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 from husband Bill, June 15, 2026

Sunday Dinner

My wonderful wife created this delicious Sunday dinner today: breaded, baked pork chops; sweet potatoes and green beans with butter; and chunky applesauce.

June 14, 2026 

No Queens; No Kings

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

Happy Birthday Mr. Trump

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MR. DONALD JOHN TRUMP, the best president ever !!! It's quite appropriate that his birthday is on Flag Day and the anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army.

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

Trump's Birthday Video

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

I created and uploaded a short video onto my YouTube channel wishing U.S. President Donald J. Trump a happy birthday. (length: 1 minute, 6 seconds)

Happy Birthday to President Trump (June 14, 2026)

https://youtube.com/shorts/kpamDdT9h40?is=2ngcHekL0EAqIN11

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

Happy Birthday to the U.S. Army !!!

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

I like my eggnog in the traditional way: with bourbon (whiskey), specifically Wild Turkey.

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

While I occasionally eat cucumbers, I mostly try to avoid them because they make me burp, and they are thought to lower sperm count. Decades ago, I read a news story about scientists who were trying to create a male contraception pill made from cucumber extract.

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

While I really dislike the taste and texture of strawberries, I do sometimes force myself to eat them because they are healthy. My LEAST favorite dessert is strawberry shortcake. I dislike strawberries; I dislike yellow pound cake; and I dislike whipped cream.

from husband Bill, June 14, 2026

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from husband Bill, June 13, 2026

I am not a klutz in the kitchen, although I am not all that adept either. There are dishes in which I am semi-competent in their preparations, specifically Käsknöpfle and Giambotta. My wife and I make a tomato sauce together that is quite good.

from husband Bill, June 13, 2026

My father had a small garden in the early 1980s. It was somewhat unsuccessful because he put it in the shade, under a large tree. The eggplants grew only slightly larger than chicken eggs, and the romaine lettuce grew five feet long, horizontally, not vertically. He did plant pole beans nearby in the sun, so he did have success in that regard.

from husband Bill, June 13, 2026

While studying at Villanova University in the early 1980s, I had a friend who would throw an axe and knives into a large stump of wood over and over in his dorm room. I tried it a few times one afternoon.

from husband Bill, June 13, 2026

When I played golf, I almost always carried my bag of clubs.

from husband Bill, June 13, 2026

My mom-in-law was terrific on the sewing machine. I remember my maternal grandmother sewing on her foot-powered (non-electric) sewing machine in the 1960s, when my age was in single digits.

from husband Bill, June 13, 2026

R I.P. Gene Shalit

R.I.P. Gene Shalit (March 25, 1926 – June 12, 2026) ... He was a famous American journalist, television personality, film and book critic, and author.

I still watch him (on YouTube) on reruns of the panel game show "What's My Line?," specifically the incarnation from the late 1960s and early 1970s. I watched the original airings of these shows when I was a preteen.

June 12, 2026

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from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

I miss my paternal grandmother's peanut butter cookies (and her butter cookies) that she made when I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s. I also loved my maternal grandmother's Italian cookies during that time.

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

I haven't eaten falafel in many years. I definitely like it.

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

I do like beef jerky, especially the teriyaki flavor.

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

My all-time favorite movie is "Help!" (1965), starring The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear, and Patrick Cargill. In the 1970s, my CB radio handle (name) was "Algernon," Kinnear's character's name in "Help!" (Kinnear played Mr. Henry Salt in the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.")

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

Cake & Corn

from husband Bill, June 11, 2026

Here is my opportunity to tell you that German chocolate cake has absolutely NOTHING to do with Germany. It's a brand name of a baker's chocolate named after an English-American guy named Sam German. The recipe for the cake was on his packages of chocolate and then became famous.