Mary's Recipes # 22

 Happy Mother's Day!

 

DOA In The Garden 5/3/26

 

I have been working hard on my vegetable garden/perennial garden.  It is ready for planting, should it warm up. As it is, I'm bringing everything out in the morning, then bringing them back in at night.

I hoed, raked and tilled my center vegetable bed today.  I have a new tiller that's eight inch but it did a great job on my small plot, despite the inevitable roots.  I did prep and try to remove the roots, but it's impossible.  I keep telling myself that I see those videos where they're planting seeds in a farm field, the soil looks awful, but they get big harvests.  

I'm planting most things in pots, including herbs, but I want my veggies in the ground.   Here's my garden today after a lot of hard work.

DOA On TV May 3, 2026

 

Most of my shows have had their finales, so this week I only have The Rookie and Will Trent.

The Rookie Dead Ringer

The episode was an odd mix.  A serial killer sought sole custody of his children.  Tim is inadvertently letting everyone in the precinct know he’s looking for a ring for Lucy, providing a fair amount of comedy.   It’s the end of the line for wily as anything Monica, who finally made the wrong deal with the wrong person and she was killed and dumped in a remote spot.

 

Will Trent      Where’d You Come From Little Angel?

A scientist and his lover are found dead by a construction crew working in their house. Nobody heard any sounds that might indicate a break in and attack.

Will, still reeling from Amanda’s death struggles to put the pieces together, and he’s attacked in the deserted morgue and stuffed in a drawer.  He hallucinates about the case, but is also reunited with the Amanda he met in his teens who offered to help him get his life straightened out.

Sydney Park plays young Amanda.  She has down Amanda’s speech patterns and facial expressions perfectly.  The actress played young Amanda in earlier seasons, but she wasn’t quite so dead on as she is here.  Not that I recall. 

While Will loses consciousness and hallucinates, he and young Amanda work the case together, and get to say a final goodbye.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Cryptogram

 

Hi, it's Cryptogram time.  You can't make this stuff up, but I do!

 

IRUD IB’SB NGD RBQB KZ U LUKECQB DG XGTTCFKXUDB.

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 4 25 26

 If you're of a certain age or a fan of old crime dramas, like my mom was, you got this right away.  The quote is from Malvin Wald.

 

 

 

Mary’s Recipes

 

 

Here's Mary at the nicely labeled location of Bonnie's Tap having a great time.  Isn't she lovely?

 

 

DOA On TV The Rookie, Will Trent, Matlock, Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle

 

The Rookie  Out Of Time

Nolan has to protect serial killer Glasser as part of a deal between the long suffering killer and the LAPD.   Tim gets his grandmother’s gaudy purple wedding ring from his mom to propose to Lucy with.  Wesley and former DA Del Monte get a disastrous first case as defense attorneys in their new law practice.  A bit of a filler episode.

 

Will Trent  Our Last Dance

The department says their goodbyes to Amanda, and Will desperately tries one last time to find his uncle.  Sad of course, but I'm still mad they killed Amanda off.

 

Matlock    Two Hour Finale Episodes:  Who Are You, and Matty Matlock

In the season two finale, it’s revealed that Senior has been faking his dementia.  Matty, Julian and Olympia try to figure out a way to prove Senior paid to have the Wellbrexa study removed, though he has had it put back in the files.

Never fear, Julian sacrifices himself by getting a bugged confession out of his father, which implicates all of the senior partners.  They are all arrested by episode's end, including Julian and Senior.

Matty and Olympia will be starting their own law firm, and Matty will continue to operate as Matty Matlock rather than under her real name.

The show won’t be on till mid-season next year, as the showrunner wanted more time to get a new mystery set up and to tie up all of the details from this season’s reveals.

 

Tossed in at the end of the week, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle with Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillian, Jack Black and Kevin Hart as in game avatars of a set of teens who fall into the game while doing detention in the school basement.  Unexpectedly hilarious.  It’s just the sort of funny, feel good movie I needed this week.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Fallen Phrase

 Good afternoon!  Here's a Fallen Phrase in honor of my mom.  She loved this.

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 4 18 26 Garbled Proverbs

 My brain has gone by the wayside!  I posted the puzzle but not the answer key. Here it is!

 

 

 

I latched lot newer soils.   A watched pot never boils.

Food thinks home go these woo wail.  Good things come to those who wait.

Go ban as in inland.  No man is an island.

But on toe trying can info she mire.  Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Rime any time bait nor to can.  Time and tide wait for no man.