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Adventures of the Elders Food Heros

WCK and the Elders of WLBOTT

Elders – in lieu of holiday presents, we’ve made a contribution to World Central Kitchen (WCK) in honor of the Elders to be used to provide food in places like Gaza and Ukraine. I’ve been following WCK for years and believe it is a worthy cause to be associated with WLBOTT – food to those […]

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Adventures of the Elders Animal Kingdom New Zealand

Possum Sweater / Sweater Possum

[Thanks to UC#3 for today’s rabbit hole.] Howdy – I hope everyone had a good Boxing Day. Our son who just returned from New Zealand gifted me with a wonderful sweater made with 40% possum fur – this has to be worthy of incorporating into the WLBOTT tour – how to they shear the possums […]

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Adventures of the Elders Food The land, the people, the culture Work-Life Balance

Happy Birthday, Sally the Intern!

Sally the Intern has always enjoyed twine-themed birthday celebrations. Now get back to work. The Office Party Sally’s 20th Century Ancestors Sally’s 19th Century Ancestors Sally’s 17th Century Ancestors Sally’s 14th Century Ancestors Cake Ideas Party Guests An eclectic group of well-wishers attended Sally the Intern‘s party.

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Adventures of the Elders Current Events England

Celebrating the Winter Solstice

First, a little solsticology…. (not to scale) The Stonehenge Solstice Stonehenge is the place to be for a Solstice party! Solstice Experience for the Elders WLBOTT Father Confessors Celebrate the Solstice WLBOTT Priestess Solstice Celebration

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Adventures of the Elders TechnoBLOTT

J-Nut

Lives of the Elders – UC#3 Esteemed Elders – I know I have been light on WLLBOT contributions lately with all my travel and jet lag. But I offer you this blast from the past – one of my golf buddies was a IBM JCL and Panvalet nerd. He still uses a flip phone. Esteemed […]

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Adventures of the Elders Food Japan TOTOT

Casserole of Death (COD)

[ed. note: UC#3 and UC#3-SU return from Japan.] Up with jet lag. Cleaned out eggs, cheese, rice, jalapeño and dubious ham from fridge and baked it up. Keeping with my mission to keep food waste from landfills and to test the scientific fact that you won’t get sick from spoiled food cooked above 165F (75C) […]

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Adventures of the Elders Food India

A Night in the Life of an Elder

Here’s a “night in the life of an elder” story: It’s 4 AM and I am up for my two-hourly hobble around the house a few times to work the cramps out of the new knee. As I pass by the stairs that lead to the command centre, I can hear a faint, high-pitched tone. […]

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Adventures of the Elders Fine Arts Japan

Celebrating the WLBOTT Poet Laureate

UC#3, the celebrated WLBOTT Poet Laureate, offers his reflections on his good will tour of Japan. In Kyoto- nice crisp weather, leaves in color, 17,000 well behaved Japanese students on field trips, our son [redacted] is tolerating us in a pleasant way. I am inspired to produce a haiku- Golden pagodaLeaves turning dark crimsonTime for […]

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Adventures of the Elders Lasting Love

We Salute our Caregivers!

With a little help from HotPot.ai

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Adventures of the Elders The land, the people, the culture

The Lives of the Elders: Sunday, Nov. 11th, 2023

In celebration of the Lives of the Elders, the following have be approved by the WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice. [UC#3] A man named [UC#1] got a new knee For awhile, he’ll have to use a Zimmer to go pee Hoping the pain in his knee will reduce in size And the doctors bills […]