DOA's Saturday Puzzles: The Answer Key for the 10/5/24 Rebus

 Here is the answer key for the Rebus.  If you had trouble with what the pictures represented, it's all shown here. Click to enlarge!

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

From Plutarch's Pericles

DOA's Saturday Puzzles: A Double Puzzle

 It's Variety Week, in which a variety of puzzle types are used.  This week it's the ever popular Double Puzzle.  Unscramble the words in the boxes, then take the letters from the numbered squares to create a phrase below.  Easy!

Five Things Friday October 11, 2004

 Friday comes up fast if you’re retired and get to do whatever you want all the time, doesn’t it? Yup!

One: I can’t resist these cat meters. Writing this on Thursday, and today I’m number 5.

Two: If only Queen Kong had intervened a bit more, tsk.

Three:I LOVE Pixy Stix.  I’d have some right now if I could. There’s nobody to notice anymore if my tongue is an odd color. Loved the straw, the taste. Likem Aide, meh. Love SweetTarts.

Four: while we are eating silly candy—how about a waxy little witch with a burst of super sweet liquid? You of course munch the wax a little to get any extra sweetness.

Five: Are you SURE there isn’t a use for this brain?

DOA's Saturday Puzzles: Answer Key for the Word Find: The Mercy of Gods

 

James S.A. Corey – Author of the Expanse Series (jamessacorey.com)

DOA's Saturday Puzzles: A Rebus 10/5/24

 Happy Saturday!  I'm using the Festisite Rebus Maker for this week's puzzle since the Rebus Club's generator had at least two indiscernible symbols, at least to me.  Enjoy!

Five Things Friday October 4, 2024

 Welcome to the end of another exciting week. I’ve got most of my Halloween decorations up, and Mr DOA has a remarkable amount of candy ready for the Trick or Treaters.  Let’s just cruise through October, eh?

One: Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis in 1910.  Light traffic!

Two:  I used to be able to eat 10 White Castles, plus a Chocolate Shake and some fries. Not anymore!

Three: I’ve purchased several new book cases lately, though none are pink. Where could I put some pink ones?

Four:  Talk about flipping your lid, oops.

Five:  Here’s that little poem you see bits of in books now and then.

Old Sideboard Poly Day: The Drawers

 I decided I needed to refinish an old sideboard that belonged to my grandmother. The siblings who worked on it previously (don’t worry, they don’t read this blog) did what I thought was a rather patchy job of the staining and finishing. Also, it came with a freshly veneered top that was not set so it was all wavy and bubbly looking.

Not one to rush into anything, I had it for a number of years before I decided to refinish it. My prime motivator was not the wavy top and the clown car unmatched staining, but the fact that one winter some icky little flour bug creatures infested it, and I thought cleaning and staining it would not only look better, but stripper and various cleaners and sanding would get rid of the ickies.

I started this project in the summer of 2023 when we were having new floors installed in the house. I used stripper, but it had to sit on the area you were working on for six hours before you scraped it off, then used  steel wool additionally to remove it. It took quite awhile to get this stage done, and the sideboard  sat in the garage for the winter. 

Despite my goal to finish in early summer, here I am in October racing to finish sanding and applying polyurethane. Before it’s too cold. I need three coats of poly, according to everything I’ve read. Good thing it’s breezy and will warm up to 80 degrees today.

If you see videos or tutorials on refinishing old sideboards like this they always paint it. This is because these old pieces of furniture were made from several types of wood. They won’t match, and at best you see them with really dark stain to cover this up. If you don’t, clown car city. 

I’m starting the staining with the drawers which are a really light wood, so they will always look different. Note various videos said to apply poly with sponge brushes because they don’t streak, lol.

And here is the main part of the sideboard where I’ve been working on sanding those legs. This section has at least three different kinds of wood. Busted. It’s coming in the house for the winter, one way or the other. Noting also the doors for it are a fourth type of wood. I recommend its next owner just paints the thing.

DOA's Saturday Puzzles: A Cryptogram Answer for the 9 21 24 Puzzle

 Our Quote is from Pindar, Nemean Odes.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Saturday Puzzles: A Word Find for The Mercy of Gods by James S A Corey

 Yikes! Late on a puzzle.  Sorry about that.  Word Finds are the next puzzle type in the rotation, and they will be based on a recently read book.  This one is from the new series opener The Mercy of Gods, #1 in the Captive's War Series.  A fascinating and chilling book.

Saturday Puzzles: Fallen Phrase Puzzle Answer for the 9 14 24 Fallen Phrase

I used to do my puzzles from the First Lines of books, but oddly, I was getting to a point where I couldn't recall if I'd already used a book for a puzzle or not.  We now have all quotations from various sources for the puzzles.  

The Answer Key provided is a bit light.  It saves me trying to create and type in the answers in Word, though!

Here is the answer:

Instill the love of you into all the world for a good character is what is remembered.

From The Teaching for Merikare