Good Morning!
Today’s header photo is from Donna.
On this day in 1780 Charleston, South Carolina fell to British forces.
In 1885, in the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.
In 1932 the infant body of Charles and Anna Lindbergh’s son was found just a few miles from the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, NJ.
And in 1943 the Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.
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Quote of the Day
“You can observe a lot by just watching.”
Yogi Berra
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Today is composer Gabriel-Urbain Faure’s birthday.
And it’s Steve Winwood’s too.
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Wandering Views 
Morning y’all. A pleasant Monday here. My principal finally came in to observe me teach. so glad that it is over. I was told two weeks ago that they would observe that week, so have been waiting.
Enjoy your Monday.
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tricky, it would not allow me to post as there was no post button so I had to copy my post and try again. It worked!!
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FYI,
When it does what it did to Jo, just click the comment box and hit enter. That usually fixes that little glitch and then the post comment button shows up. That’s what I did Sat. when I had that problem and it fixed it.
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Pelican! I’ve only seen the white ones “in the wild.”
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But I did get to see–and photograph–Baltimore orioles yesterday, both male and female. Since I’d only seen the male once in my life, I didn’t know if I’d ever get a chance at that species. But I went out to photograph the neighbor’s apple trees in bloom, and in the cottonwood above me was a pair of orioles. The apple blossoms had to wait. 🙂
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Cheryl, I liked the card you made and showed as your avatar. Very special!
Somehow pelicans relate in my mind to be like military birds on mission and seagulls make me think of small planes out for sightseeing tours. Nice photo, Donna.
Jo, glad observation day turned out okay. Sometimes children will be on best behavior when a new person is in their midst and other times they might be the opposite. I imagine your children were good for the visit.
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Good morning everyone.
Back to the ol’ routine now.
That’s good.
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Baltimore Orioles?
Never been a fan….. 🙂
Oh, you meant the birds…. Those are nice. I like the color choices. 🙂
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Our orioles just came back. I haven’t seen a pair together yet this year, but at our bird feeder I saw a female yesterday and a male this morning.
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Enjoyed the Faure, AJ. I never had heard the -Urbain part of his name. 😉
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Forgot to say “Good morning” like I had intended.
Good morning!
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So, AJ- was the surrender of Axis forces in North Africa such a big deal that it gets two mentions?
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Good Morning…yep…we got the foot of snow…and it is still coming down…oh our poor hummingbirds…they are flittering about looking for their breakfast. We brought two feeders inside overnight and put fresh warm nectar in this morning…it was good to see the little fellas had made it through the night…we noticed they were bedding down in the boxwoods. One of them kept hitting the family room window last night…we wanted to open the windows to see if he would come indoors 🙂 Cheryl your card is so beautiful…it does remind me of the Audubon pictures my MIL had framed in her family room…I know your MIL must have been delighted with your gift!
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Seems to me that nancyjill need to move to someplace warm. Like Myrtle Beach.
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Oh the curious Pelican,
His beak can hold more than his belly can
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Batoche National Historic site is quite close to us here. Interesting place – the church doors are amazing. Fancy wood.
No snow for me today! Just a bit of a breeze and sunshine (still quite cold for May, though)
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But nancyjill loves snow. You know it’s way too much when even she grows weary of it. 🙂
That card was a special touch, Cheryl. They’re blessed to have you in their family (and not just for your card-making abilities 🙂 )
It’s warming up out here, supposed to be around 100 by Wednesday, I think, and it’ll even be extra warm at the beach since it’s those desert winds blowing out of the east and pushing back our wonderful, cool marine layer and ocean breeze.
The California brown pelican isn’t endangered — but it does still have ‘protected.’ There have been several instances in recent years of violence against them (shootings, mostly), they’re not popular with fishermen of course. The most recent was someone who put a long slice in a pelican’s pouch with a knife, all the way across from one end to the other. 😦
There’s a reward out on that one ($20,000). The pelican is doing OK but undergoing several surgeries at our local seabird rehabilitation center (which mostly deals with oiled birds and other problems caused by ocean environmental spills — they dispatch teams all over, including to the Gulf Coast).
But back to the pelican, apparently their pouches include several layers and stitching it all up so it’s functional again is quite intricate surgically. But if they don’t have their pouches, they essentially can’t eat. This bird was malnourished when it was picked up so the mauling had probably happened several days earlier by that time.
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Meant to say protected status …
We don’t have a big commercial fishing fleet left anymore, sadly, but there are still a few boats and if you drive by the slip you’ll see the piles of netting with colorful buoys stacked high on the docks — usually with pelicans perched right on top.
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Good Morning, Y’all!
Without searching…Kim’s comment sounds like it must be Ogden Nash!
Also known for:
The panther is like a leopard
Except it hasn’t been peppered
If you should hear the call of a panther
Don’t anther.
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BG gave me The Essential Johnny Cash for Mother’s Day. I was listening to it this morning on the way to a meeting. Since someone said when they think of me they think of music and the South, I thought I would share this with you that explain how we in the South view our homeland. Remember:
American by Birth
Southern by the Grace of God 😉
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Looks like some good songs Kim.
😆 I started to say that I didn’t see “I Walk the Line”. but I saw that it’s the second one.
It’s a neat technique that he changes keys for each verse. I’ve never seen that before.
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Kids having fun. Mumsee needs one of these.
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Diatomaceous earth! – I think of Mumsee when I see that at the garden centre! It works really well for keeping the carpenter ants out of our house 🙂
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I want a bouncing goat! 🙂
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Great photo, Donna. Makes me homesick . . .
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Something I read today reminded me of a funny play on words I’d seen in an old yearbook of my mom’s. Under the picture of the principal of her high school was the caption, “It’s not school that’s bad; it’s the principal of the thing.” 🙂
Since no one has proposed a QoD, how about this: What play on words do you enjoy? Or, better yet, make one up!
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OK, maybe I shouldn’t ask questions on Mondays. 😉
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Kind of hard to play on words when they are abstract representations of thoughts. (Does that count?)
Re: pelicans- I remember on our last visit to Puerto Rico taking my children out to the beach early in the morning. The fishermen were just bringing in the nets, and there were dozens of pelicans lining the beach. The fishermen would toss them any fish that were too small or non-salable. Fun to watch, especially for children from the Midwest who never get to see such things.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps,
cross- eyed mosquitoes and bow-legged ants,
I stand here before you, directly behind you,
to tell you a story I know nothing about.
Early one morning, in the middle of the night,
two dead boys got up to fight.
back to back, they faced each other,
pulled out their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
and came and killed the two dead boys.
If you don’t believe this story is true,
ask the blind man. He saw it, too.
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I didn’t know abstract representations of thoughts knew how to to count. 😉
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Kim 🙂
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Hoping for better sleep tonight…last night was pretty hit and miss, more miss than anything. To bed at 11:00 something, as usual. Awake at 12:34. Toss and turn a while. Get up and read online. Send a reply email to a friend who’d emailed two hours earlier. Go to bed again at 2:00. Fall asleep to the sound of thunder, and a brilliant light show outside my bedroom windows.
Wake up. Dark outside, and perfect stillness. Toss and turn. Get hungry. Don’t feel like getting up — I just want to sleep already!
Lie there some more, still hungry. Ask myself, what are you DOING? You just spent $405 at the grocery store today!! Go get something to eat!
Drag my tired body to the kitchen. Clock says 3:11. Grab a bag of gluten-free pretzels, walk to the living room, sit down on the couch. Try not to munch and crunch too loudly — those pretzels are harder than the gluten-filled variety — so that I don’t wake all the upstairs sleepers. 😉
Back to bed at 4:00. Blissful sleep until 7:00. Ahh!!
Tonight I’m aiming for more than three consecutive quality hours. 🙂
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Kim – Lee has often spouted that same “story”.
Where is it from? He also often says, ” ‘I see’ said the blind man to the deaf dog in the dark.”
Another one he has often said is…”It was a dark & stormy night, & the men said, ‘Tell us a story, Joe’. So Joe begins to tell them a story, saying, ‘It was a dark & stormy night, & the men said, ‘Tell us a story, Joe’. So Joe begins to tell them a story, saying, ‘It was a dark & stormy night, & the men said, ‘Tell us a story, Joe’. So Joe begins to tell them a story…”
I may not have quoted that exactly, but it is very close.
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Karen, that reminds me of what my father says: ‘”I see,” said the blind man. So, he picked up his hammer and saw.’
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He also tells ‘dark and stormy night’ story. Only he adds a line:
“It was a dark and stormy night,
Two men went out to fight.
One said to the other,
“Tell us a story, Bill.”
So Bill said…” and so on.
Perhaps it is a generational thing. My father quotes all kinds of quips he picked up from his days in school, like the plaint against Latin:
“Latin is a dead language,
Dead as it can be.
It killed all the Romans,
and now it’s killing me!”
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“I see” said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw, to the deaf mute as he picked up his wheel and spoke.
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That can’t be a politically correct joke.
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In childhood when I asked Mom to tell a story, she always told this one (never another, as far as I can remember):
“It was a dark and stormy night, and we were all seated around the campfire, when somebody said, ‘Antonio, Antonio, tell us one of your best stories.’ So Antonio began: ‘It was a dark and stormy night, and we were all seated around the campfire, when somebody said, “Antonio, Antonio, tell us one of your best stories.” ‘ ” Obviously she never got very far before we stopped her, and didn’t ask again for a while. I think she preferred that we read our stories. . . .
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We learned it from the Boy Scouts. They are politically correcter now.
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Donna, did you know you have an endangered dandelion?
“Many dandelion species spread from their native soil, as this hardy plant propagates easily. However, some have stayed rooted in their home countries. As its name implies, the endangered California dandelion – Taraxacum californicum – grows only in California, usually in wetlands.”
Please be careful when you weed.
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/dandelion-varieties-25744.html
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I did not know that.
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Hello, Jo. Are you visiting with us about now?
Are you reading some good books now? Do you do Goodreads? It’s a great site to post what you”ve read, are reading and wanna read. If you join, please friend me, Janice S. Garey. 🙂
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First chore of the day, change out litter box and get bag out to the street for garbage pickup. Check! Good way to start the day having the worst over.
Rest of the day will be sweet. 🙂
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Mmmm…dandelion fritters, dandelion salad,dandelion boiled greens, dandelion coffee, dandelion root vegetables, dandelion soup, dandelion wine…..
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Interesting food and drink out in MumseeLand.
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