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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 20, 2024 10:57:01 GMT -5
I dreary, chilly day, guess I'll go to Cedar Rapids this afternoon and make some music at the West Music jam. Say hi to Virginia.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 20, 2024 10:50:27 GMT -5
Who is Pharrel Williams?
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 20, 2024 10:46:33 GMT -5
That was funny!
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 19, 2024 13:28:59 GMT -5
Greetings, Doc Froon. Nice to see you back.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 19, 2024 11:41:55 GMT -5
Hey Doc Froon, so glad you're back! Please do stick around!
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 19, 2024 9:05:48 GMT -5
It is no secret that reading increases your vocabulary I would readily agree with that. Being a reader, I come across new and intersting words frequently. When I try to use them, however, they are often mispronounced, for which I am readily corrected. My excuse: I'm a reader, not a speaker. Welcome back, Rockerbob. We'll enjoy having your company again.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 18, 2024 9:54:58 GMT -5
The rain just kept coming down this morning. Living in a drought area, the sound of rain always makes one take pause even though we've had plenty this fall.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 17, 2024 19:55:39 GMT -5
Good things to have. The one I had last fall sent me off on quite an adventure. Slice and dice, cancer scare, cancer un-scare, probes here and there, incisional hernia, scheduled patch job this may upcoming. 70 years of never having spent a day in hospital other than the day I was born, then BOOM! But, I'm alive, happy, and in good shape (relatively speaking), but without that colonoscopy catch, I would be in big trouble. My colonoscopy last December sent me off on quite and adventure as well. But with all said and done, I did walk out with good news. The cancer doctor told me that there is nothing he can do. That freaked me out until he said "You don't have cancer". Whew!
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 17, 2024 19:18:34 GMT -5
If I hadn't read this thread, I wouldn't notice any change in NPR news coverage than what it was before.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 17, 2024 19:15:45 GMT -5
I still have, like many of us do, the Batdorf and Bronson coffee mug. I love the shape of that thing. I'm glad he's still around and doing things.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 16, 2024 18:11:28 GMT -5
Home Alone. Time for some experimental cooking. Italian sausage and gnocchi in tomato sauce, with the requisite garlic, onions, green pepper, and mushrooms; washed down with cheap red wine (cheap red wine also added to the sauce) Sounds like what I made last night, except I used macaroni shells instead of gnoshi. I'm glad it worked because I'll be eating it for the next few days.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 16, 2024 8:58:48 GMT -5
Actually drinking a Monster Energy drink for breakfast. Add a little water. Heat it up in the microwave. Not bad at all. You are kidding, right?
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 15, 2024 10:21:22 GMT -5
Happy birthday, Darryl. I hope you weren't planning on celebrating by skiing around here today. I checked, and all the snow has melted at Sundown.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 14, 2024 11:58:47 GMT -5
I love hawks, and by virtue of living out here am pretty good at identifying them. A red-tailed hawk diving onto a pasture then flying off again with a tree-foot bullsnake is quite a sight to see. On the other hand, as powerful as they are, I've never understood how they allow three or four red-wing blackbirds or other little birds to chase them away through the sky.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 14, 2024 11:53:25 GMT -5
Good late morning all. It's a nice warm sunny day out there, and a good one for me. I'm tired of wearing ill-fitting sweatpants and shorts that I have to keep hiking up all the time; where they cut me open in the abdomen really does a number on getting anything with a waistband to fit without shifting around all the time. This morning I had a stroke of genius. I got out my Santa suit and dug out the suspenders. So today I'm wearing regular shorts like I usually do, and a t-shirt over the suspenders. I am comfortable, I'm not shifting my clothes around all time, and for the first time in a long time I don't look like someone who just got out of the hospital. I feel good!
There's a concert in Garrison this afternoon, Paleo will pick my up and give me a ride.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 13, 2024 13:47:44 GMT -5
Peter Mayer's Everything is Holy Now is a wonderful song an lyric that would go well in a Universality Church. I can state with experience that Presbyterians don't mind it either. When I was a boy, each week On Sunday, we would go to church And pay attention to the priest He would read the holy word And consecrate the holy bread And everyone would kneel and bow Today the only difference is Everything is holy now Everything, everything Everything is holy now When I was in Sunday school We would learn about the time Moses split the sea in two Jesus made the water wine And I remember feeling sad That miracles don t happen still But now I can t keep track Cause everything s a miracle Everything, Everything Everything s a miracle Wine from water is not so small But an even better magic trick Is that anything is here at all So the challenging thing becomes Not to look for miracles But finding where there isn't one When holy water was rare at best It barely wet my fingertips But now I have to hold my breath Like I'm swimming in a sea of it It used to be a world half there Heaven's second rate hand-me-down But I walk it with a reverent air Cause everything is holy now Everything, everything Everything is holy now Read a questioning child s face And say it s not a testament That d be very hard to say See another new morning come And say it s not a sacrament I tell you that it can t be done This morning, outside I stood And saw a little red-winged bird Shining like a burning bush Singing like a scripture verse It made me want to bow my head I remember when church let out How things have changed since then Everything is holy now It used to be a world half-there Heaven's second rate hand-me-down But I walk it with a reverent air Cause everything is holy now Writer(s): Peter Mayer
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 13, 2024 9:42:01 GMT -5
Can you state that poetically?
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 13, 2024 9:39:51 GMT -5
Why do you have to learn this song? The Iowa Ministry of Music is forcing all musicians to learn it. And it can’t be played in G. The Iowa Ministry of Music doesn't realize what a capo can do.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 13, 2024 9:39:06 GMT -5
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
Full disclosure: I haven't.
Have you?
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 13, 2024 9:38:02 GMT -5
Lovely sunny morning here. I'm off to the coffee shop in a bit, then to the grocery store; both my Saturday social time. I plan to play guitar outside when I get home, and to grill something later. I am very happy and fortunate to be able to start doing these things with some help, of course.
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