Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Must finish two scripts this morning and read them aloud several times.
Am counting on ability to trim and paste to cover up mistakes I will make.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Siberian accentor
Jargal Lamjav from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Siberian Accentor (Prunella montanella) - Сибирийн хайруулдай
Siberian Accentor - Сибирийн хайруулдай Prunella montanella, Manzushir Monastery, Mongolia
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Commentary
Friday, August 9, 2019
Just got back from an allergy testing. Part two of three. So far negatives.
Crew coming over tonight to tape the first “Hey, Dom!” videos.
Hopefully no glitches.
Must finish two scripts this morning and read them aloud several times.
Am counting on ability to trim and paste to cover up mistakes I will make.
Will serve pasta and steak when the shoot is over.
I am excited.
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Wednesday’s Dinner posted on
Friday, August 9, 2019
Today we created our new curry-saffron recipe.
Goal was a creamy, smooth, well-flavored, mild to medium spicy plate.
For the creamy we used a combo of coconut milk and coconut cream.
One source of the flavors was a combo of saffron, curry paste, curry powder with additional cumin and salt.
Another source derived from the innovative use of a mirepoix of chili, carrots, shallots, and bell pepper in our Asian Oil: sesame oil with fresh ginger, garlic, and scallions.
A third source was the sauce itself, the coconut as well as the use of a bit of fresh pineapple and orange juices.
Finally, we paired the sauce with half-pound each of 8-12 count shrimp, extracting that attractive flavor.
It worked.
I’ll publish it soon.
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Tracking Postings – Tracking Time
Friday, August 9, 2019
Our 490th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 490 posts we’re at the 9.80 percentile of our commitment, that commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Note how quickly we are approaching the 10% mark.
Feels like we’re just getting started, but we are close to 10% done.
10 xs 10 and then what?
Wow!
By the way, our posts are always done by 6.00am the day of, but are usually available by 6.00pm of the night before.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Friday, August 9, 2019
My first thought when I got my universal remote?
This changes everything.
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Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Friday, August 9, 2019
This from Sally C:
For Kali: Dumbfound - to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
It isn't easy to render me speechless, yet it happened to me twice last week, once at your poem (awestruck at its beauty, insight, purity, revelation), and once in spluttering indignation over an egregious public insult to good friends of mine (fury). I'm grateful that I experience awe far more frequently than fury.
Sally
Web Meister responds: So are we!
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Today’s Thumbnail
Friday, August 9, 2019
The Siberian accentor (Prunella montanella) is a small passerine bird that breeds in northern Russia from the Ural Mountains eastwards across Siberia.
It is migratory, wintering in Korea and eastern China, with rare occurrences in western Europe and northwestern North America.
Its typical breeding habitat is subarctic deciduous forests and open coniferous woodland, often close to water, although it also occurs in mountains and spruce taiga.
It inhabits bushes and shrubs in winter, frequently near streams, but may also be found in dry grassland and woods.
The Siberian accentor has brown upperparts and wings, with bright chestnut streaking on its back and a greyish-brown rump and tail.
The head has a dark brown crown and a long, wide pale yellow supercilium ("eyebrow"). All plumages are quite similar.
The nest is an open cup in dense shrub or a tree into which the female lays four to six glossy deep blue-green eggs that hatch in about ten days.
Adults and chicks feed mainly on insects, typically picked off the ground, but sometimes taken from vegetation.
In winter, the accentors may also consume seeds or feed near human habitation.
Breeding over a huge area, the Siberian accentor has a large and stable population.
It is therefore evaluated as a species of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), although, as a northern breeding species, it may be affected by climate change in the long term.
October and November 2016 saw an unprecedented influx of this species into western Europe, reaching as far as the United Kingdom.
Passerines:
Clockwise from top right: Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea), blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata), house sparrow (Passer domesticus), great tit (Parus major), hooded crow (Corvus cornix), southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus)
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.
Sometimes known as perching birds or – less accurately – as songbirds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by the arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching, amongst other features specific to their evolutionary history in Australaves.
With more than 140 families and some 6,600 identified species, Passeriformes is the largest order of birds and among the most diverse orders of terrestrial vertebrates.
The passerines contain several groups of brood parasites such as the viduas, cuckoo-finches, and the cowbirds. Most passerines are omnivorous, while the shrikes are carnivorous.
The terms "passerine" and "Passeriformes" are derived from the scientific name of the house sparrow, Passer domesticus, and ultimately from the Latin term passer, which refers to sparrows and similar small birds.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Friday, August 9, 2019
Thanks to Sally C for her comments.
And to 61+ jokes for providing the material for today’s chuckle.
Always thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website.
They are truly worthy of public support.
I wonder how many people would believe me if I said I keep, three original sheets of John Audubon’s double elephant portfolio right here.
So lovely.
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Good Morning on this Friday, the ninth day of August, 2019
Our lead picture? A photo of a Siberian Accentor.
Our commentary is on excitement.
We posted a Boston weather report and the ‘ticking calendar’ as illustrated by the growing number of posts as calendar markers.
Our dinner moment was of curried shrimp.
Our Thumbnail included a definition of passerine along with the Siberian Accentor.
Our chuckle changed everything and we posted a piece of mail from Sally C.
And we thanked appropriate people.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.