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Some of my friends are good nature photographers. I'd be happy with the rosemary salmon and I think I have the ingredients. Don't know what the cocktail is, and while I have high regard for New Zealand wines, few are obtainable here. So I'll nominate a Finger Lakes alternative, Hazlitt 1852 Cabernet Sauvignon 2020. I haven't been to Lerwick, but I've been interested in visiting there ever since reading the Ann Cleeves novels and seeing the TV series. I've also read about the Shetland Bus: The Shetland Bus (Norwegian Bokmål: Shetlandsbussene, def. pl.) was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Mainland Shetland in Scotland and German-occupied Norway from 1941 until the surrender of *** Germany on 8 May 1945. From mid-1942, the group's official name was the Norwegian Naval Independent Unit (NNIU). In October 1943, it became an official part of the Royal Norwegian Navy and was renamed the Royal Norwegian Naval Special Unit (RNNSU). The unit was operated initially by a large number of small fishing boats and later augmented by three fast and well-armed submarine chasers – Vigra, Hessa and Hitra. Crossings were mostly made during the winter under the cover of darkness. This meant the crews and passengers had to endure very heavy North Sea conditions, with no lights and constant risk of discovery by German aircraft or patrol boats. There was also the possibility of being captured whilst carrying out the mission on the Norwegian coast. Operations of the Shetland Bus began at Lerwick, but moved to Scalloway where the memorial is.

That works best when the photo is somewhere else on the Internet. I used it yesterday on a news photo that had lost its caption, for example. But the closest match it finds to this picture is Saint Nectarios of Aegina, well-known in the Greek Orthodox Church. His lifespan was almost the same as that of my great-grandfather, but my great-grandfather was from what is now Lithuania and definitely not a saint.

This discussion prompted me to check Ancestry for the first time in a while. I found that a cousin had mistakenly accepted a hint for our aunt (his father's and my mother's sister) that gave the wrong place and date of death; it was for someone whose birth name was similar, but that was all. Although I could remember the occasion -- I was visiting and was taxed with informing her daughter -- it took a while to find a definitive source.

Well, the so-called Norman ancestors don't appear in our tree on Ancestry, on account of having no information before the first generation in the U.S. In another branch of my family, there is a photo for my great-grandfather that also appears for the great-grandfather of someone else who is not related to me, at least not as closely as that, but I don't know which is correct, if either, nor do I know the source of the photo.

Back from bank and acupuncture. I skipped the grocery store because it was raining hard and bread isn't fresh on Wednesdays. The idea of chicken salad on a waffle appeals to me, more so than fried chicken with waffles, which I think is more typical.

One bit of my family came from County Armagh in Ireland, in the North, but the only record of them there is the sale of their farm when they left for America. A distant cousin wrote a family history, but as she had no other information earlier than about 1800, she made up everything before that. Their surname was English, so she began with a description of the Norman Conquest, leading people in the generation immediately before mine to conclude -- almost certainly falsely -- that they had Norman French, thus Norse, ancestry. However, the name is Anglo-Saxon and in the Domesday Book was most common in Dorset and Lancashire.

There was an episode of Untold Stories of the ER in which one patient was an especially dashing older man brought in from a retirement community after falling there. He was followed by three older women, each claiming to be his girlfriend, who proceeded to fight over him. They stopped fighting when the sedation needed for reducing a dislocated joint combined with the pain medication he took routinely and caused him to stop breathing. Then the three of them united against the doctors.

I'm in favor of bourbon, whether it's liquor or roses. Would rather have Roy's alternative menu, except for the tiramisu. Another pseudotini and another New Zealand wine, hmm. I didn't sleep much on Monday night and felt awful all day yesterday, but last night I slept for 9 hours. Better living through chemistry. Today I have a Zoom meeting of the Emergency Food and Shelter board; it will be my last meeting since my appointment to it is ex-officio. Then an acupuncture appointment. Banking and grocery shopping when I can fit them in. I've started looking for a cruise for late in 2024. It will have to be on NCL because of FCC, and will probably be from a port that I can drive to, which for NCL during that period would be New York or Boston. I was looking at one between Boston and Quebec, but since one direction would require flights, I would more likely park at Rochester and fly to/from both ports. Today's posts have me thinking about a Panama Canal cruise, which would require flights for both ports and they would be longer. But first I need to book a flight back from Fort Lauderdale this fall, after the Spanish Farewell. My car will be at the Rochester airport so Southwest is an option.

I would not be able to make chicken quesadillas at home and I would pass on the drink but I'm ready for the wine NOW. I haven't been to Key West. My organization's annual meeting is a week from tonight. It's a dinner, and while the dinner is free, or maybe because it's free, we ask for reservations, made online. The constituency does not have the hang of that even though we done it the same way for ten years: We got a raft of phone calls from people asking whether they registered -- which they could find out from checking their own email for the confirmation -- and for some of them the answer was yes, twice. And calls from people wanting to change from the regular meal to vegan, gluten-free, or both.

No jerky here but jerks are never in short supply. Peanut butter cookies aren't a favorite, and because peanut allergy has become so common, I don't see them much any more. An interesting study conducted among Jews in the UK, where small children are kept away from peanuts for as long as possible, and in Israel, where the ubiquitous snack, Bamba, is made with peanuts, suggests that exposing children to peanuts early is better. I'll skip the pad thai; would rather have Roy's alternative. Not sure what the drink is but yes on the wine. I haven't been to Sharm El Sheikh.

I could make the salmon today if I were to substitute lemon for lime, but I had poached salmon for lunch yesterday, so I'll wait until I can get a lime or two. I'm not very enthusiastic about the cocktail but might like the wine. I plan to visit Seville this fall during the Spanish Farewell. The poached salmon was at a lunch for our rabbi and his family as they prepare to move to a larger city where he has a new job. He is much beloved even by people who complain all the time, so it wasn't a totally happy occasion but no one cried. The morning service before the lunch was almost fantastically elaborate, with choir (they hadn't sung together since the fall holidays), two cantorial soloists--our regular one, who is a member, and a music teacher in the public schools who commutes here five days a week for his job and is probably too tired to return on Saturdays; he has been studying traditional cantorial modes and wants to study to be a professional cantor. Also seven Torah readers; I was one and got the longest section. Another, born in Russia, was a member reading Torah for the first time ever, and a third, doing it for only the second time, was one of my Hebrew students. She is a French teacher and reads Hebrew with a charming French accent. The air quality has improved to 75. It will be lower tomorrow, perhaps because of rain that's predicted. Entirely by coincidence, I'll be attending a webinar later this week with interpretive staff from Canyonlands and Arches. The topic is interpreting science to the public, not specific to those parks.

Rhubarb is ubiquitous in the Faroes and Iceland because it is so cold-hardy. It's pretty much the only fruit-like thing that can be grown in the Faroes. Saskatoon/service berry/June berry is probably hardy enough, but I'm not sure that even a fruit that grows in Saskatchewan could stand the wind there. Houses in the Faroes are typically wood-framed, nowadays with steel cladding (formerly they were tarred), but every stick of wood is imported. Rhubarb is also common throughout Scandinavia. Last year I had rhubarb soda in Copenhagen, purchased from a street vendor along with a vegan sausage sandwich. I would have gone out today in search of strawberry-rhubarb pie if it hadn't rained so hard.

My preference for a warm layer is a down-alternative vest that is very packable, although the kind I have is no longer available. Fleece hardly compresses at all. OTOH, if fleece gets wet, it dries quickly.

Alas, it just means that the wind has changed. It was from the northwest yesterday, blowing the smoke toward Philadelphia and Baltimore. Currently, it's from the south.

I'm all in favor of strawberry-rhubarb pie and it is in season in many places. I wasn't aware that salmon, or any fish, wore collars, but it seems that the collar of a fish is a cross-slice just behind the gills. One reference says that it's rarely seen in fish markets because the fishmongers keep it for themselves. No on the drink. The wine doesn't ring any bells, and I haven't been to Korcula. The AQI is down to 92, "moderate," meaning that outdoor activity is considered safe except for anyone with unusual sensitivity to particulate pollution. It's likely to rain some more.

My workplace did this as an anti-covid measure. Initially we were told to close completely, then authorized to stay open as long as only one person worked at a time. We added one of these when we were permitted to allow more people in.

No on the meal but yes on Roy's alternative. I like Kir, which is white wine with crème de cassis dropped into it (but usually not stirred), so I'd try the drink. The wine is beyond my means and I haven't been to Raiatea. It is hazy but not smoky this morning, with AQI at 162. That's "unhealthy," an improvement from "hazardous" yesterday, but people of my age and state of health are still advised to limit outdoor activity. I need to buy groceries; may wait until this afternoon when there is a chance of rain. I plan to work in my office for most of the afternoon, and the air there is not as good as at home, because the building has a ventilation system that draws in outside air.

AQI now up to 460, and the alert has been extended into tomorrow.

I also have one. No shrimp for me. I don't know what the drink is but would probably like the wine. I haven't been to Catania. I also haven't been inside Vatican City even though I've visited Rome twice. The smoke was obviously heavier this morning and has continued to thicken. According to AirNow.gov, the AQI will be 411 this afternoon, which is considered hazardous for everyone. As of 11:00 the nearest monitor showed 285. They advise staying inside with windows closed and limiting physical activity. They don't quite say not to breathe. I cancelled the only meeting for which I would have to go out.

Thank you. The current plan is to start the trip on May 1 -- I'd like it to be a little earlier, but that's Passover. The purpose, aside from the pleasure of being somewhere new, is to visit Arches and Canyonlands. Others have tried to persuade me to add Bryce and Zion, but it results in more driving than I want to do; I've lived in the West and know that distances can be great, but I don't intend to spend most of the trip in a car, and I envision wanting to visit Arches more than once.

I worked in higher education for 20+ years, which gave me a jaundiced view of it. This is from working mostly in administration and dealing with rogue presidents. No air-fryer-anything here. Not sure about the cocktail. Might like the wine; I thought it would be fairly sweet but the description doesn't say that. I haven't been to Japan. One of my friends here was invited a few years ago by the French government to a memorial ceremony at the military cemetery from Operation Dragoon, the second allied landing, which took place in Provence in August 1944. It had been planned to be simultaneous with the Normandy landing, but wasn't feasible then; it later became clear that the Normandy ports didn't have sufficient capacity to supply the allied forces, and they needed to liberate Toulon and Marseille. His uncle died there and each year France tracks down a few relatives of the soldiers buried in the south of France and invites them to the ceremony. He has video of the ceremony and it was very moving. We have had an air-quality alert since yesterday, and it will last at least through tomorrow evening. Yesterday afternoon there was some haze and today there is enough smoke that it is unpleasant to be outside. I'm thinking of how much worse it must be closer to the fires. I've made a hotel reservation for Moab, Utah, for May 2024. I was planning to rent a cottage, but every cottage seemed to have something wrong with it and a good hotel cost less than any of them. Most of them had only mini-fridge, microwave, and coffeemaker, and the hotel room has all of those. The air travel will be with a credit that I have to use soon, but it's still too early to book for that time.

OK on all three days, although I've never been aboard a hot-air (or any) balloon. I have eaten frozen yogurt and I'm active in an environmental group; last week I helped to record a video for a meeting with our U.S. Representative. Maybe on the Korean salmon skewers. No on the pseutodini and I don't know about the wine. I have been to the port of Nassau, but didn't go ashore--it was a tech stop in the middle of the night on the Norwegian Getaway cruise to nowhere--so no pictures.

I think of applesauce cake as a winter cake, made when eggs were in short supply, or as a wartime cake. Still without cats to hug, but not for much longer. Heigh-ho the derry-o, the mouse takes the cheese. No on the scallops. I don't know the drink but would be willing to try the wine. I haven't been to Corner Brook but I have been to Newfoundland, albeit only Gander Airport (for a refueling stop, in a CL44-J). The service officiation yesterday didn't go badly, but there were tech problems that affected the Zoom feed. I sang the difficult piece well enough but messed up on easier ones. A member gave a sermon relating to Pride Month; we celebrate Pride Shabbat later in the month but they will be away then. After the service I went to a Pride festival where my organization had a booth, which volunteers had set up and staffed earlier. They erected an EZ-Up canopy so we had protection against sun and the predicted rain, which did not materialize. I hoped it would rain in the evening, but it didn't, so we are now officially in a drought and no rain is expected for at least a week.

The Connecticut Turnpike (I-95 and I-395) is another. New York is an EZ-Pass state but my corner of it has no toll roads or toll bridges. On the rare occasions when I use a toll road, I rely on the toll-by-mail system: if you pass through a toll station without a transponder, a device takes a picture of your license plate and in due course you receive a bill.

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