Just One More Sesame Street Video

This is all kinds of wrong, but I think it's my favorite Bert and Ernie clip ever. Heh.

Grey Friday the 13th

There's been a lot of grey skies this week. The waves were even wilder and woollier this morning when I drove by the beach, but of course, I didn't have my camera on me in the car!(as usual) Even if I had, I could not have stopped to shoot some pictures because I was running late for work.(as usual)

So, these images are of the slightly calmer ocean at around 4:00 this afternoon--the rain was only a drizzle at this point and there were actually surfers out in the surf. Crazy!

I have missed a few week's worth of these, but I am in the mood to do a Friday Fill-in again. Please go over to Janet's Friday Fill-in blog if you want to participate, too.

1. The last band I saw live was _____________Guster.(back in July in Newport.) For a sweet clip of them performing in Washington with a children's choir, click here(scroll down to second video clip)--nice singing and whistling by the kids on the stage--wish I could have been there for that!)

2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is _________the day after when I can make a Pilgrim Sandwich with the left-overs. Sliced turkey, some stuffing(!), cranberry sauce, and a light schmeer of mayo on a bulky roll.

3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is __________almost done(this is a first).

4. Thoughts of _____________ all the other things I *should* be doing as I type out this Friday Fill-in just before suppertime, fill my head.

5. I wish I could wear ______________high heels without feeling self-conscious walking in them.

6. Bagpipes ________thrill me.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _____toasting an acquaintance's 50th birthday here , tomorrow my plans include _____some house cleaning(needs it bad), making a big bowl of fruit salad for the family up the street who just had a death in the family and a women's basketball game at the university that I was given free tickets to because no one goes to the women's basketball team games but now I don't want to either except my sister is expecting to go with me....

and Sunday, I want to _____ just relax a little. There's a wake, too, that we'll be going to in the afternoon. Very sad, that'll be(for the husband of my daughter's cross-country coach and this family lives just up the street from us, too--very unexpected).

Lunch Break

"Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous."

~~ Willie Wonka

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Today, I zipped home for lunch.


Ten minute drive on mostly empty mid-day roads,


ten(fifteen?) minutes to heat my left-over chicken soup and sit and slurp it with the dog staring at me the whole time(yes, I let her lick the bowl afterwards),


then a ten minute drive back to work.


And I saw some kind of surprising and slightly memorable sights on my ride back. Well, memorable to me, but then, it doesn't take much to entertain me.





It was a typical November day--grey skies(again), windy---so windy the dead, dry leaves were getting whipped up in to little wind tunnels and making the mostly bare branches of the trees sway. Grey ocean the same color as the sky, turbulent waves--the beach appeared lonely with just one or two cars parked in the beach lot.





As I drove out of my street, I noticed rolling empty plastic garbage barrels on every street, all over the neighborhood. It was trash pick-up day so everyone had put out their trash barrels this morning before leaving their house.(except us--our trash day is Wednesday--a different outfit comes for our garbage). The wind had scattered all the trash barrels and it was actually funny to look in all directions and see them rolling and bumping along, scattered in streets or in completely different yards. I am sure many of the people in this neighborhood came home to missing barrels this afternoon.





The other interesting sight was along the main road I travel to get to town. Just after a stone walled-in field , I noticed, three people on bicycles with back-packs and big guitar cases strapped to their backs. They were all bundled up against the wind and cold, struggling up a small hill. One of the bikes, I then noticed, was one of those two-seaters, and on the back seat was a little boy( he was big enough to be pedalling, though).


Was this the local version of the Von Trapp Family Singers?


Why wasn't this kid in school?(maybe this was some kind of home-schooling event?)


It just made me wonder, long after I had passed them with my car, where they were headed on their bikes and what was up with the instruments on their backs.

Everybody's doing it....

...so I might as well do it, too.
Seems so many bloggin' friends have Sesame Street themed entries as of late, with this month being the 40th anniversary of this groundbreaking kid's show. Even though I was really too old already for it when it first aired in 1969(past Kindergarten age and already reading), I do remember watching the very first show(my father must have read about it and made sure we all watched it when it premiered--for some reason I always remember it being Thanksgiving Day) and loving it, and often watched it alongside my baby brother(six years younger) throughout the 70's. So creative and different. Then there was Zoom, and also The Muppet Show, but that would be a whole 'nother blog(or two).

I liked the cartoons featuring letters and numbers(like this one and this one--"ten chocolate layer cakes..!") and always loved Grover best(and liked Bert, The Count and Kermit, too).
And, um, can I say that I don't like Elmo at all? Annoying voice and character and I'm glad he came along l-o-n-g after I stopped watching this show. (maybe that is why my daughter never really watched Sesame Street when she was around the age for it?) And, is Grover really his..uncle? Sheesh.(yeah, yeah, it's just me being old and cranky, I suppose...)
Okay, here are just a few favorite (old school) Sesame Street clips:


If you want more Sesame Street, please visit only a movie, Shadow Of The Mountain, and
The Lilac Grove for more memories and videos of Big Bird and the gang.

i am

running late on this Veteran's Day (day off for the husband and kid, but work as usual for me), but still sitting here at the computer...

i feel

lazy

i eat

oatmeal and a handful of walnuts was my breakfast

i wear

sssshhh...still in my P.J.'s and my burgundy colored, velvet "smoking jacket"(a short robe I like to call my smoking jacket)


i want

all those far-too-early Xmas commercials that I have been seeing/hearing since last week to stop!!! It's way too early--not even Thanksgiving, yet. Maybe I need to turn the TV off.


i need

to stop reading/hearing the news for a while--it makes me so sad(I also need to get dressed...soon!)

i watch

the colorless sky through the window and the pale yellow leaves still hanging on in spots on the cherry tree--very November-y

i listen

to the dry leaves blowing across the pavement--heard this all night long through the open window in my bedroom. A very distinctive sound you only really hear at this time of year.