Hootin' Anni's Day Trippin'

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This week, my show and tell reminds me of Shakespeare's Macbeth--the three witches. Altho, my week's version consists only of TWO.

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First Witch: Round about the cauldron go;
First Witch: Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch: Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Third Witch: Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
All: Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
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I'm always looking toward the heavens. Watching the clouds form, fly swiftly over the treetops, and then disappear or reform into some object that could be familiar to me with using a bit of my imagination!!
The other morning, when I went outdoors to see the colors of sunrise, I spotted the huge formation above our fence-line from the backyard, and sat and watched the crimson glow of the sun's reflection begin to appear! Then, as I looked closer, I could see a witch's face! And naturally, I ran indoors and grabbed the camera, hoping to capture the cloud formation in all its glory, and praying that the 'face' was still there when I returned from indoors with camera in hand!
She was there! Tho her features had changed somewhat, I could still 'pick out' her nose and see the glow of her firey reddish-purple hair tresses blowing in the breezes! Actually, the morning glow on 'her' hair was more vivid than before when I went in to get the camera. And the wart on her long witchy nose was still visible!!

To go back a bit in the time frame, when I went inside so quickly, I told dear hubby that there is a photo op for me, 'cause I could see a witch in the clouds! And after I loaded the photo on the computer, he wanted to see it. So, as he looked at the photo, I asked him if he could see the witch! Yes, he could, he said!! But, now get this, he saw a whole DIFFERENT witch than I! So, in one photo, one cloud, there were two witches. Granted, with his vision of the witch, you gotta use more of imagination, but it's still there!! This photo to the left [the 2nd one down] is a version of the same photo above, of the witch I saw right away. This is the one that inspired me to fetch my camera. Outlined in black.

And this is the one hubby saw while viewing the same -the first photo; the 2nd witch!! Outlined in black of course...and his witch is laying face up.

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Appetizer
Say there’s a book written about your life. Who would you want to narrate the audio version?

Probably myself. Who else would know when and where, in each and every sentence, which words and phrases to emphasize, but me?!! I'm the only one who'd know the emotional drifts and the laughable sections. Oh and the title would be Hootin' Anni's Hoedown! rofl


Soup
Take the letters from your favorite kind of nut and write a sentence. (Example: Perhaps every avenue needs understanding today.)

Y'all don't know how many times I've started a sentence and got 'writer's block' and had to start over!! Let's see, that is Y-D-K-H-M-T-I-S-A-S-A-G-W-B-A-H-T-S-O.........nope, no such nut. So, I try again: Put every card away, NOW!! [pecan]

Salad
If you could go back in time and spend one week in another decade, which decade would you choose?

Just a week? How could I learn what I want to learn in just a week? I best get crackin' then, huh? I think the decade would be [don't look so shocked!] 1526-1536. Reason is this era has always fascinated me. I would like to be in England and be able to live first hand a life in the royal England with the King's court. And know what Anne Boleyn was really like for the seven days I'd get -BEFORE the beheading of course. Not just what I read in books, or see on movies...the REAL lady.


Main Course
Name a song that brings back memories for you.

Oh so many! The one that comes to mind right now is "You Are My Sunshine". An oldie, but goodie. I'm talkin' ancient. I used to sing this to our daughter when she was a newborn, a small baby. She used to giggle and coo when I'd sing it. I continued to sing it to her when she'd be hurt from a tumble or a bruise and crying about it...it always made her brighten up some and smile or giggle. I still hum it when I think of her --she's now miles and miles away from me, living her own life. So, I don't get a chance to sing it to her anymore. "...you make me happy when skies are gray. You never know dear, how much I love you...."

And right now, thinking about songs and memories, I also dream of my OWN youth and my parents when I hear a classic "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand. "...so it's the laughter we will remember, whenever we remember, the way we were!"


Dessert
Do you prefer to wash your hands in cold water or warm water?

By far, warm water. Cold water wouldn't clean as well as warm. In all honesty, it'd much prefer HOT. But that wasn't a choice. [Ya, back in the 16th century king's court, I could BOIL the water to make it hot!!!]