Actually we do have a wonderful wood stove that we tend to heat with normally [and cook with] and my last job I got the really lovely Coleman lantern as my annual gift for staying employed with them, so I have 3 of them.
Though it is sort of a moot point, we have a couple generators that we kick on - one does 220 v and we use it for the water pump, and the other does 110v and we use it for the refrigerator, the cable box, the tv, the modem and one computer, and the living room lights. We carry the lanterns around instead of flashlights and use them in the bathroom and barn. We have rechargable batteries. Well, I actually use a headlamp when I am either in the wheelchair or on crutches. Though I am somewhat disappointed, we have not yet had a power outage that lasted more than 15 minutes so far this winter [and I have probably jinxed us …]
Funny thing: he was telling me this story in front of his wife, and he ended it with “. . .and we had a really nice honeymoon in New Orleans.” His wife just snorted and laughed and said “Hell, the only thing I got to see was the ceiling of the hotel room!”
I’m flattered, unless you’re referring to how every other post (more or less) is by me.
But you have caused me to think about a toy I had in the 50’s that had this little swami looking figure sitting on a plastic base that had a dimple on it so that when you placed the swami in a little receptacle in the center of a sheet of paper with questions on it and turned the base to point at a question something would happen and the swami’s wand would point to the answer. The game was called something like “Ask Zeldar” only it wasn’t Zeldar I don’t think.
Anybody remember such a thing? Thanks for the blast from the past, Vita Beata!
I went searching for it and must not be even close on the name of that toy. I just hope somebody with real memories from that era can at least confirm its existence.
“Ask Zeldar” would be a fun theme! And no … Im (for once) not being snarky, its meant as an Honorable Title! It takes a lot of work to answer all these questions of ours!
Could it be the Magical Amazing Robot? Googling with ‘swami’ in the keywords got a lot of diner napkin dispensers that would give out fortunes. ‘1950’s toy magic answers’ got the robot and the 8-ball.
Thanks for that compliment, but since I started the thread (and its predecessor) and invited everybody who has showed up, I’m trying to treat these threads as if it were a party. Perhaps with a nosy host.
Excellent find, and very close to the thing itself, Yllaria! The layout is almost identical and the two sections (questions on one side, answers on the other) is exactly what I was trying to remember when I said “something would happen” – exactly what happened was that you would pick the little guy up from the Questions and set him down on the little mirror-like surface in the Answers and – ta-da – he would spin and land on the correct reply. It was a matter of working with magnets (we took it apart to see what was at play after determining that there was no real magic and that the swiveling action was similar every time) and the little base he stood on had one magnet and the little mirror you would set him down on had another magnet underneath. There was the Wizard of Oz curtain!
All that’s left to do is find another version that has a swami instead of a robot. Even then I doubt Zeldar is his name. Either what you found is the right manufacturer or a copier of somebody else’s gimmick. Great work!
Guac would do well for Zoe (she’s a big fan of it) but I’m more of a shrimp cocktail specialist if it’s all the same to you. As for her condition, it comes and goes and she has her good days and her bad days. It’s a slow go, to put it accurately. Thanks for asking.
Maybe the other guests could recommend some party treats that work well for them. I can consume about as much chip and dip as is put before me, especially with original flavor Ruffles.
Ruffles are always good! I promise I wont bring any fat-free or sugar-free stuff (not chips, not Gummi Bears!). Shrimp cocktails with lots of horsey-Tabasco-cocktail sauce too.
That’s the ticket on the shrimp! And Zoe’s day is going great at the moment: she’s still asleep!
I was counting on a “warm up” day today, but it’s not supposed to get above freezing until noon or so. I guess you’ve seen the news about Atlanta and Birmingham and other places south of Nashville? This time the bad weather missed us to the south. It’s not the first time. Nashville gets skipped quite often with bad weather. Any number of times I’ve watched weather radar on TV or the internet and bad stuff like hurricanes (when they get this far inland) and eastbound tornado cells will just bypass this section of the mid-South.
Not always, of course, because we do get our share of bad weather. But it’s always a crap shoot for which storm will get us and which will just pass us by on the other side.
Nashville’s a beautiful part of the country. I always dread coming thru the mountains before reaching Clarksville (from the north) tho. Its a lonnngggg slide to the bottom of that winding road!
Good for Zoe! Its a good day to sleep: too wet to dance, too windy to shovel gravel!
