Sunday, January 22, 2023

Monday Stuff On the Way to Other Stuff: Finishing Off January

 The Denver Stock Show finished up this weekend. 

I should be embarrassed to admit that we have never in nearly 40 years of living in Colorado, gone to the Stock Show. Sometime I hope to. 

     There is one very interesting event -- the Grand Champion Steers are invited into the Brown Palace, a very snooty hotel, for afternoon tea. Yes, you got it -- gracious music, fine linen, tiny sandwiches, teapots...and two very hairy Black Angus puffing away in a small corral, not far from the Christmas tree. Seventy-seven years for this Colorado tradition!

     Another quiet week. The Brick put in a lot of work on the tractor. (We need it to keep the driveway plowed, out here in the boonies.) I did some appraisals, cooked some, read some -- and slept a lot after flu reared its ugly head. We also got more than a foot of snow. More is expected. 



Meanwhile:

19 ways your income tax credits -- and taxes -- are going to change for 2022. Time to start working on these, if you haven't done so already.

The oldest-known surviving books in the world.

So much for the Florida 'hurricane-proof' dome homes on the ocean -- Hurricane Ian finished them off last September. 

A lost diver miraculously found in the middle of the ocean -- by his family, who went out to search for him. Nearly four hours and two miles later. Yay, God!

Decisions that unexpectedly made you a lot of money. I love these Quora confessionals.

Kim Kardashian buys a 'Diana' necklace. And pays big bucks for it, too...



The lights haven't gone off for more than a year at a Massachusetts school -- because the software program set up to run them failed. And no one's figured out how to turn the software off!

How to make a tomato pincushion...a fun quickie craft--and present for a dull winter's day. (From One Hundred Dollars A Month)



 Dozens of restaurant copycat recipes... from Betty Crocker.

The turned, twisted and fascinating story of Benedict Cumberbatch's slave-owning ancestors. Remarkably, some of them were ex-slaves themselves. (Now what do you do with the reparations debate, in this case??)


From the Department of "We Know Best:" a 'family man's' relatives write him a glowing obituary as a devoted father.  They just omit that he happened to murder the five kids he loved so much, plus their mom, before he offed himself. Hey, nothing to see here -- move along.

All the things you didn't know about redheads -- that were true.

A Sunday tea tray supper -- recipes included.  (From Lavender and Lovage)

If you're into Star Wars memorabilia -- an auction to watch. 

A very nice off-grid cabin -- explained in detail.  


Ten medieval era recipes you can actually make!

Ten ghost stories from above the Arctic Circle.

'Arctic zombies' -- and more scary stories yanked from Canada's history.

GoFundMe campaigns you DON'T want to give to.

A 17th-century baby portrait -- found on the back of a door.

Hansons Auctioneers - Verkins 1626 

This is a weird one -- artist Peter Doig finally gets a gallery to stop forcing him to acknowledge making a painting -- that Peter DOIGE, not Doig, painted! (The gallery gets penalized financially, too.) I've been following this story for some time -- the painting's owner has been insisting that it was Doig's work, and trying to sell it under that name. Doig kept saying it wasn't. 

Here's another odd-but-true one: after 5 years by himself, a lion is learning to roar again. 


Have a good week.




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