Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you
Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
Food History
Uruguay Wins a Battle Using Cheese Cannonballs
Food history from around the world adds excitement to daily food consumption, like when Uruguay discovered an underrated potential in cheese.
Ever since it gained independence, Uruguay was ravaged by the internal struggles in the country. The two parties that contributed to the tussle were the ruling Blanco party and the Colorado party. The Colorado party had formed an alliance with the Empire of Brazil and waged a war on the Blanco government in August 1864.
In the war, it was the Colorados backed by the army and navy of Brazil against the Blancos. The Blancos would clearly be overrun. All that Colorados and their allies had to do was to capture the Blancos’ strongholds in the countryside and isolate them in the capital. There would be nothing left to do for the Blancos but to surrender. For a period of time, Brazil and Uruguay engaged their naval force to wage the war.
During one such skirmish between a Brazilian and an Uruguayan ship, the Uruguayan vessel ran out of cannonballs. The Uruguayan ship was just sitting ducks without any ammunition. All they had on board was the ration for the crew and the handguns they possessed.
Thinking on his feet, Captain Coe, the commander of the ship, ordered the cannon to be loaded with stale Dutch cheese of which they had plenty, more so than ammunition. The captain reasoned, “The cheese was too old and hard to eat anyway”. The crew obeyed the orders and loaded the cannons with blocks of cheese.
Moments later, the Uruguayan ship opened fire again, throwing hard stale blocks of cheeses at the Brazilian navy. The first few balls went sailing over the intended target ships, but soon enough one crashed into the main mast of a Brazilian ship. Funnily, the big block of cheese caused the mast to shatter into a thousand pieces. The Brazilian admiral was taken aback. Two of his crew members were wounded with cheese shrapnel.
After taking a few more cheese balls crashing into the ship, the Brazilian admiral ordered his ship to retire from the battle and return to the port. Uruguay made food history that day.
https://arkadiafoodstore.com/2022/05/25/food-history_battle-uruguay-cheese/
I give up, DT. What are those critters?
daddy long legs
on a window screen (up close)
Daddy Longlegs – a type of spider.
ew. 🙁
It’s just me, but spiders … why does it have to be spiders? The one animal species that creeps me out the most. I read a report that the total weight of all the spiders in the world outweigh all humans. Ooh, ick. I’m a rational guy for the most part, but not when it comes to spiders. In a previous life, I must have been stung by a spider and the wound got infected and I died.
But, when I find them in the house, if I can I capture them and take them outside. I try not to be cruel, their function is to eat other insects so they don’t all invade my house. But the outdoor spiders that congregate around the outdoor house lights, and on my car, their webs get swept away by my brooms on a regular basis. I know, I’m destroying the spider’s wealth, but tough, they can go capture insects somewhere else.
You seen this ” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048696/ ” when you were a little kid and it trashed your brain housing unit.
Festus said, “If it bites ya just suk the pysin out you ol’ scudder.”