Arizona got walloped with rain over the weekend, and I've been enjoying watching all the videos taken of lakes filling with badly needed water. Usually a dry riverbed through the valley, the Salt River is running with a vengeance as dams have to release water to make room for more. My heart goes out to flood victims; I've had my own problems with flooding here, but Mother Nature treated Casa Kittling kindly this time. Just a modicum of flooding in the yard, and no mud and debris in the pool. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mother Nature!
Enough of the weather-- I have a conundrum! A few decades ago, I was in Costco and fell in love with a set of four dark blue soup mugs. They came home with me and have been used hundreds, if not thousands, of times since.
A week ago, I unloaded the dishwasher and put all its contents away. It wasn't until I noticed an empty soup mug hook on the rack that I found out one of the mugs was missing. Somehow, it disappeared from the dishwasher because I know it was in there when I turned it on. Now... I've heard of socks disappearing from the dryer, but... soup mugs from the dishwasher? I still haven't found the thing!
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Virtual hugs to you all, and enjoy the links!
►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄
- The olfactory history of book collecting.
- As budgets tighten, people are breaking out their library cards.
- Gulliver's Travels turns 300. Jonathan Swift's "profound satire of human nature" is still just as bitingly relevant.
- It's glitchy. It's mean. It's a mess. It's Angelina Mazza's favorite website on the internet (Goodreads).
- Why is a V-shaped hairline called a "widow's peak"?
- On the art (and artifice) of the miniature.
►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄
- Greece has its own Pompeii, and the ruins tell a captivating story of a sophisticated, seafaring Bronze Age society.
- Faded over millennia, the intricately carved sandstone walls of this ancient Egyptian shrine will see color once again.
- A new contender for the world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey. Its ancient cargo is a "time capsule" from 4,700 years ago.
- A community-led archaeology dig on a tiny Scottish isle has unearthed a medieval monastery of "international importance."
- A new exhibition reveals how hot pink togas and floral perfumes conveyed power in the Roman Empire.
- A landlord found a peculiar print hanging in a vacant apartment. It turned out to be an original Picasso that had been missing for eight years.
►Channeling My Inner Elly May Clampett◄
- From hunting hounds to modernist muses, dachshunds have done it all. See the world's first art exhibition dedicated exclusively to the sausage dog.
- The amazing cuttlefish-- the expert of disguise.
- Oil paintings of animals doing human things add a hilarious twist to a classic medium.
- How an ancestral Peruvian ceremony is saving the once-endangered vicuña.
- Orcas are bringing humans gifts of food-- but why?
- Video reveals an unlikely bond between ocelots and opossums in the Amazon, walking together like "old friends."
►The Wanderer◄
- 24 of America's best-preserved ghost towns.
- The most-viewed place in all 50 states (and Washington, D.C.).
- How an Irish backroad tradition is rolling into small-town America.
- London's railway for the dead.
- Traveling Route 66 in the age of data centers.
- Île Sainte-Marguerite in Cannes, France, once housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask."
►Fascinating Folk◄
- A secret Dolly Parton memoir recently sold for $13 million.
- Inside Eudora Welty's home in Jackson, Mississippi.
- 20 movie stars of the '90s who disappeared from Hollywood.
- The writing habits that helped Sylvia Plath create her most famous work.
- Remembering Mark Pryor, beloved crime novelist and iconic Austinite.
- Finding Krao Farini.
►I ♥ Lists◄
- 20 books that are a feast for the eyes.
- 20 everyday things from the '80s and '90s that are now worth money.
- 6 slang words from the 1950s we still use today.
- New historical fiction titles.
- 14 of the best crime novels about deadly secrets.
- These disaster thrillers will keep you turning pages.
That's all for this week! No matter how busy you may be, don't forget that quality Me Time curled up with a good book!
You know, Cathy, I've had forks do the same disappearing act on me! I *know* I've put more forks in the dishwasher than actually came out. Gremlins? The Extended Bermuda Triangle? Who knows. Oh, how close do you live to Area 51? Ya never know... At any rate, I hope you find the mug. While I'm visiting the 'Greek Pompeii,' I'll check if it's there...
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