The title is mainly misleading ... refers to some of the hazards of building. Anyway, these tunnels have a fascinating history ... including use during World War II and art-ish hangouts. The parts about maintenance and all the infastructure were interesting!

You can participate in this meme HERE. :-)

It's the last Monday of 2021 and I am looking forward to 2022's reading efforts. I want to concentrate much more on not only book blogging ... but music, movie reviews on various sites, cooking, current events and trying TONS of new things! :-) I even have the equipment and the beginning of plans for a podcast.

In 2022, you will find me participating more on:
Letterboxd
GoodReads (I listed 44 finished books in 2021.)

I pulled out one of my fave, though it could be in better condition, records this week.
(video is a clip ... but awesome clip)

And movies watched included:

Both mens' children were included and there was a much-appreciated cameo near the end.

STARTED:

-----Terry McMillan is the author who wrote "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."

AND THE AUDIOBOOKS:

WANT TO READ:

A CURRENT READ:

I am on page 107.

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I read this but wasn't impressed. I suppose it because I have read others pretty much identical in scope. Given that ... I would rate the book as "adequate."

You can buy templates for papercut art.

-----Cookie Butter Pound Cake Bread Pudding

-----Homemade Hash Browns with Spinach and Carrot
-----Carrot, Parsnip, and Turnip Hash Browns
-----Zucchini and Potato Hash Browns

-----The search for a time capsule placed under the Robert E. Lee statue will resume tomorrow.

Me(to husband): You only wish you asked as many questions as me.
I bet you he doesn't. :-)

-----What is a Dun Horse? Traits, Colors and Facts At the beginning of L'Amour's book, a character is riding a long-legged zebra dun ... obviously a horse. I have learned that you can also ride a zebra dun mule.


-----And What About Britanny and Them Bretons? This gives some idea of what a "Breton Frenchman is" and what current opinions are about the history/definition/culture ... I browsed the comments.

I haven't watched this movie in some years ... long enough that the storyline was a guess for me. As far as westerns go, I find it a worthwhile watch.
Memorable moments:
A counting
Death scene that mentions tamales.
The frank ride to THE END (note I didn't spoil whether it was happy or not).

"The Humboldt"=The Humnoldt Trail. I'm just trying to figure out what the locations would be modern day ... I like knowing stuff like that. :-)

Based on the Louis L'Amour novel of the same name.
L'Amour was a prolific writer ... 105 works.

Soon I will start reading the earliest L'Amour's novel ... Westward the Tide. It is available for FREE borrow on OpenLibrary. The publication on there is the 70s ... but this book came out, in Great Britain, in the 50s.

Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter--until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party--gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldn't trust for a minute. At first it's unclear what they are planning, but before long Matt realizes that he's the only man standing between innocent people and a brutal conspiracy of greed, lust, and cold-blooded murder.

-----Films scored by Hans J. Salter

101 Things About Me
1. I should think we eat rather more brisket than the average family.
2. I would like to own an older dark gray or black Armani women's pant suit ... or both. It/they would be worn often!
3. I need to restart my Medusa collection.
4. I think that the Canada side of Niagara Falls is beautiful....much more beautiful than the American side.
5. I like to keep a travel log. All the discoveries (and the frustrations) go into whatever notebook I am keeping. This intensifies all enjoyment and makes me, eventually, laugh at frustrations. I do hate when it has to be done hurriedly (frustrating to look back through handwriting and not be able to see some of the painting titles I wanted to from museums). I take more photographs than anyone I know.
6. Thing I need to replace: Pinky and the Brain comic of "Brainlet." We are all about the Shakespeare here! I've been known to celebrate, or at least nod at, Shakespaeare's birthday(April 23rd).
7. I've never been able to bring myself to like The Onion.
8. My favorite color is mustard yellow. I am very particular about the shades.I don't wear anything that color unless it has a Fall-ish tone to it!
9. A moment when I admired Jeb Bush ... Antonin Scalia had passed away that day and the Republicans were debating. Bush seemed to be the only person on the stage who was truly taking the moment of silence to reflect (and even seemed to be praying).
10. I play a mean/insane game of Munchkin. Funny moment ....the GM prohibited me from giving Husband "gifts." I don't usually win.....but I add a lot of humor/death to the game.
11. Spring is my favorite season.
12. I am pretty bad at pool. Pretty bad.
13. I don't like keeping things in pants pockets at all ... yet I complain if there aren't any pants pockets when needed.
14. I like bootlegged jeans and I wish slight bell bottoms were always in fashion. I've been made fun of for wearing bell bottoms when they were back in fashion.
15. I love Big Brother Hard Root Beer from Aldi.
16. I've been various degrees of Vegetarian.
17. Vincent Price's laughter is awesome.
18. We only use cast iron for skillets. I've gotten so used to this and I'm momentarily surprised when people are surprised at this.
19. I don't like raw green pepper. I only like cooked if it has been long simmered. I will eat it when served just fine. I feel I should like it since so many loved ones have enjoyed it so much ... but alas, no.
20. Mr Brown Can Moo! Can You?" is my favorite Dr. Seuss story.
21. I want to (safely) see a bear in Smokey Mountains National Park.
22. One of my favorite sounds is calliope music ... circus, steamboat, certain recorded ice cream truck music. I like music boxes that sound like this.
23. I am learning to hula via tutorials.
24. I have a vintage Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii tapestry.
25. I touchtype really fast. I can type faster than Isaac Asimov could ... and more accurately, too.
26. I like to burn German Chocolate and gardenia-scented candles...at the same time. People like it, once they get used to it.
27. Pet peeve: "Family-style" restaurants that make their living off serving the cheapest, improperly thawed frozen vegetables they can find and "just add water" products.
28. I refer to anything martini-related as "The Art of Shaken, Not Stirred." I like homemade martini vinaigrette dressing!
29.

Thoughts from September 12, 2013 ...
I once wanted part of the end of Blade Runner to be read at my funeral. Glad I noticed that might not be very reassuring...before my funeral.
"I've...seen...things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire, off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those...moments will be lost... in time...like, tears in rain. Time to die."

Christmas Eve Day. Piles of soft pretzels with cheese sauce at breakfast ... that was cool. We watched part of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. I started a folder for old nature/environment handouts I want to keep. I love the radio and have been making a point to get back to daily listening!


(#SoundtrackOfMyDay) Vinyl, on 45, that I will replace at some point. 🙂

2022-ish Goals

1. Finish the annex to my office ... a large amount of book storage, an armchair and a comfy cot behind a moveable wall.I love library annexes and delight in visiting those with "open-stack" rooms and (old)book sales.
2. Read the non-fiction works of John Irving and watch the five movies.

Above is the first one, a reread. A student and a mechanic tour Austria by motorcycle ... somewhere in the course of the story the two men want to attempt freeing all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
I want to locate the places visited ... a guidebook I have, Wikivoyage, Youtube vlogs, Google Earth. Armchair travel and using the globe we gave my mother.
Yes, I said this list was 2022-ish. I've already started this one and am on page 44 now. Animals that I need to learn about include the arboral rat, the flying phalanger, grayling(fish that are eaten) and the Spectacled Bear(vunerable bear species; Andean; awesome faces).
3. Get COVID-19 booster.
4. Make journal entries the whole year. Personal, social media, family updates. I like to do photo journals!
5. Work on a comedy routine ... because I would like to do open-mic standup after the pandemic is over.
6. I have a project where I am writing a piece for each of this master list of logical fallacies ... that will take more than the year 2022.
7. Submit a lifestyle piece to BuzzFeed. Submit a personal or critical essay to Buzzfeed READER. (I used to do a variety of paid writing and would like to get back into that.)
8. Listen to each album in my record collection at least once.
I play Christmas music whenever I want here (it's me). So, I've already played a bit of Christmas stuff recently. Our Christmas album tradition will be in full swing after Halloween. I have 50-some of the Christmas records my parents played ... yes, there were more. Christmas was/is both my father and my FAVORITE holiday!

9. Add to our spiral rope chain Christmas garland by making my own (normally people make necklaces out of this).
10. Finish reading The Catcher in the Rye.
11.Be coordinated enough to flip two pans of sauteeing vegetables at the same time. It's a cooking thing ... you have your priorities, I have mine. :-)
I will have to get pans that aren't my usual HEAVY cast iron though. Yay ... new pans!
12. Put little decorative things among the lady ferns and get a pic of raindrops falling off. Maybe rain on the decorative things, too.

13. Find some sort of healthy-ish jello option.

-----Healthy Homemade McGriddles
" ... combine 4-ingredient protein pancake buns with folded eggs and your choice of healthier fixin’s like chicken breakfast sausage. It’s a simple recipe with a 25-minute prep time and just 5 ingredients, and it’s highly customizable."