Folk of September

Seems like forever since I checked in here. Life is busy but life is good. There have been a few adventurous outings with friends, pickling, gardening, birthday's in the family, and a recommence of my long hilly walks.

It's a wonderful time of year. The oppressing heat and humidity of August is gone and a lot of the tourist traffic as well. I took a swim last week and knew that summer was past. The water was c o l d. The day and sun were hot, thus the need for the swim, but once I got in I wasn't long getting out, very refreshed.

I started this post this morning and got busy shortly afterward. I've worked hard on some chores outdoors and in and took the last half hour to lie in the sun and finish a book. It is 23 in the shade but my deck is hot and in the sun. I feel sun-kissed. I had dinner with friends yesterday and am having dinner with friends tomorrow night so am staying home tonight feeding just the boy and me.

I've been listening to wonderful folk songs recently. I make a CD most months with a theme of sorts. This month, it's called Folk of September. It opens with the well known, Caledonia, covered wonderfully by Ruth Notman. This woman is new to me but sounds so much like Kate Rusby that I had to verify that it was indeed, not her. Here is Caledonia and the classic Blooming Heather by Kate Rusby. Compare. They sound very much alike. I love Kate's version of Blooming Heather. It has a great male harmony singer which makes it special. This song too is on the CD.

Seven Hundred Songs

Lucky me! I've been out and about in the countryside two evenings in a row at sunset time.....with a camera! A person couldn't get any luckier than that. Not having a car for two weeks really put a damper on my activities and it feels so wonderful to go where I want to and need to. I've learned to appreciate my mobility.

I was at a benefit for a person with cancer last night but didn't stay long as it was really hot in the community hall and I was having hot flashes. A was with a friend who lives, like myself, in a house in the countryside. We went there and that was so much better.

Today's music was chosen in a most surprising way. What makes it a surprise to me is that no one has ever mentioned the songs were not on the music page after being advertised in the post. Also I'm surprised I forgot, or got distracted, so many times. There are four posts there in about two month (120) of songs.

I've been working to provide links for all the music in all the past posts as well as tags for the song names. It makes finding music easier for me. I'd thought about linking from the beginning but tagging wasn't available at Blogger then so it seemed a step that didn't need to happen. Anyway, these are songs that I was supposed to have uploaded as a day's musical selections. I most likely went on to something else and forgot to upload. This doesn't happen anymore because linking closes the loop.

The songs.....

• Lets Get Together The Youngbloods

• Big Long Slidin Thing Dinah Washington

• Woke Up This Mornin Ruthie Foster

• Reasons Why Nickle Creek

• Caledonia Mary Black

• One Less Bell To Answer The Fifth Dimension

• Besame Mucho Nana Mouskouri

• The Huron Carol The Crash Test Dummies

These, in a backward order, relate to specific posts, in pairs. I'm not finished the job yet, not by a long shot. I work on it every couple of weeks, usually on a Sunday. I just started with linking the music today. I've been doing tags for months.

These songs need an addition of one song to make an even two hundred songs on Page Two. That's seven hundred songs I'm working with now and you can see I need a system for finding songs when I want them. This song and also, the name of the band, works on a number of levels; the photo, talk of the countryside, and closing the loop. Here is Back Porch Blues doing Bring It On Home To Me.

After all this I couldn't find the song. I forgot I have a file specifically for the song as I have ten versions and realized I've never put one up. I will on a future post. Whew!

Who Do You See?

Went to visit a friend today. His crystal ball is rigged up so that there is a face in it. Cool, eh? Got some other photos of it as well. I'll go a mile (or 50 km) for a photo challenge. A Leather-Bound Book was the subject in Jorj.org this week. This is my entry.

Came third at trivia last night with a large mixed team. We inherited one guy who had 12 show up for his team. We came third last night, Saturday and last Tuesday. Awful position, third times three!

Saturday, my start-back day for work is looming so near. Six days of hard work a week is so daunting right now.

Music: Reasons Why (trying to figure out that third times three) by Nickle Creek with it's lovely harmonies is first and the lovely song, Caledonia by Mary Black is second simply because I drove through Caledonia this morning.

I've already given two links this post. Enough, don't you think?