The New Meaning of Edibles

Wake Up on the Bright Side  "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"   We in Canada are on the forefront of recreation and play.  Jack's play options expanded in Canada just a month ago with the legalization of recreational cannabis.  I hadn't realized we as a country were the most in need of more play options and that we must have a record deficiency level of play.   The latest from the CBC yesterday was on the topic of what is termed 'edibles'.  This expression means food with cannabis in it.  Wikipedia tells me that most edibles contain a significant amount of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol).  The medical edibles contain a negligible amount of THC, so would not be dual-purpose.   The edibles story starts in the Indian subcontinent, where people prepared food and drinks with 'bhang' for thousands of years - for spiritual and medicinal purposes.  The Hindu spring festival of Holi is known for this. We skip ahead to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook in 1954 with its famous 'hash brownies'.  'Space cakes' are another recent tradition.  But our modern day edibles seem to be far beyond this.  I went to a site - leafy.ca - to find out more and there are pictures and pictures of candy - the first is a pink and green sugar candy.  So I continued on to budderweeds.com and the pictures there are of candy as well. Here are a few of the names:  gummy blooms, green apple rings, giant sour jack n' cola, berry good slices, all natural pistachio crunch, maple syrup leafs, berry good slices...All good looking candy with attractive names.  The CBC topic yesterday was the warning about children consuming edibles -  that there was an increase in children consuming edibles in Colorado when cannabis became legal there.  So I guess the expression "Don't take candy from strangers" has more significance and weight than ever. We have some Sarasota ocean shore abstracts today.

Bungalow The Origins

Dezi has enjoyed the beach with running, a mistaken swim, and deciding shells were something to chase. As one drives along the coast, the original houses were the long Florida bungalow, and we wondered the origin of the word.  This was a surprise: 1670-80; < Hindi banglā literally, of Bengal The word bungalow was originally used to describe the temporary houses set up by English sailors traveling to India to work for the East India Company. These little houses were often just one story high with a thatched roof. Nowadays, the word bungalow can be used to describe any one story house. Think of the little cabin you slept in at summer camp — that’s a kind of bungalow. What words rhyme with bungalow?  Here are a few from Merriam-Webster Rhymes with bungalow acid snow, afterglow, aikido, alpenglow, apropos, art deco, art nouveau, audio, Baguio, Bamako, barrio, bay window, Bergamo, bibelot, Bilbao, black widow, blow-by-blow, body blow, bone marrow, bordereau, Borneo, bow window, buffalo, Buffalo, Bushido, buteo, calico, cameo, cachalot, cembalo, centimo, CEO, chassepot, cheerio, Clemenceau, cogito, comedo, comme il faut, counterflow, Cupid's bow, curaçao, Curaçao, curassow, curio, daimyo,

Every day at the beach is a different beach.  Yesterday the water receded revealing sandbars that brought the walkers, shell hunters and frolicking dogs.

St. Louis Blue

What colour of blue would St.Louis Blue be?  I haven't found the answer yet, but did enjoy the wikipedia entry for the music. St. Louis blues is a type of blues music. It is usually more piano-based than other forms of the blues, and is closely related to the jump blues, ragtime and piano blues. It is sometimes performed to a "Saint Louis shuffle" beat; a drum rhythm with heavy on-the-beat accents. It can often be made up of a small number of singers, a pianist and a few other musical instruments (used primarily for rhythm) to make up a band, but it is also common for guitarists to take the lead, even to play parts normally played on piano. We're looking at abstracts created from the handicapped parking asphalt during a rest stop on the trip.  These are followed by more sunrise images from yesterday.

Florida's East Coast - Sunrise and Sail's Up

This was yesterday's sunrise as it bounced off the sky looking north along the beach and then looking towards the sun as it rose in the sky.  The pinky coral colour was very pronounced. The progression of the day in pictures went:  Before Sun, Sun's Up, Surf's Up, Sails Up... I was told by a boater yesterday that this is unusual to have such windy weather and such waves.  He wasn't able to launch his boat because of the winds.  There were a few hardy athletes out on the water. I wondered about those trademark names like Kleenex and Windex as I was walking through the grocery store.  Here's my answer: An eponym is someone or something whose name is or is thought to be the source of something's name (such as a city, country, era, or product); alternately it can be used to refer to the name of something that is based on or derived from someone or something else's name. Albert Einstein is the eponym of the element einsteinium; conversely, einsteinium is an eponym of Albert Einstein. Active Trademarks Often Used Generically Alka Seltzer AstroTurf Band Aid Beer Nuts Benzedrine Boogie Board Breathalyzer Brillo Pad BVDs Chapstick (Chap Stick) Cheerios Claymation Coke (Coca Cola) Cola (Coca Cola) Cool-Aid (Kool-Aid) Cuisinart Demerol Ditto Machine Dixie Cups Dumpster Erector Set Fiberglass (Fiberglas) Fig Newtons Freon Frisbee Green Stamp Hacky Sack Hi-lighter (Hi-Liter) Hoover Hula-Hoop Jacuzzi Jeep Jello (Jell-O) Jockey Shorts Kitty Litter Kleenex Laundromat Levi's Life Savers Mace Magic Marker Microchip Novocain Oreo Palm Pilot Parcheesi (replacing the generic word "Pachisi") Ping Pong (replacing the generic term "Table Tennis") Play-Doh Plexiglas Polaroid Pop Tart Popsicle Post-It Note Q-Tip Rollerblade Roller Derby Scotch Tape Scrabble Sellotape Sheetrock Skivvies Styrofoam Super Glue Teflon Teleprompter (TelePrompTer) Teletype Teva Thermos TV Dinner Tylenol UNIX Valium Vaseline Velcro Walkman Welcome Wagon White Out (Wite-Out) Wiffle Ball Windbreaker X-Acto Knife Xerox View this email in your browser