Good Morning!
Today’s photos are from Cheryl.
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On this day in 1647 Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a “witch.” It was the first recorded American execution of a “witch.”
In 1919 a U.S. Navy seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight.
In 1931 Piccard and Knipfer made the first flight into the stratosphere by balloon.
And in 1986 Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha. The ship sank in the 17th century.
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Quote of the Day
“Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.”
Peter Marshall
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Today is Don Williams’ birthday.
And it’s Derek Webb’s too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAnBBxpQAeY&feature=player_detailpage
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Wandering Views 
Well good morning everyone. I am working from home for a little while this morning before heading to the beach to work more.
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Good Morning!
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And I found this little nugget to share on Milk (that is the music app on my Android phone). Another one I had never heard but with the title and subject matter I had to give it a listen and share it with you. LOL
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Nobody says “hush your mouth” anymore.
Only women said that, usually as a harmless and jocular answer to a compliment.
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Ah, my killdeer family. The photo in the middle is two of the chicks, nearly adult. You can see why from a distance they are hard to tell from the adults, but they are still slightly smaller, they’re fuzzier, they start out with just one stripe and the ones in this picture (you probably can’t see it at this size) have two stripes at the sides but where it dips down in the middle it’s still just one, and also their tails are a few individual stumpy feathers rather than a smooth adult tail. But until I zoomed in, all I could see was that I had five killdeer, and I couldn’t see which ones were youngsters. (As Donna pointed out last week, you can enlarge a photo by clicking on it; when you do that on the middle picture, you can see they are cute fuzzy adolescents.)
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The bottom photo: apparently a killdeer’s biggest danger is from the air, from a hawk, and periodically you see them look up, even the chicks. When they are feeding, they run from place to place (the adult in the top photo is starting to run and also calling its “kill-deer” call), but they need to know if it’s time to take to the air and escape. With their long legs and long wings, even though they feed on the ground in the open, I imagine they have a speed advantage over most predators as long as they see it before it is upon them.
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Chas, I always heard, “Hush your little mouth.” But have not heard it in a long time. In Sunday school sometimes the teachers might say, “Ssshhhh!” One lead teacher said that was a “No-no!” It was the ending sound of hush, but maybe she took it as something else. I only just now realized that.
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I have a swollen gland behind my ear. I am not sure why. I will be waiting to see what happens about that. It has been a long time since that has happened.
We will have to see if son’s car is in a flooded parking lot when he returns to TX. He thinks Atlanta weather has been nice. It did rain yesterday after several cool and pleasant days.
Nice bird shots! I do want to get your e-book sometime, Cheryl, when I am caught up on other books. I want to give friends books plenty of time to fully enjoy.
We need more reviewers at bookfun.org so I don’t feel I need to take so many to review. Some are ebooks or PDF for anyone outside the USA.
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Janice – “Sshhhhh” was considered a no-no? That is a very common way to tell/ask someone to be quiet.
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Rather than “Shut your mouth”,, most women would say, “now hush”.
What did men say?
I never heard a man say something about a comment. If he did, he would more likely assault the character of the speaker in some way.
When commotion would get too loud, my dad would shout: “Shut Up!”
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All this hushing and sshhhh-ing, I feel like I’ve stumbled into an episode of the Andy Griffith Show.
Those birds always look like they’re wearing little sweaters. 🙂
I think I’ll try to start my pill bug story today — the new species someone from the Natural History Museum says was discovered on our shoreline recently.
Editors are gone again this week to accept the Pulitzer in NY.
We now have 2 full-time college interns for the summer, which will be a big help in the newsroom. No more new rumors on who might buy us.
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At least one robin fledged yesterday, and at least two more today. What I know is we had one on our back fence yesterday, which after several hours flew to the tree. We have one on the back fence again today, in a better location to get photos (on the top rail rather than the middle, and not on the other side of the fence wires and tall grasses). I went out earlier to get a couple of photos of him from the front yard (figuring it would distress the parents too much if I went into the backyard to get photos, but I could get a good angle from the front), and one parent came and stood watch over the baby, even apparently crowding it against the railing for a while to make sure it was between me and the baby. (I wasn’t anywhere close to the birds.) But I saw they have another baby on the ground, in the flowerbed in front of the neighbors’ house, and I was actually closer to that baby. I’m guessing if I’d gone a yard closer, I’d have been warned and maybe dive-bombed by an angry parent–robins are very protective of their young.
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Our hawk is back, he appears in the neighborhood every year around this time, cackling loudly as he flies from a tree in the canyon across the street to a tree somewhere behind me, back and forth, every morning, loudly.
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Baby Girl slept all yesterday and last night. I just got a message from her dad that he was home to check on her and she was fine. Mothers always worry.
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Glad she’s feeling better, Kim
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off on a driving excursion that will culminate with me meeting the first member of the Wandering Views clan in a few days
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How exciting. Who is meeting up?
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Michelle (if you come around today) –
I just got around to commenting on your Facebook post from a few days ago, about the moral ambiguity of The Music Man. (For those who didn’t see it, the point was that Harold Hill was a con man who seemed to make fun of virtue, such as in the song, “The Sadder But Wiser Girl for Me”, but we see him as the protagonist.)
Anyway, one commenter (your DIL, I believe?) mentioned Curious George as disobeying The Man in the Yellow Hat, & then being rewarded for doing “good” when he straightens out whatever he did.
In case you don’t see it, my comment was this”
“[Her] comment about Curious George came back to me as I was watching a couple episodes with my grandson (we’ve read some of the books, too). To me, it seems not so much a case of George purposely disobeying The Man in the Yellow Hat, as misunderstanding what he should do, or seeing something done in one situation, & then trying to apply that to another, where it doesn’t work.”
Anyone else familiar with Curious George want to comment on this?
And how about the Captain Underpants books? Some people want them banned from schools.
Sorry for introducing such a heavy, deep subject matter. 😉
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Captain Underpants? I’m clearly missing something in the culture.
Anyone remember the really old TV show, “Waterfront,” starring Preston Foster that was set in the area where I live (and the area I also cover)?
John Herrick was the captain of the tug “Cheryl Ann” in Los Angeles harbor. His family consisted of wife May, police detective son Jim, and the crew of the tug, his son Carl, Tip and Willie. Carl was engaged to Terry. The stories revolved around the family and various criminals encountered around the harbor.
– Written by J.E. McKillop
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046660/plotsummary
I need to find some reruns of that or watch it online. 🙂
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Cheryl, I have many pleasant memories of killdeers. When my middle daughter was about 8, she caught one of the young ones. Almost 20 years later one of her daughters caught one. I have pictures somewhere. We spent lots of time watching the little family in the pasture. And yes, both times the chicks returned unharmed to his parents.
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KarenO, I have watched Curious George on TV at my daughters. I find him to be a very naughty and destructive monkey. I enjoyed reading the books to my children, but am not so much a fan of the show. There are never any consequences to his actions. A show that I do like is Thomas the Tank Engine. It encourages them to be “really useful”. They have all sorts of adventures, but things like kindness, obedience, helpfulness, and taking responsibility for your actions are emphasized. Plus, my youngest grandson is Sir Topham Hatt’s twin. 🙂 🙂
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If you don’t watch Fox News, you will not understand this. But:
I would be a lot more impressed by Greg Gutfeld’s ability to walk backward if he looked even a little bit like Gretchen Carlson..
😆
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Chas! 😯
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She’s coming to hear my talk on Oswald Chambers–so I’d better have it finished by Sunday! 🙂
As to Curious George–that was my daughter-in-law commenting–I agree that he was curious, but he did get into a lot of trouble because he didn’t learn how to control himself. I squirmed many times reading the book to my children. Curiosity is one thing, but he left a lot of people to clean up his messes and never seemed to learn.
Harry Potter was another one who was continually threatened with this, that or another punishment–all of which failed to happen despite the really horrible things that went on at Hogwarts.
Are we teaching kids grace this way?
Probably not. 😦
“Hush your mouth,” sounds rude to me. In my mind, I only hear a southern accent. I’ve never heard it used that I can recall–and certainly not to me! LOL.
From Kim today I learned that large structures on the Gulf Coast go through wind tunnel analysis before they are built. Amazing.
In California, of course, they test for earthquake resistance. 🙂
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Around here, people say hush your mouth or shut your face. Either works. 🙂
It’s used more in jest than anything, like in a “shut your face and let me tell it” kinda way. And it is nicer than saying shut up I suppose……
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Jo,
PICTURES PLEASE?!!!! 🙂
Or video even, if it’s allowed…. 🙂
I’d love to hear/see it too. 🙂
If that’s OK with Michelle…..
No pressure Michelle. 🙂
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Chrissy has been reading some Captain Underpants books to Forrest. I haven’t heard any of them all the way through, & I’m not sure how “good” or “bad” George & Harold are, but the writing is very funny & clever.
One of the first things I heard that made me chuckle: The kids go to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. Jerome Horwitz was the real name of Curly Howard of Three Stooges fame. (Yes, this is a fact I know. I know it only because my hubby is a Three Stooges fan. 🙂 )
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I’ve heard black mothers tell their child to “hush your mouth.” Black colloquialisms and food, and southern ones, have a lot of overlap. Overall a good black mom (not the ones who have five kids and no husband, and let their kids raise each other) is a force to be reckoned with, very firm and no-nonsense, knowing she is raising kids in a dangerous culture where there isn’t a lot of safety for kids without common sense and respect for authority, but in a way that isn’t unloving. “Hush your mouth” might be used when a child is about to spill some information that would really embarrass someone, or otherwise just needs to know “not another word from you.” It came across as very firm, but not rude like “shut up.”
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There was a quite lovely black woman in town that had at one time or another kept most of the children in town–not me. Way before whatever show had “Homey, don’t play that” I heard Miss Thelma tell children in her care….THELMA don’t play that!
Thelma would have jerked a knot in Miss BG’s tail a long time ago.
Hush, now
Now, hush
Hush your mouth
are said with a smile. It is soothing to a child who is crying, “Hush, now, Mama’s here”
It is said flirtaciiously, “Now, hush”
It is said when a compliment is received, “Hush your mouth” but you know she really appreciated it.
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Today is “four year old in glasses” ninth birthday. What a blessing he has been.
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Happy Birthday to Nine Year Old in Glasses! 🙂
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I got a ton of pea hen shots tonight. 🙂
But I have no idea how she got up at the reservoir. They ain’t native around here, so she was either dumped or she migrated from a house nearby. Either way, she was pretty, and she was a bug eating fiend, which is nice. 🙂
Seriously, I think she ate like a pound of bugs in the 15 minutes we watched her. She was efficient, that’s for sure. 🙂
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