Month: May 2020

It Wasn’t That Long Ago

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RDP Monday: SURRENDER

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Last year at this time we were on a train heading out to Wisconsin to visit our  son and his family.

I remember being a little bored, impatient. I took a lot of pictures and played around with my camera. I did enjoyed the leisurely pace of traveling by rail,   but I did not enjoy the fact there was no WI-FI on the train and my laptop was not cooperating with my phone so I couldn’t use that to get on the net.

Oh well, I thought- plenty of time for  cruising the net later.

The scenery that chugged by my window was pretty and the trip itself was not without some excitement because the train hit someone who was crossing the tracks. I think that happened in Minnesota. I’ve seen what a train does to a human body and I was really glad I was sleeping when it happened and that there was nothing to see when the train started to move.

And then we finally we got to Wisconsin.

I also had a cold so I was out of sorts for most of my stay but I still enjoyed my visit.

We made plans for our next trip out- plane or train? Spring or Winter?

Oh well. Lots of time to figure that out we thought because we had all the time in the world- an entire year as a matter of fact!

But then March rolled up and the Coronavirus made itself at home and everything shut down.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

I am still thinking about our next trip out-

there really is plenty of time to figure it all out.

No denying it, no getting around it may as well surrender myself to the idea.

I have a lot of time on my hands because all of the clocks have stopped moving and the days of the week don’t have names anymore.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Larry and Buzz

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I do have a few favorite pages on FB and one is called UPS Dogs.

UPS dogs are pictures of UPS drivers from all over the United States with pictures of dogs ( I have seen pictures of Deer, Goats once I think I saw a picture of a pig – which is pawesome) from their routes.

Recently one turned up that really caught my eye- and a few other eyes because with some slight editing it actually looked like a modern day Norman Rockewell print.

Check it out:

Larry and Buzz UPS DOGS

Larry and Buzz UPS DOGS

Pick A Number

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Jim Adams hosts a  fun prompt called Song Lyric Sunday  and today’s song title must contain a number.

I chose Big Ten Inch by Aerosmith for a few reasons( get your mind out of the toilet if you don’t know this song- it’s about a record ( wink wink )

First of all, the first time I played it for my Grandma and the rest of my family they fell over laughing. They liked the play on words and they liked the boogie woogie vibe.

Plus we were a family who held Little Richard and Liberace in high  regard and collected their albums  and never missed them when they were on tv- so maybe they just figured I was a chip off the old block ( or taste bud ).

At any rate, this song brings back a great memory and when I went on to learn the guitar and played it, I learned something important:

No matter how jaded musicians think they are when you are a girl who can play the guitar and you tell them you want them to learn to play  Aerosmith’s ” Big Ten Inch ” they will always look at you like their cat just walked up to them and said, ” hey, can I have the password to your wi-fi?”

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Wriiten by: Fred Weismantel

Got me the strangest woman

Believe it, this chick’s no sinch

When I wanna get her goin’

Then I whip out my Big Ten Inch

Record of the band that plays the blues

Well the band that plays the blues

She just loved my Big Ten Inch

 

Record of her favorite blues

Last night I tried to tease her

I gave my love a little pinch

But she said now stop that jivin

now whip out your big ten-inch

 

Record of the band that plays the blues

Well the band that plays the blues

She just loved my Big Ten Inch

 

Record of her favorite blues

I’ll cover her with kisses

and when we’re in a lover’s clinch

she gets all excited

when she puts on my big ten-inch

 

Record of the band that plays the blues

Well the band that plays the blues

She just loved my Big Ten Inch

Record of her favorite blues

My gal don’t go smokin’

and liquor just makes her flinch

Seems she don’t go for nothin’

‘cept for my big ten-inch

 

Record of the band that plays the blues

Band that plays the blues

She just loved my Big Ten Inch

Record of her favorite blues

1952- BULL MOOSE JACKSON:

Archeology Is Fun(ny) Too

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