Surely got to be somewhat tongue in cheek

I found a nice hard cover copy of Julia Child's "Julia's Kitchen Wisdom" 'Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking' at the thrift shop last week. It's a very useful little book.

CPB changes it's bylaws to bypass the orange one. . . https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5303820-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-donald-trump-firings/

Link to video Clearly, imho.

My Ukrainian student and I did a review of how to pronounce beer-bear-bare. She was pronouncing "bear" more like "beer". Hilarity ensued.

Happy Birthday!

We need to see more of glamorous Melania. Have you seen her recently? Mind you, there's a funny new bump on the Whitehouse lawn

@wtg Lovely Thank you

I love them in pots on the deck. So easy to step out and clip what I need.

I'm confused. We've had "densified wood" for over 40 years now.

If you only do what you've always done, you will get what you've always gotten. I've long thought American foreign policy there was misguided.

@Bernard said in School bus drives off the road: Am I being ageist, or shouldn't there be an age limit for school bus drivers? I don't think you're being ageist. Aren't there stats about the age beyond which reflexes are slowed enough to be concerning? What age do most states require drivers to do actually driving tests, 70? Should that be the cut off for commercial drivers maybe? Or am I missing something?

It sure is @mark bait!!

I still prefer a knife (santoku), to cut slices depending on the arrangement of the toppings.

You mean like eventually or our King is but yours isn't

I think the butterfly pea tincture is the only one I've had. There's a Vietnamese restaurant a couple of blocks from our house that serves very good food, but isn't particularly pretentious, so the apparent sophistication (and by this I mean that I'm not particularly sophisticated in such things and may be wrong) of their seasonal cocktails surprises me. Anyway, that's where I had the butterfly pea cocktail. It's actually the only coctail I've had there that was mildly disappointing, but it wasn't the butterfly pea ingredient that I didn't enjoy. I just found the drink to be a little weak and astringent, like maybe it had too much soda water. We took some out-of-town guests there last night and I had a cocktail that was so good that my friend ordered one for herself. It had cognac, Grand Marnier, blood orange liquer, orange juice, ginger marmalade, lemon juice, and orange bitters. My friend had just told me earlier in the day that she wanted to try a variation on a margarita that she'd heard about, where the traditional margarita is shaken with orange marmalade, so maybe marmalade is becoming popular as a cocktail ingredient? Maybe it's been popular for years. It's certainly less exotic that the ingredients in the article. As I said, I'm not particularly sophisticated in this area. In any case, the drink was really tasty!