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vies tags american dream california connecticut idyllic it s a wonderful life picket fence pvc 29 comments on don t fence me in best feet forward remember the scene at the end of indiana jones and the last crusade where indy chooses from a dozen or more chalices in hopes of finding the holy grail the correct cup turned out to be the most modest of them all starting this month forty eight soccer teams vie for their own holy grail an entirely immodest cup across sixteen venues jam packed with thousands of delirious fans this month north america welcomes the madness that is the world cup let me admit right up front i am a sports fan but not a soccer fan i ve enjoyed the american version of football as long as i can remember but not so much the other version made popular by the world cup by the standards of a lot of sports soccer can be described as slow boring and low scoring but of course any soccer aficionado will tell you there s more to enjoying the game than meets the eye much more maybe the 104 matches over the next six weeks will get me to agree defending champ argentina i won t waste this space on a primer on soccer not even the complicated format of the world cup competition itself your favorite browser or ai will be happy to fill in those fútbol blanks instead i want to focus on what lies just outside of the cup you ll find headlines and curiosities that wouldn t have happened without this event but are perhaps more interesting than the kicks on the field for instance trivia question how many teams sought qualification to become one of the forty eight participating in this year s world cup i ll give you a hint we have 195 recognized countries in the world would you guess 150 teams 125 100 sorry you re heading in the wrong direction and it s a trick question there were over two hundred soccer teams when the qualifying rounds began almost three years ago how that number was whittled to forty five plus one each for host countries canada u s and mexico would take way more words than i am allotted today here s something less trivial one of six teams is destined to hoist the golden ball trophy worth about 10m all by itself england france spain portugal brazil or argentina maybe your sentiments lie with one of the host teams but the facts and the resumes don t lie europe and south america have dominated professional soccer for decades baseball may be as american as apple pie but we re talking about a sport for the legs not the arms having said that you won t have to wait long to get your first look at the americans we kick off against paraguay tomorrow night the gold ball goes to the winner if you re looking for a longshot to win this thing and i mean l o n g g g g g g shot choose one of the teams from curacao jordan uzbekistan or cape verde these countries are playing in the world cup for the first time and the world cup s been going on for a hundred years to me curacao is a liquor that tastes like triple sec jordan is a man s name uzbekistan is somewhere in asia surrounded by countries whose names i also can t pronounce and cape verde means green in spanish notice nowhere here am i saying anything about the talents of their world cup soccer teams speaking of alcohol it ll be interesting to see how the fortunes of the beer wine and liquor producers are swayed by the world cup with sixteen stadiums and 104 matches you d expect a boost in drink sales big enough to create niagara falls unfortunately for them the world cup is hosted by a continent where drinking is descending to record low levels with the younger generations promoting the idea alcohol is bad for your health maybe fans will raise a glass of milk to the winner like they do at the indianapolis 500 the final match will be held in new jersey s metlife stadium like the receiving line at a wedding i d love to meet every one of the world cup fans who make it to the final match in new jersey s metlife stadium why these people must do some pretty remarkable things for a living even with the likelihood the host countries will not be represented a ticket is projected to set you back between 15k and 20k fifteen thousand american dollars for three hours of sport throw in peripheral expenses and a family of five could easily spend six figures it s kind of nuts no it s a whole bowl of nuts and mark my words every last seat in metlife will be filled that could be me sprawled on the grass there s a lot more to be said about the world cup and i ll be tempted to keep you updated over the next six weeks in the meantime i need to get back to my regular routine game 1 and 2 take place today and i have no intention of sitting down to watch i may kick myself for my lack of attention but hey now there s a great way to describe my ability to play soccer some content sourced from the cnn sports article world cup beginner s guide the cnn sports article who are the world cup favorites the cnn sports article the world cup debutants the cnn sports article why sky high ticket prices have sent fans searching and wikipedia the free encyclopedia author dave posted on june 11 2026 june 13 2026 categories america culture sports travel tags argentina canada fifa world cup football holy grail metlife stadium mexico new jersey soccer united states 17 comments on best feet forward beachy keen south carolina s heat and humidity are quickly moving the dial to broil as they always do this time of year so my wife and i will go with our most dependable coping mechanism travel to places other than south carolina technically that s not quite true because one of those destinations is still south carolina doesn t matter the goal is to find temperatures closer to the bake setting where the air movement qualifies as a breeze both conditions can be found of course at the beach i consider myself fortunate to have grown up near a beach others may counter by saying the mountains are more desirable or the desert or the shores of a pristine lake to each their own for me an upbringing of pacific ocean sand and surf turned the calm of the coast into a part of my dna i thirst for the beach several times a year and in the united states alone i have 650 choices mauna kea beach on hawaii s big island inevitably 10 of those 650 beaches are rated as top the so called authority on the subject is a guy nicknamed dr beach at first i scoffed at the notion that one person could choose the ten best from hundreds but this doctor takes his medicine seriously dr beach has identified fifty criteria fifty to evaluate beaches including water warm enough to swim in sand clarity presence of pests like mosquitos and seagulls and the size of the ocean waves he even rates the surrounding noise level generated by humans to further solidify his credentials dr beach disqualifies locales threatened by pollution erosion or out of control seaweed he retires beaches that have reached the top ten too many times since he started his lists in 1991 finally dr beach has visited every single one of those 650 beaches he may be obsessed with his subject but i d say he s a bona fide authority wouldn t you caladesi island state park in clearwater fl on his list for 2026 dr beach prescribed four in hawaii three in florida one in cape cod and one in the hamptons his tenth selection coming in at 7 is right here in south carolina whew that was close after all he could ve picked my beach and then me and the good doctor would be having a serious conversation as you know the problem with top ten lists is exposure some thing or some where great suddenly becomes headline news and everyone wants a piece of it next thing you know that thing or that place becomes too popular and no longer resembles its former wonderful self with all due respect to dr beach s retirement strategy once something becomes top ten we re not quick to forget about it cape cod gets busy in the summer months i ve been to a few of dr beach s top choices for 2026 maybe not coast guard beach in cape cod but just about every beach on cape cod is bucolic maybe not caladesi state park in clearwater florida but i ve dipped my toes in the sugar sand and warm waters of a beach in clearwater i ve been to poipu beach on the island of kauai hawaii twice for my honeymoon and for a family reunion i m happy to see poipu ranked as the 1 beach in the united states this year poipu beach in kauai hi i m even happier to see my two favorite beaches not ranked in the top ten or anywhere near it this year one is on the west coast and one is right here in south carolina one is big and one is small both have easy access to the quaint shopping of a nearby village and both have the kind of views where walking riding bikes or simply staring out at the sea never gets old the names of these beaches are nope sorry no big reveal not even the tease of a photo there aren t a ton of you readers out there but it only takes one to make my beaches go viral and then what am i going to do find another couple of beaches uh uh no way go find your own beaches you have 650 to choose from and god forbid dr beach ever ranks mine in his top ten if that happens i ll report him to the surf board and demand they pull his license some content sourced from the cnn travel article hawaii and florida top list of best u s beaches and wikipedia the free encyclopedia author dave posted on june 4 2026 june 4 2026 categories america memories travel tags ocean beach hawaii cape cod florida south carolina dr beach top ten lists hamptons 13 comments on beachy keen make my moon a double may s flowers blooming from april s showers have been a little hard to find this year maybe that s because we haven t had any showers south carolina just endured its fourth driest april in well over a century we re finally getting some moisture but it s going to take a whole lot more to move us from severe to moderate on the drought scale on the other hand may s full moon was right on time and it s going to be right on time again a bookend is one or two things occurring or located at either end of something else it s not the sexiest of words but it s entirely fitting for today s topic a full moon rose on may 1st and it ll rise again on may 31st like a pair of shiny silver dollar bookends i think it s mesmerizing to look at the full moon on a pitch black night and t wo full moons well that s just double the pleasure may s first full moon came with the label flower moon to acknowledge landscapes erupting into bloom no sir not even close if you ask me this year s may 1 moon should ve been named weed moon because weeds were about the only thing erupting around here no matter what grows or doesn t grow the rest of the month may s other full moon will be blue moon because that s what we call the second one in a calendar month you only get a blue moon ever two or three years i get a blue moon every two or three weeks but now i m talking about beer instead of earth s solo satellite i m not a big beer drinker but a blue moon adorned with its signature orange slice sure hits the spot after hot and sweaty yardwork molson coors has been brewing blue moon since 1995 and they ve put several taste spins on it like honey moon harvest moon and full moon this time of year you can purchase a six of rising moon which amps up the citrus flavors in anticipation of summer but i m still inclined to go with the original blue speaking of full moons we should be happy ours is a perfect sphere save for a few craters the technology of the james webb space telescope is teaching us a lot more about the other planets in our solar system neptune the most distant of the eight with apologies to little pluto kicked out of the club in 2006 has sixteen moons but most of them look like orbiting shards instead of spheres triton neptune s largest moon made like a bowling ball back when it entered the planet s gravitational pull busting up a beautiful array of perfectly round orbs imagine if our moon looked like a shard instead of a ball we wouldn t be talking about full moons at all let alone blue ones the calendrical blue moon from december 2009 the upcoming blue moon gets its name from an utter lack of imagination i was hoping the word would refer to the moon itself perhaps the result of some lunar bioluminescent algae like you see with an ocean red tide or maybe the blue would represent the tears of luna the roman goddess of the moon crying over some mythological misfortune instead a blue moon is actually caused by earth in the rare occurrence where our forest fires or volcanoes generate atmospheric emissions which really do shade the moon blue i ve never seen this phenomenon before but even if i did it probably wouldn t come with a full moon c mon we need a better name for second full moon in a calendar month i propose déjà vu moon speaking of déjà vu you might have read about full moons in this blog before in my post sphere elegance it s a little nostalgic to read something you wrote ten years ago the focus back then was more on the science and less on the entertainment value i ve learned to flip flop the two over the years since but at least i was consistent with the definitions and my affection for the like named beer hey maybe i should address this topic every ten years then i could say i was writing about it you know once in a blue moon some content sourced from wikipedia the free encyclopedia author dave posted on may 28 2026 may 28 2026 categories life in a word tags april beer blue moon flower moon james webb space telescope may neptune planets rain solar system 20 comments on make my moon a double whenever she asks bake the cake i just did the quick math and realized my wife and i have been empty nesters for almost ten years now when our youngest headed off to college in 2017 we pivoted and embraced the milestone of less clutter and chaos but just as suddenly we have grandchildren now and with them comes the reminders of those formerly frenetic chapters of our lives the moment that inspired this post was the one i never saw coming we hosted our granddaughters earlier this week in the first of what we hope will be countless sleepovers at ages 3 and almost 2 they re a sight for sore eyes and also a sight you should never take your eyes off of my wife and i were in the kitchen doing a something or other task when suddenly the three year old beckoned to me from the nearby screened in porch it s pretty adorable when a little one uses come here gestures to get your attention because she still doesn t quite have the words now let me admit to a little annoyance after all i was in the middle of something and i was being interrupted by my granddaughter in typical adult fashion i said hang on honey let me finish what i m doing but she persisted apparently what needed to be seen couldn t wait one more minute so i let out a sigh put down what i was doing and wandered over to the porch you do see the cake don t you here was my granddaughter holding her hands out wide to proudly display what was sitting on ...