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Allow me to set the scene.

In a hospital, a hugely pregnant gal is getting an ultrasound after being in labor for many hours.

Everything looks fine. The tired daddy-to-be says to the doctor, “Hey, while we’re looking, why don’t we make sure we’re still having a girl.”

The tiny doctor, from Guatemala — if memory serves, hooted loudly and, zooming the ultrasound thingy across the giant belly says, pointing to the screen, “These don’t come on a girl!!” And then the doctor laughed some more.

That is when we knew that the baby was not going to be the one we had been calling Mary Ellen for the last 5 months.

No. Instead, we were having this buster.

And, life has been different ever since.

Happy birthday, sweet (baby) James!!!

Lists have a way of illustrating what a person is really like sometimes. Eli, as you can see, is an imaginative optimist. Christmas is three months away, of course, but dreaming is what he does 365 days a year.

He makes me laugh — all the time.

The list (so far):

1 kilo black ball with white writing saying one kilo

an anvil

an antique cash register

a fake skeleton

a crash test dummy

some knight armor

a leather underwater ninja suit

a saint bernard collar barrel

a saint bernard

a rubber ducky that quacks when you squeeze it

a star — preferably a middle aged one, blue in color, and located in the Milky Way

an anchor

some gold foil

Sorry, y’all, the post about Hank Williams seems nonsensical because of WordPress combining posts. I would figure out what’s happening but my folks want dinner.

This is Hank Williams’ birthday.

He was born in 1923 so this is what would be his 90th.

I love many of his songs.

Like this cover of I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry by A.A. Bondy.

Just wonderful.

I heard him play this live thanks to my friend, Anne. What a treat!

My hat is off to anyone covering this song. I’d be about to sob by the end. Maybe that is the Hank effect?

Here’s Elvis covering it in Hawaii. In the intro he tells the audience that he’s about to sing the saddest song he’s ever heard.

Yep.

I think that everyone has covered this.

Al Green!

Are you in applesauce-brain years? Fear not. They, too, shall pass.

This I know.

And, I will always like his song, Dirty Rain, from the album, Ashes and Fire.

Not really bouncy, happy songs, necessarily, but they fit my bill for today.

Happy Monday, y’all!

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Hey, y’all, and happy Saturday!

I’ve always thought printing my own fabric would be cool. Then I see a cool fabric like this and I only want to more.

Very graphic and cool.

(I’m a bit sleepy.. So I just realized that I have the word “cool” included three times in this short post. Yeah, okay, cool.)

I don’t know how it happened, y’all, but sometime in my thirties I became a sports fan.

So, of course, I love the Cardinals. I particularly like this advertisement featuring one of my favorites, Yadier. Go Cards!!!

Molina is fierce.

And, since I have as part of my morning routine to drop the boys off at school and then proceed to the Sanderson to ride an exercise bike (parked right in front of all the cable sports channels…….the better to see them with, my dears…), I have seen quite a lot on Johnny Football and the Alabama game that is tomorrow. They’re saying it’s going to be epic. I certainly hope so, because I plan to watch it. If it is half as exciting as last year’s game then it will be worth it. I love watching Johnny play. I do.

Perhaps his performance in tomorrow’s game will extinguish the frustration/anger directed towards him of late. Not that he didn’t deserve some of that criticism. But, to quote one of the sports pundits from this morning, Johnny has a better “escapability” than anyone playing the game — and he was talking college and pro football.

I don’t know if that will be on display tomorrow. I sure do hope so….not that I have a dog in that fight.

Speaking of dogs — here are mine.

They’re wishing y’all a happy Friday.

This one, here, on DesignSponge.

I think that I have a love of gray and white. Yes. So very purty.

And, happy Thursday!!

I didn’t know about this, y’all. The bowl part anyway.