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Music Monday

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 I misspoke yesterday.  Today is another “your choice” week; parody is next week. Steve Lawrence passed away on March 7 at the age of 88. He earned fame both as a solo artist and as part of a duo with his wife, Eydie Gorme.  She passed away in 2013. As I mentioned on a recent  Saturday 9 , my late mother-in-law claimed kinship with Eydie.  She always told us that she and Eydie were cousins.  Both were Sephardic Jews from the Bronx.   Steve Lawrence was as Ashkenazi Jew from Brooklyn.  So let’s salute the music of Steve and Eydie.                            

Everyone is Irish today

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 Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone is Irish on St Patrick’s Day, right? Last night drew and I went to a St. Patrick's Day event at one of our favorite restaurants.  The menu featured Irish and Irish-American classics like corned beef and cabbage,  bangers and mash, shepherds pie, soda bread … There was a group of young girls who performed Irish step dancing, and a kilted man who played the bagpipes. I’m in the mood for some music … Parody songs are the theme for an upcoming Music Monday, but we can get started today.   Now we go to something a bit more traditional.    How about something from the movies/Broadway?   One year I had the pleasure of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at Radio City, watching Riverdance.    You have to include the Irish Rovers.    This last song … one of my favorite radio DJ’s is Scott Shannon.  He’d play this song on his morning drive time show every year in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.☘️     Cone back tomorrow for some song parodies.

Saturday 9

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  Charlie Mops 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 memes, however, and here is today's meme!   Saturday 9: Charlie Mops (2007) Not familiar with this week's song? Hear it  here .   1 . This week's song is about a legend, Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer. Tell us about something you enjoy so much you could sing about it with the same enthusiasm the Salt Sea Pirates sing of beer.  Chocolate! Of course. 2.  The lyrics tell us beer goes well with breakfast, dinner and snacks. Think about what you dined on yesterday. What beverages did you have with your breakfast, your dinner, and your bet

Skywatch Friday

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 Clouds over the bay #skywatchfriday

Flowers

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 So we moved into this house in July.  I had no idea what the previous residents may have planted in the yard, This is what’s growing in the front yard.  The daffodils are starting to bloom.  I don’t know what the little white flowers are.  I can’t wait to see what else there is.  And yes, that’s my shadow …

Better Late Than Never

 I’m going to do the blogging challenge next month.   My theme? I’m creating a zoo.  It will include real animals, extinct animals and mythical or fictional animals.

Supermarket woes…

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 See this? It’s a typical supermarket checkout counter.  You load your groceries onto the conveyor belt (front of the photo). The cashier scans your items, then moves them to the bagging area at the other end,  you can see the payment terminal/card reader in the middle, where the customer swipes a credit or debit card in order to pay for the groceries.  Usually stores have multiple checkout counters arranged in rows, with narrow aisles between the stands. I went grocery shopping Saturday morning.  The store was fairly crowded, as expected.  I finished my shopping and pushed my very full cart to the checkout counter.  I waited my turn, then unloaded my groceries onto the conveyor belt  When the cashier began to scan my items, I moved my cart into the bagging area at the foot of the checkout stand and began bagging my groceries (here in New York we are encouraged to bring our own reusable bags; the cashier will help bag the groceries if you hand them your bags.  Or you can purchase bags