Thursday, January 26, 2006
You told me not to drive
...but I made it home alive, so you said that only proves that I'm insane....
Definitely right, no "may be" about it!
But here I am, happy and exhausted from my Me-day vacation. Not that it was perfect--such things seldom are. I got away from the house a couple hours later than I'd hoped, for instance. But that meant I met up with someone toting around the CUTEST red and white Basset puppy named Boo, and got to woofle her. (And no, the owner isn't "trav'lin' and a-livin' off the land." He's the local Fish and Wildlife guy.) It was minus to plus like that all day.
Very nice weather, we didn't get the suggested rain or snow. However, I WAS driving directly into a west wind that was not kind to my fuel economy (and it had QUIT by the time I headed home!). But the nice weather made it comfortable and easy for me to get some special train shots for Mike. (Beware of pic post tomorrow!)
Whenever we go through Las Animas, we always stop at their library, which has a year round mini book sale. Alas, today they were closed. Then when I grabbed some lunch in La Junta, not only did the KFC NOT have honey BBQ wings (OMGWTFnoBBQ!), they overcharged me for what I DID get and I didn't catch on until too late.
Wah, poor me, two minuses in a row. But then I got up the road to this thrift shop we hit now and then...and way on the top shelf of their books was a copy of "The Gray Walls of Hell", a Colorado based prison bio, which goes for around $75. (I remembered it as $100, but that's okay, one of the other books I found goes for over $30, so my Benjamin-happy was unsullied!)
Something else I did at the thrift shop which I NEVER do was look through the stash of old LPs. We don't even have a record player right now, and it's not one of my areas of expertise, so there's no real reason to do so. Yet I did buy a really old Sesame Street one we had back when Damaris and Sterling were little, because it had "Five Monsters in Our Family" and I wanted to hear it again. Someday. When I get a stereo again. (OH, and it has "I, Grover", and "Monster Lullaby" too!)
After I had made contact with my CONNECTION and SCORED the b-flute (does that sound dramatic and exciting at all? It is hard to make buying rolls of corrugated cardboard for packing and mailing sound Edgy and Dangerously Cool), I drove around Pueblo for a while, trying to remember where some of the thrift shops were. Happily, I stumbled across a Salvation Army before I could manage to get totally lost.
Inside I found myself looking at more LPs in the way I never do. "What the heck?" I wondered to myself. "Why am I doing this? What am I looking for?"
And then there it was. Just sitting there waiting for me.
See, a couple of weeks ago, when I made a music CD of kids' songs for a friend, Mike helped and wanted his own copy. He was playing it and Caro recognized one of the songs, Halfway Down the Stairs. This particular cover was by Robin of the Muppet Show, but as she and I talked, we realized we had both been exposed to the musical version of poems from A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young, well, when we were very young. I think for me it was my first or second grade classroom, and hers was earlier yet.
Since we were both too young and innocent back then to know performers' or record companies' names, naturally this made Googling it a little tricky. Also, way too many hits came back for either the actual BOOK or the SONG book, which has the printed version of the music (by H. Fraser-Simson).
Anyway, Caro is going to borrow a record player from school so we can play the one I bought to see if it is THE one for either of us. And even if not, hey, it's Carol Channing doing them! So what could be bad?
Also, I found another album no one reading this but me, my mom and my sister would recognize at all, but WOW, Mom, you are going to be so surprised (once I mail it)!
And then I only got lost a little bit and took a couple wrong turns (which helped me get a few more good train shots), and I found BBQ wings (and gizzards! and Cheezits!) at the King Soopers, and I bought a large Blue Raspberry Freeze at Dairy Queen, and gas was 4 cents cheaper a gallon than in Lamar, AND I saw three propeller-type airplanes (like the WWII kind you see at air shows) flying around overhead as I drove home.
So the pluses definitely won the day!
Definitely right, no "may be" about it!
But here I am, happy and exhausted from my Me-day vacation. Not that it was perfect--such things seldom are. I got away from the house a couple hours later than I'd hoped, for instance. But that meant I met up with someone toting around the CUTEST red and white Basset puppy named Boo, and got to woofle her. (And no, the owner isn't "trav'lin' and a-livin' off the land." He's the local Fish and Wildlife guy.) It was minus to plus like that all day.
Very nice weather, we didn't get the suggested rain or snow. However, I WAS driving directly into a west wind that was not kind to my fuel economy (and it had QUIT by the time I headed home!). But the nice weather made it comfortable and easy for me to get some special train shots for Mike. (Beware of pic post tomorrow!)
Whenever we go through Las Animas, we always stop at their library, which has a year round mini book sale. Alas, today they were closed. Then when I grabbed some lunch in La Junta, not only did the KFC NOT have honey BBQ wings (OMGWTFnoBBQ!), they overcharged me for what I DID get and I didn't catch on until too late.
Wah, poor me, two minuses in a row. But then I got up the road to this thrift shop we hit now and then...and way on the top shelf of their books was a copy of "The Gray Walls of Hell", a Colorado based prison bio, which goes for around $75. (I remembered it as $100, but that's okay, one of the other books I found goes for over $30, so my Benjamin-happy was unsullied!)
Something else I did at the thrift shop which I NEVER do was look through the stash of old LPs. We don't even have a record player right now, and it's not one of my areas of expertise, so there's no real reason to do so. Yet I did buy a really old Sesame Street one we had back when Damaris and Sterling were little, because it had "Five Monsters in Our Family" and I wanted to hear it again. Someday. When I get a stereo again. (OH, and it has "I, Grover", and "Monster Lullaby" too!)
After I had made contact with my CONNECTION and SCORED the b-flute (does that sound dramatic and exciting at all? It is hard to make buying rolls of corrugated cardboard for packing and mailing sound Edgy and Dangerously Cool), I drove around Pueblo for a while, trying to remember where some of the thrift shops were. Happily, I stumbled across a Salvation Army before I could manage to get totally lost.
Inside I found myself looking at more LPs in the way I never do. "What the heck?" I wondered to myself. "Why am I doing this? What am I looking for?"
And then there it was. Just sitting there waiting for me.
See, a couple of weeks ago, when I made a music CD of kids' songs for a friend, Mike helped and wanted his own copy. He was playing it and Caro recognized one of the songs, Halfway Down the Stairs. This particular cover was by Robin of the Muppet Show, but as she and I talked, we realized we had both been exposed to the musical version of poems from A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young, well, when we were very young. I think for me it was my first or second grade classroom, and hers was earlier yet.
Since we were both too young and innocent back then to know performers' or record companies' names, naturally this made Googling it a little tricky. Also, way too many hits came back for either the actual BOOK or the SONG book, which has the printed version of the music (by H. Fraser-Simson).
Anyway, Caro is going to borrow a record player from school so we can play the one I bought to see if it is THE one for either of us. And even if not, hey, it's Carol Channing doing them! So what could be bad?
Also, I found another album no one reading this but me, my mom and my sister would recognize at all, but WOW, Mom, you are going to be so surprised (once I mail it)!
And then I only got lost a little bit and took a couple wrong turns (which helped me get a few more good train shots), and I found BBQ wings (and gizzards! and Cheezits!) at the King Soopers, and I bought a large Blue Raspberry Freeze at Dairy Queen, and gas was 4 cents cheaper a gallon than in Lamar, AND I saw three propeller-type airplanes (like the WWII kind you see at air shows) flying around overhead as I drove home.
So the pluses definitely won the day!
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