Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Today's funny :o)








Another tree down

Hubby decided to take down this tree in the side yard, It looked like it had four different trees growing out of one trunk. Over the years he has taken two of them off. Now the termites and woodpeckers have just about finished the rest of it


 The part he is standing over was no problem.


  Some really neat designs on the inside:
 

 This is what's left of the tree - one long trunk and a few big branches



 While he was making his notches, the trunk started to split and moved a little bit and trapped the chainsaw.



 He had to use the axe to get the saw unstuck and had to replace a brand new chain and the bar.


After a lot more chopping and a couple of pulls with the backhoe......


.....it finally came down!



All that is left:



Took a few days, but now we don't have to worry about it hitting the house.
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Monday, November 2, 2015

Fun with bricks!

Have some left over bricks???













 










 ... and this one is my favorite!
 

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Today's funny :o)

H/T to wild river!  :o)




After being married for 42 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, "Forty-two years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl".

"Now ... I have a $250,000 home, a $45,000 car, a nice big bed and a large screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 62 year-old woman. It seems to me that you're not holding up your side of things."

My wife is a very reasonable woman. 


She told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.




Weird clouds

Saturday, October 31, 2015:













Can anyone explain these formations?




Sunday, November 1, 2015

Easy Listening for a Sunday Afternoon





The Four Aces
From:

The Four Aces is an American male traditional pop music quartet, popular since the 1950s. Over the last half-century, the group amassed many gold records. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing". "Three Coins in the Fountain", "Stranger in Paradise",] "Tell Me Why", and "(It's No) Sin". Other big sellers included "Shangri-La", "Perfidia", and "Sincerely". The original members, responsible for every song made popular by the group, included Al Alberts, Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario "Sod" Vaccaro.

Alberts went to South Philadelphia High School and Temple University, and served in the United States Navy, where he met Mahoney. Originally, Alberts sang with Mahoney playing behind him, and later they added Vaccaro on trumpet and Silvestri on drums.] They played locally in the Philadelphia area, and Alberts started his own record label, Victoria Records, when they could not find a distributor to release their first record, "(It's No) Sin". It sold a million copies, and Decca Records soon signed the group, billing them as The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts.

Alberts left the group in 1958 to try to make it as a soloist, but never made the charts. He was replaced as lead singer by Fred Diodati, who had attended South Philadelphia High School a few years after Alberts. After Alberts had left the group, Mahoney and Vaccaro also left. Silvestri never left the group, but led three new members: Diodati, Tony Alesi, and Joe Giglio. The Original Aces later asked Silvestri to rejoin the original group, and he did.

It was then that Diodati led a new line-up, which consisted of Diodati, Alesi, Giglio, and Harry Heisler. After almost 19 years with the group, Alesi developed a medical condition that forced him to leave the group. As of 2013 the Four Aces members are Diodati, Giglio, Heisler, and Danny Colingo. These members sing all the songs the original Four Aces had made popular at one time.
In 1975, Diodati, Alesi, Giglio, and Heisler were awarded the right to the name in a court suit in which the original members tried to re-establish their right.The court allowed the founding members to tour as "The Original Four Aces, Featuring Al Alberts", which they did, finally retiring the act in 1987. Diodati, Giglio, Heisler, and Colingo continue to legally use the name of the Four Aces and perform the songs made popular by the Original Four Aces.

The founding lead singer, Alberts, died of natural causes on November 27, 2009 at age 87. Mahoney died on July 12, 2012 of complications from Alzheimer's Disease at age 86. Silvestri died on January 27, 2013 at age 86. Vaccaro died on April 5, 2013 at age 90.

The Four Aces were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. The Four Aces were inducted into the Philadelphia Music Alliance Walk of Fame in 1988.



Saturday, October 31, 2015

Saturday Night Doo-Wop









(Bet you just knew it would be this one tonight!)

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......And here is a fun movie to watch this Halloween Night:




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