Tuesday, February 11, 2025

ENOUGH SAID

Never even got out of my PJ's today.  Enough said......

Al's Music Box:)) Draggin' The Line is a hit song by American rock musician Tommy James, who went solo after the Shondells disbanded in 1970. It was first released as the B side of "Church Street Soul Revival" in 1970. The song was judged to have some hit potential so they went back in the studio and added horns to the master and re-released it as an A side in 1971. It was included on his second album, Christian of the World in 1971 on the Roulette Records label. The song was James' biggest hit as a solo artist selling more than a million copies, and appears as the fifth track on James' 1991 retrospective album The Solo Years (1970-81) released by Rhino.  "Draggin' the Line" was the biggest hit and only US top 10 hit of Tommy James' solo career. Written and produced by himself and Bob King, the song reached the top 40 on the U.S.'s Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 26, 1971.  "Draggin' the Line" was ranked at #54 overall for hot songs of 1971 by U.S. music industry pillar Billboard magazine.  "Draggin' the Line" features a notable bassline as the main sound. It has been described as a "lazy psychedelic shuffle whose hypnotic feel perfectly expressed its title."  Asked about the meaning of the title in a 2009 interview, Tommy James said: "Draggin' the Line" just meant working every day. Nothing really very mysterious about it."  However, it has been falsely speculated that the song's title and lyrics refer to cocaine use, citing the title, the lyrics, Tommy James' documented drug use, and because another Tommy James and The Shondells song, Crystal Blue Persuasion, has been previously associated with the use of speed, the song’s having been described in 1979 by noted music critic Dave Marsh as "a transparent allegory about James' involvement with amphetamines. In addition, it has been widely accepted that the song could more specifically refer to the tedious job of setting up power lines back in the early 1950s and 1960s. This view has gained a large amount of support, especially since the lyrics are commonly interchanged with 'Checkin the line''.

A Blast From Our Past:))
 It Was A Two Canyon Day  It was March 1rst of 2011 when in California's Borrego Springs we took  a drive through two of the areas many canyons.


GROANER'S CORNER:(( 
There were two evil brothers. They were rich and used their money to keep their ways from the public eye. They even attended the same church and looked to be perfect Christians.  
Then, their pastor retired and a new one was hired. Not only could he see right through the brothers' deception, but he also spoke well and true, and the church started to swell in numbers.  A fundraising campaign was started to build a new assembly.  All of a sudden, one of the brothers died. The remaining brother sought out the new pastor the day before the funeral and handed him a check for the amount needed to finish paying for the new building.  "I have only one condition," he said. "At his funeral, you must say my brother was a saint."  The pastor gave his word and deposited the check.  The next day at the funeral, the pastor did not hold back. "He was an evil man," he said. "He cheated on his wife and abused his family." After going on in this vein for a while, he concluded with, "But, compared to his brother, he was a saint."


- Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

A rich man was trying to find his daughter a birthday gift when he saw a poor man with a beautiful white horse. He told the man that he would give him $500 for the horse.
The poor man replied, "I don't know mister, it don't look so good," and walked away.
The next day the rich man came back and offered the poor man $1000 for the horse.
The poor man said, "I don't know mister, it don't look so good."  On the third day the rich man offered the poor man $2000 for the horse, and said he wouldn't take no for an answer. The poor man agreed, and the rich man took the horse home.  The rich man's daughter loved her present. She climbed onto the horse, then galloped right into a tree.  The rich man rushed back over to the poor man's house, demanding an explanation for the horse's blindness.  The poor man replied, "I told you. It don't look so good."
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Bubba & Earl were in the local bar enjoying a beer when they decided to get in on the weekly charity raffle. They bought five tickets each at a dollar a pop.  The following week, when the raffle was drawn, each had won a prize. Earl won 1st prize, a year's supply of gourmet spaghetti sauce and extra-long spaghetti. Bubba won 6th prize, a toilet brush.  About a week or so had passed when the men met back in the neighborhood bar for a couple of beers. Bubba asked Earl how he liked his prize, to which Earl replied, "Great, I love spaghetti! How about you, how's that toilet brush?"  "Not so good," replied Bubba, "I reckon I'm gonna go back to paper."

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 A BIG ROCK SCRAMBLE THIS MORNING FOR LITTLE CORA
 HELPING LITTLE MOTORMOUSE THROUGH A COUPLE BUMPY SPOTS

 CORA, KELLY, AND CHECKERS AFTER WE MADE IT TO THE TOP OF A HIGH ROCK OUTCROPPING
 WE WERE BOONDOCKED WEST OF AJO ARIZONA JUST OFF DARBY WELL ROAD AND MAX IS DOWN THERE IN THE MOTORHOME WITH A SORE PAW AND COULDN'T COME ROCK SCRAMBLING WITH US ON THIS MORNING
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Monday, February 10, 2025

BEFORE I CAME TO MY SENSES

It was 6:45 a.m. when I was aroused out of my sleep by a 'Ping' followed by half a dozen fading pings.  What the heck was that I thought.  My laptop was not sitting on me because I had remembered to shut it off last night and set it on a small narrow table to my left.  Soft music was on the TV so I knew it wasn't that.  Oh-Oh, Aliens??  Nope:((  A-ha, could it have been the iPhone sitting on a table to my right.  I don't remember turning it off.  I tapped a single tap on the screen and 'Walla' there was my answer.  A notification on my Astronomy app had let me know that the International Space Station would be overhead in five minutes.  I didn't even know the free app program had that feature.  Bonus:))  Ok, so did I go racing outside in my PJs in the early morning freezing cold winter's air and stare blankly up through the Pines??  No way Jose' was I doing that and besides by the time I got the cobwebs cleared out of my head and figured things out, the ISS would have already gone by and probably flown halfway around the world already before I came to my senses.............No wind and no snow in the morning's cold grey air so Pheebs and I took a short ride down Bayfield River Road and back home again.  And that was about it for me.  No way was I going back outside again.  Made sure the birdfeeders were topped up and that was it.

MAILBOXES AND WINTER SNOW PLOWS ARE GENERALLY NOT COMPATIBLE.....GOOD LUCK GETTING MAIL EITHER INTO OR OUT OF THIS ONE
Al's Music Box:)) Lean On Me is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bill Withers. It was released in April 1972 as the first single from his second album, Still Bill. It was a number-one single on both the soul and Billboard Hot 100 charts, the latter chart for three weeks in July 1972. Billboard ranked it as the No. 7 song of 1972.  It was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone's's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2010.  In 2007, the 1972 recording of the song by Bill Withers on Sussex Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.    Bill Withers' childhood in the coal mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, was the inspiration for "Lean on Me", which he wrote after he had moved to Los Angeles, and found himself missing the strong community ethic of his hometown. He had lived in a decrepit house in the poor section of his town.  Withers recalled to Song Facts the original inspiration for the song:  "I bought a little piano and I was sitting there just running my fingers up and down the piano. In the course of doing the music, that phrase crossed my mind, so then you go back and say, 'OK, I like the way that phrase, Lean On Me, sounds with this song.'  Withers stated in the same interview that he made an effort to keep the lyrics simple.  Several members of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band were used for the recording session in 1972. A string section was also included.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( An older, tired-looking dog wandered into my yard. I could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home and was well taken care of.  He calmly came over to me; I gave him a few pats on his head. He then followed me into my house, slowly walked down the hall, curled up in the corner and fell asleep.  An hour later, he went to the door, and I let him out.  The next day he was back, greeted me in my yard, walked inside and resumed his spot in the hall and again slept for about an hour. This continued off and on for several weeks.  Curious I pinned a note to his collar: ‘I would like to find out who the owner of this wonderful sweet dog is and ask if you are aware that almost every afternoon your dog comes to my house for a nap.'  The next day he arrived for his nap, with a different note pinned to his collar: ‘He lives in a home with 6 children, 2 under the age of 3 – he's trying to catch up on his sleep. Can I come with him tomorrow?'

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After reading the morning headlines about the recent stock market downturn, a high-powered executive trying to impress a client in his office, flipped on his intercom switch and barked to his secretary, "Miss Hunter, get my broker!"  The client was impressed until he heard the secretary's clear voice saying, "Yes, Sir, stock or pawn?"

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Did you hear about the ninety-two-year-old man who married a woman of eighty-four?
They spent their entire honeymoon getting out of the car.

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- Accept misfortune as a blessing. Do not wish for perfect health or a life without problems. What would you talk about?

- Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

- Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story.

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Jerry was sitting down for breakfast one morning when he was astonished to see in the paper an announcement of his own death.  He called his friend at once, "Jim, have you seen the announcement of my death in the paper?"  Jim replied, "Yes, and exactly where are you calling from?"

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LOOKING FOR CRYSTALS ON CRYSTAL HILL SOUTH OF QUARTZSITE ARIZONA






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