Theme: "Place Setting" - Each theme entry is literally rephrased as if it's a "place".
23A. Park place?: COMMUTER LOT.
25A. Busy place?: BEE COLONY.
39A. First place?: GARDEN OF EDEN.
73A. Hard place?: GRAVEL PIT.
107A. Private place?: MILITARY BASE.
124A. Last place?: SHOE STORE.
126A. Remote place?: SLEEPER SOFA.
38D. Safe place?: BANK VAULT.
54D. Sesame place?: BAGEL SHOP.
Ha, no theme clue change. I'm getting better :-)
COMMUTER LOT & MILITARY BASE are Patti's suggestions. Boomer and I started the brainstorming with MOUNT KILIMANJARO 16 [High place?].
Patti felt it was arbitrary, since it could be any mountain. So, go general if you have similar ideas.
This is the last puzzle Boomer and I made together. These days, he only has enough energy for his Monday blog.
Across:
6. "Get outta here!": SCAT.
10. Box office receipts: GATE.
14. People with all-access passes: VIPS. Guess how many 4-letter entries in this grid?
18. Short and sweet: BRIEF.
19. Head lights?: HALOS. Also 88. Surrounding vibe: AURA.
21. "Really?": IT IS.
22. Taquería freebie: AGUA.
27. Patriotic chant: USA USA. We attended the Solheim Cup in Edin a while ago. Very patriotic crowd.
28. Hangout for hog lovers: BIKER BAR. Also 34. They could use a welcome sight: SORE EYES. I like both fill.
30. Shots on the green: PUTTS. Also 69. Duffer's do-over: MULLIGAN.
31. Cost of living?: RENT.
33. To be, in Marseilles: ETRE. Gluey.
36. Hailed wheels: CABS.
42. Bother: ADO.
43. "Barefoot Contessa" host Garten: INA.
44. List that may drop down or pop up: MENU.
45. __ West-Allen: "The Flash" character: NORA.
46. Sunflower part: STEM.
48. Semi unit: TON.
49. Beginning stage: ONSET.
51. The Vitamin Shoppe rival: GNC.
53. Many Mecca residents: ARABS.
56. Calligrapher's container: INK POT. We used to bring this to school for Chinese calligraphy. Abacus too. So ancient.
58. Aria, e.g.: SOLO.
61. Dress seen on Indian runways: SARI. Pretty.
63. Marathon, e.g.: RACE.
65. Vice __: VERSA.
67. Precious rocks: GEMS.
71. Words of empathy: I CARE.
76. Chemically inactive: INERT.
77. Quivers in fear: SHUDDERS. to think.
79. Composer Stravinsky: IGOR.
80. Eye shade: HAZEL.
82. Hindu spring festival: HOLI.
83. Five-star review: RAVE.
85. Mil. truant: AWOL.
87. Volkswagen sedan: PASSAT.
90. In __: before birth: UTERO.
92. Faux __: PAS.
94. Reason for celeb damage control: BAD PR. Also 115. Promo pro: AD REP.
96. Choice on a color chart: HUE.
97. Like a play about a play: META.
99. Often-ignored email: SPAM.
102. Not so hot: MILD.
103. "For You" singer Rita: ORA. Married to Taika Waititi.
104. "__ about that!": HOW.
110. Some PwC employees: CPAS. PricewaterhouseCoopers.
111. League for Guardians and Angels: AMERICAN. Hi there Janice!
113. __-Alt-Del: CTRL.
114. Go a few rounds: SPAR.
116. Closer's goal: SALES.
117. Wasn't honest: MADE IT UP.
120. Translator's challenges: IDIOMS.
128. Girl: LASS.
129. One with star power: IDOL.
130. Thompson of "Westworld": TESSA.
131. Director Coen: ETHAN. Going solo now.
132. Where el sol rises: ESTE.
133. Colorful salamander: NEWT.
134. Put into storage: STOW.
135. Entertainer's crew: POSSE.
Down:
2. God with wings: EROS.
3. Peru's largest city: LIMA.
4. Madagascar primates: LEMURS.
5. Functional: OF USE.
6. __ shed: SHE.
7. Pasta or bread, e.g., for short: CARB. I used to have the upper left one for breakfast. Youtiao.
8. In a partnership: ALLIED.
9. Rested a while: TOOK TEN.
10. Disco family name: GIBB. The Bee Gees.
11. Totally relaxed: AT EASE.
12. Steering system parts: TIE RODS.
13. Key hit in panic: ESC.
14. Hold in high regard: VALUE.
15. Successful prankster's cry: I GOT YA.
16. Gave up, in a way: PUNTED. I watched a little bit of Vikings' game last Sunday. Very confusing.
17. States as fact: SAYS SO.
20. Camper's fuel: STERNO.
24. Digressions: TANGENTS.
26. Doubleheader half: OPENER.
29. Corp. shuffling: REORG.
32. Catches some rays: TANS.
35. Target field: RETAIL. This clue probably does not mean much to those who don't know Target Field.
36. __ Field: Mets ballpark: CITI.
37. Unknown author, for short: ANON.
40. Bitterly regrets: RUES.
41. Support group?: FANS.
44. Secured in a slip: MOORED.
47. "Semper Fidelis" group: MARINES.
50. Lady Justice's garb: TOGA.
52. Sleeveless top, briefly: CAMI.
55. Permanent mark: SCAR.
57. Business trip allowance: PER DIEM.
59. Stubbs of the Four Tops: LEVI. Patti's clue. Learning moment for me.
60. Roar __ Roar: "Monsters University" frat: OMEGA. Patti's clue also. Another learning moment for me.
62. Negga of "Passing": RUTH.
64. Med. specialty: ENT.
66. Taj Mahal city: AGRA.
68. __ food movement: SLOW.
70. Komodo dragon, e.g.: LIZARD.
71. "Thereabouts": ISH.
72. Jay of "The Green Hornet": CHOU. Taiwanese. His CHOU is the same as my Zhou.
74. Answer an invite: RSVP.
75. "No __!": "Sure thing!": PROB.
78. Steamy: EROTIC.
81. Baked dessert: APPLE PIE. 98. 81-Down order: A LA MODE.
84. All-Star side: EAST.
86. Tibetan priest: LAMA.
89. Tazo products: TEAS.
91. Careless: REMISS.
93. Setting of the Sandra Bullock film "Gravity": SPACE.
95. Talk trash about: DISS.
100. Oil producer?: ARTIST.
101. Fragrant shrubs: MYRTLES.
104. Pain in the neck: HASSLE.
105. Nebraska natives: OMAHAS.
106. "They outplayed us": WE LOST.
108. Consecutively: IN A ROW.
109. Like the most clear sky: BLUEST.
110. Monte __ sandwich: CRISTO.
112. Actress Witherspoon: REESE.
118. Triangular shoulder muscle, for short: DELT.
119. Monterrey jack?: PESO.
121. Sounds amazed: OOHS.
122. Degs. for curators: MFAS.
123. Levelheaded: SANE.
125. Foil metal, once: TIN.
127. Pussy foot: PAW.
Boomer received an Army Black Knights sweatshirt, but we
could not figure out who sent it. Must be someone on our blog. Thank
you, you!
We had good days and bad days. Mostly good. On Tuesday Father Tom Kadera visited us and gave Boomer the Sacrament of the Sick and the Apostolic blessing. Then on Saturday Tom Pepper braved the snow and wind and helped us install a floating shelf. Tom has a tool bag with all kinds of stuff. Pretty Taskrabbit-y.
C.C.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteOnly went wrong in one spot -- SEED for STEM. The rest of my grid is clean. HOLI showed up for an encore; failed to get it yesterday. BIKER BAR could've been clued with "Place" as a themer, but the symmetrical entry (117a) definitely isn't. Congrats to Boomer and C.C. for a nice collaboration.
FIR, but erased song for SOLO, gotcha for I GOT YA, and robe for TOGA. DNK NORA, HOLI, ORA, ETHAN, Spelman (but I knew HBCU), LEVI, OMEGA, RUTH, CHOU, SPACE, or SLOW food movement.
ReplyDeleteI know that MOORED can be in a slip, but I always think of a MOORing as being akin to a permanent anchor with one or more lines to tie up the boat. You can buy a MOORing off Catalina Island; most sell for between $100,000 and $1,000,000. But you aren't actually buying the MOORing, you are buying a leasehold. You still have to pay yearly fees, but you at least have a nice place to stay. At least you do if you let the lessor know you're coming at least 48 hours in advance. Otherwise, they will rent out your MOORing to weekend visitors and keep the rent.
Thanks to CC and Boomer for the fun puzzle. I especially liked "hangout for hog lovers" and "Target field".
Gotta go to the RV today for final provisioning before we start our winter trip tomorrow.
Is "slow food movement" a euphemism for constipation?
ReplyDeleteI finished this fine puzzle in 11:59. Nice collaboration.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand "last place" for "shoe store."
The biker bar clue was good.
I didn't know that Levi, that Ruth, or that Nora character.
Loved the shout-out with "anon."
Musings
ReplyDelete-A fun puzzle tempered by the sense that it is the last collaboration for the Burnikel’s.
-GRAVEL PITS abound here in the Platte River Valley
-Husker BB is played in the Pinnacle Bank Arena and is sometimes called The VAULT
-GATE/FANS – The Husker FB sellout streak reached 389 IN A ROW yesterday for a bad team on a bitterly cold day
-IT IS/IT IS? – Refer to yesterday’s TONAL information. Also for HOLI
-Some golfers take MULLIGANS quite often and some never do. Also some lie and some don’t
-PER DIEM – Eat at McDonalds but turn in a receipt from a 5-star restaurant
-My ENT got me into hearing aids and a CPAP in one day
-As kids, we used to play baseball at this OMAHA event in Macy, NE
-I vaguely remember last as a form for making shoes but had never heard of a SHE SHED. No matter.
-I wonder if our art curator constructor Jeffrey Wechsler has an MFA
-People still say TIN foil instead of Aluminum foil although the former hasn’t been made since WWII
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice surprise to see Boomer and CC’s byline on a Sunday puzzle and what a fine Sunday puzzle it is! I liked everything about it, starting with the theme. All of the themers are solid, in the language phrases and were clued perfectly. I thought the fill was fresh and lively, especially the related pairings, Military Base and Marines, Lizard and Newt, Apple Pie and Ala Mode, East and Este, Mulligan and Putt, etc. CC’s love of Baseball was front and center with Opener, American, Citi, East (All Star game). Only a few unknowns (Miracle of miracles!), Nora, Levi, Omega, and Chou and only one w/o, Song/Solo. Add the unusually low number (14) of three letter words, especially impressive in a Sunday grid and a lot of clever cluing, and we have a fun and enjoyable solve. The C/A that tickled my fancy was Pussy foot=Paw.
Thanks, Boomer and CC, for a delightful Sunday solve. Four letter words don’t bother me in the least but, as you well know, three letter ones do because a good percentage of the time they’re abbreviations, prefixes or suffixes, initialisms, or acronyms, not actual words. And, IMO, they stick out like a sore thumb and are just as distracting as one. Loving thoughts to you and dear Boomer.
Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteMystery writer at 9:01, as a noun, a last is a cobbler's model used when making shoes. Think of a solid shoe tree. Or search shoe last. You'll see the old cast iron ones in antique stores.
Back later, gotta run.
HELLO and 'Wei". Great puzzle from Boomer and C.C. to wake me up after a Sat. night wedding, preceded by a Fri. night pre-wedding party, and a Sunday brunch in the next hour. No wonder weddings have become so expensive, with three days of festivities.
ReplyDeleteDISS and "Trash talk"- C.C. would never allow it here.
Rita ORA and INA Garden- they're joining Bobby ORR and Mel OTT as regulars.
TESSA, RUTH, CHOU, NORA- unknowns today
Roar OMEGA Roar was a WAG. HOLI came earlier in the week.
Lots of theme entries that were easy to fill after a few perps. Only had to change BURGER BUN to BAGEL SHOP. Wanted INK WELL but POT had to do.
BIKER BAR for "Hangout for hog lovers"- great one
GIBB- I'll take issue with them being Disco. They just happened to be associated with 'Saturday Night Fever'. Most of their songs are NOT disco.
This was a fun and fast for a Sunday for me- and bittersweet to see our daring constructor duo! I got a chuckle out of all the theme answers.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to keep track of the fields, arenas , and stadiums names as they change whenever the commercial sponsors change.
I live just a few blocks from an HCBU - Lincoln University- wonderful story of its founding- in 1866 after the Civil War- Union soldiers were given a stipend and a group of black soldiers who were former slaves pooled theirs together to found the Lincoln Institute (now University) so there would be a place for higher education for blacks. A poignant sculpture on campus commemorates this symbolically
https://www.lincolnu.edu/about-lincoln/
I had never had a Monte Cristo sandwich until I was in high school- Yummers as Hatoolah would say!
Thanks CC and Boomer!
CC and Boomer:
ReplyDeleteVery much enjoyed the puzzle. Everything made sense except for Last Place? = Shoe Store? Sorry for the density of my brain.
Regards to Boomer.
Thanks again!
Learning moment: shoe last.
ReplyDelete( I never knew what they were called...)
Also, never knew how to install a floating shelf.
Which led to another learning moment: the Kreg Jig.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteThank you, C.C. and Boomer! You are a dynamic duo!
SHOE STORE for LAST PLACE was my favorite pun!
CSO to my niece, Eydie, who has gorgeoous green EYES.
HOLI strikes again.
Lots of good stuff in his puzzle but I don't have time to cite all of it.
Today after Mass I'll go to the friends' birthday lunch, including mine though it's more than week away. Tempus fugit. I SHUDDER to think of that number! 85, eeyowee! But I feel like 60 at least.
Sigh. GIBB. One of my favorite groups is the BGEES and only Barry has survived. I believe he lives somewhere in Florida.
Time to go. Have a sensational Sunday, everyone! Feel better, Boomer!
FIR, but lots of unknowns, like 1D, 68D, and 72D to name a few.
ReplyDeleteSeeing C.C. & Boomer's puzzle put me in a Happy Place!
ReplyDeleteSeveral FAVs: TANGENTS, First place?, Target field, Oil producer?, They could use a welcome sight
Good Morning,
ReplyDeleteSo happy to see a Boomer and C.C. collaboration. Nice work. Love to you both.
This was fun with just enough bite here and there, which eventually came on the crosses. I, too, enjoyed LAST and its clue. I knew it, but funny enough, I can't even remember for what reason on earth I am familiar with the term. ARTIST caught me for a couple of passes, Ha!
Enjoy the good days. Thank you both for a sunny day. xo
SS@10:02 my brain is also too thick to get the last place SHOE STORE.
ReplyDeleteLoved this puzzle from the wonderful Burnikel duo. A few unknowns but no problem.
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle, Boomer and C.C. -- thank you!
The "Last place?" clue and answer particularly cracked me up. (As others have pointed out, a "last" is a form shaped like a human foot, used for making and/or displaying shoes.)
Today's learning moment isn't from the puzzle, but the blog: "Floating Shelf." Had to look that up.
Prayers continue!
It's a great Sunday with the Burnikel creation to solve, which I FIR! Thank you, C.C. and Boomer. Careful proofreading saved me as I caught an error before reading C.C.'s blog review. What Irish Miss said about the puzzle details....
ReplyDeleteI knew about shoe lasts, though it took a minute to make the connection at 125 Across. And inanehiker, I knew about Spelman College (HBCU) because it's in Atlanta, along with three other HBCUs: Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse School of Medicine--all clustered together in SW Atlanta.
Thanks, CED, for the floating shelf video. Interesting how it was attached to the wall.
So good to see your post today, Madame Defarge. I've missed you! Come by more often.
Time to get out for a walk, listening to my audiobook as I stroll around Emory campus. It's cool and sunny here and as warm now as it will get today. Have a good day, everyone!
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteIt's rare nowadays that I'll solve a Sunday puzzle. Margaret thought it a good idea for us to solve it together whilst I'm recovering from you-know-what. And it was!
Fun puzzle by Mr and Mrs Burnikel and an equally fun recap
2 days into Paxlovid - hoping to start feeling better
Feeling my age for sure, though, as my youngest child will turn 40 tomorrow
Enjoy the week ahead ...
I loved this puzzle. It is what I feel a true crossword puzzle should be. Excellent cluing, except for two of them.
ReplyDeleteHi Y'all! Thank you, Boomer & C.C., for a fun, doable challenge that gave me nothing to whine about today, despite it took me 1:30 minutes longer to fill than Saturday. Really like your puzzles! So sad that it is Boomer's last. Keeping you in my prayers.
ReplyDeleteNE was the last to fill. Tried tAkE instead of GATE & couldn't think of GIBB for awhile, despite BeeGees being one of my favorites. Like Big Easy, I don't associate their music with disco.
Hand up for GOTcha before I GOT YA. DNK: NORA, META, ORA, RUTH, OMEGA, CHOU as clued. I knew Spelman was a black college but not the abbreviated HBCU.
My SHE SHED was always my whole house. Don't understand that concept or Man Cave. We wanted togetherness during the little time we had to be home in our busy lives.
MDF said: "I can't even remember for what reason on earth I am familiar with the term." And I thought to myself "Self, how do YOU know the term." Light bulb moment - Daughter's pediatrician saw a problem when she was learning to walk, and advised us to have her fitted with straight LAST shoes. She's old enough to have received the "welcome to AARP" letter, so I'm amazed that I remembered it. Now if I could only remember where I put my keys...
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference a day makes! A bigger and better puzzle from team Burnikel, built by Burnikels and blogged by Burnikels, a truly META experience. That plus I really LIKED it. Funny though that I filled all the "place" names, but failed to see all the "place?"s in the clues. But like I always say, there's no place to fill in the theme and if you FIR all the fill, than you FIR the puzzle. Anyway ...
ReplyDeleteSome favs:
18A BRIEF. I'm short and my sweetie thinks I'm sweet, but I've never been accused of being BRIEF.
28A BIKER BAR. I have a long-haired hippy 2nd cousin in Indiana with a HOG and he's determined to visit every Harley dealership in the US. Funny, he's the last person you'd expect to be an expert on, and collector of, antique English porcelains.
45A NORA. IIRC her colleague is scheduled for an appearance later this week.
79A IGOR. Here's the finale of Stravinsky's Firebird ballet, conducted by Venezuelan wunderkind Gustavo Dudamel, the newly appointed conductor of the Paris Opera.
82A HOLI. "Holi smokes BATMAN, we're becoming crosswordese!"
124A SHOE STORE. Favorite clue. Very clever.
47D MARINES. A CSO to Wilbur Charles.
68D SLOW. We're into SLOW FOOD early in the week, and then we switch to FAST FOOD (left overs).
103 MYRTLE. These "shrubs" can reach a height of 25' in Texas. Of course everything's BIG in Texas.
Cheers,
Bill
I seldom do the Sunday CW, as it just takes too long. But since my Packers aren't scheduled to lose another game today (they already did that Thursday) I thought I'd give it a go. Filled while watching Lions play Giants, so timing was not really accurate, but did FIR in what was just short of an hour. Did not even notice it was a CW by our own dynamic duo until i came here. Very nice CW, thanx CC and Boomer. I was gonna comment on my favorite clue, but on review I liked ALL the theme clues.
ReplyDeleteThere can't be anything more exciting than getting a Boomer and C.C. Sunday crossword puzzle. The puzzle world doesn't get any better than this, so thank you both for this delightful and smart treat, which we all clearly loved! And thank you, in addition, for your always helpful commentary tour, C.C.
ReplyDeleteSo, HELLO! The first thing I encounter after getting into the puzzle GATE is a BEE COLONY!
Yikes, I'd better be careful so I don't get stung and SHUDDER all afternoon. But it's nice here in this GARDEN OF EDEN with a fun BIKER BAR and a BAGEL SHOP that has a MENU with some pretty tasty SPAM. There is also a SHOE STORE and shops with lots of SALES including a store that sells GEMS at a pretty good rate.
But it may be time to start our COMMUTE home, so we'd better hail a CAB and SCAT. Time to get a nap on our SLEEPER SOFA rather than in a GRAVEL PIT in the mall. So let's all stay SANE and have another good visit soon.
Have a great nap, everybody.
Madame Defarge @ 11:43 ~ I hope today’s post is the first of many to come. You’ve been absent far too long and have been missed. I, personally, missed your report on your annual October trip to Maine! 🦞 Hope all is well!
ReplyDeleteSuper Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Boomer and C.C.
ReplyDeleteLike inanehiker said, this was bittersweet.
Wonderful CW - thanks for giving us the inside scoop on which clues (yeah, the ones we didn’t know) were changed.
But this Canadian was not off to a good start with the unknown to me HCBU!
British Royal brides have MYRTLE in their wedding bouquets, taken from a bush planted by Queen Victoria.
Off to recharge my batteries (iPad that is). DH has watched the Buffalo win (we got snow but not as much as Buffalo!)
Next comes our Grey Cup (Toronto Argos play Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Regina, Sask. Mosaic Stadium would make a great, unknown to all Americans CW entry.). Pizza and wings on the supper menu.
Wishing you all a great evening.
So what is the difference between LAST and TREE?
ReplyDeleteTante N @ 3:48 PM
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that shoe LASTS are used when shoes are made to form their shape and size. People buy shoe TREES to put in their shoes to keep the shape and, if using cedar shoe trees, to help them dry out and smell nice after being worn.
Our son has a friend who makes shoes by hand for operas and theater productions. Shoe lasts would be essential then.
That reminds me, I wasn't so sure about SLEEPER SOFA being the remote place. Does that just refer to a TV remote being used while sitting on a sofa or falling asleep watching TV? Am I missing something here?
ReplyDeleteMisty, I hope you had PIE A LA MODE with that delicious SPAM
ReplyDeleteHaving been out all day it was a relief to see CC and Boomer as Co-creators. I knew it would be fable, fast and entertaining. I get ahead of myself and some of the themes filled themselves(or I filled without looking at the clues. Ergo I had Mountain BASE / MILITARY
Yes there's a Target Field but Target's field is RETAIL. Q3 Earnings slipped, will they go the way of KMart?
CED, I was looking for humor on your links. But those links steer me to Cheers and a Righteous Brother walked into the bar. He wasn't looking for Loving Feeling
TTP I recognized all but not some of the singers. Chuck Berry's "No Particular Place" i
I linked last week when somebody used the word. Now to start listening
Waseeley, thanks for the shoutout. Did I ever tell you the Rifle Range story? Pugel Sticks and Jimmy B?
WC
WC @6:46 PM DNK the Rifle Range story. I'll look for an FLN tomorrow.
DeleteHey Boomer and CC. I loved this puzzle as I knew I would. My favs, Oil producer-artist; Monterrey jack-peso. I also liked the League for Guardians and Angels. Good one. GC
ReplyDeleteOh by the way, you got me on "last". I had never heard of that as far as shoes go. Perps got that for me as well as HBCU. GC
ReplyDeleteWOW!! First time in a decade I DNF Sunday LAT entry!! NW was a no-fill for me. Too much pop-culture dribble that has no connection to real knowledge! Well, off to bed, grumbling as i trudge upstairs.
ReplyDeleteThanks AltGranny.
ReplyDeleteDefinition: NATICK - "Two intersecting clues that I don't know the answer to".
ReplyDeleteOK, Waseeley, it's long
ReplyDeleteNewly commissioned I nevertheless hit DC Saturday night, stayed at a Navy Club and took the train to Quantico.
And…
Left my glasses on said train.
Monday began Rifle Range and it was all new. I got better and on Friday as the mist cleared in a special afternoon drill I was cooking.
I fared very well at 200 and 300 but at 500 could not differentiate target 18 from 20. No prob, I sighted in on 17 and moved down two.
All was fine but I decided if I just snapped in again I had a shot at expert.
I zeroed in on the bull, squeezed and …
Nothing, nada. Pits was showing nothing. Now…
I had noticed a couple of targets down my pal Marty having all sorts of problems. He had corporals,sergeants and even a Captain trying to help. But just as he was about to fire the Bulls-eye flag went up
And on my 19? Maggie's Draws. Yes… You guessed it.
I had forgotten to move two targets up after sighting in. All hell broke loose and the culprit, me, was identified.
I'd pulled a big no-no. And, the denouement.
I limped in at marksman after almost getting expert. And later, in our dress uniforms who walks by with marksman on his lapel but Marty.
He'd taken MY bullseye to qualify
WC
What a wonderful end of the day for me! My friends, the usual suspects with whom I associate, feted me graciously at our favorite restaurant, the Longhorn. It's the first of what I hope, if history repeats itself, will be several birthday celebrations. It softens the blow of reaching such an advanced age!
ReplyDeleteSunday Lurk say...
ReplyDeleteLate today 'cuz I built Thanksgiving for in-laws [we're flying to SFO for Thursday feast w/ DW's Aunt]. We had a hoot and I have to freeze leftovers for turkey noodles two weeks hence.
C.C. & Boomer - a wonderful collaboration and God Speed to you both. Love your way.
HG - How did you miss this State Farm commercial?
a) lucky
b) #SheShed
TTP - I didn't know the 1st two but Dr. John is my fav of your list. //And I always confuse him with Boz Scaggs solos.
WC - Warren Buffet has $$ in Target; I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon.
C, Eh! - You've not lived until you've seen an HBCU half-time show. Grambling State was just 10 minutes west on I-20 from LA Tech (Ruston, LA). Also, Grambling was in a 'wet Parish' so you could buy booze there :-)
Cheers, -T