This past weekend was not particularly a good one for a lot of folks, particularly in North Carolina where Dana Bug and Dr. M live just east of where the worst happened around Asheville.
They escaped a direct hit but their electricity went out on Friday and isn't expected to be restored until next Friday!
Dr. M took this picture of one of his routes to check on his father.
No getting through that but the resourceful driver finally found a way to get where he was going and his dad was okay.
Those Carolina folk are gritty.
Over here I got a message from Tommy Terrific on the Left Coast.
He shared a photo of one of their cats lazing in the sun.
That's Hemingway, so named because of his huge six-toed paws, like the cats Ernest Hemingway had as pets in Key West.
SWMBO loves an orange or yellow cat so she enjoyed seeing him again.
Meanwhile, the music world lost a giant over the weekend.
Kris Kristofferson died at his home on Maui, where his friend Willy Nelson also has a home.
I communicated with my longtime photographer friend, Timmer, up in Colorado, and he reminded me that he had once shot a story on the third re-make of the movie "A Star Is Born".
This one starred Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand and Timmer still has the mug the movie crew gave him on that day.
So nothing much to report but it seems now like it was a busy weekend.
Here in still-hot Arizona I keep bangin' away at my Spanish lessons from Duolingo.
How was YOUR weekend?
Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar which I always found interesting. And Dame Maggie Smith also recently died. Lots about each of them now showing their body of work. I have no body of work. In fact, my body needs work.
ReplyDeleteSame boat.
DeleteOne of my favourite lines from the entire body of popular music was:
ReplyDelete"I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana
I was playin' soft while Bobby sang the blues".
By the way, why don't you get your beard dyed just like Hemingway? After all, SWMBO loves an orange or yellow cat and seeing your beard like that will make her go even more wild for you.
Y'think?
DeleteBetween Maggie Smith and Kris Kristofferson, I've been sad this weekend. Losing the greats who seem like they should be immortal. At least their music/films will be.
ReplyDeleteI seem to be losing more and more friends AND idols. Could I be getting old?
DeleteBoth Dame Maggie and Kristofferson had good, long lives, but it is still sad to see them leave. I enjoyed thevwork of both very much.
ReplyDeleteHappy to say it is no longer hot here, but so humid! I can't imagine how they are dealing with it in the Carolinas and Georgia, with no electricity.
It is terrible. Still hot here but, thankfully, not with the humidity.
DeleteMy weekends are all of the "same stuff different day" variety. Days are warming up, but nights are still chilly. I like that mug.
ReplyDeleteI also commented favorably on a gentleman's tee shirt in the grocery store the other day. It said "Allergic to Mornings".
DeleteI'm glad your friend could reach his father. That's scary stuff.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed.
DeleteDrove home Saturday in the last of the storm here in the NE, Sunday was shopping and laundry. Kristofferson and Streisand were amazing in that movie, one of my all time favorites.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever seen it.
DeleteI just cannot get over how far flung the damage was. Who would have ever dreamed it would be so destructive so far inland.
ReplyDeleteYes, this storm hooked left instead of continuing right and back into the Atlantic.
DeleteYou and me and Bobby Magee..one of our favourites...did you know that song was about a woman initially?
ReplyDeleteI heard Willie Nelson's latest song..The Last Leaf....very sad
Willy is the last of the Highwaymen. He's 91 now and still doing concerts.
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