July 2021

Bisbee.

So we went on a long road trip. When all was said and done we drove about 410 miles. The farthest south was the Mexican border at Douglas, Arizona. The farthest east was Lordsburg, New Mexico, and the farthest north was Safford, Arizona.

We covered a lot of roadway that went through a lot of rural desert. It was a hoot and a half.

We started out by following Historic US Route 80, which is Arizona State Route 80. US 80 was replaced by Interstate 10 west of mid-Texas, but there’s still plenty of ways to drive the old roadway. ADOT is kind enough to post the route with Historic US Route signs.

I’ve started a small collection of service station uniform shirts. I occasionally wear them when we are on road trips.

Our travels brought us to the former mining town of Bisbee. The area has been rejuvenated as an “arts town”. We stopped for lunch and walked around the quaint downtown. It was a very pleasant experience.

The restaurant was part of a collection of shops in a multi-purpose Art Deco style building. There were knick knacks and doodads from the era.

Overall we had a lovely time. We are really enjoying exploring the desert.

3 July 2021 by Fun and Games Dept 0

Popped.

I ushered in the weekend with a few rounds of popcorn for the family. My mother would be proud, though I didn’t serve it as a side dish with prime rib or anything.

Popcorn is my favorite food. I try to wrap my head around making healthy choices with an air popper and the like but then I end up melting a stick of butter and dumping that on the dry popcorn, so I just stick with a bit of oil and corn popped in a standard popcorn popper.

I am working on keeping added salt to a minimum. Watching foods that can lead to hypertension is a must at my age. Even with the lower salt content popcorn is still my favorite food.

2 July 2021 by Fun and Games Dept 0

Secret Witchcraft.

After “Bewitched” ended its run in 1972, Elizabeth Montgomery made no further appearances as nose-twitching witch Samantha Stephens from the popular series. She was ready to move on and didn’t want to be typecast as the character. Lizzie went on to make numerous TV movies and enjoyed a successful career until her passing in the mid 1990s. Though “Bewitched” has been in constant syndication since it ended its original run, she rarely talked about “Bewitched” until fan interest in the show picked up in the late 1980s and early 90s, and books and the like started to appear around the subject. She was pleased with her performances as Samantha, but she didn’t want to be known as just Samantha. In the early 1990s she did agree to appear in a pilot for a reboot of the series. The new version was to be about a witch that lived in London, but the show never came to fruition.

Even though Lizzie was distancing herself from Samantha, she did appear in a run of Japanese commercials for Lotte Mother Biscuits, twitching her nose and doing Samantha-like magic. I guess she figured these Japanese commercials would never make it to the States. But courtesy of the Internet and Youtube, we can see Elizabeth Montgomery doing Samantha like things in the mid 1980s.

As a lifelong “Bewitched” fan, it’s fun to see Elizabeth doing her Samantha like gestures later in her life.

1 July 2021 by Geek 0

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Just a guy with a husband. We’ve been together 28 years and he still makes me see fireworks on a daily basis. Hiker. Storm Chaser. Private Pilot. Tech Guy. Hackerish.

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