Wow! Thay are so beautiful. Thanks, Neatorama. For this article and the MBARI underwater deep sea video. Your site comes up with some mighty impressive articles and I am the better for them.Happy holidays, folks!
I'm a hard core Coca-Cola fan - in glass bottles and made with sugar, not corn syrup - but I must admit that pineapple Fanta is my 3rd favorite carbonated drink. Reed's extra ginger beer in glass bottles - avoid the canned ones because they taste much differently than the other ones - is my second choice of drink. But I totally love my Soda-Stream! Plain carbonated water is the best, IMO.
I was 3 when I learned how to read a clock. My mother had bought me a 'little golden book' that had a story and a page with a clock with moveable arms. I thought that was a swell book!
I thought the word would have been 'authentic' or 'authenticity'. It was so prevalent in so many comments by famous people that I wanted to scream. Now, 'slop'? I never would have picked that word. Not in a million years.
When I lived in Massachusetts we lived next to a golf course. This was in 1960. Our backyard abutted the wooded and wet land that had a winding stream on it. It meandered back and forth in a tight configuration. A small barbed wire fence split the 2 properties but there was a good 3 foot opening under the wire that my brother and I easily ducked under. We were walking around in the stream and the sandy soil. Wild ferns, tiny pine cones, green little fish and turtle eggs looking like golf balls lay partially hidden on the banks of the stream. And quicksand, which my brother sank into. A large uprooted tree lay nearby. I watched him sink into the quicksand and my childish brain hoped he would sink lower and lower until only a dead hand raised in supplication to the sky with no one to save him would remain. No such luck. He yelled for me to go get help. I just watched and waited. After all, this was my tormentor, the one who enjoyed punching me. Maybe karma would come calling today? Nope. He grabbed a tree root and very slowly pulled himself out of the quicksand. bah
Do you remember back in the 80's (90's?) when everyone seemed to be making cinnamon gingerbread Christmas tree ornaments? I think they had lots of cups of cinnamon and used gingerbread as a medium to hold it all together? I may be wrong about the gingerbread. But those ultra cinnamon smelling ornaments could bring on a headache if you were around them for long.
White - one of the hardest colors to wear. Stains stand out the most on white. Just a drop of color draws the eye to it. White is associated with weddings. It shows off dog and cat hair way too well. It shows dirt on hems that you can't hide. White clothing carries a higher stress level from the wearer's concern for stains and blemishes, etc. White coloring is just too much trouble for every day wear.
In all my years I have never had gingerbread do what I want it to do. It crumbles, it splits, it sags!!! It won't stand up or stick. It's too soft or hard as a brick. I have never had a gingerbread house stand and stay as a "house". I put jello at the top of my food list of items I deeply dislike. Gingerbread is #2. You want gingerbread cookies? I can do that! You want a house? Leave. grrr