Trivia

 Remember the game Trivial Pursuit?  Our family enjoyed teasing each other with questions from that game.  Now. It seems to be making a comeback, especially in pubs and bars.  Get a group together, give yourself a cool name,  make special matching t-shirts, be ready to dazzle the other groups.  Prizes are small things or just the knowledge you knew all this trivial stuff! 

Trivia' comes from the Latin 'trivialis,' meaning "found everywhere, commonplace." One meaning of 'trivia' is "unimportant matters." But as valuable as scholarly knowledge can be, trivia sometimes gets a bad rap.

Trivia facts can be recalled faster than important things by my mind.  The old brain will come up with theme song from some 1970’s TV show But can not remember the neighbor’s kids’ names—which you hear shouted often!  Trivia is useless facts—for example:

 Fun Facts and Trivia

• It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. 
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A shrimp's heart is in its head.
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Isn’t that fascinating trivia?!  When does that info come up in a conversation—like, never!  If you want to gain control of conversation, pop out one of those useless facts! 

By answering questions and learning, you're improving your cognitive skills. Retaining information about topics you're interested in is like an exercise for your mind, allowing you to expand your intelligence and improve mental capabilities.

Soooo, there is something good that comes out of knowing trivia!

Sew With Me

Sew much to sew, sew little time!  A few new sew alongs that I plan to sew.  A friend has asked me to make a quilt for her Little Sister Program.  I'm thankful to have an outlet for my twin size quilts.

Walkabout is a wonderful reminder to move about at least 30 minutes a day and sew at least, 30 minutes a day.  The clues are added each day but easy to do. Sew with me on this top.

Boutiful Charity is offering this top--What a perfect opportunity to serve  a charity with this top!

Sew Preetiquilts is sponsoring another quilt along to benefit Mercyful Quilts--gives quilts to their terminally ill patients to bring some measure of comfort to the person and their familyas they go through the process of dying.

There are always charities that will accept your quilt donations.  And it keeps me and you sewing!

Main Resu

Recipes!

 I love cookbooks and recipes--maybe not so much cooking!  There is something about opening a cookbook to see amazing food photos!  Would my dishes look that good?  Probably not!  Some of my favorite recipes come from my southern books--I have a favorite in almost every book I own.  Of course, I haven't tried All the recipes in the book--but wouldn't that be fun??!!  Maybe later on, I'll pick one book and go from beginning to end.  

Recipes come in all means—you can find a food recipe online easily.  Since, I can't carry those books with me everywhere--I resort to the internet.

Several of us are dishing up a meal for the participants of a walk.  What will we serve for lunch buffet?  There will be brisket, smoked by son—his recipe always varies—the seasonings include salt, pepper, lemon pepper, ??, else.  How long he smokes or type of wood—no idea—I just hand him the brisket and the next day we have smoked brisket!  We will serve flour tortillas instead of buns.

Daughter is preparing Southern baked beans—

always delish!  This recipe could be a meal in itself because of ground beef--she makes hers in slow cooker as it cooks alllllll day or night long.

My recipes for buffet include Mexican Street Corn Salad 

Since food will be served over a period of time and outdoors, I wanted a recipe that didn't include mayo.  You can find roasted Mexican corn frozen so I don't need to roast the ears of corn.

The other recipe I'll make is pasta salad--there are so many good ones in the cookbooks; I'm gleaming  from several.

Above recipe (quick and easy pasta)  includes peppers, tomatoes, zucchini (won't use that--nobody would eat it), black olives,  pepperoncini, mozzarella balls, sliced scallions, curly pasta and uses no mayo--you can add almost any veggie to this recipe--will be fun to create for the walkers. 

Of course, there will be sweets--brownies, cupcakes, cookies.

What’s your favorite recipe? 

Quilt Blocks

 Quilt blocks go into making quilt tops that will sooner or later be a warm cozy comfort.  I like making quilt blocks—here are the latest blocks that will become tops on their way to someone

Puzzles

 I’m not a good puzzle person—don’t have the patience to sit and look for one tiny piece to plug into a hole!  During lockdown, family members would sit for hours to work on a puzzle—even into the wee hours of the morning!

But, there they were—saying just one more piece! And then—finished!  Which one to do next, they ask? 

Hubby will play puzzle games on his phone at odd times—so addictive!  Just turn the sound off please!  He doesn’t hear it anyway!  

I’ll do some other types of puzzles—

Like words with friends, more like scrabble—it goes quickly depending on how many friends that play you. 

And Wordle—I can do that; usually quick and I’m done!  

This word search puzzle popped up with Nomadic Knits—and I thought—I might like this type of puzzle.  My friend will do books of word searches—this might be fun!  It took me 15 minutes to find one word—okay, I won’t give up right away—hours later, I’m still searching for words on the list.  I’d pick it up, search for few minutes, put it down—two weeks into this, I gave up—this is taking way too much out of my knitting or spinning!  This isn’t for me.

Puzzles for puzzle people!! 

Ooooooooooo

Today we are ooooo so happy to write about O! I’ve never really thought about O before—you can see lots of ooooos in your daily life—like that donut we had as a snack; or the tire on your car that is an O. 

How about the O on the guitar? That my husband doesn’t play!

Ooo, my bobbin even is an O!

Top of my coffee container is O tooooooo!

This thing has two ooos!

Here is a list of O words—

And animals and foods that begin with O—Oh my!!

I’m seeing O is an Object that isn’t Obscure, Obsolete; Occuring Often in Occupations, Oceans, Olympics, even Online!  

Open those Senses to the OOOOOOS in your Ordinary life! 

Over and Out! 

Night Sky

The month of April has been a blogging challenge--March 27, 2010 a challenge was sent out to all bloggers for the month of April.   Can you post every day except Sundays during this month?  And to up the bar, can you blog thematically from A to Z?

Although, I try to blog on occasion, this was a true challenge to me--can I find something interesting to blog about every day of the month of April??  Some bloggers have selected a theme for their writings--maybe, I'll do that next year--let me see if I can make it successfully through this year!

I'm up to N and have a good topic for N--we had the occassion to attend two, not one, but two viewing parties in a vicinity that is 'dark skies'.  The county friends of the night sky were hosting the event--that it's at a winery, didn't hurt either.  Our friend received a telescope for Christmas, so we’re in good company with fellow astronomy patrons.

Fingers crossed the weather held out for clear skies--no full moon either.

Night sky on this evening presented Venus floating between the small, dipper-shape Pleiades star and the bright red star Aldebaran, which is the “eye” of the constellation Taurus the Bull.  Mercury will also be visible.

Anytime, you can drink wine under the starry skies, it's a good night!