Did anyone see Jesus Christ Superstar on Easter? We had snow outside and a bottle of wine for viewing. John Legend was a hot Jesus and Brandon Victor Dixon (of Hamilton) was a smoking hot Judas.
I really never liked the earlier movie. This was edgier and done in front of a live audience. I've just seen a notice that it will go in tour with cast "to be announced." (Pretty sure John Legend, et al won't be touring).
Missed edit window. To give you a sense of how this was different than the hippie-esque earlier movie, here is Judas singing title song:. https://youtu.be/yleuZbY8rKk
One of the neighbors in my courtyard has both a dog and a cat, both of which he allows to run free despite a community rule that pets must be on leashes. (Complaining does no good.) The dog is the most obnoxious beast of the species I have ever encountered, but this rant is about the cat.
Another neighbor has set up a bird feeder on her patio. (If she wants bird dung all over her patio, that's her business -- personally I wouldn't.) Of course, the cat has set up shop on her patio railing and flails at the birds as they come to feed -- which tends to discourage them. When the cat's not there, it's interesting to watch them fight each other for their turn at the feeder.
And the white wing doves are back in town, with their aggressive territorial behavior and, erm, energetic mating routines.
The birds have just come back to our feeder in the last week or so, having been completely absent since last August (partly because of a virus, and partly because they migrate). I'm not too bothered about the bird-poo on the deck - we're not outdoor types and don't do barbecuing - and although there are cats in the neighbourhood, they all seem to be indoor ones, so they haven't given us any trouble.
When my father was in a nursing-home shortly before he died, they set up a very elaborate bird-feeder outside his window, and we were happily watching the birds having their lunch when along came a humungously fat cat, scattering them to the four winds and actually catching one who wasn't quite quick enough.
I have trained a pair of blue joys to come to my deck for a peanut. Each morning I put 4 nuts on the rail and ring a bell. Mr and Mrs Jay come at the sound. He is a hurried shopper and just grabs one and runs. Mrs Jay on the other hand picks each up in her beak and then decides which is the best, before flying off. As they are only 4 nuts not any mess, but I think we all enjoy the little ritual.
Our most prolific visitors are grackles, who are the messiest eaters on the planet. I don't know whether it's because they only like certain types of seed, and pick them out from the rest, or they're just messy, but they chuck it about as if there were no tomorrow. Fortunately we also have several mourning doves, who I refer to as "hoover-birds" because they peck around and hoover up the seeds the grackles leave behind.
I cannot believe that one third of the year is gone already! :eek:
Someone said that time flies when you're having fun. Well, if time is going this fast under these circumstances, having fun would just make the past four months zip by.
And it's hot, hot, hot. My poor orchids are asking for some water and food. I guess I'll have to go out in the heat and take care of the poor things. And repot one, and pot two pups that need to get away from their Mama.
Can I get out warm weather clothes yet? Take that extra blanket off the bed? Not sure. It has been staying above 50 at night for the last week, but two weeks ago there was ice on the porch. No rain scheduled but it has been overcast.
We have a chance to break a heat record from the 1920's today.
At least the mornings are still bearable. It's 72 right now.
We're supposed to have rain storm chances starting Friday and continuing for the next six days! Could we be having an early start to rainy season? (She asked hopefully!)
My sister and I made a quick trip from Indiana to Knoxville and came back via the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Temps and sun lovely all the way round. Would recommend the KY Horse Park to anyone with equestrian interests. Saw Black Panther while in Knoxville and would recommend that, as well.
The road trip was the best part: singing to music, reminiscing, eating junk food and strawberries from the cooler...
It usually doesn't get to be over 100 for extended periods until after Memorial Day, but 100 degree plus days have been known to occur earlier. We even had a few in April.
The humidity is still very low, though, so it is more tolerable now than it will be in June and July, when "monsoon season" (or what passes for that in Arizona) kicks in and the humidity will climb. It is still dangerous, though.
The 100 degree plus weather will continue until well into September or even October.
You just get used to it -- you go from air-conditioned house to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned store, church, etc., or to the swimming pool. I can't imagine what people did before air conditioning was invented.
I think I'll stay put. While it's likely to spend some time in the mid-20s C (mid-high-70s F) in the summer here, the idea of 100-plus F fills me with horror - I'm grateful for the air-con as soon as we hit about 22° (about 70°F).
A hummingbird has decided that my porch is a perfect place for it to perch. I can't imagine why. I don't see a nest nearby, and there are no flowers in the immediate vicinity for it to feed on. One of my neighbors has put out a hummingbird feeder but it doesn't seem to attract very many -- perhaps because another neighbor's cat likes to stalk it.
I've got my first hummer of the season making regular visits. (I think it's just the one so far.) I always find them enchanting to watch, evil-tempered little birds though they be.
I would love to set up a bird feeder, but there are many stray cats in the neighborhood. I'm afraid a bird-feeding station would turn into a cat-feeding station.
Several years ago a hummingbird built her nest in a tree in my backyard, very close to my house (and directly over the table where I liked to eat breakfast). She did NOT like my using "her" backyard, and would fly in my face when I dared to sit out there. Looking out a window, I could see that there were tiny beaks occasionally poking up over the edge of the little nest, and I looked forward to seeing them grow up and learn to fly. But she and they apparently packed up and left one day when I was at work -- not even a thank you note.
Funny you should mention hummingbird feeders - we were visiting some friends today and the subject of bird-feeders came up. They had a feeder they didn't want, so they gave it to us (along with instructions on proportions of sugar/water to put in it).
We'll probably need to get another pole to hang it from, as I don't think it would work alongside our ordinary bird-feeder, but we'll certainly give it a go.
My neighbor who has the hummingbird feeder located it right beside their regular bird feeder. Like I say, it attracts more cats than it does hummingbirds.
I've got my first hummer of the season making regular visits. (I think it's just the one so far.) I always find them enchanting to watch, evil-tempered little birds though they be.
I have a friend who swears they are miniaturized T-rexes.
Yea and amen to that, Graven Image. My mum may be marking the occasion in Heaven, but she was without doubt The Best.
I've just heated up the sugar/water mixture for the hummingbird feeder, and it's cooling. I don't think cats should be a problem: there are cats round these parts, but they seem to be almost exclusively indoor ones - I've never seen any prowling round near the house.
There's a sort of metal loop thingy at the bottom of the pole that our seed feeder hangs from, and we'll hang the hummingbird feeder from it pro tem. We may not get any - there aren't any flowers or plants apart from grass close by that would attract them.
At my Meeting, we also pray for all who became mothers by accident, those who did not want to be mothers, those who lost children, those who had more children than they felt they could care for.
Sooooo...there's a wee bit of a tropical rainmaker in the Gulf of Mexico. Early start to hurricane season, maybe? We've been having at least a little rain every day since the 13th of May. I hope this means the drought is over soon! Apparently, there's still a fire in the Everglades.
Oh, the Beloved Granddaughter spent the weekend with me! I'm a lucky Mimi! She's thinking seriously of studying to become an engineer or physicist of some variety. She's just finishing sixth grade, so now's a good time to work on the basics!
Arizona, meanwhile, suffers from extreme drought just about statewide. Several wildfires recently. They've closed some campgrounds for the Memorial Day weekend because of the high fire danger. No rain in the forecast. We won't get any rain until "monsoon season" (or what passes for it) hits, usually around the end of June.
I wish there was a pool near me. Of course, you'd have to use it in the morning to miss the afternoon thunderstorms! And we did have a hum-dinger of a storm today!! Lots of lightening.
Monsoon season -- or what passes for it in Arizona -- is set to begin this weekend. Sudden violent thunderstorms and heavy downpours that result in flash flooding, heavy winds that blow up dust and sometimes cause severe dust storms -- called haboobs, I understand.
I say "what passes for it" is because it's hardly what you think of when you hear the term monsoon -- unrelenting rain day in and day out. Arizona rainstorms generally last for a few minutes and then are gone.
The remnants of Hurricane Bud are also slated to pass through this weekend -- if it doesn't turn too far to the right and miss Arizona completely, which is more likely to happen than not.
Some of the places that were struck by lightening yesterday were shown on the news. Glad people were safe, though!
My car was hit by lightening once when Daughter-Unit was five years old. That was a terrifying experience! And the same week, my sister and a bunch of other drivers had ball lightening roll towards them as they were waiting at a traffic light!
A hurricane bud ought to be a baby hurricane - maybe a stiff breeze ...
JJ - I've heard it said that the inside of a car is supposed to be one of the safest places to be if there's lightning. I still reckon it'd be scary enough.
We were supposed to get some thunder and lightning early this morning, but if we did I missed it.
I must say I do not miss the summer thunder storms after I moved to the West Coast. I remember once the lightening coming in on my grandfather's phone line in Virginia. I have been uncomfortable around storms ever since. However a bit of rain here in the West would be welcome.
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I didn't pay anything. It's the students reaching out to the townspeople.
I really never liked the earlier movie. This was edgier and done in front of a live audience. I've just seen a notice that it will go in tour with cast "to be announced." (Pretty sure John Legend, et al won't be touring).
One of the neighbors in my courtyard has both a dog and a cat, both of which he allows to run free despite a community rule that pets must be on leashes. (Complaining does no good.) The dog is the most obnoxious beast of the species I have ever encountered, but this rant is about the cat.
Another neighbor has set up a bird feeder on her patio. (If she wants bird dung all over her patio, that's her business -- personally I wouldn't.) Of course, the cat has set up shop on her patio railing and flails at the birds as they come to feed -- which tends to discourage them. When the cat's not there, it's interesting to watch them fight each other for their turn at the feeder.
And the white wing doves are back in town, with their aggressive territorial behavior and, erm, energetic mating routines.
When my father was in a nursing-home shortly before he died, they set up a very elaborate bird-feeder outside his window, and we were happily watching the birds having their lunch when along came a humungously fat cat, scattering them to the four winds and actually catching one who wasn't quite quick enough.
Horrible creature.
In other words, the blue jays have trained you to put out peanuts every morning.
Someone said that time flies when you're having fun. Well, if time is going this fast under these circumstances, having fun would just make the past four months zip by.
And it's hot, hot, hot. My poor orchids are asking for some water and food. I guess I'll have to go out in the heat and take care of the poor things. And repot one, and pot two pups that need to get away from their Mama.
Ross, you could always move to Walhalla down here. Shipmate in driving distance too. This place is huge. It is in state of Victoria.
https://realestate.com.au/buy/in-walhalla,+vic+3825/list-1
At least the mornings are still bearable. It's 72 right now.
We're supposed to have rain storm chances starting Friday and continuing for the next six days! Could we be having an early start to rainy season? (She asked hopefully!)
The road trip was the best part: singing to music, reminiscing, eating junk food and strawberries from the cooler...
Good Heavens, is this normal for your neck of the woods?
The humidity is still very low, though, so it is more tolerable now than it will be in June and July, when "monsoon season" (or what passes for that in Arizona) kicks in and the humidity will climb. It is still dangerous, though.
The 100 degree plus weather will continue until well into September or even October.
You just get used to it -- you go from air-conditioned house to air-conditioned car to air-conditioned store, church, etc., or to the swimming pool. I can't imagine what people did before air conditioning was invented.
Well Miss Amanda just remember a lady never sweats she just glows.
Thank you, Loth. I shall give the suggestion due consideration.
We'll probably need to get another pole to hang it from, as I don't think it would work alongside our ordinary bird-feeder, but we'll certainly give it a go.
I have a friend who swears they are miniaturized T-rexes.
I've just heated up the sugar/water mixture for the hummingbird feeder, and it's cooling. I don't think cats should be a problem: there are cats round these parts, but they seem to be almost exclusively indoor ones - I've never seen any prowling round near the house.
There's a sort of metal loop thingy at the bottom of the pole that our seed feeder hangs from, and we'll hang the hummingbird feeder from it pro tem. We may not get any - there aren't any flowers or plants apart from grass close by that would attract them.
Ahh-men.
Oh, the Beloved Granddaughter spent the weekend with me! I'm a lucky Mimi! She's thinking seriously of studying to become an engineer or physicist of some variety. She's just finishing sixth grade, so now's a good time to work on the basics!
In other news, this is when it would be good to have a swimming pool.
We had our first thunderstorm of the season yesterday. It was very tame.
Usually we have had quite a few impressive storms by this time.
I say "what passes for it" is because it's hardly what you think of when you hear the term monsoon -- unrelenting rain day in and day out. Arizona rainstorms generally last for a few minutes and then are gone.
The remnants of Hurricane Bud are also slated to pass through this weekend -- if it doesn't turn too far to the right and miss Arizona completely, which is more likely to happen than not.
My car was hit by lightening once when Daughter-Unit was five years old. That was a terrifying experience! And the same week, my sister and a bunch of other drivers had ball lightening roll towards them as they were waiting at a traffic light!
JJ - I've heard it said that the inside of a car is supposed to be one of the safest places to be if there's lightning. I still reckon it'd be scary enough.
We were supposed to get some thunder and lightning early this morning, but if we did I missed it.