Rain Rain (Ohhh YES)

Another page for Linda's Day Planner.

 Hi,
 It has been a nice few days and today we had almost 3 inches of rain and it really cooled us off. 
 We have had triple digit heat for so long that I have forgotten what it is like to be able to sit outside and just enjoy the outside natural air. But I made up for that this evening with my daughter Karyn. 
 It was so nice and tonight it is still raining and the temps have dropped down to... (Drum Roll)…. 77 degrees..... It was and is awesome.

 Well fighting with Blogger hasn't been easy but at least I think that I have it fixed. For now anyway. I sure hope so because it is so frustrating not to be able to get in and blog.
 I have planned a couple of days to blog but a series of events have kept me from it and today the thunderstorms brought large strikes of lightening so I had to shut down my computer and unplug. People say "Oh you don't have to go to all that trouble" but I will keep shutting down unless said people would like to buy me a new one. 
 I lost a brand new computer during a thunderstorm. We lost power and my computer crashed never to be the same even under warranty and repaired it was never the same and it was less than a week old. So the lady that came to repair it told me to be safe if there are thunderstorms in the area just to shut down and unplug. So I do.

 Karyn and I are looking for a new place to live. She and I talked about it and we were looking at this double wide but we have changed our mind on it. It would have been nice but we want to save money and by the time that we pay the down payment, taxes, insurance and lot rent plus the house payment we might find ourselves struggling so we are looking at other options. 
 She also looked over her current lease and had signed a 13 month lease so that means she is in her apartment until the last of January. Not December like she thought. That buys us a little more time because we want this move to be a good one. 
 I will wait until the first of the year to get my Therapy Dog letter from my doctor because it has to be current year to year. I am glad that I talked to my doctor about it. She is delighted to write the letter for me so I will not have to come up with a deposit. YAY!!!
 I have had Foxy and she and I have just cuddled and loved up on one another morning till night lol. I do believe that she is becoming more spoiled by the hour.
 Today she was shivering from the thunderstorms so I got out Cisco's thunder jacket and tried to wrap her in it but it was too big for her. So I got out his baby blanket and wrapped her tight in it. It did the trick and she was a happy camper and then we laid down and had a nap. Mine was much shorter than hers. She snoozed while I ended up reading.

 Karyn came to wake me up and found me awake. She and I decided to go out and have an appetizer and Peach Margarita's. We invited Jonathan but he declined to join us. 
 I am a very hot natured person so I wore slacks and a short sleeved top. The place we went to was like an ice berg. By the time that we got our food ordered we were freezing. I was shivering and said we should go outside. It was very wet out as the outside seating is under a pergola and she got some towels and wiped down our table and chairs and so we ate our taco's and drank our Margarita's outside. We wouldn't have left when we did but it started to rain again so we decided to go before we got soaked. I left my phone at home but I borrowed some photos from the internet to share...

This was soooooooo good.....

And this was soooooo delicious...…………

There is just something about peaches and East Texas peaches are the best in the world. I might be a tad bias but I do love a plump juicy ripe East Texas peach. 

 From the peach its 'self to peach ice cream, pie and cobbler my taste buds are in heaven... 

 The tacos were great too. She loves hot and spicy and I do zero heat and spice. I have to because I don't want to aggravate the stomach ulcer. I don't miss it tho. I enjoy the flavor of the meal or appetizer better than trying to cool off the burned taste buds lol. 

 I have something else I want to share and I really hope that you enjoy it and that it brings back some great memories for you.

 I have had a love affair with music all of my life. Some songs are just my favorite and these are really two that I will never get tired of and it brings back a lot of memories.

 When I was growing up we lived in a city that was zoned really strange. Instead of being able to go to the school near us we were bussed to a town about 20 or 25 miles away. 

 That meant we (my sisters and I) were up at 5:00 in the morning. We had morning chores to do. Make our beds, get dressed, have breakfast, clear the table and help clean the kitchen, feed the animals and get everything ready to get out the door and to the bus stop by 6:15.

 On the way to school we would spend the ride with all of the other kids and sing. This is what we sang every morning to and from... 2 songs.... Here they are...

and...…

 I really hope these bring back a couple of great memories for you....

 Now I did a bit of searching as American Pie had always had me wondering and it turns out a lot of others wondering what the lyrics meant or if they had any significant meaning to them. It turns out that yes it does.....

 A couple of weeks ago there was an article in the newspaper where Don McLean had sold the original manuscript of music. He received a whopping 1.2 million dollars for the 16 pages of music and lyrics.

 I found the article fascinating and in it they asked a few questions so I will try to the best of my memory and notes I jotted down to what the article said to fill you in. Perhaps I can find the original article post tomorrow.

 The eight and a half minutes details the state of America at the time. The day the music died was a tribute to the tragedy of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P Richardson AKA (The Big Bopper)….

 They chartered a plane from Clear Lake Iowa February 3rd, 1959 to Fargo North Dakota.

 Buddy Holly was tired of traveling the Midwest in dirty clothes and only wanted to find a washing machine to do his laundry lol.

 Waylon Jennings was an up and coming country music star and he gave up his seat to Buddy Holly. 

 Tragically the pilot was inexperienced in flying in bad weather and not certified to do so and it was very bad weather at the time. The crash killed all on board the flight. 

 Buddy Holly was just 22 years old at the time and Ritchie Valens just 17. It didn't mention the age of The Big Bopper at the time. 

 Don McLean didn't write American Pie until thirteen years later. 

 The lyrics speak of a jester, king, queen, good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, and references Miss American Pie herself as a reference to real people. 

 We already spoke of the ones that were killed which was a part of the actual inspiration of the song. Side Note (The actual words of Good Old Boys drinking whiskey and rye is ACTUALLY whiskey IN rye....).

 Here are a few other characters that were also referenced.... Karl Marx, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, (John Lennon), The Fab Four, The Byrds, James Dean, Charles Manson, the Rolling Stones.

 The widowed bride Jackie Kennedy and (The Vietnam War). The stage is the world stage, all of the news in papers and tv were of the Vietnam war, many soldiers killed, the protests and the deaths.

 The state of the world was changing. It was a farewell to the fifties and sixty's. The ideals of the 1960's turned into cynicism of the 70's. Bob Dylan was also waxing poetic in a way of his own but Don McLean put the words of counter culture into a more mainstream way that allowed the listeners to be able to understand better.

 So this is all that I have for now. I had asked a lot of people before... "What do you think the lyrics mean"? I have also received a lot of answers but one or two of them I actually had right. 

Oh and one more thing.... There is a part in there talking about the court room was adjourned, …. That is reference to the stones... Mick Jagger and another, his name escapes me at the moment... brain fog I suppose... but they were they were busted for smoking a marijuana joint and sentenced to a really long long time to prison. They actually only spent one day before the charges were dropped and they were released. 

 I know that your in love with him I saw you dancing in the gym, you both kicked off your shoes... another reference to the idealistic times of the 50's with the sock hops.

 He did say that he had written some of the lyrics to be interpreted to the listeners own interpretation because it left a feeling of ambiguity. 

 Good night and I hope that you found this as interesting as I did..... BB