MONDAY MUSINGS:LUCKY PIERRE, NOT

 MONDAY MUSINGS left me shaking my head after travelling on a packed plane yesterday. The fact that the plane never seemed to cool down might have been part of it, but I was stuck in seat D. Let me tell you, it was no fun even with a flight that didn't last a little over an hour but seemed much longer...

Yep, you guessed it, I was sandwiched between 2 guys. The guy on my left, I will call Thumper. Thumper was thin with lanky legs that manspread into my space, with a right leg that never stopped moving. I'll attribute it to nervousness because when he finally dozed off 10 minutes before landing, it stopped shaking. Paul Bunyan on my right embodied the word 'burly' and was the hairiest guy I have ever seen clad in shorts and a snug sports shirt. The seat was definitely too small for him. He looked so uncomfortable, as his bright red face attested, and never lost that beet color. After 10 minutes of coughing, he professed was 'ragweed' season and his meds weren't working. He wasn't kidding, he hacked the entire flight.

I guess I have been lucky not to have been sardined between two men before!

 The landing could not come soon enough and it was such a relief to get off that plane.

FOTO FRIDAY: ECHO's VOICE

 

FOTO FRIDAY: Echo arrived at my home after having spent one 100 degree week in the woods, tick-covered, without food/water. He had been shot in the head, with the bullet entering the top of his head and exiting the back of his neck. 

The vet put him on prednisone and doxycycline to treat heartworm and a swollen jaw. A med reaction caused over a dozen welts... The guy needed quiet, some nursing, and a lot of love.

I 'd like to say Echo found his voice during his stay. 

FOTO FRIDAY shows him enjoying a movie...

and his first bark in 2 weeks. My job is done. I will miss this sweetie.

May he find the best home ever.

 

TBT: ANNUAL PICS... STUDENT & FACULTY

TBT: This week I helped someone I met in homeroom in high school celebrate their birthday and welcome a new decade. Actually, I was the student, and she was the teacher. 

my senior pic

                                 

 Here we were in the Warrior '72 annual.

She changed the side she parted her hair, but I didn't. ( but I may change it now)... LOL

Fast forward 55 years later...

'Looking forward to more get-togethers.

MIDWEEK MUSINGS:HANGING AROUND

MIDWEEK MUSINGS: HANGING AROUND:
Sometimes we miss special moments because we are just in too much of a hurry. Guilty as charged...

Yesterday I posted a song by a young teen, Susey Wendy who knocked the socks off her 'Voice ' German speaking coaches. I had just caught this clip on a FB reel and posted it as soon as I had found the entire clip of the song. 

Yet ,when I returned to my YouTube screen, the Voice Kids Blind Auditions clip was still there and I thought, why don't I listen to the coaches' banter and see how much German I could still understand? They were praising Susey's abilities with underhanded compliments for each other when Alvaro and Susey shared a love of Norah Jones' music. What followed was actually an amazing rendition by Alvaro sitting down at the piano and the 2 singing a Don't Know Why...

How many of you caught that? 

How many times do we pass up an opportunity because we are in too much of a hurry? We just need to hang around a bit longer. And who knows what we will encounter?  It might be a different kind of duo,  a lovely conversation, a new experience, heck, a new friend...

* Here's that clip again, just hang on past the banter where they share ...  Click to 4:49 Wowser!

Don't Know Why

tUESDAY tUNES::: What a Difference a Day Makes!

 tUESDAY tUNES : A 14 year old Susey knocks this one out of the park on The Voice KIDS: Blind Auditions with Dinah Washington's 

What a Difference a Day Makes... INCREDIBLE

MONDAY MUSINGS: WALKING IN THE RAIN...

 MONDAY MUSINGS: Walking to see art can even get me going in a thunderstorm... Actually, the rainstorm arrived earlier than expected on the car trip heading south to Hot Springs, and while I don't ever like driving in a thunderstorm, especially on a highway it ended before our destination...

We had both looked feverishly for a legible map of the artwalk route to celebrate Hot Spring's 37th Art Walk anniversary celebration in Hot Springs. I have to admit the wet prospect probably dissuaded many but we didn't even need our umbrellas. Fortunately, the first gallery did have literature of the places to visit and there was local music besides snacks in the various galleries. 

On the 2nd floor art collective, we met several of the artists while perusing the art.  Laura, my partner in crime of the day,  purchased one of Morse Craig's bowls. Pictured on the left, Morse was kind enough to explain to all those interested how he uses a cake-like mold to retain the bowls' shape before adding resin, sometimes with crushed or whole semi-precious stones. Laura's bowl will have its new home on her dining room table inherited from her Mom.

My other favorite gallery was this unique gallery space called none other than the Blue Donut...  

                                                                   

Their display of munchies was of course, artistically arranged even if there were no blue donuts

Upon entering we were asked to choose our favorite piece of art and vote for it after looking at all the art. 

I chose the Ridge quilted art scene #10 below as it reminded me of where I used to live with the ridge in the End of the Rainbow Valley. 

But much to my dismay, Ms Nilholen's price was beyond my pocketbook as its tag read NFS (not for sale), 

It still got my vote!

We didn't even have to walk in the rain to see art, and the two of us left satisfied...

FOTO FRIDAY: FASTEST VISITOR AT 4 O'CLOCKS

 

FOTO FRIDAY: You have to look quickly to see this visitor where the 4 o'clocks are strategically planted by the front door- You can smell their fragrance and see its visitors. Remember to click on the video below.

It's a hummingbird moth.