The Silver Diaries blog has some helpful suggestions for speeding up the 50+ metabolism. Read the blog and see how weight training, more protein, spicy food, hydration, coffee/green tea, fasting, and, yes, rest, can contribute to burning more calories than you consume to help drop those pounds.
Ray Liotta îs gone. Far too young.
A great actor, our favorite film is Goodfellas. Tonight we’ll enjoy the film, some Italian food, red wine, and toast to one of the great Baby Boomers.
– Jet Cannon
Photos: NME.com, nofilmschool.com
We read that some surveys find older adults, those who are interested in cannabis, are more likely to seek pain relief than they are wanting to get high. Ah, the aches and pains of Baby Boomers. Well, whatever works. The boom in cannabis sales has certainly helped the aches and pains of state budgets where CBD lotions and potions are legalized.
Remember when we used to get high with friends and laugh and laugh? We don’t either.
Baby Boomers represent the 76 million people born between 1946 and 1964. The United States began to draft Baby Boomers into the Vietnam War in the late ’60s. The New York Times reports that 40% of males in the Baby Boomer generation served in the war. It’s estimated that 47,434 American fighters were killed during Vietnam.
Approximately twenty-one percent of male Baby Boomers alive today are veterans.
We remember those today who made the ultimate sacrifice and thank the many Baby Boomer veterans for their service and sacrifice.
– Jet Cannon
This drink looks fairly easy and it’s got watermelon!! Besides…. What a great name! A few lame jokes and you’ll be the hit of the backyard or picnic.
Per foodandwine.com
Sandy Bottoms
Ingredients
Exercise the fun way! Saddle up! But safety first! Let’s see I need my helmet (with blue flasher on the back and rear view mirror), florescent green vest with pocket for phone, padded bike pants for that firm saddle, bike gloves to keep the hands from going numb, Apple Watch to capture biking exercise minutes and miles, mask in case I need to talk with someone, glasses for eye protection, water bottle and Camelback for max hydration, bike shoes, sunblock, seat bag with mini first aid kit, and baseball cap for post-ride helmet-hair. And….. we’re out of time. Tomorrow we’ll get an earlier start.
– Jet Cannon
Those Dry January folks must not be football fans. Big college championship game tonight. As I try to recommend drinks, I’m finding lots of different cocktails with the same name and various ideas of what’s the official drink of so-and-so. Therefore, I get to pick.
For the Ohio State Buckeyes I suggest a variation on one of my favorite drinks. The Buckeye Martini. cocktailbuilders.com says:
3 oz gin
1/2 dry vermouth
One black olive
Martini glass, of course
For Alabama, may I suggest per Liquor.com the Alabama Slammer
1 oz Southern Comfort
1 oz sloe gin
1 oz amaretto liqueur
2 oz OJ preferably fresh squeezed
Orange wedge garnish
Add to shaker with ice and pour into highball glass.
As an alternative, it’s your house. Drink what you want!
As years go, 2020 sucked for so many people. So much sadness, and worry, and loss of life here and around the world. And the lives of the famous were lost as well. To name some:
Chadwick Boseman
Charlie Daniels
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Diana Rigg
Kobe Bryant
Sean Connery
Kelly Preston
Olivia De Havilland
Alex Trebek
Gale Sayers
Bill Withers
Little Richard
Kirk Douglas
Fred Willard
Helen Reddy
Eddie Van Halen
Brian Dennehy
Trini Lopez
Bonnie Pointer
Irrfan Khan
Wilford Brimley
Ja’net Dubois
John Lewis
Carl Reiner
Regis Philbin
Jerry Stiller
Kenny Rogers
John Prine
Mac Davis
Ian Holm
As we finally say goodbye to 2020, take a few moments and send thoughts, a prayer, or a toast to all of those we lost…. Famous and not famous.
– Jet Cannon
