Theme: 56. With 58-Across, salad fixings ... and what you'll find aptly hidden in puzzle rows 4, 6 and 10: CHOPPED. And
58. See 56-Across: VEGGIES. (Onion, Tomato and Carrot are chopped up by the black squares.)
20. Typically tricolored ice cream dessert: SPUMONI. And 22. Really tough, as tasks: ONEROUS.
26. Made to order: CUSTOM. And 29. Do penance: ATONE.
47. Witty Wilde: OSCAR.And 48. Bad to the core: ROTTEN.
Boomer here again. Hahtoolah will be back next Tuesday. She had a long drive back home from New England.
Just
a note about Spumoni Ice Cream. I was addicted when my Mom worked at a
pizza place they served it on the dessert menu, and I was hooked.
Later when I worked for a different pizza restaurant, desserts were not
on the menu.
Across:
5. Notable Titanic casualty: ASTOR. The Waldorf - Astoria is named for him.
10. Stir up: RILE. Sometimes I like to RILE a dish of ice cream.
14. Latin "others": ALIA. Four years of High School Latin and I did not know this.
15. Actress __ Neal of "Law & Order: SVU": DIANE. ADA Casey Novak.
16. Give off: EMIT.
17. Unrefined sort: BOOR.
18. Trooper automaker: ISUZU. They quit making cars in 2009. I think they might still make trucks.
19. "Ooh, fun!": WHEE. Okay to say on a roller coaster, but please stop saying it at the bowling center.
24. Either Bush, e.g.: TEXAN. Always in the news. Some good and some not.
25. Exhausts: DOES IN.
32. FreeCell or Snapchat: APP.
35. Sewn line: SEAM.
36. Multilevel, as wedding cakes: TIERED. I watched the Gophers
blow one at "Huntington Bank" Stadium last Saturday. The Stadium was
TIERED and the fans were TEARED up.
37. Auditioner's hope: PART.
39. Barcelona buddy: AMIGO. My golf and bowling buddy, JORGE from Chile calls me AMIGO.
41. Rig on the road: SEMI. Does that mean it is half a truck??
42. Sounds from sties: SNORTS.
44. Gaming novice, slangily: NOOB. Newbie.
46. Bambi's mother: DOE. "A Deer, a female deer, Re, a drop of golden sun" The hills are alive with "The Sound of Music".
50. Crowns for some queens: TIARAS.
52. Andes or Rockies: RANGE. Hotpoint or General Electric?
60. For all of us: OURS. In our home it is "For both of us."
61. __ curls: arm exercises: BICEP. I do not do this. Too weak.
63. Observes: SEES.
64. Unmitigated joy: GLEE. Spent a few years in the Benilde H.S. GLEE Club. I had a few solos.
65. Together: AS ONE.
66. Teen woe: ACNE. Never had it when I was young, but now the cancer med is causing a few bumps.
67. Bathtub bubbles: SUDS.
68. __ Island Rams: Atlantic 10 conference baseball team: RHODE.
69. Chai and rooibos: TEAS. C.C. is the TEA expert in our home. I drink Folgers.
Down:
2. Slippery __: risky course of action: SLOPE. "We'll have real ones in Minnesota soon"
3. Iowa's __ City: SIOUX. I have been through there, also the city in South Dakota named after the Sioux.
4. Airport surface: TARMAC.
5. Favorable score for a server: AD IN. They do not have "AD IN" in bowling or golf.
6. Maria's ayes: SISI.
7. Letter after sigma: TAU.
8. Like many 2020 meetings: ON ZOOM. I have heard about this but never used it. Although sometimes I hit the gas pedal a bit too hard.
9. Meet up in 25 years, maybe: REUNE. Just had my 56th High School last month. We spelled it differently though. I'm 9th from the left on the back row.
10. Second drafts, say: REWRITES.
11. "This is very flattering!": I'M HONORED.
12. Stead: LIEU.
13. Nice summers: ETES. French city Nice.
21. Burden: ONUS.
23. "Ozark" actor Morales: ESAI. I liked him in NYPD Blue.
25. Pizza Hut competitor: DOMINO'S. I can make better at home with product from Trader Joe's.
27. Red and Black: SEAS. I have been watching the Ryder Cup last weekend from Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. I suggest they call Lake Michigan a SEA.
28. Scot's cap: TAM. Goes great with a bagpipe.
30. Memorable captain's name that's a sign backwards: NEMO. Omen.
31. Actress Falco: EDIE.
32. Lhasa __: APSO.
33. Thumbs-down reviews: PANS. Teflon are the best.
34. Monitored, as an exam: PROCTORED.
36. Little honk: TOOT.
38. Walks aimlessly: TRAIPSES. I am not drunk, it's that doggone oral chemo - 4 capsules each day.
40. Understood: GOT.
43. Tough-to-get-out-of situation: TRAP.
45. Glacier chunk: BERG.
48. Peppery root: RADISH. Goes great in potato salad.
49. Bugs: NAGS AT.
51. Concrete-reinforcing rod: REBAR.
53. Dorothy, to Em: NIECE. "We're off to see the Wizard ..."
54. Thelma portrayer Davis: GEENA.
55. Mississippi quartet: ESSES. Lots of things named after our river. Even a whole state down south.
56. Wheel teeth: COGS. I don't think they put studs on tires any more. I think they ruined the roads.
57. "Castle Rock" airer: HULU.
58. Sell: VEND. Out of a machine.
59. Duel tool: EPEE.
62. Pigeon sound: COO. I thought a dove made it too.
50 comments:
Winston wished Lady ASTOR had been on that ship
But your Vikings had a good Sunday, Boomer. I always liked Cousins but he was always injured.
And Bambi's father got killed by a hunter and they call it a children's movie.
I just 'got' AD IN. Tennis, duh. BTW, they've done away with Halve, Dormie, All Even etc in Ryder Cup talk. Gary, Boomer... Y'all still use those terms, eh?. NBC left the viewer in the dark vis a vis Match Status not to speak of hiding Jordan Speith Sunday until Cup was clinched.
I'd rather slice those vegetables and add green peppers, cukes and mushrooms(all sliced*)
WC
** I shouldn't use that word around you golfers: it's like ICE around Tin.
Solved the puzzle easily enough, but needed the reveal to get the theme. Had ROIL < RILE, misspelt SOUIX and LIEU, all quickly corrected by perps. Don't think I had any other t/os.
The only long answers to be looked to for a theme were I'M HONORED & PROCTORED (both end in ORED), centered DOMINOS, and mirroring the reveal ONEROUS (all four have two O's). The real theme was much better!
First, a l'ick left over from yesterday, when I was in a funk over computer problems:
Searching for a SNOWY OWL, to meet her,
Freezing our tushies off, wanting a heater!
From the blizzard came a Yeti,
Ate our ice axes like spaghetti!
Then lumbered off -- he was a PICKY EATER!
Then on to today's puzzle:
Bearing the ONUS can be ONEROUS
The trials and RILES are copious.
But make it thru
To get your due,
And you can admire it as your opus!
On the tennis court, an "AD IN" side
Means an ADvantage with the score tied.
The other, no doubt
Has an "ad out".
Tennis DOES IN logic, scoring's cockeyed!
{A-, B+, B-.}
Nice Monday-easy xword and I always love Boomer write-ups
Good morning!
Whew, finally a win after a 3-day drought. Still, this one had some drama with Roil/RILE, Newb/NOOB, and ETAL/ALIA. Managed to read the full reveal, but still couldn't find the chopped veggies. Probably shouldn't have been looking in the "downs." D'oh. Still, d-o got 'er done, so this one's going into the win column. Thanx, Catherine and Boomer.
ON ZOOM: I'm not a Zoomer, but I am scheduled for a Zoom deposition tomorrow morning. That'll be interesting.
I think we need to rename the blog CROSSWORD C ORNER BLOG to acknowledge our founder (C.C.) and her handy helper (Boomer).
The new rules of Golf do not permit a DORMIE as balls are to be marked and even the mark is moved if it is in the line of the other player. Jordan did not bring his putting skills to Whistling Straits. Once you miss a few, it does get in your head and some of the misses were so close including the 360.
Speaking of C.C., thank you Catherine Cetta
I'm really getting old. Can't even keep my days straight anymore. Yesterday was Thursday, today is Monday! Seriously, this CW was MUCH easier than yesterday's, and that is NOT a complaint! FIR today in 13 minutes. No W/Os! ASTER or ASTOR? ONZOOM to the rescue. That was the only PERP needed. Nice, easy-breezy fun CW, thanx, CC. And not loaded with names, either! Thanx again, Boomer, for all the time and effort you put into your write-ups. Please know that your efforts ARE appreciated.
FIR, but I also erased roil for RILE, and role for PART and eats in for NAGS AT. DNK DIANE Neal.
I once moonlighted at a Pizza Hut. Didn't know that they were trailblazers in American pizza until I saw their battle with DOMINOS on "The Food that Built America."
"Walked aimlessly" evoked memories of Jean Thomas, The Traipsin' Woman. Maybe because I'm from Kentucky.
Lemony, the guys I play golf with use the term "dormie" to mean "may not win, but can't loose." If I am up 3 holes with three to play, I'm dormie. I'll bet we still use the old terms if we ever compete in match play again. We usually play "captains", "animals", "skins", "greenies" and/or "sandies".
Thanks for the fun puzzle, Catherine. And OK Boomer, you are tres funny again today.
I agree with unclefred - this was quicker than yesterday! The circles helped to see the VEGGIES CHOPPED early on and made for a faster solve
Thanks Boomer for the entertaining pinch hit and to Catherine for the puzzle!
Musings
-I wondered what the verb would be for the gimmick in this fun puzzle
-My tricolored ice cream is called this (never noticed the spelling before)
-Why are SNORTS “Sounds from sites”? Never mind…
-On HGTV House Hunters International, most overseas places have RANGES but most do not have an oven
-Some 4H kids Rhode Island REDS at the fair
-I have PROCTORED many thousands of tests
-We golfers know that TRAPS can be hard to get out of
-Radishes? Hey, I gotta get some of that cold weather veggie in the ground today
-Yup, WC, know ‘em all. Speaking of which, FORE!
L714, Dormie refers to , fe., being ahead two holes with two to play. ie. Having accomplished a tie. I believe JT actually clinched 14 1/2 by going dormie on 16. Oops, Jinx beat me to it.
Yes, it was ironic that putting woes kept Jordan from his breakthrough win. For once his driving was excellent.
Circles are a Tuesday tradition but might have been dispensed with
WC
Good morning everyone.
Straightforward solve; no issues; FIR.
Liked the theme; food is always good. Boomer's potato salad picture looked 'lekker' (Dutch for 'yummy')
RHODE and rooibos come from old Dutch. both imply 'red')
VEND - French infinitive 'vendre'.
Have a great day.
Jinx and WC are correct on "Dormie", I think Lemonade was misrecalling "Stymie" when one ball blocked the line of opponent's putt, before you were required to mark such a ball.
I also slice rather than chop those items. I wanted to argue that tomatoes are fruits and carrots are roots, but vegetable is a more general term, so OK.
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Catherine and Boomer.
I FIRed in good time, and found the CHOPPED VEGGIES (plus the Easter Egg RADISH for our salad).
Just a few inkblots: A changed to I for ISUZU; online changed to ON ZOOM (my class REUNEd this way last week); I waited for perps to decide between Roil and RILE.
I noted SEAS, SEAMS, SEES, plus WHEE, GLEE, TEAS, SEES.
Also TIERED and TIARAS, PANS on the RANGE, and DOES and DOES IN (with change in pronunciation😮).
Mini numbers theme with AS ONE, SEMI, TIERED. ( and maybe even AD IN).
Some Spanish with SI SI and AMIGO, but only one French with our CW friend ETES.
(I miss IM pointing out even more🙁)
We had a plethora of U’s today, but not one in HONORED for this Canadian🤔😒😂.
I must get busy and put my CHOPPED VEGGIES in the Crockpot if I want my stew to be ready for supper.
Wishing you all a great day.
Fun vegan puzzle, No major issues. 🍅🥕🥒
The common tricolor dessert I am familiar with is Neoplitan Ice Cream. "Gimme the chocolate you can have the strawberry and "vanella" (I know, I say it wrong)"
I'M HONORED...or so the old joke goes between the Knight and the damsel.⚔
Thought it said "Auctioneers hope". Are members of a GLEE club full of "unmitigated joy" ?..😅
REUNE, seen it before in CWs but don't have to like it. 😠. My Utica NY HS was named Thomas R. Proctor (a generous local philanthropist) so all our exams were "proctored"
If Leslie Gore had done a duet instead, the title would have been ..."You don't ____"...ONUS.
Cheaper by the _____ DOESIN
Litgation locale: ____ City....SIOUX
Father of the bride _____ up when he saw the bill for the cake. TIERED
Swear at Mr Hanks...CUSTOM
On to Hump Day.
Easier than yesterdays. PBR was tricky.
I always can't remember Esai vs. Esau.
Great word: TRAIPSES
While on Football, I grew up on Long Island, NY. The Jets offense sucked again. Why do I watch? (Well, the Davis Cup was a great win, though, for Team USA.)
No problems with the puzzle although I do have a problem with the 1893 Supreme Court decision that ruled that a tomato was a vegetable and not a fruit.
Finally a FIR! Thank you CC II and thank you Greg for another Boomerlicious punch hit.
Some fav clue/fill/reviews:
5A Not sure ASTOR would be admitted to the Waldorf-Astoria in that tie.
25A DOES IN? Isn't that more like "OFFS", as in "SLAYS"?
68A Do the Rhode Island Rams play BASEBALL on a BASKETBALL court?
5D I thought A DIN was a loud noise? Oh of course, it's a RACKET! - Tennis jargon.
9A I spotted you without even counting Boomer.
38D I thought the TRAIPSISTS were an order of monks who don't do much talkin'. We visited one of their monastery's once and found that their vow of silence is suspended if they have to run the gift shop that day.
48D RADISHES are a great idea for potato salad. I'm going to try adding them to my next batch.
Cheers,
Bill
Malodorous Manatee @10:01 AM I agree MM. Eating "Sun Sweet" cherry tomatoes fresh off the vine are like poppin' candies.
Thank you Ms. Cetta for a nice ( not french -) CW puzzle, and Boomer for pinch hitting and a very nice explanatory blog. Hope you are doing well, Hope your chemo meds may become more tolerable ... it must be a heroic effort.
You were the center of gravity in that Alum photo. Seems the longetivity of your class is very good. I am a year older, and we are down to 40 percent of our original class strength.
1. When the mouse ran down ....AT ONE
2. Cash and coins in the cookie jar ? ... SPU MONI
3. A golf ball in the 'wrong' place ? .... A LIA
4. What the one armed catcher was missing ... E MIT
5. What George H.W. was called when he didnt read his own lips and raised the kitty for the IRS .... TEX UN
6. when cowboy Slim was run out up, from the mexican border , he said ... AM I GO
7. Friendly way to call our founder, and todays constructor ... SI SI
have a nice day, all.
Hi Y'all! Confusing puzzle for me. Thanks, Catherine.
Thanks, Boomer, for explaining the theme. I was looking at the downs numbered 4, 6, & 10 and there are no VEGGIES in there.
Now I'm hungry for a RADISH. Haven't had one in years.
Sty sound was not Squeal, but SNORTS. We had 4-H hogs several summers & I don't remember snorts. A lot of squeals would send the kids to the pen to see what was wrong.
It is understandable if a proctologist might object to proctoring an entire class exam ....
Hi All!
Thanks Catherine for the quick Tuesday puzzle. Thanks Boomer for subbing for Hahtoolah again.
WO: wrong BOre
ESP: DIANE
Fav: PART's AMIGO SEMI center grid was cute.
//TRAIPSES is a fun word, BobLee
Anyone watching Only Murders in the Building on HULU? New episode drops tonight!!!!
//I can't believe, in 2021!, I have to wait a whole week for the next installment of a show :-)
{A | B+, B}
Lou - AKA Magilla, delete your post and redo sans email!
As TTP mentioned the other day, posting your email with @ is a web-scraper's dream. As far as your Blogger issue, log out and try again using your other account [you may have cross-pollinated your gmail identities; it will be a PITA* to fix things]
I love RADISHes, raw, whole, 1/4-side-peeled, dipped in just a bit of (iodized) salt.
Cute tennis pun, waseeley.
Ray-O: hand-up for reading 'Auctioneers' multiple times.
As always, fun RayOpropisms.
//look out for Vidwan - he's muscling in on your territory :-)
C, Eh! - Just for "U" ;-)
Cheers, -T
*Pain In The A**
Hola!
I tossed this around until all the VEGGIES were in place. The only thing missing was the dressing. It took me a half cup of coffee to finish. Very fast.
My NIECEs and I are going to Redlands this weekend for the annual Believe Walk to raise funds for cancer research. Again this year it will be a virtual walk but we want to join our family whom we haven't seen in two years. I hope to get my booster shot before going.
Thank you, Boomer, for again pinch-hitting. You add to the fun.
Back to my chores: washing and packing.
Enjoy the day, everyone!
MM at 10:10. Loved learning about the Supreme Court and the precedent that the case set leading to New Jersey name it as the state "vegetable".
Fun Tuesday puzzle, Catherine, I too found it easier than yesterday's and enjoyed it! And thank you for helping once again, Boomer--especially with the neat pictures.
I got the VEGGIE theme even before the solution, but didn't register that they were CHOPPED until I came to the reveal. Since my dinners are usually just frozen microwaved dishes, I haven't actually chopped any of these guys for a while, but maybe I'll do some more serious cooking this week.
Nice to see OSCAR Wilde in the puzzle. Speaking of which, NICE summers--those French ETEs, also appear frequently. So do TIARAS. No problem for me--I like seeing some regulars in puzzles every day.
Have a good one, everybody.
Hand up this was easier than Monday and without the Monday Natick crossings. I love VEGGIES. DW makes me a wonderful SALAD every evening. Her SALAD does NOT contain TOMATO or ONION. It does contain: Avocado, CARROT, sweet bell pepper, RADISH, garbanzo beans, sunflower seeds and sometimes cucumber. For me, a really good RADISH is like candy.
MalMan Way interesting about the Supreme Court ruling that a TOMATO is a vegetable! Nix v. Hedden. Apparently, this idiotic ruling has been used as a precedent for other idiotic rulings! Of course, the Supreme Court had ruled in the case of Dred Scott that a Black human being is not a person.
Here is my photo sequence of a GLACIER CHUNK becoming a BERG.
From Yesterday:
Wilbur Charles and CanadianEh Thank you for the kind words about my YARN Bomb photos and your previous knowledge of the phenomenon.
WHEE! Another FIR today, thanks to Catherine's fun puzzle. I had a few WOs easily fixed by perps: ON line/ON ZOOM and SPUMati/SPUMONI (where did that come from?) I like the sound of TRAIPSES. After getting the reveal, I too started looking at the down rows for the CHOPPED VEGGIES as DO did. Then I understood, counted down and looked at across rows, finding them easily. Thanks, Boomer, for being our GLEEful reviewer again today.
On to some not ONEROUS tasks for the day. Thinking of you, Irish Miss, and wishing you well. And hope you all have a pleasant day.
(Wrote this comment early this morning but got busy and forgot to post it.)
Inane & Wilbur -- you had circles? The AcrossLite version did not have bubbles. I coulda figured out the theme easy if it had, but after working crosswords so many years, I shoulda found them without the reveal.
Traipses .... certain words can become, by and with usage alone, dangerously slanted words.
Traipsing, for instance, may immediately imply that the 'performer' is drunk, or slightly tipsy ... as Boomer has also implied in his blog.
I first came across this word when Carol Burnett sued the National Enquirer, and won 1.6 million Dollars, for libel, N Y Times article of March 27, 1981 ...
Please Note:: This is an old NY Times article, and the NYT generally enforces a Pay Firewall, and the article may be blocked out.
Carol sued the National Enquirer, and won a jury case, primarily for having described her as "traipsing" around and spilling drinks, during a party ... she refuted that she never drank alcohol because she was a recovering ex-alcoholic...
At the time, I was absolutely astonished at the rights of Freedom of the Press, versus the individual rights against Libel.
Sorry, My linkage to the article seems defective ..
A fun Tuesday puzzle. Only white-out needed was misspelled Sioux. Thanks for the expo Boomer.
In Re::Regarding the Supreme Court decision in Nix vs.Hedden, as in Wikipedia , where the tomato was described as a vegetable rather than a fruit .... as a main course, rather than as a dessert.
In all fairness... the Court agreed that the tomato was a fruit, however, the classification as a 'vegetable' was done ONLY for the purpose of the Tariff Act of 1883, in light of the fact that the tomato was eaten as a vegetable .... using the ordinary meaning of the word fruit and vegetable rather than its true botanical meaning.
The SCOTUS may have made many errors in its lifetime, but it is not stupid.
First and foremost, I am saddened to read that Irish Miss needs to see an oncologist. We are all pulling for her. Best wished and prayers for a positive outcome.
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I liked this puzzle, Boomer's review, and all your comments.
My earlier post seems to have VANISHED from the page.
I had trouble with the Jumblehints page too. I don't know what's up.
But I will try to reconstruct my page from earlier:
An excellent PZL today from Ms. Cetta, well analyzed for us by our own Boomer!
FIR, an easier finish than yesterday's supposedly EZ Monday XWD.
~ OMK
____________
DR: Only one diagonal - on the near end.
But it is a JACKPOT, an anagram using ALL 15 of the letters!
It is a curious phrase--perhaps referring to a series of unique mental stimuli, each leading to a new creation--maybe a new philosophy, maybe an invention to help mankind.
The phrase?
Here it is...
"IMPREGNANT SOLOS"!
(Make of it what you will...)
Um, OMK - will that DR increase the bounty of soy or CORN (maize)? :-)
Misty: After years of puzzling, ETE & TIARA's are my low-hanging 'vegetables'too; they always help get a toe-hold.
JohnE - IIRC [NOTE: I was only a TEENer(? nope, still don't like it) when the following happened], that ruling gave Reagan the cover to call Ketchup a vegie [You can count on the Wiki :-)] in kids' school lunches.
I recall it was a 'scandal' at the time.
Boy, if that's what we considered a scandal... //no politics.
Cheers, -T
Dear Anon T,
I'm not sure I follow your thought.
Your question about the "bounty" on soy or CORN is maybe based on the overlapping meaning of IMPREGNANT and "fertilizer."
But beyond that, I am stuck. Am I reading into it, or is that your point?
~ OMK
Thank you for helping me straighten out my account. I followed your directions and will now make another test comment and see what happens.
Test after updating account
What is a vegetable? According to WikiPedia: "Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternate definition of the term is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition. It may exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains, but include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses." If you want/need more info, read the article.
>>Roy
OMK - that was the point :-)
Cheers, -T
OK, I’ll go ahead and open the can of worms, since nobody else has: Neither Bush was/is a Texan. H.W. was born in Massachusetts, and W. was born in Connecticut.
The Native Texan
While I might have lived in Texas for a total of 44 years now, and I might consider myself a Texan, I am a born and bred North Carolinian, as any TRUE Texan will quickly remind me. In fact, there are Texans who call anyone not born in Texas a YANKEE! I got into a BIG argument the first time one of them called me a YANKEE! Just sayin’.
All my grandchildren are Texans, though.
TARMAC --- My retirement home away from home, it seems.
It never occurred to me that NEMO backwards was OMEN, but then I only read MOBY DICK once.
Oh, thanks Catherine and Boomer! It was a very nice puzzle, and I saw all of the CHOPPED VEGGIES.
Oh, please don't take my rant as criticism, Catherine. I was just pointing out what we non-TEXANS have to go through at times. Another favorite remark is, "Just because you're wearing jeans and boots doesn't make you a TEXAN!"
Although I was born in PA and lived there 22 years, I consider myself a Jersey Girl, having lived here 61 years.
I am not picky about naming fruits and veggies. I root for the common definitions, rather than the botanical ones.
I am enjoying the last of the summer tomatoes. Today I made grilled cheddar and garden tomato sandwiches.
LEOIII - point well taken but they both ran on that TEXAS Pride platform, they did.
When I (grew-up in IL, Shreveport and did grad-school in OK) first moved to Houston, I met one, ONE!, person that was actually born here. My other pals were from Oklahoma, Louisiana, India, and Algiers.
Ergo, I thought, that most folks in H-Town, esp. those w/o Latino last names*, are not from Texas.
That said, both my daughters are TEXANs. Youngest even was on the high-kick dance-team (with white boots and a cow-girl hat!) for HS football games - that's how TEXAS she is :-)
Cheers, -T
*They didn't jump the border; the border jumped them :-)
-T --- You are correct, but I still run into some who think we non-natives are just a bunch of modern-day carpetbaggers.
I lived in Texas most of two years when I was in my late teens. My friend's grandma never called me by name. I was always, "that little Yankee gal". Grandma's father had been a Confederate soldier. I was from Kansas and the term Yankee startled me because I had more of a mid-west persona and considered Yankees to be from New England and eastern states.
Whew! I have been binge-watching a movie on Netlix called THE COOK FROM CASTOMAR. It is on-going, three nights now and I hope it finishes before I go on my trip although I know my sister in North Carolina has Netflix.
Wishing you all a good night.
Puzzling thoughts:
Late to the party as usual
FIR; as others said, this was very straight-forward with easy fill and a neat reveal. Thanks Catherine, and thanks Boomer for pinch-hitting. I can’t wait until Monday for your next recap! 😉
Dash T: yes, Ms Moe and I are watching the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. Tonight’s was really cool as it helped tie up a few loose ends. Great cast and writing
Prayers to Irish Miss. Does anyone have an update on her condition?
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