Theme: MAKES THE BED (62. Does a daily chore using the elements at the ends of the answers to the starred clues)
17. *Important figure in sports betting: POINT SPREAD.
24. *Party pooper: WET BLANKET.
37. *Record submitted to payroll: TIME SHEET.
53. *Paper for doodling: SCRATCH PAD.
Boomer here.
Sports betting in MN has invaded our casinos. I would not recommend anyone to place a bet on a team called Twins. Personally, I never bet on pro sports. I think the Twins signed Carlos Correa for about $135 Million and his batting average is .135. Happy Monday everyone.
Across:
6. Starting squad: A TEAM. What ever happened to "Howling Mad" Murdock ??
11. Lousy: BAD. Leroy Brown.
14. Three-time WNBA All-Star Quigley: ALLIE. "My pals from the alley would go to see Versalles, and me, I always loved Tony O. Where did they go."
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15. Scrapbook adhesive: PASTE. I use plastic sheets for baseball cards.
16. Deeply regret: RUE. Ms. McClanahan, one of the Golden Girls.
19. Ideological suffix: ISM.
20. Loafer adornment: TASSEL. I seem to remember one on a boarded hat.
21. Isn't honest with: LIES TO. Your nose is going to grow.
23. Cherry bomb's "stem": FUSE. A Bussman product which was replaced by circuit breakers.
27. Twistable cookies: OREOS. Nothing can ever replace these.
29. Sailor's realm: SEA. Golden Vanity sailed on the lowlands, lowlands, Low.
30. "Chicago" actor Richard: GERE.
31. Consequence: RESULT. My result of spinal cord damage could not be avoided.
33. Adapter letters: AC DC. Alternating or Direct Current.
36. Journalist Koppel: TED.
40. Yoga surface: MAT.
43. White part of a citrus rind: PITH. British Khaki funny looking helmet.
44. Marshy ground: MORASS.
48. Guinness who was the first to play Obi-Wan Kenobi: ALEC.
50. "Chicago P.D." extra: COP. I never watch cop shows but I used to watch "Dragnet".
52. Region of ancient Mesopotamia: SUMER. I've never been to Mesopotamia.
57. Pixar film featuring a guitar-playing boy: COCO.
58. Force into action: COMPEL. Okay, DO IT !!
59. Chair for a new parent: ROCKER. I think it's also okay for an OLD parent.
61. Sushi-grade tuna: AHI.
66. Turn bad: ROT. Our weather was lousy all winter.
67. Show to be true: PROVE. You'll have to believe me. I do not have weather-related 20 below zero reports.
68. Mighty mad: IRATE.
69. Sudsy quaff: ALE. I like Canada Dry Ginger ALE.
70. Softens: EASES.
71. Donkeys: ASSES. If I were a Donkey, I do not think I would like being called that.
Down:
2. Debate-ending procedure in the Senate: CLOTURE.
3. False names: ALIASES. Smith and Jones.
4. Wash lightly: RINSE OUT. "Wash Wash Wash the Blue Cheer way, Rinse, Rinse. Rinse the dirt away.
5. Adjusts, as a clock: SETS. There is talk about permanent Daylight Saving Time.
6. Fruit for cider: APPLES. An APPLE a day keeps ....
7. Sticky roofing stuff: TAR. Also on roads and driveways.
8. Language suffix: ESE.
9. In any way: AT ALL.
10. "On the __": NPR show about trends in journalism: MEDIA. Sorry, I do not listen to NPR.
11. Cut of meat used for corned beef: BRISKET. Generally tough.
12. Stark: AUSTERE.
13. Reduced in rank: DEMOTED. The army calls it "busted".
18. Use needle and thread: SEW.
22. U.K. language: ENG. Yeah, but it's a little different than in the good old USA.
23. Word on a gift tag: FOR.
25. Spot for steeped beverages: TEA SHOP.
26. Composer J.S. __: BACH.
28. Lingerie item: SLIP. Icy pratfall.
32. "OMG! Stop talking!": TMI. Shut Up !!
34. FDR or JFK, partywise: DEM. FDR had passed before I was born, but I remember the fine years of President Kennedy.
35. Corporate VIPs: CEOS. Chief Executive officers.
38. Engrave: ETCH. Every one had an Etch A Sketch when we were kids.
39. Folks who are in it for the long haul?: TRUCKERS. We had winds last week that actually blew semi-trailers over on the highway.
40. Lash lengthener: MASCARA.
41. Hand sanitizer ingredient: ALCOHOL. Also a Seagram's ingredient.
42. Wood-eating insect: TERMITE. I have never had wood for dinner. How does it taste?
45. Single-celled creatures: AMOEBAS.
46. Stash away: SECRETE. I try to secrete some cash for a rainy day.
47. "No seats" sign: SRO. Not necessary at Twins games.
49. Lens cover: CAP. Also a head cover.
51. Analyzes grammatically: PARSES.
54. Phoenix suburb: TEMPE. Just West of Mesa.
55. American Red Cross founder Barton: CLARA.
56. Small speck: DOT. Dorothy's Nickname but not Ms. Gale.
60. Seed in some healthy smoothies: CHIA.
63. Bout enders, briefly: KOS. Box score stat Miguel Sano is piling up.
64. Night before: EVE.
65. __ Moines, Iowa: DES. Just south of us. I've been through there a few times.
Boomer
Happy Birthday to Kazie (Kay),
who used to comment on the blog regularly. She still reads our blog and emails me periodically.
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| Kay and her husband Barry on Tamborine Mountain, overlooking Brisbane |
45 comments:
FIRight. It's Monday, it's easy.
I got the theme almost immediately with SPREAD & BLANKET.
When Aladdin wanted to go anywhere
His Magic Carpet would get him there!
And in his dreams
He'd ply time streams
Past or future, his TIME SHEET would fare!
Crosswords are built to pacify the masses.
Keep them busy, and pacify the classes.
As a RESULT,
They won't revolt.
Won't turn on us, to kick us out on our ASSES!
{A-, B.}
I really wondered about " cloture" in place of "closure" but went with it because "sassels" didn't make sense. And I was right! Otherwise, smooth sailing, as is usual for a Monday. FIR, so I'm happy
Good morning!
Went wrong with POINT Setter before the theme became obvious. I like the way the themers were layered with PAD on the bottom, then SHEET, BLANKET, and SPREAD. TEMPE was a gimme -- the folks lived there for about 20 years in retirement. This was a nice Monday romp. Thanx, Lynn and Boomer.
Happy Birthday, Kazie.
FIW Monday! Got careless with the easy puzzle and didn't catch TReCKERS x the unknown SeMER. Also DNK ALLIE, COCO or MEDIA. Erased LIEd TO and acia for CHIA.
One-hit wonders Looking Glass explained:
"Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my love and my lady is the SEA"
I lived in Phoenix, but my mailing address was Glendale, another Phoenix suburb. For those familiar with greater Phoenix, I was near 55th Ave and Pinnacle Peak, kitty-corner to TEMPE.
Thanks to Lynn for the fun, easy puzzle. There's some reason that my favorite was ASSES, but I can't quite put my finger on it. And thanks to Boomer for coming through for us with the fun review, even under duress.
Jinx, I would've thought your favorite would be MORASS.
Are those of us who are old enough to remember the "Blue Cheer" jingle, old enough to have visited Mesopotamia?
Tony, probably not, but they may have visited Tanganyika.
FIR, but i found it a bit crunchy for a Monday puzzle.
Fun and breezy Monday - though a little longing to return to bed! Just got back from a 4 day conference in Indy last evening - so not real excited about jumping into the fray today!
Subgenius thoughts were my exact thoughts on CLOTURE- but left it because TASSEL was for sure.
I had pulp which had to change to PITH- perps forced that. SUMERian was a precursor language for Hebrew - my husband had to learn just a bit about that in seminary. I also had acai before CHIA - because I focused on the smoothie part of the clue and not the seed versus berry part.
Thanks Boomer and Lynn!
HBD to Kazie!
I found comfort(er) in 4:53 today.
Good Morning:
Like Owen, I caught the theme early on, but the reveal was still a surprise. Unexpectedly, on a Monday, there were two unknowns, Sumer and Allie, but perps solved those in short order. Oodles of duos today: Ahi/Sea, Spread/Sheet, Sap/Cap, Ted/Bed, Ese/Eve, Dot/Rot, Scars/Scratch, Cap/Cop, and Bad/Bed. And, to my delight, a mini-mini creature theme with Asses, Amoebas, Termite, and Ahi. Lynn also, literally, brought an A Team (6A): Sea, Tea, Media, Chia, Clara, and Mascara. CSOs to DO (Sea), Moe and Lucina (Tempe), and CC (Tea Shop).
Thanks, Lynn, for a smooth start to the week (where did the month go?) and thanks, Boomer, for the chuckles and commentary. I hope you have a less demanding week ahead.
Have a great day.
Oops, I forgot! Happy Birthday, Kazie, hope it’s special. 🎂🎁🎉🎊
SS @ 8:05 ~ 😆
Good morning. Thank you, Lynn and Boomer.
A nice and easy puzzle to start the week.
Boomer, I've been to Mesopotamia. In Ohio. It's a short drive to Mecca, Ohio. And just a little bit longer of a drive to Damascus, Lisbon, and Calcutta, Ohio. Old stomping grounds of my youth.
I sometimes watch DRAGNET on METV in the early mornings. It's kind of neat to watch the opening scenes showing what the city and the area looked like in the 60s. Then there's always the lecture/speech, when Joe Friday puts some offender in their place.
Happy Birthday, Kazie !
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Lynn and Boomer.
I FIRed and saw the BED theme, but like KS, thought it had just a little crunch for a Monday. But perps gave me the unknowns - ALLIE, SUMER, MEDIA. One inkblot to change the too-shirt Sketch PAD to SCRATCH.
Was the MAT beside the BED an Easter Egg?
Canadian Parliament uses Closure, and I had never heard of CLOTURE (but I was COMPELled by TASSEL. I LIUed to learn that the term is French, but now called closure in UK ENG. Kazie’s land uses guillotine or gag order.
How many clues are there for OREOS?
SECRETE had nothing to do with “making moisture”
Irish Miss has found all the notables already. Thanks for the chuckle d’o re ASSES and MORASS.
Happy Birthday kazie.
Wishing you all a great day.
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's back to BED we go this Monday morning. FIR smoothly and noticed the theme after the first two. Was already thinking about changing the beds today. Coincidence? I had one careless WO at ISh/ISM which was fixed by perps. All in all, a fine Monday offering, Lynn. Thanks.
Boomer, you did it again. A review with plenty of extras. Hope your legs gradually regain feeling. A year after my knee surgery, the remaining numbness is slowly improving. It never affected my walking though, so I sympathize with your situation.
CLOTURE was vaguely familiar from news reports from Congress. And like DO I noticed the proper order of the themers. Nice. And like inanehiker, SUMERian was familiar from the Bible.
Happy Birthday to Kazie today! Have you been able to keep traveling at all, in spite of COVID?
Hope you all have good start to the week!
Boomer sent me sidetracking with the "how does wood taste" comment...
(You never had it for dinner?)
Turns out, it is not just for termites.
I have been aware for years the the inner bark (Cambium layer) in many trees is edible, and has been used as a survival food and flour extender. But I went looking anyway, and discovered that there is one tree that is almost entirely edible!
It is called Moringa...
I know, sounds like something out of a science fiction movie....
While the older growth trunk of the tree may be too woody, everything else, including the roots can be eaten!
You know, for years now, I have been posting cakes for Kazie,
but for some reason, this year Google just does not want to spell her name right..
The puzzle?
Hmm, I am the kind of person that thinks, "oh well, might as well do it now," when it comes to making the bed.
Which is kind of strange, as I procrastinate about everything else...
But they say, if you are have a bad day, just picture this in your mind...
\Musings
-Would I make my bed if I lived alone? Nope!
-Like so many PGA/LPGA golfers, ALLIE seems to be a walking billboard
-LIES TO – My wife cannot tell a LIE!
-Nebraska’s Unicameral set a new record for CLOTURE votes this session
-RINSE OFF didn’t work but we do it for all fruits and vegetables at our home
-A very big and expensive DEMOTION in 2016
-ENG – “In China and Taiwan, controllers and pilots speak Mandarin to Chinese colleagues, and ENGLISH to international pilots. Languages switch back and forth, making it challenging for crews to fly into busy airports when controllers rattle off instructions in both languages. Asian pilots frequently struggle with ENGLISH.”
-We wipe windows with alcohol to make these stick
-HBD to peripatetic Kazie!
Nice Monday CW, thanx, LL. I am definitely getting slower at solving the older I get. 15 to FIR today. Mondays used to be 9 or 10 minutes, years ago. Or maybe I can blame it on CWs getting harder? What does everyone else think? Are CWs more difficult than they used to be? DNK SUMER. W/O ACAI:CHIA. I did not see the gimmick until the reveal. Thanx for the terrific write-up, Boomer.
Husker Gary,
Thank you for the alcohol/suction cup info!
I have a bird feeder stuck to my window that just cannot handle it when the bigger birds land.
I am definitely going to try it!
note! Don't forget to clean the suction cup as well as the surface you want it to stick to...
Puzzling thoughts:
FIR with just two w/o's: WALL FLOWER/WET BLANKET; SCRAP/SCRATCH (I saw TEMPE in 54-down just as I was inking the P)
Speaking of TEMPE, it is the city that "connects" MESA (me) to SCOTTSDALE (Lucinda).
Jinx, neither Margaret nor I am exactly familiar with 55th and Pinnacle Peak, but will check it out
Thanks Lynn and Doug
Today's puzzle theme reminded me of an old haiku (changed the group's name):
A new rock n roll
Group calls themselves "BLANKET SPREAD"
They're a cover band
Although some clues gave me "paws" (hard to hold a pen with them) a fast paced Monday with nary an Inkover. Easy theme...earns a living: "MAKE THE BREAD" ..just kidding MAKES THE BED, a thankless circuitous task that gets repeated daily like the movie "Groundhog Day"...Today it's AMŒBAS not amebas or amebae, or amœbæ. MORASS should have come after ASSES.
"Reminders of past surgeries?" Hospital bills? ALIASES not aliai?. "Wash lightly RINSEOUT...BTW: what's the deal with all the clothing that is tagged "wash separately"? If you actually did that it would take a week to do one load of laundry.
Is the watermelon rind "white stuff" we were warned as kids not to eat also PITH? "WNBA Quigley", who?..(not a very Mondayish clue) "Twistable" OREOS, I only do that now when no one is watching...
SLIP, do women wear them anymore?...Plus I always thought MASCARA (Ital. maschera "mask") was the dark stuff put on eyelids..that ends up kynda looking like a "mask"
"Sticky stuff": SAP, TAR, PASTE..."Endings": ESE, ISM .."Stark": Robb, Sansa, Arya? none fit.
Island group....ATALL
Every Mohel has one....BRISKET.
Castle with the water barrier removed....DEMOTED
Neutered male bovine...AUSTERE
"Yay Me".....IRATE
Chair for an old parent....ROCKER.
Top o' the week to one and all.
Something happened to my post, can't edit...
Woohoo! Great Monday puzzle, many thanks, Lynn. And always love your commentaries on Monday, Boomer, thank you, thank you, for this delightful one. And have a good week coming up.
I almost got this puzzle done perfectly except I had CLOSURE--even though I couldn't figure out how a SASSEL could adorn a loafer. Never heard of CLOTURE--aaarrggh, my only error in an otherwise perfect solving today.
But I loved the MAKING THE BED theme, especially only twenty minutes after I had made my bed.
What would we do without OREOs in a puzzle.
Nice to see TED Koppel and Richard GERE and Johann Sebastian BACH here today.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
C-Moe, if you drive over on that area and are interested, we were in the 5500 block of Parkview Lane. The neighborhood was about 1/3 built out when I left, circa 1991.
Boomer
Have a bowling question. Took the grandkids to a bowling center (not an alley..lol)....the pins were held in place by strings/cables which lifted up the ones that didn't get knocked down. Not the usual sweping pinsetter. Something new for me.
But seemed the cables kept wobbling pins that would have fallen, upright. Or was this just my excuse for bad bowling..🎳
Hola!
Many thanks to Lynn Lampel for a doable Monday puzzle. I'm sorry to say I fell into the SASSEL trap so had to change the S to T for TASSEL. I recall my dad having some of those loafers. Otherwise, the puzzle easily filled with only the unknown ALLIE emerging.
I quit wearing MASCARA many years ago. It always got on my glasses which annoyed me but vanity knows no limits.
TEMPE is immediately south of Scottsdale and abuts Mesa on its eastern border. It is where ASU is located. I believe that 55th Avenue that far north is in Glendale. I have a niece who lives out there but have never visited her there. Our book club meetings are usually on 66th Avenue and Sierra which is definitely Glendale.
Happy birthday, Kazie!
Have a marvelous Monday, everyone!
JiN:
Your old neighborhood is about 40 miles from us. We haven't explored that part of the Phoenix area as yet. Looks pretty posh! Nice neighborhood - at least from the "street view". Are there any hiking areas near there you could suggest or recommend? We are always looking for those ..
Moe
CMoe:
I'll provide one answer for you though you may already know that the greenbelt extends 10 miles north/south and offers unfettered hiking trails. In my younger, stronger days of the past I often used those.
Lucina, we were definitely in Phoneix with our Glendale mailing address. The reason I'm so certain is that I had a little trouble convincing the water customer service folks that we were actually in their service area. Waste Management (trash), US Worst (landline phone) and Arizona Public Service (power) had no such problem taking our money.
C-Moe, a drive to Lake Pleasant makes for a nice afternoon. IIRC there were hiking trails there, and if the saguaro cacti are in bloom it can be just beautiful. Didn't happen every year, but it looks like they are wearing little hats made of daises. Roosevelt Lake is a lot bigger than Lake Pleasant and I'm sure it has trails, but it was too far for me to go unless we had a sailboat race there. (Yes, I was a card-carrying member of the Arizona Yacht Club, which some folks think is as likely as being an admiral in the Swiss navy).
SCARS, eh?
Anybody who reaches this age w/o scars is leading a charmed life. Or has jinxed themselves.
Boomer ~ I've had two spinal surgeries and my legs are still numb.
You know the old saying: "Old age ain't for ...."
A nice enough Monday PZL from Lynn Lempel. But see the Diagonal Report (DR).*
I had to write over TEAROOM to make way for TEA SHOP. (Shouldn't that be SHOPPE?)
So that's where they get PITH! Funny, I never knew.
I'm surprised they could collect enough of it to make all those helmets....
~ OMK
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DR: Yes, we have no diagonals.
We have no diagonals today.
I enjoyed working this nice easy Monday puzzle. The only hiccup was I had SAMAR (as in Samaria) before realizing that TRACKERS was wrong and SACRETE is not a word. I didn't know ALLIE Quigley, which is not surprising because I don't keep up on sports figures, but the perps were fair and strong. TASSEL always makes me think of the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character Katrina Van Tassel. I liked the clue for FUSE. Somehow I remembered the word CLOTURE. A nicely constructed puzzle.
CED, I also have one of those 100-watt Weller soldering guns that you showed a picture of yesterday. It has been a workhorse for several decades. I think I used it when I made my first Heathkit.
Happy birthday Kazie. Good wishes to you all.
Allie also wears #14 for the Sky! Very apropos.
FLN: -T, I still have my Weller 8200 soldering gun. 100/140 watts of power; too much for electronic components but great for soldering PL-259 connectors on RG-58 or RG-8 coax. I also still have my Simpson 260 VOM, which I got for my 12th birthday, along with my first rifle. That was back before Ford introduced the Mustang, and about the same time as Noah built his ark.
After looking at the CW after I finished it, DW shamed me into going up stairs and MAKE THE BED. After being wed for 52 years, you can probably guess my answer.
Hi All!
A fun Monday puzzle -- thanks for the grid, Lynn.
Great up-beat expo, Boomer. An enjoyable way to kick-off the work week.
//Howling Mad Murdock was in a few Star Trek films and still works. The A-TEAM now
WOs: N/A
ESPs & WAGs: ALLIE, CLARA, SUMER | SECRETE | COCO
Fav: On the MEDIA with Brook Gladstone. I listen every week.
CLOTURE is oft in the news when the Senate needs to shut-up and vote.
{A, B}
Nice Moe Ku.
Happy Birthday Kazie! I hope you don't mind sharing this special day with my Eldest.
TTP - DW makes fun of me for watching Dragnet. I think it's calming.
Jinx - I had to look-up the Simpson -- cool.
TokenCreek - Did it start with "Yes" and end with "dear" ? :-)
Gotta run. Play later.
Cheers, -T
Dash T, I'm not outing you because you've confessed to it before. Yes, I too watch C-SPAN on occasion. #CLOTURE.
You guys and your fancy-schmancy soldering tools and multi-meters. My $20 analog Gardner Bender 5 function, 16 range multimeter does just fine at this stage of my life, thank you very much. At least for what I need it for now. Back in the day, it was a very high end Fluke digital. Same for my inexpensive Ungar soldering iron (now Weller). My days of breadboarding are long past.
Did I ever mention the time I designed and built a tunable pulse injector to reinject the horizontal sync signal on the back porch of the color TV signal ? At 453 MHz IIRC. Free (descrambled) cable back in the day. 555 chips were versatile. BTW, what is the statute of limitations on something like that ? :>)
PITH was a strange one on a Monday. Forced it in with perps. Naturally had Peel.
I believe Abraham came from SUMER
Then there was this KoKo
Owen, I'd reverse those grades. I loved #2; I'll bet Anon-T will kick it to an A. Oops, wrong again.
I had accidentally, Chai and finally CHIA
WC (I'll catch up tomorrow)
Nerd alert - You should skip this entire post if you aren't into hardware-level electronics.
I had no idea that the venerable 260 was still being produced. I think mine set my parents back about $65. 'Course Sinclair regular gas was $0.23/gallon and Marlboros were $0.18/pack back then. I thought analog meters were doomed when FET meters made VTVMs obsolete. My go-to is a $20 no-name multimeter (with a $30 set of leads). One thing that the 260 does that the new stuff doesn't is showing a "kick" on the meter when you connect a capacitor as though to check its resistance. The 260 would show low resistance at first as the capacitor started charging, quickly going toward open-circuit as it charged. If it didn't kick (usually in an electrolytic), it was likely bad, and of course if it showed a steady resistance it was for sure bad.
TTP- I bought something like that from a magazine back in the day. For your money you got a PCB and instructions, then you had to source and assemble the components. I think it worked about a month before our cable system changed its scrambling technique. DNK that scrambling was done at the back porch - I always assumed that it was done by monkeying around with the vertical interval, since the scrambled picture seemed to roll.
FIR. I too saw the theme and reveal early, although I did first try to run with MAKE UP… for my bedtime story. It didn’t take long to fix that one.
Thanks, Lynn and Boomer!
If your brisket is tough, it ain’t been cooked properly! Low on temp, long on time! Adolph (that’s Mr. Coors to you) and I have spent a few long nights slaving over briskets.
TTP --- “Perry Mason” is still my MeTV vice. Used to catch both the 0800 and the 2230 showings, but now that I’ve seen most of them, I might just catch one every now and then. (It usually depends on when I finally get here to the Corner.)
Jinx, the cable system I was on in the Youngstown area clipped the trigger on the horizontal sync circuit. Maybe others did it different ways. I do remember later that in the early 80's that there were "black boxes" being marketed in the back pages of the in flight magazines that promised to be able to unscramble signals.
Leo, I've been catching some of the 8 AM Perry Mason episodes lately. I never liked the show back so many years ago, but it has some great story arcs that, as I watch it now, have stood the test of time.
Hi Y'all! Thanks, Lynn & Boomer for an EASY Monday treat & expo.
I hung out in the State Legislature when I was doing newspaper writing long enough to see a CLOTURE occur once. Windy old guy liked the sound of his own voice better than did his peers. Luckily I came in on just the end of it.
Leo, did you put the beer on the BRISKET or in yourself. My aunt gave me a recipe I used to make for a beer baked brisket that everyone always raved about. Very tender.
Happy Birthday, Kazie!
My brother & SIL showed up at my house today. Hadn't seen them since the pandemic began. They looked so old & worn out, it made me sad. He's 5 years younger than I. I can imagine what I looked like to them. They've had several minor surgeries & illnesses despite being vaccinated.
OK...
TTP not only called me out as being one of the Young Turks [Rod Stewart] at The Corner (I'll be 52yro in July). Yes, I watch C-SPAN for fun / nap.
If I can find a Colombo, I'll watch it all the way through.
Speaking of age... Eldest (and hopefully Kazie!) had a fun B-Day.
//Pop mailed her card here on time! His calligraphy & balloon drawings on the envelope is always special.
We had tacos for dinner & tiramisu for the "HBD To You" song.
//and, dumb-ASS me, said Youngest's name 'cuz I was looking at her antics while singing. Giggles ensued at my expense. And DW got all of it on her iThing; I'll never live this down.
In my ute, cable channel blockers were band-pass filters on the pole in the alleyway (cable lines were just below phone lines and far enough from 3 phase to not die).
The bullet connectors would find their way over the fence only to be hit by Pop's mower. But, we'd have HBO & MTV for a spell.
//TTP - the BBC's Tele police have no statutes of limitations! :-)
I think we're both in the clear.
You could also use telephone wire to hop off the back of one TV to others in the house. I also hooked it up to the 300OHM lead on my stereo to get K-SHE 95 out of St. Louis.
All the talk about AZ's cacti has me wanting to go. When is the best time so see the flowers? Y'all know I love these these.
I expected D-O to pipe-in but LeoIII nailed it.
If your BRISKET is tough, you need a new joint. I take every business mate out-of-towner to Luling City Market.
When I was working with Thomson Reuters folks from MN, I heard one on the phone telling his wife, "No, really they fed us on paper. It was meat on paper and a bowl of potato salad."
I fell out of my cubicle laughing.
Cheers, -T
Didn't refresh b/f Posting say...
Lovely to read you PK. You still have that recipe for BRISKET to share?
Sorry to read about your BRO but I'm sure he's stronger for the journey - as are you.
//You're always a hoot to read!
Cheers, -T
CED - thanks for the moringa link! Interesting that the tree can have so many nutrients.
AnonT:
Now is usually the best time to catch blooming cacti, however, we haven't had much rain so I'm not sure how much blooming will happen. In the high country the blooms will appear in another month or so.
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