songbird's crazy world

 They’re here! Now I just have to figure out a reason to wear them.

 Freedom of choice week This video popped up in my YouTube feed Saturday morning. Azi Schwartz is a Cantor, a clergyman at the Park Avenue Synagogue in NYC.  He’s known for putting Hebrew prayers to popular music.  The song inspired me to find others about a beautiful morning or beautiful day. Let’s start with the Rascals From the movies How about some U2? Remember Daniel Boone? Simon & Garfunkel  You have to have a little Jimmy Buffett   Cat Stevens/Yusef Carpe diem.

  Eastbound and Down 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 is today's questions! Saturday 9: Eastbound and Down (1977) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . 1) This week's song was featured in the movie  Smokey and the Bandit , the surprise box office hit of 1977. Have you seen it? Yes. Saw it when it first came out. 2) Though not well received by critics,  Smokey and the Bandit  had one very famous fan: Alfred Hitchcock. The classic film director enjoyed re-watching the movie on video at home, often while having dinner. Do you ever watch T...

 Cat?  What cat? Yep, Shadow in the window. Duchess doing cat things.

 We went to a ball game  last Friday.  Cold, windy, rainy day …The sky  put on a show during the game. Every phone in the ballpark turned skyward for a few moments.  Look at what happened over center field at sunset.  Can you see the second arch? Look down the first base line,  rainbow’s end? And in left field, a piece of the sunset, Similar sunset photos were all over my instagram and facebook…it was a spectacular night in NYC and on Long Island. #skywatchfriday

 So I saw a pair of red shoes advertised on Facebook.  Followed the link to the merchant and put them in my cart, but didn’t buy them. I was ambivalent about whether I really needed red pumps.  Even if they were only $19.99.   Then the algorithm showed me the same shoes, over and over, on Facebook and Instagram. No surprise there. And then I got an email asking if I still wanted the shoes. Funny thing, though. All of the ads are from essentially the same company— it’s one website with multiple tabs— but with different prices for the same shoes. And the email offered the shoes at a price that wasn’t in any of the ads. Here, take a look. Yeah, I bought them for $16.99.