I just discovered the second book of the William Warwick series by Jeffrey Archer in the library yesterday.
Truth be told, I had forgotten that I meant to read it in 2020 when it was published, but better late than never.
If you have never read any of Archer’s works, I highly recommend him as an author. I started reading “Hidden in Plain Sight” early this afternoon, and I’m taking a short break before finishing it tonight.
I’ve also put the third in the series, “Turn a Blind Eye” on hold (the first in the series is titled “Nothing Ventured”).
The Warwick series is, to use a television term, a spin off of “The Clifton Chronicles;” another worthwhile series.
A warning; Archer’s series books go seamlessly from one title to the next, so start at the beginning or you’ll be lost from the get-go. Any of his short story collections is also worth your while, and you can read them in any order the titles appeal to you.
Happy reading regardless of what you like to read—
I have never thought of icing these, and thinking about it, I won’t.
I suppose I could ice them, but their “dunkingness” qualities would be lost.
From: My mother’s cookbook.
Sugar Cookies
2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cream or whole milk
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (real, not artificial)
Cream butter, add sugar, cream together, add egg, vanilla and cream or milk. Blend in.
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into creamed ingredients until well blended.
Roll out on floured board, cut into desired shapes. Decorate with piece of candied cherry if desired. Sprinkle with sugar.
Bake at 375°— 400° F 8 to 10 minutes, on well greased cookie sheets. Take from oven and remove cookies to cake rack to cool.
Notes from me:
Bake on second rack (top rack is first). Keep a very close eye on the baking cookies right from the start, they’ll burn in the blink of an eye.
Round ones are boring, get cookie cutters in animal and gingerbread man shapes. You’ll like them even more. Remember animal crackers?
I use Maraschino Cherries for decorating, not candied.
“GM design legend Harley Earl first put fins on a Cadillac in 1948 as a tribute to the P-38 World War II fighter plane credited with winning the aerial war. Its ability to fly higher, faster and farther than any other aircraft led to the annihilation of more Japanese fighters than any other warplane.” “Safety was also a factor. The extreme angle of the 1959 fins led to the first time in American automotive history that a parked car was blamed for causing human injury. In two separate lawsuits, parents filed claims against GM for injuries suffered by their young sons who were stabbed by the fins when they lost control of their bicycles and crashed into 1959 Cadillacs.”
I went looking for the cite above as I remembered reading about the lawsuit in an issue of “Popular Mechanics.”
I did not know until today that the fins were a tribute to the Lockheed 22 (P-38 Lightning).
H’MMM….
My cite may very well be incorrect in specifics.
As for me, I don’t remember the “Popular Mechanics” article in any detail whatsoever; however I have “known” since I read it that General Motors was sued over its Cadillac fins.
But…
these are the only two lawsuits referenced from that era I can find on the ‘net, and neither one involves General Motors.
“Tailfins have been criticized as a safety concern, even as a parked vehicle. In Kahn v. Chrysler (1963), a seven-year-old child on a bicycle collided with a fin and sustained a head injury. A case of the same era, Hatch v. Ford (1958), is also prominent in the study of personal injury from parked vehicles. In both of these cases, children were injured by sharp protrusions on parked cars.[7] The plaintiffs lost in both cases. In “Kahn,” the court found that Chrysler was not responsible for anticipating “all the possible ways in which a person may injure himself by falling against an automobile.”[8] In “Hatch,” the plaintiff attempted to rely on a law governing the size and protrusion of radiator caps and grills, which the court said did not apply to tailfins.[9]”
Not much worse reaching the engine from the side, but if you had to work on the front of the engine with that long hood, you were reaching a loooooong way back.
There was a joke about a guy during the Depression who got the brilliant idea of teaching his horse to eat sawdust. Only trouble was, about the time the horse started liking it, he died.
I have to ask myself where Cleo got her catapult. Catapults-R-Us? Did she build it herself?
And – – – dog food? Not for Cleo! She eats pizza, and various roasted beasts.
Love that pie fight!
Thanks for posting “Jack and Diane”! Great song!!
Brandy! Throw more brandy!!!!
Another good one!
Goode idea, Claude.
I just discovered the second book of the William Warwick series by Jeffrey Archer in the library yesterday.
Truth be told, I had forgotten that I meant to read it in 2020 when it was published, but better late than never.
If you have never read any of Archer’s works, I highly recommend him as an author. I started reading “Hidden in Plain Sight” early this afternoon, and I’m taking a short break before finishing it tonight.
I’ve also put the third in the series, “Turn a Blind Eye” on hold (the first in the series is titled “Nothing Ventured”).
The Warwick series is, to use a television term, a spin off of “The Clifton Chronicles;” another worthwhile series.
A warning; Archer’s series books go seamlessly from one title to the next, so start at the beginning or you’ll be lost from the get-go.
Any of his short story collections is also worth your while, and you can read them in any order the titles appeal to you.
Happy reading regardless of what you like to read—
Your music clips remind me that you formerly needed a good voice to be a lead singer.
Cleo’s vast number of ways to make her points remind me of the opening and closing scenes of the “Final Destination” franchise movies.
Here is the weirdest song the late Helen Reddy ever sang.
I remember this one, I didn’t think it was that bad, but, Yeah, weird for her…
A long ways from “I am Woman”…
Unflappable. Imperturbable.
They sit there, barely moving their heads… Clara doesn’t even lose her place in her book.
Preternaturally calm… not even a softly voiced “Confound it, Cleo!”
…
While their dog… yes, their canine companion, the one they feed, house, walk and pick up after … their beloved dog…
prepares to fling dog food in their direction… maybe even into their faces, for all they know….
and then follows through.
…
Neither jump of surprise, nor attempt to leave the line of fire.
Not one word of rebuke.
The only raised eyebrow is Cleo’s… the only suggestion for behavioral change is self-directed, from Claude.
…
Wow.
Is Cleo secretly slipping something into their food?
Can I get some?
Nope; and any MD subscribing it would be sentenced to life…
I want some
They know Cleo so well. They are getting complacent.
iced sugar cookies
I have never thought of icing these, and thinking about it, I won’t.
I suppose I could ice them, but their “dunkingness” qualities would be lost.
From: My mother’s cookbook.
Sugar Cookies
2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cream or whole milk
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (real, not artificial)
Cream butter, add sugar, cream together, add egg, vanilla and cream or milk. Blend in.
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into creamed ingredients until well blended.
Roll out on floured board, cut into desired shapes. Decorate with piece of candied cherry if desired. Sprinkle with sugar.
Bake at 375°— 400° F 8 to 10 minutes, on well greased cookie sheets. Take from oven and remove cookies to cake rack to cool.
Notes from me:
Bake on second rack (top rack is first). Keep a very close eye on the baking cookies right from the start, they’ll burn in the blink of an eye.
Round ones are boring, get cookie cutters in animal and gingerbread man shapes. You’ll like them even more. Remember animal crackers?
I use Maraschino Cherries for decorating, not candied.
’58Caddy
Citing two paragraphs…
“GM design legend Harley Earl first put fins on a Cadillac in 1948 as a tribute to the P-38 World War II fighter plane credited with winning the aerial war. Its ability to fly higher, faster and farther than any other aircraft led to the annihilation of more Japanese fighters than any other warplane.”
“Safety was also a factor. The extreme angle of the 1959 fins led to the first time in American automotive history that a parked car was blamed for causing human injury. In two separate lawsuits, parents filed claims against GM for injuries suffered by their young sons who were stabbed by the fins when they lost control of their bicycles and crashed into 1959 Cadillacs.”
…from HERE
I went looking for the cite above as I remembered reading about the lawsuit in an issue of “Popular Mechanics.”
I did not know until today that the fins were a tribute to the Lockheed 22 (P-38 Lightning).
H’MMM….
My cite may very well be incorrect in specifics.
As for me, I don’t remember the “Popular Mechanics” article in any detail whatsoever; however I have “known” since I read it that General Motors was sued over its Cadillac fins.
But…
these are the only two lawsuits referenced from that era I can find on the ‘net, and neither one involves General Motors.
“Tailfins have been criticized as a safety concern, even as a parked vehicle. In Kahn v. Chrysler (1963), a seven-year-old child on a bicycle collided with a fin and sustained a head injury. A case of the same era, Hatch v. Ford (1958), is also prominent in the study of personal injury from parked vehicles. In both of these cases, children were injured by sharp protrusions on parked cars.[7] The plaintiffs lost in both cases. In “Kahn,” the court found that Chrysler was not responsible for anticipating “all the possible ways in which a person may injure himself by falling against an automobile.”[8] In “Hatch,” the plaintiff attempted to rely on a law governing the size and protrusion of radiator caps and grills, which the court said did not apply to tailfins.[9]”
ABOVE FROM HERE
Ah yes…huge wings and a hood you could land a plane on. Loved those cars
Not much worse reaching the engine from the side, but if you had to work on the front of the engine with that long hood, you were reaching a loooooong way back.
’55 Chevy
Where I grew up, the first thing to do was take off the front bumper and turn em into a gasser.
….
1928 Model A, Early AR model:
I learned to drive in my Dad’s 1964 Chevy. I needed a pillow to see over the steering wheel on that boat.
For what little premium food costs per day, why would anyone bother with the cheap stuff?
Good morning, Cleo phans!
I want a mini trebuchet. Something that would launch a Volkswagen.
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Love me a good sugar cookie.
Y’all have a great day. (((((HuGz!!)))))
Wow! What a sweetheart Cleo is! She’s sharing her dinner!
What I want to know is…… who’s gonna clean up after her dinner?
It’s her seat…
😀 I noticed that too. She didn’t think it through, did she?
My favorite part was
.
.
Is there anyone, ANYONE*, who shared Clara’s wishful optimism that Cleo would like the new dog food?
.
* Bueller? Bueller?
But, but………..it was cheaper!
There was a joke about a guy during the Depression who got the brilliant idea of teaching his horse to eat sawdust. Only trouble was, about the time the horse started liking it, he died.
May have taken a day off.
I have to ask myself where Cleo got her catapult. Catapults-R-Us? Did she build it herself?
And – – – dog food? Not for Cleo! She eats pizza, and various roasted beasts.