"Let's Move Beyond It" - August 7, 2020

[Cindy]

I enjoyed this grid. Lots of cleverness. My favorites were 1A, plus 67A and 49D.

Not really sure why I knew what to do to get the meta, but I did. I'm onshore.

And in the real world, I wanted to try something different with sweet potatoes for dinner and wondered if Hasselback would work as well with them as with regular potatoes. The answer is yes. Yummy and pretty.

I made fig chutney. I had plenty of fresh figs. Will try it later once it cools.

[RobM]

I'm safely on the beach.

[Joe Ross]

I take a bunch of screenshots and combined the best of each person.

Oof!

I don't doubt you, Bob, nor your generous work, but, speaking personally...

Oof!

[cherikee]

On shore! Enjoyed it.

[femullen]

Too many fracking movie directors, performing artists, and other things I know nothing about. I let you know Sunday if I even finish this stinkin' grid.

>8^<

"Fracking"... is that a Battlestar Galactica reference?

TPS, you're just trying to pop my aorta, right? I didn't see that movie either.

[bhamren]

On shore - I think it will be crowded this weekend!

[boharr]

I’m on the beach. Thanks, Bob, for a picture where I’m smiling! For all of you Zoom chickens, you don’t even have to talk!!

my avatar this week is for you.

Thanks, Bob. The Rays are not doing very well, but your Red Sox are below us in the standings. Perhaps not a season to remember.

Um, the Yankees.

[boharr]

On shore.

[John77]

Flew thru the grid, now for the challenge...

[TPS]

Onshore I guess. First 2 steps of meta are clear, but answer doesn't relate much.

That was my first thought but then I thought about something that makes it a little better - that is assuming I have the correct answer

[TPS]

Flew thru the grid, now for the challenge...

You are a better man than I - This was a tough grid for me.

[KayW]

Kay--I love your cactus flower picture. We have a big cactus garden in a canyon adjacent to our house.

Thanks - and your cacti are spectacular, too!

I was lucky to get a picture of re-Pete in bloom earlier this week- it was my first successful bloom in roughly 30 years of ownership (the little plant in my avatar is one of several cuttings off the original and currently 8-foot tall "Prickly Pete", who gets pruned back each time he crowds my ceiling).

Apparently the blooms are a one-night stand. This one opened for one evening: fully open around midnight, closed back up by morning, and dropped off a day or so later.

If I should be so lucky to still be alive the next time one of them blooms, I am going to take a page from Cruise Director Bob's book and set up a time-lapse camera when it gets close to blossoming.

[Tina]

On shore! Hopefully I will get to the other metas soon. I went back to work this week for the first time since lockdown, and I've been busy and tired. I finished the MMMM, but I still have the PGW and the AVXW to do.

[anjhinz]

Happily on shore nice and early this week it's New Belgium Voodoo Ranger time

[LesY]

Ashore! Didn’t see it before dinner. But after a great time with extended family (and maybe multiple glasses of wine) I saw it immediately after.

Happy Weekend, Muggles!

[hcbirker]

On shore! Hopefully I will get to the other metas soon. I went back to work this week for the first time since lockdown, and I've been busy and tired. I finished the MMMM, but I still have the PGW and the AVXW to do.

The AVXW is a lot of fun!

[BrianMac]

Let's all please try not to discuss any details of the solving experience before the deadline.

[oldjudge]

This little cactus had flowers that were bigger than him:

[Scott M]

I seem to be in a meta funk. No go on the last two, and the rabbit holes I've found so far this week are no deeper than the divots I leave on the golf course. I'll keep plugging away..

[JordanianTomlinson]

Ashore! Though I have to agree I don't entirely understand the significance of it. Either way time for a Tank 7 (farmhouse ale)!