Last week I mentioned three dogs trapped for over a month near the volcano erupting on the Canary Islands. Officials were going to use a drone to drop cargo nets, then carry the dogs to safety one by one. Since the drone only had about 8 minutes of battery life, the rescue had to be well planned, and well executed. A test run went well. Then, ahead of the drone rescue, the dogs were rescued by another group calling themselves the A Team. They left behind a spray-painted banner that said, “Stay strong, La Palma. The Dogs are fine.” It is believed that it was done secretly because the A Team might be in trouble for illegally venturing into an exclusion zone. An animal activist group thinks rescuers may have used a drone’s thermal camera to find a cold path through the lava. Come on, who let the dogs out??
Speaking of the volcano eruption… at this point, there is little La Palma can do to stop or divert the path of the lava, leading them to think towards a more drastic strategy; using military aircraft to bomb the flows in an attempt to slow the lava or send it in a different direction.
Today, I left the house without Teller’s leash, but he has been a perfect gentleman while going out to potty and walking to the mailbox…but there was not one single squirrel or possum sighting during those outings. But things can change so quickly. I have seen it happen. 😊
Oh, my. Time flies. On October 3, 1961, The Dick Van Dyke Show debuted on CBS. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore starred as Rob and Laura Petrie, along with Larry Mathews who played little Ritchie. Rose Marie was Sally and Morey Amsterdam was Buddy, along with Ann Morgan Guilbert as Millie, the fast-talking next-door neighbor. Johnny Carson was in line for the job, but Van Dyke had more name recognition because of Bye Bye Birdie. Moore did not care for the scripts that wanted her to do housework and vacuum in high heels (reference June Cleaver), so she wore capri pants and comfortable shoes. 60 years later, the style is still with us. Yikes. That means I am getting old. Network censors did not allow TV couples to sleep together then so twin beds were necessary, except for Ozzie and Harriet Nelson because they were married in real life. “Oh, Rob.” Dick Van Dyke is now 95 years old and still dances every day. Mary Tyler Moore died in 2017 at age 80.
I love binder clips. In addition to how clips are intended to be used at the office, I use them to close bags of chips, flour, sugar, pasta, and other pantry items. I use them to fasten freeze blankets and sheets to the plants, so they don’t blow off during wintry weather. But the Farmer’s Almanac had another great idea. Place a binder clip on the head of your razers to protect them when you travel. Genius.
A 15-year-old boy reported to the Harris County Sheriff’s office this week that the body of his 9-year-old brother was in the room next to his and had been for about a year. That is exactly what they found, along with two other brothers, ages 10 and 7, abandoned, with signs of physical injuries, having been on their own for as much as a year. The apartment had no power. Neighbors were helping with food. The mother and her boyfriend were found living just 15 minutes away, having now been questioned and released, so far. Well, I have quite a few questions of my own.
Prosecutors used circumstantial evidence to convince jurors that plastic surgeon Robert Bierenbaum murdered his wife and threw her body into the Atlantic Ocean from his plane, back in 1983. Hmmm. He has now admitted that they were right. Bierenbaum confessed to the crime in a December 2020 parole board hearing. He said he strangled Gail Katz because he was “immature” and wanted her to stop yelling at him. “I went flying. I opened the door and then took her body out of the airplane over the ocean,” he told the hearing. Good luck at your next parole board hearing, buddy.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Actor Suzanne Somers is 75. Guitarist Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead is 74. Actor-director Tim Robbins is 63. Actor Jeff Goldblum is 69. Child actor Jonathan Lipnicki of Stuart Little and Jerry Maguire is 31. Keyboardist Manfred Mann is 81. Guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG’s is 80. Singer Elvin Bishop is 79. Anchorman Dan Rather is 90. He has a podcast and let’s face it, who can you trust more than Dan Rather. Actor Deidre Hall of Days of Our Lives is 74. Journalist Jane Pauley is 71. Country singer Kinky Friedman is 77. Singer Lyle Lovett is 64. Singer Lulu is 73. To Sir with Love.
Actor Sally Field is 75. Actor-comedian Roseanne Barr is 69. Actor Kathy Kinney of The Drew Carey Show is 68. That blue eyeshadow. Actor Kate Capshaw of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is 68. Comedian Dennis Miller is 68. Singer Adam Ant is 67. Actor Loretta Swit of MASH is 84. Singer Delbert McClinton is 81. Actor Matthew McConaughey is 52. Actor Elke Summer is 81. The Pink Panther. Singer Art Garfunkel is 80. Singer Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits is 74. He still tours and sounds great! Actor Tatum O’Neal is 58. Guitarist Kevin Jonas of The Jonas Brothers is 34. News correspondent Maria Shriver is 66. Lee Grant is 96. (I also found her ages listed as 95, 94, 93 and on one site it showed she had died in 2016, so who knows.) Singer k.d. lang is 60. Actor Stefanie Powers is 79. Jennifer Hart.
Jay and the Americans singer, Jay Black, known for “This Magic Moment” died at 82. Disney child star, Tommy Kirk, the actor known for his role as Travis Coates in the 1957 film, “Old Yeller” died at 79.
A Turkish man met with friends, later wandering into a forest. When his loved ones realized that they had not talked to him in several hours, they reported him missing. It seems that after meeting with his friends, he might have been a little drunk as he entered the forest. So, after a while resting in the forest, he joined the search party to help look for himself, not knowing that everyone (including him) was looking for him. Such a delightful story.
An amateur internet sleuth needed a Covid lockdown project, so he studied the grain pattern on the wood guitar (which was actually stolen in 1976) of Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive guitarist Randy Bachman. It was an orange 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins guitar and the sleuth compared it to guitars he saw for sale around the world, finally tracking down a match at a shop in Japan. But it had recently sold to a Japanese musician. Wait. This was the guitar that had helped write “No Sugar Tonight,” “Takin’ Care of Business,” and “American Woman.” With help from his Japanese daughter-in-law, Bachman spoke with the new owner of the guitar who agreed to part with it if a substitute could be found. Bachman found a guitar that was likely made the very same week as his.
My son recently celebrated his 25th birthday in Boston, where he moved to in August. Before he left, we toasted to his upcoming b-day and split my last, now retired, Saint Arnold Bishop’s Barrel 25 beer. I was saving it for something special and turning 25 is pretty special. He face-timed me this weekend while he was cleaning his walls with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. Yes, this is the same son that never could pick up his underwear off the bathroom floor. Yep, a magic eraser. Does my heart good.
A 72-year-old man in Bosnia got tired of remodeling his home so his wife could look and see out in different directions, so he built a new house that can rotate in a full circle to change the position of the rooms any time his wife wants. He built the rotating house using electric motors and the wheels of an old military transport vehicle. “Now, our front door also rotates, so if she spots unwanted guests heading our way, she can spin the house and make them turn away,” he joked. If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
A North Carolina couple have been charged in the death of their infant, 30 years after the body was discovered in a trash can. In 1991 when the remains were found, decomposition had accelerated to where officers were unable to determine the baby’s sex. Detectives started a re-examination of the cold case in 2019, by sending a rib bone to a lab in The Woodlands where they were able to find DNA evidence, creating a genealogical profile that led them to the parents. It was determined that the infant died by blunt force trauma and asphyxiation.
Tom Brady did what no man has ever done – he made the 600th touchdown pass of his career. Then receiver Mike Evans, unaware of the specialness of the event, handed the ball to a fan. Then they took the ball back. The fan has been offered $1000 gift certificate for the team store, two signed jerseys, a helmet from Brady, a signed Evans jersey and game-used cleats, along with two season tickets for the remaining 2021 season and all of the 2022 season… just to give it back. They are saying that he could have kept the ball and made as much as $750,000 as a collectible item. There is something wrong in our world when a football is worth that kind of money. Later, Brady said that there should have been more of a negotiation and said that he is giving the fan a bit coin, (which current price is $61,839.61.) The fan is an honorable, first-class man and knows that Tom Brady should have the ball.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that in the same situation, “I’d be hard to trade with,” he said, “I would explain to everybody that’s like asking me for my baby. And then I’d tear up for them a little bit when I think about how I’m gonna have that (ball) when I’m 90 … Then, after all of that, then I’d take offers.”
So, let’s say just for fun, you get that ball and put it on a shelf in your home and your guest may ask, “What’s that?” You will reply, “That is the football Tom Brady threw his 600th touchdown pass with.” The guest would reply, “Cool. Did you hear that it is going to rain this evening?” A bit coin is better!
“There’s no crying in pumpkin growing.” Mike Schmit of Wisconsin thought he had the heaviest pumpkin in the US, since it weighed in at 2,520 pounds. He has spent about 30 hours a week growing and taking care of three pumpkins. The almost winner grew more than 50 pounds per day, also requiring 150 gallons of water each day. BUT, in order to win the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off (and the $9 per pound prize) it must be perfect-perfect. The pumpkin developed a tiny little crack. Yikes. That would have been $22,680.
A British Columbia woman awoke earlier this month when a piece of space debris or meteor made a hole in her ceiling and landed on her pillow, narrowly missing her head. Her insurance company is trying to determine whether space debris is covered by her policy. Of course.
What a clever idea. It has been a while, but most all of us remember what it feels like the morning after we drink too much alcohol, which is actually a combination of dehydration and how your liver processes alcohol. We all know that you are never supposed to drink on an empty stomach, always eating something before and during the times we are drinking. A SoBar is the first food specifically designed to slow the transfer of alcohol from the stomach to the small intestine, and wherever else it travels. Eating food after you drink is just too late. Wait, I have more. Another company has developed sparkling water plus electrolytes in lime and grapefruit. No big deal you say because you can pick up water with electrolytes at Buc-ee’s. Nope, this sparkling water just happens to be dressed up like a beer bottle. That way, you will always feel like you fit in at the party. Their website says, “There was a time when you only had alcohol to celebrate life’s special moments. We thought that should change.” GetSobars.com and KaterWingman.com.
Have a great Halloween. My son is dressing as Tiger King with the wig and everything and my daughter decided on Jessica Walter from Arrested Development, wanting to know if I still had any pantsuits left in my closet. Happy Halloween and thanks for reading The Source Weekly. FREE garage sale ads.
LISA
