Yes, it’s that time of year, also. Time for a homecooked meal served en plein air, complete with a fresh baguette. By the way, the one-and-done Braves are on top of the National League East by 2.5 games, solidly on schedule for their annual date with destiny: elimination in the first round of the playoffs. I see the BoSox aren’t doing so well.
108 responses to “Butter, butter, butter!”
It was 80 degrees here on Monday so no eating en plein air. However we are finally seeing more tolerable tempertures. Hard to beleive that it will be May in a week.
Thanks Jimmy as once again I had to use my virtual dictionary. Either your strips or your posts teach me something new quite often.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI, why would 80 degrees stop you from eating outside?
JJ, if the Sox are doing so poorly (and they are), why on earth would the NY Yankees want to have cheated, in at least 2 different games (interestingly enough same NY pitcher)? Do they really need to cheat when their rival is doing poorly?
BoSox? Wait til next year! Oh, wait a minute, that was the old rally cry. Now it’s: we are still the World Champs! (Note that when they win, it’s “we”, if the team loses, it’s “they”.) The Braves are still pining for the old days when they were the Boston Braves.
Commented on yesterday’s post with my thoughts on population. What is that saying about a day late and dollar short? It’s in moderation anyway…
Oops, I did not finish my sentence. It has been 50 degrees since Sunday and more of the same this weekend. Typical spring time weather. We are so overjoyed when the temperatures finally hit the 70’s and 89’s
To EMB: Sin has marred the earth, but the Creator’s hand is still plainly seen. To believe the universe just came together on its own takes a far greater leap of faith.
As I’m sure Symply Fargone will attest, it’s spring here in Maine in the sense that there are only small piles of snow on the north side of buildings and things, but it’s 43 as I type with a sustained wind for about 10 mph. Brrr. But it is spring: The new metal roof is almost done (the old one was 100+ years old), eight cord of firewood were delivered today, and now that the snow is out from in front of the barn, the lawnmowers will be sent for service today. So the temp doesn’t really matter . . .
David, consider the expense of putting a “genetic representation” of the human race on Mars or the moon, on the chance a catastrophe “might” occur
Another cooler cloudy day here. We still have not opened our patio yet. My Cleveland Indians had a great game last night!
The Boston Red Sox are not doing so hot right now but they will prevail ( I hope). I’m counting on it. And the Braves (nee the Boston Braves)? Meh. Maybe they should change that name? Very insulting to native peoples inhabiting the Land of the Dawn. Did anyone ask them?
Arrogant Europeans.
Call them the Atlanta Dawnosians.
I’m part Cherokee and see nothing wrong with using an English word for a team name. Nor do I object to dignified artistic representations of First Nation people. But the ridiculous cartoonish caricatures are in poor taste and often offensive.
Arlo should know better. Table/kitchen rules as taught to me by my mom in my youth…
1. Always wash your hands before coming to the table.
2. Don’t play with your food.
3. Don’t sing at the table. (Really.)
4. Don’t wear a hat or cap to the table.
Not sure about the first three, but I’m pretty sure the fourth one is no longer taught and/or widely observed.
Umm, isn’t the baseball season only a few weeks old? Yet already there is talk of playoffs?
I still do not understand why the “game of summer” begins in the deep of winter. Well, actually, I do. Money, and the desire for more of the same, trumps common sense.
Bryan, more like statistical reality. Dig too deep a hole and you can not mathematically climb back out of it with the number of games left in the season. Getting off to a bad start tends to start digging that hole. Also, losing streaks tend to hurt morale of the players and they then play poorly because they’re down in the dumps about playing poorly. Talk about your self fulfilling prophesies……
I’ve noticed that a lot of the old timers have faded away. And the standards have fallen so that the cliques flourish and elitism rules. Such a bragging bunch of remnants. Disgusting. I may be Virgin Mindy but I’m not blind or ignorant. Shame.
Should have added this to yesterday’s discussion of population, etc. –
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-guidestones
We’ve been there; it’s an interesting, if odd, spot. There are those who see something sinister in the principles put forth, but most of them make at least some sense to me.
GR6
I really agree with number 4. Nothing irks me more than to see dimwits wearing hats, usually backwards, in a restaurant. I take that back. A whole family sitting there texting and not talking to each other is worse.
Bonnie: ‘EMB: Sin has marred the earth, but the Creator’s hand is still plainly seen. To believe the universe just came together on its own takes a far greater leap of faith.’
Last things first. I did not say ‘the universe just came together on its own’, and I don’t believe it did. But I also hold that we don’t know nearly as much about the Creator as many people think we do, and as some would require us to believe.
I think we can learn much from studying the Hebrew Bible [commonly referred to as the ‘Old
Testament’], but that does not make it a reliable source of scientific information about the workings and history of this physical universe. I suspect the universe came about because Elohim* chose to do that some 13.5 billion years ago, and that Elohim’s creative hand is best seen in the physical constants that have enabled matter and energy, over time, to give rise to the universe we see today. The universe works well, without having to be pushed.
To see things we don’t like [swimmer’s itch, AIDS, etc.] as Sin resulting from a naive couple’s paying attention to the wiles of a talking serpent and disobeying Yahweh [the name for the creator in the older, second creation story and the forbidden fruit story, Gen. 2:4b-3:24] is itself naive. In the light of the much grander picture that science has given and is continuing to give us of the universe, I think to insist on the accuracy of either or both of those two incompatible creation stories diminishers the Creator. Peace, emb.
*Elohim = the ambiguous plural/singular name used for the creator in Gen. 1:1-2:4a. A peculiar sect has appropriated this word to ID a supposed advanced race who are going to visit Earth and help us out, but the word rightly belongs to the writers of the Hebrew Bible.
Dearest Virgin, I have read and re-read your comment, but I honestly don’t get your point. If you’ve been around since this blog initially appeared, as I have, you will have noticed that quite a large number of “old timers” from previous years no longer post. That was obviously their choice. I too have noticed that a number of recent regular commenters have been rather conspicuous by their absence lately, but again, I would have to say that was their choice. I do not recall anyone being flamed or insulted, or treated in any other way that would have driven them away from A&J.
And since I’m a “regular” who still posts, I suppose I’d meet your definition of a “remnant”. But as far as considering myself a member of any clique or as an elite person, not so much. If there is a point you were trying to make that I have missed, please feel free to enlighten me. Seriously.
emb: This pretty well sums up my feelings about the Creation and I too view Genesis as written in symbols too deep for our limited understanding. But I do feel there were other people around when Adam and Eve were created. After all, whom did Cain marry and who were warned against molesting hm? “There were giants in the earth in those days”
GR6, I took VM comments to be about baseball. At least then they made some sense.
LB, didn’t say it wouldn’t be expensive to put some of the eggs in another basket. It might be terribly expensive if we don’t.
EMB, I’ve never been more frustrated than when a ‘religious’ person insists that a few paragraphs in the Hebrew Pentateuch or the Greek Septuagint be used as a scientific text. Of course, they don’t use either Hebrew or Greek but focus on the exact words in King James English. I can’t understand why some insist those words have to be literal when there are lots of other allegories given in scripture.
Lily: If we recognize much of Genesis as the sacred legends of our religious forbears and read scripture for its theological import rather than as a source of historical data, we find that Cain’s mate and the giants in the earth become unimportant. Likewise the exaggerated ages, which “Sportin’ Life” makes fun of in “It ain’t necessarily so.” Did Sammy Davis Jr. do that role once?
I look to those scriptures for the why God did/does things and how we should live, not for directions on how to create a world.
re Atlanta Braves: I’m glad to hear a Native American comment about that name. But I wonder how you feel about the chant? I was at a Braves game once at the old Fulton County Stadium. I’ve got to say that ahhhh-o-ah-uh-ah (in the right notes of course) being sung by 30,000 people gave me goose bumps! It was really neat! But then again, I understand that it is not my heritage that is being possibly stereotyped.
Lilyblack, thanks for the link to the comic you had questions about. I think the boy is saying that for once polite declines are out and they are about to find out how bad they want that last piece of bacon.