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I've been trying to keep myself busy and trying not to go stir crazy by being cooped up in the house the past few days. I know it's my fault in some ways...I could've ventured outdoors and walked in the cold winds, and damp air...without seeing any sun for days. But I just couldn't get my mojo in gear any way, shape, or form. And besides, I'm still nursing the cough I've had for weeks!!!  Wednesday it was warming up, but again no venturing outdoors 'cause it was a drizzly rainy kinda day. If I get too wet, I begin to melt. I don't want that. So, again, I stayed indoors like a hermit or a hibernating bear. But today, Thursday and the next day...it is promising to be much warmer AND dryer!! Altho, that remains to be seen since it's spitting rain right now at around 5 a.m.

So, let's see what have I done to entertain myself? 1] Reading Petra's Legacy some, 2] baking -- I had some day old french bread that I whipped into bread pudding. We topped it off with vanilla yogurt after we warmed it in the microwave. 3] Bud and I bought a new card game to wile away the hours, 5 Crowns. Have you ever heard of this game? We didn't. But heck, it was something new. We usually spend some winter days playing scrabble or Gin Rummy. This 5 crowns is a fast game, and I'm winning on the average of 5 out of 6 games against Bud. Can't be all that bad, now, can it? 4] I did another pencil sketch after watching the DVD of the Broadway's CATS. I love that program. Grizella I can associate with in so many ways..."I was beautiful then..." in my memories. But, in all honesty, I like the character Jemima the best. She IS beautiful in looks AND in voice. So, after watching the video I drew Jemima from my own memory!!! That was the beginning of the week that I finally finished it. Now it's near the ending of the week, and 5] I began another sketch. This sketch I've been wanting to do for almost two decades. I begged my daughter, Irene, to send me a photo of my first grandson while they were staying at Clint's [grandson] great grandmother's house. There is a long story to his life; born with Down Syndrome, open heart surgery at the age of 5 months, and all specialists and pediatricians and cardiologists told Irene and Dan that Clint would probably not live to see his sixth year. Well, miracles do happen and he is our miracle child...he will be 25 this May. I truly, TRULY think he has some special connection with his Maker. Prayers are answered.

As I type this post out for publishing, I am hoping we can go somewhere, do something, watch for birds, travel around the islands and maybe go to lunch and enjoy being away from the four walls we call home. It seems that it's been way too long. I know we were out Sunday morning, but it was cut short with the storm that moved in. --- I can hardly wait to get out in the yard and get my flowers worked over, trimmed, and blooming again. Did I mention how dreary it's been? We have even talked about moving to Hawai'i!! LOL

Okay, so as I mentioned, the sketch. Of Jemima from Broadway's CATS. Here she is from beginning to completion...

Then, to round out the day's post I thought I'd share some funnies for laughs of current events [Colorado's legalizing mara-gee-wienie -- I've been seeing the word of the day/year on a lot of blogs, so I decided to show you MY word choice...Marageewienie, aka GRASS, reefer, marijuana. I'd prefer the wienie!! Kinda synonymous to Rocky Mountain HIGH] and weather. Laughter afterall, is good, yes? These images are NOT mine, I claim no possession of them in my name...they are from emails I've received from family and friends and the copyrights do not belong to me...

...hoping to be outdoors for most of the day after sunrise, I bid you happy day!!!

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§ Pure Imagination...

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...a meme where you match photos to song lyrics

Song You Tube Link: HERE
From Willie Wonka [Gene Wilder singing]...what better way to 'depict' this song than to use the imagination of movie makers? All but the play, "Cats" these are toys in my movie room. :o)







[Spoken]
Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three

[my hand]

- - -

[Sung]
Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination






Movie: CARS









Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination






Movie: KUNG FU PANDA








We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation








MOVIE: CORPSE BRIDE












If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanna change the world?






Movie: ALIEN








There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination






Movie: SHREK









Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be









Movie: ALICE IN WONDERLAND











If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it








Play [harbor playhouse theater]: CATS












Wanna change the world?
There's nothing
To it




SILENT MOVIE STAR: Sir Charles Spencer aka: Charlie Chaplin

§ ...I know what happiness is!!

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...a meme where you match photos to song lyrics






Daylight

See the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses whither away

Like the sunflower
I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day . . .

Midnight

Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I [she-my mom] was beautiful then

I remember the time I knew what happiness was

Let the memory live again
.....

Look
A new day has begun





FROM THE BROADWAY MUSICAL "CATS" Link to Memory [incredible artwork]

PHOTO CREDIT: Top to bottom: Sunrise over Newport Beach Access Road [sand dunes] - Patented "Tamora Rose" in our yard - Our city skyline at night - My mom in the late 30's - Me, in Hawai'i - "A new day has begun" over the Gulf of Mexico [Mustang Island]


PS....MOM, over at Madi and Mom's place is working her LAST day before calling it quits...permanently. Go over and wish her a happy retirement beginning April 1st. Well, actually her happy days begin this afternoon when she 'punches the clock' for the last time.

For Heads or Tails [Ruby Tuesday found below this] we have a choice of wear or where...

So....

I choose 'where' since I can make a more personal blog with the subject. Guess WHERE we're gonna be one night this week?!! We have tickets to attend the local Harbor Theater's edition/performance of the hit musical, CATS. I'm excited about it too. It happens to be a favorite read of mine when I was a kid. Of course, me being a cat lover, I can't help myself. T.S. Eliot wrote this and had it published in 1939 [boy would I love to have a first edition of this!] The musical is based on his writing. His cat poems are literally...a literary hoot! Y'all have the option of reading it in its entirety online. For instance:

The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore:
When you let him in, then he wants to be out;
He's always on the wrong side of every door,
And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
He likes to lie in the bureau drawer,
But he makes such a fuss if he can't get out.
Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat -
And there isn't any call for you to doubt it:
For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!

OR

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a wonderful way of working together.
And some of the time you would say it was luck, and some of the time you would say it was weather.
They would go through the house like a hurricane, and no sober person could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie - or Rumpelteazer? or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?

And when you heard a dining-room smash
Or up from the pantry there came a loud crash
Or down from the library came a loud ping
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming -
Then the family would say: `Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie! AND Rumpelteazer!' - And there's nothing at all to be done about that!

I remember having this read to me when I was a youngster and how my mom and I used to giggle at all the funny, strange and oh so very true 'antics' of the feline family. All cats have the same instincts and actions...but of course different personalities to go with it. Bud is still trying to figure out what Tahoe's and Winston's 'secret' names are. But he doesn't realize that that is only known to each individual cat....afterall, it's secret. LOL, he just 'don't get it'!! LOL Yes, I have a paperback copy...I'm sure the one my mother had was 'an original, first edition'; I have no idea where it has gone. Who knows. All in all, it was a great tiny book and a favorite of mine. Of course, this is just amateur actors and not even close to Broadway's epic musical...but this will be a treat none-the-less. It's where I'll be. And I WILL be humming the most fabulous song in my head all week long. In fact, there is a 'chapter' of "Memory"...can't wait, can't wait.



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For my Ruby Tuesday this week a photo of an old rusted ship lantern. Bud has it hanging off a ship's line connected to a fence post in our back yard. The 'ruby' part is a couple of bougainvillea brackets. The color/plant is "San Diego Red".



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Posted: July 21st, 2009
12:01 A.M.
NOTE: On the 23rd, my mother would have been 98 this month if she were alive....I will be thinking of her!!