Tomorrow - Saturday - is National Rose Day. And if this laptop was smarter, it would have added the little funny mark over the "e" in rose. Or if I were smarter, I'd have figured out how to do it. We are dealing with rose-a today. We're all clear on that, right?
Special products have been created to mark this auspicious occasion. As listed in the Daily Mail:
Rose-infused white chocolate bar $9.95 but it looked to be a good size, not one of those little mini-bars.
Rose donuts - $3.50 each For that much for a donut, I think I'd rather buy a nice glass of icy cold rose.
Rose lollipops - they cheat and add fruit juices - 10 for $35. But they are wrapped in gold foil.
Rose cupcakes - the cupcake is soaked in rose and frosted with strawberry cream cheese frosting. $3 each.
A different rose ...
Not to be outshone by the above (located mainly in Manhattan) Redondo Beach has a source for rose water and rose ice cream and that is the Artesia Produce and Meat Market, at 2322 Artesia, Redondo Beach. It used to be Sam's Int'l Market and it hasn't changed a bit except for the addition of a weekend open pit barbecue out front selling tacos and quesadillas. The guacamole and hand-made salsa are back in the (refrigerated) meat department every day.
Many of the canned goods have Arabic script writing on them. This is very exotic if you are a person who grew up in Kansas City, MO, where the only French-fried shrimp we ever saw came out of a box. Because they were frozen. Downtown had a very popular Italian restaurant which did a landslide business because no one had ever seen spaghetti and meatballs.
Back to the market. I noticed most of a shelf of bottles marked rose water (the flower) and I asked the cashier about them. She told me that Arabic women consider it a beauty treatment and splash their clean faces with it.
I didn't need any explanation for the Rose Ice Cream. Out of sheer curiosity I bought a pint of it. It was rich, creamy and tasted like vanilla which is not a bad thing, but it is not the same flavor as, say, chewing a handful of rose petals. And if you own the rose bush, considerably cheaper.
I must have been prescient because last week, long before I'd ever heard of National Rose Day, I bought a bottle at Trader Joe's. it can loll in the refrigerator the rest of today and through the night and it will be properly chilled tomorrow. Rose on high-fiber cereal do you think?
Friday, June 9, 2017
Thursday, June 8, 2017
An Unlikely Birthday Party ...
After a quick skim of the headlines and either a few disbelieving snorts or else a frown, I turn to Today's Birthdays. Many mornings I am somewhat surprised to see that so-and-so is still on our side of the grass. Without having given the person much, if any, thought - there is the reminder. I often have a kind of guilty feeling for having not paid attention and just assumed the worst .
Such was the case with today's list, namely Jerry Stiller who turned 90. He's Ben Stiller's Dad. He and Ben's mother Anne Meara, who died in 2015 age 85, were a famous comedy duo back in the day and if he's 90 today, it was some days ago.
Much better know and certainly much more visible is Barbara Bush who is 92 today. Husband George H.W. will be 93 next Monday. Both have been in and out of the hospital for some time, which was always reported in the media. Given today's media attitude, it may have been wishful thinking on the part of such as CNN, the NY and LA Times or the Washington Post that they could finally run the obits they had been feverishly clinging to, for a long time.
Nancy Sinatra, 77, and Boz Scaggs, 73, might favor the crowd with a musical number or two.
Scott Adams is 60 today. Don't recognize the name? He's the cartoonist and hero of the cubicle crowd who creates "Dilbert."
The person that is truly deserving of our best birthday wishes is former U.S. Rep, Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona who is a hard-fought 47 today. Being shot in the head can really slow down the aging process.
Such was the case with today's list, namely Jerry Stiller who turned 90. He's Ben Stiller's Dad. He and Ben's mother Anne Meara, who died in 2015 age 85, were a famous comedy duo back in the day and if he's 90 today, it was some days ago.
Much better know and certainly much more visible is Barbara Bush who is 92 today. Husband George H.W. will be 93 next Monday. Both have been in and out of the hospital for some time, which was always reported in the media. Given today's media attitude, it may have been wishful thinking on the part of such as CNN, the NY and LA Times or the Washington Post that they could finally run the obits they had been feverishly clinging to, for a long time.
Nancy Sinatra, 77, and Boz Scaggs, 73, might favor the crowd with a musical number or two.
Scott Adams is 60 today. Don't recognize the name? He's the cartoonist and hero of the cubicle crowd who creates "Dilbert."
The person that is truly deserving of our best birthday wishes is former U.S. Rep, Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona who is a hard-fought 47 today. Being shot in the head can really slow down the aging process.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Carbon Dioxide Emmissions
Citing a June, 2016, Forbes report:
The US leads the world in reducing carbon emissions for the most recent five and 10 year periods.
The US is down 270 million tons, followed by #2 the UK with 93 million tons for the past five years.
Conversely, China leads the world in carbon emission production accounting for 1.1 billion tons and India #2 with 540 million.
Paris Accord my sweet patootie. Let all of the "world leaders" who jetted in for this exercise in futility try riding a donkey next time. Word of advice to them - start early. Donkeys aren't what they used to be.
The US leads the world in reducing carbon emissions for the most recent five and 10 year periods.
The US is down 270 million tons, followed by #2 the UK with 93 million tons for the past five years.
Conversely, China leads the world in carbon emission production accounting for 1.1 billion tons and India #2 with 540 million.
Paris Accord my sweet patootie. Let all of the "world leaders" who jetted in for this exercise in futility try riding a donkey next time. Word of advice to them - start early. Donkeys aren't what they used to be.
Monday, June 5, 2017
1921 Doings
My cousin Bill, down in South Texas, will be 96 on June 30th. Naturally there is a party planned. You don't go empty-handed to a birthday (usually) but what do you give a man 96 years old?! Surely, he has plenty of "stuff"?
I looked up June 30, 1921, but nothing appealed. When I widened the search to June, 1921, I found better stuff than limiting it to one day.
The Southwark Bridge, London, was dedicated by King George V and Queen Mary.
Brazil adopted women's suffrage.
There was a race riot in Tulsa, OK, that killed 21 whites and 60 blacks. I thought race riots were a '60s-'70s thing ...
Bessie Coleman reached France. She covered a number of firsts - first black woman, first Native American, first woman - to have earned a US pilot's license. In 2013, she was listed as #14 on Flying magazine's 51 Heroes of Aviation.
She was born in 1892 as the 10th of 13 children. Early on, she was fascinated by flying and worked two jobs to get the money for flying lessons which were denied her in America. So she went to France where she was allowed to train.
On her return, she performed in aerial circuses, but she was dead at 36. Prior to an air circus she and her mechanic and PR man, William Wills, took her plane up because she intended to do a parachute jump from it the next day and wanted to see her route to get out of the cockpit. For that reason, she wasn't wearing seat belt when the plane (which had been having mechanical difficulties) suddenly went into a dive, spun and ejected her. She fell 2,000 ft. and died instantly on impact. Wills was unable to control the plane which crashed and killed him, too.
Looking for one thing is so often the start of learning something new that you had never considered or heard of before.
I looked up June 30, 1921, but nothing appealed. When I widened the search to June, 1921, I found better stuff than limiting it to one day.
The Southwark Bridge, London, was dedicated by King George V and Queen Mary.
Brazil adopted women's suffrage.
There was a race riot in Tulsa, OK, that killed 21 whites and 60 blacks. I thought race riots were a '60s-'70s thing ...
Bessie Coleman reached France. She covered a number of firsts - first black woman, first Native American, first woman - to have earned a US pilot's license. In 2013, she was listed as #14 on Flying magazine's 51 Heroes of Aviation.
She was born in 1892 as the 10th of 13 children. Early on, she was fascinated by flying and worked two jobs to get the money for flying lessons which were denied her in America. So she went to France where she was allowed to train.
On her return, she performed in aerial circuses, but she was dead at 36. Prior to an air circus she and her mechanic and PR man, William Wills, took her plane up because she intended to do a parachute jump from it the next day and wanted to see her route to get out of the cockpit. For that reason, she wasn't wearing seat belt when the plane (which had been having mechanical difficulties) suddenly went into a dive, spun and ejected her. She fell 2,000 ft. and died instantly on impact. Wills was unable to control the plane which crashed and killed him, too.
Looking for one thing is so often the start of learning something new that you had never considered or heard of before.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Man the Barricades, London!
London has a number of bridges, many of which are tourist "must sees" and probably "must have selfie."
They also carry cars and trucks not only for transportation of goods, but as people movers.
They are vulnerable to attack.
Twice people have gotten killed on or very near them.
How can they be defended? Water-filled temporary barriers.
Now is the time to install them and separate vehicular and pedestrian traffic. They are portable, practical and quick to install. I can understand why the British might look tardy in their protection efforts after the fact, but who could possibly have guessed that IS would target a second bridge? Obviously, they did.
If traffic across the bridges is disrupted for a couple of days for installation, stiff upper lip, and be grateful such defenses exist.
Incidentally these water-filled barriers are not expensive - a California firm offers 32" x 72" for $249.95.
They also carry cars and trucks not only for transportation of goods, but as people movers.
They are vulnerable to attack.
Twice people have gotten killed on or very near them.
How can they be defended? Water-filled temporary barriers.
Now is the time to install them and separate vehicular and pedestrian traffic. They are portable, practical and quick to install. I can understand why the British might look tardy in their protection efforts after the fact, but who could possibly have guessed that IS would target a second bridge? Obviously, they did.
If traffic across the bridges is disrupted for a couple of days for installation, stiff upper lip, and be grateful such defenses exist.
Incidentally these water-filled barriers are not expensive - a California firm offers 32" x 72" for $249.95.
Friday, June 2, 2017
Well, That Didn't Last Long
Yesterday Scumderella apologized seemingly sincerely - or as sincerely as an entertainer ever gets -for her low rent sad attempt at an imitation of those Bible greats Salome and John the Baptist.
Today I read that she and her lawyer - ever notice how quickly the celebs (and I use that word sarcastically) lawyer up? will be holding a press conference to moan and gnash their collective bridgework that the Trump family is bullying Scumderella! O horrors! Scumderella? The 56 year old little daisy? This is just not to be borne!
Scumderella's lawyer is one Lisa Bloom, the daughter of Gloria Allred. Water and scum clearly seek their own level.
10 a.m. The radio news on the hour interrupted themselves to broadcast live a press conference with Lisa Bloom and Scumderella. More nerve than a government mule. Beyond disgusting - the whole affair. We didn't listen; Richie clicked it off instantly.
Today I read that she and her lawyer - ever notice how quickly the celebs (and I use that word sarcastically) lawyer up? will be holding a press conference to moan and gnash their collective bridgework that the Trump family is bullying Scumderella! O horrors! Scumderella? The 56 year old little daisy? This is just not to be borne!
Scumderella's lawyer is one Lisa Bloom, the daughter of Gloria Allred. Water and scum clearly seek their own level.
10 a.m. The radio news on the hour interrupted themselves to broadcast live a press conference with Lisa Bloom and Scumderella. More nerve than a government mule. Beyond disgusting - the whole affair. We didn't listen; Richie clicked it off instantly.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Since, Hopefully, We Won't Be Seeing Her Again ...
Kathy Griffin, age 56, became an ordained minister in the Universal One Church, of Carrabelle, FL in 2008.
Her father was 91 when he died.
She married Matt Moline in 2001; they divorced in 2006.
Her Bel Air neighbors are Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
After the first New Year's Eve ball drop, Manhattan, we forever after watched it with the sound muted. Her vulgarity was stupendous which is, I suppose, something of a compliment. It was not intended as such.
The best that could be said of her is that she (however temporarily) united both parties against her tasteless and decidedly UN funny decapitation of a sitting President of the United States. Her work is done. Now she can retire. CNN has already started the process.
Her father was 91 when he died.
She married Matt Moline in 2001; they divorced in 2006.
Her Bel Air neighbors are Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
After the first New Year's Eve ball drop, Manhattan, we forever after watched it with the sound muted. Her vulgarity was stupendous which is, I suppose, something of a compliment. It was not intended as such.
The best that could be said of her is that she (however temporarily) united both parties against her tasteless and decidedly UN funny decapitation of a sitting President of the United States. Her work is done. Now she can retire. CNN has already started the process.
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