that I FIWed.
PERPs failed me when I entered Mikedo and forgot to notice that Aste should have been ASTA. (Hello Wheels42- definitely a blind spot for me)
Yes, HuskerG, I wanted Stud before SIRE, and thought of Steed before Arabian. (I smiled to see them cross!)
I noted plenty of short 2-word phrase answers today: OPEN UP, RAKES IN, DOTES ON, GO GET, and even in the theme reveal KEEPS AN EYE ON.
I learned many of todays answers by doing CWs: OASTS, MRE, TSA, ELIA.
NASCENT brought a smile for a Monday word. (It comes from Latin origin - "being born")
I will have to wait at least a month to have tomatoes out of my garden for BLTs!
10A "Recedes to the sea" reminded me of this music.
EbbTide
MadameD - welcome back to the Corner; glad you had a great visit with your grandson.
Irish Miss - hope all goes well with stitch removal and not too much pain. Glad the medical alert device is ordered.
Yes, Lucina, I got a haircut last week and I am much lighter! Glad I didn't have to travel 60 miles!
Happy Birthday, Barry G. Hope you check in with us today.
Wishing you all a great day.
Woohoo! I love Gail and Bruce puzzles, especially on a Monday, and this one was a total delight. Zipped through the top half, and had to work a little on the bottom, but it all worked out without a single erasure. And on top of all that, we got Boomer's fun commentary--thank you for that, too, and especially for giving us the lyrics for Miss American Pie. I knew every single word. Woohoo!
Got EZRA Pound instantly. Was scheduled to teach a class on T.S. Eliot at the Senior Center this spring, but the corona-virus shut that down. Hope I get to use the lecture and slide show another time.
Wilbur, thanks for explaining MRE--got it, but had no idea what it meant.
Irish Miss, hope all goes well and pain-free with the stitches. Probably good idea to get a medical alert device.
Happy birthday, Barry G.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Did anyone else have trouble printing from the LA Times Web Site? I had to do a screen shot because the print version was missing lines. Very odd.
Got the theme quickly and enjoyed the quick solve. Only possible Natick crossing: ASTA/AVA but I know these from solving these puzzles. Anyone else put MEAGER before MEASLY? When I see PANIC I always think of the "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". "Don't PANIC." Anyone else?
FEUD is very much on my mind this week. This is the 30th anniversary of the most horrific fire I have ever experienced. The "Painted Cave" Fire. It was not as big as our fire three years ago, but for some reason most agree it was more terrifying. I know several people who lost everything.
Here is my article, including my photos that I have never shared before.
If you read the comments by SURFBUM you will understand the FEUD connection. It seems that there was a bully on the mountain who pushed people just a bit too far. The fire was meant to be revenge, but it got out of hand. Way out of hand.
As IM said, a good Monday puzzle from Gail and Bruce with a couple of crunchy entries. Boomer's tour through the grid was enjoyable.
I also started with ASHES before SMOKE, and I wanted ARGOT before LINGO, STUD before SIRE, and AGGIE before AGATE.
Other than the above perp changes it was a Monday walk in the park.
Boomer: I was a caddie from about 10 to 15 years old. We got $1.00 per bag, per 9 hole round plus tips. 25 cents was a good tip and anything more was a great tip. However, there were a few skinflints who would only tip a nickel. They were well known by everybody and generally got assigned to the caddie who was lowest on the pecking order. Great way to earn some spending money as a kid.
The BLT in Boomer's write up looked so good, I decided to have a version of one for lunch. It was on a grilled Sub/Hoagie roll with lettuce, tomato, cheese, ham, chicken and of course 6 rashers of bacon. Um um good.
Beautiful day in the neighborhood. I hope it's nice where you are.
This Monday go went quickly.
No write-overs today.
For the “~” sign on a PC...on my laptop it’s in the upper left corner next to the “1”...need to hit CAP key to get it.
And on to Tuesday...stay safe.
My first instinct on 34 Across was 'glue.' They should have a crossword puzzle for cynics.
As you know Alan was dizzy and fell twice on June 20, hurting his back and getting a minor gash on his forehead. He recovered easily but was quarantined in his room for 14 days after having been in the ER because it broke his house lock down. This morning he fainted for a few minutes and is now in the hospital over night for observation. They have found nothing so far. He had been well for a very long time. Over the past years he gets recurring mysterious illnesses occasionally. We go for multiple ER visits, specialists and tests, usually with no definitive results and then it disappears.
J'myle, It seems a retired horse being a sire is far more fun than being glue. LOL
Yay! I have a dozen little green tomatoes in my garden so far. The biggest is the size of a pool ball. I can hardly wait for them to ripen.
AnonymousPVX, the trick is to put that ~ above a letter, like this: ñ On a Windoze PC I use Character Map -- just enter that in the search field.
BOOMER wrote "No dogs in our home. No ALPO Either."
Congratulations on being dog-free. Criticizing anything about dogs has to be one of the biggest remaining taboos.
Hi All!
Was it just my coffee hadn't set in or was this, once again, a tricky Monday? Nothin' PERP'd w/ ashes....
Thanks Gail & Bruce for delivering another cutely themed Monday. Thank you Boomer for delivering another cutely phrased Monday expo.
WO: Stud //Right, HG?!?
ESPs: TAPIR | ERTE
Fav: After a 5yr stint at DOD, I worked 15 years at MIT and Rice Engineers Consulting. Neither founders were Military so they didn't get the humor :-)
Anyone under 55 wears a watch ostentatiously or so it seems.
FINGER GUARDS? Oy! After the mandolin incident, yeah, I got chain-mail gloves.
Want to make a northerner angry? Send them a snap of your first BLT of the season. That was a week+ ago --- Pop replied with a grumpy-face emoji :-)
//BTW, Sis's husband (owns a pub) taught me that for the best bacon, lay out the strips on a broiler pan and cook in oven at 400F.
FLN - Yummo AveJoe! Scampi is always good (and a thicker noodle isn't bad there).
Hungry Mother - yeah, kinda missed ASTA for a while too.
Nice to see you MdF! I'll be flying to IL (SPI) this week but not through ORD.
Wow! Interesting article Picard. Ironically, my Bro (yeah, same) is preparing to evacuate due to a wildfire near Highland Ranch, CO.
IM - take some aspirin or something ahead of time!
Happy Birthday BerryG! We do miss you.
Cheers, -T
It is, as noted above, always nice to see Asta drop in for a visit.
Pleasant Monday puzzle which I actually did today, Monday, so following along with the comments on the blog was a bit easier than usual for me. Usually, I solve Monday's puzzle on Sunday, Tuesday's on Monday, etc. except for Saturday and Sunday which I solve with my girlfriend on actual L.A. Times newsprint on the days that they are published.
Picard, I lived in Goleta in the mid-1970's. I also lived in Refugio Canyon. Fortunately, Bill Huddy had no large fires on which to report during my tenure.
Fun puzzle that put up quit a bit of fight for a Monday. WEES about ashes before smoke. Didn't fill ashes in, but it took a few perps to get it right. Same with USSR instead of CCCP. Needed the reveal to get the theme, but FIR.
Tony, sorry to hear about further troubles for your brother. I did check on that fire and it sounds like it's nearly under control and there have been no structures lost yet. About a half section burned, so they got on it quickly. Thanks for that heads up, since I have a son and a sister there.
Hi everybody,
Having had stitches removed several times, I think some of your are worrying too much. At least in my experiences, it was almost totally painless. YMMV
AnonT thank you for reading my article about the most destructive fire in California history at the time. All the result of a FEUD. I very much hope that your brother has no such loss. Sorry for being dense, but I did not understand the BLT thing about northerners?
Malodorous Manatee cool that you once lived here. Never heard of Bill Huddy. He must have left TV reporting here by the time I arrived in 1982 for grad school at UCSB. What were you doing here?
As for MREs... I led a challenging hike in a very rugged area with no trail. It was quite a surprise to find an MRE package in the middle of that wilderness!
Here are my photos from that hike adventure with the mysterious MRE package in image 475.
Here is a direct link to the MRE photo.
Note that the package says that it is US Government Property! Commercial Resale Unlawful!
From Yesterday:
SwampCat good to connect via email to further discuss Star Trek!
Wilbur Charles thank you for offering to read the Roddenberry interview.
Here again is that long interview Roddenberry did with "The Humanist" magazine in 1991 about the deeper meaning of Star Trek shortly before he died.
You may or may not be moved to change your view of wanting to watch Star Trek. But I would be very interested to know what you think.
Picard - It's easy... Folks in the north (like C, Eh! said) won't get garden tomatoes for another month.
Me sending Pop a snap of my first garden tomato* on a BLT in early June is just plain EVIL. :-)
AveJoe: I didn't know you had kin out there. God Speed to them.
I tried to read what was going on but the Denver Post kept wanting a subscription. if you have a better link....(?)
Cheers, -T
*not a cheery tomato - those are easy - but a nice fat Early Girl.
I think someone forgot to post my comments this morning. Here they are:
Good morning. Thank you, Gail and Bruce, and thank you, Boomer.
Happy Birthday, Barry !
Hand up for starting with ashes. Similar thought as D-O at NASCENT.
Madame, happy that you had a nice visit with your grandson.
Irish Miss, here's hoping it's not too painful for you.
My laptops don't have a numeric keypad. The Win 10 key sequence won't produce a tilde either. I just use copy/paste.
Yesterday morning a few keys quit working on my keyboard. No e,d,b,f,o. Removed the keyboard, slapped it on the table a couple of times, reseated the cable and hoped for the best. Nope. Same as before. Ordered a replacement from Amazon for $41. Then had to be content with just reading the blog from time to time yesterday.
So then I got to Spitzboov's link about tilde, and tried the Ctrl, tilde key and n key sequence. That didn't work either.
But guess what ? My keyboard started working again.
Tried to cancel the order, but it was too late. Guess I'll figure out how to process an Amazon return when it comes.
Tony, just google Highlands Ranch fire and you'll get plenty of local feeds that are pretty much up to date. It's not yet under control and has increased in size to ~450 acres. But no loss of structures at this point that I saw.
YR @ 1:31 ~ Sorry to hear of Alan’s setback I hope he feels better soon.
Bill G @ 3:06 ~ I, too, have had stitches removed with no pain, but I have also had some painful experiences. Today’s was a combination of 8 pain free, 2 grit your teeth! In any case, I survived and now just have to heal. (And stay upright!) (And avoid killer watermelons,)
Picard, I was at UCSB 1972 - 1974 finishing up my undergrad work after a year at UCLA, two years at UC Berkeley and two years up in Oregon smoking dope, playing cribbage and learning more from the local farmers than I ever had at the university. While I was living near Santa Barbara I also spent a lot of time trying to learn how to play the 5-string banjo. I was proficient enough to win a prize (intermediate level) at the local banjo and fiddle contest but I never really good at it and I stopped playing all together when I started grad school at UCLA and, shortly thereafter, started a career and a family.
During my time in and around Santa Barbara KEYT was the only TV station we could receive and Bill Huddy was their news anchor. He was a bit of a joke to us young smart asses. If George Putnam was the inspiration for Ted Baxter then Huddy was the inspiration for Ron Burgundy.
Anonymous, I hadn't known that BLTs could convey such, what's the correct word here, snideness, mockery, good natured teasing!? I wonder how it would play in a crossword puzzle. 34 Across Three Letter Clue: "You have a very short growing season and we don't" Answer: BLT
MManatee - your last line had me going but "and I stopped playing [Banjo] all together" told me you're not secretly Steve Martin. So close.
My family [on my side - DW's is skin'd thin] ribs each other relentlessly.
I recall one night imbibing...
wait, no...
this blog is PG-13.
//but you shoulda heard what my Sis drop'd on Bro...
OK - here's a (nice-ish) story:
Pop wanted a portrait of him and his 5 kids thus booked a sitting.
After hitting the pub, we walked to the studio after a pint (or two?)
Photographer asked, "Should we wait for Mrs -C?"
Sis offers - "Which one? Dad couldn't [insert fake crying] make it work...."
Photo-man has a look of shock(!)
We all laugh our bums off.
So yes, the BLT is "Ha!"
-T
Good afternoon, all! I had a fairly easy time with this one. Worked on it early this morning, as soon as I could drag it off the computer. Finished it up and went to bed, rather than coming here. Good thing I did, since proofreading led to corrections and a FIR. Didn’t know BAE or OASTS, but the perps took care of them.
Loved Stan Getz’ music! Alas, he was another very complex and troubled musical genius:
Stan Getz
Gotta hand it to Boomer.
Fryin' the fat outta the bacon is brilliant. Just inspired!
Thank you, Grabowski/Venzke team! A fine pzl today, with a neat theme.
It's nice to see EZRA Pound remembered for something besides his turncoat behavior in Mussolini's Italy.
Human beings are complicated.
~ OMK
Do you think there's enough brass in this photo?
Brass
(l to r: Heads of Japanese, UK and USA Navies)
I liked this puzzle. Hand up for entering ASHES at first and coming this || close to putting in STUD. Also ARGOT instead of LINGO. All fixed by perps. Nice theme.
I 100% agree with desper-otto about wearing a watch. It drove me nuts to be without mine when it was out for repair and cleaning for merely one day. At least with the iPhoneXR it's not as much of a nuisance to use it to check the time: just fish it out of your pocket, tilt it upright, and look at it. No button; it uses face recognition. Still prefer the analogility and instanteousility of my wristwatch, though. (Yes, I made those words up.)
Another thing I would probably find annoying is to have someone respond to me with the equivalent of "What!? How can you not know that?" if I say I am not familiar with something.
Chez Jayce is a dog-loving household. Jayce's descendants are all cat-loving folks.
Happy big Five Oh birthday, Barry G. I hope you and your family are all doing well.
...a pint or two, eh?
/s/
Not Steve Martin
I'm with Jayce. I'm addicted to my wrist watch. It's an Accutron that my son got for his safe driving record when he worked at FedEx. It keeps time to within a second a month.
I also have a beautiful Hamilton Railroad pocket watch. It's an analog mechanical marvel. Amazing.
I also have a cute Ritz Cracker analog watch. It also keeps surprisingly good time considering how inexpensive it was (when bought with an included box top.)
Jayce, I see satisfaction for NOT knowing things. The things some know and others doñt is a mark of the diversity of this group.
Picard, I'm 20 pages into the Rodenbury interview. I think I need to see an episode of NG to get a feel for things. I like Whoopi's role as described.
At age 22 I adopted a pipe and pocket watch along with a 3 piece, vested suit. USMC cured me of that in a hurry.
The band on the watch is my problem. But the cell phone is not that handy for keeping time. I'm always late it seems.
WC
Don't ask me how that tilde got on top of the n iñ Don't. I don't know. I'm on a cell using Android and chrome.
I couldn't go without a wristwatch. I have too many boring work meetings where I look at my watch discreetly to see how long I have to endure this meeting. Pulling out the phone is very obvious.
So...
Last week I had a caterpillar munching my garden's dill. I brought it into Eldest, "Think Frankie [remember the turtle she adopted? That's Franklin] would like this?"
"Dad, No!
"He's [Frankie] still just a baby. It's too big."
Eldest got out a pickle jar.
Youngest came out "She's our pet now. We named her!"
Me: (?)
"Claire the Caterpillar."
And it was a very hungry caterpillar eating parsley harvested daily.
Well, now she's Claire the Chrysalis //John Lampkin I ain't.
Cheers, -T
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