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Subject: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Mar 01 - 01:47 AM It's finally our county's turn for the great blizzard we've been expecting for several years. Here in our snug farmhouse, we're set up pretty comfy. Supplies laid in, springwater jugs topped off fresh, firewood in case the furnace goes.... plenty of gas for the sturdy little John Deere lawn tractor so Hardiman can plow in case we GOTTA go out... So *come on over* and be snowed in with us. I know! Let's sort out all those old tapes and records and give 'em a listen! Let's dive into the pile of songbooks too! What are we singing, and what are we laughing about? Crockpot's going... may have to whomp up a big ole batch of bread in the Amish Breadbucket too. Three pounds of butter froze hard... doughnuts anyone? ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: MMario Date: 05 Mar 01 - 07:30 AM not so virtual here - b-i-l's making beef bourgonion (sp?) - and I'm going just relax. first snow day of the year! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:21 AM Just what we need here...more rain! Sigh...will it EVER be sunny AGAIN? |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: SINSULL Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:38 AM Me too. Matt. I don't ever remember feeling this down from the weather. There is hope. Two little snowdrops are blooming in our front garden and the lilac bush is budding. A few feet of snow should cure that! I ache for some sunshine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:42 AM Oh it's not that I feel bad. I just hate walking and driving in the rain. And especially for a photography student who needs LOTS of first-rate field photos, which of course, requires sunny days. Crappy days = crappy photos with all midtones and no contrast. Ick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Murray MacLeod Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:48 AM Blizzard? What blizzard? I look out my window and the avocado trees are just starting to bud, check the temperature it is just under 70. Forget the snowshoes and crockpots, get on down here to South Florida. Murray |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Jeri Date: 05 Mar 01 - 08:53 AM I'M SICK OF SNOW! I WANT TO SEE GREEN THINGS AND COMPLAIN ABOUT HAVING TO MOW THE LAWN!!! In any case, the Weather Channel last night said 12+ inches. It also said we'd have virtually no accumulation today, with the bulk starting tonight. BAH! We've already got a couple of inches. Went for a walk in the front yard on Sat, and when I went through the crust, I was up to my knees. At this rate, the stuff should all melt sometime in June...
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Date: 05 Mar 01 - 09:09 AM Sigh! we are so used to it whats one more... Hey do you guys know the chemical formula of snow??? it's Wh1te sh1t Grab a shovel, once my driveways done I've got two others to do... Anyone know a shoveling shanty??? Aye. Dave (praying fer summer) |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Jeri Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:12 AM If I've managed to figure out indigenous links: Snow Shanty. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:14 AM Back to the virtual snow-bound party, WYSYWYG- here I am, stamping the snow off my feet and puffing clouds of frozen steam! Can you help me out of this muffler- yes, it's home-spun, my daughter made it herself! I've brought a coupla gallons of milk, some chili peppers, some Mexican chocolate and some vanilla beans for the best hot cocoa you've ever had! And my fiddle under one arm, my guitar under the other arm, so I'm ready for a long-term hunker-down! What'll we sing first? The Frozen Logger? |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:27 AM Oh GOOD, we were out of CHOCOLATE! Let's save Frozen Logger for later... how about Rolling Down to Old Maui!?? The kids have gotten into the songbooks already, plus the toybox seems to have popped all its contents like a jack in the box. Wha hoo! Party's on! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Jeri Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:47 AM Watch out - danger!! - Animaterra has just announced she has Mexican chocolate. I know where she lives AND I have an all-wheel drive car. (Seriously, I have some Giardelli's hot chocolate mix. It requires milk, not water, and all I have is cream for the coffee. Real cream. I couldn't possibly...) Must go see if I can find the car. (Just kidding...not about finding the car, but about invading Animaterra country.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Allan C. Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:48 AM I had to cancel any other plans I had made because I chose to believe the doom and gloom forecasters. The snow finally arrived last night. 2 inches. Big deal. So, since I have a clear calendar, I'm leaving the house now and should be on your doorstep in a few cybermoments. It'll be great to meet you and to see the lovely Annamaterra again and to hear her sweet voice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Allan C. Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:56 AM Stomp! Stomp! Okay if I leave these boots on the porch? Ah-h-h! The warmth from the woodstove feels great! I have never heard all thirty-seven verses of "Frozen Logger" before. What a treat! After I give the guitar a few minutes to become accustomed to the temperature, I'll teach you "The White Snows of Winter", or at least remind you of it. It is one of my favorite winter songs. But I liked the tune, (Symphony No. 1 in C minor,) long before. Wow! Is this hot chocolate or mole? It is so thick and delicious! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:10 AM Flakes flash through crisp air. Sun-sparkles puzzle-- fall's stopped? Snow-crazed children.
Comes Allan C next. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:14 AM When Winter first begins to bit And stones crack in the frosty night When pools are black, and trees are bare Tis evil in the wild to fare! --J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wdyat12 Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:31 AM Put on the Plows! Load the Sander! Man the Shovels! Here Comes the Big One! Naa, just let the snow melt away. I just remembered I still have the hoarded larder in my long forgotten Y2K pantry. I've got the woodstove cooking up some fresh Maine shrimp. I've got music and Mudcat is still up and running. Let the snow just melt away. I don't want to look outside til I can see grass growing again. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Willie-O Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:42 AM White stuff coming down here but we're not supposed to get the kind of volumes you're expecting south of the St Lawrence--maybe 4-5 inches (but they've been wrong before...) I'm home with a persistently sick kid, thankfully on the mend now after several feverish days. My better half the delightful Molly-O has taken the truck into Ottawa to take some seminar she was prepaid for. I'd like to sing something, but first I think I'll go push some snow around...just to get used to it. Willie-O
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Allan C. Date: 05 Mar 01 - 11:46 AM For those who want the lyrics, they can be found here at the KT place. Maybe we can talk Annamaterra into teaching us "Om Namaha Shivaya". Such a beautiful thing... |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Naemanson Date: 05 Mar 01 - 12:04 PM Well, as I said in the wrong thread, I don't mind the snow too much. After all it's March and Aril is only 26 days away. And I keep reminding myself that I came south to enjoy the warmer weather and early spring. If you want long winters try Aroostook County, Maine. Matt, you might as well resign yourself to taking pictures that make the best use of midtones. It can be done. Jeri, next time you want to take a walk in your back yard put on your snow shoes. That way you only sink in to your ankles. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Musicman Date: 05 Mar 01 - 12:15 PM should I???? Naw,, that would be too mean... but, .... just a small one? Hmmmm... well, maybe ....... i really shouldn't you know, cashing in on others misfortunes, gloating some people call it........ BUT HEY! WHY NOT!!!!
I like where i live.......
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Melani Date: 05 Mar 01 - 12:49 PM We like snow here. Sometimes we drive three or four hours just to play in it, and when we get tired of it, we drive three or four hours back to the nice temperate coast. Also, if we don't get enough snow in the winter, we don't have enough water in the summer. Now life would be perfect if we could only get it to snow in the Sierras with out simultaneously raining in the Bay Area. Oh well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wdyat12 Date: 05 Mar 01 - 01:21 PM Remember the "Blizzard of 78" and the "Blizzard of 81?" We're supposed to get some really bad beach erosion at high tide tomorrow morning. Many archaeological sites in Maine will be washed away. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Naemanson Date: 05 Mar 01 - 01:51 PM I Remember the Blizzard of '78. I was in Florida for the Blizzard Of '81. My parents told me about it. They refered to it as "yet another flurry". Blizzard of '78 memories: Driving home from the college in a 4 wheel drive pickup took four hours to go two miles. Finally parked the truck and walked the last 200 yards. Had to stop at a neighbor's house to warm up before we made it there. My wife was quite a bit shorter than me. I walked ahead to break trail and she clug to my belt and followed. the snow was up to the windows on the cars sitting in the road. One guy, drunk as a skunk, kept ramming his car back and forth against packed snow drifts higher than his hood and trunk. He thought he could rock it out of the snow. Another man knocked on our door looking for his wife. She'd left the house that morning in her nurses uniform without a coat. He'd found her car trapped in a snowdrift but no sign of her. He was knocking on all the houses looking for her. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Lonesome EJ Date: 05 Mar 01 - 01:57 PM
The skies grow leaden |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Matt_R Date: 05 Mar 01 - 02:38 PM The Blizzard of '80 here in NC was very memorable. We had 12 foot snowdrifts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 05 Mar 01 - 02:42 PM sigh...... that LEJ..... yes, it is JUST LIKE THAT here. Even to the bough springing in peripheral vision, just outside the window where I type. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wdyat12 Date: 05 Mar 01 - 02:59 PM The shipyard called off work for 2nd shift tonight. Oh Boy! I'm already for another storm of the century! I hope we don't have work tomorrow. I know what I'll be doing if we do, moving snow. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Ebbie Date: 05 Mar 01 - 03:05 PM Lovely, Lonesome EJ. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Mar 01 - 03:52 PM It's a reasonably big snowfall in Orillia...soft fluffy stuff. I climbed onto the roof of my parents' quonset hut to get some of the snow off and slid down in avalanches of it. Fortunately, it's not too cold right now. I used to hope for this as a kid, so I could miss a day or two of school, but that seldom happened. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: R! Date: 05 Mar 01 - 04:09 PM The weather forcasters have been creating widespread panic with warnings of the coming snowstorm - two feet of it starting Saturday (3/3) night on into Sunday and probably for the rest of our lives. Saturday was slightly overcast with plenty of glimmers of sun and around 45 degrees F. While others stripped bare the market shelves, stocking up on bread, milk, and eggs (does everyone make French toast during a snowstorm?), I took a girlfriend to the preview of the Philadelphia Flower Show. It's the oldest and largest there is and it was just what I needed to get me through the grimmest part of winter. Yesterday it rained and today we have snow, ice, wind, and leaden skies but I don't care; I'm home from work. I've been to the flower show (I've got the t-shirt to prove it) and now I have hope that there will be spring. I can handle this. Reen |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wdyat12 Date: 05 Mar 01 - 04:24 PM Yes, lovely, Lonesome EJ. I hope that "excluded ghost" doesn't come in here riding om my firewood. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: bbc Date: 05 Mar 01 - 09:53 PM We figured we'd try to keep up w/ it. That meant shovelling last night before bed & 3 times today & this is just s'posed to be the beginning. Sigh. We're s'posed to get snow all day tomorrow & into the night. The good news is no school today, probably tomorrow, & maybe Wednesday! bbc (1 hr N of NYC) |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 05 Mar 01 - 09:55 PM I'm back, with more chocolate! And the plow just left another heap outside my driveway; I know I should keep it clear but I'm just planning on no emergencies before tomorrow morning. And I'm having too much fun on my NEW COMPUTER!!! When I can figure out the microphone and kick out the kids, watch out- maybe I'll sing Om Namaha Shivaya on PalTalk, if you all promise to sing harmony with me! But for tonight, I'm just going to enjoy O Brother Where Art Thou on my new speakers and amazing sound card. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: hesperis Date: 05 Mar 01 - 09:56 PM Yeah, I can barely see out of these basement windows. Thank goodness we're moving soon! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Matt_R Date: 05 Mar 01 - 10:21 PM Hahahahahah! It got nice & sunny by the afternoon. When I left at 6pm, there was a beautiful sunset with not a cloud in the sky. The stars are shining beautifully now! More sun for tomorrow! Yay! (ducking snowballs) |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 06 Mar 01 - 06:10 AM BTW, Jeri, that was cyber chocolate; all I had at home was Hershey's Bittersweet and that's gone because I really did make chili-pepper cocoa which is the very best in the universe. But you can come have chocolate with me any time, any weather, any where. Maybe I'll invent an iced chocolate drink by the time Old Songs rolls around (if we can dig out in time for it!). |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Mar 01 - 10:39 AM While you were all noticing all that snow yesterday, I was learning new bluegrass gospel stuff. Wow!!!!' Maybe I'll post some of it in the Lent Music thread. The chilipepper hot chocolate was a BIG help-- boy was I open-throated! !Caramba! Next PMS attack, LOOK OUT! ~S~ |
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Subject: Lyr Add: A SNOW SHANTY (Eileen McGann, C Ipcar) From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 06 Mar 01 - 11:28 AM Well, here's a version of the snow shanty parody of "South Australia" that we've been singing lately: A SNOW SHANTY (Words by Eileen McGann © Adapted by Charlie Ipcar, as usual Traditional Tune: South Australia) As I awoke one frozen morn, Heave away, haul away, Radio said there'd been a storm, I'll be late for work this morning. Chorus: Haul away, you frozen thing, Heave away, haul away, Haul away, now hear me sing, I'll be late for work this morning. There's just one thing that grieves me mind, To leave this nice warm bed behind. I tried to open up the door, Snow's piled up five feet or more. I kicked that door to make a gap, Took one step, I'm on me back. Got a shoveling job ahead, Except that shovel's in the shed. Now to shovel out the cars, If I can find just where they are. The driveway's done, the cars are clear, What's that rumbling noise I hear? That city plow goes thundering by, Leaving snow banks ten feet high. The cars are buried, all hope has fled, Heave away, haul away, It's time I headed back to bed! I'll be late to work this morning... This song is not quite as halarious this morning as it was the last time I sang it!
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE SNOW MAN (Wallace Stevens) From: Peg Date: 06 Mar 01 - 11:29 AM The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter Wallace Stevens well, we have about eight inches here so far; and it is still coming down. I shall venture out to do some shovelling later. May build the fire in the fireplace early tonight...and am thinking of making cookies with the new/old Kitchen Aid mixer I dug out of the neighbor's trash! (works fine) White chocolate chip/oatmeal cookies anyone? BTW (request for help coming); the house I live in is being sold and the new potential owner has a yucky vibe; seems like he is not being honest with me about my fate here (whether his son will keep me on as a tenant) and the rental market in Boston is insane right now. He seems s typical Yankee steakhead so maybe a woman living alone (a witch no less) is distasteful to him. Maybe it's the kitties. In any case I would appreciate any thoughts you all can spare: either that I get to stay here and all is well...or if I have to move I find something nice and affordable where the cats will be happy. I have a lovely huge 2 BR all to myself with a porch, fireplace, antique roses, wisteria, a quince tree...would hate to give it up, it has been my home for 4 years. And my current rent is about half what the market says the place is "worth" now (damn greedy landlords; mine has been quite fair). Please picture me reading by the fire in winter, cuddled with my kitties, pruning the roses in spring, sipping lemonade on the back porch in the heat of summer, harvesting quince in the fall for mead-brewing friends, for years to come...thanks. Peg
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Mar 01 - 11:44 AM Peg, do you want that sent out on the prayer chain then? Let me know OK? Boy have I been in your shoes. A lifetime renting, from kid years to now, and so many homes lost with 30 days' notice or less... lost to someone else's decisions. Apartments... One house demolished before my eyes... the year after I dug out all the underbrush, uncovered and thinned the riotous stand of peonies under the flowering crabs, restored the lilac shrubbery to unselfconscious lovely abandon, planted groundcovers... and a couple hundred dollars worth of bulbs in a raised bed I shoveled in by hand... all made rubble, poured into the house's gaping basement. The mighty oak in the corner of the lot died in embarrrassment and root outrage after the large lot was forced to hold two suburban execrations. Most, though, I still see and miss the exquisite view framed by the bedroom window where I rocked my babychild... the same window where, in high school, my best friend would whistle a Hawkeye-from-MASH whistle in the middle of the night. (And climb in the window, not because my mom would mind a visitor at that hour but just BECAUSE...) Off we'd go on an all-night ramble-- on foot, by car, or just in our minds-- as we talked till we could sleep. Well. If sympathy helps any, there ya go, darlin'. Other than that... all you can do is make home wherever you are, I guess. Now I live among people whose roots run so deep they can barely stir. ~S~ |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I TRACED HER LITTLE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNO From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 06 Mar 01 - 11:45 AM Then I seem to hear the echo of Flatt & Scruggs singing "I traced Her Little Footprints in the Snow." How does that go? I TRACED HER LITTLE FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW (Traditional Bluegrass?) Chorus: I traced her little footprints in the snow; I followed her little footprints in the snow; Oh, bless that happy day, when Nellie lost her way; I found her when the snow was on the ground. I went out to Nellie's house, there was a big round moon; Her mother said she'd just stepped out; she'd be returning soon; I followed her little footprints and traced them through the snow; I found her when the snow was on the ground. (CHO) Now Nellie's gone to Heaven; she's with an angel band; I will soon be joining her in that happy land; Every time the snow flies, it brings back memories, I found her when the snow was on the ground. (CHO) I always enjoy songs that give you room to imagine what is going on, and this one certainly complies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 06 Mar 01 - 11:53 AM R& G , that song was made famous in the UK in the '50s by Johnny Duncan and his bluegrass boys RtS, |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Mar 01 - 12:05 PM Say, I like this Charlie guy-- what a mix! I have GOT to find Go Down Yonder, Moses... It kicks serious ASS. I have a recording on a recent bluegrass gospel compilation CD by the Eddie Adcock Band, and a 486 that will neither roll nor go, as far as searching online goes. Any help guys? It's not just Go Down, Moses-- I have that one. This goes past Moses to some other Bible dudes, too. Has a repeating line for each dude on this pattern: "Moses did obey....." followed by whatever blessing God sent after whoever had obeyed. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Little Hawk Date: 06 Mar 01 - 12:12 PM Orillia got a fair amount of snow, but nothing extraordinary. I guess we were west of the main storm. I'd say we accumulated 8 to 12 inches yesterday...enough to make driving hazardous, and shoveling lengthy. It was a beautiful night last night, with just a wee bit of snow falling, and the moon was so bright that it shone right through the cloud cover. Very peaceful downtown at 10 pm. - LH |
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Subject: Lyr Add: OH, COLD AND MISERY (Charlie Maguire) From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 06 Mar 01 - 01:08 PM Then there's this great winter song from the Minnesota glacial drifts: OH, COLD AND MISERY (Words & Music by Charlie Maguire © 1981) It was ear-ly one morn, like so man-y be-fore, Oh, cold and mis-er-y, I put on me coat and walked out the door, Stand-ing a-lone on the froz-en ground. I went to the place where my beast lay asleep... On four tires of rubber, a long cord in its teeth... I opened the door and I jammed in the key... Not a sound did I hear, nor exhaust did I see... So I went to my neighbor, to him I did spoke... And he soon came a-riding on clouds of white smoke... We went to my beast and pried open its jaws... But black, icy darkness was all that we saw... On its terminals bare, long cables I placed... And I gave it a charge with revenge on my face... The smell of the ether did hang in the air... And empty Heet cans lay about everywhere... And when we were moving, its anger was gone... From its radio voice came music and song... But tonight, when the dark comes to its moving parts... It will again be the beast with the ice in its heart... Looks like we'll get at least another foot of this white fluffy stuff before it's over.
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Amos Date: 06 Mar 01 - 11:53 PM Peg: I'm with you! The guy might just be temproizing but just put a little sheer witchery in his soup and get him enhralled. (Wish we could just swoop in and buy it for ya!! But so far we're stuck wrassling with the one we're in our own selves! ) Ne'er the less, you can do it -- a perfect scene, reading and resting happily, for years to come. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Naemanson Date: 08 Mar 01 - 10:17 AM You are right, WYSIWYG, Charlie is one of the good ones. Now if only he would JOIN UP! Peg, I sending you supportive and warm thoughts. Best of luck.
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Mar 01 - 11:20 AM Can't you do a cookie implant? No, I thought he did join-- didn't he? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Peg Date: 08 Mar 01 - 02:14 PM Thanks, all, for your kind wishes. WYSIWYG, if you wish to pray for me, that would be lovely! All kinds of helping hands are welcome. Thanks for the offer, Amos! I wish I could buy it myself! Given the price they are asking for the whole house ($400,000) it hit me the other day: I am living in a $180,000 condo!! What a life. Ten years ago, this house would not have even cost half of that... If I get to stay on a bit I shall have a Mudcat gathering here! Okay, there isn't the huge space we had at Barry's but enough for a crowd maybe half that size... More snow on the way: six inches or more; mixed with rain... |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Mar 01 - 02:29 PM Peg, I will send a link to the thread and a quote of your post out onto the prayer chain. Don't assume that if you hear nothing back, people did not pray-- we mostly pray and just leave it at that. And you don't need to worry about people praying crap AT you. Our people pray what's requested, in the main, and leave the rest to your own heart. There's a sense that you know what you need, and are asking it, and we put our effort right there on that spot. OK? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Naemanson Date: 08 Mar 01 - 03:26 PM Sign me up for your gathering! I'm that confident you'll get to stay!
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: GUEST,petr Date: 08 Mar 01 - 03:56 PM in vancouver weve been enjoying balmy weather yesterday people some people actually had to wait to play tennis at kits beach. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 08 Mar 01 - 07:15 PM Sorry to be so remote but my internet service is out to lunch! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C Date: 09 Mar 01 - 04:26 PM Peg, you might want to check Landlady's Daughter's thread (Housing Songs); she's got a song for every situation, from every age to the present. I think you'll find "You Just Can't Take My Home Away" in their somewhere. If you don't find the song, ask her and refresh the thread at the same time. She'll be thrilled to get a request. You might even ask her for "Boil Them Landlords Down" – an alternative energy song. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Mar 01 - 05:01 PM Peg, your request just went out. I forgot to tell you that the Wallace Stevens poem has been in my collection for years-- one of my very favorite pieces. (He's a tough one, isn't he?) Do you happen to like Kenneth Patchen too? ~S~ |
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Subject: Lyr Add: BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND From: Amos Date: 10 Mar 01 - 06:34 PM Here, you poor frozen ladies -- let me put my lemonade down, remove my sandals, and offer some poor measure of heartfelt consolation to those of you who, lured by the baubles of culture, hypnotized by mere literacy, or mayhap enthralled by the dumb magic of deciduous forests, have opted to spend a third of your year practicing for the next Ice Age:
BLOW, blow, thou winter wind, Warmest regards, A |
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Subject: RE: BS: BLIZZARD! (Virtually Snowed In) From: Amos Date: 10 Mar 01 - 06:36 PM Deciduous, deciduous, deciduous: Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season: deciduous trees. 3. Not lasting; ephemeral. |