songbird's crazy world

  This Is A Very Special Day 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: This Is A Very Special Day (1953) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . 1) In this song, Peggy sings that she feels good enough to climb a hill. Will you be doing anything athletic today? Not particularly. We’re going to an art museum and then to lunch. 2) However she was also tempted to climb back in bed. Is a nap in your plans for today?  Nope. 3) She tells us that she looked in the mirror and told herself it was time to "lose the blues....

 Look who’s on the yoga mat! She’d be a natural for cat/cow …

 So the stupidity of the health insurance industry never ceases to amaze me. My doctor prescribed medication, told me to take it twice a day.  My old health insurance happily paid for the prescription. It worked well.   My new health insurance will only pay for one pill a day. One dose a day isn’t doing it hit me.  So my doctor has now prescribed a second medication, which the insurer pays for, to take along with the first.  Crazy, right? We’re finally getting nice weather for an entire weekend.  I am so looking forward to that! Tonight’s plan includes a walk at Jones Beach and take out from a Chinese place that has gluten free choices.  I’m so glad I can walk at the beach, I haven’t really been able to go for a walk all week. I did manage a short walk last night.  Twilight.  And the bunnies were out in force! And on my own front lawn … Yes, front yard bunny lives!

 Moon Over Levittown #skywatchfriday

So last week two of my coworkers were gushing over a musical artist I’d never heard of.  Said he was a modern Bob Dylan/CSN type, that he was absolutely wonderful.  Guy named Noah Kahan.  I said he sounds interesting… Saturday night, while Drew and I were getting drenched at the Ducks game, people were gathering at Citi Field for a concert.  Eventually the concert was cancelled because of the weather.  The artist?  Noah Kahan. I would never have recognized the name of the artist who was supposed to appear if I hadn’t been talking about him earlier that week.  Guess that means I’m going to have to explore his music.    So of course after the monsoon on Saturday we get perfect summer weather Monday.  Sigh. Though we’re expecting bad weather today and tomorrow. We can’t catch a break, can we? I haven’t seen front yard bunny in person recently, but he did show up on my Ring camera Sunday.  Yay! There have been no further sitings of back...

 My local municipality — the Town of Hempstead — owns several community pools.  Use is restricted to residents, who must pay a small fee to use the pool. But those of us who live in Levittown … when Bill Levitt built these houses, he also created community parks and swimming pools.  Levittown, and the parts of Wantagh and Hicksville where Levitt built, Is a special tax district.  If you live in the district, you can use the Levitt pools, and you don’t  pay a fee. You simply go to Levittown Hall, fill out the paperwork and show proof of residency, and they will hand you a season pass to the pools. The pools open Father’s Day weekend and close right after Labor Day. Of course I get a pool pass every summer. It takes about 15 minutes for me to walk to the nearest pool. Between the weather and other commitments,I haven’t had  a chance to go to the pool.  Until yesterday, that is. And it felt so good…