- It’s no secret that I love most everything that Jim at Sweet Juniper writes. This week especially, I love what he has to say about Tim Allen, Frankenmuth and going Up North in “Two Adults, Three Kids, a Dog, and a Lizard in a Station Wagon are driving down the highway.”
- “A Miracle Inside the Aurora Shooting: One Victim’s Story” is an incredible, miraculous story. It’s worth reading.
- I’m going to be recording the Olympics opening ceremony tonight so we can watch it tomorrow with Rockford and Poppy, who’ve both been traveling this week. I haven’t done a lot of reading up on the individual athletes, but after reading “Bronx native John Orozco an unlikely gymnastics star,” I’m really looking forward to seeing Orozco in action.
- And finally, today was supposed to be the day for the July edition of the Daring Bakers Challenge. This month’s challenge was to make crackers, and I did make a batch of Italian Four-Cheese Crackers. But with all the traveling and the bronchitis and such, I never took pictures of my crackers and I never made another type of cracker, which the challenge required. A lot of other Daring Bakers did successfully complete the challenge, though. The “Not-So-Naked Crackers” at Korena in the Kitchen and the Pepper Jack and Oregano Crackers at Bourbonnatrix Bakes sound positively scrumptious.
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It’s just a popularity contest
I’m taking a break from blogging this month and sharing some words from friends, some posts from the past and other assorted bric-a-brac. Here’s a list of the Top 10 Most Visited Posts at ButterscotchSundae.com!
- “Four fun places in Atlanta to visit with your kids.”
February 23, 2011. That was a fun trip. - “The schoolroom is starting to take shape.”
August 9, 2010. The room didn’t stay that way for very long. - “How to choose a baseball team.”
March 3, 2011. A lot of people Google that very phrase. - “On loneliness, ice skating champions and bed assembly.”
January 31, 2011. Something else people Google frequently? The Ikea Kura bed. - “Things to do by 2018.”
March 10, 2008. It was the beginning of my Mighty List.
- “Exaggerations and silver linings.
June 3, 2011. The one in which I do not explain how to build a Rapunzel tower, much to the disappointment of all the people Googling it, I’m sure. - “What kindergarten looks like at our house.
August 3, 2010. I’ll need to write a revised version of this one this year, when Pete starts kindergarten. - “Things to do with the kids this summer.”
May 1, 2012. We’re doing pretty well on the list so far. - “How to quiet a cough.”
February 18, 2009. I still use the VapoRub trick. This is also the second most-searched phrase that brings people here. (The first is “butterscotch sundae.”) - “In which I begin dating my husband again.” February 16, 2010. We never did finish that project.
A Vandermeme, some travel tips and a few super superlatives
- These 14 First World Problems from the ’90s made me laugh. Numbers 3 and 9 especially.
- Jessica at Momma’s Gone City shares some wonderful ideas at “Travel with Kids: Tips from a Semi-Expert.” It’s geared toward air travel, but several of the tips are applicable to road trips, too. I’m definitely going to be checking out some of her iPad app recommendations.
- I couldn’t care less about LeBron James or Kobe Bryant. (Matter of fact: I had to Google “current NBA stars” to come up with two names.) But Magic Johnson? Larry Bird? Karl Malone? Charles Barkley? I’ll read about them all day long. I was about to start high school in the summer of 1992, when the Dream Team played in the Olympics. I’d love to see the tape of “The Greatest Game Nobody Ever Saw.”
The Dream Team flew into Nice at midnight on July 18 and made a crash landing at the Loews … about 20 miles away. During a security meeting before the team arrived, Henri Lorenzi, the legendary hotel manager, had complained about the number and the aggressiveness of the NBA’s security people. “Do you realize who is gambling in my casino right now?” Lorenzi said to the NBA’s international liaison, Kim Bohuny. Lorenzi ticked off the names of politicians, movie stars and even tennis immortal Björn Borg. “No one will care that much about this team,” he said.
“Well, we’ll see,” replied Bohuny.
When the team bus pulled up, there was such a rush of fans to see the players that some fans crashed through the glass doors at the entrance. “I get your point,” said Lorenzi.
- “The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever,” and there’s not much more to say about that. (via Unlikely Words)
In the sixth frame, he had another loud, devastating strike. Then another. Then another. With each throw, he could tell it was a strike from the moment it left his hand. He’d watch as the pins were there one second, then gone the next. “It felt like driving and catching a green light, then the next one, then the next, then turning, and still catching every green light everywhere you go,” Fong says