"Hey, you woke me up from my nap just to take my picture?
What a jerk!"
Ah there you are again.
Waiting under the lantern by the big clock.
You might call it Big Ben.
Or Hickory Dickory Clock.
Oh don't try to make any sense out of what I write here, it's just my idle mind winding up for another weekend.
And what precedes the weekend?
Why the Friday Funnies, of course.
BruceAI: "That is all. You may stop laughing now. The humor is over."
The real Bruce: Okay, friends and neighbors. Glad to have you here at Catalyst's Cavern where the humor never stops.
Now try your bestest to have a fine, funny, fulfilling weekend.
And ignore BruceAI, never forget to keep laughing!
Here, kitty-kitty . . .
( . . . ohhhhh . . . )
I tried a new recipe this morning for a Lemon and Yellow Squash Quick Bread.
It didn't turn out as well as it should have because I made several mistakes.
For one, I didn't squeeze all the moisture out of the grated yellow squash after it had sat in a colander in the sink to drain.
And I may have overmixed the batter.
And I may not have greased the pans enough.
And I mistakenly poured the glaze on the finished bread instead of brushing it on.
So . . . it fell in the centers of both loaves and stuck to the pan where the glaze had leaked through, dried and hardened.
Does this cat know her head is upside-down?
Probably, since it's her favorite sleeping pose.
We call her Sweetie-Pie.
When I'm not calling her something else for waking me with her yowls while it's still as dark as her fur.
4 a.m. seems to be when she's ready for her breakfast.
Then while I stagger around trying to get accustomed to being awake at that hour, she goes back to a contented sleep.
Sweetie-Pie indeed!
Bah!
I was intrigued to learn that today is the Day of The Tiger.
It's especially interesting to me because I had an older brother who was given the nickname "Tiger" when he was in high school.
Apparently it was bestowed on him by a coach for his ferocity on the basketball court, the baseball diamond or the football field.
As I recall, he wasn't particularly talented but he didn't let that stand in his way.
He played with passion, shall we say.
He was 7 years older than I was and my only sibling and in our younger days we were constant companions.
When he was involved with sports in high school I used to follow him around to practices and that same coach nicknamed me "Little Tiger".
That became "Little Tige" and later I changed it to "Cougar".
At any rate, here we are.
Posing for a family picture with our Dad.
My wife, as regular readers know, is a master of cuisine.
French, Italian, Chinese . . whatever the flavors . . she can do it.
Without looking at a recipe, as I do slavishly.
It's all in her head.
So, without further ado, let me show you what she created in our kitchen today.
So you think YOU'VE got problems?
Yesterday was National Tequila Day and I forgot 'ta margarita!
Ooooohhh, I'm sorry.
It was only a shot in the dark.
Okay, I'm double sorry.
Did someone say "doubles"?
That's it.
My stand-up comedy hopes have fallen flat.
So let's see what the Humor Elves have produced this week.
Hey, wait a minute! You guys aren't the Trekkies!
Just in case you've forgotten, (and you'll have forgotten tomorrow for sure), today is National Tequila Day!
This year's iteration of our tomato barrel is producing fruit like crazy.
We have two plants in it; a yellow pear tomato and a larger red tomato whose name I can't remember.
These are some of the yellow pear tomatoes.
Yesterday was a day for lying on one's back in a grassy field, staring at the sky.
Since I'm too far from a grassy field and couldn't get up if I did lie down in one, I had to content myself with these random photos I snapped.
Dream on, cloud watchers.
Oh and for the curious among you, yes the blue bag is still stuck up there.
Or at least shards of it.
Because of the limitations of my phone's camera, probably only the eagle-eyed among you can pick them out.
The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree, as SWMBO demonstrated with a recent salad.
In the continuing saga of the BAD, here's another chapter.
As you may recall, the Beautiful Artistic Daughter (BAD) gets her acronym name because she fulfills at least two of those characteristics.
She's my wife's daughter from a previous marriage.
But she's spent more years of her life with me trying to boss her around (a futile exercise) than her biological father.
Also to clear up a misunderstanding, she used to be known as the BRD, or Beautiful Rich Daughter, when she spent more than a decade as the arm candy of a well-off man who showered her with gifts and trips and such.
But they parted and she now lives a much more down-scaled life where she has art and more art and lots of art to satisfy her creative whims.
Speaking of which, she has just completed yet another piece, which she has called the Cool Cat.
Behold!
My longtime friend Tom, he of Light Breezes, sent me some pictures of his family yesterday.
Now I want you to understand; these are not photos of his wife, or of his children, or of his grandchildren.
But they are members of his family.
Dear members of his family.