A pencil drawing of a #scarecrow inspires today’s #RocktoberMusicFest song “Rain on the Scarecrow” by #JohnMellencamp & Oct. 1st #BoTB results
Thursdays are reserved for my art date with Rain’s Garden. This week’s prompt is ‘Scarecrows’. I lack a sinister purrsonally to truly do creepy artwork justice but I take a stab at it anyhow just to see if I’m lucky to pull it off. 😉
This month I’m playing along in the annual mewsic fest hosted by my good friend, Mary. I’m challenging myself to make new mewsic discoveries to share with you, often times unknown artists and song titles or familiar artists singing unfamiliar songs and while I’m dusting away the cobwebs in my memory, I might find a forgotten track worth replaying. I remember listening to John Mellencamp in the early 80s. It’s his bigger hits that I play in my head. I’m not sure how he fell off my radar but I suspect it has to do with early retirement to be a full-time stay at home mom which meant no more radio time, thus, no new songs to get buried in my brain. However, I’m really baffled why I don’t remember today’s 1985 Mellencamp song. Do you recall, Rain on the Scarecrow? Yes? No? Which ever way you answer, hit play to enjoy!
In last week’s Ghost(s) In The Wind BoTB, I put two different songs with similar titles in my showdown and ask y’all to pick your favorite. This is how the votes went…Birdy 5 and Richard Thompson 5.
Okay, since there’s no clear winner in this battle. I will leave you with Halloween themed songs (or close as I can come) by each contender. Birdy with “Not About Angels” and Richard covering Donovan’s “Season of the Witch”.
My next BoTB is set for Thursday, October 15th. Please join for the showdown fun.
Let me wind things down with my Thankful Thursday list.
- Last Friday when we thought we were picking up our car, it turned out that we didn’t. I have a special thank you, though. We had to go to the body shop to pay them because they are closed on Saturdays and we thought we’d get our car from Toy-yoyo (doing 4-wheel alignment caused by the accident and some warranty related stuff). Anywho, we drove to the dealership looked the car over, then went to the body shop to settle up our portion. Afterwards we drove to Seymour to check out some land up for sale. On our way, a truck passed us on Chapman Highway. We were on the inside lane and just as he got up to the driver’s side, his front right wheel fell off and rolling toward us. DH immediately glanced in the rear view mirror, hit the brakes, and then veered off to the emergency lane. The truck went right past us, crossing in front of us and coming to a rest nearly in the ditch. The rental was spared and we were safe, except for two speeding heart beats. God had His hands on us!
- I’m thankful that an opportunity presented itself for us to spend a little time with our son after we got every thing down Friday. He met us at a shopping center on Chapman Highway on his way home from work. He lives in south Knoxville. We just hung around talking for 2-hours. It was breezy but a beautiful day!
- For some reason the trucking company declined having the 4-wheel alignment on our car. The truck hit the driver’s passanger door and the wheel well crushing it. Naturally such an impact is going to throw off your alignment. Thankfully, Toy-yoyo made us a good offer on because we needed them to do some other work. Airport Toyota service department has always done us right and DH loves our mechanic. He’s an old school, common sense fella who knows what he’s doing and doesn’t have to rely solely on what a computer tells him. Those kind of mechanics are fading away. I don’t know what we’ll do when this fella retires.
- I very thankful we finally got our Avalon back Tuesday afternoon. The body work and new windshield makes the car look brand new to my eye. 🙂
- I’m thankful for a wonderful DH who got me these beautiful fall mums! Doesn’t this scene scream, “AUTUMN”?
That’s a wrap for now. Tomorrow is DH’s off-Friday, but not to worry CAAC is open 24/7 and you find a few Friday Sillies and a RMF song post waiting for you first thing tomorrow. Keep rockin’ on ghouls & guys! X💋X💋, Cathy
10 Comments
Timmy Tomcat
Some great thankfuls and wow you sure did have angels watching out for you
Kathe W.
Very fun post!
Nicole/DVArtist
Nice, no very nice drawing. Lots of detail. On the music I like Richards best out of the 2. So nice to have a husband who brings flowers. Mine does too. Have a great day.
Elke
It’s good that your husband reacted like that!
I like a beautiful drawing and the videos. The photo is beautiful with the colors of the flower go well with the pumpkin.
Have a good week , Elke
Rain Frances
Oh you pulled off the sinister-ness Cathy 🙂 I love your scarecrow and the hay bales! Well done! 🙂 I love the Mums too, that really does say “Fall”….lovely! Very scary incident on the highway, my gosh, great reaction from your hubby.
Christine
Nice work on the scarecrow piece Cathy. I enjoyed reading your ‘thankful list’ it is good to be thankful.
Brian
That is a very cool scarecrow! WOW, that wheelie sure sounded scary, but darn good thankfuls. Hey, we go with Richard, we always like the Season of the Witch. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
laurie
well your scarecrow is perfect and the video was great, that was a close call with the wheel coming off, not only is your husband a great driver he gave you flowers,, he is a keeper for sure !
Sandee
Love the first video the best.
Way to go on the Battle of the Bands. When you get a tie that’s a good thing.
Yikes on the wheel coming off. Glad you’re okay and so is your vehicle.
Enjoy your long weekend with your hubby.
Have a fabulous Thankful Thursday, Cathy. Love and hugs. ♥
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
Happy Art Date with Rain & Rocktoberfest & Thankful Thursday, dear friend!
When I was young, I often spotted scarecrows on farm land. Lately I rarely see them. The one in your sketch is literally “outstanding in his field” 🙂 – very well drawn – as is the rest of the scene including the menacing jack-o-lantern. I love it! If you ever get time you should bring your drawing back In Living Color.
I never heard that song nor saw that video by heartland rocker John Mellencamp. I enjoyed it as I enjoy all of his story songs. In fact, a Mellencamp song is coming up in my very next post at Shady’s Place this Sunday. I’m surprised your BOTB wasn’t a blowout victory for Richard Thompson. That seemed to be the way it was shaping up on day one. However a tie score is the very best outcome for you, the BOTB host blogger, and I congratulate you on picking equally matched contestants. I love Donovan’s “Season Of The Witch,” and Richard did a great job on his cover. If this were another band battle, I’d pick Richard over Birdy yet again.
Holy smoke! That was a close call on the highway, Cathy!. I can feel your hearts pounding after that close call. DH must be a skilled heads-up driver to have taken such quick action to avoid a crash. I’m happy to know you got your car back and it seems like new again. DH is a wonderful hubby for giving you those colorful fall mums. They go nicely with that bright orange pumpkin. The colors match.
I’ll try to make it over for your Friday Sillies this week. Until then have a delightful day, dear friend Cathy!