Dolemite is my name... And...

A mystery bird has been singing all day, a three tone melody of 2 beats, 1, 1: I think the notes are c, f-a flat. Keep meaning to go check it on the piano, but I'd have to get up. (addendum: checked it! it's singing a minor fifth, tho i was a half-step off on key! here's a charming site: tonality of birds) (& another: this talented woman translated avian music to fiddle! musicality of birdsong) (search "do birds sing in key?" & you will find a lot) ...I'm tap, tap, tapping away on my broken old phone tucked under covers w gently snoring James & the breeze blowing in is lulling, shadows starting to dapple mountain, aaah. Am sleepy after productive day cleaning, cooking, reading, piano, yardworking. As I swept, Penny went into a bark fit, & I looked out just in time as the object of her pique, a grown deer, leaped lissomely out of sight. Wildlife & sounds have abounded today, maybe making a last show before autumn's end...? Dunno, but it's sure lovely... There's a website I subscribe to, https://bluespianosheets.com/,  & finally after many yrs I got round to printing out a bunch of pieces, so today got to focus on Ammons' "Jump for Joy" & started wondering if he was a lefty. It's a thrilling boogie-woogie I first heard while driving listening to a new bw comp cd: had to pull over -- it was that astounding! I think it's just right for me, the left-handed pounder, to commit to memory. Wow, am I lucky!! ...Couldn't play last night, tho, bc James was too excited: "Dolemite Is My Name" finally came out on Netflix. He's been waiting for months to see it!! It was a terrific, fun film, the most entertaining in memory for me, & I'm now a convert. James has talked a lot about Dolemite/Rudy Ray Moore for yrs, but I never got it til now. James is so excited that now the world is being reintroduced to Dolemite, whose toasts James has memorized (just one of his many verbal specialties) & whose outrageousness certainly has had a large influence on the WB James persona, as well. Before we watched, my husband turned 10 yrs old, laughing, yelling, dancing, gathering all his Dolemite videos (the pic of us is a setup, of course; his ebullience was real, my annoyance not).  He came upstairs dressed as you see at top & announced, "Now I'm ready to watch it ." What a fun eve we had; the movie's well-worth your time, if you're not overly

sensitive. Finger is cramping up; time to wake the man.

happy anniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, haaaaaaaappy anniversary

pictures from tommy middaugh :)

today we've been married seven years. time flies!!!!! i was old chronologically, but young physically and emotionally when i married james. he looked like a baby, even with his balding head!! "just look at us," he mused as we rested in the bedroom, gazing at our wedding photos on the walls. "we were insane!!!"
"we had no idea what we were doing," i added.
"NO idea!!" he said.
"i'm so glad," i said.
"me, too," he replied. :)
he is bringing home taco bell right now. don't you want something fancier? he asked. no; i love taco bell, plus they serve diet pepsi, my number one vice.

we had the sweetest wedding at a chapel no longer standing
(james said that's not an omen at all, but "just vegas")

i have quit alcohol, drugs, pork... but diet pepsi is the only vice i can't kick. when i stopped drinking it, to eliminate brain fog & all the health negatives that go with diet soda consumption, i cried & cried. wth did that come from?!? ...i started drinking the crap so young, it's embedded in me, like a fat child and sweets. i guess i'll stay on the dp for now, but i hope i can stop at some point before my brain turns to total mushcakes.
anyways... i just took some online tests. they say i have everything from cerebral stroke to outer ear infection. i will choose to believe the latter bc the former is really scary!!! can't believe i'm still sick. donna told me not to tell her anymore about my health unless it's a "deathbed notification." i guess i talk too much about my health maladies.

here we are with james holding me up (1st days being sick)

the other night i was too sick to drive, but on autopilot flying home after getting groceries in "the big city" of backwardsfield, i put on THE GREAT 28 & suddenly felt well! the wellness lasted only a few minutes once home, but long enough for me to post this on facebook:
been sick three weeks
played "the great 28"
that rock and roll music
has made me feel great
burma shave

my health

bleh.
could be worse.
still not pushing up daisies.

wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

link for this video is at bottom.

haven't posted in a good long time! my work email seems to have eaten my personal. has something to do with work permissions. just overcame it; had to change password. big deal! my life is gold. am home sick today but the school's closed bc pg&e shut off power to that area, at mouth of the grapevine, a forested wind tunnel & certainly a fire hazard zone. mama said pg&e's doing these "preventative" shut-downs bc they're mad about going into bankruptcy to pay for the paradise tragedy. i don't know.
so much has been going on. my class this year is the best ever, a 5-6 combo. over summer i was trained in restorative practices & started the yr off with them, resulting in the closest, happiest, most improving class ever. corey is fantastic as principal; she is forging a much-improved school culture for all. i just knew she'd be terrific!

i've played a few gigs w/james & band tho not sure about this wkend since i'm so ill. all's so wonderful w/james these days. he says we're now "on the same team," & i already got us signed up for the international convention in detroit july 2020, where i'll hope to reach two bits of sobriety. wow! a whole life now w/o booze! thank you, higher power. it's astounding!!!
here's a terrific showcase video for james. watch amazing victor come in on guitar about 3/4 through -- wow!! i make the funniest faces on here: sour grapes pickle face when james starts "crawdad hole" w/o telling us that's what it'll be, which means i didn't get to play what i would've; & ecstacy as if high like cheech & chong after victor's chuck berry guitar solo. i see again i am the woman of 1000 faces, looking like a different person (pretty, homely, fat, thin, old, young) depending on my mood & angle. james & i are the same this way tho he's much better-looking than i am. we are shapeshifters. maybe besides monsters, comic books, mad mag, MUSIC, exercise, tiny toys, kids, animals, & some other stuff that's why we were attracted to each other so powerfully, a coupla magnets. seven years down the road, i could not be happier.
james & i had done the homeboy 5k that morn in downtown LA, his first running event. it was a hugely fun trip, tripping around chinatown, downtown, phillipe's, little jewel of new orleans, the race, visiting sherri & james jr, then long beach, san pedro, this & that,  but by the time we played, he said he was so tired he was seeing spots. still he is the greatest up there, the muhammad ali of the stage. or the mike tyson. or the james page. :)
thanks to johnny angel for this video. i know how long it takes to cut & mix something like this. he worked hard to create this video of us, & we are grateful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a0ooW75pZ4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2Ybn6C8pGZQVfIgVrO8oPNchC1xG6cbfIH0x2pZsKG66Vv0Vrd0_bevjk