I don’t have a lot of time this morning, but I did want to post something, as service here has been spotty lately. I’m not sure my subconscious wasn’t at work when I chose today’s classic A&J. I’ve been fighting with my computer lately, plus the mockingbirds have begun their seasonal concert. Except, in reality, they sing about 3 a.m. For hours. I actually have gone downstairs in the middle of the night to flush one from the camellia bush below my bedroom window. I didn’t kill him, but I did scare the bejeebers out of him. Is that a sin?
The Mockingbird’s Shrill
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413 responses to “The Mockingbird’s Shrill”
JJ: No, it’s not. “They” closed one dorm at Cornell U. and moved us to another, next to a country road with telephone wires just outside our 2nd floor room. Grackle chorus at sunup. emb
“gently relocating” is not sinful –
computer problems here too – perhaps the mockingbirds have got in our equipment and are laughing at us!
Sin would be Ambien in the birdbath, Jimmy.
Hugs for the Village this morning, just because.
Doesn’t give you any thrill? Listening to the trill of the mockingbirds song?
Who sang that? Now it’s going through my mind on rewind!
However, emb, shooting grackles is a Public Service. :O)
After decades of observation, if you want to attract grackles, French fries is the way to go. They love them some French fries.
With reference to today’s retro, Arlo should be grateful he is not being dive-bombed by said mockingbird.
Perhaps what is REALLY disconcerting Arlo is that he can understand what the mockingbird is SAYING:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2007/04/09
Using a colon will save you a lot of time.
Let me demonstrate, regarding my first post above.
“After decades of observation: if you want to attract grackles, French fries is the way to go. They love them some French fries.”
See? Now you won’t have to observe grackles for decades before you attract them.
Dangling participles kill or injure thousands each year. Don’t be one of them! :/
Here’s a fun, happy story:
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/04/287078-identical-brides-walk-aisle-gown-leaving-three-nervous-grooms-seeing-triple/
My family is thrilled by this news:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/muppets-revived-at-abc-big-786193
What Arlo should have gotten Janis.
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/20-PR-4712P
Note the color…and the fact it comes with TWO keys.
Hugs back, Denise.
(Note: Not linked to my above post in any way. 🙂 )
Thought for the Day: If life deals you lemons, make lemonade. If life deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.
Jackie: Patti Page sang “Mockin’ Bird Hill” – or, was it “Mockingbird Hill”?
And, of course, let us not forget those three geniuses of physical comedy who used “Listen to the Mockingbird” as their theme!
Obviously I caused JJS computer. To detect suspicious pst, I used three obscure words in one post about starting over a new life every decade with panache. And yes, I really talk and think like this. No script, no reservations and the mic open on stage.
My financial advisor blessed me with a wistful voice tone. But someone has to be responsible for those of us who fly without a parachute.
Panache, not so much, but I do try to progress with verve, sometimes bordering on élan.
Come to think of it, almost all of my flying was done without a parachute. And I have an excellent alibi for the week of September 14-20, 1986.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19860919&id=PmgeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LMkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3803,5490983&hl=en
Now you got by with it, Ghost! The three obscure and seldom used words. I guess it was the crashed plane?
Like me and the two drowned drug dealers and the brief case of money in my boat slip?
Seriously, I am going home to spend weekend chucking out too big clothing to thin out closets. I need smaller sizes, so hopefully there are some stored? Who knows..
Lunch report in Marshall.TX at my favorite place, Cajuntex. I ordered an oyster poboy and promptly cackled it lunch special of grilled fish and srimp, vegs. Too much riding on losing weight to eat poboys. That’s an epiphany.
cxp: Mockin’ Bird Hill – Loved the song!
Page Patti – Mockin’ Bird Hill Lyrics
Artist: Page Patti
Mockin’ Bird Hill
Tra-la-la, twiddly-dee-dee
It gives me a thrill
To wake up in the morning to the mockingbird’s trill
Tra-la-la, twiddly-dee-dee
There’s peace and goodwill
You’re welcome as the flowers on Mockin’ Bird Hill
When the sun in the morning
Peeps over the hill,
And kisses the roses ’round my windowsill
Then my heart fills with gladness
When I hear the trill
Of the birds in the treetops on Mockin’ Bird Hill
Tra-la-la, twiddly-dee-dee
It gives me a thrill
To wake up in the morning to the mockingbird’s trill
Tra-la-la, twiddly-dee-dee
There’s peace and goodwill
You’re welcome as the flowers on Mockin’ Bird Hill
When it’s late in the evening,
I climb up the hill
And survey all my kingdom while everything’s still
Only me and the sky — and an old whippoorwill
Singin’ songs in the twilight on Mockin’ Bird Hill
Tra-la-la, twiddly-dee-dee
It gives me a thrill
To wake up in the morning to the mockingbird’s trill
Tra-la-la, twiddly-dee-dee
There’s peace and goodwill
You’re welcome as the flowers on Mockin’ Bird Hill
Tra-la-la, twiddly-dee-dee
There’s peace and goodwill
You’re welcome as the flowers on Mockin’ Bird Hill
Trucker Ron: The Muppets Variety Show would be great fun!
Trucker Ron, that news thrills me, too.
Ghost, I do like pink.
Not much going on; nap. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Denise, I suspected that. (Even if I did throw in that disclaimer. 😉 )
“…the two drowned drug dealers and the brief case of money in my boat slip”, Jackie? Too bad John D. MacDonald is no longer living. He could use that as the plot for another Travis McGee novel, where the cash was hidden and smuggled away in the heroine’s lingerie. Titled “Monies in Black Undies”, perhaps? (That’s one color he didn’t get around to using in a title.)
Ghost: Too bad there isn’t a “like” button, so…. 😉