58 Chevy

Another car I wish I still had. This 58 Chevy was my Christmas present in the mid 1960s. When I bought a 61 Corvette my mom got this car. Eventually she got a 63 Chevy and I don't really remember what happened to the 58. By that time I had a 67 GTO and The 58 was just a memory.

Portmeirion

Portmeirion's piazza was at one time a tennis court. This pond and fountain makes much more sense. Most of the buildings directly behind it are self catering cottages or hotel rooms . Others to the left side are various village shops. The round pink building at the far left is the unit used for The Prisoners home in the TV series . It now houses a shop selling material related to the series. As I have said before this is one of my favorite places in the world!

Laughed till I cried

More Changes

Big Island Hawaii

There is a reason it's called the Big Island!

Around The World

Today Sharon started a new book. She has been on a David Nobbs kick lately reading many of his books.He is a British humorist who has written many quirky and funny books that have been adapted to British Situation comedies. Among them are The two Ronnies and The fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Getting back to today, she just started Nobb's A Bit Of A Do. It was eventually a British comedy drama series starring David Jason and was aired on ITV in 1989. As is the case some of the time, the books I order through Amazon come from the UK. This one did for sure,as when Sharon opened it, this theater ticket stub fell out of it. It provided an interesting glimpse and connection into an unknown life half way around the world.

Today I heard a Freddy Cole recording on the Dish Jazz channel . It reminded me that a few years ago I had never heard of him. Although he was born in October of 1931 and began playing piano at age 6, he had three elder brothers, Eddie, Ike and Nat (twelve years older) who were all musicians. Because of Nat's success he was probably always in his brothers shadow. After Nat died Natalie seemed to eventually move into the spotlight. Or maybe I am the only one who had never heard of him . For more information visit http://www.freddycole.com/overview.html

Pineapples, Season 5

After much sweaty work, our pineapples are ready for another season. This year we consumed 40 and gave sixty away . We planted 42 new starters, and gave away at least that many after deciding to try and keep the number of plants down . New this season are a new planting area and palm mulch chips.The mulch will hopefully retain moisture , keep weeds down and make things easier and neater. We shall see !

The way it feels sometimes

Mood music

I spend a bit of time at Utube . It amazes me how much creative material can be found. I regularly find something wonderful. Something not so wonderful however are the countless crude comments made. I constantly find myself amazed . Some are sexist ,racist, abusive and or mean spirited. Many have nothing to do with the videos content. Is this on the level or is it some kind of tasteless joke. I just don't understand

Sunday we had a few palms removed in the front yard. All of them had grown too tall to keep pruned and one was occasionally getting caught in our power lines. Across the front of the lot we had 5 clumps of Areca palms removed. They were also too tall and created a visual barrier . The effect of all of this work is making the whole front yard and house look great.

Maybe one day I will understand these videos

Somehwere Louis Armstrong is smiling!

The way it feels sometimes

So---- we are driving home from the grocery(as we do every Monday)when the Beach Boys Good Vibrations comes on the radio. Suddenly it is 1966. I am listening to WLS on my transistor radio (with earphone in,) just before falling as sleep in my bunk bed in the barrics . I am back at basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
Why does some music trigger these vivid memories? Any number of recordings do this to me. Each connected to different times and places. Ever thought about this?

This just in!

fascinating

Dolt

This morning we were a little stressed out because one of our cats was going to the vet to have his teeth cleaned. He does not like the carrying case(you can't blame him as he was confined to one when we flew here from San Francisco while moving ) After I put him in the box and rushed to put on my shoes I felt as if my right foot was being crammed into shoe 2 sizes too small. After a short struggle I got it on , grabbed the box and limped out the door feeling as if my foot was going to break in half.I kept thinking something is not right here and after we had finished talking to the vet I sat down in the waiting room to see if my foot had indeed been broken. When I got the shoe off, and looked inside I was astonishment to find a shoe horn in there. It was cheap and made of plastic so it is interesting that it didn't break. It was so funny that I didn't even care that I am such dolt!