The Slice: Veggies taste best when served over a cool morning dew

It’s too bad deer and raccoons cannot write.

If people with gardens could leave comment cards in a rack by the vegetables, they might get some interesting feedback from foraging animals.

“Tomatoes were superb this year. Keep up the good work.”

“The squash seemed a tad presumptuous. Might you be over-watering?”

True or false: In the classic comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes,” Calvin’s last name was Hudson.

Name dropping: Hans, a local Bernese mountain dog who has been in The Slice, will take part in Maifest activities in Leavenworth this weekend.

It gets on his nerves if you call him a “Burmese,” so please do not make that mistake.

You do the math: If you are going to a movie with a listed start time of 1:20, when do you actually need to be there? If you work in a restaurant, how soon after closing time can you begin to head ’em up and move ’em out?

At peak springtime flow, the Spokane River sounds like …: “The slow rumble of the summer to come.” – Shireen Brigman

“A million beating beaver tails slapping against the rushing roar.” – Barbara Eddy Smith

Don’t say I never did anything for you: Several readers responded to Sunday’s Slice by sharing colorful outhouse stories from long ago. In recognition of Saturday being a big day for achievement in the breakfast arts and sciences, I will not be printing them.

True or false answer: False. We never knew his last name.

Warm-up question: How many local 50-year-olds visited the Seattle World’s Fair with their mothers before being born? (I assume their memories of the outing are limited. “I know we went to the Space Needle, but I had an obstructed view.”)

Today’s Slice question: When a person stops eating meat, does that actually make the individual more capable of sniffing aromas from a neighbor’s backyard cookout and detecting exactly what kind of steaks are being grilled, what went into the marinade and how done everything is at that precise moment?