- It’s no secret that I love most everything that Jim at Sweet Juniper writes. This week especially, I love what he has to say about Tim Allen, Frankenmuth and going Up North in “Two Adults, Three Kids, a Dog, and a Lizard in a Station Wagon are driving down the highway.”
- “A Miracle Inside the Aurora Shooting: One Victim’s Story” is an incredible, miraculous story. It’s worth reading.
- I’m going to be recording the Olympics opening ceremony tonight so we can watch it tomorrow with Rockford and Poppy, who’ve both been traveling this week. I haven’t done a lot of reading up on the individual athletes, but after reading “Bronx native John Orozco an unlikely gymnastics star,” I’m really looking forward to seeing Orozco in action.
- And finally, today was supposed to be the day for the July edition of the Daring Bakers Challenge. This month’s challenge was to make crackers, and I did make a batch of Italian Four-Cheese Crackers. But with all the traveling and the bronchitis and such, I never took pictures of my crackers and I never made another type of cracker, which the challenge required. A lot of other Daring Bakers did successfully complete the challenge, though. The “Not-So-Naked Crackers” at Korena in the Kitchen and the Pepper Jack and Oregano Crackers at Bourbonnatrix Bakes sound positively scrumptious.