Theme: "Toss and Turn" - Synonyms of "throw" are placed directly under BUS.
22. "The Biggest Small Town in America": COLUMBUS.
26. Seem legit: PASS THE SMELL TEST.
49. Way of the samurai: BUSHIDO CODE.
54. Chat with an investor who gets in on the ground floor?: ELEVATOR PITCH.
77. Three-martini meal depicted in "Mad Men": BUSINESS LUNCH.
83. Hot romance?: SUMMER FLING.
97. Ghost follower: BUSTER.
Reveal:
102. Betray for personal advantage, and what's depicted five times in this puzzle: THROW UNDER THE BUS.
113. Stuff in a skillet: CAST IRON.
Stunning construction!
For
stacking gimmick, we often see a short upper or lower entry, but in
this puzzle, all the theme entries are at least 8-letter long except
BUSTER. Also, except the I in FLING, every other "throw" letter under
the B is a consonant. This makes the B? slot hard.
Across:
7. Blow one's stack at the poker table?: LOSE BIG. Nice fill and clue.
14. Peach center: PIT. I love white peaches.
17. Not sustain, in a way: OVERRULE.
20. Lovingly, on a score: AMOROSO.
21. Breakfasted: ATE. Do you all use breakfast as a verb?
23. "Ask E. Jean" columnist: CARROLL.
24. Early operating system: UNIX.
25. Toss a chip into the pot: ANTE.
29. Real beaut: LULU.
31. Icy coat: HOAR.
32. Aches (for): YEARNS.
33. Streamer's device, briefly: CAM.
36. Hold: POSSESS.
38. Letter after upsilon: PHI.
41. All __ jazz: THAT.
42. In the thick of: AMIDST.
44. Chuckle noise: HEE.
45. "__ noches": BUENAS. Chinese for "good night" is very short: "wan an".
47. Gem surface: FACET.
48. Celebrity chef Tila: JET. Unknown to me. Wikipedia says he was born to Thai Chinese parents.
57. DNA depiction: GENE MAP.
58. Points of pride?: GAY BARS. Another great fill and clue.
59. Skulk member: FOX. A group of foxes is a skulk.
60. Copenhagener, e.g.: DANE.
61. More artful: DEFTER.
65. GPS heading: ENE.
66. Friendly reminder, for short: PSA.
68. Come to the surface: EMERGE.
70. "My word": I SAY.
71. Permanent body art: TAT.
73. Author Sendak: MAURICE. "Where the Wild Things Are" was made into a movie.
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75. Parade official: MARSHAL.
85. Scroogian outburst: BAH.
86. Accustom: INURE.
87. Long-eared hound: BEAGLE.
88. Gov. lawyers: DAS.
89. Shoe holder at an airport, for short: TSA BIN.
90. Munich pub order: BIER. Plural is "Biere".
93. Tapas seasoning: SAL.
94. Pollutes: LITTERS.
96. GPS displays: STS.
99. Epic party: BASH.
100. Frosh residence, often: QUAD.
107. German Film Award: LOLA. The statuette is called Lola.
111. Abba of the Knesset: EBAN.
112. Modern genre with dark elements: NEO NOIR.
115. Vote for: AYE.
116. Maslany of "Orphan Black": TATIANA. Canadian actress.
117. Neat and trim: CLEAN CUT.
118. Letters on an Australia trip itinerary: MEL. Melbourne.
119. Iditarod entrant: SLED DOG.
120. In no way looks forward to: DREADS.
Down:
2. Maker of Anew skin care products: AVON. Just filed bankruptcy.
3. Shoulder press target, briefly: DELT.
4. Unappealing grub: GRUEL.
5. "Uh" equivalent: ERM.
6. Second story?: SUB-PLOT. OK, secondary story.
7. Milk sugar: LACTOSE.
8. Indigenous Nebraskans: OMAHAS.
9. Knottier, maybe: SORER.
10. __ on the side of caution: ERRS.
11. Fireworks sound: BOOM. Fireworks are supposed to scare away evil spirit Nian. Chinese New Year is called "Xin Nian".
12. Speck in the sea: ISLE.
13. "Goodness me": GOLLY.
14. "You Pick Two" chain: PANERA.
15. "You might want to check again": IT ISN'T.
16. Chats on the phone: TEXTS.
18. Feasts with fire dancers: LUAUS.
19. Snaky shape: ESS.
24. Four Corners state: UTAH.
27. Roasting option: SHEET PAN.
28. Discloses: LETS ON.
30. Act better than, in a way: UPSTAGE.
33. Espresso shop: CAFE.
34. Activist Clooney: AMAL.
35. Little cupboard raiders: MICE.
37. Rainbow __: frozen dessert: SHERBET.
38. Hard work before a deadline: PUSH.
39. Chuckle noise: HEH.
40. Montoya who sought a six-fingered man: INIGO. In "The Princess Bride".
43. David Copperfield portrayer Patel: DEV.
45. Tampa Bay pro: BUC.
46. Pitching aces?: AD EXECS. Product-pitching.
48. Bliss: JOY.
49. K-pop boy band: BTS.
50. Surrender: CEDE.
51. Representative Ilhan: OMAR. She's in Connie's district.
52. "Aw shoot!": DANG.
53. Blade in a bout: EPEE.
55. Tuna tail?: TARTARE. Tuna tartare.
56. Outrage: IRE.
59. Region that includes Indonesia and Japan: FAR EAST.
61. Loses brightness: DIMS.
62. Hairy biblical twin: ESAU.
63. Produce produce: FARM. Look at this zucchini walnut bread Janice sent to me. So so good. Boomer's mouth would be watering.
64. Short message of appreciation: TYSM. Thank You So Much.
66. Father, in Portuguese: PAI. Learning moment for me. Now we can avoid the [__ gow poker] clue angle.
67. Catch some rays: SUNBATHE.
69. Songwriter Etheridge: MELISSA.
72. Italian racers, familiarly: ALFAS. Tony's Alfa Romeo.
73. Arena at Penn Sta.: MSG. Madison Square Garden. Penn Station.
74. "That's sorta right": ISH.
76. __ National: kosher brand: HEBREW. We also have
91. Setting for "Fauda" and "Shtisel": ISRAEL.
77. Legislative creation: BILL.
78. French article: UNE. And
79. Spanish article: UNA.
80. Apt rhyme for stubs: NUBS.
81. Lit __: CRIT.
82. Egg layers: HENS. Lay-ers.
84. Airport near Astoria: Abbr.: LGA.
88. Kitchen sink item: DISH RAG.
89. Tied up: TRUSSED.
90. "See ya!": BUH-BYE.
92. Posh British school: ETON.
94. Nicaragua native: LATINO.
95. Brand in blue packets: EQUAL.
97. Nonstarters: B TEAM. And 101. Spot for tackles in the NFL: D LINE.
98. Puny pups: RUNTS.
99. Inclusive: BROAD.
103. YouTube CEO Mohan: NEAL. Unknown to me also.
105. Oklahoma city northwest of Oklahoma City: ENID.
106. Keep a guest list private, maybe: BCC.
108. Oceanic predator: ORCA.
109. Screaming, say: LOUD.
110. Insects with a pharaoh variety: ANTS.
114. La Brea __ Pits: TAR.
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Some of the answers seemed a bit obscure. (Maybe it’s just me, but ‘Boca’? ‘erm’, ‘buh-bye’?) Anyway, after getting the reveal , I looked back and saw all the ‘throws’ under the ‘buses.’ Anyway, FIR, so I’m happy.
ReplyDeleteErm? Really? Let's just make stuff up now.
ReplyDelete“Erm” is a Brit “uh”, sir.
Delete=====> Darren / L.A.
This is a USA crossword
DeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteEBAN and ESAU were the only gimme names in this one, but somehow the rest of 'em managed to fill in for the win. Tried ANDANTE/AMOROSO, PILS/BIER (that's what I order in Munich), BYE-BYE/BUH-BYE. Thanx, Rebecca and C.C.
Yesterday was a bad electronics day chez d-o. It started with my laser printer demanding a new "drum." Then DirecTV insisted that my disk unit was on it's side. My TV chimed in that my network was connected/disconnected/connected/disconnected...ad nauseum. Replaced the printer drum, replaced the mesh router, reset the DirecTV. While working on the printer I managed to knock over my computer monitor -- still works, flickeringly with lots of visual artifacts. Replacement monitor is due later today.
FIR, but not without a few WAG's that hit the mark.
ReplyDeleteI found this quite crunchy for a Sunday. Several clues seemed ridiculous such as erm and buhbye? Really? Even spellcheck didn't like those.
So overall this was not an enjoyable outing. In fact the whole week with one exception seemed to be off the rails.
Maybe this coming week will be back to normal. I hope!
FIW, with trouble in the Chillicothe area. Started wrong with rho instead of PHI, then crowbared in openers instead of AD EXECS. Guessed at inaga, not the equally-unknown INIGO, and fan instead of FOX.
ReplyDeleteI've never been to COLUMBUS, but I've been to the Biggest Little City in the World, Reno, NV.
In my experience, PSAs are usually to inform, not to remind.
Tackles in the D LINE are mentioned by the announcers when they sack the quarterback. Tackles in the O LINE are mentioned by the announcers when they miss a block that allows the sack of the quarterback. (They occasionally are mentioned when they catch passes, but not too often.)
I was taught that UPSTAGEing is a technique that gets a fellow actor UPSTAGE so that his/her lines are delivered with their back to the audience, sapping the importance of that role & actor. Not nice, and it has nothing to do with out acting.
Can someone explain how BCCing keeps a guest list private? Is Rebecca or Patti saying that the addressees in the BCC list are guests? Seems unnecessarily weak cluing to me.
D-O, seems like you should invest in some good UPS devices.
You are on the right track. You either individually list everyone's email address as BCC's or you create a dist list and use it in the BCC.
DeleteA retired friend in Appleton always sends his group emails using BCC. I'm sure there are a lot of people on it as he retired after 50 years with the company, and I'm sure there are people on it that he knows but don't know each other. I'm fairly sure there are people on it who wouldn't want other people on it to know their email addresses.
Yeah, I've done both of those. Folks should respect others' info, including their email addys. So I guess what the ladies are referring to is an evite, hiding the guest list. (Well, if Jinx is invited, it's not the type of gala i want to attend.) Still seems like an excessively narrow use of BCC to me. I suspect that the days of widespread use of email invitations to social events are behind us.
DeleteYes, people should respect other people's info. I don't have my email address in my profile and I don't want it shared. I had to change my personal email addresses on multiple providers in the early days of email. I started creating multiple email accounts for different purposes. Unfortunately for me, I'm going to have to now get a new (another) Gmail address.
DeleteThe other one that I find off putting on is social media sites, such as Blogger, is when people use a person's real name rather than their avatar name. It's tacky. Truck drivers on CB radios showed more sense than people that are clueless about readily sharing too much of other people's personal info - even if it is available as public record.
Anyway, consider other BCC uses such as a small company's marketing blast. Perhaps they don't have the skill or sophisticated software tools.
Or an email soliciting funding from previous donors. Finding a list of donor email addresses would be a goldmine to wolves.
I’ve found that it’s nearly impossible to jumble 6 WAGs into the correct position, and that’s about where I was today, so facing that I TITT @50 minutes with a finished it wrongly. The whole area of BUSHIDO CODE, INIGO, ADEXECS and BUENAS (I thought it was Buenos 🤷♂️), add FOX also as I didn’t know what skulk meant, and still don’t get how a fox is a member. Somehow I managed to get TATIANA, NEAL, MAURICE and NEO NOIR. Thank perps for TARTARE. We’ve seen ERM before, I wanted to define it as “a word seemingly made up by the constructor for the sake of fill that nobody has ever heard of”, which we see sometimes in CWs. But ERM actually is a term used by the Brits, well at least one guy said it back in 1910 so it’s legit for a puzzle. Rebecca showed her talent today with this creative theme, I just didn’t quite measure up.
ReplyDeleteWe haven’t heard from CanadianEh 🇨🇦 lately, I miss her always cheery comments.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis was a more challenging offering than the usual Sunday and because I missed sussing out the Bus entries (only gave a cursory once-over), CC's explanation and illustration gave me a greater appreciation for the cleverness and execution. Despite the usual suspects of unknown proper names, i.e., Jet, Lola, Tatiana, Panera, Pai, and Neal, perps were fair throughout the grid, so no foul. We've had Erm before (it's a British term) and Buh Bye is quite common in print, usually as an exaggerated uttering, so neither entry stumped or bothered me. Any nits I might pick are far outweighed by the abundance of fresh and strong fill.
Thanks, Rebecca, well done and thanks, CC, for explaining the obvious to the oblivious me. Always enjoy learning about your cultural background.
Have a great day.
Living in South Florida to the rescue! Immediately filled in 1D because everyone knows the trendy city of Boca Raton translates to Rat's Mouth (yuck, but I think it referred to in the shape of their inlet on maps). In spite of this head start, I still FIW by 1 letter - the cross of BUSHIDO CODE and ONIGO. Raton! LOL
ReplyDeleteTheme was fine, but I filled in too many proper names with wild (I mean educated!) guesses. All but one proved to be right. Grr.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don’t access Sunday CWs I like to review the reveal for odd, unknown, and newly learned answers for use in future puzzles. Hence: “duo lingo awards”: BADGES. LOLA, NEO NOIR, BUSHIDO CODE, TYSM (I’m afraid if I use this in a text, like me, no one will understand 🤔)… “Fauda” Shtisel” ?
The way you theatricality UPSTAGE your fellow actor(s) is to move backward (upstage) which forces the other actor(s) to turn their back to the audience in order to continue to look at and address you while you face forward getting all the attention of the audience.
(Can’t he leave us alone for at least one day?)
Buenos Nachos 😃
Got most of the puzzle today but just too many unknowns to FIR. AMOROSO, CARROL, BADGES, JET, MAURICE, LOLA, TATIANA, BOCA, SHEET PAN, INIGO, TYSM, NEAL, BUSHIDO. At least I got ISRAEL and HEBREW correct. I guess Goldstein had to put those in. Her puzzles are usually too tough for me.
ReplyDeleteBUH BYE- got it but, yuck.
Filled BLAM, not BOOM.
QUAD- I have TWO grandchildren moving into freshman dorms today. One at LSU and the other at ULM (Monroe). One has a 4th floor dorm LSU and ELEVATOR is not working.
COLUMBUS- when did they steal the title from RENO?
BE,
Delete"The Biggest Small Town in America": COLUMBUS.
"Biggest Little City in the World" Reno, NV.
"...a 4th floor dorm LSU and ELEVATOR is not working." Also known as a "parent filter." Grandson arrived at USC (the one in Columbia, not the one in Los Angeles) yesterday. GO COCKS!
DeleteI just got tired doing this puzzle. Somehow it wasn’t clicking for me. I was overwhelmed by the unknown references.
ReplyDeleteTTP is right, of course, what am I saying, if you have problems with the blog format, use Chrome.
Thank you CC for the explanation of this CW whose theme I didn’t even think about I was so lost.
D-O. I can’t believe your technical trials.
Mostly got the theme, but missed the BUS gimmick. Didn’t know BUSHIDOCODE, so messed up that little section, but otherwise FIR. Fun puzzle.
ReplyDeleteFIW. I went with BUENoS. Instead of BUENAS and didn't change the "S" that I preentered in 118 figuring a plural for 97D.
ReplyDeleteDidn't suss the theme until C.C. described it here. Cute idea. Perps very necessary for solving today.
Salute to Rebecca and C.C. for their efforts today.
Smile when you say that!!
Everlovin...
Overall I found Rebecca's puzzle today to be fun and satisfying. And she must have been patient in its construction and execution, coming up with all those instances of BUS (as part of a longer word) nestling on top of different synonyms for "toss."
ReplyDeleteJinx and Ray-O-Sunshine are correct about the literal meaning of "upstage." My career has predominantly been in live theater, as director, producer, and actor. Upstaging is inept and immature, and should be thwarted instantly in rehearsals. I find it interesting that the word has entered our general vocabulary, as "to draw attention away from," or "to behave snobbishly."
The La Brea Tar Pits are literally the Tar Tar Pits (brea is Spanish for tar).
Thanks, Rebecca, for providing us with a pleasant Sunday diversion!
Actually, The La Brea Tar Pits are literally the the Tar Tar Pits .
DeleteI used to hang out at La Citadel motel/restaurant/bar on a mountaintop near Hazard, KY. Locals universally called it "the" La Citadel.
Reminds me of my baseball team: The Los Angeles Angels
DeleteRereading C.C.’s blog I see that a “skulk” is a group of foxes, mystery solved.
ReplyDeleteImpressive construction, but once again, foiled by parsing. I saw neon air?
ReplyDeleteHmm, wait a sec, did I misspell? Oh well, an FIW then...
The only time I have ever encountered "buh bye," was in an SNL sketch.
it was dumb then too...
TITT on this one. Some of the poorest clues and most obscure names I've seen in a while. Isn't a QUAD (quadrangle) what the DORMS are arranged around? IRE seems a little weak for OUTRAGE? If the answer is an abbreviation, shouldn't the clue reference that? (TYSM, BCC AD EXECS, TAT) CHAT and TEXT are different things, at least in my world. Iditarod entrants are MUSHERS. (The dogs have trouble filling out the entry forms). Oh, wait...just noticed the constructors name. Never mind.
ReplyDeleteThanks for solving! Let me know when your next Sunday-sized puzzle runs so I can return the favor :)
DeleteMissed it by one square! I didn't think the answer to "Chuckle noise" should be HEE twice in the same puzzle, but that's what I went with, and wound up with BUSeIDO CODE. You would think that all the samurai movies I watched with my brother when we were teens would have taught me better.
ReplyDeleteOnly the other hand, watching the fabulous TV series "Shtisel" helped me out. And watching British series with subtitles turned on has certainly taught me that ERM is British "uh" or "um."
I agree with C.C. that the construction of this puzzle is a triumph. All those types of THROWs UNDER BUSes! Even the CAST in the very tricky CAST IRON! Love that.
Thanks, Rebecca, for a great Sunday outing, and C.C., for explaining the ups and downs of it all.
Musings
ReplyDelete-What a hoot! THROW UNDER THE BUS was not only the reveal, it had gimmicks both fore and aft! What a SUB PLOT.
-RUSH/RHO/ONIGO escaped further scrutiny. I’ll take two bad cells.
-We enjoy Freestone Peaches as long as the season allows!
-Two reminders from yesterday’s puzzle: 1) ASADA/ASADO and BUENOS/BUENAS 2) PRAGENCIES/ADEXEC.
-My childhood had very unfriendly PSA’s about car accidents and lots of roadside LITTER
-MARSHALL Matt Dillon has two L’s but Rose Bowl MARSHAL Levar Burton has only one
-I was in charge of getting to our golf course last week at 1016 W Elm St, York, NE 68467
-Mouth of the Orinoco was great. Enya came to my mind for Orinoco Flow
-I’d wager most of you know who asked for more GRUEL
-The OMAHA tribe runs a successful casino in Walthill, NE
-Avoid being UPSTAGED
-A child-hating foreman we had was named NUB
I admire this puzzle's construction and enjoyed solving it, despite some of the cluing being a bit squishy.
ReplyDeleteEven though I FIW by 3 spaces, I thought this was a very interesting puzzle with an amazingly clever theme - not one of the cutesy variety but a display of superior, dexterous talent. Thank you, Rebecca! Your puzzles are frequently beyond my ability, but to miss FIR by only 3 spaces is a success in my book!
ReplyDeleteDespite not knowing several names, perps helped in most cases. Unfortunately, I blew it with cox/FOX, thinking skull must be a kind of scull, therefore needing a coxswain. ( I love all the names for various groups of creatures, my favorite being an exaltation of larks.) My other fail was the crossing of BUSHIDO with BTS - I thought Sushido might work, and STS might be the group’s name - BZZT!
Thanks C.C. for the interesting tour. I hope you are still making progress with your swimming.
Hola! I'm back from a lovely visit to wonderful San Rafael, Ca where my friend lives. Alas! it was too short and now I'm back in the desert heat. Oh, well.
ReplyDeleteSolving this puzzle was somewhat fun. I say that because Sunday puzzles are a bit of a slog but fun to work on. I'm puzzled by "stuff in a skillet". Isn't it what the skillet is make of? The stuff in the skillet is what is cooked, IMO. I get it, though. BOCA and BUENAS satisfies my Spanish needs as does INIGO, a Spanish name. There's also LATINO. OMAR seems like a strange name for a woman. I thought it was a male name as in OMAR Sharif.
I agree with Jinx about La Brea Tar Pits. La means "the" so it's repetitive to say the La Brea, however, since the name is Spanish it's qualified in English.
so it makes sense in a way. I hope you all have been well.
Welcome back, Lucina! ...and thank you for my new memory trick to remember OMAR Ilhan's name...OMAR Sharif. Now I need one for AMAL Clooney ....
DeleteThank you, Rebecca! I liked your theme but I especially liked how you used THROW UNDER THE BUSS as two instances of the theme. It took me a while to see that. I was determined to find the 5th example before coming to C.C.'s explanation.
ReplyDeleteFAV: Chats on the phone.
I used to have an orange cat named SHERBET.
We have a lot of ALFAS (and other fancy autos) here now for Car Week.
D-O@6:08. When it rains, it pours.... Fortunately, you are up to the challenge.
Thanks to C.C. for another informative Sunday tour! I especially liked the Chinese lessons today.
Well, this one was something of a wild ride…
ReplyDeleteStarting out, PASSTHESMELLTEST fell right into place — probably because we had SMELLTEST, what, two days ago? But the rest of it was a mystery until I ran across THROWUNDERTHEBUS, which got me looking for these multi-passenger public conveyances in the themers. However, I’m just not bright enough to notice all the THROWs “under” BUS; C.C.’s reveal gave me amazement that constructors come up with this kind of thing! I am, ERM, totally “clueless” how they figure these things out. Effing brilliant!
I did have one flash of pseudo-brilliance of my own, down in the south sector — perps gave me N___OIR, and, just looking at it, I sez to myself “NEONOIR?? Is that even a word?” Then I looked for the clue and read it, and went “sommabish…how’da hail did I guess that??” But I’ll take it 😎
BCC on a guest list made total sense to me; as TTP and Jinx mentioned, it’s just common courtesy to privatize such mass email address collections. If you ever wonder why there’s so much spam in your Inbox, thank some user who doesn’t use BCC for mass sends…
“BUHBYE”?? 🤮 Yes, as bad as the SNL sketch that featured it.
One last question: who da hail invented this ridiculous bunch of monikers for various animal groups?!? A “murder” of crows, a “gaggle” of geese, a “SKULK” of foxes?? When I was learning Japanese, that language has a similar structure for counting various things — one uses a different word if one is counting pencils vs. counting puppies. Is this also the case in Chinese, C.C.? I’d hate to do a Japanese crossword puzzle…
====> Darren / L.A.
Darren in L.A. @ 4:02. I think you were mostly joking about the Japanese Crossword puzzles; but, if you are looking to practice your Japanese, I recommend this book. I'm about half way through it. Half have clues in Japanese and you answer in English. Half have English clues and you answer in Katakana.
Deletehttps://www.mhprofessional.com/easy-japanese-crossword-puzzles-using-kana-9780844283456-usa
I just couldn’t get on the right wavelength for this one. Lots of answers left me confused—1 across for instance, which makes no sense before or after getting the answer. Not a good start.
ReplyDeleteThen there were tons of proper names, including really long ones like CARROLL, MAURICE, TATIANA and MELISSA.
And, erm… what is SAL? Is ‘salsa’ too long of a word that we’re shortening it now?
Anyway I hated it so much I only did 99% of it lol. Just didn’t feel like looking at ADE_E_S and BT_A_ any longer. So it’s either a DNF or TITT - both I suppose.
But the theme was great. It was a fun play on words and massively helpful in getting some long answers. It’s the only reason I stuck with it for as long as I did.
Favorite clues were: Second story? for SUBPLOT and Points of pride? for GAYBARS.
I believe SAL is the word for salt, not an abbreviated salsa.
ReplyDeleteRebecca Goldstein Just want to add my vote for being impressed with this construction. Thanks for stopping by. We learned about BUSHIDO in our recent Japan travels.
ReplyDeleteHere I was with my mother at the COPENHAGEN Zoo tower when we were DANEs.
My mother passed away peacefully three weeks ago.
Picard. My sincere condolences for your loss.
DeleteCondolences for your loss. You do look like a Dane.
DeleteWell, I started out worried that I might LOSE BIG in this puzzle when it looked as though I probably wouldn't PASS THE SMELL TEST. But soon there was some interesting travel, by JET and with an ELEVATOR pitch, at the end of which it looked as if we might get to enjoy a BUSINESS lunch. All in all, this was a really delightful SUMMER FLING, especially because we ended up being able to play with a sweet BEAGLE and a playful SLED DOG. Now we'll have to wait and see if we get to see a movie with a fun SUB PLOT this evening. That would be a nice way to end our day. Have a good one, everybody!
ReplyDeletesumdaze: my only reference for AMAL is "AMAL and the night visitors". I believe you may know that episode. "Night visitor" may be appropriate only for George Clooney, but it does help me to recall her name.....
ReplyDeletesumdaze and Anon at 5:14PM thank you for the kind words about my mother.
ReplyDeletePicard. Condolences for the loss of your mother.
ReplyDeleteAnd Lucina, nice to see you back. We’ve visited friends in San Rafael over the years. It is lovely there.
Still enjoying my Alaska trip - a few days ago saw the starting point for the first Iditarod ; very creative puzzle
ReplyDeletePicard, I'm so sorry to learn about your mother. May she rest in peace.
ReplyDelete