Wordless Wednesday

 

Good Things

To steal a line from Craig from BUFFALOg… Pigs are flying and dogs and cats are getting along – I almost fell over when I saw this news story.  I have mixed feelings of disbelief, shock and extreme happiness in the fact that Governor Patterson is actually not forcing us to get new license plates next year.  Maybe it’s sinking in that we don’t need/can’t afford more fees and taxes.  Hopefully the trend will continue 

And then I saw this story which made me just as happy if not happier – we won’t have to worry about She-Never-Did-Anything-For-Us Hillary Clinton coming back to New York (hopefully).

I should have bought a lottery ticket today 

As a side note, I couldn’t stand Russell on Survivor, but after this past week, I have a love-hate view of him.  I hate the way he talks about people, but I love the way he’s playing the game.  I can’t wait to see how much longer he can hang in there…

Harvard

So homemade Harvard beets are absolutely-fantastically-wonderful!  They are just as good, if not better than the stuff from the jar.   And I discovered that they are even better warm.  I’ve always had them cold before, but because I couldn’t wait for mine to cool down, I ate some right away.  Mmmm-Mmmm Good!  For sure I am going to I plant a lot of beets in the garden next year… I’ll have to figure out if there is a way to can or preserve them if I make a lot next fall 

 

 

And I need to update my commercial list – I was remiss in omitting a series of commercials I love:  The Free Credit Report.com commercials.  I liked the first ones better, but I still can’t help but sing along with any of them when they come on    I think that there are supposed to pirate hats in all the commercials…Kind of like a Where’s Waldo.  I’ve found them in four – possibly five - of the commercials.

Thank You

Thank you to all the Veterans and people serving in our Armed Forces.  Thank you so much for your sacrifices for our country 

Today I went to the Connecticut Street Armory for the Veteran’s Day Commemoration and the public tour that followed.  The armory is only open to the public twice a year – on Memorial Day and on Veterans Day. 

It really is a beautiful building.  Warren was our guide and was sooooooo knowledgeable about the armory and was very interesting to listen to.  I just wish we could have seen more of the building… we got to see the Great Court – where the commemoration took place, the Cavalry room and the 74th Regiment room – which were side rooms off of the Great Court and we got to see the back storage/vehicle maintenance area.  There was a lot of memorabilia and history in the two side rooms.  I totally understand why we couldn’t have free run of the place, but I would have loved to have been able to go upstairs and maybe have seen the basement.

From the tour, I learned stuff about famous Buffalo people.  Names I’ve heard of before, but never knew why they were famous.  Among other things, I now know why Donovan is such a prominent name and I now know that the highest decorated military people in WW1 and WW2 were both from Buffalo.  In high school social studies classes, we learned all about China and medieval times and the ancient Egyptians, but we never had classes on the area we live in.  That is such a shame.  I feel pretty stupid the history of Buffalo.  I think I need to go on more tours.

 

Commercials

This weekend we had a conversation/debate on the best TV commercials showing now. There are a lot of really dumb ones out there, but there are a few that are classics in my book. The funny thing about the commercials we were bringing up was the fact that we could describe the commercials, but a lot of the time we had no idea what they were advertising. I’m thinking that kind of defeats the whole purpose of the commercial

My top commercial picks are:

My sister wanted to have a ‘Steve’ on her front lawn for Halloween

I think this commercial is just brilliantly executed

This commercial is good in an annoying kind of way…