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Sandy Bottoms on Memorial Day

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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


  • 2 cups fresh watermelon juice

  • 1 1/2 cups (12 ounces) chilled white rum

  • 3/4 cup chilled 1-to-1 Simple Syrup

  • 3/4 cup fresh lime juice (from 6 limes)

  • 1/2 cup Peychaud’s bitters

  • Lime wheels, mint sprigs, and small watermelon slices, for garnish
  • Directions
  • Step 1 Combine watermelon juice, chilled rum, chilled simple syrup, lime juice, and bitters in a 2-quart pitcher; stir to combine. If not serving immediately, seal well with plastic wrap, and refrigerate up to 2 hours.
    Step 2 To serve, stir watermelon mixture well. Fill pitcher with ice, and stir gently until outside of pitcher is cool. Pour into rocks glasses filled with ice, and garnish each glass with a lime wheel, mint sprig, and small watermelon slice
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Bike Safety

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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 

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Wet January Football Specials

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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!

  • Jet Cannon

 

 

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Dumpster Fire 2020

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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

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