We're still getting heat during the day, but the nights bring a crispness in the air. Is Fall coming? You bet...and more rain than we've seen for a loooong time. In fact, Denver broke a 64-year-old record.
I'm planting more greens, hoping that they'll grow during the cool weather. The grasshoppers that took out everything else may be getting fewer. Are the cooler temps killing them off -- or is it just my wishful thinking?
P.S. Does it ever snow in August in Colorado? I remember one August 1 snowstorm in the past. (My poor tomato plants.) Yes, it did snow on Pike's Peak this weekend. Other mountains are slated to get some, too. (Daughter #2 and Son #1, up in Nederland, tell me it's plenty cold there -- but no snow yet.)
Hopefully it will take out even more grasshoppers.
Things you should consider buying at a dollar store -- 21 of them.
Octomom's youngest 8 children start the eighth grade! (She has six more older kids, too. She's rarely in the news now, after cleaning up her act. Good for her. )
The Feds have raised interest rates again. Not much -- but it's the fourth time this year.
Wait a minute -- the migrants being bussed to other cities are generally GLAD to go??
The church that had its Covid fines dropped -- big-time.
A Colorado person is caught on camera. Could this be the poacher who took a moose's life -- and left it to rot? If you live here, do you know this person?
A classic look back by yours truly at another hailstorm -- and it was bad. Worse than what we just went through. (And that was bad enough.)
Ten famous authors with failed books. This is actually quite encouraging to someone like me...one of my books was slow to sell at first. On the other hand, a very silly one (Hanky Panky) sold extremely well from the start!
J. K. Rowling states: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
She's right.
Barbara Brackman surprises, by remembering a block ID I'd mentioned a while back... thank you, Material Culture!
Salers cheese -- the first time in 2000 years that this cheese has not been produced. (Not enough grass for the cows, so not enough milk, French authorities explain.)
The book returned to a New York public library -- 75 years late. (Fortunately, the library system doesn't charge for overdue books anymore.)
Don't go to this oyster bar on the Greek island of Mykonos -- you'll get shafted, along with the oysters!
Updates to my 'small-minded' post, after I got a going-over on FB. NOTE: Don't read this if you're not politically-minded about the recent Mar-A-Lago raid. The whole mess is not pretty. ( I don't mind taking heat for mistakes...but I draw the line at truthfulness, whether it's palatable or not. And this is one case of it, Gentle Readers.)
Dueling son and grandson, over Charles Manson's estate. Or are they? (Didn't Manson have SOME DNA on record, so testing could answer this??)
A bunch of questions we should have known the answers to...including whether any of the Ancient Wonders of the World exist. (One does!)
Just two ingredients for peanut butter cookies? Wow...
Cuban stew with black beans. Yum. (From Cooking on A Bootstrap)
A 'boring bookshelf' -- before and after. Beautiful!
Fifteen stories of time travel. Some of these are hard to explain, otherwise-- especially the Goddard and Moberly/Jourdain accounts.
A pre-Viking arrow found... in a Norwegian glacier! Also...
Ten treasures hiding in plain sight.
Ten famous artists who died penniless.
Two sons lost -- after the funeral of his older brother, the younger rushes out into the street and is hit by a car. What a sad story.
Warren Buffett sells his holdings on four stocks. Is this important... or not?
This one's REALLY weird -- an Italian who taught himself to mummify body parts, organs, etc. so they resembled stone - yet were realistic. The scagliola tabletop shown in this link was made from preserved organs!
The Rosenbach Library just got a $250,000 grant to make its collections available to the public online. It's got some incredibly rare stuff, including the 1544 first book to be published in North America. Also the Maurice Sendak collection:
"A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it [Sendak wrote, after he published Where the Wild Things Are]. I loved it. I answer all my children's letters – sometimes very hastily – but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card.' Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said: 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it.' That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."
The most expensive artifacts in the world -- as of 2022.
Have a good week.
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