Yesterday was the 23rd, which means my SNAP had life to it again!
Yesterday was also Wednesday, which meant $5 sushi at Publix!
It's been a little while, so I treated myself to two trays.
The spicy tuna roll was dinner last night...
letting me have the crunchy California roll to start my day!
(smile!)
While there, I caught this from Patrick Young, down in JAX.
He was looking out his kitchen window and found himself looking right at a deer in his yard...
but, he wasn't.
Upon closer inspection, it was just a dead bush with Spanish moss on it.
As I told him, perception is everything!
He wanted to see a deer... and so he did.
(smile!)
She can be counted on to have a giggle or two posted, and most are puns.
Take this one, with two Star Trek peeps.
The captain says, "A lady asked me if I would help her get a job as a professional Scrabble player."
As Lt. Ryker waited, Picard added, "I put in a good word for her."
Hahahaha!!!
Absolutely beautiful!
(smile!)
Then it was time to go work on the yard.
I chose the side yard by the Sullivans, as I knew the spiderwort had straggled all over that area.
I also had dead sticker vines and thorny things to pick up, plus more sticker vines and thorny things to pull off the side of the house.
I'd thought one of those big paper bags would be too much, but I took one out there anyway... and found that I'd filled it within 90 minutes.
Even with me continually tamping it down, it filled and is ready for the curb.
See, that's perception on my part: "oh, that isn't so overgrown."
Indeed it was.
There's some kinda sorta dandelion that's sprouted up and it grows up to three feet tall, with at least thirty buds to send spores flying.
Yikes!
Fortunately, those plants are very easy to uproot, but, as they have nice leaves on their thick stalk, they hide in the azaleas very well.
Every time I thought I'd pulled up the last one, I'd see another, lurking in the bushes.
Good thing I had a protein-rich breakfast!
However, clad in long sleeves, long pants, and gloves, I was ready to get out of the sun and into a tall, cold, glass of water!
Instead, I poured two of those into me after I ditched the clothes.
Ah, much better.
(smile!)
Time to cruise over to Savannah Arts Academy for a free jazz concert!
Woohoo!!!
Their program had been arranged chronologically from 1933 to 1963.
"Stompin' At The Savoy" got the blood flowing, then "Bernie's Tune" challenged the saxophone players to get their long solos done.
"All The Way", the Frank Sinatra song, let the trumpets shine!
How about those trombones?
Well, their turn came with 1963's "Doxy" - and it was good!
I liked that it reminded me of "Baby Let Your Hair Hang Down"!
Time to "Take Five" after that while Skyelite Jazz Band took the stage.
(There's a little jazz joke from me to you, dear reader!)
Their program ran the gamut from 1928 all the way to 1985, starting off with "Harlem Air Shaft", guaranteed to blow a skirt up!
(smile!)
But "Brass Machine", the toned-down version of Mark Taylor's "Scream Machine", written for the Army Blues Jazz Emsemble, has to be my favorite of the concert.
All five pieces of brass was up front and turned up!
And there was cowbell, lots and lots of cowbell!!!
As Christopher Walken said, "I need more cowbell" in my life!
(smile!)
Oh, then there was Kermit's song about "Bein' Green", played with trombone solos in all the right places... very nice.
So far, there had been no singers.
Then, surprise!!!
Truman Nash came up to do a bit of New Orleans' skat for the "Basin Street Blues" and to shake his moneymaker a little bit, too!
Yes, I sure did love that!!!
Living the "Lush Life" while on a "Caravan" is all well and good...
but to dance is the best!
(smile!)
I'm so blessed to be retired!
At this time of year when I was teaching, I would not have had such a day as this.
It's unfortunate that five young nurses lost their lives on April 22, 2015.
One of those young women had an uncle who was big in Georgia politics.
Her death was the motivation for the merger in 2017 between Armstrong State and Georgia Southern Universities, obliterating my alma mater by making it the "nursing epicenter" for the larger school.
Those changes are responsible for me retiring in May of 2018, as my teaching position was eliminated by the merger finalization.
i thank You, God, that I am in retirement and have the freedom to script my day as I like, free to attend the many cultural events in this town.
(smile!)Hallelujah!
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