Its Tasty Tuesday!....someone making me something? Just thought I would ask... Hey so hows your week going? Mine is great....of course when you are retired just about everyday is good! LOL...hang in there, the weekend is coming and then you can make it as good as you want. Been getting some good rain these last two weeks...too much in some areas of El Paso, but not bad here. We have gotten nearly 4 inches out at the other place and a couple of inches here....everything is really green and the wildflowers are beautiful. As Ray says, the roads around here are looking like the Yellow Brick Road! And the roses are blooming again. With the rain the desert comes alive. Ray and Josh have been working really hard on my Broom Closet. All the insulation is in and now I just need to get my paneling and trim and and the floor needs to be painted....a few more minor things and when the electricity is there i will be ready to move my stuff in! I may never come out of it! And yes i have a TV, and small fridge to go in it....think the girls will like it in there too! It will put all the Man Caves to shame! Just thought I would say hi to all my FB friends and post a couple of pics.... hope the rest of your week is all good, and be sure to make it the best you can! The pics are...Heuco mountain had a hat of fog... The sunset here last night....Ray and Josh working on The Broom Closet....looking good!...desert wildflowers...yellow rose...promise of another beauty...one already made...and the wild flowers off the front porch Here is an interesting article... STUFF I DID NOT KNOW. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals. Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers. The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450 F. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear, is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean. The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man. Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density. The University of Alaska spans four time zones. The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself. In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted. Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. A comet’s tail always points away from the sun. The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent. Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity. If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight. In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed. Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. The moon moves about two inches away from the earth each year. The earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. Due to earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters. Mickey Mouse is known as “Topolino” in Italy . Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down. Everything weighs one percent less at the equator. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off. The Letter J does not appear anywhere on the Periodic Table of the Elements
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