Freeser from Hungary

Don't wait too long GmaJackie.

Or you might miss the Turning o' th' Page.

Maen all.

I think I' try for a cereal post...

... or is that a Post cereal...

Would you mind if I call it a 'Kellog Cereal serial post?'

What ever you call it, I think this qualifies.

OK, enough for now... Don't want to do a whole page by myself. Off to the Medium, Hard, and Tough.

Good Maen all! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late for a very important date!"...with you all!!!
Slept in a bit.
Captain J - nice to see you joining right in. That hot cocoa sounds yummy.
Looks like most of you are just babbling to yourselves. I think I'll go work some puzzles and come back to others posting (I hope!)

BTW - Shiela - glad to see your power is up. Mr. VV tells me that a huge snow storm hit your area...something about no Vikings game today because of snow load collapse of the dome???

dino - love the stone contrast of the alabaster against the red/pink.

maen all Y'all

Coffee's on. Help yourselves.

Today's history lesson -- Kentucky. (This may help explain Heidi & Gmajackie, as if they need explaining...)

Those of you who live in Kentucky you might find this interesting... And for those of you who don't, YOU might also find this interesting.

1792 - Kentucky was the first state on the western frontier to join the Union.

1816 - First promotion of Mammoth Cave, as a tourist destination, with 336+ miles of mapped passages, is the world's longest cave. It is 379 feet deep and contains at least 5 levels of passages... It's second only to Niagara Falls as the most popular tourist attraction in the US... It became a National Park on July 1, 1941.

1856 - The first enamel bathtub was made in Louisville...

1883 - The first electric light bulb was shown in Louisville. Thomas Alva Edison introduced his invention to crowds at the Southern Exposition.

1887 - Mother's Day was first observed in Henderson by teacher Mary S. Wilson. It became a national holiday in 1916.

1893 - 'Happy Birthday to You', probably the most sung song in the world, was written by two Louisville sisters - Mildred and Patricia Hill.

Late 19th century - Bibb lettuce was first cultivated by Jack Bibb in Frankfort, Kentucky.

1896 - The first (known) set of all male quintuplets was born in Paducah.

1934 - Cheeseburgers were first tasted at Kaelin's Restaurant in Louisville.

1937 - The first Wigwam Village Motel, with units in the shape of a 'teepee', was built by Frank A. Redford in Cave City.

The world's largest baseball bat, a full one hundred twenty (120) feet tall and weighing 68,000 pounds, can be seen at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville (Jefferson Co.).

Hey, Jerry, thanks for the coffee - and thanks for posting your recipes!

Chevrolet Corvettes are manufactured only in Bowling Green.

Covington (St. Mary's Cathedral-Basilica of the Assumption) is home to the world's largest hand blown stained glass window in existence. It measures an astounding 24 feet by 67 feet and contains 117 different figures.

The world's largest crucifix, standing at sixty (60) feet tall, is in Bardstown (Nelson Co.).

Fort Knox holds more than $6 billion worth of gold - the largest amount stored anywhere in the world.

The JIF plant in Lexington is the world's largest peanut butter producing facility.

Kentucky has more resort parks than any other state in the nation.

Newport is home to The World Peace Bell, the world's largest free-swinging bell.

Pike County is the world's largest producer of coal.

Pikeville annually leads the nation (per capita) in consumption of Pepsi-Cola.

Post-It Notes are made exclusively in Cynthiana , Ky.

Shaker Village ( Pleasant Hill ) is the largest historic community of its kind in the United States.

Christian County is 'wet', while Bourbon County is 'dry'. (‘Wet 'sells liquor; 'dry' does not.)

Barren County has the most fertile land in the state.

Lake Cumberland has more miles of shoreline than the state of Florida...

Kentucky is best known for its beautiful blue grass. And, let us not forget about the basketball and the Race Horses!!

And Sunny California is no longer where the beautiful people come from; it’s from under the Blue Moon of Kentucky where many of ’em start! Turns out us Hillbillies are Mighty Purdy to Y'all!! :

Celebrities Born and/or raised in KY:

George Clooney (Sexiest Man Alive)
Johnny Depp (Sexiest Man Alive)
Tom Cruise (Sexiest Man Alive)
Ashley Judd (one of the sexiest women alive!)
Nick Lachey
Kevin Ricardson (Backstreet Boy)
Brian Litrell (Backstreet Boy)
Lee Majors
Muhammad Ali
Victor Mature
Annie Potts (Designing Women)
Sean Young
Dwight Yoakam (singer/actor; Slingblade, Roswell ,Panic Room)
Diane Sawyer
John Carpenter (Director)
Ned Beatty (Back to School, Deliverance, Life)
Harry Dean Stanton (Molly Ringwald’s Dad in Pretty in Pink)
Florence Henderson (Mrs Brady)
Billy Ray Cyrus (thus his daughter "Hannah Montana"....once removed!)
Chuck Woolery
James Best (sheriff on Dukes of Hazard)
Charles Napier ("Bureaucrat tryin’ to save his ass" in Rambo II)
Don Everly
Naomi Judd
Winona Judd
Bill Monroe (Father of Bluegrass )
Tom T. Hall
John Michael Montgomery
Loretta Lynn (First Lady of Country Music)
Dwain Messer
Patti Loveless
Ricky Skaggs
Keith Whitley
Rosemary Clooney
The Trollinger Brothers
Just to name a few...

And then there more interesting things
about this state..............For example, below are some 'rules for rural ' Kentucky '.

THE RULES OF RURAL Kentucky ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Listen up City Slickers!

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Turn your cap right, your head isn't crooked.

3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'dirt road.' I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.

4. They are cattle. They're live steaks. That's why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? Rt. 80 goes east and west; I-75 goes north and south. Pick one.

5. So you have a $60,000 car. We're impressed. We have $150,000 corn pickers and hay balers that are driven only 3 weeks a year.

6. So every person in Southern Kentucky waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

8. Yeah, we eat taters & gravy, beans & cornbread. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available, at the corner bait shop.

9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.

11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak. Or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.


12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup...

13. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.

14. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

15. We have a whole ton of folks in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. So don't mess with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best...

16. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump crap ain't music, anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers. Refer back to #1.

17. Four inches isn't a blizzard - it's a flurry. Drive like you got some sense in it, and DON'T take all our bread, milk, and bleach from the grocery stores. This ain't Alaska, worst case you may have to live a whole day without croissants. The pickups with snow blades will have you out the next day.

18. Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. ... It's about learning to dance in the rain!

all.
Jerry, very interesting info on Kentucky! Are you from Kentucky perchance?

To: Lindy, Suzy and Johnno
TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday To Ya…

Good Morning, everyone!
This one's for all the cat lovers.

The answer to yesterday's puzzle: Roll them on a flat, level surface. The hollow one will roll further. Or, spin them and see which one is harder to stop. The solid one will be.

For those nocturnal trips to the loo, the goes to: The Phantom (who had the answers I had), Grass-hopper (who dried off long enough to send the "spin" answer).
The nocturnal loo seat also goes to: Dorthea (who expected the hollow one would float), the lurker (who expected the hollow one to resonate more if whacked), and, my personal favorite answer, Heidi (who would simply ask the mysterious stranger which was which)

No, Kathy, I'm not. An old Navy buddy, who is, sent me the info...

Hal - quite the CP today & at the top of the page, too! I think you get bonus points for that!

There was one sentence that wouldn't post. Don't know what the hall monitor found offensive...

meep

Hi, Neil

Time to go read form the top.

Weather a big concern for lots of us today - liquid precipitation in Oz & the frozen kind in the U.S. My daughter & her FL family are on their way to Minneapolis as I write this Sure hope the airport & roads are cleared by the time they get there. They will then connect to Green Bay, WI, rent a car & drive up to the ski resort at Big Powderhorn in Bessemer, Michigan. Maybe I hoped just a little too hard for fresh snow for them?

Kathy, I loved your Sherlock Holmes joke yesterday!
Sue from OK - waiting to hear how your meet up with Karen went yesterday. Did you take any pictures to share with us?

Jane, you are welcome, I'm sure...

Jerry, love those "Rules"! Sensible folks, those Kentuckians
I think #'s 1, 2, and 16 are pretty universal.

Just a few more days and the topside days will start getting longer, again. Hooray!

Jane - I'm glad you weren't driving up to Cleveland this weekend. Hope all of our Sudoku family & other families on the roads (both in U.S. & Oz) stay safe I'll be worrying about my daughter, SIL, & grandies all day.

Kathy, I agree. I think #5 kind of puts things in perspective also.

It's so close...

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