Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Ah ...

I've mentioned my parents love of radio a couple of times, their administration of music old, and relatively new to the general public on community radio stations.

I would make the usual faces at the thought of having to listen to another one of these music cueing sessions, the chance of being sucked into that same void that seemed to dominate my parents world... Edith Piaf, Glenn Miller,  any kind of country music and most definately those original vintage music recordings my dad avidly collected, that only about 1000 years ago were themselves played on a gramophone. 
So imagine my surprise, when I realized that my attempted avoidance of  hearing any of that kind of music while I was growing up backfired and I began singing The Witch Doctor song yesterday... you know, Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Ah.

These are songs I never thought in a million years, I would have remembered, songs I put so much effort into not knowing about.  Songs and particularly this one, that probably might have stayed buried in my subconscious had it not been for a story my oldest wrote with a character called King Alla Walla Squish Squash of the Volcano, (really, I have no idea) which reminded me instantly of The Witch Doctor.. its a BFF thing, apparently.  The story that is, which is another story in itself I think.

Then passing such songs on to my children - songs originating in the 50's, when my parents were growing up, a song that might normally cause a similar reaction as mine in my teen years, or at least an eye roll, for goodness sakes, but instead, my girls got an unexpected kick out of my sudden launch into music history when I began singing. I did not expect it to delight them, my girls at all. 

They started singing it too! 

After mention of it by my youngest, and of course as a parent who was suddenly considered cool, I was determined to get every dimes worth out of this baby, promptly looked it up on you tube, which both entertained and further delighted said girls! Shocker!
Incidently, everything imaginable seems to be on You Tube, so no surprise this song was there also.  After all, it has been immortilized by Alvin and the Chipmunks.


Enjoy! :D

To Love... {a slight spin off the traditional..

"Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near..."
                                                                 E.E Cummings

Where have you travelled, that you have truely loved?  A place that you would go back to in a heartbeat..

 

Who would you go to, if you were to choose one person on earth?

 

If you had one bad experience from which you learned something important, an experience that impacted your life, ulitmately for the better, what would it be?

 

While EE Cummings probably wasn't talking so much about traveling in his poem, it is interesting to ponder questions occasionally that have something to do with your own travels, your own life.  Events and people in your life shape how you choose to love, and why, what you learn, and what you believe, where you fit...

 

Would you choose a villa in Tuscany, the desert, the mountains, soaring in a plane across the wetlands or sitting on a porch in the country...

 

For me, its the middle of nowhere, the country, the Outback, Arizona... the colors, the peace, the history.. totally the history - flashing back to my fossil finds some years ago.  I am very comfortable just digging stuff up with not much else around... 

 

Why do you love that place?  that person?  and why did that event or crisis help you grow? Ultimately, its these things in life that are really part of who we are, what we are passionate about.  Consequently, its this love we pass onto others. 

 

Happy Valentines Day. 

Snow in Texas

exaggeration warning ahead - necessary wind up introduction to reproduce current citizen enthusiasm.

There are certain things that happen in life that cause great excitement among the population. 

The invention of the camera, the theory of gravity, you get the idea...

We here in the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex experienced the same such excitement.. Ok, well.. maybe not quite that much excitement but excitement none the less.

We have snow.  Not just snow, but   S N O W ... 10"! 

Now of course people in the northern and midwestern parts of the country, and probably (just guessing here) the north and south poles and possibly Iceland, Greenland, Finland and Mt Kosciusco, are all more than aware that snow falls in abundance, on a regular basis, in Winter.... well, yahhh.. course, right?

However, this is Texas.  And I may be mistaken but I had been under this huge impression (just to prove I was paying attention) when I moved from Iowa to well, here, that snow was just a tad unusual. 
Other areas got 11 or so inches, not bad for here. 

The Longhorns at the Texas Ranch, I do not believe used the word delightful, yesterday.  They just looked annoyed.  I do not know what their opinion might be today, but guessing it might be a little of the same. 

Molly loved it.  She loved it yesterday, but this morning it was right up to her belly, and she flounced and played in the stuff until she ran completely out of energy, and once tuckered out, she actually brought herself home.  Believe me, that is not one, but two outstanding feats right there. 

Yep, by afternoon yesterday, in a this school district, kids knew they would be home today, they had already made a new best friend, the National Weather Service.  By late afternoon, winter weather warnings confirmed a snow day. 

Some parents may have wept.  I'm not sure.

Yesterday, the same street was sporting a little snow, but the roads were clean, traffic was running along smoothly.  

Course this is relatively important, because here in Texas, they sand, not salt. And it seems that sand is in limited supply, simply because we don't normally get mini ice ages here. 

And there you have it.  Snow in Texas.  The roads have cleared a bit since this morning.  I stayed home, the youngest saturated her clothes several times while playing outside.  Its one of those times I wished we still had snow gear.