A Snapshot

Happy Saturday morning, and since I just opened a new bag of beans, this morning’s coffee is wonderfully fresh and tasty.

Helene-the-Hag Hurricane rode her broom straight north from Florida and since yesterday has pummeled us with rain and wind. But not near as nastily as was predicted. It’s now reset as Helene-the-Hag Tropical Storm.

This week Marcia and I remembered that our anniversary was sneaking on up. Typically, I probably would have remembered the event in a week or two – she was much more on top of her game. A  fun challenge; her picture has our Anniversary year in code.

It was Marcia’s choice as to where to have dinner out. I could have called ahead for reservation by guessing where she’d want to go – and be correct – Gordo’s Pub & Grill, in nearby Norwood. As always, we were NOT disappointed!

Oktoberfest – Last week I bored you with some of the details of our Oktoberfest Zincinnati. I went and thoroughly enjoyed myself, people, music, food, sights – it was all great. And yes, I skipped the Chicken Dance as well as the Running of the Weiners (dog race).

In the food department I had a couple of items Marcia refuses to allow into our abode. Out of the 100+ or so various vendor stands and trucks I pre-selected two. I had an amazing Limburger Cheese on Rye (with some thin-sliced raw onion). Too good to describe.

Earlier in the summer, while in Germany, I got introduced to Curry Wurst. Would you believe it? Right here in River City at our Oktoberfest! Yup, at Mick Noll’s Covington Haus they had a Curry Wurst – as good as it was in the old country. Perfection! So good in fact, that I skipped their famous Goetta Balls for the Curry Wurst.

I ended up eating my wurst at the Weihenstephan Beer Garden – claims to be the world’s oldest Bavarian brewer – 1060. (MLX for any Romans who first helped open up the brewery). Prost!

Quotation – “’Security’ is the new shut up”, Laura Rosen Cohen; Uppity Jew. Mom, special needs parent. Writer.

Rally key tossed – Our Secret Service is beginning to look worse and worse. Even more so when it comes to protecting our former President. Remember reading that people were yelling about a guy on the roof at the Butler, PA rally and even though walkie-talkies stayed neatly wrapped up on a desk, the Secret Service managed to hold fast to the old axiom; “when seconds count the police are minutes away.”

But it’s a new day. Trump’s team arranged to hold an outdoor rally in the swing state of Wisconsin. Now here’s a new twist. The Trump team was informed late in the planning that the rally could not be held there because (hold on, are you ready for this) the Secret Service would not have enough manpower to secure the event. A bunch of unelected bureaucrats now control whether or not a candidate can hold a rally a month out of an election.

As the Saturday Night Live Church Lady (Dana Carvey) would say, in ‘her’ nasally catchphrase; “Well, isn’t that special? How con-VEEN-ient!”.

I suspect that with all the shenanigans we’re witnessing, we’re well underway towards a one-party state.

We can’t have disinformation now can we? Redux – How about if it isn’t disinformation when we hear about the problems in Springfield, Ohio? All the garbage spewed on national ‘news’ is not disinformation? How about 4-pages of mumbo-jumbo written by our, Republican, Governor Mike DeWine? A letter rubbing soft salve (lauding) on the 20,000 Haitians and yet where there is not a single mention on the subsequent difficulties experienced by the citizens of Springfield as their lives have been put into turmoil; that isn’t also ‘disinformation’? (And yes, I’ve already made my feelings known to our Governor.)

Here is a short video of this week’s Springfield Council meeting and shows what the citizens of that town experience, see, and deal with — unfiltered or skewed by media moguls.

Best Poll ever – Here in town, Busken Bakery’s cookie poll has been accurate about every Presidential election except one since 1984. Each Presidential election they bake cookies and this year “Donald Trump’s presidential win is baked in” (New York Post). It’s the least scientific, most accurate poll in the nation.

Trump cookies 54 percent of the time (2,953 cookies) compared to Vice President Kamala Harris’ 39 percent (2,134 cookies). The Independent candidate got 7% (397 cookies). The Poll remains open till November 5. “We like to joke and say [customers] can stuff the ballot box,” bakery president and CEO Dan Busken told The Post.

A quick factoid – Busken’s was Tevita’s first employer when he arrived in the ‘Nati.

A Snapshot – A site such as The Ramblings relies a fair bit on the visual, image and video (plus some sound tossed in for luck). Hence the end to this week’s effort on a ‘light’ and picturesque note. Enjoy!

Life is AMAZING!

May Peace prevail! Shalom.

Dirk

BONUS POINTS:

Here is this week’s ‘learn a little Dutch’ event. The typical Dutch home will place a ‘verjaardagskalendar’ most often where? All are possibilities, but only one answer would be correct more than 90% of the time. PS. We have one, but we’re in that odd, other 10%, group.

1) “Keuken”
2) “slaapkamer””
3) “gang”
4) “zolder”
5) “WC”
6) “badkamer”
7) “voordeur”
8) “bibliotheek”