Bev Dow

This is one of the most perfect things the internet has ever created.

@Mr_Husky1 Bee-nyoo-tiful (beautiful)

Admit it: Your kid mispronounced a word three years ago and now the whole family says it that way. What's the word in your house? (We still say 'pasketti' and I’m not stopping anytime soon.)

Sen. Fetterman says government shutdowns hurt working Americans, warning unpaid TSA agents are struggling while political fights create chaos: “For me, I’ve said this from the beginning, and I remind everybody there was a long shutdown just last year too, and I was one of the rare Democrats to refuse that as well. And now here we are at the airport every week. I talk to countless TSA agents, and they are all hurting. They are angry. They are frustrated. They’re exhausted, too, by what they’ve been put through. Now, these are not wealthy people. They earn around $50,000 a year. That should be our wheelhouse. I mean, they’re union government workers, and now if we refuse to give them a paycheck—don’t talk about affordability if you don’t even provide them with a paycheck. So it’s always wrong, regardless of which party is doing it, to shut down our government. It’s fundamentally wrong, and that’s why I refuse to be a part of it.”

@JoshLipnik This was my intro to Frank Lloyd Wright. We went to a number of concerts there between 1968 and 1972. I have very fond memories there.

Gammage Auditorium (1962-64) at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. One of the last public commissions of Frank Lloyd Wright.

@CristiTilden This isn't new or purely related to screen time. Twenty-five(ish) years ago we went to an office dinner for folks from 3 counties. We simply could not get a conversation going with anyone seated near us, no matter how hard we tried. It was irritating and, I thought, rude.

Been thinking how pretty much a lot of the ladies I have been newly socializing with have asked me zero about myself. I'm a big girl and not upset about it, but it really makes me realize how socialization and manners are a skill that needs teaching.

@Architectolder A friend is restoring a house inherited from her in-laws in which ALL the floors (and baseboards) are brick. Once she has gotten a room cleaned, she has given the floor several coats of a clear finish. It's beautiful. Not my choice, but I won't be living there.

Pavers in the kitchen?

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

@Hazelesque @PeasantBiomass I assume they can sell them as libraries frequently have sales of books removed from the shelves or duplicates which have been donated. Schools don't seem to see a value in selling textbooks. A friend found a dumpster full of Saxon Math books, e.g..

@BevKDow @PeasantBiomass Or alternatively, the "WEEE recycling" model of "pay the recycler to take them, and then people pay the recycler to buy them"?

One of the deepest bouts of melancholy I’ve felt was when I as part of a landscape facility crew was randomly assigned to dispose of an entire University Library In dim lighting, I roamed each isle pushing a large trash bin, using my free arm to send countless books to oblivion

@Old_But_Gold50s The costumes are incredible! The dancers look like they just stepped out of a painting by Rembrandt.

The absolutely epic Dance of the Knights from The Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet.

@LucastaHonoria Did you make the syrup? Buy it? Sounds marvelous!

Cardamom syrup in my coffee. I'm a fan.

@LucastaHonoria @MmePapyraceus a.co/d/07jajNS1

Hey ladies, how are we putting lotion on our backs after the shower? (This feels like a @MmePapyraceus specialty, but anybody who can answer is welcome to chime in)

@theatomicmom @Ken67547214 I mash overripe bananas into a container and freeze them. I keep adding until I have enough for 4 loaves. This recipe looks like my mom's recipe, but hers never said anything about Gold Medal flour. Now I'm wondering ...?

@Ken67547214 Google "Gold Medal Flour Banana Bread recipe". It is the best & only recipe you will ever need.

Why can't grocery store banana bread be good? I love banana bread, but I don't know where to find old ladies to make the good stuff.

@ATEOutdoors @ThrillaRilla369 Basically the start of a marvelous gravy.

@ThrillaRilla369 Then there's those who can make a proper Roux.

People that can make Gravy from scratch think they better than everybody

@ThrillaRilla369 We are!

@mikeroweworks, this man would be a great addition to your podcast lineup. He's doing mighty work training boys to be good, honorable men.

@NewEmergingKing I heard Wynton Marsalis talk about the importance of looking sharp. He said something like, "If I play badly, at least they can say I looked good!" He ironed his own shirts, too. I'm so impressed by all the things you're teaching these young men.

Teaching the boys how to iron today. Started with a dress shirt — interviews, dates, all that. You can’t show up wrinkled trying to impress somebody. Take pride in how you look.

@FloreFlos My grandma made a rhubarb crisp, which never had enough sugar. Grandpa would put a huge piece in a bowl, pour heavy cream over it and a THICK layer of sugar. When the rest of us would complain about how sour it was, he always said he liked it just as Grandma made it. LOL!!

If you have to add strawberries to make rhubarb taste good then why have the rhubarb at all?

@deseretistan Our congregation has a crew of guys to help folks move. They have one rule: We will only move furniture and what is packed in boxes. Personally, I think that's only common decency, but know of way too many situations like yours. It's rude and unkind.

Story time. I moved to Utah in the 90s, many years before I joined the Church. A Mormon guy at work asked for coworkers to come help him and his pregnant wife move on a Saturday morning. I drove from Park City to Sandy to help him. I was the only one from the office who showed up. There were two of his friends there, which I guess were from his EQ. We go up to this guy's apartment--it's on the 4th floor, no elevators--and he's packed NOTHING. He has a few cardboard boxes and a clothes hamper to move all of his belongings to the U-Haul down below. It took the four of us ALL DAY in the valley heat to move this guy. At the end of it, we are exhausted. This guy's wife brings to us 2L of warm Walmart brand root beer and a tiny pizza. This guy isn't a pauper, mind you. He's a senior software engineer at our tech company. Lesson: I will do anything to help my fellow man, but I won't help you move.

@VisionaryVoid Reminds me of my grandparents during the Depression. Grandpa managed a small JC Penney store and a new supply of oilcloth came in, and Grandma desperately wanted a piece for the kitchen. He forgot. To make amends, he bought her a bean pot. Today, I am the owner of "the damn pot.*

The Man Who Went Shopping For Dining Chairs and Accidentally Bought Stonehenge. On September 21, 1915, a British barrister named Cecil Chubb was given a very simple task by his wife, Mary. She sent him to a local auction in Salisbury with strict instructions: buy a nice set of dining chairs for their home. But as Chubb sat in the auction house, he got distracted. "Lot 15" came up for sale, a 30-acre plot of land featuring a crumbling, dilapidated ring of ancient rocks. The bidding was incredibly sluggish, and on a complete whim, Chubb raised his hand. When the gavel fell, he had just purchased Stonehenge for £6,600 (roughly $800,000 today). He proudly presented the 5,000-year-old megalithic wonder to his wife as a surprise "birthday present." Mary was absolutely furious. She didn't want a pile of ancient rocks; she wanted her dining chairs. Three years later, tired of his wife’s complaints and realizing the immense historical weight of his impulse purchase, Chubb donated the entire monument to the British government. He attached one strict condition: the public must always have access to it. Today, it stands protected forever, all because a husband couldn't stick to a shopping list.