Today's funny :0)

More geese

Gray, chilly and damp yesterday, but the geese kept flying over all day long!

 Wonder if they know if it's going to be a bad Winter????

Usually by the time I hear them, find my trusty camera and go outside they are long gone.

 Got lucky this time!

From: wikipedia.org:
    The Canada goose is a goose with a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, it also occasionally migrates to northern Europe, and has been introduced to Britain, New Zealand, and other temperate regions.

    Scientific name: Branta canadensis
    Lifespan: 10 - 24 years (In wild)
    Weight: 5.5 - 12 lb (Female) · 7.1 - 14 lb (Male)
    Length: 2.5 - 3.6 ft
    Wingspan: 4.2 - 6.1 ft
    Clutch size: 5 on average

PARAPROSDOKIANS

PARAPROSDOKIANS (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.

1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.
3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
5. We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
10. Buses stop in bus stations. Trains stop in train stations. On my desk is a work station.
11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted pay checks.
12. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR."
13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.
20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.
22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
25. I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

Today's funny :o)

Goin' South

It's that time of year again for the local geese!

I love the sound of them going over - was lucky to see them as they like to fly by the light of the moon.

It was such a pretty day, too - took some pics when we went for fuel:

 

In another week or two a lot of the trees will be bare until next Spring. Sniff, sniff.

Easy Listening for a Sunday Afternoon

Lena and Sammy

Just thought you would enjoy a beautiful love song that's not heard very often.  :o)

Saturday Night Doo-Wop

The Falcons:

From: http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/The-Falcons.html

This R&B vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, USA, helped define soul music in the early 60s. The great legacy of music left by the Falcons has unfortunately been obscured by the group’s reputation as the genesis of so many great talents. The group has at one time claimed as members Eddie Floyd (25 June 1935, Montgomery, Alabama, USA), Wilson Pickett (b. 18 March 1941, Prattville, Alabama, USA, d. 19 January 2006, Reston, Virginia, USA), Joe Stubbs (b. Joseph Stubbles, 1942, USA, d. 19 January 1998, USA), brother of the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs and later a member of the Contours and then the Originals, Bonny ‘Mack’ Rice, the original singer of ‘Mustang Sally’, and guitarists Lance Finnie and Robert Ward successively, whose bluesy guitar work helped immeasurably to raise the reputation of the group. The Falcons’ chart success was surprisingly slim, with only five releases making the chart, the best-known being ‘You’re So Fine’, a proto-soul number led by Stubbs that went to number 2 R&B (number 17 pop) in 1959, and ‘I Found A Love’, the incredibly torrid secular gospel number led by Wilson Pickett that went to number 6 R&B (number 75 pop) in 1962.

The original Falcons was formed in 1955 and comprised lead Eddie Floyd, Bob Manardo (b. Robert Manardo, 1937, d. 6 March 2004, Warren, USA), Arnett Robinson, Tom Shetler, and Willie Schofield. Manardo and Shetler were only present on ‘Baby That’s It’/‘This Day’ before being drafted and volunteering for the army respectively. In 1956, the group met Detroit producer Robert West and for the next three years issued releases by the Falcons on several labels, including his own Flick label, but without achieving any national success. The group now featured Joe Stubbs, Bonny ‘Mack’ Rice and guitarist Lance Finnie, and this classic line-up blended gospel fervour to rhythm and blues harmony, as reflected in their ‘You’re So Fine’ hit of 1959. They managed two more hits with Stubbs as lead with ‘Just For Your Love’ (number 26 R&B 1959) and ‘The Teacher’ (number 18 R&B 1960), before Wilson Pickett replaced Stubbs in 1960.

The memorable ‘I Found A Love’, and several other Falcons records, featured backing from the Dayton group the Ohio Untouchables, centred on the great guitar of Robert Ward. In the 70s the Ohio Untouchables emerged as the premier funk group the Ohio Players (Ward himself re-emerged from 25 years’ retirement in 1991 to release a well-received blues album). The Falcons disbanded in 1963, but the name continued with another Detroit ensemble, consisting of Carlis ‘Sonny’ Monroe, James Gibson, Johnny Alvin and Alton Hollowell. This group made the R&B chart in 1966 with ‘Standing On Guard’.