Monday, September 28, 2026

Music Monday... This is interesting and very sweet.

100 year Old Flute Player at a nursing home plays his instrument with a small group who came to play for the residents.  

I'm sorry I can't just do this the old way but this IS worth seeing, trust me.  

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Saturday, September 26, 2026

Saturday9. "Don't Take Your Love From Me". by Doris Day

 

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Don't Take Your Love from Me

 

 
Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer the questions, however, and here are today's questions!

Saturday 9: Don't Take Your Love from Me (1956)


Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Doris Day sings about what happens when you take a petal from a rose. When did you last get or give flowers as a gift?  On my Birthday Last year. 
 
2) This song is about a woman who fears losing her love. What's the most recent thing you lost? (Hopefully it's not as consequential as a great love. It could be as small or unimportant as the back of one of your pierced earrings.) 
 My Sanity?  Bahahaha! 

3) Doris was known as The All-American Girl Next Door. Who lives next door to you? 
My Neighbors. None of which, happily, have a big, yappy dog.  

I love dogs to bits, but an Alsatian shepherd which barked long and loudly used to live there. It was an ordeal! 
Their other German Shepard was a wonderful guy. He once, jumped a six foot fence and ran right at me across the street when there were fireworks. He leaned on me, trembling.  He was HUGE.  I real loved that one.

4) As a young girl, Doris Day was passionate about dance. She recalled that concentrating on her lessons helped distract her from the pain and embarrassment of her parents' divorce. When you want to escape from what's troubling you, what do you do?  I pray about it. And then I meditate.  (That's after a few stiff drinks that haven't worked.)  KIDDING!  I can't drink (my meds and drink don't mix)  or sometimes I would!

5) The maitre d' at one of Doris' favorite restaurants wanted to ask her out. Knowing how she loved her dogs, he impressed her by handing her a bag of meat scraps and bones to take home. They began dating and, in 1976, he became her last husband. What's the best way to your heart? 
 Show me a picture of a needy child. 
Because of my dad, we were very poor.  I would have loved to have a mentor.  The door to the local church had been slammed shut by my paternal unit. He didn't want anyone close to me.

6) Over her long career, Doris received Golden Globe and Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, honored for being one of the most celebrated women to have been born there. Name a famous person born in your home state.  Because my paternal unit was away fighting in France, I was not born in my parent's apartment in California, but was born on my grandparent's farm in Ohio, so I'll pick her, too.   
 
7) She was frank about her financial difficulties, yet some people are uncomfortable discussing money. Are you one of those people?  No. I can talk about money ... or the lack of it... all day if I have to. lol



8) In 1956, when Doris released this song, The Wizard of Oz was shown on network TV for the first time. What movie have you seen multiple times?   "One Enchanted April" and "Princess Bride" are tied for that honor.  They are both really great movies.  I watch them whenever I've a mind to.  


9) Random question: Would you rather have a chef or a chauffeur?  A chauffeur. 
 


Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!
 

Friday, September 25, 2026

Freak Out Friday!!!

I haven't been following the news lately but  HOLY CRIMINY!  Unfortunately the stuff followed ME!  

Gotterdamurung!  Trump doesn't like freedom of the press?  


What a red blooded American Prez we have. 

Doesn't support freedom of the Press?  His stacked Supreme Court slapped his hands?  

This should be Writ Large, just like John Hancock's Signature on the Declaration of Independence!


Post Script.

No, they just gave him back his eraser.  So long America!   

Thursday, September 24, 2026

The Cost of Engorged Greed.......


 An entire family is buried here... All...  Heart Breaking. Over twenty people

Three on Thursday

1. AT LAST!!!  Going through seventeen (an exaggeration) saved sets of eyeglasses, I've found one that can stay in the computer room. Hyperbole is my hobby.  What is yours?


2. It's cooled off so much that that one can no longer fry and egg on the sidewalk.  There are images, but really.... UGH!  

3. I've decided that it's just too much fun to post some of the weekly MEMES and this is one of them..  

See you soon....

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Three on Thursday : How to propagate a new African Violet plant from a leaf.

In three photos..😉  I was just poking around the photo stash and thought this looked like it might be useful to others.  

Remember, everything you use to cut the leaf, the bottle used, and even the soil it's planted in has to be free and clear of any contaminant for the best result.  And the plastic digging fork is hand made. lol