Let's see if THIS PART still works. You deserve a treat!

Have a treat.  It's on the House.... We are still hacking our way through the JUNGLE here.....

Thank you for your comments

 But I can't reply with a comment of my own and until the reason burbles to the murky surface of the Google Pond, I want to thank you for reading here, and for leaving the nice comments.  My ex techie is working on this problem..... it's not been easy..

Saturday Nine! A day Early because I am a Ditz!

Working in the Coal Mine (1966)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Lee Dorsey sings that at 5:00 he's already on the job. What were you doing this morning at 5:00 AM? 

I was sleeping like a Bebe’. Even the trash truck didn't wake me up. 

2) He's worked so hard all week that he's too tired to enjoy his weekend. What are you doing for fun this holiday weekend?  

Nothing more fun than the usual.  Waking up and doing crossword puzzles with hubster, and maybe trying to get things organized to sell or give away. 

3) Lee Dorsey was raised in Portland Oregon, home of the Portland Trailblazers. The NBA season kicks off next month. Do you have a favorite basketball team?  

I have no favorite, but Basketball is my favorite sport to watch.  When I actually get to watch it.  That and soccer are very exciting to watch. 

Since planning to get more knitting done, I'll probably watch more sports.  It's much more exciting these days with a flat screen.  Watching it on the old 19 inch TV was a challenge!  But, Diana... we were delighted to get the upgrade at the time!  Thank you guys!

4) This song was written by Allen Toussaint, who had a long career as a composer and producer. He produced Fats Domino in the late 1950s and worked with Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney into the new millennium. What job have you held the longest? 

I worked throughout my teens as a carpenter. After that I ran a small handmade ceramic (plus) jewelry craft business called "Strawberry Moon".  

The name got lifted and it's all over the place now, but I named it that as a tribute to Native Americans who called the June moon, "the strawberry moon". 

5) In 1966, the year this song was popular, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey was born. Are you a good cook?  

My eldest daughters and Hubby agreed that I was a really good cook.  Now I don’t cook at all.  I think I’m a very good knitter now. Lol

6) 1966 was the year when more Americans purchased color TVs and black and white sets. When you were a kid, did your family have a black and white TV?  We had a tiny round screened cabinet black and white.  My eyes have never recovered. 😆 

7) Labor Day is a big weekend for mattress sales. Do you plan on buying a new mattress before the year is out?  That would be a “no” to the “nope”.

8) Though kids go back to class earlier these days, store aisles are still full of school supplies. When she was a little girl, Sam was crazy about her big box of 96 Crayola Crayons with a sharpener in the back. Share one of your back-to-school memories. 

That was SO long ago that I’m afraid all I remember now where the horrors.  Lol Like having to wear dresses even when we wanted to climb on the monkey bars and hearing all the boys chanting, "I see London, I see France, I see someone's underpants!"

9) Labor Day weekend is the unofficial beginning of fall. Have you had any pumpkin spice yet? I love Fall.  Now I want a big piece of pumpkin pie.  See what you started?!?!  Shame on you Sam! 😉 

It is so HOT here that Fall does not even seem to be coming for at least the whole of September.  

I've been trying to get to other people's blogs to read and respond but if I don't figure out how to do it, know that I'm trying!  

Three on Thursday: Weather or not you believed it...

 1.  It's been VERY HOT!  

But Now it's cooled down to 80's...
We've had to use the Dreaded AC.

2. Now that it's back under a hundred, I've sought out but not found, my patterns for short fingered gloves/mitts.  Now I have to part with some of my yarn stash!  Boo hoo ... but it's for a good cause.  I knit short fingered gloves for the clinic that cared for my daughter when she was getting chemo.  They all asked for some because their hands get SO COLD!

3. Obligatory Stash Photo Porn!

3.5...The last word.  

My Viking Back in the day

My Viking

 

Trump is an Egomaniac, and no historian.

 "Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada walked away from fraught U.S. trade talks on Aug. 21, over what he called a “bad deal” that would harm Canada’s economy and sovereignty. 

He has since responded to the renaming of the lake with a statement about its history, noting that Ontario is a historical Indigenous name for the lake that predates the creation of Canada and the United States."

Excerpt is from an Article in the New York Times.

Saturday 9. Animal Crackers in My Soup (1935)

 Saturday 9: Animal Crackers in My Soup (1935)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

This month Saturday 9 will be tasty, featuring songs with food in the title.

1) Do you eat soup all year round, or do you consider it a seasonal dish?  I would eat it if it's ramen.  There is nothing I like better than Ramen Soup.

2) Gazpacho is a popular cold soup. Made with water-rich tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers, it's considered a good choice for hot weather because it's hydrating. What are your favorite summertime foods?  I love LOVE me some salad.  YUM!

3) This week, Shirley Temple sings of the delights of having crackers in her soup. How often do you add crackers to your soup: always, sometimes, never? Sometimes but I generally only eat ramen soups and crackers are not much on my mind.  Crackers are for Peanut butter and honey treats.  hehe

4) "Animal Crackers in My Soup" was the big musical number in the 1935 movie Curly Top. Shirley played Elizabeth, who helps her older sister find love with a handsome millionaire. Have you ever played matchmaker? If yes, were your efforts successful?  Never have I ever..... lol 

5) Gertrude Temple, Shirley's mother, was her daughter's onset hairstylist, creating the famous "curly top" with pin curls. What's your hair care regimen? Yes, I wash it and wear it.  heehee ...  It's very curly you see, especially since I started using the shampoo that my curly haired hubster uses. 

At the risk of scaring Holi HE// out of you.. here is a pic. 

6) Bartenders are still called upon to create the non-alcoholic Shirley Temple, made with ginger ale, lemon-lime soda, and grenadine. What's the most recent alcoholic beverage you drank? 

It was this New Year's Eve, and I had a glass of bubbly with Hubs at the count down.  It's a tradition.  

7) In 1935, when this song was popular, Amelia Earhart flew from Honolulu to Oakland, California. Are you a nervous flyer?  My first experience with aircraft -even though I wanted to be a jet pilot in the air force when I was 18 - was in a biplane when I was in my early fifties, and no, I wasn't nervous. 

8) Also in 1935, The Hoover Dam was dedicated. Today it's a popular tourist attraction, with more than 7 million visitors each year. Have you ever been to Las Vegas?  I've been THROUGH Las Vegas dozen's of times coming and going to rock hound gatherings, but never stopped for anything but gas. 

We went out to the back-of-beyond to go dig rocks out in various desert locations. We never had the time to stop- nor even the desire to see - anymore of it than we had to endure.  lol

9) Random question: You get a spur-of-the-moment invitation to a meal with your best friend. Could you go wearing what you have on right now? Oddly, yes.  Mostly in the afternoon, I'm wearing one of three or four of the dresses I possess. I wish I had more of them but, alas, the company went out of business before making more than two designs. 

Thanks Sam!  I hope to get back into the swing of getting my butt in front of the desk top and typing out Saturday9's. I'm not good on a tablet anymore.  They keep changing things! 

SUNDAY KOMEEKZ

 

Saturday 9: Shoo Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy)

I know… I’m no fun anymore …. We are at war…we just don’t know it yet… this is my last Saturday 9.  I bid you peace.  ☮️ you are all so wonderful.  

Stay sunny! 😎 

Shoo Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy) – 1946

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

This month Saturday 9 will be tasty, featuring songs with food in the title.

1) Shoo fly pie got its name from Shoo Fly the Boxing Mule. After the Civil War, the mule who could box was such a popular circus attraction that a molasses manufacturer started featuring him on their packaging. Since molasses is the key ingredient of this pie recipe, homemakers just began referring to it as "shoo fly pie." If we looked, would we find molasses in your kitchen?

Yes.  I've used molasses since I started baking as a kid.  My mom used it, too.  I like it better than white sugar.  

Here's a tip:  You can even "make" brown sugar by using granulated sugar with a little molasses stirred through it.

2) Apple pan dowdy is another uniquely American recipe from the 19th century. It's like apple pie, except it only has a top crust, which is broken up. Apples are a good source of fiber, Vitamin C and antioxidants. Do you consider nutrition when choosing a dessert? Or are you just all about how it tastes?  I just consider how it tastes, but fresh fruit is dessert sometimes anyway, and it's plenty sweet as it is. But I've found That since I no longer have a sense of smell after a calamitous fall in the kitchen several years ago , that a baked dessert usually is tasteless unless it's sweetened quite a lot.  I basically can only taste, the fab four.  Sweet, sour, bitter and salt.    

3) The lyrics describe these two desserts as the ultimate comfort foods, able to make "the sun come out when the heavens are cloudy." Do you find that the foods you crave change with your mood?  Yes.  Especially anything with dark chocolate in it, I can't taste it but the sweet and the texture and lovely memories of it carry it off.  And, I love, LOVE salty things.

4) Singer June Christy pleads with her mama to whip up this "wonderful stuff." Did your mother have a dish you often requested?  Having been raised on a farm, we ate what was before us, and didn't request anything other than the fudge Mom occasionally made from Hershey's cocoa. Later on, she had a job at the See's Candy Store, but it was a neighbor gave her the recipe for "See's Candy Fudge", really a reverse engineering coup, which I have made many, many times over the years. The newer ones printed on the back of the marshmallow jars are creamier but just as good. If my original card hasn't walked off with one of the kids, I still have the recipe mother wrote out.   

5) June was born in Springfield, Illinois' capital. Have you been to your state's capital city?  No, and probably because we stay along the mountains going north through Bishop, or stay on the coast when we go north to San Francisco.  The state capital is in the valley between. I once had a pen pal who lived there, and I wanted to go see her, but the pandemic and and a knee operation but "Paid" to that little excursion. 

6) June spent years singing with Stan Kenton's Orchestra. At one point, she gave 38 performances in 35 towns in 35 days. That's a busy schedule! Do you thrive on activity? Or do you find yourself rejuvenated by quiet time? At my age, quiet time is absolutely a great, and desired, event.  I've run around little a headless chicken so long in this life, that having time to "lolligag" is pure Heaven.  

7) In 1946, when this record was popular, bikinis were first seen in Paris fashion shows. How often have you worn your swimsuit this summer?  

😆😆     

8) Also in 1946, Elias Tupper invented Tupperware, a plastic container with an airtight top that's great for preserving leftovers. Are there any leftovers in your refrigerator right now?  Hold on.  I need to got look.  Well, I have a shed load of it.  It's lovely.... but I'm not the cook anymore so I must investigate whether my chemist Hubby has is growing any interesting Mold Cultures  in the fridge.....

9) Random question: Is there a day of the week that goes by faster than the others?  The day before the one with a doctor's appointment in it.  

 

Oh God..... And THANK YOU Robert Reich

Oh God Help US! 

And yes,  I am  WORRIED AS HELL!  

A direct quote from the Soviet Secret Agent in Charge at the white house:

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Trump’s View of Everything in the World Vassals, Mooches, and Thugs (oh my) Robert Reich Aug 21   READ IN APP   Friends, Trump says he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” military drills with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un” — whom he calls “unthreatening and respectful.”

Very VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW….

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/venality-cupidity-and-corruption?r=fb32d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I hope this link works. It’s the best summary of the whole path to bringing down the American Dream for the people who actually do the WORK. I think Robert Reich is one of the finest minds and most important voices in our country.  Forget left or right wings for awhile and think of the eagle 🦅 in the middle…that’s where “we, the people” actually are. 

Three on Thursday:

Why I hate Desktops.... much b*tchiness ensues....

1.  There is a Huge Difference between the way that a desktop handles a blog and an iPad does it.  

2. Things that used to be easy-peasy are now hair pulling events of long duration.  I am twisted like a pretzel as I type this in a in tiny, unreadable font.

3. I'm renaming my desktop:  "Bite Me!"  AND.....If it wasn't so pricey to wreck a tower, I'd be sticking a long Phillips screwdriver into it's disc drive because that's actually its mouth.  It needs to know PAIN!

St. Michael is my Hero Saint.  He will take care of this!

 

Wordless Wednesday: Shhhh.

Wordless Wednesday: Shhh

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE...

🙏The difference between Sanity and INsanity is a VERY THIN LINE! 🙏 

I'm reading a book by Jane Smiley that I don't want to end.  However ..... I want to know whether Liddy "gets religion" or not.  Lol.  

👹

No, I just want to know if she remarries the Pastor or the Race Horse Owner.   The book is called, 

The Continuing Adventures of Liddy Newton.

It's a sequel to the first book with a similar name, only THAT volume deals with the earlier episodes in the life of Liddy.  Read that one first, if you have a mind to read them at all.