Kahlua Tuesday / 11-12-19

Kahlua Tuesday EveryOne
Well we have survived through Monday and now Tuesday is here. The connecting flight between take off and passing over the peak. It's a climb to elevations that can help us pass over the mountain peaks with ease. The sun is out and the skies seem in our favor, but all needs to work well together. So before takeoff today, be sure your flaps and stabilizers are working well, do the walk around and be sure your craft is in good condition and do not start without going through your preflight checklist. It is a wonderful thing being able to sore high but it takes all in good working condition to do so. Have you done your pre-check today? Have you given thanks for being alive, have you rejoiced for opportunities that are to come, have you confirmed that your mental health as well as your physical health is in good shape for today’s trip. Do it now, don't wait, and get it all together. It is going to be a special day and we want everything to be right. So with all that, let's start our engines and roll out to the runway and let's put this bad boy in the air and sore where only eagles could dream of. Along the way we might encounter one that might need some true help, lend it, and to all the rest that cross your path greet them with a hearty smile, and may you have a most Happy, Happy all day long and may you have a very happy landing.
Your Morning Coach
Steve Gimmi

www.ccrockhopper.com

Holidays & Observances:

National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day

National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day

Young Readers Day

Fancy Rat & Mouse Day
National French Dip Day
World Pneumonia Day

Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
Sweet Potato Awareness Month
Teff and Millet Month
Triple Crown of Surfing (11/12-12/20)
World Vegan Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month

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Bailey's Monday / 11-11-19

Bailey's Monday EveryOne

Well it is a beautiful morning to be alive and up, a little chilly yes, but the sun is shining, and looking at the grass from this side vs the bottom side is always good. So time to stretch the mind, the muscles, the eyelids and the mind. Get this joints working and a shot of espresso to open the arteries. Are you ready, it is a new week, an opportunity for new adventures, and new possibilities. Life is so often what we make it, it is dealing with what has been dealt to us and making the best of it. So this fine feathered morning. See your sun, either through the clouds or out there bright bold and beautiful and take hold of what is before you and take ever advantage to make the best of it. Along the way we will encounter some who will be in true need, a good Samaritan and lend a hand, and to all the rest that cross your path give a smile of encouragement. And may your day be a most Happy, Happy through all you do.
Your Morning Friend

Steve Gimmi

www.ccrockhopper.com

Holidays & Observances:

National Sundae Day

Veteran's Day

Armistice Day
Death/Duty Day
Forget-Me-Not Day
National Homunculus Awareness Day
Origami Day
Red Lipstick Day
World Orphans Day

National Young Readers Week: 11-16

NET Cancer Awareness Month  Link
NoSHAVEember - Beard Month or Movember
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month
Picture Book Month
PPSI Aids Awareness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month 

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Fort Peck Friday / 11-8-19

Fort Peck Friday EveryOne

Well my eyelids are up higher than the sun this morning and my feet are moving quicker than the wind is blowing, which is reality is a good thing. Leaves outside my window may be drawing to the end but I will enjoy what little color is left every minute I have to look at them. It is a wonderful day in the neighborhood and I am going to rejoice and give thanks. Has it been a stellar week, well it might have been but just not in the direction for jubilation. So to celebrate its end is a wonderful thing. Now let us set our course for the day and with all due diligence put the hammer to the floor, drop the sails to gather all wind, lace up the shoes for the run or anything else to maximize your efforts to get going and let’s get a move on it. We have a party to attend and it is not going to wait for us. Work hard, work efficiently and do your best and stand tall and proud at the end. So let's get this theme out of the way before some of you just freak out about it (LOL being funny) We all know most of the first 15 major lakes in the USA but do we know 5 our of the next 7? Well now you do. And we will celebrate the accomplishment together at the end of the day at Paradise Friday Party. Now if you cross someone in true need, help them and to all others give a hearty smile. And may your day and all weekend be a most happy, happy will the end. Until next week,,,,

Your Morning Jester

Steve Gimmi

www.ccrockhopper.com

Holiday & Observances:

National Cappuccino Day

National Harvey Wallbanger Day

Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day - 8 or 9

Dunce Day

Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Intersex Day of Remembrance
National Parents As Teachers Day
National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day
Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day
X-ray Day

National Greek Yogurt Day - 9

National Scrapple Day - 9

Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day - 9
Chaos Never Dies Day - 9
Birth of The Bab - 9
Domino Day - 9
Carl Sagan Day - 9
Kristallnacht: 9-10
Mawlid Al Nabi - 9
Microtia Awareness Day - 9
Milad un Nabi - 9
National Child Safety Council Day - 9
World Freedom Day - 9

National Vanilla Cupcake Day - 10

Forget-Me-Not Day - 10
USMC Day - 10

American Frog Day - 10
Area Code Day - 10
International Accounting Day - 10
NET Cancer Awareness Day - 10
Sesame Street Day - 10
Windows Day - 10
World Science Day for Peace and Development - 10

Geography Awareness Week: 10-16
National Nurse Practioner's Week: 10-16
Perioperative Nurse Week: 10-16
National Split Pea Soup Week: 10-16
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week: 10-16
World Kindness Week: 10-16
National Book Awards Week: 10-16

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Devil's Thursday / 11-7-19

Devil's Thursday EveryOne

Let’s see if we got today right, it's a Thursday morning, not Wednesday as that has come and gone and not yet Friday, only wishful thinking. But we now are on the back side of the mountain working our way through the rabbit trails and briar patches. Trying to leap small bramble bushes with a single bound to see our way open to the tree line off the forested mountain and onto the grassy plains of Friday. But be of good cheer, cause we are here, we are here, we are here, and no cwazy kangaroo is gonna tell me different, even if the message is delivered by some weirdo dressed up like a cat wearing a hat. However if he point points me in the direction of someone selling green eggs and ham, I might give it a second thought or maybe if he has a side dish of red fish or blue fish. No, no we must stay focused we have a job to do and we must put out minds to doing it. The distractions that come around us can be tempting, so put on the blinders today and set your course and make a bee line to the finish. We need to finish strong today so tomorrow will fly like the wind to Paradise Friday party time. Now along the way if we fine one in true need, stop and lend a hand, and to all the rest through a great big smile. And from start  may you have a wonderful Happy, Happy all the way to the end.

Your Morning Penguin

Steve Gimmi

www.ccrockhopper.com

Holidays & Observances:

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

Men Make Dinner Day

Employee Brotherhood Day
International Merlot Day
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day
National Men Make Dinner Day
Notary Public Day
Read for The Record Day
International Stout Day

Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13

National Native American Heritage Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
National Pomegranate Month
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Scholarship Month 

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Rainey Wednesday / 11-6-19

Rainey Wednesday EveryOne

The sun is hiding his face this morning but that is all the more reason to climb up sunshine mountain. To get above the clouds, to reach the summit that clouds do not touch, to go above and beyond what wants to hold me back to heights that are above those things that want to hold me back. So as you stretch you limbs and lungs and get your body and brain on the move, get ready for an exciting day. Keep your eyes focused onward and upward as we seek the peak of the perch today and once we get there enjoy what it has to offer. Recompass,  and reset your direction for the rest of the week, then gather your thoughts and your sights and head on out in the direction of our destination, Paradise Friday.  Are you ready? Set? Well let’s get going anyway, cause we go lots of ground to travel today and I am excited to accomplish great things. Now along the way we may encounter one in true need, if we do, we stop to lend them a hand, and to all the rest, invite them to join us on the journey with a grand smile. And may you have a most Happy, Happy all day long in all you do and say.

Your Morning Guru

Steve Gimmi

www.ccrockhopper.com

Holidays & Observances

National Nachos Day

Marooned without a Compass Day
Saxophone Day

Button Day
International Stress Awareness Day
Marijuana Recreational Legalization Day (Colorado & Washington)
National Block It Out Day

National Adoption Month
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month
National Diabetes Month
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Gratitude Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Home Care & Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month 

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From Football to Changing Trees & Pink Bikini Punch / 11-5-19

       Well, the leaves for the most part have finished changing colors and with the winds and latest rains are pretty much either off the trees or are holding on for deal life. And my Directv signal is back to full strength and no channel diggy out. This past spring was the first time in the 7 years I have lived here that I have had a problem with the signal due to my neighbors trees getting to dense with leaves to pull a full signal and the first time in about 20 years that I have had Directv that I have had a problem at all of any kind, including weather related. So I am a happy man, especially in light that college football is coming down to playoffs and by December will be bowling and Division 2 & 3 championship playoffs. Yes folks I am a football junkie and I watch and follow teams from all over the country. I also enjoy football tailgating food, which constitutes more finger foods than anything else and I mean making them as much as I enjoy eating them. Although the Cape is not a hub of football activity like the mid-west were I grew up and spent most of my years. In the land I come from we put it simply like this, once a Buckeye, always a Buckeye and we all bleed Scarlet & Gray. But up here on the Cape I have had to learn to live with other Big !0 fans, until the day we play each other than all bets are off for that day. Pro football is another story up here, and is different than being off Cape. The Cape is now more of a hodgepodge,  potpourri or mishmash of people from around the country who have settled here. Sure our patriots are strongest, but we have people from that weird state of New York (ok take a laugh right now, its a joke, yet not as serious as to Ohio State Buckeyes the state up north during football season, we don't use the M word at all, still it's a joke). But literally we have east coast rooters, west coast rooters, AFC, NFC of all divisions. So we can mix fairly well out here and have fun at it. Bottom line however is football is not that big of a deal as it is in the mid-west whatever division you follow. So getting my signal back is like a kid on Christmas seeing all the gifts under the tree, not knowing which one to open first. What game to watch, do I go split screen or quad screens, and do I stay up till 1:30 am to watch the west coast games. Get the picture here. So having the winds come through and clear that path has been wonderful for me, as much as I enjoy seeing all the color that the change in season brings to the trees. But what is left are all the pine trees, still green, still protective of the blowing wind and sand, still beautiful, and still filling the air with that pine sent so many of us love. That sent combined with the salt-air was the give away we were so close to the Cape when we were traveling to vacation on the Cape over the years. That is what reminds us of what is so special here, not just in the warm summer months but also throughout the year. The birds that live here year round that call the pine trees their homes like the Warblers Nutcrackers to Wrens, Owls and more. The animals that crawl into their protection like coyotes and foxes to rabbits and chipmunks. The Cape is full of these protective shelters and our nature walks and preserves can be a place to find so much of what really happens here on Cape Cod. Sure I love my football, as many of us do, but sometimes we need to put the remote down and step outside and see all that is going on around us here on Cape Cod, besides worrying about who is going to clean up all those leaves and if I hide long enough watching football they will all go away by themselves. (P.S. some will say they are find just where they are at until spring,) So here is to fall football, if that is your thing, but please be sure to find a good weekend and go exploring what has not been revealed by the leaves falling off the trees and what new is showing up in the trees that are still so green and prevalent here on the Cape. Now let's have a great and wonderful fall in all that we do and let's explore this great and wicked awesome place we call as our home, old Cape Cod.         

      So small business report time, First a great place for breakfast, someplace I enjoy is the Keltic Kitchen. Folks it is the off season, so time to take advantage of some of these places you can not come close to eating at during high season and Keltic Kitchen is one of them. Located in West Yarmouth on Rt 28, facebook or try their website at keltickitchen.com, open daily from 7am-2pm. Reasonably priced for what you get and trust me, you won't leave hungry. And when you get don't forget to check out their gift shop in the back the Keltic Kottage, a wicked good place to pick up some of those Christmas or Holiday gifts and get your shopping done early. Good eats, and good gifts, and great staff to make your morning a great morning, and open year round.

       And for Lunch or Dinner if you have not done so yet, you have got to try the Naked Oyster on Main St in Hyannis. Watch for their specials of $1 dollar oyster specials couple that with some clam chowder or puffed duck soup and folks I can be just has happy as a clam in the Cape Cod Bay. Just telling you. And now that it is scallop season, they are running specials with freshly harvested Nantucket Scallops, can you just pass me the towel now as I am drooling all over the keyboard right now. Folks this is one of the best restaurants here on the Cape, and off season is one of the these best times to get to know these folks better.
      As I am sitting here, with my glass of Cranberry Harvest Beer from Cape Cod Beer writing this blog, I have to make mention of my friends at Kappy's, located at 333 Iyannough Road, or online at hyannis.kappys.com or on facebook or twitter and instagram. This month they have two big events coming up, the first on November 16th is their Autumn Wine Tasting event from 2pm-5pm. Lots of good wine to taste and special on multiple bottle purchases.This is a major event for those who are wine lovers and a chance to try something new that you would have not otherwise tried. Then the following weekend, and just a weekend before Thanksgiving on November 23rd is their Grand Whiskey Tasting event. Folks what is a good holiday feast without a good Bourbon, Scotch, Rye, or some other great whiskey or is it whisky. Try something you have never had before, try something you thought you didn't like, maybe your tastes have changed. Talk to folks who make whiskey their business on pairings to go with Holiday dinners and especially desserts.Don't ruin a great dinner with bad whiskey, come check it out and and get the right whiskey for you and yours this Holiday season. Hope to see you there, I know I will be.     

      Well, it has been a busy place around here the past few weeks, with lots of weather, lots people of all ages and lots of fun. But now is the time to take a deep breath, get all these decorations cleaned up, picked up and put away, and get ready for the next holiday and that being Thanksgiving. No, we are not in Christmas mode yet. Unlike a lot of others, we still celebrate Thanksgiving here at the old homestead guard station and lighthouse. A few of the decorations from the last holiday will stay up, but we will also add quite a bit that notes our thanks to both the Pilgrims and the Native Americans as in the beginning they worked together, not against each other. We will have other displays of others who may have even come before the pilgrims like the Vikings and others. This display will be up through Thanksgiving weekend, Then we do a quick turn around and on December 5 start our Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa which will run through January 5th. So we look forward to seeing you and your family sometime throughout the holiday seasons.

      As far as what is happening with the actual lighthouse, LOL, well in between everything else is going on we still have station to run, see that the beacon is burning brightly, and the fog horn is sounded when needed. The weather meters and gauges still need read and reported on. Even with all the weather issues we have been overly fortunate that especially with all the high winds there were no high sea boating issues that we had to deal with. The sad thing is there was quite a bit of erosion but as the beach line changes so do the sandbars and channels. So as you fishermen and ladies head out over the next several weeks, be careful of changes that have occurred and continue to change those channel openings. Some may have changed drastically and want you safe. Also with the temperatures changes, there is fog out there, the horn will be sounding but again please be careful. I hope that all you recreational folk have a great time and please be sure our local harbor masters and coast guard folk are still on patrol, keeping things legal and honest, and making sure that your safety is top priority, so keep the PFD handy, the fire extinguishers up to date and all your licenses in a handy but dry place. Now we need to get to work get the changes need done, so that we can see you back here with the next display. I hope you have a great and wonderful and especially if you can do it right here on old Cape Cod.

      This month's cocktail is more of a party style punch than an individual cocktail. It is holiday season and with lots of parties going on, I thought this would be perfect for any party (other than those going on at the actual work place). You know I normally do not do these types of drinks, but I feel this month it is appropriate, as I know a lot of folks like to prepare a nice punch style adult beverage. So with all that the name stays in the category, and since all the sites I found make it the same way not sure who came up with it but it is a real goodie. So please enjoy to the max, but be a responsible drinker, a responsible host and always have a designated driver, an alternative in transportation or an extra bed ready for those who need to just stay put. Now have a great and wonderful and let's get this party rolling.

      This week's recipe: Pink Bikini Cocktail Punch

      1      1.75 L      bottle of Raspberry Lemonade. (such as Minute Maid, Simply Lemonade, or your favorite)
1 3/4      cups        coconut rum
      1      cup          amaretto liqueur

      Combine raspberry lemonade, coconut rum, and amaretto liqueur in a large pitcher. Stir well, and serve over ice. You can easily double or triple this receipt for larger groups. And float a raspberry lemonade ring with mint leaves in it or raspberry lemonade ice cubs to keep cold.   

Salton Tuesday / 11-5-19

Salton Tuesday

And a top of a Tuesday morning to you and all that is green and red and orange and yellow and blue, shine about you and give you a blessed reminder that life is good and we are blessed to be able to share in it. Even it if is raining or the “S” word in your area, all that is around can be taken in as a blessing. I hope your journey through yesterday was good, if not you have a chance to change things today and right the ship, if they went well you can make plans to stay the course and keep ploughing ahead with all diligence. But either way we move ahead today, with all expedience and determination. Adventure it the name of the game, and life is full of it. So may the shamrocks be keep under your feet and the heavenly skies above you in full view and may your feet float gently like butterflies while your head stay out of the clouds. Have a fantastic day as we go day two of the climb to the top of this week’s mountain and if along the way you meet one in true need, lend them a hand, and to all the other that cross your path greet them with a big smile. And may you have a most Happy, Happy the whole day long, no matter what comes our way.
Your Morning Coach

Steve Gimmi

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Holidays & Observances:

National Doughnut Day (yes there are 2)
National Chinese Take-out Day
Gunpowder Day
Guy Fawkes Day
U.S. General Election Day 

Election Day
Firewood Day

National Medical Cannabis Day
National Love Your Red Hair Day
Play Monopoly Day
World Tsunami Awareness Day

Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Eye Donation Month
Family Stories Month
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Manatee Awareness Month
Movember
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month 

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