MONDAY MUSINGS::UP'DATES

MONDAY MUSINGS: ' 'UP'DATES is not talking about my online dating experiences. That's a story for another day. I am talking about the most recent update on my Mac that has me fit to be tied. I thought I'd throw in an ' ancient idiom' since I am feeling pretty prehistoric after this past week.

This past 'update' has me dumbfounded on one of its 'improvements.' Where in the heck did the email draft feature go? Poof, it just disappeared. I discovered this after being interrupted numerous times while trying to finish a list on an email. There used to a subcategory entitled 'drafts' to reopen unfinished mail, but it has vanished.  POOF. Who was the genius that deemed this change necessary?

I have no clue where they stuck this feature, and I'm not the only one. When I searched help, there were numerous other folks just as perplexed. AND not one answer/ suggestion... GRRRRRR.

Fingers crossed that the Apple store will be able to help ... 

for me

FOTO FRIDAY: THE WINNER

FOTO FRIDAY: This guy's a winner. Lucky Bob surrounded by 3 beauties and also won the best outfit at the Symphony Guild's first Seer Sucker  Soiree. Good thing this man also wore his white suede shoes for all that dancing!

Last week's was Exhausted in Atlanta !

MIDWEEK MUSINGS: TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG

MIDWEEK MUSINGS are a result of my granddaughter's birthday this week, as a former post and pic appeared of her birth 9 years ago, with its importance of adding a new generation to our family.

You see, I had invited others to send me a generational photo. Now after almost a decade in most of those pics, (not mine) there is one of those faces who is no longer with us... I know it's the cycle of life when folks have lived a long life, but I had never really thought of 70's as old before ...

Just last week I had spoken with a young female foreman in charge of the remodelling project next door and commented, "You are so young to be in charge of all these crews" and her reply was" I am middle-aged, I am in my 30's. " What? Middle-aged is not 30s in my book. 

Heck, maybe it's really true that I am too old to die young...  DANG, I am just going to keep acting young!

MONDAY MUSINGS:GUILTY AS CHARGED

 MONDAY MUSINGS are about those keepsakes parents deem necessary to save. My Mom didn't save any of mine. I did not follow her example.  I wanted my children to have something from their early years. After 30+ years and many moves, it was time for me to hand over the last of those precious bins containing memoirs of report cards, medical records, awards, favorite toys, and yes, artwork. My children have their own homes now... 

 Well,  this saving of schoolwork came back to bite me during my week-long visit to Atlanta. My daughter has followed in my footsteps as the preservationist of her children's keepsakes. Although her eldest is just entering 4th grade and the youngest is pre-K, it was time for these keepsakes to be thinned as they had landed in their garage, taking up valuable floor space. 

 So, one of my assigned projects was to tackle this collection. The worksheets, for the most part, were a no-brainer. Adios into the circular file; saving sweet creative writing samples, but the art was more labor- intensive. Every day I tackled a couple totes. Recycling day couldn't come soon enough!

I opted to snap photos of most - let's say ~250 pieces. Then I thinned the numerous totes, paper sacks and 2 plastic bins down to half a large bin size. 

This remainder is the parents' decision of which are frame worthy/ keepers. The photos are destined to be made into a book/two. Or make them an online album with their favorite music... 

Seriously, how can a Mom ever toss this one?

I know, I am guilty as charged... Mia culpa.

FOTO FRIDAY: EXHAUSTED?

FOTO FRIDAY after the first couple weeks of back-to-school and life... All over our country kids are back in school. Atlanta went back the first week of August.

TBT:NATUREMAN'S BDAY

TBT took on its own life on FB as I posted a memory of my Natureman due to his calendar birthday Thursday August 21st.. Over 200 of you reacted with hearts and likes and many left such lovely comments. The man touched so many lives in his life's work of bettering this world.  Thank you for remembering him and your efforts to carry on his work. 

Irv had been given the first Drum Major Legacy Award at what would be, unknowingly, our last attendance at La Crosse's MLK Day celebration... Friend Maureen left this lovely message "using the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Irv was a drum major for justice, a drum major for peace and a drum major for righteousness."

May we all carry on being those drum majors in our own ways.

A DAY TO REMEMBER 2020

tUESDAY tUNES: FIX YOU

 tUESDAY tUNES showcases a different kind of musical genius in this video clip from London's 02 Arena at the last concert of this world tour, featuring an 15,000 audience choir. Wowser with Jacob Collier and Chris Martin. Just relax and listen/ heck, sing along...

FIX YOU in LONDON

tUESDAY tUNES:HAIR of SPUN GOLD & MIDWEEK MUSINGS

 tUESDAY tUNES is one of Janis Ian's songs. She entered the music scene at 16 and, remarkably, didn't realize she was a sign of social change. Ian's career spanned 6 decades.

In the mid-'60s, she had a hit with Society's Child, which stirred up controversy, even death threats due to its topic of an interracial relationship. 

Many are familiar with her 1975 hit At  Seventeen and the many Grammys that followed.

BUT the one I am posting is HAIR SPUN OF GOLD.

I caught a blurb on FaceBook about a documentary called Janis Ian: Breaking Silence directed by Varda Bar-Kar. It's a long-overdue documentary about this artist. Her songs are just as relevant as they were back then. You can view it on Apple TV, Prime Video or YouTube

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, that leg stopped thumping. 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.

TBT: 5 YEARS AGO

TBT: 5 years ago I moved back to where I grew up and started moving into my new house that I would have to make into my home. The AC went out that during the 3rd day of unpacking.  August, my friends, is not a chilly time of the year in Arkansas.

This is what my hallway cabinets looked like as I began unpacking and 

they would morph into La Leyenda de la Vida. 

Schatzkes of yours truly as EVERYTHING has a story.

Each shelf has a different theme of places I have lived/visited. 

But the truth is as this t-shirt attests...

 The fact is even 5 years uner my belt , I am as the tshirt proclaims just a Wisconsin girl living in an Arkansas world.

MIDWEEK MUSINGS: SUMMER BLUES

 MIDWEEK MUSING: SUMMER BLUES comes today as it's my last day of summer LifeQuest classes. The Thursday Cine Noir  movie class was only 4 weeks so that's been done a couple weeks now.  

Today I will bid my thought-provoking classes on Viet Nam farewell as well as the class called Friedman's Fables. The latter had very interesting discussions on moral/ ethical issues. I  admit failure for not surviving the AI class. Way too many questions from the large class, not allowing the teacher to get through the lesson.

One thing is for sure - I won't mind leaving the summer heat behind as my garden weeds can attest. I have plants that usually make it but didn't this summer due to the extreme heat waves. Instead of early morning weeding, I substituted my early water aerobics class, a welcome cooling relief followed by a sauna, and this terrific hydromassage chair at the Athletic club that gave my body muscles an extra workout. 

I did enjoy the convertible ride out to listen to music at BoBrooks Farms with Matt & Aimee while enjoying a couple wine slushies and a charcuterie on Sunday...  Yes, the porch is bustling again .

Fingers crossed for a cooler day for the 37th Hot Springs Art Gallery Walk on Friday. I am looking forward to seeing what area artists are doing and hearing some good music to boot... Stay tuned ,

tUESDAY tUNES: ALL FOR NOTHING

 I love listening to new artist's work... Here's Aruna 's ALL FOR NOTHING. I like it, how about you? Kind of catchy, right?

MONDAY MUSINGS: SCHOOL 'DAZE'

MONDAY MUSINGS: Remember when we, and then our kids, went back to school after Labor Day? 

Well, my Atlanta grands' first day is today! So much for August family vacations. You know thar last summer getaway.

(BTW if you enlarge the pic
you can see their school boards...)

I don't understand the earlier starting date. Financially, it must cost the schools much more to have the buildings air-conditioned and with lights on this early. It also means teachers had to return in July to set up their rooms. Eegads, when summer already wasn't long enough to recuperate as a teacher. Yeah, I realize parents are otherwise ready.

Do you think it's also about working parents needing more daycare???Any guesses?

FOTO FRIDAY: MAKE A WISH

 

FOTO FRIDAY: Making a wish was especially sweet this week ending it with this yummy from Ciao Baci. I would definitely recommend it.  The wind almost blew out my candle before I finished my wish... Made it.

Last week's FOTO FRIDAY was ECHO