Theme: Isn't it Obvious?
17. "Careful now": EASY DOES IT.
27. Nursery rhyme guy who met a pieman: SIMPLE SIMON.
44. Mennonites, e.g.: PLAIN PEOPLE.
60. Fair-weather forecast: CLEAR SKIES.
Boomer here, happy to blog a puzzle from our own Kelly Clark.
I wish bowling and golf were easy and simple these days. I had a talk with my oncologist last week and he told me to put some weight back on. Next time I'll bring my bowling ball to the scale.
Across:
5. Lucy's pal on "I Love Lucy": ETHEL. Mrs. Mertz
10. Price to pay: COST. The VA is very lenient on prescriptions.
14. Harvest: REAP.
15. Circle or polygon: SHAPE. I lost 4 more pounds. If I stand sideways can you still see me??
16. Sailor's hailing call: AHOY.
19. Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac: MICK. I spoke about Mr. Mantle (Number 311) last week.
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20. Sitcom star: ACTOR.
21. Astronaut's home in orbit: Abbr.: ISS. The International Space Station. The Moonshot Artemis is still in Florida.
22. Said something: SPOKE.
23. Quality that keeps wallflowers by the wall: SHYNESS.
25. "Yay, the weekend!" letters: TGIF. My blog, TGIM!
32. Miss, as a turn while driving: GO PAST. This happened to me last week. Scared the heck out of C.C.
36. __ and haw: HEM.
37. Short on manners: RUDE. Many political ads for the coming elections.
38. Togetherness: UNITY.
39. "Mayday!" letters: SOS. Used to mean save our ship. Now it's a steel wool pad.
40. Small, in French: PETIT.
41. "__ we forget": LEST. I'm not quite old enough to remember Pearl Harbor.
42. Hall of Fame slugger Mel: OTT. Played for the New York Giants. Hit 511 home runs.
43. "Full House" twins: OLSENS.
47. __ Modern: London art gallery: TATE.
48. Uses for support: LEANS ON. "Lean on me, when you're not strong".
53. Bicker: ARGUE. Big League Managers job.
56. Post's opposite: PRE.
58. Prom crown: TIARA. Lotsa gems.
59. __ for thought: FOOD. I think I'll eat!
62. Part to play: ROLE. I was Noye. (Noah)
63. V-formation flyers: GEESE. They will be heading south soon.
64. Nautical speed unit: KNOT.
65. __ and ends: ODDS. I like to play the ODDS at craps.
66. Tropical getaways: ISLES. Not tropical but Minneapolis Lake of the Isles fits.
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67. "The __-bitsy spider ... ": ITSY.
Down:
2. Fuzzy fruit: PEACH. But a pit in the center.
3. British meat pie: PASTY. Must be Tasty to be a PASTY
4. Secretly watch: SPY ON.
5. Spanish "that": ESO.
6. Belief in one god: THEISM. I believe in God but I never heard of THEISM?
7. Avocado variety: HASS. Dark green, rich and creamy!
8. Apostolic messages in the New Testament: EPISTLES. In the Bible.
9. Give permission to: LET.
10. Places for telling ghost stories and roasting marshmallows: CAMPFIRES. Delicious! The
marshmallows, not the fire.
11. Cleveland's state: OHIO. Home of the Guardians. The Indians got scalped.
12. __ puppet: SOCK.
13. Youngster: TYKE.
18. Like garb for a gala: DRESSY. Our Glee Club had tuxes.
22. Bro kin: SIS. I have three.
24. "Park it!": SIT.
26. Precious stone: GEM.
28. Pinterest posting: PHOTO. Fun to put appropriate photos out here.
29. Volume-off button: MUTE.
30. Norse god of war: ODIN. War God. I don't think we pay much attention to him.
31. Brooklyn NBA team: NETS. New York gets the NETS and the METS.
32. Big swallow: GULP.
33. Turow memoir about first-year law students: ONE L.
34. Italian city with a leaning tower: PISA. Some restaurants call themselves the Leaning Tower of Pizza.
35. States of mind: ATTITUDES.
39. Church towers: STEEPLES. Open the doors and see all the peoples.
40. Kilt features: PLEATS.
42. Decide to leave, with "out": OPT. Not yet - a few clues to go.
43. The Grand __ Opry: OLE. The guy in many Norwegian chuckles with Sven.
45. "Go jump in the loch!": NAE.
46. Satisfy: PLEASE.
49. Poet Giovanni: NIKKI.
50. Canonized one: SAINT.
51. Cookies in some pie crusts: OREOS. Chocolate chip are the best, but Oreos are pretty good too.
52. Really, really bad: NASTY.
53. Hairdo that may be maintained with a pick: AFRO. Amazing how some ballplayers get a hat on.
54. Crucifix: ROOD.
55. Top prize at the Olympics: GOLD. Great collectors item!
57. Rod and __: REEL. Many are used here in our Land of 10,000 lakes.
60. High-tech SFX: CGI.
61. Low-__: like fuzzy graphics: RES.
Boomer
Notes from C.C.:
1) Great to see you back, Kelly!
2) The
kids' bowling season started again. Boomer went to Texa-Tonka last
Thursday to cheer the kids up. He won't be able to do more coaching this
year due to his health.
3) Happy birthday to dear Steve, who guided us for many years on Thursdays. Steve is now with the Universal Pictures. I'm very lucky to still have him as a good friend.
FIRight. It's Monday.
ReplyDeleteTwo new l'icks, plus a blast from the past.
SIMPLE SIMON
He was a SHY one,
Told his crew
What to do
So he could simply SPY ON!
ETHEL thought she could REAP the COST
Of a dress that was SHAPED like a cross
Folks who were RUDE
Called it a ROOD,
But their thought didn't cost her a loss!
A favorite of mine from July 19, 2019:
At Wal*Mart, there wasn't a smile,
As GUS pitched his tent on the tile.
He was by healing potions
Of skin creams and lotions --
Doc had sent him to a topical AISLE!
{B, A-, A++.}
Quite a fitting theme. Achieved a solve time of under 4 minutes. Nice clue for NAE.
ReplyDeleteNETS - I tend to mix up the JETS and METS but I know this is an NBA team... baskets have nets.
DNK NIKKI and I was expecting an Italian-sounding last name for Giovanni ____. Nope, Giovanni is a last name here.
I thought the CGI clue was plain wrong! But no, SFX are special effects, silly me. I guess I'm more used to the gaming meaning of SFX which is specifically "SOUND effects".
FIR in my usual Monday speed of 13. Very nice CW, but again a lot of proper names. Fortunately they were (for a change) ones I knew, except NIKKI, which perped easy enough. Only W/O PLAIDS:PLEATS. Thanx for the fun start to the week, KC. And thanx too for the nice write-up, Boomer. I see my internist next week, and I’ll get a lecture about needing to LOSE weight. I was glad to see the Dolphins play well, since all my other favorite teams, the Badgers, the Gators and especially the Packers all sucked canal water.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteOverslept this morning. Not a problem. Not sure why I normally get up so early. Enjoyed Kelly's puzzle. Noticed the RUDE/ROOD pairing. Noticed the lack of Wite-Out. Even noticed the theme. Thanx for leading the band, Boomer. (Keep on keepin' on!)
I know I mentioned Pearl Harbor in the "Lest we forget" clue, Of course I will NEVER forget the tragedies of September 11, 2001. Of course, Minneapolis has some tall buildings and I had fear of an attack. I left work that day, drove home to pick up C.C. then drove out to farm country west of the city. Call me a name, but I had no idea what was going on in New York and I will never forget. Many innocent people died that day.
ReplyDeleteFIR, but erased formal for DRESSY and apostles EPISTLES (after I re-read the clue). Had to wait out the e/O OPTion at ESO and OLSENS.
ReplyDeleteThe price you pay isn't usually the COST, unless the seller or the merchandise are distressed. I guess the price you pay is the same as YOUR cost, but I think the clue is weak.
TATE has ben getting a lot of "air time" in the Corner lately.
KNOT = nautical mile per hour. MPH and KPH are tied to arbitrary units of distance. A nautical mile is one minute of latitude.
My favorite rendition of ITSY-Bitsy Spider.
Thanks to Kelly for the SIMPLE Monday puzzle, and to Boomer for the humor. Hang in there, pal.
The meter (metre) was originally defined to be one-ten millionth (10,000 km) of the distance from the equator to the north pole passing through Paris, France. In 2019, the definition was changed to:
ReplyDeleteThe metre, symbol m, is the SI unit of length. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299792458 when expressed in the unit m⋅s−1, where the second is defined in terms of the cesium frequency ΔνCs.
FiR, but it is Monday. Never heard of hass, but that's what perps are for.
ReplyDeleteI finished this patent puzzle in under 4 also.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the poet, and struggled to spell "epistles."
Seemed like more words started with "O" than in a usual puzzle. Ohio, Odin, odds, Olsens, Ott, One L, ole, and of course, Oreos.
Isn't "Monotheism" the belief in only one god/God? Theism being the belief in a god/God or gods/Gods?
ReplyDeleteNothing more embarasing than a Monday FIW, albeit for one letter.. for a WAG for "astronauts home" I could only come up with ISS for International Space Station which gave me HASS for "avocado variety" which turned to be correct.😊.. but the theme was not SIMPLE, PLAIN, CLEAR, or EASY for me at least.
I guessed it was prolly not Mac "Fleetwood" (Mick is close)😊. Shari Lewis's Lamb Chop one of the most famous SOCK puppets in memory.
IMHO..Unless the clue meant "belief in a god" the answer should be monotheism and...
Once again ODIN is not the Norse god of war "Týr is the Norse god of war" Odin is the king of the gods in Norse mythology. Shouldn't editors be correcting errors and not just changing clues and already appropriate answers to something that better suits their fancy. 🧐.
Rant finitur
Last night I watched the movie "Thor: Love and Thunder" (his official name is Thor ODINson) on the Disney channel, a combo of adventure and silliness. (and the OLSENS shoulda been OLSDATTERS😁. )
Avian fact: When geese fly in a V formation why is one arm of the V shorter?...Answer...Fewer geese on that side (put you in a "fowl humor"? 😅)...NIKKI Giovanni or Giovanni NIKKI? Who?
Cleveland's state? (confusion was waaay too long.😆)
Knew ONEL from an old puzzle. Still don't get it. OREOS in a pie crust? such a waste. (Eat the cookies while you use crushed graham crackers instead). Did the TATE museum pay for advertising by getting inserts into LAT CW clue/answers. This is the third time in recent memory.
"Smells LIke Teen Spirit" is a song based on a _____ product....MENNONITE
Regrettable cross...RUDE ROOD
Overuse of an English article...THEISM
Have a great day.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis was a nice, easy breezy start to the week as evidenced by the theme. No stumbles and only one unknown, Nikki, which doesn’t look Italian, but apparently is. What say you, Ray O? The minimal use of proper names was refreshing. As usual, Nae evokes thoughts of Wilbur.
Thanks, Kelly, for a simple, yet satisfying solve and thanks, Boomer, for the chuckles and commentary. Hope you have a restful week, free from appointments.
Owen, loved all three of your poems!
Happy Birthday to Steve and best wishes for many more. 🎂🎁🎈🎉🎊 I miss hearing about your culinary anecdotes and travel adventures.
Have a great day.
IM: originally thought the name was Giovanni NIKKI , since there is no letter K in the Italian alphabet that would be a strange last name. 🤔
ReplyDeleteNice straightforward puzzle - good start to the week.
ReplyDeleteI had PLEATS over Plaids on the kilt because I already had PLAIN PEOPLE filled so knew the third letter would be an "E". I hadn't heard of that term for the Mennonites - though there are many Mennonite communities around where I live. I have heard of PLAINS people which are indigenous tribes across the Great Plains like the Navajo.
Thanks Boomer for the fun blog and Kelly for the puzzle
Belated HBD to HG yesterday- too busy to post yesterday and to Steve today!
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Kelly and Boomer.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time and saw the CLEAR theme, but had a couple of silly inkblots. I’ll blame it on recovery mode that I am in.
Blue SKIES would not fit. CLEAR did. That C made me think of CEL. Perps soon gave me CGI.
Spelling RES as Rez held up ISLES.
Hand up for NIKKI requiring perps.
Another hand up for noting ROOD/RUDE.
I also noted GO PAST and PASTY.
LIKE Ray-o, I wanted Graham Crackers for that crust, but I couldn’t cram it into the pie plate.
We had a religious sub-theme in the Downs with EPISTLES, THEISM (I agree the clue calls for Monotheism), STEEPLES and ROOD.
Belated Happy Birthday to HuskerG.
Happy Birthday Steve.
Wishing you all a great day.
Musings
ReplyDelete-I was called to sub after school had already started and I made it after first period. When I subbed Friday, my friend wished me a PRE-Happy Birthday. Today she wished me a POST-Happy Birthday.
-Unlike online solving, my pencil does not contain a timing device but I sailed right through
-ETHEL – “Take that you millennial constructors!” :-)
-Mick has a new enterprise in paradise
-GO PAST – I missed a turnoff on a 5-lane freeway in K.C. at rush hour.
-Yes, Ray, frequent cwd visitor, Shari Lewis, had a SOCK puppet named LAMB CHOP in her act.
-The ISS travels 17,500 mph which is 15,200 KNOTS/hr
-Boomer – You can take the bowling lanes out of the boy, but…
-HBD, Steve. I miss your postings.
Very appropriately this was an easy, simple puzzle.
ReplyDelete"No, Nikki Giovanni is not Italian. She is an African American woman and an award-winning poet. Like many African Americans in the United States, her last name is not related to her ancestry. It may come from the last name of a slave owner who possessed an ancestor, or it may be a name taken upon an ancestor's freedom."
Wish our geese would fly south. "Roughly 40 years ago, Canada geese birds were almost exclusively a migrant species in New Jersey. Federal and state protections, landscape changes and a warmer climate and helped boost the number of resident birds from about 30,000 in 1992 to more than 100,000 by 2000, state records show." These foul fowl foul our parks, sidewalks and ball fields.
I love British and Scottish pasties, especially those made in their countries of origin. In Scotland we bought them first thing in the morning for our hiking lunches. BTW Pasty does not rhyme with tasty. The first syllable is pronounced like past.
Those of us raised in PA have known about the PLAIN Mennonite and Amish people all our lives. There was a musical about the PA Dutch called "Plain and Fancy." Our family is not the Plain Dutch who wear plain clothing and many of whom lead simpler lives. We are the "fancy" Dutch who wear modern clothing and lead modern lives and have mostly assimilated these days. Most fancy Dutch were Lutheran or German Reformed.
Happy birthday, Gary. I enjoy your blogs. Happy birthday, Steve.
Yellowrocks: you beat me to an explanation of Nikki Giovanni. In the 80’s I was teaching a second semester college English class and taught one of NG’s stunning poems about female empowerment and a mild mannered young Black man in the class confessed that when his wife read the poem to him, he came close to kicking the TV screen. That was a powerful poem. I wish she were better known.
ReplyDeleteNice and easy does it puzzle. A comfortable Monday.
My hardest puzzle today was
ReplyDelete"What was Steve's moniker to put on his cake?"
(Most people here have an alternate Avatar name)
"Oh, that Steve..."
Happy Birthday Steve!
Universal pictures? I would have thought United Airlines! He was always flying somewhere between postings...
Todays silly puzzle link was even easier, I stole it from Israel Padilla...
That NG poem is called “Ego Tripping”
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no. Gary, you old landlubber you - KNOTs, not KNOTs/Hr. But you knew that.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I put pasties in my mouth, the bouncer came over and told me to finish my drink, tip the dancer, leave the premises, and never come back. (It would have been a good story, even had it been true.)
FIR. Thanks for the fun puzzle, Kelly! Perfect for a Monday!
ReplyDeleteYrocks wrote, "BTW Pasty does not rhyme with tasty. The first syllable is pronounced like past."
I'll add that HASS avocado does not rhyme with "boss". It is rhymes with pass.
I always thought it was a HAAS avocado. Apparently not, though you can find both spellings online.
ReplyDeleteDelightful, easy Monday puzzle, thank you for this fun treat, Kelly. And always love your Monday commentary Boomer, and nice to get all those cool pictures of you too.
ReplyDeleteHad a great time with this puzzle and my only error was not getting HASS.
Hard not to love a puzzle starting with an ACTOR like the on who played the ROLE of ETHEL with Lucy. Acting isn't EASY, I'm sure, and doesn't work well with SHYNESS. Nope, there are lots of words that must be SPOKEn, and you can't just stay MUTE. It requires a strong ATTITUDE to be good enough to win a GOLD medal and become a star and get to wear a TIARA.
Also nice to find a bit of FOOD in this puzzle, starting with that PEACH right on top, followed by some OREOS down below. Can you roast GEESE at a CAMP FIRE? Surely not.
I'd best stop before my comments become any ODDer. Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteMonday EASY and finished quickly. I don't time myself but I'm sure it was under five minutes. My pen just flew! Thank you, Kelly Clark and Boomer!
ESO, of course is my favorite fill though I always have to wait for the ending not knowing whether it will be a or o.
I agree that the clue for 6D should be simply "belief in god" and "one god" is monotheism.
Mmmm, I love avocados whether HASS or any other variety.
One of my friends gave me a plaque with a picture of SAINT Lucy, my patron SAINT. She was martyred in 304 A.D.
Dayton, OHIO is the home of the Community of nuns to which I belonged in the long ago past.
Amusing poems, Owen!
Have a marvelous Monday, everyone!
Edward in Los Angeles here.
ReplyDeleteThird time in the past week “TATE” , my grand-nephew has shown up in a puzzle!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Boomer, for the cool write-up and everyone for solving and commenting. My tough moment was the HASS/ISS crossing, but FIR!
Yes, THEISM is a belief in God or gods...monotheism is the doctrine of only one God.
Thanks again!
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteFIW
Belated Happy Birthday to HG - guessing you got a birthday present, of sorts, as a Nebraska Cornhusker fan with the firing of their head coach
I know of HASS/HAAS avocados as they are EASilY available here; but I always thought of the name (HASS or HAAS) as a "brand" rather than a variety - learning lesson. For those who are curious, the current price for 3 avocados at a local produce market was $0.99
My passport indicates that I was born somewhere nearby Cleveland OHIO
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kelly for the puzzle - piece of cake!
Cute that your own puzzle tripped you up a bit. But I get it. From construction to editing to finally seeing it the paper, much to forget :-)
Great pictures of you back at the lanes, Boomer. The puzzle offers OREOS to get you back in bowling-SHAPE ;-)
WOs: N/A
ESPs: HASS, NIKKI
Fav: GULPs clue. I was thinking of the bird and wondered African or European? [Python]
I agree w/ WEES - monoTHEISM as clued.
FLN - Happy Belated Birthday, HG! {B+}
{B, B+, A}
A big HBD to you too, Steve. Stop by once in a while - we miss you.
Learning moment - there are avocado varieties. Unlike for apples, H.E.B. (our local grocer) has one big bin of avocados.
Speaking of avocados... Anyone ever see Bill Maher in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death? [Trailer].
If not, don't bother... I saw it so you don't have to ;-)
LOL PASTies, Jinx.
Gotta run. Y'all have a great afternoon.
Cheers, -T
Avocado PSA
ReplyDelete1) if you have a lot of hard avocados, leave them with your tomato's/bananas etc.
the ethylene gas given off by these fruits will speed ripening.
The minute an avocado skin begins to give a little to slight pressure, separate it out and put it in the fridge. This slows ripening, and you may actually be able to eat it before it turns black.
2) if you want to grow an avocado tree from your avocado seed, don't expect to be able to eat the fruit in ten years.
avocado does not grow true from seed. (11:30)
Short explanation: haas avocados are grown grafted cuttings from one avocado tree that produced tasty fruit a couple of hundred years ago. Every tasty avocado since then was grown from a cutting that came from "that" tree...
(Believe it or not...)
Hello, happy Monday😀
ReplyDeleteEasy puzzle for the most part, though I dislike proper names (I knew a few). I'm also not a fan of museum names. Like "__ museum in Berlin". Those really end my momentum. Do people learn those names by actually travelling there? I mean, assuming most people are not art enthusiasts/connoisseurs the only other way to memorize museums might be the trauma from older puzzles. How do you guys do it? 🤔
Anonymous @4AM - I also thought SFX was Sound Effects. I was stuck there for a long time.
CrossEyedDave - I'm glad to supply silly stuff 😎
-Israel
Crossword Humor
A fine Mon puz, from Ms Clark, done up by the Boomer.
ReplyDeleteI AM NOT ALONE. Seems quite a crowd today who did not know HASS (Der HAß) had anything to do with avocados. The word is German for "Hate," so not a particularly appealing name for a food item.
My wife might agree, as she is hardly fond of the thing. She does not respond with anything like today's DR (see footnote, below).
(Psst! Keep guacamole away from that woman at table four!)
~ OMK
____________
DR: Three diags, all on the far side.
The main diagonal offers and appreciative anagram (12 of 15 letters):
"OO, APPETITE OI!"
I liked this puzzle. Perps helped with any names I didn't know and whether it would be ESO or ESA. Later today I will research the difference between a THEIST and a Deist.
ReplyDeleteFill that I especially liked include SHAPE, SHYNESS, GO PAST, LEANS ON, EPISTLES, CAMPFIRES, DRESSY, ATTITUDES, STEEPLES, PLEATS, and PLEASE. These are real good ole crossword words.
Clues that I especially liked include:
"Nursery rhyme guy who met a pieman"
"Quality that keeps wallflowers by the wall"
"Miss, as a turn while driving"
"Fuzzy fruit"
and
"Go jump in the loch!"
I would really like to give Kelly Clark credit for them.
Clues I especially didn't like include:
"Belief in one god"
and
"Norse god of war"
for the reasons mentioned above.
Happy birthday greetings to Steve, and good wishes to you all.
ReplyDeleteNice EASY puzzle but it was not SIMPLE, PLAIN nor necessarily CLEAR in all cases. However, it was enjoyable.
I didn't know some of the names, but perps were helpful.
I have enjoyed the PEACHes (plus all the other fruit) that we have gotten at the Amish farm market this year. But alas, they are no longer available here due to the dry weather which shortened the growing season. However corn is still available for another week or two.
I hope everyone had a great day today.
Misty, what you've been doing here lately must be SIMPLE, compared to your wonderful daily poems over at Jumble Hints, Wordle Brags, and Jigsaw Puzzles, where I imagine you got the idea.
ReplyDeleteMore HASS avocado info:
ReplyDeleteHASS avocados have a higher oil percentage (usually around 18 percent) making the texture more creamy, and is therefore considered as the preferred variety. Indian avocados on the other hand have a lower oil percentage (around 12 percent) making the texture slightly less creamy but a little more nutty in flavour [fresh india organics dot com]
The HASS avocado is a variety of avocado with dark green, bumpy skin. It was first grown in La Habra Heights, and sold by Southern California mail carrier and amateur horticulturist Rudolph Hass, who also gave it his name. First planted in 1926; patented in 1935. The Hass avocado is a large-sized fruit weighing 200 to 300 grams [wikipedia]
Mexico is the top avocado producing country in the world. The total avocado production area is around 415,520 acres, which produces 1.52 million metric tons every year. The majority of the avocados in Mexico, 86%, are grown in the following states: Puebla, Morelos, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Mexico [world atlas dot com]
Still 3 for 99 cents today ...
BTW, I make a pretty mean guacamole, if I do say so myself ...
Thanx, Chairman Moe, @6:06, for all that research on HASS avocados!
ReplyDeleteThat's what we mean when we claim we get so much of our knowledge doing crosswords.
Still & all, I feel sorry for that fellow, Rudolph (or Rudolf?) Haß, for having to bear such an unpleasant surname. I wonder if he took perverse pleasure in bestowing the name on things he came across, or discovered, or created. Or, in this case, delivered mail to.
I gather, from your notes, that he did not develop, or hybridize, the HASS avocado himself, but came across it (and perhaps sold some?) along his postal route.
Most of us are content to pass our names along to our children, but here we have a mailman using his to name a fruit!
Maybe he is setting an example for the rest of us to follow, spreading our names (like Johnny Appleseed, Luther Burbank, & Rudy Hass) as a kind of whitewashed immortality.
Incidentally, I have discovered a kind of double knot I use to tie my sneakers; I am going to dub it "Keith." Will it take its place alongside the Bowline, Square, and--honor of honors--the Granny?
~ OMK
Hi Y'all! Thank you, Kelly Clark, for a most enjoyable puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for a great expo.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Steve!
Never bought an avocado that wasn't already made into guacamole.
Odin was the king of the Norse gods. Tyr was the god of war
ReplyDeleteOMK @ 6:50
ReplyDeleteIf I can have a form of poetry named for me (Moe-ku), I don't see why you can't have a knot named for you! And BTW, I am happy to know that you can still tie a double knot on your sneakers. Glad to hear that you haven't had to use velcro to fasten them! ;^)
BTW Keith, I've decided to call what I do here, and several of us do at JHWB&JP, "seed poetry". L'icks I'll reserve for 5-line AABBA verses. I'm undecided whether over there should end with JIGSAW PUZZLES or JIGSAW LINKS.
ReplyDeleteMoving from Sun City meant giving up our PEACH tree that grew the best peaches I've ever eaten. One Spring the tree got PEACH Napped. Somebody came by and cleaned it out. They must have CASED* it because they had just ripened to perfection.
ReplyDeleteWe did save cuttings and hope to continue the tradition.
THEISM Or Deist was the approach of our founding fathers like GW and TJ. No religion just a benevolent deity.
They would've referred to monotheism as a religion which had but one god like Judaism or Islam.
Catholicism was more complicated
WC