songbird's crazy world

My cousin and her husband are celebrating their 55th anniversary today. And when I wished her a happy anniversary, she told me that she made toast in the famous toaster this morning, The toaster is 55 years old.  It was a bridal shower gift from my mom and my aunt. May they continue to enjoy that toaster for many years to come.

1. The sweetness of summer...where have you found it recently? If you're in the Southern hemisphere, feel free to tell us about the sweetness you're finding in winter. Birds are chirping in the yard.  Watermelon, cherries, strawberries...the fruit is fresh and flavorful.  Late afternoon walks at the beach.  It's summer. 2. Take your sweet time, sweet tooth, home sweet home, short but sweet, the sweet smell of success, sweet talk...choose a sweet idiom and tell us how it fits your life currently? Sweet tooth ...I seem to be enjoying snacks and desserts a lot... 3. Sweet as honey, sweet as sugar, or sweet as pie, which phrase do you use when a sweet phrase is called for? What's the last sweet treat you indulged in? Sweet as sugar.  Last  night I had cherry pie. 4. First thing that comes to mind when you hear the word fidget? 5. Share with us one of your favorite childhood travel memories. We didn't do much traveling when I was a kid.  But when I was 10 we...

Such a hard life....

Another "your choice" week. Thursday marks a sad anniversary.  Harry Chapin died on July 16, 1981.  He died in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway; he was on his way to Eisenhower Park, with plans to give a free concert.   My friends and I were in the park that night, waiting for the concert to begin, when we learned he had passed away. I was fortunate to see Harry perform several times.   The first time I saw him was in 1975, when I was still in high school. Harry performed at my school; he lived in Huntington, NY, and liked to do free concerts at local schools.  In college I  saw him perform at a fall festival in Huntington's Heckscher Park, and at a theater in Schnecctady, NY. The stage at Eisenhower Park is known as the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater. And the stage in Heckscher Park, Huntington is also named for him. So let's listen to some of Harry's music.  He was an excellent storyteller. ...

July 11, 2020 Movie Challenge Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog " Funny the World ". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves! From Sharon Compton  1. Last movie you watched House of Dark Shadows, from 1970 2. Last movie you watched in a theater. Knives out 3. Film you’ve always wanted to watch, but haven’t The Big Chill ...fell asleep watching it years ago and I’ve never seen the whole movie. 4. Favorite movie soundtrack Les Miserables 5. Your favorite movie duo Bogie and Bacall 6. Movie you like because of its story Citizen Kane 7. A film that disappointed you Napoleon Dynamite 8. Favorite scene from a movie The final scene in Singin’ in the Rain where Donald O’Connor provides the voice for Lina. 9. Your guilty pl...

77 Sunset Strip 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: 77 Sunset Strip (1958)   Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . 1)  77 Sunset Strip  was one of TV's early hits, running for six seasons. Before this morning, were you familiar with this show? I knew it existed, but I've never seen it. 2) The show's jazzy theme is punctuated by finger snaps. When you snap your fingers, is the left-handed snap as loud as your right-handed snap? I can't snap my fingers at all, so... 3) The show revolved around Bailey and Spencer Inves...

From June 2019, sunset at the ball park #skywatchfriday