Willy Or Won't He – So Many Years of Experience But Still Making Mistakes!

Memes for a Monday

I will let the first meme be my thoughts on the recent spat of “weather” Mom Earth has unleashed upon us. In the meantime I’m making a grocery list of the things I need for a Dutch Baby for Shrove Tuesday as I want us to be truly shriven.

And now that his wife made it he better damn well wear it.

See above.

A friend sent me the perfect settings to enhance a selfie on an iPhone. I’ll have to look them up.

Funny I think “nap” sounds perfectly delightful.

And it tastes like something created by a committee.

POV!

A bit of unknown history.

Follow me for more dating tips.

Surprise!

Again with the Noah.

I still say there’s nothing wrong with a banjo.

Or soggy cardboard.

But I noticed they have buns of steel.

I probably said it before but I’ll say it again:

The word for February 16th is:
Shriven / ˈʃrɪv ən /: [archaic verb]
Past participle of the verb Shrive
1.1 (of a priest) to hear the confession of, assign penance to, and absolve (someone).
1.2 to present oneself to a priest for confession, penance, and absolution.
Old English scrīfan ‘impose as a penance’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijven and German schreiben ‘write’, from Latin scribere ‘write’.

Memes for a Monday

Because I know that I disappointed my faithful reader by being a nosho* last week I am posting a plethora of memes this week. I know it means a lot to you.

Let’s get the required Olympic meme out of the way now.

I believe this is from Mambo in Maine, a little know RKO musical.

I see they forgot the knight who like steaks – Sir Loin.

Moments to remember.

I didn’t realize how real this was going to be.

Or on a Carnival cruise.

I just got the new Photo Shop Elements – it’s changed! Okay!

For Dr Spo at the Mesa Office.

The requisite Biblical meme.

No comment.

Must be from New York City.

I don’t often do political, but this is a winner.

Where are the marshmallows.s

And never the twain shall meet.

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos at work

No one I know.

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intell… – never mind.

I’m honestly at a lose.

And to end – a project for Valentine’s Day?

*A term from my airline days bck in the last century.

The word for February 9^th is:
Knight /nīt/: [^1.noun ^2. verb]
^1.1 A man holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country.
^1.2A medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted man-at-arms to a feudal landholder.
^1.3A medieval gentleman-soldier, usually high-born, raised by a sovereign to privileged military status after training as a page and squire.
^2.1 To raise (someone) to knighthood
From Middle English knight, kniht, from Old English cniht, cneht, cneoht (“boy, youth, servant, attendant, retainer, disciple, warrior, boyhood, junior member of a guild”), from Proto-Germanic *knehtaz .

Throwback Thursday

In which a conversation on buying new glasses is recalled.

Laurent paid a visit to his optometrist today to have his eyes checked and get a new set of frames. He wasn’t decided on any particular type of frame and looked at several styles. It reminded us of a similar situation I had in Rome back in 2009. And I recalled the advise my friend Marco the Napolitano gave me about the protocol for choosing new frames. (Click on the link below.)

Guys Never Make Passes…

Laurent and I will go back to the Vision Centre tomorrow and follow Marco’s admonition on how to make the final decision.

The word for January 29th is
Optometrist /ŏp-tŏm′ĭ-trĭst/: [noun]
A person who is professionally trained and licensed to examine the eyes for visual defects, diagnose problems or impairments, and prescribe corrective lenses or provide other types of treatment.
From the Greek words opsis, meaning “view,” and metron meaning “measure.” First used in 1903.

What’s Cooking

It’s been almost a year since I posted a What’s Cooking – not that I haven’t been cooking just that I really haven’t been blogging much. I’m going to try and change that in the next little while. Not a promise but more of a threat.

Years ago -long before I became a lazy old retired fart – I had Madame Benoît’s Encyclepedia of Microwave Cooking. Mme Jahane Benoît was a Canadian cultural icon who wrote 30 cookbooks, opened one of the first vegetarian restaurants in Canada (1935) and appeared on nationwide radio and television. After years of cooking using conventional methods ie. wood/electric/gas she became a champion of microwaves*. Her last cookbook was a hefty tome of some 670 pages of recipes using the microwave.

“And what,” queries my faithful reader “does this have to do with anything?” Well one of those recipes was for a side dish of peas and celery and I decided it would make a nice change with our lamb chops. Of course the cookbook disappeared in the last downsizing and the recipe disappeared from my memory bank. In a search for it I came across this recipe on the Mennonite Girls Can Cook website.

And, you should excuse the pun, it’s easy peasy.

Peas and Celery
From Bev at Mennonite Girls Can Cook
Serves: 4-6 as a side dish
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes

Ingredients
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1/4 red pepper, chopped
4 cups fresh or frozen sweet peas
1 teaspoon sugar, if desired
more butter to glaze

Preparation
Melt butter in frying pan and saute’ onion, celery, and red pepper.
Microwave peas with sugar (if using) until tender, or heat in a small amount of water on the stove.
In serving bowl, toss peas with sauteed vegetables and a bit more butter and serve.

I’ve since tried the same thing with frozen green beans – it adds a bit of zing to your every day side dish.

*At parties I could be persuaded to do my impression of her Panasonic Microwave ad. All it took was one drink and one person to ask.

The word for January 27^th is:
Mennonite / ˈmɛn əˌnaɪt /: [noun]
A Mennonite is a member of various Protestant groups that originated from the Anabaptist movement in the 16th century, characterized by their emphasis on adult baptism, pacifism, community living, and often plain dress. They are named after Menno Simons (1492–1559), a key leader in the movement.

Memes for a Monday

We were promised a snowmageddon was heading our way from the southwest in the form of a violent nor’easter*. Temperatures did dip down to -35c (-31f) and the snow is light but constant and will be for the next two days. As always it is always that bloody wind that piles the white stuff up and drives the temperature down. I think we’ll just stay in and watch the last two episodes of Heated Rivalry. That should keep us ~~hot~~ warm.

I was always told to only confess the things I was really sorry for.

He was getting a buzz cut.

The defence of the Baby Boomer.

A musical joke.

True this.

Bet he was using Voice Identification.

I was told the other day that men my age shouldn’t wear hoddies. What do you think?

For someone I know who repeatedly writes that he “has no life”.

Someone has too much time on their hands.

Snatched from the headlines.

I’m still wondering who was the first person to think “gosh I wonder if these things are edible?”

This one is for classical hardliners.

And as always ending on a philosophical note.

The word for January 26^th is:
Snowmageddon: [portmanteau noun]
1.1 A severe blizzard or series of blizzards affecting one locale or area.
A combination of Snow /snō/ and Armageddon / ˌɑr məˈgɛd n / suggesting a snowstorm of catastrophic proportions first used by the Canadian press in 2009. Along with Snowpocalypse, and Snowzilla it has become the standard media description of such natural events.

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