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Let’s Go To The Fair!

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WP Prompters have been watching the Food Network. Ha. Today’s prompt asks: What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?

The Donut Burger ( Photographer Unknown )

If you have ever had the pleasure of eating ” Fair Food ” and I am talking about the Fair Food that you get outside of Seattle because I don’t consider what I’ve had at Folk Life, or Bumpershoot or the Bite of Seattle as legit Fair Food. Seriously. They have killed the fun here when it comes to Fair Food,  leaving me to go elsewhere for artery challenging food and it’s worth it.

So based on my learned taste buds, I am here to give you some Fair Food tips- in case you want an alternative to the ” Seattle Experience ” in your quest for Fair Food in your own special corner of the world.

Deep Fried Avocado Slices-it will make Vegans weep. LOL. ( Photographer Unknown )

Rule of thumb if  you are in search of food that is good for you,  it doesn’t belong in a place you are going to where it’s possible that the rides will cause you to spew everything  you’ve eaten in the past 48 hours or the smell of Porta- Potties that have been baking poop and pee in the hot summer Sun ( those things are never in the shade)  will cleanse your innards of anything you have ever eaten or smelled in your entire life.

Also, why are you still reading this post? I thought the Donut Burger would have scared off the weak of stomachs by now.

No Joke. This is a Twinkie smothered with Caviar. It costs $125.00- I’ve never had one, but I am open to the experience. ( Photographer Unknown )

Next thing to remember.

You will always pay too much for Fair Food, but if you want to give your taste buds and your tummy the ride of a life time- partake.

It’s worth every dollar- and you will spend quite a few of them so enjoy!

Deep-Fried S’mores Oreo ( Photographer Unknown )

So Alive

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RDP Monday: LUSH

Hemlock Conium maculatum flowers, Boultham Moor, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK.
Photographer: Mick Talbot

By the end of this week I am going to have to have my air conditioner back in it’s place in my living room because we are in for a heatwave.

When I saw the weather report I flashed on my friends who have been on social media posting about wanting Summer to get here since before Summer ended last year- they are hardcore Sun worshipers and I am of the opinion that they won’t be truly happy until our Sun dies, turns into a red giant and in that moment when the earth is in the process of  swallowed by the Sun will they be truly happy.

I don’t like the Summer, I sort of like the Spring because the air does smell better and I do like to plant things like pumpkins and herbs .  The ground is soft and spongy and a little warm. It’s not the plants that strike me as being lush and alive during the Spring, but that’s how I feel about the Earth they are growing in.

Wolfsbane
Photographer Randi Hausken

The fact is, I don’t like Summer because Summer is a killer.

Nothing grows in the Summer when it’s hot. Everything touched by the Sun’s brutal Summer rays  will  to die and  as macabre and dark as I can be, I can’t say I enjoy that process. It’s like watching a murder scene in a movie in slow motion with a creepy three note soundtrack plinking away in the background.

But I will watch, with  morbid fascination,  as my friends and neighbors run outdoors throw their hands up to the sky and scream in joy as the Sun reaches down and does to them what it’s doing to their lawns the flowers in their gardens-

” The Sun makes me feel so alive. ”

Foxglove.
Photographer: Brian Eastop

 

Pluto Has Some Serious Issues

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RDP Friday: ALIGN 

There is a school of thought that says when Mars, Venus and Pluto align a certain way in the sky, it affects our lives and our destiny, our creativity and in some cases our electronic devices.

I say if those are the guideposts you look for to get through your day, happy trails.

However, take a look at the surfaces of these planets and bear with me to the end of this post:

This is Venus:

VENUS
Source: NASA/JPL
Published: February 10, 2012
“Crater Farm”

This is Mercury:

North Pole of planet Mercury. This image is a composite.
Original caption: “NASA
The dark region at the center of this image, pieced together from photographs taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, includes the north pole of Mercury. Because Mercury’s spin axis is almost exactly vertical, sunlight never reaches the bottoms of craters near the poles, and water ice can persist in the ultra cold temperatures there.

And this is the surface of Pluto:

An image of the bladed terrain of Pluto’s informally named the Tartarus Dorsa region, imaged by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. Image Credit: New Horizons.

These worlds would drop you stone cold dead if you managed to make it to their surfaces. They would show you zero mercy  and I mean NONE.

To illustrate my point let’s pretend you stood on the surfaces of Mercury, Pluto and Venus with no space suit:

Artist Unknown

Venus has a very dense atmosphere so she  would squash you like a bug  and then she would vaporize you. You might live for a second on her surface. But by ‘live’ I think that means as long as your heart is pumping  and you have a glimmner of brain activity then you are ‘alive’. Venus is clearly not a human friendly world.

Depending on where you landed on Mercury you would either instantly freeze or be turned into a carbon brick ( which is a nice way of saying you’d be roasted ). Mercury has no atmosphere so unlike Venus you wouldn’t get that second to  live. Mercury might be little but it has two very distinct  ways to kill  you, so don’t underestimate its committment to homicide.

As for Pluto- it’s 3.7 billion miles from the Sun.  It’s super cold and on top of that Pluto has no magnetic field so radiation would rip your cells apart in seconds. I mean Cell shredding is a grusome way to  dispatch a living organism.

Title: George Stubbs, A Horse Affrighted by a Lion, an etching
Date Created: 1777/1777

Speaking strictly for myself, if I were going to chose something to guide me through life and explain the world around me- I wouldn’t look to three worlds who in the grand scheme of things are bloodless killers.

Just think about it the next time you look up  and wonder what tomorrow will bring and find that Venus is looking right back at you and it looks like she’s winking.

 

Exploding Birds

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RDP Thursday: FURPHY

Blue-breasted Fairy-wren, Malurus pulcherrimus, from Gould’s The birds of Australia
Chesek, Craig

Years and years ago I was thumbing through a Bridal magazine and stamped on a pull out insert with birds  winging around the page with ribbons in their beaks was a Do and Don’t list for your Wedding Reception plans.

On the list in fancy script was a warning about not throwing rice because birds might eat the uncooked rice and it would swell up in their bellies and kill them- what bride would want the death of birds on her hands? What would all of those Disney Princesses who’s  dresses we still riff on to this day say? Especially Snow White and Cinderella?

So for the love of God- don’t throw rice!

I remember some of my friends taking that very seriously and insisted we throw flower petals or confetti instead.

I had no idea that those little tiny birdy bodies ran hot enough to cook rice and when I brought it up, one of my friends who used to cheat off of my papers in Science Class told me it was true and that everybody knew it.

I was a little insulted. Science and Biology were my best classes and the lowest grade I ever got was an A-. I guess she didn’t learn anything from all of  my hard work.

Darn it.

But let’s not be hard on my friend. Some reception halls had that written into their contracts. No rice throwing. Not because it was a mess but it was ” a danger to wildlife ”

In a world where birds explode if they eat uncooked rice,  I guess that if we ever found ourselves in a Jurassic Park situation, all we would have to do is scatter piles of uncooked rice mixed with whatever dinosaurs like to eat and kaboom- exploding dinosaurs.

Birds as you know, belong to the dinosaur family tree so I’m pretty sure this plan is true and it would work-and that’s no furphy.