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| THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE OUTSIDE OUR SUNROOM WINDOW THIS MORNING |
A mainly cloudy (and cold) morning saw Pheebs and I take a wee drive into Bayfield and back. Around 1 o'clock under clearing skies, Lorraine (Woodsy) headed home to Stratford and will return in a few days. I proceeded out the door and fired up my wheelbarrow. Two more loads of pine needles and broken branches to the utility trailer. Maybe tomorrow I'll load up some larger broken pine branches out by the road to make up a trailer load and then haul it all down to our recycle area. It's supposed to be warmer tomorrow but it looks like our weather is again going into the dumpster this weekend with rain predicted. I had better be outside making hay while the sun shines these next couple of days:))
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| A FEW WELCOME PATCHES OF BLUE SKY THIS MORNING |
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| HEADING HOME |
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| IT'S HARD TO TELL I AM DRIVING ON A BRICK ROAD HERE |
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| BUT I AM |
Al's Music Box:)) Running Bear is a teenage tragedy song written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a.-The Big Bopper) and sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959. The 1959 recording featured background vocals by George Jones and the session's producer Bill Hall, who provided the "Indian chanting" of "uga-uga" during the three verses, as well as the "Indian war cries" at the start and end of the record. It was No. 1 for three weeks in January 1960 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and the same on Canada's CHUM Charts. Coincidentally, "Running Bear" was immediately preceded in the Hot 100 No. 1 position by Marty Robbins "El Paso", and immediately followed by Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel", both of which feature a death of, or affecting, the protagonist. Billboard ranked "Running Bear" as the No. 4 song of 1960. The tenor saxophone was played by Link Davis. Richardson was a friend of Preston and offered "Running Bear" to him after hearing him perform in a club. Preston recorded the song at the Gold Star Studiors in Houston, Texas, a few months after Richardson's death in the plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. Preston was signed to Mercury Records, and "Running Bear" was released in August 1959. The song tells the story of Running Bear, a "young Indian Brave", and Little White Dove, an "Indian maid". The two are in love but are separated by two factors: Their tribes' hatred of each other: their respective tribes are at war. ("Their tribes fought with each other / So their love could never be.") A raging river: a physical separation but also as a metaphor for their cultural separation. The two, longing to be together, despite the obstacles and the risks posed by the river, dive into the raging river to unite. After sharing a passionate kiss, they are pulled down by the swift current and drowned. The lyrics describe their fate: "Now they'll always be together / In their happy hunting ground."
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| BY MID-AFTERNOON SKIES HAD CLEARED AND OLD SOL WAS BUSY MELTING THE OVERNIGHT SNOWFALL |
GROANER'S CORNER:(( Last year, when the power mower was broken and wouldn't run, I kept hinting to my husband that he ought to get it fixed, but somehow the message never sank in. Finally I thought of a clever way to make the point. When my husband arrived home that day, he found me seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. He watched silently for a short time and then went into the house. He was gone only a few moments when he came out again. He handed me a toothbrush. "When you finish cutting the grass," he said, "you might as well sweep the sidewalk."- What's round and bad-tempered? A vicious circle.
Bumper Stickers......IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got...... Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now...... Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs..... Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
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If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize you set it free...
You either married it or gave birth to it.
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Al's Doggy World
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| LOADING UP FOR ANOTHER WINTER ADVENTURE IN THE GREAT AMERICAN SOUTHWEST |
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| STANDING ON THE BRINK OF A WATERFALL CHECKING OUR GPS TO SEE IT IT KNOWS WHERE WE ARE |
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| HEY DAY, GET ER IN GEAR AND LET'S GET ROLLING |
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| THOSE WERE THE DAYS MY FRIEND |
Al's Art Gallery
