Traditional Dutch Appeltaart Recipe with a Delicious Twist

It had been about six months since I had made an apple pie. Delicious with ice cream, whipped cream or vanilla sauce. Or all three. Appeltaart (apple…

Traditional Dutch Appeltaart Recipe with a Delicious Twist

And on that note…..~REPOST~ – Belladonna’s Flashlight

Have you ever had a day that you were moving full speed ahead all day?

If you said yes, then I know I’m in good company.

Today was one of those days that I needed to remind myself to breathe deeply and exhale loudly. If you close your eyes, put your hand on your chest, and silence the world around you while you inhale slowly and exhale just as slowly, you’ll find peace and comfort.

Well, I forgot to do that today, and by 8:00 pm, I looked like a plucked bird! Wide-eyed and cray cray!

Story Time

At 5:45 am, my clock made this loud ass buzzing sound; I guess you can call it an alarm. It was time to get up and make the donuts; well, I wish anyway.

I could use a good donut.

It was time to check emails, reply to emails, and check on the situation of my new career move. Before I knew it, I heard my daughter’s clock making that same annoying noise mine had made an hour ago.

She jumped up, freshened up, and headed to the car for basketball practice!

7:30 am was made for working out, and that’s just what I did. By 11:00, the shower was done, breakfast was done, two loads of laundry were done, dinner was done, and two major work-related operations were done.

The clock hit 1:50 pm, and I ran out the door to pick up the pregame meal for the 7th and 8th-grade girls and boys’ basketball teams.

My daughter wanted me to share one of my military stories with the group while they ate, so I did.

4:00 pm I’m headed back home so I can get a little work done before heading out to watch my daughter’s basketball game.

6:15 I’m headed out for the game.

7:15-8:20 pm I was yelling like a bat out of hell for my daughter and her teammates.

Yay, they won!

10:30 pm, I’m writing my blog, and at that moment, I realized that today is Tuesday and not Monday. I completed all of my Tuesday duties with Monday energy.

And on that note, I’m going to bed.

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you decided mine, and I’m honored!

You could have chosen any blog to read, but you decided mine, and I’m honored!

Source: And on that note…..~REPOST~ – Belladonna’s Flashlight

Questions surrounding Trump’s mental acuity are a real 2024 story

The words below were taken verbatim  from a campaign speech former President Donald Trump delivered in Potterville, Michigan, Thursday when he was attempting, at least initially, to criticize Kamala Harris’ record in San Francisco, presumably referring to her tenure as district attorney there:

She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?

This is … impossible to follow. Trump’s asides stack atop each other with such density that it’s dizzying for even professional political observers to discern what he’s trying to get at. Why is a presidential candidate leapfrogging from talking about Harris’ policy record to the bath he took on a property he owns to where he ranks on the list of “horribly” treated presidents? His asides themselves are often unintelligible. What is this alleged anecdote about his San Francisco property meant to convey? What does he even mean about how horribly presidents were treated? To cap it all off, Trump casually tossed out an insidious conspiracy theory. He implies we don’t know who shot him, when of course we do. Trump has been embedded in the public consciousness as a rule-breaker for so long that it can be easily to forget how far he is from fulfilling the basic requirement of a politician to speak clearly.

…The incoherence of the Potterville speech is just one of countless examples. During a recent event in Wisconsin, Trump’s response to a question from the audience about reducing inflation entailed darting from his belief that Americans don’t eat bacon anymore to his assertion that wind energy doesn’t work. During remarks this spring, he stumbled from an attack on Biden’s age into a nonsensical reverie about the actor Cary Grant, which then spun off into an anecdote about a conversation he had with Michael Jackson. Compared even to his first term in office, Trump’s inability to focus on one train of thought appears to be growing significantly worse.

…Now, as Harris energetically lays out how she wants to improve the country, Trump’s bizarre speeches look even more concerning than they did before. After all, during his first term, Trump’s imprecise, impulsive way of communicating  made him exceptionally dangerous when speaking about sensitive diplomatic and national security issues, such as in his policies toward North Korea. Those risks will only be greater if he becomes president again. And it’s genuinely chilling to imagine a less capable, less focused Trump handling another major public health crisis such as Covid. Trump’s seeming decline isn’t his worst quality — but it likely would make many of his vices worse.

Source: Questions surrounding Trump’s mental acuity are a real 2024 story

A principal infraestrutura da Amazônia é a floresta em pé! | Barbara Crane Navarro

A Carta de Alter, documento final do maior encontro de organizações ambientais, associações locais e institutos de pesquisa da Amazônia, defende um desenvolvimento para as pessoas e com o meio ambiente Paisagem interior de uma floresta amazônica intacta Após três dias de debates em Alter do Chão (PA), organizações socioambientais, pesquisadores e cientistas atuantes em todo […]

A principal infraestrutura da Amazônia é a floresta em pé —

Source: A principal infraestrutura da Amazônia é a floresta em pé! | Barbara Crane Navarro

My Favorite Little Film! – Sometimes we miss the most beautiful moments – DON’T MISS THIS one! A magical 38-second film – “The Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle”! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami boysAlto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

Please help protect the forests, rivers, wildlife and the lives of the Yanomami and other Indigenous peoples by boycotting ALL products from deforestation; gold, palm oil, exotic wood, soy, beef, etc.

Water is Life!

Here’s the 38-second film of the Yanomami boy in his canoe, with friends cheering him on from the riverbank:

 

 

It’s an excerpt of my film of instants of the daily life of a Yanomami community in the Amazon Rainforest made to accompany the children’s book series: “Amazon Rainforest Magic” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” and “La Magia de la Amazonia” for ages 8 to 100!

Yanomami communal house in the forest with areas nearby planted for communal gardens

The full 13 minute, 16 second film – (age restricted by YouTube due to ancestral Yanomami customs which include traditional nudity) interwoven with illustrations from the “Amazon Rainforest Magic” books – is here:…

Source: My Favorite Little Film! – Sometimes we miss the most beautiful moments – DON’T MISS THIS one! A magical 38-second film – “The Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle”! | Barbara Crane Navarro

PA Election Deniers Ordered To Pay $1M In Voting Machine Case | Crooks and Liars

A Pennsylvania judge has determined that three election deniers must pay nearly $1 million in fees as the result of a years-long legal dispute with state officials over voting equipment used in 2020, according to recent court filings. Via CNN:

Source: PA Election Deniers Ordered To Pay $1M In Voting Machine Case | Crooks and Liars

Republican anti-Trump group to launch new swing state ads – Los Angeles Times

A Republican group opposing former President Trump is launching a “swing state ad blitz” Tuesday, spending $11.5 million on billboards and television advertisements featuring former Trump voters who support Vice President Kamala Harris.

The campaign will run through the month of September in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and in Nebraska’s second congressional district. Nebraska is one of two states, along with Maine, that splits its electoral votes based on congressional districts, awarding bonus votes to the overall winner of the state.

Source: Republican anti-Trump group to launch new swing state ads – Los Angeles Times

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