I have this interesting picture in my head of viking horns with a jaunty Santa hat perched delicately on one tip and instead of a Pavarotti hanky, a mug of coffee to help you get those high notes:roll:
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I have this interesting picture in my head of viking horns with a jaunty Santa hat perched delicately on one tip and instead of a Pavarotti hanky, a mug of coffee to help you get those high notes:roll:
Morning Cedar!
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cheesy I'm quite sure, coffee has had a great influence on the operas you've shared with us over the years, Binger!
Hi, Cherie! Good to see you!
pssst. there's no snow here. It snows now and then and disappears and then it rains or not, but it's been a little windy since Friday afternoon.
I'm whispering because I don't want Jack Frost to hear me.
When I was walking over to the mall yesterday with my husband, we crossed through the park behind us and I was walking one way and he was following the paved path.
He said, "don't you want to walk with me?", I said, "I'm not following a preconceived path, I have to find my own way. Today, I'm a rebel." Another curve in the path and I took a different route and I hollered, "meet you in Albequergue".
He thought I said something about Turkey. And said, "all you think about this time of year is your stomach and turkey." All the sudden, I thought about Jay and his boring diet.
) Picked up a few more presents yesterday. I'm halfway there.
Hi, Cherie! Good to see you!
pssst. there's no snow here. It snows now and then and disappears and then it rains or not, but it's been a little windy since Friday afternoon.
I'm whispering because I don't want Jack Frost to hear me.
When I was walking over to the mall yesterday with my husband, we crossed through the park behind us and I was walking one way and he was following the paved path.
He said, "don't you want to walk with me?", I said, "I'm not following a preconceived path, I have to find my own way. Today, I'm a rebel." Another curve in the path and I took a different route and I hollered, "meet you in Albequergue".
He thought I said something about Turkey. And said, "all you think about this time of year is your stomach and turkey." All the sudden, I thought about Jay and his boring diet.
) Picked up a few more presents yesterday. I'm halfway there.
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Hi guys! And thanks for all the encouragement!
I Put up some of our outdoor lights yesterday! Alot more to go but we're on the way!
Today I got up to a coating of white! IT SNOWED! And it's still snowing! We had some plans today that are going to need to be changed now but I'm happy to see the snow anyway!
I'm pretty much putting the old diet on hold this week...And next week...and the week after that...
Have a great day!
I Put up some of our outdoor lights yesterday! Alot more to go but we're on the way!
Today I got up to a coating of white! IT SNOWED! And it's still snowing! We had some plans today that are going to need to be changed now but I'm happy to see the snow anyway!
I'm pretty much putting the old diet on hold this week...And next week...and the week after that...
Have a great day!
GOOD MORNING!
Snow Jay? Wow! Are you happy with that? Sounds like a good day to stay home and decorate. Sun shining here but very chilly.
I put the window candles in yesterday, looks so cool! Can you believe its Thanksgiving next Thursday?
YABBA!
Snow Jay? Wow! Are you happy with that? Sounds like a good day to stay home and decorate. Sun shining here but very chilly.
I put the window candles in yesterday, looks so cool! Can you believe its Thanksgiving next Thursday?
YABBA!
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Welcome Cherie!
And what great imagery, Maureen!
I can see the Bingster now, Viking horns on their head. On each horn, a cup (no a carafe!) of coffee is hung with a tube going down to their mouth. They try to speak through slurps. The audience gives each other puzzled looks but starts to get thirsty for coffee. Just then, Mrs. Folgers arrives like a ballgame vendor with a tray of hot steaming cups of coffee. A curtain pulls back and it is revealed that everyone is just part of a coffee ad.
Oh, Bing! You must include such a scene in your next chapter!
SEASON DAY 6
Days to Thanksgiving: 4 (WOW!)
Days to Christmas Day: 37
It's a frosty 39 in Raleigh at this hour.
Has only gone up one degree in the last 2 hours!
They predict mid 60's for this afternoon but I'll believe it when I see it!
Great Raleigh Christmas parade yesterday!
A REAL parade with floats and bands playing Christmas music. Not a psudo broadway musical like the Macy's parade has become.
Not that I don't enjoy it but I just wish they would show more of the actual parade and play more Christmas music.
Well, everyone have Super Sunday and a fabulous remainder of the weekend.
Rest up for Thanksgiving next week!
(Gee! did I say NEXT week?)
And what great imagery, Maureen!
I can see the Bingster now, Viking horns on their head. On each horn, a cup (no a carafe!) of coffee is hung with a tube going down to their mouth. They try to speak through slurps. The audience gives each other puzzled looks but starts to get thirsty for coffee. Just then, Mrs. Folgers arrives like a ballgame vendor with a tray of hot steaming cups of coffee. A curtain pulls back and it is revealed that everyone is just part of a coffee ad.
Oh, Bing! You must include such a scene in your next chapter!
SEASON DAY 6
Days to Thanksgiving: 4 (WOW!)
Days to Christmas Day: 37
It's a frosty 39 in Raleigh at this hour.
Has only gone up one degree in the last 2 hours!
They predict mid 60's for this afternoon but I'll believe it when I see it!
Great Raleigh Christmas parade yesterday!
A REAL parade with floats and bands playing Christmas music. Not a psudo broadway musical like the Macy's parade has become.
Not that I don't enjoy it but I just wish they would show more of the actual parade and play more Christmas music.
Well, everyone have Super Sunday and a fabulous remainder of the weekend.
Rest up for Thanksgiving next week!
(Gee! did I say NEXT week?)
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Still snowing...And pretty hard too! And you know what the best thing is??? Now I don't have to rake leaves today!!!
It is so hard to believe that Thanksgiving is only a few days away!
jay
It is so hard to believe that Thanksgiving is only a few days away!
jay
Get that pie out of the way first and then you can completely concentrate on the matter at hand!!
The curtain opens on a lone figure, spotlit, with viking horns and coffee carafe, complete with tubing and slurping sounds. Two baubles dangle precariously from this tubing to signify festive decoration - precarious in the fact that the tubing could be pierced at any moment by a wayward hook and then tragedy strikes (the basis for many a good opera).
The stage lights come up slowly, illuminating the coffee corps (we're incorporating ballet here as well) 6 stalwarts, good and true, advance on pointe bearing gifts; cream, sugar, a variety of danish pastries, cinnamon buns, donuts and strudel. The slurping builds to a crescendo and then.......... complete darkeness and a single voice wails a mournful cry.
Has the tubing been pierced? Were the danishes dropped? Did someone fall off their pointe??..............:???:
The curtain opens on a lone figure, spotlit, with viking horns and coffee carafe, complete with tubing and slurping sounds. Two baubles dangle precariously from this tubing to signify festive decoration - precarious in the fact that the tubing could be pierced at any moment by a wayward hook and then tragedy strikes (the basis for many a good opera).
The stage lights come up slowly, illuminating the coffee corps (we're incorporating ballet here as well) 6 stalwarts, good and true, advance on pointe bearing gifts; cream, sugar, a variety of danish pastries, cinnamon buns, donuts and strudel. The slurping builds to a crescendo and then.......... complete darkeness and a single voice wails a mournful cry.
Has the tubing been pierced? Were the danishes dropped? Did someone fall off their pointe??..............:???:
THE OPERA.. PART XXVI
Act One:
Opens with Carl the Camel walking out on stage... he sits and disperses his famous
" Bananna Mocha Java" to Binger who sits back in a state of happiness that hasn't been observed since "The Ice Capades" 1984. They break into an aria that ends with " Ohh the Pines.. Ohh The Pines.. The Shispering Pines.." which is a cue- the entire set opens up and in walks Cedar- who sings an aria annoucning that the Shipseing Pines Community is going to host the Annual " DINAH SHORE CLASSIC.." a huge cheer goes up and various performers enter ( all wearing an identical Dusty Springfield Wig)- Jayish enters and dances a paus du lux entitled" Ode To a Tall Weed in a Gale force Wind"- Maureen enters ( with Viking Hat on top of her Dusty Wig) and sings an aria entitled " Ode to Plaid.. It is the Scottish way.." Then, as the partying comes to a frenzy... ( lights darken,,, flowers wilt... music (heavy) begins playing- funeral dirge like... ) in walks Crown.... end act 1...
Act 2:
Opens with the same dark clouds overhead and Crown announcing via aria that the DINAH SHORE CLASSIC will not be held.. in fact- the Shispering Pines will be shutting down since the smell and "shispering" awakens them and they are unable to get their required 19 hour nap. Renna and Auntie Mistletoe arrive and sing an aria offering to make blinds and ear plugs.. but Crown shuns them and announces that( via aria) that they hold the deeds to all land in town. Sandy announces in aria that the Shispering Pines will shut down at noon.. 12 hours.. 6 minutes.. 33 seconds..All residents of the happy community are stunned, except for Jayish who dances a paus du lux entitled" Ode to a Real Estate Mogul infomercial.." The curtian comes down as the residents follow Jay's tutu to a small hut ( being decorated with lights by Iron Eagle.. who sings the aria " Chicago: It's my kind of town..") end.. act 2:
Act 3 (finale)
Opens with Crown sitting behind their desk and singing an aria about foreclosing on land and making plans to turn the Shispering Pines into a "retirement community" ( they like the sound of that- "retire.. meaning to nap..") Then.. with a burst of lighnting.. Radio John announces that the residents of shispering pines have all banned together and achieved "REAL ESATTE SUCCESS" through a late night infomerical and they in fact now own Crown's home,,, which is being abolished to make way for a sushi-bar/lanudromat ( complete with Cedar sitting on top of the douible "LF Stainless steel stackables singing an aria entitled" "Fired Twinkie's... good with Java..) and that the rest of the land is going to be used for the "DINAH SHORE CLASSIC.."- the entire company comes together to banish Crown into the light ( not the darkness. since it is too easy to sleep there) where they must watch "Dancing with Stars" as punishment for trying to destroy the Shispering Pines. As the curtain closes.. we see Jayish and Auntie dancing a paus du lux entitled: " Century 21... why hasn't it advanced to 22 after all these years?"
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Act One:
Opens with Carl the Camel walking out on stage... he sits and disperses his famous
" Bananna Mocha Java" to Binger who sits back in a state of happiness that hasn't been observed since "The Ice Capades" 1984. They break into an aria that ends with " Ohh the Pines.. Ohh The Pines.. The Shispering Pines.." which is a cue- the entire set opens up and in walks Cedar- who sings an aria annoucning that the Shipseing Pines Community is going to host the Annual " DINAH SHORE CLASSIC.." a huge cheer goes up and various performers enter ( all wearing an identical Dusty Springfield Wig)- Jayish enters and dances a paus du lux entitled" Ode To a Tall Weed in a Gale force Wind"- Maureen enters ( with Viking Hat on top of her Dusty Wig) and sings an aria entitled " Ode to Plaid.. It is the Scottish way.." Then, as the partying comes to a frenzy... ( lights darken,,, flowers wilt... music (heavy) begins playing- funeral dirge like... ) in walks Crown.... end act 1...
Act 2:
Opens with the same dark clouds overhead and Crown announcing via aria that the DINAH SHORE CLASSIC will not be held.. in fact- the Shispering Pines will be shutting down since the smell and "shispering" awakens them and they are unable to get their required 19 hour nap. Renna and Auntie Mistletoe arrive and sing an aria offering to make blinds and ear plugs.. but Crown shuns them and announces that( via aria) that they hold the deeds to all land in town. Sandy announces in aria that the Shispering Pines will shut down at noon.. 12 hours.. 6 minutes.. 33 seconds..All residents of the happy community are stunned, except for Jayish who dances a paus du lux entitled" Ode to a Real Estate Mogul infomercial.." The curtian comes down as the residents follow Jay's tutu to a small hut ( being decorated with lights by Iron Eagle.. who sings the aria " Chicago: It's my kind of town..") end.. act 2:
Act 3 (finale)
Opens with Crown sitting behind their desk and singing an aria about foreclosing on land and making plans to turn the Shispering Pines into a "retirement community" ( they like the sound of that- "retire.. meaning to nap..") Then.. with a burst of lighnting.. Radio John announces that the residents of shispering pines have all banned together and achieved "REAL ESATTE SUCCESS" through a late night infomerical and they in fact now own Crown's home,,, which is being abolished to make way for a sushi-bar/lanudromat ( complete with Cedar sitting on top of the douible "LF Stainless steel stackables singing an aria entitled" "Fired Twinkie's... good with Java..) and that the rest of the land is going to be used for the "DINAH SHORE CLASSIC.."- the entire company comes together to banish Crown into the light ( not the darkness. since it is too easy to sleep there) where they must watch "Dancing with Stars" as punishment for trying to destroy the Shispering Pines. As the curtain closes.. we see Jayish and Auntie dancing a paus du lux entitled: " Century 21... why hasn't it advanced to 22 after all these years?"
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Binger comes through again...Topical, comical, edible...All my favorites...Where do your ideas come from??? I have this picture in my head of Binger a a huge desk that holds only a laptop, a coffee maker, four pounds of espresso blend beans and an ashtray with a carton of lucky strikes next to it...And the typing commences and sparks fill the room and BLAMMO...An opera is born...
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Ah, Binger, my friend!
Another coffee-inspired masterpiece.
Thanks for your hard work.
(and for making Carl a little easier to live with.
He's sending you a batch of his new coffee-grapefruit blend)
SEASON DAY 7 (Can we be that far along, already??)
Days to Thanksgiving: 3 (Close, so close!)
Days to Christmas Day: 36 (Not much over a month, now)
Forty-Nine for the commute this morning.
We should reach the mid-60's today, then several days of 70+, through Thanksgiving.
Perhaps a tad warm to be seasonal, but I'll take it.
I hope everyone had a great weekend and is enjoying their Christmas Season as much as I am.
Have a Marvelous Monday, friends!
("Are we ready for Thanksgiving, yet?")
Another coffee-inspired masterpiece.
Thanks for your hard work.
(and for making Carl a little easier to live with.
He's sending you a batch of his new coffee-grapefruit blend)
SEASON DAY 7 (Can we be that far along, already??)
Days to Thanksgiving: 3 (Close, so close!)
Days to Christmas Day: 36 (Not much over a month, now)
Forty-Nine for the commute this morning.
We should reach the mid-60's today, then several days of 70+, through Thanksgiving.
Perhaps a tad warm to be seasonal, but I'll take it.
I hope everyone had a great weekend and is enjoying their Christmas Season as much as I am.
Have a Marvelous Monday, friends!
("Are we ready for Thanksgiving, yet?")
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