Spanish for the day

Went to a Mexican restaurant today for lunch. Its called 'Abuelos', spanish for Grandparents. The menu has black/grey pictures with just one entity in color. That option leaves a huge ground open for concentrating on any one theme in a general picture.

I was reading a magazine called "Latino perspectives". The words that took my fancy...
puerto -port
mujeres - women
teatro - theater
maquiladora - bonded assembly plant
stelae - An upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building.
cuando - when
camarones-shrimp
barrio - neighborhood
lobos - wolves
burg - city or town

Words Right here!!

1. Name the phrygian king with a famous touch.-- king Midas
2. oval nuts - almonds,pecans
3. A nautical greeting -- ahoys ( I know the chocolate chips better!!)
4. Radiation Units -- REMS (I am curious what happened to curie??)
5. Location of Xigaze and Gyangze -- Thank God Tibet actually has given them refuge in its map
6. zounds - Dont ask me what this means egads..
7. Izar - you will find traditional Muslim women in this long cotton garment
8. slug - sock(v)
9. Aroo - Bucks tail
10. Batiste -A fine, plain-woven fabric made from various fibers [French, from Old French, perhaps after Baptiste of Cambrai, 13th-century textile maker.]
11. Scads - lots
12. Pokier - slower( my driving instructor called every pedetrian a slow-poke.)
13. Cassowary - a fligtless bird, cousin of emu.
14. Bert and Nan Bobbsey- twins - chidren book characters.
15. Annual melt - thaw??
16 seasoned sailor - tar
17 SSS - Selective Service System
18 Mambas -- if you are on a safai, stay away from these tree snakes, their bite could be FATAL!! and yeah , they are black in color.
19 koko's weapon -- snee (no clue)
intersting acronym-- Keep on Keeping on
20 sash of kimono -- obi
21 Hautboys - oboes (a musical instrument)
Terni - city north of roma

when in Committee

ever been on a committee. I am on two of them. For one, I attended a meeting. the other still hasnt decided to get together. I am done with half of the tenure. lets see if the other half is brighter. Judy Castrina's famous quote goes..

"A committee takes hours to put into minutes what can be done in seconds."