ART, HEART, INSPIRATION, NATO ALPHABET, RIDDLE
Greetings!
Presenting Wednesday Reader line-up. A really great read today!
Beginning with:
CHRISTMAS TREE “HATS”
Check out this funky cool pic for a lot of fun inspiration (should you be attending a Christmas event)
QUICK QUESTION
What used to scare me but no longer does?
Me, being alone at home at night, You?
BE IN THE KNOW – NATO ALPHABET
Gotta read through this A -Z alphabet! Super fun. All of the words that represent the letters cannot be mistaken for another because they are specific and unique being associated with their letter of the alphabet.
LOVE AUDREY HEPBURN’S QUOTE
A parallel of Impossible to I’m Possible!
LASAGNA SOUP RECIPE
As I wrote, I was in the Sacramento area visiting family for Thanksgiving. 2 days after Thanksgiving my sister, Lisa, brought a Lasagna soup home from her local market, The Nugget (think Central Market or Whole Foods kind of cool). Lasagna soup was the bomb-a-reno!
Totally enjoyed it for lunch and then leftovers zapped in the microwave around midnight when I got up craving one more bite. Lasagna soup called out my name. It was so good.
Found this recipe which I think would be THE RECIPE or close enough.
TRACY BECKERMAN’S COLUMN
is, once again, spot on. Raise your hand if you’ve heard a Ping, Ding or Beep noise in the day or at night in your personal world! Via things like the fridge, cell phone, smoke alarm, or a snore … ha
HUNGRY ASIAN FISHING CATS
CRAZY! Gotta read to believe in Fascinating Stuff.
Thanks friends for your valuable time reading, sharing and commenting. We are grateful.
SEE YA FRIDAY
SAME TIME. SAME PLACE.
POP QUIZ
- INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA, HOSTED THE 1976 WINTER OLYMPICS AFTER WHICH CITY WON THE BID BUT DECLINED TO HOST?
a) Copenhagen
b) Denver
c) Moscow
d) Toronto - WHICH FAMOUS PAIR IS PART OF THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET?
a) Echo and Narcissus
b) Lancelot and Guinevere
c) Laurel and Hardy
d) Romeo and Juliet - THE WRANGELL MOUNTAINS AND WRANGELL-SAINT ELIAS NATIONAL PARK ARE LOCATED IN WHICH STATE?
a) Alabama
b) Alaska
c) Arizona
d) Arkansas
QUICK QUESTION
WHAT’S SOMETHING THAT USED TO SCARE YOU BUT NO LONGER DOES?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
- Innsbruck, Austria, hosted the 1976 Winter Olympics after Denver won the bid but decided not to host.
- Juliet stands for J and Romeo for R in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
- The Wrangell Mountains and Wrangell-Saint Elias National park are in Alaska.
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BE IN THE KNOW
The NATO alphabet uses words/names to represent our Alphabetic Letters.
Maybe you’ve heard pilots or military people use these words in a movie or in real life.
They were specifically chosen because they can’t be mistaken for another word when communicating over a radio — here we go:
A = Alpha
B = Bravo
C = Charlie
D = Delta
E = Echo
F = Foxtrot
G = Golf
H = Hotel
I = India
J = Juliette
K = Kilo
L = Lima (pronounced lee-ma)
M = Mike
N = November
O = Oscar
P = Papa
Q = Quebec
R = Romeo
S = Sierra
T = Tango
U = Uniform
V = Victor
W = Whiskey
X = X-Ray
Y = Yankee
Z = Zulu
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. EVEN THE WORD SAYS, I’M POSSIBLE.
~ AUDREY HEPBURN ~
“Starve the Landfills. Recycle” goes here
RIDDLE ME THIS
WHAT 4 LETTER WORD CAN BE WRITTEN FORWARD, BACKWARD OR UPSIDE DOWN, AND STILL BE READ LEFT TO RIGHT?
BEST LASAGNA SOUP RECIPE
This recipe is fantastic. Can’t even try to put a spin on it to “make it mine” sort of thing.
Here it is:
RIDDLE ANSWER
NOON
LOST IN SUBURBIA
A PING, A DING, AND A BEEP
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
Beep.
I heard the sound in my sleep. At first it was part of my dream, but I started to wake up, I realized it was actually coming from somewhere in the house. I listened closely trying to place it and realized it sounded a little like the warning sound a smoke alarm gives off when the battery is dying. At this point I was wide awake and really, really annoyed, and I decided that if the battery wasn’t dying, it was definitely going to be when I got my hands on it.
I turned to my husband and gave him a nudge.
“Did you hear that?” I asked him, but he didn’t budge. I thought about waking him up to investigate, but I try not to do that unless I hear something scary or peculiar (or the distinct sound of the dog throwing up). Of course, in the last case I wouldn’t typically wake him at all, but go back to sleep and pretend I never heard it so he would find the surprise in the morning instead of me.
I turned my head to the door and listened for the next beep. It seemed like it might be coming from the hall. But when I got to the hall, the smoke alarm was silent.
I looked down at the dog sleeping in the hall.
“Did you hear that?” I asked him. But he didn’t budge either. Apparently, the sound of his own snoring drowned it out.
The problem is we get all kinds of pings, dings and beeps in our house. The electric toothbrush in our bathroom beeps when the battery runs low. The refrigerator door pings if you leave it open too long. The microwave beeps when it’s done and so does the washing machine. My cellphone pings when I get a text, my laptops pings when I get an email and my iPad pings, I think, just so it doesn’t feel left out. In truth, at any given time, the question isn’t what is beeping or pinging, but what isn’t.
As I stood in the hall, I heard the beep again and realized it was actually coming from inside the bedroom. I went into the bathroom to check the electric toothbrush, but that wasn’t it. I checked my cellphone, but that wasn’t it. I checked the alarm clock, but that wasn’t it either. Then I heard the beep again and realized, without a doubt, it was coming from …
My husband.
I moved a little closer and waited.
Beep.
It was coming from his nose.
Some people snore. Some people whistle from their nose. And one person, apparently, beeps.
I laughed out loud and then clamped my hand over my mouth. But it was too late. I had woken my husband up.
“Hey, what’s going on?” he complained. “You woke me up.”
“It’s OK,” I replied. “You were sleeping.”
“What do you mean?” he protested. “It’s three o’clock in the morning!”
“I know. But you are definitely done,” I assured him.
“Huh? How do you know?”
“You beeped.”
~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love and Kibble”
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Fascinating Stuff
FASCINATING STUFF
- You’ve heard the expression “all’s fair in love and war”? No one would know that better than Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of both love and warfare. It’s unusual for one deity to be associated with two such conflicting “passions.” Maybe her capacity for multitasking is what made Inanna the most significant goddess in Sumerian mythology and the patron goddess of Uruk, Mesopotomia’s largest city.
- A hungry Asian fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) taps water’s surface with its paw to attract fish. When the fish pop up to investigate the hubbub, the cat dives in and grabs them. Fishing cats are naturally adapted to this un-catlike behavior. Their feet are webbed, their heads compact and their tails short. But their most distinctive adaptation is a dense, water-resistant underlayer of fur that protects their skin when they hunt in the water. They’ll even swim under unsuspecting waterfowl and tug them down by the legs.
- Sheila Young went to the 1976 Winter Olympics and came home with three medals in speed skating — gold in the 500 meters, silver in the 1,500 meters and bronze in the 1,000 meters — making her the first American athlete to win three medals at one Winter Olympics Games. That same year, she won the world sprint cycling championships, making her the first athlete anywhere to be world champion in two separate sports in the same year.
- People assumed Billy Richards, who provided the voice of Rudolph in the animated TV classic “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” was a young boy. In fact, the “Billy Richards” in the credits was actually 40 something Billie Mae Richards, a Canadian voice actress known for portraying children in radio dramas of the 1940s and ’50s.
~ COPYRIGHT 2023 LESLIE ELMAN
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Daymaker’s question: Something I used to be scared of but not anymore would be our gas lit BBQ grill. Believe me, gas grills scared me. No more, as it has become a part of the preparation for mighty good smoked meat and vegetables. .
Yes, Marty – I’m a little “lighter shy” when it comes to firing up the outside grill. But I, too, am tackling that little bit of uncomfortable. Because the results of cooked meats on the grill are hands-down BEST!
Thanks for reading + commenting.
HAPPINESS
Racing to the grocery store to acquire the ingredients for the Lasagna Soup! Sounds heavenly!
Hi Carol – It’s sooooo yummy!
Hope you enjoy as I have and do along with others. Same taste as lasagna in a pan – but less assembling and all in a bowl.
Thank you sooo much for reading and sharing.
SUPER COOL
The NATO alphabet (also known as the phonetic alphabet) is primary learning for the military. I used it for so long that I catch myself using it when I try to spell things out to someone. No second guessing which letter you’re referring to when it’s phonetically spelled. ????
Interesting and funny that it’s so instilled in you that you catch yourself spelling with the phonetic alphabet!
Thanks for reading and sharing and commenting!
Golf – Romeo – Alpha – Tango – Echo – Foxtrot – Uniform – Libra = GRATEFUL
How’d I do Trent?