Mary's Recipes Week 16

 

Here's Mary off on one of her travels.  She always said I like to go.  Up and out the door as often as possible for any reason at all.

 

 

 

DOA On TV: Paradise, Best Medicine, Doc, Young Sherlock, The Pitt, Starfleet Academy

 

Paradise A Holy Charge

While much happens in the episode, the part that keeps coming to mind is Xavier traveling on horseback to Atlanta with Annie’s baby in a little pack.  Teri has been “taken” says her friend, while an angry Xavier holds a gun in his direction.    That mayday message of Xavier’s where he gives his name, Teri’s name, and the coordinates of the bunker and her last known location have got to be coming back to haunt him.

 

Best Medicine    Doc Martin

Martin Clunes, the original British Doc Martin comes to Port Wenn with his wife.  Martin is mostly cowed by the appearance of his parents, but the time he’s spent in town is beginning to rub off on him and he defends his adopted town from his scathing parents.  As the locals say, now we can see why Martin is the way he is.

 

Doc   The Best We Can Do

Richard Miller has forced his way back to working at the hospital, and he get’s a cold reception from nearly everyone.  Even so, he somehow gets under your skin and rooting for him a little bit.  I wouldn’t have thought that was possible.

 

Young Sherlock   The Case of the Missing Scrolls

I was looking forward to this, as I enjoyed just about every Sherlock incarnation I ‘ve seen.  The music, though! It screams and crashes and shrieks.   It in no way fits the time period, and if this show was set in modern times, I’d still not like it but wouldn’t notice it as much, I think.

I don’t mind Sherlock as a too smart for his own good teen, or having James Moriarty as his new best friend, they are oddly a good match.    

I’m not going to continue watching, though.

 

The Pitt 3 pm

July 4^th escalates as the first firecracker victim is brought in, his hand now missing two fingers.  He’s only 12, and seems awfully brave till we learn he’s legally intoxicated.

An old school nurse is brought in to help run the ER in it’s analog state.  She takes charge right away, and sorts everything out.  Can we keep her?

 

Star Fleet Academy    300^th Night

The first year is done for cadets and they’re graduating, with everyone traveling to Betazed, the new Federation capitol to celebrate.

Everyone but Caleb who, with Sam’s help, unlocks two years worth of encrypted messages from his mom.   Caleb, again  with Sam’s help, steals a shuttle to go find her though Braka is dropping mines at the edge of Federation space, making the trip just outside of it perilous.  Sam rather cruelly, I thought, traps Genesis and a drunken Darem in the shuttle.  

This episode could easily have been a season ender/ cliffhanger but there’s one more episode.

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Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 2 28 26 Fallen Phrase

This quote is attributed to Ambrose Bierce.  It is apparently from a book review, what a clever way to say a book is too long.  How to Scathe 101.

 

 

 

 

Mary's Recipes Week 15

 

 

Mary at her adorable AZ home.  So cute inside and out.

 

 

Six Word Story

 It’s ok, grandma, I got you.

DOA On TV: The Rookie, Will Trent, Best Medicine, Paradise, Rizzoli and Isles, Starfleet Academy, The Pitt, Matlock, Elspeth, Sheriff Country, Scrubs, Jurassic Park Rebirth

 

The Rookie  Grand Theft Aircraft

Nolan helps the FBI transport a planeload of ultra dangerous prisoners to Los Angeles.  What could go wrong, besides a pilot paid to take the plane off course, then a crash and dramatic pursuit of the villains through the streets of LA with our finest chasing them down?

 

Paradise

Season 1   Using a series of flashbacks and present day events, it’s revealed that the world experienced a life ending tsunami three years ago.  An underground bunker in Colorado houses 25,000 hand picked individuals who survived and now live in something of a Paradise, where life is pleasant and structured to make people feel safe.

When the President of the United States is murdered, everything begins to unravel, and the fragility of the world these folks now live in is exposed.  

The story focuses on Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins, who failed to protect the President this last time, and who is determined to find his killer.   Collins is distracted and obsessed with the fate of his wife, who was in Atlanta and did not make it safely to the bunker.

Also in focus, the woman who made the bunker possible with her money and brilliance Samantha  (Bradford).  She hired the best thinkers to plan and construct the bunker in secret.  She’s the real power in the story, before and after the world ends.

Season 2

Three episodes dropped this last week of season 2.   Xavier has piloting skills, so he takes a small plane and flies towards Atlanta.  He’s determined to find his wife Teri, and to see what the surface is really like, and who may have survived.

Before we see how that plays out, the first episode shows what happened to those who didn’t have a bunker to retreat to.  Through the eyes of former med student Annie, who holes up at Graceland, we see the panic of the world falling apart, the ash gray skies and cold temps brought on by the destruction of most of the world.  While she initially has a companion, that person succumbs to injuries and she’s alone. 

A group of men invade the Graceland Compound, but in a post apocalyptic first, they’re a group of good guys, nerds who are headed to Colorado to find a bunker that’s supposed to exist, where they plan to kill someone named Alex.  Since we don’t know anyone named Alex from season one, here’s the first mystery of season 2.

Feeling safe where she is, Annie stays behind though they offer to let her come with them.  When she hears a plane then a crash, she decides to go investigate.

In episode two we see Xavier’s plane crashes as a result of a storm.  He’s temporarily rescued by some children, then attacked by a man who has seen the fire from the crash.

By the time Annie arrives on the scene, Xavier has lost all of his belongings, and is deeply wounded.

In episode three, we are back at the bunker, where things continue to unravel.  Sinatra, as Samantha is code named, recovers from injuries.  She’s suppressing dissent and getting rid of anyone who stands in her way.  It’s revealed she has a side project that is siphoning a great deal of power from the city. 

For me, the third episode is most interesting, because I’m invested in the city and the characters from season one, and have yet to become attached to the surface denizens of season 2.  I’m sure that will change.

 

Will Trent   We’re Looking For A Vampire

A pretty humorous episode in which Will and his father help solve the mystery of a vampire killing at an old drive in.  One of the employees at the drive in thinks he is a vampire, and he dresses as one and sleeps in a coffin in his home.  Will’s father can’t help making vampire quips, while Will tries to keep things professional.

 

Best Medicine   The Bogfather

A body is found in a bog during a local history demonstration.  Everyone in town gets DNA tested to see if someone still in town is a relation in order to solve a potentially very old murder.

 

Rizzoli and Isles    Pilot

 I’m just bouncing around this week.  I watched maybe half of the pilot episode and had to stop.  One, it was a serial killer episode, and not a light hearted one, but an extremely creepy one.   Two, in walks Billy Burke as a consulting FBI agent.  I have just finished the last season of The Closer with serial killer Philip Stroh as an ongoing character played by Billy Burke.  Nope. Too soon.  Those things aside, I am sure I’ll come back to the show, which aired in front of the Closer back in the day.  How cool that night of viewing must have been.

 

The Pitt 2 pm

The ER goes analog.  Robbie knows all the ropes and so does Dana, but it’s a confusing system and there are loads of problems.  Santos whines she won’t be able to chart.  She finally helps the deaf woman who has a simple but painful problem that could have been resolved hours ago.   Gross out of the week: sewing up a woman’s tongue.

Starfleet Academy   The Life of the Stars

After Sam the photonic academy student begins to glitch out, the Doctor and Ake take her home to see if the Kasqians can help her.  They’re told no, but the Doctor suggests a way that she could be repaired that involves her living 17 years in 2 weeks, Starfleet time.  Time is different among the Kasqians.

At home, a special teacher is brought in to help the cadets deal with their trauma on the Mayasaki.  They work through aspects of the play Our Town.

 

Matlock    Collateral

The show has finally returned, with Senior waking up and treating Julian kindly.  Julian is onto Olympia and Maddie, even tracking Maddie down to her real home where she confronts him with her real reason for being at the law firm.

 

Elspeth   A Hard Nut To Crack

When a director of goth, gory stories wants to take over the annual Nutcracker ballet, it isn’t long before he’s been cracked open in a giant Nutcracker head which has been tampered with.  Elspeth zeroes in pretty quickly on a proud dad whose daughter was to play Clara in the ballet this year.

Scrubs (Revival)   My Return and My 2nd First Day

I never watched the original show, so I don’t know what made me watch the first two episodes of it’s return.  Maybe I thought it sounded fun the first time but I never watched?  Anyway, I think I’m watching intense medical shows right now and that’s what I want, and bizarre fantasy sequences dropped into the story pretty regularly isn’t for me.

 

Jurassic Park: Rebirth

It had all the good jump scare moments.  My dogs don’t like it when I jump and shout out while watching a show!   The film would have been much better without the insertion of the family whose small craft was tossed over by a leviathan dinosaur.  They had minimal interaction with the main cast but at some point everyone was supposed to sacrifice themselves for them.  I liked the movie despite them.

 

Sheriff Country   The Crucible Part 2

The show returned where they left off-with members of a religious cult attacking the sheriff’s office to free their leader.   The battle is epic.  Mickey and the few people who were in the office are under siege, making preparation for a final battle and care for an injured Travis almost impossible.

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome March!

 I like March. It feels like spring is imminent.  Easter approaches. We aren’t just turned back towards the light, we are ready to be out in the sun in any way we can be.

I have gardening plans in my head every day.  Here are some ideas for planning your garden this season.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Fallen Phrase for 2 28 26

 Here's a quote from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.  A simple one, but I found it irresistible.   Enjoy!  The Puzzles answer will be posted Saturday March 7, 2026 at 7 am.

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 2 21 26 Rebus

 Doesn't this sound vaguely like Gandalf?  It is a quote from our previous puzzle source book Pendergast The Beginning.   I love traveling, and so does Mr DOA, yet we can be a bit skwinky (made that up) when traveling together these days.  If you enlarge, you can see hints for any some of the icons you may not have gotten.

 

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving