Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 5/30/26 Rebus

 Summer is finally here. No more 30 degree nights.  It's safe to plant tomatoes, beans and cucumbers.  Isn't it lovely?  The hints are sort of tiny on this answer key.  Click to enlarge!

 

 

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.   Sam Keen

 

Five Things Friday 6 5 26

 

Mary's Recipes 6/4/26

 

 

Mary, possibly at House on the Rock based on next week's photo :)

 

 

 

 

 

DOA on TV The Boroughs Ep 1-5 (Netflix)

 

I’ve watched the first five episodes of the Buroughs and will finish tonight.  Promoted as science fiction, I think it’s pure horror. What a great scary, spooky show.

It takes place in a retirement community far out in the desert. The homes look like something from the 70s or 80s inside. Dark and full of wood paneling. Single level ranch style with attached garages. 

New to the community is Sam Cooper, a retired engineer who was supposed to come here with his wife. She recently died of a stroke and he’s sad and angry and doesn’t want to be here but he can’t sleep on his daughter’s sofa anymore.

He definitely doesn’t want to join the community in any way described by the community “transition manager”, who he ousts from his new home as she’s cheerfully in mid-spiel.

He works at first to try to get out of his contract though he has no place to go. 

His neighbor Jack blows past all of Sam’s reserves with his irresistible charm and understanding of Sam’s lot in life. 

Soon Sam is still grumpy and unfriendly, but slowly gets to know his neighbors.

When one dies, it’s not unexpected but it’s the middle of the night and Sam is wakened by alarms at his neighbor’s place. Breaking in when there’s no response at the door Sam finds something with impossibly long legs hovering over its victim and Sam grabs a hammer to chase it away.

Despite the fact he knows it will sound crazy, Sam tells the EMTs what he thinks he saw, but has to draw back from it when the EMT wants to bring him to the hospital for an assessment.

Little by little all the neighbors are drawn into the mysteries of this supposedly perfect community, guarding each other at night and trying to find the source of the horror they didn’t know they were living with. 

A bit more is revealed in each episode. The cast is excellent. Despite being at the end of their lives, everyone fights to live. 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Rebus

 It's Rebus time!  No clues for this one, it will probably just reveal itself in a trice :)  

 

 

Five Things Friday 5/29/26

 Welcome back to Five Things Friday. I’ve been pootling around in Facebook again, which means I take screenshots of everything that interests me.  I think I captioned the Things in the past but I’m guessing no one ever read those captions so I’ll just let the Things speak for themselves.

From Vintage Recipes

Mary’s Recipes 5/28/26

 A fun picture of Mary looking for something in the...crocodile bin?  Alligator bin?  We know she made it out safe is all we can say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memorial Day In The Garden

 It’s unlike me not to make my goals. It turns out, if you’re me, you can only work in the garden for four hours or so before I need to stop for the day. Pfft I used to work morning till night in high gardening season.

Ever adjustable and optimistic, I now reason that my garden should be complete-ish by the last day of May.

Most flowers are potted up. Tomatoes are in the ground and are unhappy looking. They should spring back in no time. Mostly I still have herbs to plant and flower and vegetable seeds. I got this.

DOA on TV : Sheriff Country

 

I was behind on the episodes for Sheriff Country, but caught up this weekend.  The first season of the show has been consistently good with new mysteries weekly.  

In the last set of episodes, it was a wild ride with Mickey's father Wes heading a "commune" of weed growers, making deals with Bulgarian cartels trying to edge into the area, and a deal gone wrong that makes Wes think stealing three million dollars back from the DEA via armored car robbery was a good idea.   He almost pulled it off, but he was unaware there was another local player bent on taking over all of the farms and going commercial in order to save their family business.

This player had an inside man in the DEA, who was "tying up loose ends".  Unfortunately for Mickey, she'd fallen in love with the rogue agent.

In a huge twist in the finale, Mickey's dad is released from prison to help fight the cartels closing in on Edgewater.  He's supposed to work with Mickey, who hates him now, but both are shocked to find that the head of the DEA is Mickey's mom, Wes's wife, who was supposed to have died years ago.

Pretty great stuff going into season two. 

DOA's Saturday Puzzles A Cryptogram

 What I did today instead of posting a puzzle:

 

 

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