The Great Race and Food Fights

Don, your solution to international hostile intent is fantastic – the ultimate food fight. However, I would suggest that there be no silverware of any kind or ceramic plates or pots and pans included in this little culinary feast of deviant behavior. I think your suggestion that it be at the U.N., is a great idea. They definitely have the room.

How would you judge who won? The person who gains the most weight from licking their wounds? Whoever is the 1^st or the last to empty their onslaught buffet table? And I'm not so sure you can keep the judges from not being involved. With all that food flying around, I'm sure that at least one or 2 judges would like to taste the fair.

Years ago there was a movie called The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, and Peter Falk (1965). The food fight in this movie is an absolute stitch! And the fact that Tony Curtis stayed completely clean throughout the fight was just this side of a miracle. The fight did resolve the problem in a positive way.

I imagine that you are getting ready to move on to a warmer climate for a couple of months. I envy you. I hope that your travels to and from the airport are safe and easy. And I hope that both you and your better half soak up all those positive rays that the sun has for you. Are you going to go anywhere exciting?

We've been caught in a 2 day cycle – one day it is 50°, then during the night the temperature falls and we have extreme humidity and mist that freezes. Then Mother Nature, just to keep us on our toes, lays down a half inches snow on top of that. And the 2^nd day warms up to maybe 25°. Then sometime during the night, the temperature starts rising and we go through the whole cycle all over again. It has been the strangest weather event to see hoarfrost in Colorado.

If you remember, in June, I had my right thumb joint reconstructed. This left me a left-handed for 3 months – which was a great way to re-experience the world. However, I paid the price for that and New Year's Eve I had reconstructive surgery on my left thumb. I am finally off the painkillers, and sleeping in the bed instead of a recliner. The mechanics of the world are the way they're supposed to be so I'm able to get in and out of the house without having to figure out how the door handle turns. 

But I'll admit  I'm not as good at protecting my left arm and hand – I keep trying to compensate to make sure that I do not re-damage the right-hand. I get my hard cast on Tuesday. Maybe then I will be able to do some driving. Being housebound because of the weather, not being able to drive, it being the darker part of the year, has made this a much more challenging adventure than the surgery in June. I will survive. 

Don, please enjoy the sun for me.

I have spent the last couple of weeks researching small independent publishers and looking at what works and what doesn't work. I ran across an interesting statement about whether or not publicity results in increased sales. The 3 experts that I read concluded that publicity may or may not be helpful. Several other articles that I have read point out that because everyone has access to publishing, everyone who has at any time even considered writing a book, has written it and published it. There have been over 1 million books independently published in 2014.

That is a lot of reading material. The question becomes, how to be noticed. I have not figured that out yet, but I'm beginning to think that the publishing field right now is like your food fight, Don. So maybe some kind of experimentation is in order. Have no idea what that looks like – but I am open to suggestions.

Have a great week folks,

Carolyn

All images downloaded from Google images

Fig 1 -- 1^st prize pies retrieved from www.aandmag.com

Fig 2 -- the largest pie fight the great race retrieved from www.delish.com

Fig 3 -- 5 best food fights on film retrieved from blogs.phoenixnewTimes.com

Fig 4 -- consumer and contractor products and services retrieved from www.meeks.com

Fig 5 -- hoar frost free images retrieved from pixabay.com

Fig 6 – hoarfrost on aircraft retrieved from galleryhip.com

Fig 7 -- fill your house with stacks of books Dr. Seuss – vintage book retrieved from www.Pinterest.com

Fig 8 --  when book bloggers hit the wall – Rob Steiner retrieved from robsteiner.quarkfolio.com